08/09/2022

We believe that Jesus is true God and true man  He is Father Son and Holy Spirit in the timeless Eternity that is God. This is God beyond comprehension not found by human thought but revealed by the inspiration first given to "The Chosen People", "the God of Isaac and Jacob not the God of the philosophers." Mary's birth is the begining of a new covenant for she is the woman chosen by God to be the source of the humanity with which to grow Son on Earth. The awesome humility of our God  to accept for  himself the limitations of the embryonic state that is the begining of all life can only be grasped in silent worship; an act of will inspired by the grace of faith in the power of the Evergreater.

St Matthew is writing sometime after the Resurrection and was part of the founding community that was the fledgling Church. He had known Jesus and had witnesed the Risen Lord. He was known to Paul. That early Church was still in the process of comimg to an understanding of what it was that they had witnessed  only a few years before. The divinty of Jesus the man was, as always,  a matter of faith but his humanity was proven by the genealogy of Mary with which he starts his Testament. This makes it clear that for the Jewish converts Jesus is part of God's plan for mankind revealed in the Scriptures; a plan that now includes  all of humanity.

Mary the greatest of all the created universe  knows God as has no other created being. She did not taste death but was taken by the power of God into his Eternity where she is ceaselessly interceding for her children here on Earth and in Purgatory. It is Mary, the sinless one, at the foot of the cross and in the eternity that we call heaven who is the only one close enough to God to call him to renew the wine of faith that his Church has squandered through its prideful impiety.

Dear Lord I am doing my best to "know" you, let my attempts at service be acceptable for their sincerity. Love is easy to say but impossible to feel. Let me avoid sin this day for that is enough for me. Listen Lord to the pleas of your mother and bring to us Shepherds who can lose their sinful egos in endless worship of you and care for their flocks.