LIVING AND DYING BY FAITH
“She died.” –Genesis 23:2 Mass Readings: July 7 First: Genesis 23:1-4,19; 24:1-8,62-67; Resp: Psalm 106:1-5; Gospel: Matthew 9:9-13 Listen to the Mass Readings Sarah died at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven (Gn 23:1). Abraham, her husband, died thirty-eight years later at the age of one hundred and seventy-five (Gn 25:7). God had promised Abraham that he would be the father of nations and receive the promised land. When Abraham died, he owned a few feet of the promised land which he purchased for Sarah’s burial plot (see Gn 23:19). At his death, Abraham had only two grandchildren from...