25/02/2022

What is it that St James warns us about when he commands us to not take oaths? It is not something that  I come across everyday. As a child, I can remember "Honest to God" being said amongst us but in adulthood except during legal procedings an oath is not something that is part of my life. But OMG is everywhere on the internet, perhaps it is this all too familiar use of the word that is the name of our God against which we are warned. The taking of the Lord's name in vain is what will bring us to judgement.

We get married once. We have relations with one woman. We live our lives as a family and do not change partners. That is Jesus' command. We cannot avoid it. There are no excuses. We can be forgiven but that forgiveness has come at the huge price paid by Father Son and Holy Spirit on Calvary. There are no special groups who know more about Love than the one who gave up his life to save us. We must not act in sin on the basis that God will forgive. I must be reponsible for my own being in thought word and deed,

Dear Lord you know how I want to be true to you in this life. You know how often I fail to live up to your grace. Let the eternal love known by your mother and all the saints touch each of us this day and bring to an end to all conflict both trivially private and spectacularly public. Let your peace prevail.