The Reality of Life After Death
Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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The Second Book of Maccabees
Maccabees is one of the relatively few Old Testament passages that clearly indicate the existence of life after death. It was written in the second century BC when a Hellenizing culture was trying to impose itself upon Israel. A mother and seven of her sons have been captured and they're being forced to eat pork, which was against a Jewish law. And what follows is a kind of horrific tale as one by one in the presence of their mother, these sons are put to death.
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