Close to the brokenhearted

The Roman Catholic Lectionary brings texts today which allow us to consider the coming commemoration of Jesus Passion on Good Friday. The passage from the Book of Wisdom suggests that the actions of the holy person may provoke severe reaction by those who are revealed as living in the darkness by comparison. The rejection of Jesus by the religious authorities, according to Friar Jude Winkler, is the event about which we are invited to meditate today. Even in this rejection, which according to the Gospel of John, was to the extent of trying to kill Jesus, He continues the will of the Father by returning to the Temple to preach to those who "don't get it". The psalmist praises the intimacy of God for and with those who are brokenhearted as they pursue faithful trust in the guidance of God for their faith journey. The Divine Plan, in which Jesus trusts, unfolds to bring Him through the trouble of the episode of the Feast of Tabernacles and prepares , in God's time, for His Life to be the Witness in His Resurrected Glory of the love of the Father for all humanity.