Experience Love as context for the texts

The texts of the Roman Catholic Lectionary for Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter have a theme of instruction and clarification. In the passage from the Acts of the Apostles, Luke tells of how Apollos comes from Alexandria and is instructed by Aquila and Priscilla in the Way. Friar Jude Winkler  comments on the possibility that Apollos is the unknown author of the Letter to the Hebrews. The Society to Search and Record Christian History writes of the authorship of Hebrews. Tamora Whitney uses the familiar problem of teachers who need to prepare fresh appraoches to their material to encourage us to be open to learning more about the nature of our relationship with Jesus. The Gospel from John indicates that the disciples come to understand Jesus as speaking to them more clearly about His relationship with the Father and our invitation to participate in that relationship. The text of Sacred Scripture is rich material to prepare us, as Apollos illustrates, for intelligent discussion of the ancient search for our place with God. Experience in relationship with Jesus through the lives of believers puts the difficulties with texts and interpretations in a place where they can be approached from the certainty that we abide in the Love of God.