Overwhelmed and Overwhelming

The Roman Catholic Lectionary for today has a text from Mark which is reminiscent of the scene in Jesus Christ Superstar where the crowd is overwhelming Jesus with their demands. The Book of Samuel tells of the distress of David at the death of Jonathan and Saul. The figures of holiness have human emotions. The humanity of Jesus is an important area of reflection. From the beginning of Christianity, it has required the exercise of “non-dual” thinking, as Rohr puts it to fully engage the fully human and fully Divine nature of Jesus.