20/11/2022

These few moments that I spend trying to be at peace with God are the best moments of my day. I am guided in this by the Church which was founded on Peter. I use the readings of the mass for each day and so I am still with the structure but frightened by the hypocrisy. I am not saying anything in pride and know that I am also full of the hypocrisy that writes this thinking of God but knowing that later today I will immerse myself in the waste of time that is TV.

Jesus has wiped away our sins but we still have the inclination to listen to or accept the temptations that surround us. Martin Luther came to believe that this concupiscence is as sinful as the sin for which it eases the way. St Paul had warned us about this in the first century and I can relate immediately to Jesus' casting out of a devil who went and brought back a cluster of demons to fill the empty space that was that man's soul.

The earliest days of the Church were beset by this problem of how to deal with sin repeated after we have received the forgiveness of Jesus. Reading about Church Councils to condemn faulty teaching in the last days of the Roman and Byzantine political empires, I am surprised how often in the East there was an appeal to Caesar to settle a theological problem. The opposite is true in the West where the Pope began to wield doctrinal supremacy enforced by his own Statehood. 

Cats don't have much chance in hell and we don't have much chance of being in a Church that is ready to strip away all its trappings and become the poor who are blessed by Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I believe that this is the only way we can remain true to the carpenter from Nazareth who is still the Evergreater, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord, you have been the Head of our Church since your words to St Peter. You are totally aware that we the people have become rich in the world in a way Mary and Joseph, the Apostles could not have imagined Help us to find in the Church the poverty practised by St Francis and in the teaching of some condemned as heretics. There is one Father, one Son and one Love that is the Holy Spirit moving us to worship together with Mary and the Saints in Heaven. Holy Mary Mother of God pray for the Holy Souls and for us thy children living in the danger to our souls that is the wealth that surrounds us all.