06/07/2024

I am sure that God knows every individual who is living, has lived or will ever live in his creation. He first revealed himself to the Jews a tiny nation at the heart of the battleground between the great powers that ruled the cities of the area we know as the Middle-East. It is to this people that  God has made his first and his final revelations of himself and of what he expects our image and likeness of himself to become.

The greatest gift that we all have from God is freedom. We must use this freedom in the bodily lifetime that within which it is ours to know, love and serve. We are not machines that come into the world programmed by our DNA. Our bodies do follow the laws of created nature and in this they are "good". 

To retain our place in and maintain the "good" that is creation we have to choose to follow the revelations made by IAMIAM through his prophets in the Old and completed by the Incarnate Word, Jesus in the New Testament and supported throughout history by the Holy Spirit. Three persons, one God.

Today's Gospel is the meeting of the Old and New Testaments. The servants of IAMIAM  present us with the question about the identity of this then "unknown quantity" from Nazareth. We know the answer but we live in a material world powerful enough even to corrupt and destroy God's creation, nature. A material world which smothers the Kingdom of God and brings human failure into our Churchly Institutions.

Jesus did not attempt to prop-up the failing Temple and its "Law". He sacrificed himself to bring mercy into the world. He allowed the partnership between state and religion to kill him. The Resurrection  becomes the true being of the Sacramental Life of the Church and its Liturgy.

But, how many others since then have been slaughtered by that same unholy alliance? 

Dear Lord, you know that today I have much on my mind.  Let my prayers be heard as I try to get on with the domestic tasks that I should share but often neglect. May Mary and all the Saints help me by their prayers as I begin the clear-out that is so long overdue. As I pray I hear myself and realise that it is not only my room that needs clearing out but also the room that Jesus' tells us to enter as we say "Our Father" Help me Lord.