10/01/2022

We know that the Scriptures are the revelation by God of his nature and his will for the peoples of the world. But God wants his creation to be free to find him in both the creation and in the Word.  God has placed us in our own freedom to willingingly, to joyfully choose to follow him not as a single unit, mankind,  but as an individual, as a person responding to his knowledge and love of each of us; Father knows every hair of our heads even the cells of the virus causing mankind so much trouble at this moment.

The disciples were called as individuals and lived as we do with others but essentially an "I"  responding to our place in time and space in order to fulfill God's Love for us. So the Evangelists have different recollections of the first call to mission.  The synoptics resemble each other and John as usual considers the event more in the spirit of its place in God's plan rather than as a narrative of historical events.

Hannah is crying because she is without child and is being bullied by those who should support her Her husband misses the point and tries to comfort her by presenting himself as the total necessity for her life. Hannah knows that there is a "Greater than him" to call upon for true comfort. The Apostles are called by the "Ever Greater" to proclaim the Kingdom of God to the whole world in the time that God has allotted to each of us.

 Father, Son and Holy Spirit knows each of us; we have to accept and return that love as each "I" of creation.

Dear Lord I can only know you as a person created by you but you have created even your mother and all the saints of heaven to support us in the ever growing mess that we men are making of your Church and your world. May Mary the Immaculate Conception continue to save us from the total destructon that awaits a universe that abandons and defies you.