19/06/2024

The world is filled with billions of us. Many of us are trying to pray. Some are sure of their own place in the sight of God. Many of those live out lives that they devote only to God and are guided by the virtues of poverty, chastity and obedience. 

We have the revelation of the  New Testament because God was displeased at the failure of his chosen people to live up to their side of the Covenant. I do not  judge but I cannot help but be aware that Jesus  did not preach in the streets of Rome or in the Temple of Diana at Ephesus. He did not cure the sick of China or in the tents of the Bedouin.

All the great historical events that chronicle the actions of Father, Son and Holy Spirit acting in human time are related to one place and  people on earth. Israel and the Jews are the prism from which God's Light is refracted into the World. The Incarnate Son of God is also a Jew in his humanity. 

We are told to interpret  the Signs of the Times, the events within which we can see God's providence at work in creation. The Lord our God the Creator knows the sinful history of his foundation on St Peter. God knows that his chosen ones have for centuries been badly treated by his Church and are now repaying  those massacres in kind by the slaughter in Gaza.

All that the success of mankind in understanding and controlling physical matter has done is to again repeat the failure of  Israel in its only reason for being. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your might and all your strength and your neighbour as your self".

God sent his only begotten Son that we might have life and live it to the full. For me the signs of the times is the majority of human beings who have given themselves over to Mammon without a thought for the consequences and the triumphalism of God's own people in their slaughter of their fellow humans.

Dear Lord, Only you know when "The second coming" will be the forerunner of your New Creation. Living in the world is becoming more difficult as the material world drowns out our inner-voice that guides us into doing your will. Our Church is not of this world although the Institution has refuted this over the last 1800 years. The mercy of your being poured out  in real human blood on Calvary is still the free gift of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, regardless of the state of the world or Institutional Church, to be accessed by us all so that we do your will on earth as it is done in heaven by Mary, our mother and all the saints and angels. Amen.