Seeking and seeing

The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary on the feast of All Saints point to the state and the struggle of those who pursue an intimate communion with the Divine. The psalmist seeks to answer the question of who shall stand in the holy place. The state of being in that place is one of clean hands and a pure heart. How can broken and tempted flesh get there? The text from Revelation is a vision of those who have been robed in the white garments of pure hearts through being washed in the blood of the Lamb. It is not a triumph of our sheer will power that moves us to the resonance of our indwelling Spirit with the Spirit of God but the love of God, proclaimed in the first letter of John, which empowers us to live as the Beatitude people of Matthew's Gospel  who are poor in spirit; knowing our broken-ness, comfort for those who mourn; from our experience of the Comfort of the Spirit, meek; as we seek humility and death of our ego, desiring righteousness; for the peace which surpasses when we are aligned with the Will of the Father, merciful; for our very being is sustained by His mercy, moving toward a pure heart; which removes the veil through which we see darkly, peacemakers; as He sought to reconcile Jew and Gentile, persecuted in the tension between being in a relationship with the Divine in a world which does not know Him and receiving consolation that the choice to respond to the invitation to seek the face of God is authentic as evidenced by the reaction of the original sin in the world.