08/02/2023

Jesus is our saviour. He it is who drags me out of my sinful self and reveals the wonder that is Father Son and Holy Spirit. There is nothing in the unholiness of heart, the sins of which he warns us in Mark's Gospel that I have not known to some degree and of which, at this moment, I regret entirely. God isn't fooled and reminds me that although at "this moment" I abhor sin I must not fool myself for I know by experience that sin can be stronger than my prayer.

Adam and Eve have everything a human could wish for. They have life, a beautiful environment, no hardships and a Creator who reveals that he has only Love and respect for mankind, the summit of his  creation, asking but one thing in return. We immediately refuse wanting something ever greater and now our lives are limited in time and full of conflicts within ourselves and with our neighbours.

"Happy fault of Adam that gave us such a great redeemer" I first heard "Felix Culpa" in the pre 1955 liturgy of Holy Saturday which took place in the early morning and it struck a chord then and still does. Our God wants only Good for us but he gave us a choice to accept his Love or refuse it. Freedom is the greatest of Life's gifts and the most dangerous for in the fullness of time in which I live self-centered disobedience with all its pomps and works has come to dominate our world in the same way it did the first humans in the Garden.

Dear Lord "I thank you for the wonder of my being", I thank you for so "great a redeemer" and I beg that we use your grace to root out the weeds of lust, pride and avarice that are strangling your body on Earth, our Church. May we open our hearts to receive your grace as did the Marys  and John at the foot of the cross when they received your bloodstained corpse and may our prayers joined with theirs be as fruitful as was the garden before the fall.