21/02/2022

Jeremiah sees and interprets. The Chosen People have forgotten the Lord. The inspiraton of God tells him that the  Temple is full of priests who do not pray. The Law is practised without thought. The leaders of Israel follow the ways of Baal. The living water flowing from God is replaced by stagnant cisterns constructed by themselves.

Why does Jesus teach in parables? His listeners have  unseeing eyes and deaf ears; they are deliberately avoiding conversion back to the way of God. Jesus is trying to wake us all up so that we do not get our lives entagled in the snares of the devil and his plaything the world and all the souls that are living therein.

In these days as at the time of Jeremiah God is not thought about or given any consideration or credit. The knowledge that fills the world is a source of pride to mankind, pride that excludes God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not acknowledged as the Creator and Mankind is a random event operating  willy nilly in an equally random universe.

Most of us are self-blinded and with ears stopped up to the revelations of the Evergreater we live out our lives in deliberate ignorance of the Way, the Truth and the Life. Jesus is the last Revelation for he is God. How do we keep our selves open to the Word that is God amidst the pride, greed and fornication that are the main preoccupations that Human Life has become.?

Dear Lord, reach out again to your peolpe and let the poor and starving millions take first place in the line that is human time. Let our shepherds wake up to their duties and comdemn the evil nonsense that prideful men wish to foist on us. May Mary who knows the need of sick children continue to pray for all her children that we may find the joy and peace that is the free gift of her Son and yours to all the peoples of our world.