02/11/2022

Although I seem to have experienced a lot in my life, there are many who have experienced a lot more pain, happiness, excitement, pleasure, all that makes up our lives, than I have. Today is our day when the Church remembers the countless millions who have been judged and not found wanting; those who, having trusted in the words of our revealed God lived their lives aware of his Glory and happy in his merciful grace. 

God knows that each one of us has a soul that is the eternal being he has created and that being is a creation in his image and likeness. he knows my being far more than I know myself. He sees that being and knows "that it is good". It is my responsibility to care for my soul in human life which is our embodied souls created free to choose at each moment either to know, love and serve Father, Son, Holy Spirit or to allow ourselves to be captivated by the evils which Adam chose to let loose into creation. 

Jesus the Mercy of God lived as we all do. He was tempted but never succumbed. His pain on earth, as God freely giving up Divine Being to take on the true body of a man is totally beyond thought and as the Evergreater this pain has to be greater than the total pain of man on earth for it is this pain that brings the Mercy of God to all sinners such as me.

Dear God, you know the prideful shame that my sin brings to me, but I still do not comprehend what a horror it is in your sight. Let me come to learn the offence to your care of me that I freely choose and with this knowledge learn how to avoid the ingratitude that is one of the facets of my sinful behaviour. Mary you never had to deal with a naughty boy as Jesus was sinless, but we, the children you accepted at the foot of the cross, are forever in need of the Mercy that child won for us by the eternal sacrifice he made for us on the cross, continue to plead for that Mercy to be released so that even on this earth we may be relieved of sin as was the son of the widow released from death.