25/06/2022

We have passed the midpoint of our year and with the celebration of the birth of John the Baptist know that we are now on the countdown to the Nativity of Our Lord. The outline of God's plan to offer to sinful mankind the opportunity for salvation and life eternally in his presence is revealed through Isaiah and it is clear that all of humanity shares in the same Love that had previously been for Israel alone.

The psalm thanks God for his creation of our Universe and for knowing each of us as an individual with the potential to be forever with Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We  know in human time and are known eternally by the fullness of God's Love. I am in the body now but what I can become is totally from God. My freedom has to choose and I must honour God by refusing to be overcome by the devil the world and the flesh. 

I must know and act according to the ways of my spiritual life. My soul is mine to preserve by the graces freely distributed to us all by the unimaginable sacrifice of Jesus whose cousin announced his coming and in humility proclaimed himself unworthy even to buckle on his shoe.

Dear Lord I thank you for my life which you know in your eternity. You are totally beyond my scope of knowing but I believe that you are pleased with my puny efforts at worship and understanding. Let my soul grow in love and hope to reach eventually the perfection you have prepared for all mankind. May Mary who rejoiced at the birth of Elizabeth's son remember in Heaven the earthly joys she felt as she continued to carry our as yet unborn God and beseech that Son to return our sinful Church to the only path that leads to heaven.