19/04/2024

The crowd that was listening to Jesus preach at the Synagogue in Capernaum were all Jews and had been brought up within the Laws of ritual purity. They all, thus, had an inbuilt abhorrence of anything that was "unclean". I, personally, have tried but have failed to overcome my disgust at the mere thought of eating  horsemeat.

Jesus, a Jew, tells the congregation of Jews that he will give them his own flesh to eat as meat, which also means drinking his blood. Of course, they are immediately shocked and start arguing, discussing what on earth he could mean. The concept "transubstantiation" did not enter into their minds.

As we get closer to Father, Son and Holy Spirit we come to realise that he is always ever greater than our understanding. Today's congregation are in the living presence of the only Begotten Son. He has told them that he and the Father are one. Jesus has cured the blind and lame, he has provided food for huge gatherings, water became wine at his command. 

However, even the Apostles present with their Rabbi in that Synagogue must have become bewildered and clung on to Jesus by the skin of their teeth. They managed to do this and were rewarded for their faith by greeting and being greeted by the Resurrection.

Each day of my life has to be lived in the presence of my Saviour. I have to read the words of Scripture and as did Mary, ponder them in my heart. The only sinless ones of our humanity are the created Immaculate Mary and her Son of the Father, God from God, Begotten not made of one substance with the Father, through him all things were made, Jesus of Nazareth, man as I am but sinless and totally God.

Dear Lord, let me be encouraged by the faith of your Apostles who, although they scattered in  fear at your Crucifixion, came to together again to commit themselves to you, the Resurrection. I have often sinned but never been able to live peacefully in that sin. You know that each day I pray for forgiveness and try to bolster my faith by thinking about you and your life on Earth. I believe in the Spiritual living body of Christ which is the New Holy Family instituted by you on your cross and which can be found wherever individual souls reach out in communion with your saints in heaven and penitents in Purgatory to you Our Saviour to plead for the conversion of the whole of our World.