The first community of Christians seem to have lived a perfect life by following the Sermon on the Mount in all its straight forward simplicity. Must we regret that this living in the Love of Christ did not last? By the time John is preparing his remembrances of the Lord and of His teaching, the disciples are no longer making their own society their own world, but the world is something for them to overcome and to be avoided in tune with Jesus "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but suffer the loss of his own eternal life" A life won for us by the crucifixion of God and guaranteed by his resurrection.

Dear Lord I have to accept that this World is what you have created for me and allowed it to continue, help me to reconcile it and its faults with the Grace you have given to your people who seem  unable to act in the way taught to your disciples. Lord send us holy priests.

 Jesus' resurrection  is real, so real that those witnessing it have no doubts that the wounded body that they see and touch is God. What would happen to me if this became my reality. What happened on the road to Damascus was the beginning for those who had not seen. The Church filled the empty places in the hearts of men but all the time it longed to recreate the days in Jerusalem with the Lord. There is no true happiness without Jesus. 

Let me truly believe without direct sight and welcome the blessing that is thus acquired. We must believe and acknowledge that Jesus died for us to be resurrected as our new life.