The proclamation of the psalmist that the world is full of
the goodness of the Lord is a truth which is brought to our sight by the heirs
to the Promise celebrated today in the passage from the Letter to the Ephesians
in the Roman Catholic Lectionary. Friar Jude Winkler comments that the mark of
the Spirit on the Jewish Christians calls them to live in that Spirit and to
welcome to the communion in the Spirit the Gentile converts who have also inherited
the Promise of Life in the love of God. The text from the Gospel of Luke is
wisdom literature which shows that living in the Spirit makes us cognizant of
the need to seek transparency so that our whole life may witness the Presence
of God in the world celebrated in the Psalm. The knowledge that witness in this
life is transitory and our understanding of the actual events in time which
will demonstrate our faith to others is weak alerts us to mindfulness of our
need to perhaps surrender selfishness, popularity and financial success to humility,
compassion, forgiveness, patience, peace and charity.
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