Discourse on Destiny

The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today bring us final discourses. Paul gathers the elders of Ephesus to bid a final farewell as the Spirit leads him to Rome where He is aware that the path will lead to more persecution and imprisonment. The compulsion to complete the course is moving him toward a greater communion with the Body of Christ. John relates Jesus conversations about the realization of the Body of Christ, the Anointed, in the being of those given Him by the Father. The mission of intimacy of Divine and creature is realized through the transformation of the Son through human existence to boundless contact within humanity. The movement of giving is infinite. Life is the fruit of this movement.