Friday, November 16, 2012

Possibly incorrect ending


The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today present the struggle which exists for believers to continue to be walking in the truth. Friar Jude Winkler comments that the second Letter of John is advice to members of a believing community to continue to love as Jesus in the face of teaching from Gnostic group known as the Docitists, who did not accept that Jesus (human) was also the Christ (Divine). The Gnostic sense of the corruption of the created world is an easy argument for their point of view. Friar Jude defines the anti-Christ as those who are opposed to the truth of the Divine nature of Jesus. The personification of the anti-Christ as a creature of the apocalyptic battles is not a Roman Catholic approach. The yearning for the relationship with God in the Word of the Lord and in the wisdom of His commandments expressed by the psalmist is an expression of ongoing love of God with the sacred understanding that certainty in the understanding of humans about the domain and plans of the Divine is not given to mortals. The text from the Gospel of Luke also looks to the time when the Jesus returns. The message of Luke advises to prepare for this time. Our meeting with the Lord will come as a surprise to most of us. The concept of the “rapture” which is sometimes linked to the text today is not the interpretation of Roman Catholic theology of the glorious triumph of Jesus in the celebration of the end times.

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