03/11/2023

When I try to think about God I too experience "mental aguish that seems to be endless". I can understand my  failure to express what I am seeking but I cannot match my understanding to His revealed presence. 

Thank God for St Paul who is so obviously continually "pondering" and preaching the Resurrection from the standpoint of a follower of the "Law". Would he really be ready to give up his place in Heaven to bring the "Chosen People" to salvation?

There is nothing "rhetorical" about Jesus. He is the "Word" who is always with God. He is the voiced "Love" that is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. His questions are not part of a philosophical dialogue between him and the Theology of the "Temple". Jesus' interactions with Pharisees are always fraught with the tension that ultimately breaks completely with "Eloi, Eloi lamasabachtani".  

In today's Gospel Jesus has accepted an invitation to eat at the home of a Pharisee. In the Middle East, even today, these general invitations are given out in the same spirit of hospitality that saw Abraham welcoming his mysterious guests under the oak at Mamre. Jesus has accepted the invitation but is aware that he is "a person of interest" to Temple Authority and responds with what is seen as a blasphemous attack on the Law.

Even today there are those who still have the same opinion that Jesus is a blasphemer. Jesus warned us that we are not to expect "Peace on Earth" for "My Kingdom is not of this World".

Dear Lord let the prayer of my heart be the truth of me. These words are nothing although sincere in their origin. They are from the limits of my understanding. May Mary's prayers to her Son lead all the Saints in the Eternal Worship and pleas for Mercy that condemn none of us but are the eternal hope of us, the living, and of the Holy Souls . May we all accept the grace that should be the centre of our lives. Let me make these prayers in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.