18/04/2024

The source I use for the daily mass readings has repeated part of yesterday's reading from St John. It is part of Jesus' discourse on the "Bread of Life". The "only begotten" of IAMIAM tells us that IAMIAM is identical with  "IAM the Bread of Life". 

The Son of God tells us today that he and the Father are One and that he is "The Living Bread" come down from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit that is the Saving Spiritual Grace of the Eucharist.

The reading is the wonderful promise of Our God to care for us in this world so that we can all enter into the New Creation that will replace this world at the end of time. Material wealth and well-being is as impermanent as the house built on sand. Our lives are secure only in the house built on the secure foundation that is the Word of God.

Jesus renamed Simon, the Galilean fisherman, Peter and founded the Institution that we still know today, on him. Over the centuries that institution has lost its focus on the Wounds of Christ, on the Being of Father, Son and Holy  Spirit and its only other reason for being here,   sincere care for the souls of sinners and lead them to being with God and all his Saints.

Dear Lord, Help me by your Grace to come closer to you in my daily life. May your grace drive out sin from your Church and let all Catholic Clergy also drive out all worldly ambition from their being and begin to live as you did, "pro nobis". I am afraid that the Institution has followed your chosen people into a desert of hypocritical "half-belief" and has failed to bring about the revival that was made possible only by the Infinite Sacrifice you made on Calvary. My hope is still in the spiritual family of John and Mary and in this your one mystical body that unites Heaven and Earth I try to find my security of belief that preserves me from sin in the Grace you poured out in "Blood from Heaven" on Calvary.