In today's feast the Church connects a brief outline of God's revelation. He cares for his people Israel. It seems that he does particularly favour one People and in favouring them keeps himself away from the others. This is difficult for us to grasp for God as we know him has no favourites and  opens his heart to all the world so that all can be saved .The Passion of the Son releases a superabundance of merciful love. St Paul is well aware of this and teaches that it is within God, who has no beginning or ending, that the redeeming Act of His Incarnation is a Sacrifice of atonement for all sin. In God there is no sin but we live our freedom in time and it is in time that we sin. The Holy Spirit the eternal Love that flows  from the eternal Father and Son is incarnated in the humanity of  Jesus and made by loving kindness, into the Heart of Jesus and freely available  to us weak sinners living here in time. 

This is what the Church has been instructed to proclaim over the centuries and created to perform. The Liturgy is the visible sign of God's presence. The Mass is the presence of God at the Sacrifice on Calvary and we are the Church of Love remaining  at the foot of the cross after His Apostles had all deserted him. 

I don't want to read into this image the obvious analogy  that applies to the crumbling edifice that is God's Church today.

Dear Lord, each day my thoughts repeat themselves as I try to live according to your Grace. The Sacred Heart pours out Infinite Mercy let me not forget to open my heart to respond to this .