02/06/2024

Today the Church celebrates, as does she every day, the Sacrament that is the Body of Christ. Jesus at his far from peaceful death, poured out his remaining blood from the wound in his side made by the lance of the soldier and crying out in agony the words of Psalm 22 breathed out the death of his human body for the benefit of all manknind.

The night before this devastating event the Apostles had eaten their last meal with the Messiah, their Rabbi. Their unity had been broken and his words of consecration were as unmeaningful to them as "I will rise again on the third day". They had scattered and were as lost in human time as was the human body of Jesus in the tomb.

The women who had witnessed the death must also have been present with John at the  entombment but we do not know what the Apostles other than John, the ever-faithful and Judas, the renegade, were doing in the real-time that was their abandonment of Jesus and in his perceived abandonment of them.

The Resurrection breaks through the inexplicable misery of their despair. Mary Magdalen cannot believe her eyes. In Emmaus Jesus is recognised at the breaking of bread. John holds back to allow Peter to enter the tomb before him. St Thomas, the empiricist, actually touches the wounds in the original body contained in the New Life and the command uttered at the " The Last Supper" soon becomes the heart of the Church which should be the Guardian of the new way of Spiritual being that Father, Son and Holy have created by the death and resurrection of the Son in the Sacrament.

This is the teaching of the New Testament, the events and the believe of those whose time on earth was shared in by the Incarnation that we their spiritual descendants might live in the righteousness that will open for us the never ending Love of the Kingdom that is not of this world.

Dear Lord, You know that I have always tried to come to an understanding of my place and purpose on earth. I have not always matched my actions to my efforts .You know that hints of prideful ego haunt me as I try to turn my whole being to doing your will on earth as it is done by your saints in Heaven who exemplified your teaching on earth. May Mary, Queen of Peace, who was able, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, to nurture the Son of the Father and thus become Theototox, the Mother of the Church and all the Sacraments, lead all saints in prayer for the forgiveness of all sinners and the renewal of our disgraced Church on earth. Help us all to rip our beings out the grip of Mammon and offer our all in thanks for your sharing of Infinite Being with the tiny specks that even the greatest of us are in your real world.