30/01.2022

We are assured that the Lord knows us and that it is in this knowledge of us that we are loved. We are here to do our best, not to become prominent in any worldly sense but by knowing the Lord and loving his ways. Jesus' first sermon in his home town was somewhat of a disaster. But his time was not to be until another three years had passed. His words in that synagogue were unpalatable to the "Chosen People" and they have not been accepted until this day.

We too have  similar hard questions to face up today.  We know so much more about the workings of our Church and it seems to be  no more than an earthly institutions beset by all the problems that worry the managers of any organisation.

Jesus promised to be with us until the end of time and it has often been said that there is no salvation outside of the Church. The Western Church is as corrupt as any other multi- natiional and its international property dealings are a scandal to the faithful.

Could it be that there is only salvation outside the corporate body of Catholicism that the Church which is the Love in St Paul; the Love of those who did not flee from the Cross but remained with the dead body that was the ruler and life of all the Universe. I can be responsible for my own sins but the sins of the Church are beyond me just as living without sin is impossible for me. My hope is in "nothing is impossible for God".

Dear Lord may renewal come to us all and even though St Paul put away childish things let us be reminded that Jesus encourages us to call God "daddy" and to know that the simplicity and guilelessness of a child's heart is what he requires not gaudiness and rich vestments.