19/12/2022

We are not able to understand the nature of God for as soon as we recognise something of his nature,  we know that he is more than that. He is the Evergreater. The readings today ask us to think more about Jesus and recognise that God has in the past through messenger angels previously announced the conception of prophets. 

Firstly we have to contemplate Samson whom God touched with his greatness and then punished for his sins. The contrition of Samson when a prisoner, blinded in Gaza, working with slaves resulted in the temple dedicated to "Dagon" being destroyed for there is only one God.   

John the Baptist's conception was also announced by a messenger from God and he too was born to prophesy, to make known the Mercy of God to forgive the sins that we repent. The psalm praises the all encompassing Glory of our God in whom there is unlimited knowledge even to knowing each one of us from the moment of conception and his creation of our souls.

Jesus is completely different for Gabriel announced that the Word is begotten in the womb of the Virgin Mary by Father through Holy Spirt, thus revealing for the first time the mystery of the Trinity which we can adore in wonder and praise but never comprehend for Father Son and Holy Spirit is God the Evergreater.

Dear Lord, truly, my thanks has to be much more than a word when contemplating my being and the being of the whole world. You know that my gratitude/praise is sometimes watered down  always the result of my sins. Help me this day to live in the joy of righteousness and thus feel the strength of Samson that returned to destroy false Gods. May Mary, whose sinlessness means that she has never succumbed to the temptations of the devil, continue to implore the Holy Spirit to drive-out the evil that invades your Church on Earth and bring us all to the simplicity of Samson and John who filled by their love for you were able to bear witness by losing their lives to become part of your Glorious Eternity and an example on earth to the end of time.