06/10/2022

Jesus tells us that we can use our minds to understand who and what we are in the Universe which is our physical reality. If we persevere in our knocking at the door the householder will answer us. St Paul is amazed how some of the Church in Galatia have received the words of his preaching but have fallen back on the familiar idea of "Law" as the way to salvation and abandoned the Spirit of his teaching. In actual fact it seems that in these earliest texts of our New Testament the Spirit actually had physical manifestations and it was these signs of the Spirit. that Simon Magus sought to buy.

We all know that our scriptures we read today were collated long after the events they record. We know from our own experience in the world that there can be many different versions of the same events witnessed by different eyewitnesses. St Paul had been stopped in his tracks by Jesus on his way to Damascus and it was from the direct experience of Father Son and Holy Spirit that he had received his mission. He had no other texts than the scrolls he had studied during his training as a Pharisee to refer to during his missionary journeys and proclaimed the Resurrection from his heart to the hearts of his listeners. His mission and teaching were not some human, scholarly thing but the Holy Spirit which filled first him and then his listeners.

He never lost the closeness of God he had experienced and was able to inspire others by his words, but could not understand that there could be any falling back from the Holy Spirit as he experienced it. Very few of us can have known this overpowering of ourselves by the Holy Spirit and the Saints who have done so have for their whole lives committed themselves to a life of total purity and prayer. They have kept knocking and the householder has welcomed with the gift of himself.

Dear Lord, today let me grow in your Loving Mercy. Let all of mankind created by you to live lives on earth directed to the perfection of the humanity destined by you for Eternity. May Mary who herself has known only complete sinlessness pray that we the sinful on earth can do penance for our sins in the knowledge that the cruel and savage punishment she experienced vicariously with her maternal love on Calvary, has glorified God in his Evergreater Mercy and thus brought about our forgiveness which we have only to ask for and it will be ours.