12/07/2021

This reading from Isaiah recounts events from  more than two and a half thousand years ago. It is recorded history but recorded by a Prophet who is also inspired by God to interpret the events as the Providence of God. He looks for God in the midst of the bloodthirsty events of the Middle East and finds him in the result of this war. "If you do not stand by me you will not stand at all". Can we find God in today's history which is happening in human time as I sit here typing at my desk? God's freedom means that all evil can be instantly eradicated ,we would be instantly eradicated, we would never have been.

We are all aware that we exist so to imagine non-existence is truly impossible for the imagination to do this exists in all of us. God's will for the World and for me is recorded in the Scriptures and interpreted by Prophets both in the Old Testament and in the New. Jesus has brought the Good News. He promises us that Father Son and Holy Spirit loves us and has through humbling himself connected us to a never ending flow of grace.

We have to respond to this reaching out to us and know that man is not an animal ruled by imprinted instincts. We have been given huge  abilities which are seen and known in the works and recorded History of mankind. Jesus makes it quite clear that we are free to make right choices and that Man setting himself up on pedastal is in danger of losing himself in Hell.

Dear Lord let me turn to you in full sincerity. I cannot trust my own thoughts or words for I am always in danger of sin. let me this day avoid sin and its occasions and be always ready to come to the end of my life. May Mary, who witnessed the refusals of Bethsaida and Capernaum and the ultimate rejection by Jerusalem, pray for all her children to accept their trials and tribulations secure in knowledge that the Resurrection of her son is the guarantee that our sins can be forgiven if we are willing to repent and accept the justice of our deserved punishment.