04/08/2023

I do not know how that the Jesus we know from the Gospels could be despised by anyone. We can be certain that his mother only ever felt love for the fragility of the fruit of her womb that the immeasurable  humility of  Father, Son and Holy Spirit had taken on to provide for us the merciful power of Divine Love that we can choose to use to strengthen our freedom to do only good as we live on this earth. 

Mary, Theotokos, gave birth and then tended for the human needs of the infant. The Ever Greater, Lord of all creation, was the child that she fed washed, changed, cuddled and taught to pray. Many of us have felt superior to this human life-cycle that the True Man and True God chose to endure even to death. God did this for us to be able to be redeemed from our sins. It is a fact of human history.

God in his wisdom has chosen to have special care for the people he chose to "speak to". They were guided in the specific way of life that would enable  them to find the joy that is sung in today's psalm that was also sung by Jesus when he attended Synagogue in Nazareth. "Who does he think he is?"What can he tell us about IAMIAM? murmured the congregation for they were faithful to the rules governing their lives as the Chosen People.

The rules for worship revealed in today's first reading did not originate from anything other than God's intention to guide his people into the way of life that would avoid the abomination of sin and strengthen their human bonds. He always IS and is in need of nothing. Jesus becomes part of creation; he partakes in humanity's lifecycle, which in his case is cut short, to enable the final revelation to be made. Even Nazarenes could not deny the Resurrection. Where was Thomas from?

Dear Lord may my prayer be acceptable and my belief and trust in your humanity bring about a total sincerity of heart which will not be lost today. May all the saints who are bodiless with you in heaven pray that Jesus who is You and with You in the Resurrection together with the  Assumption of Mary pray that your Church here on earth be converted to the holiness that is needed by all  sinners on earth and in purgatory if we are to join You in the Glory that is Eternal.