Progress and perseverance

The texts of the Roman Catholic Lectionary today focus on two realities. We are both not worthy of the invitation to approach intimacy with the Divine and we are called to do so. The author of Hebrews encourages perseverance. Some specific ways in which we have difficulty are mentioned not to dishearten but to recall our initial zeal. The psalmist proclaims the nature of those who seek the deep intimacy with the Divine have clean hands and a pure soul. The Gospel of Mark brings us to the reality that there are no secrets between the person and God. All is known and all is to be transformed into the light which brings the direction to revisit the deficiencies cited in Hebrews and to move toward the state proclaimed by the psalmist.