10/07/2023

Throughout recorded time God has captured the being of some individuals. They have become, body and soul, tied to the the Lord and have consequently received great gifts from God's providence. Such are the Old Testament patriarchs and prophets. There are some saints who also had this direct line from God and shone in this world with God's love.

Jacob saw in his dream/vision a constant traffic of angels between heaven and earth. He accepted the truth of what he had seen and named the rock on which he had rested his head, House of God, Bethel. He also named the place Gate to Heaven but there is no mention of Heaven as being the destination with God that is the purpose of our lives.

Jesus comes to fulfill the Law not to change it. He constantly stresses that his Kingdom is not of this world. The genealogies with which Mark and Luke begin their memoirs of  their lives with Jesus emphasise the continuity of God's revelation. Every human being is a descendant of the created Adam and Eve. We are all born with their sin and saved by the Will of the Father through the suffering of the eternally begotten Son whose bodily being can be traced back to, Adam. 

At a religious gathering some time ago I remember a now Archbishop saying that the Church we have got today is what God wants his Church to be. It is God's Providence that allows the whole of creation to be as it is. The Bishop was being clever along the lines of another prelate's reported "we don't do religion". 

I have never had dreams of angels. I can be as cynically "clever" as our witty and worldly prelates but I do know that Jesus was never "clever"or cynical and that he, together with Father and Holy Spirit, have trusted us to live lives of holiness and that yet again we are proved by our own sins and  the deeds of men who have been called to feed us sheep, unworthy of that trust. 

Dear Lord may my soul be undamaged by sin, my heart be turned only to you and my will focused on doing only your will.  Save thy people from unholy Clerics and let the bounteous results of Mary's, together with all the saints, prayers bring the change that is needed if your Church is to be your real presence on earth.