Over my head

Those of us who learned about God when we were children often have a childish conception of God, intellectually or at least emotionally. Our conception of God is therefore sometimes vulnerable to the specious arguments of atheists or other cultists.

Today’s first reading (Job 9:1-12, 14-16) reminds us that God, infinite and omnipotent, is over our head and ultimately beyond our grasp.

Even so, God’s gift of intellect can point us to God and his gift of revelation gives us true knowledge of his unknowable self.

Veni, Sancte Spiritus
reple tuorum corda fidelium,
et tui amoris in eis accende.

V. Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur.
R. Et renovabis faciem terrae.

Oremus

Deus,
qui corda fidelium
Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti.
Da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere,
et de eius semper consolatione gaudere.
Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen.

Come, Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of Thy faithful
and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.

V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray:
O GOD,
Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful
by the light of the Holy Spirit,
grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise,
and ever rejoice in His consolation.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.