Thomas Griffin 5/24/26 (For SpriitualDirection.com)
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During the past two weeks, the Church has been working its way through Jesus’ last words to his disciples in John 16 and 17. Christ is giving the disciples his own form of his last message to his friends and it is meant to be a reminder of how they can access his heart. It is truly about glory and his Spirit. The Spirit and the glory of the Lord are how we feel the weight of his life on our souls.
The “glory of the Lord” is an important element found throughout the Old Testament and it is taken up as a major genre in the Gospel of John. “We saw his glory,” (John 1:14) references the fact that Israel came into contact with God throughout its history, and now Yahweh is taking flesh. God’s “glory” is the appearance of God’s amazing presence that can be experienced by humans through their senses. The Dictionary of Biblical Theology notes that the Hebrew word for “glory” is kabod which is directly linked to a similar verb used to describe the action of “heaping weight on to something.”
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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