Youth Life and a Stumbling Block

The author of Ecclesiastes in the texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary writes “the breath returns to God who gave it” (Ecclesiastes 12:8). The end of life for Jesus, particularly, as the result of being betrayed into the hands of His enemies was difficult for His disciples to understand. The psalmist proclaims the understanding of the devote that the Almighty could “sweep them away... like a dream” The paradox, stumbling block, mystery of the temporal and the infinite, the human and the Divine coexisting while being in communion through the indwelling Spirit is are the questions which stumped the Apostles. They are still the questions which we try to answer today.