19/06/2023

St Paul preaches that "Today is the favourable time". 

I take it that he means that "Now" is the time we have to be without sin in our thoughts, words and deeds. It is "now" that I have to be true to my calling. It is "now" that I have " to Love the Lord my God". It is "now" that I have to love my neighbour equally as I love myself. The past has gone. I know it as a time of lost opportunities and of many sins for which I have to beg forgiveness. The future is a big "may be" but a "may be" in coming with the sureness of its end.

God's Providence is always "now". We can build on the past. We can learn the lessons of the Scriptures. We can follow the historical stages of God's revelations of himself. We can gain a perfect knowledge of Theology and of Liturgy and we can demonstrate this knowledge of how the Church has taught us to grow in sanctity in the past by sermons and books. We do not live alone with our thoughts of God. God does love each individual person but he also knows us as a tiny part of his final creation, Mankind. It is with and for all of us that the incarnate Son walked and talked in Palestine. 

Our lives can only be lived Now and with the humanity for whose sins did the Saviour Son in total agreement with the will of the Father accept the cross to become the Mercy of the Resurrection which in the Person of the Holy Spirit, himself Father, Son and Holy Spirit, fills the world with the free gift of God.

We do have to align ourselves with God's will, however, even to the extent of "turning the other cheek"  if we are to avail ourselves of this "free" gift that was won for us at such great a price.

Dear Lord, may each moment of today be the favourable time without sin for me. Let me know, love and serve in the sure hope of the cleansing of Purgatory to ready me for your Eternity. May the prayers of Mary, all the Angels and Saints who can be with the totality that you are be the support of all sinners who in confessing their guilt plead for your Mercy.