Our being, fearfully and wondrously made, inspires the
psalmist to praise the all present and omnipotent God in one text from the
Roman Catholic Lectionary today. We can benefit by a few moments of meditation
on the amazing cooperation of biological, physical and metaphysical forces
which maintain our conscious living. The symphony of life looking inward is a
complement to the universe of wonder when we gaze outward. In the Book of Job,
God speaks and silences the attack which Job had presented on the action of
God. Friar Jude Winkler reassures that Job was right to expose pursue and
expose the limitations of the traditional Wisdom thinking about the link of
misfortune to sin. The good man is subject to tragedy and disaster. The Presence
of God in suffering as the One most compassionate is in the Mystery. We explore
our world intellectually and emotionally because we are so created. Friar Jude
warns us not to let our theology restrict God to our definition. The author of the
great work Summa Theologica, Saint Thomas Aquinas,
left it unfinished after a spiritual revelation that it amounted to the straw
which was used to clean up messes in the attempt to understand God. The Gospel
of Luke warns us about complacency in our faith. Those closest to Jesus and the
work He did were able to be satisfied with their own ideas about His work and
message. As a consequence of this failure to see, Luke warns that they have
missed the Kingdom of God which will attract the pagans and outsiders to
greater intimacy with the Divine. An attitude of “Catholic arrogance” often
impedes people when the sacraments, saints, scripture, scholars, magisterium
and tradition cause us to close our eyes to the ongoing living experience of
people with God in the world around us. The fiftieth anniversary of the
beginning of Vatican II is approaching. The Spirit which moved to revitalize
the Church, at that time, invites us to continue to be open to the Divine plan.
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