From corruptibility to incorruptibility

In today's first reading, 1 Cor 15: 35-37, 42-49, St. Paul reminds us that the body that we now possess here on earth is a corruptible one, a weak one, a natural one and, in his words, "a dishonorable" one.  After we pass through the door of death, however, our resurrected body will be incorruptible, strong, spiritual.  Like all seeds which we plant here on earth and "rise" from the soil a totally different reality, so, too,  the "seed" of the incorruptible body rises totally different from our corruptible, natural bodies. They rise bearing the image of the resurrected Christ!

As we pray in today's responsorial psalm, Psalm 56, we are "bound to God,"..., who will rescue us from death that we "may walk before God in the light of the living."  Such walking with God may be here on earth or in heaven after we are buried in the ground following our earthly death and "the seed" of our incorruptible bodies burst forth, so to speak, in our eternal home!