25/11/2022

John's vision continues today as the first reading. Where can we see ourselves in that awesome picture he has seen? Why is Satan still a huge problem in the End Times? Why is evil not totally obliterated but only put away for a "thousand years"? There is much in this Apocalyptic vision that raises more questions than it answers for I have always been troubled by why my disobedience, my sin, has happened after the suffering undergone for us on Calvary.

Jesus makes it clear that there will be an end to this creation. In the chapter that today's reading is from he describes the destruction of Jerusalem and of the Temple pretty accurately but the signs he gives for the end of time were there in his day and have been with us ever since. Luke's chapter 21 has to be read in its entirety to grasp any meaning from this parable of the fig-tree. 

The Psalm, however, sings to our hearts a longing for the God that we have been taught to call our Father. He who finds joy, "He saw that it was good" in all his creation and has revealed himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Evil is the incomprehensible "dragon" that has to be resisted with the grace given to us by God and the signs of the "end times" are with us now for we all know that we will die and live in the hope that we can face the loving Judgement that is the reason for the creation of our being. In the Word there is no Evil and that is the Eternal Truth.

Dear Lord, forgive my weakness in understanding your revelations and let my faith grow in humility and love. All my sins are known to you and are an offence to your Love. Open my being to your evergreatness that I might by your touch become purged of all nearness to sin and look to live only in your grace. May Mary the only sinless created being lead all the saints in beseeching your Mercy for the Holy Souls and for all of us still growing here on earth. "My word will stand".