10/12/2021

In  today's Gospel Jesus expresses a human exhasperation with those of his listeners who pick fault with anything thay might read or hear. I have that same tendancy myself but mostly I want to be able to understand the teaching of the Lord. I feel that the psalm presents us with an image of perfection that I can certainly aim for but lack the consistency to achieve.

Isaiah's inspired poetry speaks for the Lord. The Jews whom he addresses had been given every opportunity to prosper as a nation in the arms of God but had lost everything yet again due to backsliding.

Today we know that God is ignored by political leaders and the majority of people in what were once the countries of Christendom. I can cope with that. What is exhasperating for me is that the same can be said for the leaders of Jesus' Church. The phrase "functionally athiest" has been applied to the Vatican and local Bishop's conferences for whom guarding secret sins and manipulating finances are first on their agendas.

How can they forget the Kingdom of God and their duty to guide the sheep through the narrow gate rather than clog it with scandal upon scandal.?

Dear Lord our winter days continue to  darken. Let me be sure that my hope in you is never lost and let your love be recognised by those near to me so that faith in you can become the mainstay of their lives.