12/09/2022

St Paul is addressing the faults of a community that has lost the unity which he had preached to them. They have btoken into factions and the individuals do not have any idea of Liturgical worship. Although, they seem to be meeting to be together as St Paul taught them,  they do not control their  own egos and are the same rich and poor, strong and weak, educated and ignorant but most of all they are still Jew and Gentile.

I know my own ignorance of Scripture as I read these selected readings and am aware that my reaction to the passages in the Missal are not at all scholarly but they are my reaction to what I read.. It seems to me that St Paul is trying to tell the Corinthian Church that their meetings must be unified by a meal that follows the pattern that he had learned from the Apostles. This meal has got to be a unified and unifying event for the new believers and has no room for improvisations. Jesus did say "This is my Body" and it is the immensityof the meaning of  that statement linked to the Resurrection that provokes the awe that acompanies the Mass to this day and in the days of the infant Church, changed human life for ever.

Mary the Mother of God the source of Jesus' humanity is also the source of our faith.  She is the one created being, the Love, that stayed with her Son until the very end on Calvary and it is Mary's love to which we have to turn when conflicted in our belief for in the presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit she is not corrupted by the all too human institution that Jesus' foundation on Peter has become.

Dear Lord I have to thank you for my being and for all the graces that you have given to me. My sins are still the offences against your Holiness that they always will be but I know that your Mercy is as you are, Evergreater. Today the Holy name of Mary is commemorated by your Church. May Mary add her heavenly prayers to those of that Church that the words uttered become deeds of simple holiness.