02/08/2022

Peter's sinking into the lake is blamed on his lack of faith. The dramatic fall in the believe in God that has been witnessed in my life-time is a lack of faith in the Church first of all and then a crumbling in our understanding of life. There is no one who speaks with the assurance of a prophet against the onslaughts of the atheist hedonists who rule our people through the technological marvels that have substituted themselves for what should be our aim in life. Social -Media "influencers" carry much more weight with our people than do any representatives of the Institutional Church or its breakaway reformed offsprings. Nonsense spouted by pop musicians is taken into the hearts of our youth and squeezes out any vestiges of the presence of Jesus.

The only answer to this modern manifestation of the the "Great Wound" is for us to be reminded daily  of  the "Great Truth" that nothing in this world will last for ever. Each individual human of this world will one day come to the abiding truth of his own death and he will find at that moment that the being he knows as "I" is not the powerful leader, the great thinker, the humble servant, the holy man of God, the down-trodden slave he has worshipped all his life but the creation of our loving Father, Son and Holy Spirit who at the never to be repeated moment welcomes us  into eternal life with loving mercy or rejects out of hand.

Dear Lord strengthen faith, fulfill hope and manifest your love to all the peoples of the world that we can turn our hearts and minds to only you as Jesus did on the mountain as Peter and your disciples battled the storm of life. Our own inheritors of the mantle of St Peter need to recognise that they are sinking and forgetting about the transitory "patrimony" get rid of all the wealth that ties them to this world and the values of Mamon so that you may become for them the all-in-all. May Mary and all the created saints in heaven in the Eternal moment of their being bring succour to those still suffering here on earth.