17/04/2023

Each day when I read the Mass Readings I know that I am trying to confirm Faith and Hope in the revelations of himself made, through the Church, by Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I am also trying to control my self-love that always comes between me and my love for God and for my neighbour .

There are some people for whom my heart goes out. They are usually little ones or my family. It is especially easy to have warm feelings for God's creatures but it seems to me that my love for God has got to be something greater than my affection for the little dog that I will be looking after tomorrow.

I am the being made by God and I can not be more than that. I have to accept that when I am doing my best it cannot be greater than the limits of my ability. I am always supported by the Holy Spirit and although I can feel no shaking either externally, as did the disciples, nor internally as did the Saints in Heaven, I have been reborn. My Baptism is always with me and that spiritual rebirth will be with me to the end of time.

Dear Lord help me to stop looking at myself and just accept that your Mercy guards my being reborn in Baptism and safeguards me now and for evermore from the snares of world, flesh and devil. May Mary the, Immaculate Theotokos, guide me in living for God and for others by abandoning myself entirely, as she did, to will of God.