Oldie but Goodie

The psalmist in the texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary for today proclaims” The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup”. Today, we have many on the path to “spiritual health”. This path is one which offers options and invites commitment and discipline. The role of “spiritual discipline” is to provide a time proven path to access the understanding and experience of those who have gone before us in the “journey”. We may stumble upon the “truth” but Matthew records Jesus assertion that He is not destroying the Law and the Prophets as guides for the faithful, but is completing them. Elijah ,in the passage from the 1st Book of Kings, demonstrates the richness and power of the tradition which the people were abandoning for a “more human deity”. This is an easy and false trap. The transcendent and transformative nature of the relationship with the Divine is beyond human understanding by definition!