The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today reveal that Herod was perplexed about the impact Jesus was having on the people. He appears confused between John who previewed Jesus message and was executed and Jesus. The subtle characteristics of people and their beliefs often escape our notice. There is a tendency to group them all together and try to explain traditions of belief and life which are often thousands of years old by a comment or a sentence. The psalmist reflects that even the longest time we can imagine is only a brief moment in Divine time. The passage from Ecclesiastes on vanity can be rephrased as a passage on pride. Our lack of a healthy humble perspective causes us to dismiss the most awesome elements of our existence as irrelevant to our needs. The understanding we attempt to seek with ourselves at the centre is truly distorted.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment