13/03/2022

The readings today ask us to completely review our existence and our relationship with God. Abram is told that he will become a great nation and God has given him ownership of a tract of land which is still in dispute today. God reveals himself in human terms in the time before the Incarnation and consecrates his people by revealing the sacrifice they are to make. They are to return his created animals by the sacrifice of the Temple.

St Paul has spread the message of the Resurrection and has found joy in so doing. He is confident enough in his mission to be able to offer himself as an example of how to live our lives  directed at God. Our bodies and our riches do not make us human. The enemies of God delight in the pleasures of the flesh. The way of life he condemns is set before us in these days as the perfection of being. Even the clergy of our Church proclaim that God is wrong when he teaches us to respect our bodies as the continuation of his creation and not as a source of pleasure.

Peter and John and James are taken by Jesus to the place where he reveals to them the Glory of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The gift of prayer can be a vision of God when God is truly present to us. Visions of God in this world are not the Glory of eternity for that would take the beloved out of this world in the way that Mary was taken into heaven. It is hard to believe that after  this experience Peter's human weakness could cause him to deny Christ in the way that he did in Jerusalem. God knows our weakness and is always ready to forgive even the greatest of sins.

Dear Lord forgive us our trepasses and let my penitence be genuine and not a posture of a few minutes. Let me know your Love every second of the day and let me not be overcome by the struggles of this life. I am here to know love and serve. May Mary and all the other human souls in heaven add their prayers to mine that worries and joys of this world not blind me to my place in your creation. Let your aid come to those who are in great need.