Often do this when I like his concise reflections. This is actually Bishop Robert Baron’s entire reflection copied n pasted here as I missed yesterday’s readings:-
THIRD WEEK OF EASTER
JOHN 6:35-40
“Friends, Joseph Ratzinger said that the soul corresponds to our capacity for relationship to God. We have a whole range of intellectual and relational powers, but beyond them all, we have the capacity to know and love God. And since God is eternal, this power links us to eternity, proving that we are not simply limited to space and time. To say that we are nothing but “bodies” which flourish briefly and then fade away is to miss this dimension of our existence. Instead, we speak of souls and of the enduring existence of those who have gone before us into death.
This is why Jesus speaks so readily of eternal life in today’s Gospel: “For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.” There was a great debate in Jesus’ time within Judaism in regard to this question. Many, including the Sadducees, denied the idea of life after death; but others, including the Pharisees, affirmed it.
Jesus clearly sides with those who affirm it, and his own resurrection from the dead demonstrated this belief as emphatically as possible.”
Like it or not even though we may believe we are content with everything and all we have accomplished, done and planned, that’s why we have an inner longing, a restless feeling in our heart as “only in God is our (my) soul at rest” Ps 62 – love the hymn!! Because we are created by and made for God. We don’t belong to ourselves or live for ourselves. Our souls belong to Him. All we aim for is to be in union with our Lord. The closer we get to him, the better the relationship, and the more the likeness. The more the likeness, the more we think, feel and act like him, the more we can live like him. The more we can live like him, the more we can love like him. And love is what the world needs more of. May our souls be ultimately drawn closer to you, O Lord.