12/01/2022

The leper was cured by Jesus who is always ready, "Of course I want to ", to respond to our cries for help. We all of us know of personal instances when this does not seem to happen and in the Gospel there were many who were not cured as Jesus was not there for them "Jesus stayed in places where nobody lived". 

In the Epistle we read of  how God appeared to be in much of the Old Testament, angry and to be feared. Moses who had seen the very being of the "Existing Nameless one" was even kept out of the homeland which was entered by the children of the backsliders and moaners he had guided through the desert and kept  from their sin.

St Paul to whom the Letter to the Hebrews is usually attributed, was typical of the first Christians in that he was a Jew who had been dragged out of the womb of the "Chosen People", kicking and screaming into the reality of the Resurrection. He had been reborn and knew that the revelation on the road to Damascus was the truth that he must preach to all the nations and which we all must never abandon."Keep encouraging one another " for we will be with Father, Son and Holy Spirit "only if we keep "our first confidence to the end".

I still don't understand why Jesus seemed to hide from those seeking a cure. There is much in God's revelation of his will for me and for all of mankind that I cannot understand. I can only bow my head and say "Thy will be done".

Dear Lord help me this today to grow my trust in you and avoid anything that separates me from your Love "knowing You" can never mean understanding for that is unimaginably limited by what  I am. May Mary who is the example of the perfect "knowing, loving and serving" that you created our humanity to be, continue to lead all your Saints in the their never ending praise of You and support for the needy on earth and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.