Divisions in the Devoted

The Roman Catholic Lectionary today shows how we tend to elevate the role of human activity in our work of spreading the Good News. Paul refers to the early tendencies in the Church to follow one human leader or another and to attribute to them status which belongs to the Divine. When we set up our group or tribe we tend to elevate our group as "better" than the other. The psalmist reminds that the position of faithfulness is to wait for the Lord and trust in the movement of the indwelling Spirit to direct our work. In Luke's Gospel Jesus is ministering to the people close to Him yet the passage ends with the restatement of the will of God that the Good News be preached to all.