Father needs spirit of mother

Our expectations about our relationship with God are brought forward by the texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary. In the passage from the second book of Samuel, the prophet Nathan reminds King David of the great giftedness he has experienced through the grace of God in his life. The prophet confronts David with his sinful action of adultery with Bathsheba and the arranging of the death of her husband, Uriah, after Bathsheba becomes pregnant. David admits his sin. He receives forgiveness. As Father LarryGillick SJ notes we might ask about the justice. The different work and attitude of women and men, in Father Larry’s observation, in the Church offers the challenge of broadening our concepts of righteousness, justification and peace with God Friar Jude Winkler comments on the letter of Paul to the Galatians which makes our faith the source of our peace with God and not the works or action we accomplish. The male tendency to do what you tell me gets the job done. Yet we might tend to credit that work to our own skill and ability. The place of grace before God praises the life which is ours through surrender to His Will as we come to know Him through the growth of our relationship with Him. The Gospel of Luke is noted as Scripture where women are given specialattention. The faith of the woman with many sins that she would find peace and restoration of Life with God through Jesus moves her to ignore the cultural custom of Jewish Pharisees to shun sinners because of fear that sin is contagious and minister to Jesus by washing and anointing His feet. Her expectation that relationship with Jesus would bring Life is fulfilled. When the rules, the surface appearance of justice and the quick and easy solution present themselves as attractive to our minds because they do not involve relationship, mercy, forgiveness and compassion we need to hear Paul and see Jesus.