30/10/2021

St Paul is concerned that we all remember the Jews. Remember that they are still beloved of God in the special way revealed in the Old Testament. The emnity shown to Jesus by his own people was a necessity for the mission of the Incarnation to be completed by a real death. Jesus' death was a complete annihilation. One accompanied by the unimaginable suffering. Suffering that was accepted in God's total freedom which is eternally aware of the "before" and "after" of our time.

Jesus is our "Lord and our God" and we too set up walls of sin against his message by our own human will which also has a freedom limited only by the  non-divine capabilities of our humanity. I sit at this machine which is the work of human hands and know that my intention is to start the day with prayer. What a wonder is the machine which encircles the whole world with Man. But what a greater creation is the Earth and all that is in it!

Pride and egoism are the roots of all sin and will reap their reward. Humility that refutes arrogance is God's Will for us; we must constantly battle to accept this for there are places at the wedding banquet that have been prepared for us Jew and battling Christians alike.

Dear Lord help me to not just say the right words but to find their true meaning in the way that I live my life always in the loving presence of Father Son and Holy Spirit.