The story of Life

The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary describe relationships through time and beyond time with God. As the Evangelist Luke describes the preaching of Paul in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia about salvation history from the Exodus to the bringing of a Saviour to Israel in the person of Jesus, Friar Jude Winkler comments that Luke may be comparing the Jews to Samuel who made choices which displeased God. Paul is exhorting his audience to accept Jesus as the fulfillment of the promise to David of a Messiah for Israel. Eileen Burke-Sullivan is in harmony with the psalmist today in singing the goodness of the Lord forever, She encourages us to see with gratitude our personal salvation story to date and from that perspective experience the humility which leads to awe and joy in our choice to continue to live in the Body of Christ as our temporal story points to eternal communion with God.