14/11/2022

The scriptures that are read today and every day during all the masses that are being said throughout the world are all composed of words that have been written by men who were aware of God and had accepted that they had been chosen by Father through the Holy Ghost to record for all human time the relationship God choses for us to have with Jesus, Word and Son. Those of them who remained faithful to the Word they had witnessed by their words are now still living within the Glory that is totally beyond the limits of what was their human comprehension and imagination here on Earth.

St John's vision is like nothing other than those experienced by the Old Testament prophets. A painting of this image, even a cinematographic reconstruction could tell us no more than the recorded words for the images have been inspired by God but also interpreted by the visionary who has been striving to see God. I always have a difficulty with the size of the vision and any attempt by me to interpret it and reconstruct it in own imagination which is powered by words takes me nowhere.

Jesus brings with him into Jerico the Glory that inspires John's Revelation. Those in the accompanying crowd are trying to catch his words; he is already the celebrity of the moment and the raucous cries for help are a distraction to them. That blind man, desperate in his need, could not be silenced and in Jesus' response the power of his glory was revealed and recognised for what it was, by the crowd.

Lord you know that for some moments each day my being is directed towards you in complete sincerity as were the cries of the blind man but those moments never last long enough and are always guided by words. I pray for that moment when I can accept your grace and am annihilated in the Wordless love that is your Eternity. May Mary and the saints who know that time-less moment continue in their prayers for us all, the Holy Souls and those here on earth especially for those like me who are curtailed by illness and sin.