22/01/2023

God is everywhere is not just a theological concept but the Truth. The presence of God is something that I must become aware of in my innermost self. My being is totally my person; I am the only one created thus. God is Creator Father, Saviour Son and Love pouring out Holy Spirit. 

Trying to understand and describe God is not a fruitless task even though it cannot be ended for it is sure that we are only able to catch hold of a bit of an idea of God but nothing of his reality. Trying to make human sense of this living and dying that is common to us all has to depend on God's revelations of himself.

St Paul was blasted into belief on the road to Damascus and he never lost hold of the living Christ revealed so dramatically. It was not so for his disciples. Squabbles, backbiting, new ideas/doctrine soon disrupted the churches that he founded. The Jewish of his congregations could find support for his teaching in their Scriptures but what about the pagans whose religious faith was in household gods and specific temple idols and whose minds were attuned by human philosophy.

St Paul tells us all that Faith has to be in the Crucifixion.The lifeless body, held by nails, covered in blood is there for God's own sacrifice of himself is the only way that sin can be destroyed. Jesus prepared our world for this by leaving his family home and gathering a motley crew of disciples who, gifted as no other humans, were to join him in his mission of salvation.

Dear Lord you are  our light and our help and not only is it your being that is everywhere but your awareness is always of everything. May Mary whose home you left to begin your public ministry continue to support the forlorn here on earth and the Holy Souls whose penitence is crying out for mercy. Show me the way to love and worship as a human should.