As Christ was raised from the dead, and he has conquered death, it will have no power over those whom he has chosen. At death we rest, and we will be in him. One of the great hopes is that the dead will rise first.
Without the resurrection, there is no faith, and as Paul said we are to be among the most pitied.
23:56bOn the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
24:1But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3but when they went in, they did not find the body. 4While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. 5The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. 6Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.” 8Then they remembered his words, 9and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. 10Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. 11But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.
This is not the only time this happened. Christ bought a widow’s son to life, and Lazarus. His disciples were like him. The early church experienced such.
And people came to faith as a consequence.
32Now as Peter went here and there among all the believers, he came down also to the saints living in Lydda. 33There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, for he was paralyzed. 34Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your bed!” And immediately he got up. 35And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.
36Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity. 37At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs. 38Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, “Please come to us without delay.” 39So Peter got up and went with them; and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them. 40Peter put all of them outside, and then he knelt down and prayed. He turned to the body and said, “Tabitha, get up.” Then she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. 41He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive. 42This became known throughout Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. 43Meanwhile he stayed in Joppa for some time with a certain Simon, a tanner.
This is why we preach the gospel. We preach life. Death is the enemy, and what we do to preserve life is worthwhile and good. Better still is to preach the gospel, and not allow for any virtue signals.
State sponsored virtue spiral
The gospel is that Christ, died for our Sins, was buried, and rose. This is our hope. This is our salvation. It is not about our worthiness. It is not about the politics of this age. We preach the gospel, and consider politics a sewer fit for trolling and memes.
Pera is an atheist who co-authored a book with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
About Francis’ plea for an unlimited acceptance of migrants Pera says, “I don’t understand this Pope, what he is saying is beyond any rational comprehension.” And, “Why does he insist on a total acceptance? The Pope does so because he hates the Occident, he aims at destroying it and does everything to achieve this goal.”
For Pera, Francis’ magisterium is “not Gospel but only politics.” He adds, “Francis is little or not at all interested in Christianity as a doctrine, in its theological aspect.” He considers Francis statements as “strongly secularist.”
Pera says, that Francis is not interested in the salvation of souls but in security and social welfare. But “when one goes into the details, he suggests to our states to commit suicide, he invites Europe to no longer be itself, he reflects all South American prejudices toward North America, the market, freedom or capitalism”.
For Pera “a hidden schism” is going on in the Catholic world. Francis pursues it “with obstinacy and determination.”
The current hatred of the white — called anti-racism, and embraced by the globalists — is as evil as hating blacks or asians. We were created as peoples and tribes and we were led to where we live. There is nothing wrong with being white, or black, your purple. What would be wrong is #Purplegenocide: the hatred of the Semite is not the hatred of the Evangelical and the White.
The very people who preached the gospel to the world in previous generations.
But virtue signals of false guilt for the work of missionaries is not the work of the church. We shun such. We preach that which is more important and far more valuable. The gospel, undiluted: the core of which is resurrection.