22/10/2023

We are all born into freedom. Cyrus was doing the will of God even though he did not know it; we all always have the opportunity to do or not do any of our actions, good or bad. At that time God had revealed only to the Jews that we are to live within the Law of Love, but Cyrus had for himself decided that it was better to placate the different peoples who formed his Empire by letting them worship their own Gods, within their own cultures.

Paul knew that the Resurrection which confronted him on the road to Damascus was the Jesus the proclaimers of whom he had been authorised by the Temple to seek out and destroy. He had been part of this persecution in Jerusalem. 

Paul preaches the power and the glory of God, but most of all Love. Although he never uses the word "Trinity", he believes in three persons Father, Son and Holy Spirit which are always together as one God of Love.

Humanity damages itself today as always by not thanking God for the wonder of "being". This has lead us into the self satisfaction that is "pride". There is nothing that we have done with created matter that can match the first creation out of nothing of which we are a part.

Despite everything that God had shown over the centuries to the Jews of two thousand years ago they still did not live by his Word. They had turned the Law of Moses into a sham of hypocrisy and ritual excesses.

God has never given up on us. The manifest Glory and Power of the man Jesus threatened the self love of the Priests. His words troubled them even though they read many of them every day in the scrolls of the Law. The Incarnate Son cannot be trapped by casuistry from any source.

Even though, Jesus always speaks without guile, "a spade is always a spade" for him, Bishops, Patriarchs and Popes very soon began to mingle their responsibility for maintaining the newly created Sacramental Being of the Altar with the political affairs of "Caesar". 

We should all be aware by now that "The Kingdom is not of this World". Jesus taught  that in it there is a place for all of us. The things of this world will all corrode into dust as will our own bodies. The Father creates and knows the eternal soul of each of us, the Sacramental presence of Jesus feeds us throughout our lives and the Holy Spirit is the fire of Love which is God and to be shared with and by all of us. Amen

Dear Lord, let me truly thank you for life which is a gift without measure. Your power and glory are for ever and it is your wish for all to conform to your will and become a part of your Eternity. May Mary and all the Saints support your clergy that their hearts become devoted only to you with true care for the souls entrusted to them.