03/05/2022

Today's readings tell us without any quibble that we need to believe what we read in the Scriptures. We are not told that we need to understand. Jesus is the Eternal Word, the Son conceived in the flesh of Mary by the power the Father in the Holy Spirit. God is three persons in which each person is one God. We are told that by the Gospels particularly at the Annunciation. We do not  need to undestand but we have to believe the revelation of God himself. God the eternal creator tells us what it is and we have to believe without quibble or modification of the Word.

St Paul tells that any other beliefs are a waste of time. Nothing that we learn about our world requires belief for we can understand our physical universe by research and observation. Even sub-atomic particles can be known and manipulated. Our mistake is to think that this scientific knowledge is superior to belief. Science and technology are great achievments by mankind but they must not  be put before God.

The mystery of the Trinity has to be contemplated by faith. Our Lord tells Thomas that he who sees Jesus sees the Father. Philip chimes in with a request to see the Father. Jesus is  annoyed in his love, for Philip has been with him for years and not understood. Jesus is God. All of his deeds and words; his teaching example-setting; are the works of God for that is what he is.

I have to be on the way, in the truth  into the life that God has shown to me and recorded in the scriptures. Eternal life in the Glory of God is what the Father wants for us we only have to accept this Grace and it will be ours.

Dear Lord you know what I am facing in my life. You who promise to grant whatever I request bring healing to the suffering ones and let my belief in you not be lip service but a genuine condition of the heart. May Philip and Thomas add their prayers to those of Mary and all the saints that the suffering in Purgatory may bring atonment for sins committed and that we on earth bear witness to Father, Son and Holy Spirit.