24/02/2023

The whole of creation is known in its entirety down to the last particle that forms the matter out of which everything that we can know by our senses was created. Mankind is a "wonder" for God has created us to have an awareness of "being". All of humanity living or dead has this consciousness which knows that it exists as an individual in a universe that also has "being" and is thus our reality.

St John the Baptist is the last of the Old Testament prophets. After Mary, he is the first to know the greatest of all God's responses to his creation, the Incarnation. Man has always been overcome by his own consciousness of "being"and thus set his own freedom against God's Providence which we still openly challenge although God has taught us to pray "Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven".

St Paul's teaching recorded as having taken place on Cyprus is probably the very first part of God's Overseas Missions. It is Truth that never changes. Truth from God who is the Evergreater. He is unimaginable Potential, real Power, and never-ending Love.

We have all been created out of nothing in God's "image and likeness" with the potential to know, love and serve. The Church as founded by Christ gives us real power to do this for in her we can find the Real Presence. We all exist  because we are known and loved by God. It is out of Love that God creates and it is in awareness of Love that we can use "our freedom in being" to become the men and women God has created us to be so that we can enter into his presence at the end of life.

Dear Lord may I today avoid sin and may the "forerunner" your human cousin join with your mother and all the Saints and we sinners on earth and in purgatory in prayer for the Loving Mercy without which  living bodiless souls, Saints, and we living bodies with souls cannot thank God for the wonder of being and freedom from sin.