23/09/2021

The psalm proclaims that God tales delight in his people. The first reading chides the same people for not completing the task that God had revealed was their duty, their purpose in being brought back to Judah. And Herod, he who liked to listen the words of John the Baptist although he was perplexed by them, cancels the possibility of Jesus being the same John the Baptist having been brought back to life with a  blunt "I chopped off his head".

"You are the Christ the Son of the Living God" has been the answer preserved by our Church for the last two millennia . Can I honestly looking at my life see anything for the Lord to delight in? There are so many of us in this world and our Loving Father knows us infinitely more than we know ourselves.

I have to know God ,love him and serve him and thus build up his new Temple, the living body that is his Church and thus as a sinner striving on the way to the truth and the life I can do my bit to be part of the people in whom the Father, Son and Holy Spirit take delight .

Dear Lord, let me be truly part of your body which is the Saints in heaven and Sinners on earth. Let my hidden prayer be supported by your Holy Mother and all your Saints so that all of us may know your glory and be a delight to you.