The texts in the Roman Catholic Lectionary today push us to accept that we are spiritual beings. We are living in the present yet our ancestors and our grandparents influence our attitudes and customs. Paul reminds the Galatians that the patriarch Abraham is influencing their relationship with God as the mission of the presentation of the Promise to the Gentiles was being fulfilled in their reception of the Good News. Humanity lives on a time line. Our existence is finite. The Eternal Divine is without time line. Past, present and future are meaningless. The intimacy with the Divine to which we are invited is a contact with timelessness. In thanksgiving, the psalmist proclaims “He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.” In the Gospel from Luke we are presented with the contradiction that the evil spirit which is driven from our lives as we contact with the Divine may return with a vengeance as the temporal and finite nature of our being longs for the creature comfort we have rejected.
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