17/07/2023

Our God is a loving father who by his care for us has enabled humanity to swell in numbers and knowledge to the extent that mere children can at a click of a mouse button access the whole record of time. The fruits of life-times of scholarly work can be accessed by speaking to our machines.

The Exodus of the descendants of Israel and his people from Egypt happened about three and half thousand years ago. The world is such a different place now but the problems faced by God's chosen people are still the same today and the solutions are also the same.

We all want to be secure to live our lives fulfilling our own needs and those of our families. In short we all want to live in peace. God takes special care of the descendants of Abraham in the Old Testament. He still does and in so doing presents us with the ever deepening problem of understanding his providence.

Jesus  in the "hard sayings" recorded in this morning's Gospel is not the loving teacher of the Sermon on the Mount, he is rather the stern task master feared in the parable of the talents. He presents us with harsh realities that have to be faced by all of us who commit ourselves to him. 

Jesus was totally crucified for us. We cannot be his followers without being totally focused on the will of  Father Son and Holy Spirit to the  extent that we are ready to abandon our own lives and what they entail in an acceptance of our crosses modelled on that of Christ's obedient Love in the Trinity. 

Dear Lord let my today be spent without sin. Let my study be fruitful. Let my prayers be united to those of Mary and the saints of heaven. Let these few words be the true prayer of my heart You who know everything know how confused I become when acting as a witness to your Providence. Help me to understand.