08/06/2023

The story of Tobit illustrates how we can all experience good and bad fortune in our lives. This good or bad comes not from a soulless blind and ice-cold "Fate".The civilisations of the Far-East have developed along ethical lines but without the benefit of God's revelation and so their aim is always to accept or placate "Fate" which is the inexorable march of time over which none of us has any control. Shamanism is still practised in Korea and Japan to control spiritual entities which can help or harm a person's fate. 

God revealed himself at the dawn of time to Adam and Eve and maintained that relationship with the Chosen People. God has never deserted humanity and it is his providence, the personal loving will of our Father, that determines the way we face up to the realities we encounter during our lives. 

Nobody can explain why it is some of us are born into poverty and some into riches, some of us are healthy from day one but others have a pre-blighted body to deal with on their journey through life. We all have to ask ourselves why it is that Father, Son and Holy Spirit who in their one being generate an ever-greater Love, can be the Providence that drowned so many in the Ukraine and in Haiti yesterday.

Each one of us is a soul and a body. Each one of us is known intimately by God. Each one of us has to return personally Love to our creator and provide the loving care for each other we all require. Each one of us who raises his voice in anger, each one who strikes another, each one who orders others to do this are the atoms of Evil that attack the Loving Reality of Providence and grow to become the collective Evil that is lead by the Ruler of this World. Not one of us is compelled to break the rules for human living given to Moses but if we do, let us blame ourselves for the misuse of God's greatest gift, our personal freedom.

Dear Lord, you know how hard it is to understand your ways especially when we are lead astray by the clerics ordained by you into the priesthood. Let your grace be accepted and used with sincerity by all of us on earth and may the prayers of the Saints lead by Mary shower down little Saint Theresa's vision of roses falling from Heaven onto us all.