Many of us like a good mystery. When I was younger, I use to
devour the mysteries of A. Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Mickey Spillane, Erle
Stanley Gardner to name just a few. I would try to fathom the name of the
perpetrator of injustice, normally a murderer, before Miss Marple, Perry Mason,
Mike Hammer or Sherlock Holmes revealed it before the end of the story. We
encounter many mysteries in our lives, many more so than the mystery sleuths we
have read. Often the mystery is expressed with the question, “Why?” “Why do I
have this illness?” or “Why did my loved one die?”
From the very beginning,
humanity has struggled with the mystery of death. Epic poems, grand mythologies
have been composed in all of the world religions about what lies on the other
side of twilight, just out of our mortal eyesight. The greatest mystery of all that
has perplexed the greatest of philosophers and theologians is the mystery of
God. Paul writes that the answer to this mystery will not be seen nor heard by
human eyes or ears of even the wisest of humans, but only to those who love
God. The gateway to this knowledge is only through Jesus. As we hear sung in
the doxology of the Mass, it is only through Jesus, with Jesus, and in Jesus
that the glory and wonder of God is revealed to us in the Holy Spirit. It only
through Jesus that we will be able to enter into the mystery of God of who
loved us into creation, and understand. 
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