vindication steadfast love and faithfulness

The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary touch on the topic of vindication. The psalmist praises the marvellous strength of God who has brought victory and vindication to Israel. In the final discourse of Jesus from the Gospel of John, he refers to the sorrow which will turn to joy. When the authorities put Him to death, the sorrow and sense of abandonment experienced by the disciples will be replaced through the Spirit with the experience of life in and through Jesus as His Body in intimate communion between the indwelling Spirit and the Holy Spirit. The “vindication” is not visible like victory over enemies invoked by the words of the psalmist It is not measurable like the number of leading Jews that converted to the Way after their encounter with Paul in Corinth. How can we understand the place of vindication in our evangelization efforts? It is not something to seek for that seems to distort our mission to be the Good News. It may happen along the way as a grace for our too human understanding of the whole.