23/03/2023

At the foot of Mount Sion God listens to prayers that come straight to him from the heart of his chosen one who is himself aghast at the behaviour of his messed-up people who are children that have to be guarded on every step of the way to the promised land. They are not the "little children" whom Jesus told us to be, praying to "Our Father". They are spoiled brats stamping their feet at God in the "temper-tantrum" that is remembered by our mothers but forgotten by the adults we two-year-old toddlers,have become. The toddler has a chance of winning the clash of wills between mother and child but the human will that is pitted against the Evergreater; against Father, Son and Holy Spirit has no chance at all.

Moses is the "Chosen one of God"and by his integrity never closes his heart to receive the special grace that comes from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus is something more than this. He is the Eternal Word who is identical to the Father and makes it clear in these last days of his incarnate self on earth what his purpose has been, is and will be.

We all have to recognise that each of us is known with love by the Father. We must recognise that God has no need of us and that his Love is never earned by any one of us. Even Mary was created to be what she is now in Heaven. The created people addressed by Jesus. "The Jews" is each and everyone of us who are created to have the freedom to know, love and serve. 

"Knowing" is sitting as Martha did; it is not the "book-religion" of the scribes and Pharisees which had become man's pride in his own knowledge and intellect. "Loving" is to be like Jesus reflecting the perfect human version of God's Love back to him by keeping the mirror of each of our individual souls as polished as it became after Baptism. Serving is the result of our God-given Faith Hope and Charity which in our freedom we have to use to choose; Life or Death;self plus Jesus versus self plus Satan; resurrected life versus an eternal death of which our immortal souls will have some pain-filled knowledge even though God is full of Mercy and Compassion.

Dear Lord, you know my failures this morning. Thanks to your Mercy I have not lost complete control of my will as happened in the past. Is it possible for me to be part of your Church without being present in any liturgies? You know my morning reflections and inspire them sometimes bringing a joy to my heart that I am always afraid could be pride. May Mary who bore the perfection of humanity with joy in the stable at Bethlehem and mourned her dead son on the emptiness of Golgotha, together with the  Saints pray that we on Earth and  penitents in Purgatory may come to be close to the holy reality you have created us to be and thus do thy will on Earth as it is in Heaven.