06/08/2022

I always find it difficult to recreate in my own mind the Old Testament's and St John's visions of the Glory of God. The scenes that they record are beyond my mind's capacity to store and imagine. John Peter and James witnessed the Jesus Son born of the Father through all eternity. They beheld the Glory of God from God. They saw three figures. The narrative of the Gospel makes it clear that this was not a dream enclosed in their own minds but an event outside of themselves. They were admonished not to tell of this great event they had been chosen to accept.

Later on in the story of Jesus of Palestine we are given a much more public and less awe-inspiring sight of God.We see him powerless beaten and bleeding carrying his own deathbed through the streets of Jerusalem. We see him manhandled by foreign soldiers, pagan servants of Rome. Vilified by his own nation and denied by his own followers he appears to be without hope as he cries out the words of a despairing Psalm and is dead.

Many more than three witnessed Jesus' body in its resurrected form. They were not warned to keep it as esoteric knowledge only for the selected few but on the contrary to go out and announce this Good News to the whole world. Father Son and Holy Spirit knows us and loves us and has prepared a tent for us to be in the Eternity that is his being. Wow!!!!

Dear Lord let my soul be cleansed of the sins of this world, let my mind dwell only on you and let my body obey my will as directed by you. May Mary who on earth knew the Glory of God and his complete humanity in her son Jesus now in heaven with all the Saints continue in her prayers for all her children here on Earth. Each day I pray the same petition although I know that she can do no differently for Mary is a living prayer.