15/03/2023

Moses received the Law on Sinai and Jesus completes it in the land that was promised to the People of God. God revealed to Moses the rules that we must live by if we are to enter the Eternity guaranteed for us by Jesus' finalisation of the Covenant, the completion of God's purpose. These are the final times. The whole of God's will has been made known to us. The mode of our living has to be that of Jesus, Love and obedience.

The New Testament is the historical record of God's time on earth. He was truly the same human as we are. The moment of the Incarnation was the same as ours, an egg was fertilized in a womb. The same but so different for Mary herself had been conceived without sin and the Word has been without sin from the very beginning.

Jesus lived the life of a devout Jew, listening to and reading the scrolls. He devoted the seventh day to the Lord and honoured his mother and father. Of his early life we know nothing exceptional except for his astounding the scribes in the Temple when he was about 12. He was still Son, the Word, and with the Father and the Holy Spirit one God.

The beginning of the events that were to seal God's purpose on earth, to remove the power of sin, to show how we could do his will for us began in the thirtieth year of his life and are faithfully recorded in the canonical books of the Church. We are now preparing to understand by reliving the last three days. Our words are useless when we try to understand Jesus in the garden, on the Cross and in the tomb. We can only pray that we will be able to share some small part of the immensity of what the love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit has done for us.

Dear Lord save me yet again from myself. Let me come to be careful when I use words about you.There is nothing more that I can do than know love and serve. Let me be open to your grace that I might achieve this goal with a sincere heart. May Mary for whom all the events of your life are still "now" in the Eternity you have made open for all the saints and penitent sinners still strive to share her holiness and love with us who are still living less than holy lives on earth and awaiting the finality that is to come in Purgatory.