16/06/2022

Each day has to be a renewal of my service to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The readings are always my sources and the questions they raise have to be part of my daily meditation. The Rule of St Benedict has been followed for centuries and by following it men and women have devoted all their living to praising and serving God. 

In this age there are, in the west very few of them that are left and they have been discredited by the sinful behaviour of their monks and abbots. The holiness of serving you is no longer a priority even among the  orders that all have few monks but huge wordly wealth in land and buildings. They profess poverty but can always excuse their presence in the airports about the world.

They have become like the reservations created for the "Indians" of America scattered about Christendom but with a falling population which has lost the spirit of their forfathers. I'll leave that sentnce/image as it  is a warning for me that as I pray I must be sincerely looking to "Our Father" and not to the clever little ego that I am.

The world as it is now cannot be avoided for it is the human reality developed by manknd out of the instant of creation by God. My soul, the spiritual substance of who I am has to live in this world and direct my being to be in the presence of God and to humbly enter the secret room where I am but a tiny sinner.  Tiny but worth more than my understanding for I am filled with Grace won for me and all humanity by Jesus in Palestine so long ago. Come, Lord Jesus come.

Dear Lord let my deeds today bear witness to your love for all mankind. You know how each day I grope for sincerity in my prayer. You are our eternity and it is holines to strive after a place with you..Let no one go hungry today and by forgiving our sins let us know that we too have to forgive. Let me avoid the road to temptation and in all things protect us from the evil one. May Mary and all the saints in heaven who are in Eternity not in secret, but face to face, add their prayers to mine for the sick known to me and for all suffering humanity. God's will be done.