14/06/2023

I am not able to be part of any congregation of the People of God. The Church that has been my support during most of my life now seems to be lacking in the Holiness that comes from God. The depravity of individual priests has been unacknowledged by too many Bishops for all of my lifetime for me to feel confident that she is the guardian of the source of holiness that Jesus founded her to be.

St Paul is preaching a Spiritual Church. He is inspired to repeat our Lord's condemnation of the "Law"as practised by the " holy ones" of his day. The Glory of God shone out of the face of Moses to the extent that he had to protect his flock from the brightness by wearing a veil. That brightness, however, faded and the "Law" became a sanctimonious burden to be inflicted on the people by the "whited sepulchres" condemned by Jesus.

We are all free beings created by God. Our freedom is a gift of God and has to be used within the boundaries that God has revealed to us. Jesus is complete holiness. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He promised to be with his Church founded on St Peter until the end of time.

 I pray that I am still part of that Church as I know that there is no where else to find the revelation that Jesus has completed, sealing it with his blood and with his Resurrection confirming that Father, Son and Holy Spirit loves and wants to welcome each one of us into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Dear Lord help me to be more open to your Holy Spirit. Let me not be lead by my own self. Let me not  drown in excuses for sin. May Mary and St John and the other Marys who were the only mourners left at the foot of the cross pray that my Heart may become part of the Spiritual bond created by your words from the Cross."Behold your mother, behold your Son."