24/02/2023

The ways of God cannot be known by any man. We know of God because he calls us. He first revealed himself to the chosen people. Isaiah is inspired by God to call that nation back to integrity. But at that time there were many other people in the world who had not been given the benefit of a covenant and lived in ignorance of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Were their lives lived without the benefits God promises to us?

 Was might right for them and was the fickleness and the bloodlust of their pantheons the only inkling that they had of the Eternal God of Love revealed to the Jews?

I trust in my personal Faith which has happened by the accident of birth. My family were Catholics and I grew up going to a packed church on Sundays. I have always known of God and been aware in guilt of many sins that  kept me back from the holiness that I wished to have then and I still long for; to truly know God, to worship as  the pure human soul that he has created to be my eternal being and at the end of life I want to be in the Glory of my Lord.

The readings from Scripture are again, in the Isaiah, God calling to his people to turn back to the single-minded services that is his due. David is again my confession calling for Mercy. Jesus is sharp and to the point. The disciples who are already friends with God as they walk with Jesus, and literally follow him have no reason to fast. 

It will be a much different matter for them after the horror of Good Friday.

Dear Lord I know that I must answer to you for the way I have lived my life; you are a strong master and expect me to use my life to return a soul that has accepted the grace you have poured out and increased its human holiness. Your Mercy is my hope for my own efforts to be true to your Love have always foundered. May Mary and all the Saints in Heaven continue in their supplications for living sinners and for the Holy Souls which with your Mercy will accept me one day.