11/11/2022

St John's second letter continues to stress that Love is the greatest of the virtues. It is the spirit of love that becomes the Ten Commandments and the whole of Christ's revelation. The Church prefers to think that the "lady " to whom the letter is addressed is a metaphor for the Church as whole and not to some specific person. The letter is concerned that "deceivers" may be making some headway into the teaching he has left with them. During Apostolic times even though the spreading of the Good News had come about through the preaching of those who had seen the risen Lord there were also many who manipulated the truth, following their own agendas.

I always wonder when there is condemnation of opinions in scripture whether those who were condemned were indeed the tools of Satan/Anti-Christ or were they misguided human's acting out of pride or jealousy. It is certain that Jesus came to bring us the final revelation of God's Truth. He is the unchanging message of Love first for Father, Son and Holy Spirit and simultaneously for all others, our neighbours, brothers and sisters in Christ.

In the Gospel Jesus speaks a warning. We must be constantly ready for the End-Times which could happen with the suddenness of the Flood or the destruction of Sodom. We must not become engrossed in the world which is our place in human time. We must prepare ourselves each day by prayer and reflection for either our deaths or the Second Coming, the End and New Beginning. Keeping to the Truth taught by Christ is the only way to avoid the vultures that are always hovering around, just as they did above Calvary.

Dear Lord, let me be guided constantly by your truth, Jesus is the only way to your eternity and we are all gifted by the grace to accept or reject his life death and resurrection. Let the leaders of the Church be not only true to Truth but also by the example of their lives lead thy sheep to the perfect pastures of Paradise. May all the Holy Souls know that their punishment will come to an end and that their Mother Mary, All the Saints and the struggling Church on Earth keep them in their love and in their prayers.