10/03/2024

During our lives on Earth we all have to give "Glory and praise", we have to worship our God who is beyond our comprehension. There is nothing that can limit God who has revealed himself to be a "One" that is a "Trinity" of persons. Jesus prays to the Father and His Prayer is the Holy Spirit who is his begetter in the womb of Mary,Theotokos. That is the Glory that we worship with love in our hearts.

St Paul is a conscientious pastor and his letters are written to his fledgling churches not to be debated but to instruct the pagans on how to receive the free gift of grace, which before was limited to righteous Jews, that will confirm them in the faith that will lead to everlasting life. 

We too should just accept that God has revealed himself completely by the words and deeds of the Jesus who was nailed to a cross and died in agony so that the world could be purged of the damage caused by sin. The death had to precede the  Resurrection to reveal the Justice that is God's. 

That Resurrection provides us with the grace to live our lives in safety. We can know, love and serve our God not because we can serve and be served by a human institution but we can become part of the Spiritual life that is unseen by eyes but is the Body of Christ built up by the God-given mission of St Paul. It is the Spiritual Union of all Saints and repentant sinners alive in their bodies on Earth, God's own in Heaven and those learning how to repent in the Justice of Purgatory .

It is this Church that Jesus promises will never fail. We have only ourselves to blame for the chronic failures that are witnessed to by the accumulated wealth and worldliness of an institution claiming for itself to be the  Body of Christ on Earth and which very soon after its foundation forgot "my Kingdom is not of this World."

Dear Lord, I pray that I am not completely wrong-headed in my reaction to the failings in deeds that the Church cannot hide any longer. Their poor performance at the inquiry into "coverups" should have informed them that the promised inspiration of the Holy Spirit ("when men take you before tribunals the Holy Spirit will speak for you") was nor there for them. Even a resignation would have done more for their credibility . May the hierarchy of England and Wales review first of all their own faith and then guide their sheep in the truth that results in the way to life. May Mary than whom there is no other human closer to Our Father who is her son and the Holy Spirit beseech you to help all sinners to open their hearts to the infinite grace that You Father, Son and Holy Spirit bestow on all of creation.