23/01/2023

The Holy Spirit inspired depth of thought that we read in the "Hebrews" is truly staggering. I always relate time in the Gospels to my own experience of life. 

This encouragement to Jewish believers in the Resurrection was written and read within 40 years of Jesus' time on earth. During that time some of those who had been eye-witnesses had died but the Good News from Jerusalem had been proclaimed from India to Spain and the basic structure of our Church established, although still a work in progress.

The interpretation of the meaning of the witnessed events that we now know as "Dogma"or "Theology" had already started and disputes had also begun, for as in "Chinese Whispers", each of our remembrances of the same words and events are processed by each of our individual brains and each of us believe in our own memories and arguments.

Forty years is not so short a length of time, much can happen in that time. Within the first forty years of my lifetime Hitler had been defeated, India and other Asian and African nations have been freed from Colonialism, Israel returned to Palestine, men had walked on the moon and the second Vatican Council had concluded.

All of these great events which happened are still discussed and argued about not only by Historians but also by all who have an opinion, although none of us can claim the infallible authority that is God's Word for our beliefs in these facts of history.

The challenge hurled in the face of God by the changes I have witnessed in accepted moral behaviours, however, is something much more diabolical. It is Beelzebub sneering at the bloodied body of Christ dead on Calvary. Children born today are being encouraged to deny the nature of their being and the sinful stupidity of Homosexuality is encouraged in our classrooms.

God does not lie. We are created "man and woman" and a millstone is the promised reward for those who scandalise our "little ones" both children and adults. God does not lie.We are promised that the Word in Father, Son and Holy Spirit will still be with us even when we have destroyed the whole of creation. God does not lie. He is the way, the truth and the life.

Dear Lord,you know the sinfulness of my life. You know that it is hard to find true Faith on earth and that I am weak in the face of the mortal dangers which fill our time. You know the evil that has corrupted our Church. The  sacrificial blood that you poured out on Calvary defeated sin "once and for all". May Mary and all the Saints pray that hearts on earth be opened to the Holy Spirit and thus find their true Father in heaven one in Being with Jesus Christ and know him as do the Holy Souls making atonement for their sins in Purgatory.