Sacred Touch

The “Divine Touch” comes to mind as a result of reading the texts in the Roman Catholic Lectionary for today. The sense of the Divine Presence by people has been compared by some like Richard Rohr to resonance. This is the phenomena in nature where systems oscillate with a heightened response when a particular frequency is present. Natural resonance changes the behavior of the physical system. It may sustain higher voltages or currents during resonance. At the level of the substance of the system, it is changed. The recognition of the real change in nature in contact with the Divine is the scenario related in the Dedication of the Temple. Jesus Presence in His public ministry changed lives. The Divine Contact is given a response by nature.