in order to obtain a better resurrection.
Others endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment.
They were stoned, sawed in two, put to death at sword’s point;
they went about in skins of sheep or goats,
needy, afflicted, tormented.
The world was not worthy of them.
They wandered about in deserts and on mountains,
in caves and in crevices in the earth.
Yet all these, though approved because of their faith,
did not receive what had been promised.
God had foreseen something better for us,
so that without us they should not be made perfect.
-- Heb 11:32-40
The Law, the sign of God's promise and
covenant, ought to have governed the hearts and institutions of that
people to whom Abraham's faith gave birth. "If you will obey my voice
and keep my covenant, . . . you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a
holy nation." But after David, Israel gave in to the temptation of
becoming a kingdom like other nations. The Kingdom, however, the object
of the promise made to David, would be the work of the Holy Spirit; it
would belong to the poor according to the Spirit.
-- CCC 709
Monday, Week 5
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