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Pentecost Season · Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time · Year B

Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24

God Did Not Make Death

The Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1509-1510Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican · public domain

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"God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living." (Wisdom 1:13)

This reading from the Book of Wisdom teaches that God created all things for life and fashioned humanity in his own image for incorruption. Death entered the world through the envy of the devil, not from the hand of the Creator.

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