14/05/2022

Jesus chose us. Matthias was chosen by lot. I am not born of my own choice. Not one of the billions of people in the world chose our own parents. We are totally in God's hands but we are also free beings. God gives us freedom in his Love. We remain  within God's mode of being by now choosing to keep his commandments

We become friends of Father, Son and Holy Spirit by keeping the commandments. Jesus is quite plain speaking. The Love in which we can choose to live is there for us to choose it is not  a condition of being as is Oxygen. We are chosen to make the human choice to serve God. We are chosen to try to know God and avoid false teaching which is human thinking. Everything that we do has to be guided by God's revelation.

As was Matthias, Priests are also chosen by lot. There is nothing in the being of a priest that he has chosen for himself. All is from God and priests too such as Peter and Matthias become "Friends of God" by keeping the commandments. Our World, our Flesh are such a rich playgroud for the enemy of Love that many justifications are made for sin even to claiming that souls have been created in order to sin. The Truth stated by Jesus denies this ; "This is my commandment to you Love one another as I have loved you. A man can have no  greater love than lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you to."

Dear Lord you know how I have missed the target of your Love, I pray that I may be able to live out my life in consciouness of your Love and just as you did put the needs of others before my own. May your Church on earth never forget that everything must be done to further your Glory and may Mary and all the saints of heaven fight unceasingly against the evils that we know and also the insidious corruptions that grow unbehest in our human souls.