07/08/2021

This first commandment from Moses  is the daily first thought of all his devout followers. The sign of the cross marks all devout Christians. The operative word in these two sentences, of course, is "devout". "Piety" is not an important part of the life of our times; yet knowing, loving and serving are the only reason for our existence.

It seems to many that God shouldn't be the way that he is and immediately try to interpret what we all experience in the vastness of our "being". We can be sure that we have a freedom to know or not to know God; a freedom to love or not love God; a freedom to serve or not to serve. We don't have a freedom "to be or not to be". Nobody knows what will be  the "bodkin" way's result  but Hamlet's stark choice between the experienced life and the unknown death is what we all have to face. Life is what we all have in the Now of today.

God's revelations of the immeasurable extent of his own freedom saved the Sons of Israel from the oppression of Egyptian man-made gods. His love for his creation touches human history in the Incarnation. The horror of the Crucifixion teaches that Sin can be overcome; the Resurrection is the perfection of Human Being within the totality of God; the Ascension is the way to heaven. 

Many say that this is not the "way" of a "Supreme Being" and use human thoughts to justify themselves. Even devout Christians are inclined to brush off inconveniences. "How can a birth be asexual? Can Mary become a mother and remain a Virgin? The scriptures and the Church are with us to support our Piety they show us the road to holiness and holiness is Eternal Life.

Dear Lord, this is another day for me to "listen". You are one God a Trinity of Persons and I a minuscule of sin and impiety ask your forgiveness for all my sins.