Master's Voice

The texts in the Roman Catholic Lectionary for the Fourth Sunday of Easter consider the question of who are the people of God. Who has the revelation of the relationship with the Divine? For whom is this relationship intended? The Acts of the Apostles points out the difficulties of some of the traditional Jewish believers to accept the Incarnation and the intimacy of Emmanuel, (God among us). The Jewish converts who heard the Word were able to be more open to the power of the Spirit and the Apostles found that more and more Gentiles became the “sheep” in John’s Gospel who have “heard His voice and follow Him”. The psalmist reminds us that all peoples are summoned to be the sheep of the Divine Shepherd. The particular path of some of the early Church members was through persecution, martyrdom and suffering. As the author of Revelations proclaims “their robes have been washed white in the blood of the Lamb”. Listen! Hear the Voice?