The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us. (Acts 17:24-27 NABRE)
In Paul’s appearance at the Areopagus he preaches his climactic speech to Gentiles in the cultural center of the ancient world. Paul’s discourse appeals to the Greek world’s belief in divinity as responsible for the origin and existence of the universe. It acknowledges that the attempt to find God is a constant human endeavor. The speech reflects sympathy with pagan religiosity, handles the subject of idol worship gently, and appeals for a new examination of divinity, not from the standpoint of creation but from the standpoint of judgment.*
Today, on this Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter, I will look for signs of the divine in all that is around me.
Blessed Michael Giedroyc, whose life of physical pain and mental torment didn’t prevent you from achieving holiness, pray for us.
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