Actions speak

The discussion about the texts from the RomanCatholic Lectionary today may tend to two directions. The passage from the Book of Acts is noted by Friar Jude Winkler as a situation which verifies that the life in the Christian community will not always run smoothly. The believers of Greek origin were complaining that their widows and orphans were being overlooked by the Aramaic believers in the distribution of bread. Trust in God and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit will offer a solution to the community difficulty. The deacon as one with a recognized ministry within Christianity is traced to this passage. The actual role of deacon in Christian practice has been in various activities since the first century. The point of the Gospel of John that Jesus is the Divine Word made flesh to be the Messiah and presentation of the total Love of God is made in the text today by the nature miracle of walking on water. Attempts to apply a sociological interpretation to the events of John’s Gospel can range from the plausible practical explanation that the multiplication of the loaves and fishes was the sharing of the food brought by some for the many to the ridiculous wherein Jesus knew where the stones were when He walked on the water. The dualism of the Gospel of John presses the point that there is not half way between Jesus Divine and Jesus as merely human.