07/05/2023

The Liturgy is the presence of the Jesus of the first century maintained within the Church. The Church is marred by all its worldly accoutrements collected as does a snowball when rolling down a hill collect snow but the "Readings" bring Jesus and his first century Church directly into our modern lives.

At the centre of the Mass celebrated throughout the Globe, however, there is the consecration which is the moment that bread and wine become the Body of Christ, the Son of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The daily turning of Planet Earth carries with it this moment of the eternal renewal for it to become the spiritual centre of the created Universe.

St Paul taught us that The Church is by the effect of the Holy Spirit within her "The Mystical Body of Christ" which has to mean that the Presence of Christ in the continuing sacrifice of Calvary in the Eucharist brings us all into contact with God who knows us all. However, this "Holy Communion" was soon marred as was the first in Eden by man's misuse of his freedom.

Anyone who has been in contact with parish fund-raising events will know of the rummaging through donations in search of choice items that takes place before the event opens. The Apostles were faced with similar problems as they tried to maintain within their growing community the spirit of unity which their group had had during their three years of wandering "formation" with their rabbi. That choice of formal separation of function amongst believers offered Satan a chance to begin a guerrilla war on earth against the Kingdom which is not of this world.

Our Church after many centuries of fighting the World on the world's terms has given up that battle and to comply with its defeat has begun to appoint lay leaders to ensure that "The Body of Christ on Earth" complies with the laws of the "Caesar" who ordered the killing of her founder. 

How long will it be before we in England are even more scandalised by our Church, which  now has chosen to accept all the "nutty" employment legislation that is a minefield for worldly Mammon and has no place whatsoever within Christ's body on Earth, as it advertises for "Chief Operating Officers" to supervise her Dioceses?

Dear Lord you know that we cannot live without your loving presence in the sacraments. We know that your mother is the only created human being who knows you fully. You must know that your bishops need the unlimited amount of grace you poured out on the whole world. Over the centuries many of us have avoided the world the flesh and the devil with the help of your grace, let the prayers of those saints lead by your mother shake some sense and holiness into the souls of those who truly in their complaisant knowingness "do not know".