13/11/2021

Today's Gospel gives us an enigmatic text that is surely aimed at all who have followed but not seen. It tells us that the  Lord knows we have had a long wait; that we must not lose faith and he will undoubtedly  return to earth, into human time; his feet on the earth yet reaching to the skies. Our Lord will then be looking for faith.

The answer to the engima is with us. Our human lives must be modelled on his and that before all we must put  God by whom we have all been created out of nothing for the dust to which we shall all return was not anything before the Word was spoken.

The people of God have been saved from the power of Pharoah and the materialism that worshipped idols of wood and stone. But that worship of idols has not been eradicated. Our Church's concern for its reputation and its wealth and its ignoring of the pain of clerical sin, which is felt by us all, has put the human structure of Christ's Body on earth before God. Where is the Faith in that?

Dear Lord, my prayer is, as always, that I may truthfully know love and serve you and that these moments of prayerful concentration stay with me throughout this day and that your loving care be with me and my family and all of your people.