Ancient hope realized outside of time

Luke shares Jesus prayer of rejoicing in the Roman Catholic Lectionary for today. Jesus praises the Father for the revelation of the transformation of people to come to know the intimate relationship with the Divine offered to them through Jesus and the Spirit. Through this intimacy, the “peaceful kingdom” envisaged by Isaiah is more than possible. The gifts the spirit of wisdom and understanding, counsel and might, knowledge and the fear of the Lord are in the nature of the indwelling Spirit of the Lord which the decision to be open, like children can be, allows the resonance between Son or Daughter and Father to spring up like a well of living water.