03/08/2023

God is well aware of the bemusement that is likely to fill the minds of anyone who reads today's details of how Moses cared for the presence of God, the Tablets and the Ark. 

The stationary tabernacles of our churches are similarly there to be treated with a devotion equal to that of Moses and the Israelites for the Ark and it coverings.

The Real Presence of God in our churches is also attended with flowers and lights but these are all provided by the worshippers. We are not accompanied by the Cloud or the Pillar of Fire.

God is not confined by anything. His being is beyond the physical limits of the Universe, his creation, he is not only in the Cloud, Pillar or Ark but fills the world with his Goodness. Our limited intelligences can in this world think  the "Idea of God"but it is only in receiving "Holy Communion" with the correct intentions we can be one with all believers who are fed by "The Real Presence of God" Jesus,  as were the Apostles in the Upper Room and momentarily be "with him".

I think that Jesus tells us in today's Gospel that we are the free and responsible owners of our lives and that in the depths of our souls are able to find trace memories of, and with our living human minds and bodies know, love and serve the Being that is the ever greater God.

 The Kingdom of Heaven is not of this World nor is it an idea created in my mind, it is You Spiritual Being, Father, Son and Holy Spirit that we share with all mankind living and dead. It is the Living God, the Shekinah, the Glory of the Almighty.

Dear Lord, I still hope that I am one soul known intimately by you and that my being is truly striving to follow the Commandments revealed to Moses and completed by Jesus. May Mary and all the Saints who are in your Glory join their praise to ours and seek forgiveness for all sinners both on Earth and in Purgatory.