Mystical Presence

The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary point to the mystical nature of the experience of the Presence of the Divine. Jesus cries aloud in the Gospel of John that through trusting and seeing Him, the believer is in communion with the Father. This sense of Presence is in the word of the psalmist who celebrates the face of the Divine shining on people. The Acts of the Apostles records the mystical direction of the Holy Spirit to call and lead ‘Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them’ (Acts of the Apostles 13.2:). The Presence is experienced mystically by love, trust, hope and faithfulness. It is the warmth of the face of God and the direction to be for the creature.