29/03/2023

We are drawing closer to Holy Week. I know that my penance has not been anything like enough. I know that my consciousness of the enormity of sin is still lacking. In my mind I am still happy to read sacred texts and commentaries but I still fill too much time with the mindlessness that is my TV screen. My spirit is willing but my total being here on Earth is still weak. 

We know that "Daniel" is not a "historical  person" in the way that Jesus is but his "book " was written at a time when "wisdom" was flourishing throughout the civilized world. All over the world the success of agriculture and the use of slaves was permitting the growth of wealth and subsequent leisure time which could be used for intellectual activities. Everywhere in the world humanity aspired to understand by its own efforts the meaning of life/being but God gave the true answer to that  question  first to his chosen people and when they failed to realise the value of his gift he completed his revelation Himself Incarnate to be known by all the world.

Our Scriptures tell us all we need to know. They tell us that we and our world are created out of God's Love and that as such we need to return that love by confirming our knowledge of God. We do this by conforming our way of life to his will as revealed in Scriptures. He is "our Father" and he is in Heaven and we have to live righteously in the sure knowledge that everything we know with our senses, the Material Universe, will pass away as will our bodies but his Word will stand and he wants us to choose to stand with him in the timeless Love that is Perfection of Being, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord, may I really know how loving you are. May your grace come into my heart. Not words but the feeling that I can have for created beings. May that wordless love be also for you. May Mary continue to lead in prayer the Saints in heaven and may your angels carry your mercy to us sinners on Earth and to those in Purgatory. Maranatha!