27/10/2023

Jesus looks at us all in today's Gospel and condemns our hypocrisy. He is more than severe. He is not "gentle Jesus meek and mild". He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit telling us the naked truth.

St Paul's words in his letter today not only describe me but have been uttered by me many times during my life time. I know that, even this morning, sinful thoughts began to come into my head.

Today is " the times" for me. Each second of my life is when I have conscious being. I am free to make the sign of "my times". Before I know objective reality that is "other" for me, outside of my consciousness, I am " created human being" in the image and likeness of God. 

Our God in his eternal Love knows billions of us living and dead. He is not an "unknown god" but has revealed himself to us through prophets whom most of us rejected. The Incarnation is the direct participation of Eternal Power self-limited to the "times of creation" .

The "sign of the times" is Jesus, Father Son and Holy Spirit, revealing to every individual his Love and can be found as did St Paul within each of us. We only have to want to respond with sincerity for even the Pharisees and executioners are forgiven by the Love that flows from the Five Wounds of Jesus, crucified on Calvary.

Dear Lord, you know each one of us in the "time" created for us by your Providence. Our world is a mess ruled by Mammon and Sensuality. Love of money and fornication are both chosen by the souls you have created to grow in love and selflessness. May the ceaseless prayers of Mary and all the saints break through the crust of sinful physical material that the wonders of this life used by Satan to confirm us in our sins has built all around us to masquerade as the "sign of the times", but are only my excuses in sin.