Go Deeper

Today the texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary invite us to go deeper in our experience of the relationship with the Divine. John’s Gospel relates how the disciples of Jesus, during the last discourse with them begin to experience a clearer understanding of His message. Jesus reveals that even this clearer understanding, perhaps based in the intellect will not prevent them from acting in fear and denial of Him. Paul discovers that the believers in Ephesus have yet to be knowingly in relationship with the Spirit. They invoke the Spirit which is manifest in the joining of the indwelling Spirit with the Divine. Eventually this “Life in the Spirit” moved the believers beyond the intellect and the limitations of weak humanity to transcend fear and doubt. To live in Love and Peace.