09/10/2022

Race was very much a part of how the peoples of the first Century Palestine viewed themselves. Jesus too is aware of this for God had also viewed his Old Testament world as very much composed of "Nations" which had grown from families sharing common ancestors. Naaman the Leper was not prepared to accept the possibility of the intercession of a foreigner, in both race and religion in a foreign river, to be more successful than the treatments he had already received at home.

St Paul too never forgets that he is a Jew, and that Jesus is a descendant of David. Jesus makes a "racist" comment about the "Samaritan". I say "racist" because in my day and age we are condemned by our social norms for even being aware that all skin colours are not the same. It is a norm as ridiculous as the behaviours promoted by Gender Politics and the Homosexual lobby. The enemies of God always seeking to attack the Truth are that devil "going around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour" of which St Peter warns us.

Jesus first comes to that favoured nation, the Jews, because it is they who have first known Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Evergreater who has revealed in his Covenant and in Jesus the way we are to live our lives as his children.  Resurrection is the Glory into which we are called as individual souls each one of us known by name and in the fullness of our individual being not as Jew Samaritan or Greek. We are all loved by God. There is no greater truth than this.

Dear Lord, help us all to withstand the pressures that come from the anti-Christ who has captured our world and pours out venom against you both openly and insidiously. Let the holiness that is mostly hidden burst forth from your Church and may your Holy Spirit proclaim that God is King, Lord of all the Universe. May your saints in Heaven, led by your Mother pray that their Eternity touch our world again to reveal to all mankind that God is Love the answer to all our problems.