31/03/2023

Jeremiah, who reveals the word of God, is still completely human and does not turn the other cheek to his tormentors. Jesus, who is both God and man, gently explains to those wishing to stone him that they are mistaken  and that there is no blasphemy in him. 

They are accusing him in what they feel is good faith based on the first commandant. Jesus is speaking to them in the Temple for he, Son of God, has been preaching, doing good and fighting Satan throughout Palestine for three years precisely because the Chosen People have corrupted the Law. Now is the favourable time for God is with us and the Law is complete.

Father, Son and Holy Spirit have revealed to us that God is not of this world. He is nowhere in the vastness of the Universe and at same time everywhere for his Greatness is ever Greater; his Being is in everything except sin.The billions of words of Scripture and Commentary do not contain God. The Love of God has been incarnate on Earth 2000 years ago and is only in the Life, Death and Resurrection of Mary's Son, Jesus and in the Sacrament he bequeathed to us.

Yesterday I finished reading Pope Benedict's retelling of the Gospels. I felt his faith and sincerity of belief burning from the words as pure and straight as a laser. He must, however, have known, even as he wrote, that the Institutional Church, in which he had had such a prominent part, has been as guilty of sins as great as those of the evil regime he had served, some 80 years previously, as a boy gunner in the Hitler Youth.

Dear Lord, help thou my sincerity, let me atone for the sins of my youth for all sins are equal in that they are offences against the Love of God. May Mary's and the prayers of all the Saints bring holiness to your Church that we, your little one, can feel total confidence in the Sacrament that her priests confect with you.