05/07/2022

I try to follow the path to the holiness that leads to God. God knows that I try but always fall short of my good intentions. I know that my striving after holines is the truly most important thing in my life. I have to be truly devoted to Father, Son and Holy Spirit and I truly believe that the Grace to do so is flowing without ceasing from the heart pierced by the lance on Calvary.

I am too often trapped by the matter of this world and face covetness and jealousy componded by lust of the body and a weakening of the will to resist. All of this is known to Almighty God and he knows that the fault is truly mine as I close to door to his Love. St Paul encourages us to follow the sound teaching he he has brought to the churches he has founded. Jesus tells us to be like little children.

Little children are at first all trusting and all believing. I speak from the experience of  the disappointment that there is no Santa Clause. That image of childish innocence is only partially true for I can also remember dishonesty and lies. Lust also begins in childhood and as we grow we need to understand the "sound teaching" for living by instinct will not lead us to holiness. 

Jesus is the way, the truth to eternal life that I can access only by having my will fortified by openess to his free grace. We, the adopted chidren of God, do not believe in Santa Clause but without qualms and in complete trust  turn over our lives to God who in his incarnation knows all the beauties and pitfalls of our daily lives.

Dear Lord forgive me my sins and let my faith not be tarnished by weakness in resisting temptation. May Mary your real mother whom you have given to us not be overpowered by the  vast number of sinners, who as I have done, offend the Infinite Goodness that is you Father, Son and Holy Spirit.