06/11/2022

My service offered to Father, Son and Holy Spirit is all based on God's revelation recorded in scriptures. I know that I am. I am conscious of my being and know that there are other beings and of these there is One Evergreater who can never be understood by my mind nor expressed by my words. Throughout the time humans have been on Earth, God has revealed himself first to one people and then to all mankind and this revelation is being read in churches all over the world this Sunday, the Lord's Day

God has to be worshipped because He is. We can worship him only in our individual being even though we join together as congregations to do so. Why are the Maccabees being slaughtered in the first of today's readings? They know that Faith, obedience to God is the most important thing anybody can do with his life. They have learnt through scriptures that God has created us to be holy in this life to prepare us for a new consciousness in a state beyond death. What is death in comparison to Eternity?

Not all the compilers of God's revelation have understood that there would be a different form of life for each of us after death. The Sadducees challenged Jesus and were rebuked for not accepting that after our deaths our souls will live on in another "world" as spiritual beings without bodies which are left behind in this world as the dust out of which they are made.

We can only be a worshiping community when we are all united in the creed that we profess for this is the Word promised to be with us until the end of time. I am afraid that too many of us are led into temptation by clergy who accept social mores and are not even able to do their duty by denouncing the sexual sins that are one of the bains of human life as it is lived now. Where are the Maccabees of our presentday Church?

Dear Lord, you know me completely and by your grace I am able to offer my poor service to you. Let not my dissatisfaction with the unholiness to be found in the institution that you founded cause me to forget the obedience and love shown at the foot of your cross by Mary and John and learn from your Mother total obedience to your will and know the Love which begat your Incarnation, Jesus, Son and man. May the prayers of all the Saints bring succour of the Holy Spirit to the Holy Souls and to their suffering brothers and sisters here on Earth. As always, I pray for the sick and suffering of all the world especially for those in my family and for those whom I know.