10/02/2022

Everyday when I try to start the day with the mass readings, I have to avoid the numerous headlines that the computer throws at me. I have this wish to put God before everything that I do but it is not as easy as it seems. My body has needs, my eyes are captivated by the sunshine of this morning and my mind can be anywhere throwing up trains of thought that are distractions from my puirpose. My true purpose to love and worship the Lord our God.

Poor Solomon; after his brilliant begining he deteriorates into the old man being led hither and thither through the pantheon of false deities by his wife of the moment. I, on the other hand, have had a mixed beginning mostly sinful but veering towards the Church and now in old age still aware of sinfulness, I ask for grace to follow the revelations of the Bible and the teaching of the Church.

Jesus has been accused by the seeming lack of Love in his words to the Sidonian woman. Does he really call her a "house dog"? Is this another of Jesus "hard sayings" or is it reality. Jews must be first for they received the first revelatons of God. We don't have many records of how non-Jews reacted to this. This Sidonian woman was not content with Jesus' retort for she knew that he could cure the sick and and she needed even the scraps of this power. Jesus did as  she had demanded.

Can we "demand" grace from God to strengthen us in this life. "I will be with you even to the end of time". persistence won justice for the woman in her law-suit. We don't need to "demand" for your grace is overflowing. We need to recognise our need for it and then you reply without being asked let alone confronted.

Dear Lord let me continue  this day in prayerful awarenes of your Love always knowing that Father Son and Holy Spirit know who I am and will guard me and mine and all the world from the evil that arises within us.