20/12/2022

From the time of Adam until Mary's straightforward acceptance of the role God had chosen for her to play in the Salvation of his sinful creature, man, there were some people who had performed our side of God's Covenant with clean hands and a pure heart. Some of these were the well known prophets and leaders, priests and Levites who served God in his temple and the women too who served there. Mary has always been  known to Father, Son and Holy Spirit for God's Will did not suddenly break into action in the days of Augustus and Pilate. For God the whole of  this creation is eternally present when he saw at the beginning of human time,  "that it is good". 

All Mankind is in some way created in God's image and likeness so the way chosen by God to erase our fault is to empty himself of Godness and with the  Holy Spirit fertilize, in the womb of Mary,  the body of Jesus for his  Eternal Word to be made man and to dwell among as a human in our limited freedom and time.

This is the reality of our existence. God is with us as was forecast from long ago by the prophets. God has revealed himself to  be unknowable in his totality but to chosen ones then and now he has taught us how to use our being and freedom to obey and serve with clean hands and pure heart. The Babe we welcome into the stable at Bethlehem is the immeasurable Glory of God, the Word of the Father whom he has taught us to also call "Dad"as he does, for all the human race is in the perfect family loved into being and cared for by Father, Son and Holy Spirit to know, love and serve.

Dear Lord I hope and pray that today I will be able to match my words with deeds Please accept my worship for the honest intention with which  I turn to you at the start of each day. Mv faults have been erased by the selflessness of Jesus who knows himself as You know yourself yet empties himself to accept. the being broken on the  Cross. Has such pain as this ever been known before or since.? May Mary who also knows the pains of your birth and death continue to lead all the souls in Heaven in the  Praise that is without beginning or end and at the same time plead for comfort to be given the Holy Souls and also to us the sinners on earth.