20/04/2024

Today's readings connect the Jesus, Incarnate God in Created time and the Jesus, Eternal Mystical Body, the Church, as she began to be in the years before the destruction of the Temple. The Apostles are  filled with the Holy Spirit and continuing, as instructed, to preach the Good News.

During the three years of his public life Jesus did many miracles. Since then we have all wondered about the historical reality of those "signs". I have often made an act of will to believe what is written about them in the New Testament.

Jesus complained to his Apostles about their similar to mine, incomplete faith. Today Peter does "move mountains" and Tabitha does begin to live again as Peter's prayer becomes a reality and  "sign" for the onlookers. 

Peter is the same man who denied that he knew Jesus not once but thrice at the time of Jesus' trial. The Resurrection and the Holy Spirit have completed the mystery of  IAMIAM's revelation of Himself to all of us. It is this "Tri-Unity" who reveals himself in the Gospels and in the lives of the Saints. 

In the first reading, St Peter's complete Faith in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit returns to him as the miracle of the revivification of St Dorcas in this world. In the Gospel Jesus corrects the opinions of his disciples who faced with how to understand "I tell you most solemnly that if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you" find it an unbearable concept to hear and believe.

Dear Lord, today you emphasise that "the flesh has nothing to offer" that the perfection in life that we live is the unseen spiritual life known to God. The Sacraments are "flesh" in that they are material substances but the reality of their being is the unseen body of our Incarnate God. With this belief in the core of my being I am not afraid for "you are with me always" even though I turn away in my sinfulness . Strengthen our faith so that it can trust You to end the horrors that many in this world are perpetrating and suffering even as I pray this morning. Marantha and save us once again dear Lord.