23/10/2023

St Paul teaches that we have to believe. We have to have Faith. It is Faith that breaks down the walls of our foolish pride and lets us rejoice that we are known by God. It is through the action of our Faith that we become "considered" by God, known and blessed by the right choice for God that we have made.

St Paul is a perfected Pharisee. The Resurrection forced him to recognise that he and the other scribes and Pharisees had turned God's Temple into a sham  and how to find Father, Son and Holy Spirit within the temple that his being had become. Body and soul he was filled with Christ. St Paul was a living temple and it is to become as he was that we all have to live in the time God gives to us.

Prideful Mammon is our greatest enemy on Earth. Jesus consistently teaches that our treasure is to have Faith only in himself, the Father and the Holy Spirit. The way to become "rich in the sight of God" has been cleared out for us by the incredible humility of the Incarnation. 

Jesus has broken the power of sin and with Faith alone we too can have the life of Christ living within us. Our Church was founded by Jesus. He is the Eternal Word who by his life on earth has shown to us that living by Faith in God is not a "treasure" beyond our reach but that even I can reach that perfection of Love.

God wants in timeless eternity for his children yesterday, today and tomorrow to join him, His Son, Mary and all the Saints in the Glory that is the Holy Spirit. It is a glimpse of heaven on earth to have been given this Faith.

Dear Lord, hear the prayer that is the silent sorrow, regret and longing to atone for all my sins. I thank you that I can overcome the baby voice inside me that congratulates, loves and thinks myself a treasure, but I wish it would go away completely. May Mary who is the perfect example of Faith Hope and Love lead all her heavenly children in their pleas for the forgiveness won by her Son to be accepted by all sinners great and small living and waiting here with me and in Purgatory. Amen.