02/10/2023

We are all living on this Earth in the time allotted to us. We are thus given the gift of life and in our infancy become aware that we are not here alone. The creation of each one of us in time and space is the beginning of our knowledge of God's Providence and of our part in it. 

Our History Books record events of the past and Biographies tell of great men but the true History of our world which is the interaction of each one of us with his "neighbour" is known only to Our Father.

The disobedience of Adam and Eve was entirely their own doing. None of us are created to be damned. Each of us can chose to do the will of God. God makes himself known through the choices made by the Jews through whom he first revealed himself to mankind. 

What I am really trying to do as I think about the first and second returns to Jerusalem is to believe that Our God did not predetermine historical events that are behind us. I have no problem in believing that I am responsible for my own sins, but...........?

How could "Our Father" let his children unleash the horror that was the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia ? "Why were the "Gas Chambers" of Auschwitz even thought of? Military Strategist in London actually sat around a table in Whitehall and cynically took the decision to bomb the houses of the workers in German factories as that would be a more effective way to disturb wartime production than aiming at the factories themselves.

The land of the "Nations" was first cleared by the return of the exiles from Egypt and then by the return from Babylon. Today it is still being cleared by bullets and bulldozers but this time most of the settlers do not claim to be cooperating in the will of God.

All of the evil that has ever been in the world is the misuse by mankind of his freedom in God's Providence which allows us to be souls in complete freedom but with bodies only restrained by the laws of the physical universe. 

Mankind can only be true to God in the the individual beings of men. I am one of the same mankind as of all the saints. The sinners that are also within our midst can only be saved by their own choice. I am one of them too.

Dear Lord, May the final petitions of the the guide to prayer Jesus gave us be heard and understood by all the peoples of the World. Let not  the wonderous success of man in our world "lead us into temptation" and let each each one of us "be delivered from Evil" that we ourselves create by ignoring your Love. May Mary,Theotokos, lead all Saints and Angels in  prayer for the sinners on Earth to become as mindful of their iniquity and the vastness of your Mercy as are the Holy Souls in Purgatory.