There are many phrases in the texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary which provide seeds for reflection on the nature of the relationships between the Divine and humanity and the relationships between people. At the conclusion of the 1st chapter of the Book of Job, after losing everything, Job proclaims ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.’ The texts in the Christian prayer, Liturgy of the Hours pose the paradox that we thank God for good things, should we not also thank Him for the bad? The thought that our total existence, good or bad is the gift of Divine love is a difficult meditation. Our ego centric nature often is blind to all the evidence that contradicts our presumption that “man created God” and somehow we are the master’s of our destiny. The apostles seek to control the healing power that is ministered through humans but is the power of the Spirit of God in communion with the sacred seed in all creatures.
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