18/10/2022

We do not know the exact number of the "72" as we do of the "12" and of the "4". The episode in today's Gospel is recorded by St Luke whose Feast is celebrated today and we can be sure that this mission was entrusted to a group of followers known personally by Jesus. The instructions given to each pair are exact but enigmatical for us. What is the "peace" that can be given and taken back? What is the Kingdom of  God before the Resurrection? 

The good done by the Samaritan was to take care of the wounded traveller and Jesus' miracles too are all done in the body. The blind see, the lame walk, the possessed have their personal devils driven out of them, even the hungry are fed. The Love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is for His creation and he knows that "it is good" as are our bodies in themselves.

 His creation is the "ever-expanding" Universe which is the analogy of the Evergreater being of our Creator of whom we are created to be the "image and likeness". The sin/damage done in created time by this "image" to this "Kingdom" is only possible for us to glimpse in the knowledge that God so loved the world that Son/Jesus was begotten in the body of Mary and lived among us to become the perfect atonement and thus open for us the place for our perfection in the eternity that is God's Glory.

Dear Lord you know what I am. I think that my being is body mind and soul but only you know me as I really am. May my prayers become acceptable to you and let me truly see in all of us the cross on which Jesus who in agony suffered as I cannot imagine the abyss which preceded our resurrected salvation. May the prayers of Mary and "Ikonist" Luke together with all the Saints be with all who are close to death and may the Mercy of Father Son and Holy Spirit overwhelm the guilt created by my sins.