29/03/2024

Today is Good Friday. Jesus' time has come and today is the planting of the seed for the harvest of the New Creation of which his Resurrection is the first fruits. The Son of God shares completely the created being of each one of us and dies just as do all humans before him and since then.

Father, Son and Holy Spirit cannot be false so the Mercy their Love wishes to bestow on Creation has to be a reality, not an idea or words but as real as the Love which is the substance of God and today Jesus is as dead as are all those who preceded him into Sheol.

I cannot hold the idea of "Death", dead emptiness in my brain. I try to scramble out of the pit but I know that if I do not put all my faith into Jesus I can be lost for ever rather than for the paltry half-seconds that my imagination can conjure up. 

Actually, trying to imagine the horror of total death is pretty stupid for someone who has read the Gospels. There is not one of us who could have created forgiveness for himself let alone for all mankind. God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, loves us and today reminds us everything in the way to salvation revealed to us is necessary even this scourging, crowning, spitting, taunting, hammering and piercing has to be so that we can begin to know how hateful are our sins committed wilfully by humans in their pride.

Dear Lord, I do not know how to understand the historical time that is the death of Christ. Peter and the rest did not react any better than I do today. I don't need to understand. Let my being turn to you in faith-filled thanks and today know that "My God loves me" and that all his children can accept that our Eternal Life is the sole aim of your creation of us. May Mary whose personal grief has inspired so many holy men and women continue to inspire the Church that forms your Mystical Body on Earth, in the sincerity of heart that must be the mark of all faithful disciples.