01/04/2024

In the Acts of the Apostles, the story that is told of the days in Jerusalem after the Crucifixion  is one of a group of people who are confused and unable to make sense of their experience which has no analogy in the history of the world and is thus unique.

2000 years later, for each of us there is the same choice to be made even in our own times. We have to chose to believe or not to believe in the same unique event, that Christ rose from the dead.

We have to do this in our world where " salt has lost its savour". Holiness, dedication to God do not immediately come to mind when we see a church or  minister of Christianity. It is nothing but historical truth to point out the inconsistencies of the followers of Mohammed. The first "people of God" are busy proving to themselves their basic superiority, "thank God I am no like other men", and slaughtering "any other men" by the thousands. These are the "signs of the  times" which happen within the empire of Mammon which is the Universal Empire that has replaced the "Roman" one of first century Palestine. 

Today, we are all in our personal Jerusalems of 2024 where the Love of our God asks his creation, our souls, to use the freedom, he has created for us to have in this world as he created for Adam in the garden, to embrace the Resurrection, as did Mary hold onto the lifeless, wounded corpse, into the centre of our very being as the foundation for the New Life he has created for us to follow him into his Father's mansions.

Dear Lord, you know that I am lost in the awe and emotions of these days. I know that in my life I have been far from you in my sins and attached by the weakest of human faith. I turn back to knowing that you only have goodwill towards me but knowledge of the complexity of my sinful being raises doubts that should have been answered by first looking on the Cross and then recognising you in the "breaking of bread". May the heavenly prayers of  Mary and all the Saints breakthrough the thick shield of Sin with which we keep our souls from the grace that is the source and proof of you Crucifixion/ Resurrection, and show to us the only path that leads to Eternal Life, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God.