12/10/2023

In this morning's Gospel Jesus tells us that God is always aware of what we need. Malachi tells us that, although the arrogant seem to be the blessed of this world in that the ones who ignore the Lord have all of the riches, there will come a day of reckoning.

Jesus points out to us how persistence in prayer and centering each day on obedience to the ten commandments is obedience to the will of God. We all have to live in the world and our lives are a succession of deeds. 

Jesus' persistent message to us is that the "Kingdom is not of this world." The Universe in which we live is not the limits of what God has created for us, or for which we have been created. We can be responsible for our own deeds for it is we who decide to give our children good things and keep them safe from the harmful "scorpions" of this world.

Today the Son tells us that the hands of the Father are permanently open to give loving care to us his children. As we knock and receive it is the Holy Spirit that touches our being with the saving grace created anew on Calvary. Realising that this is the true meaning of our lives we can only bow our heads in awe. "Hallowed be they name".

Dear Lord, let me remain true to these words and the spirit of which they are a reflection. Let me be one with the Church in raising my heart and mind to you. May, my prayer join with Mary's and all the saints' asking that all the "arrogant" fighting for themselves in Palestine remember that God is Evergreater, greater than Islam and greater than the "Shema" of the "Chosen People".