01/09/2023

Jesus left us many parables. They all have the same basic message that we should live our earthly lives in holiness to be ready for their end. The foolish virgins locked themselves out of heaven because they were not prudent. Prudence is being wise before the event. God's incarnate life, teaching, passion death and Resurrection was to give us the grace that is the fuel of faith needed to keep our souls alight ready to welcome the "bridegroom".

St Paul accepted that straight forward message in the revelation of  the Resurrection made to him on the road to Damascus. St Paul makes it clear that holiness cannot come from "fornication". Many Western anti-God formerly Christians condemn the teaching of St Paul and there are some "foolish fornicators"who claim that our God commends their vices because they are doing them with what they call love. They mock all who do not join them in their sexual practices and also they mock the consciences that try to break free of habitual sin.

Science has broken the link between procreation and sexual pleasure. The human fruitfulness that is God's gift to us is denied. Conception is prevented but if this measure is unsuccessful the unwanted child is killed. We claim that life in the modern world is different than it was in the Palestine of Jesus. Saying this is no more meaningful than saying that today is not yesterday for the nature of mankind has not changed.

In my life time, I have sometimes actively pandered to my own lust and at others I have been ambushed into fornication. I do know though, that I could have avoided each sin and that without the mercy of God I have not won a place for myself even in Purgatory.

Dear Lord, guide with your grace the true repentance that is the only essential for your Mercy to overcome the sins that have ruined my soul. May Mary and the Saints in Heaven cherish your grace and plead for us sinners on Earth and in Purgatory. May my sins be forgiven but not forgotten as I continue my way through this life. Amen