13/09/2023

There would be nothing bad have ever happened to us as individuals, families, communities or states if we all had lived in God's Providence following the rules he has revealed as Son to us.

Jesus is the Son of God. He is the perfection of Humanity. He is how we all should be. He lived in this world for thirty-three years without his Godhead. He was subject to the laws of human nature just as we are. He did resist the same temptations that assail us. The perfect prayer of the perfect man was answered by God and thus his followers witnessed miracles. He has known from all eternity his place in creation. When alive as man and subject to worldly time his human self "dreaded his hour to come". At his death he cried out the fear that all mankind has in the helplessness of death.

St Paul preaches "Christ". The  Glory of the Resurrection had blinded Saul on his way to confront the dissension caused in the Synagogues of Damascus by followers of Jesus who claimed that he had been resurrected and that all who followed "The Way" would also pass through death to life. They taught that Jesus' "Way" superseded "the Law of Moses"and therefore he, Saul, would stop them even as he had witnessed in Jerusalem. But God stopped Saul and Paul has been captured for ever by Christ. 

The temptations listed by Paul are part of being human. They are the part of God's Providence that we pray to avoid through the power of prayer as did Jesus in the desert. Most of our lives now are lived in a desert of temptation and we it is hard to feel blessed if we think about the state of our world, our country and our Church. 

The first Christians suffered and died for their witness to Christ. Today our Church is denounced as criminal not because of its teaching but because of its "Pharisee-like" hypocrisy in failing to follow that teaching.

Jesus' eyes are still fixed upon us. Father Son and Holy Spirit never change in the Love they lavish upon us. When we place ourselves unflinchingly honest in the sight of God the blessings promised by Jesus are ours and the grace to stay true to our vocation will bring us to peace of mind in this life and the wonders to come that are beyond all imaginings.

Dear Lord, there is nothing that you do not know about me and about your creation. You know that the only thing I want for myself is to become as Jesus, sinless and devoted to you. I regret ever having succumbed to the temptations that I have encountered in life and pray that I may have a "good death". May Mary, the only sinless natural human continue to lead the worship of all the angels and saints and may her prayers make open the gates of heaven for all repentant sinners on Earth and those paying the price for their sins in Purgatory.