11/04/2024

Jesus is the unique and final revelation of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. All that we need to live holy lives is now known to us who are living today and this has been so for the past 2000 years.

In the Acts this morning, the members of the Sanhedrin were beyond themselves in fury. The only recourse available for them to stop the announcement of the Way, the Truth and the Life, which was disturbing their worship in the Temple, was to threaten the Apostles with death.

Death had lost all its power for those who had seen Jesus a corpse on the cross and then witnessed the Risen Lord in his wounded body. They couldn't be silenced in their proclamation of this concluding manifestation of the reality given to us all by the ever-greater power of God.

God has always entrusted to us the freedom of will to make right choices during our lifetimes. The Old Testament is the record of IAMIAM's relationship with the "Chosen People". In the New Testament, Jesus shows us once and for all how we are to live consciously aware that it is each one of us who becomes a "chosen person" once we choose "Jesus" in the spiritual reality that is the centre of our "being", even of those who don't believe.

John, the temporal "cousin" and spiritual forerunner, in preparing the way for the Beloved Son of God warns us that Jesus is totally God and that we who believe have opened our selves to the Holy Spirit and are on the Way. We have to do this consciously and live lives that respond to the revelations of the Gospel whether or not we are a part of a Christian denomination. God loves all his creation.

Dear Lord, help me to make right choices that will mark me in this world as a believer. Let me be sincere in my words and truthful in my thoughts. Let me stay far away from sin and become unafraid of death. Let my prayers become part of the prayer of Mary and all the saints and may all of us sinners on Earth and in Purgatory receive the Mercy that you poured out on Calvary. Let me plead for your return to be soon, come Lord Jesus, come!