We know God in our senses

The texts today in the Roman Catholic Lectionary commemorate the feast of John the Apostle and Evangelist. The Gospel of John is, in places, a very mystical work which relates the Divine nature of Jesus. The opening of the Letter of John today refers to the beginning of the Gospel of John where we read of the beginning of the universe where there was the Word, coexistent with the Father and in that 1st chapter of John's Gospel we are told that the Word became flesh and lived among us. This intimacy of Divine and human is the celebration of Christmas. In the work of John, this mystical relationship of love and fellowship between people, the Son and the Father which is in the resonance of indwelling Spirit with the Holy Spirit occurs through the encounter of human flesh with the Lord which we can experience through our senses. The message that we need to encounter God with our whole being is ancient. The passage from the Gospel of John today takes us to the empty tomb on Easter morning. The action of love on the human body, according to Friar Jude Winkler, has propelled John to the tomb ahead of Simon Peter. When John allows his senses to take in the scene, he is a believer in the Resurrection of Jesus. The Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament is the invitation today to live the experience of intimacy with Jesus through our senses. The Incarnation is the desire of God to reach to unity with people in the experience of the Divine in the Flesh and in the being of all our human brothers and sisters.