09/07/2024

Hosea continues to condemn the creation of idols. Mankind in all corners of the earth has at sometime  chosen to answer the inner voice that calls for an explanation of  the amazing thing that is our consciousness of "being". We all know that we are and that we are not alone; but we are all the unique one that is "I".

I cannot remember or imagine what it was for me to be an infant, a totally helpless but conscious being. It is out of remembrance of the care given to us by our mothers that the primitive female idols the "Great Mother" came to be. 

After more than 80 years of self-awareness, I know that I am more than what I think, see, hear, touch and taste. The psalmist warns us that if we make idols we will become like them senseless and inanimate. If we continue to give up our autonomy to our technical creations that is what will happen to us.

We are not dolls, the playthings of heaven but are formed in the image and likeness of the creator who spoke to the Jews through his prophets. We are not his puppets controlled by his strings. We are intelligent beings who have been given personal control of our consciousness. We are trusted by Father, Son and Holy Spirit to live in this world with hearts full of loving obedience to our unseen God and with goodwill towards all men.

We are not expected to do this by our own efforts but we can be sure of our salvation if we choose to disown Mammon and all worldly idols. God chose to be in human time and incarnate he suffered the unimaginable agony that is the sin brought into the world by our continuing disobedience.

Dear Lord, help me to pray. Help me to see my thoughts always in your light of revelation. Help the Institutional Churches to break with Mammon and subservience to sinful social policy which denies your created man and woman and praises the slogans of "Gay Pride" and the untruth "My body, my life". Help the "iams" who shout these to realise how tiny they are even though they are astonished by their own knowledge and cleverness. May Mary our heavenly mother lead all the saints in praise of the perfection of your being and implore your grace to purify all souls on earth and in Purgatory. I make this prayer in what I hope is sincerity of heart. Save me from the snares of Satan and his innumerable allies in this world.