The Roman Catholic Lectionary texts for today give another glimpse into the Divine which reveals the truth of the Divine ways not being our ways. Isaiah understands that the Assyrian menace may have been intended by God to open the eyes of Israel to the slackness in their relationship with the Divine, yet these foreign armies have seemed to go beyond the ‘will of God” for them. As a consequence of putting themselves before God and indulging in self praise their cohort would suffer diminishing influence and become “sickly” in the region. Jesus thanks the Father that Divine inspiration has been understood among the less educated, less sophisticated and more worldly people who have come to follow Him. Consider the paradoxical challenge that the immature in faith, hope and charity are aware of the need for intimacy in the Divine and are called to grow to live with these heroic virtues at a level of practice that is supported and enabled and only possible through an intimate, “adult” living with the indwelling Spirit. Jesus closing statements in Matthew’s Gospel underline the need for the relationship with the Divine to be aware and connected to the great mysteries.
Verbum Domini mp3 Lectionary texts
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