23/09/2022

The first reading contemplates man's role in the world. Everything we do is done within time and at the correct moment therin. We can think about events in our human time and understand them but Father Son and Holy Spirit are in Eternity which is beyond our ability to understand. 

Each day we are aware that God is beyond our comprehension but we can understand much about his creation. Even the Cosmos can have its secrets unveiled by human intelligence. Man made machines can absorb and process in seconds what is far beyond a single lifetime of  human brain power. God is still far beyond the limits of human and  machines knowledge and thinking.

Our daily tasks are an intrinsic part of our  use of time and we do them in the order that time creates for us. But in the totality of our time which we know from birth to death our main task is to have  answered  Jesus' question which he puts to us all in this morning's Gospel, for he is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In our lives on Earth there is nothing that takes precedence over this. In our human weakness we have to always be on guard for the delights of our mind and flesh can so easily consume our alotted time. 

Can we have a positive answer to give when faced with " Who do you say that I am?" at the end of our human time?

Dear Lord you know how I live my life. Let me always be receptive to your grace and truly know that your life on Earth forecast and recorded in Scripture is the way truth and life that all souls need to follow in this world, for it is only now that we can answer you man to God. May your mother and all the saints fight against the promoter of all temptation and sin that we may be sure of the loving presence of you Our, Lord and our God.