Invitation from the Worthy One

The texts today are from the Roman Catholic Lectionary for Canada. Happy Thanksgiving to our American cousins. The vision from the Book of Revelation presents Jesus the Lamb as being present with the perfection and magnificence of God the Father. The number 7 in Jewish symbols represents the fullness or perfection. Seven signs of authority indicate perfect authority. The Lamb, Jesus, is proclaimed as the fulfillment of the Promise to Judah and David. He is the perfect sacrificial offering who is praised by the Patriarchs of the Hebrew Testament and the Apostles of the Christian Testament. The revelation contained in the Scroll is only able to be demonstrated by Jesus. The psalmist today calls people to bow down and worship God through whom we have experienced care as the people of His pasture. The deeply felt plea of Psalm 95 that we accept the invitation to communion with God and not reject His call as our spiritual ancestors did at Massah and Meribah is prayed daily through the practice of Christian Prayer known as the Liturgy of the Hours. The Gospel of Luke, written after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem drips with the regret of Jesus that the people did not recognize His Way as the path to maintain peace. Luke writes about choices that we see around us to pursue conflict instead of cooperation in the resolution of difficulties between the people of God.