01/07/2024

I have missed responding by keyboard to the daily mass readings for the last 8 days. I did not ignore them but I have no remembrance of their contents except for the one from "Lamentations".

The first reading from today's mass is a listing of the sins committed by individuals within the community chosen by God to have the revelation of himself made known to them. These are the sins for which atonement could only be made by the direct intervention of the Incarnation, the physical presence of God experiencing all that it means to be human by living and dying in the "time" that continually slips away from us.

The psalm is the " the Word speaking through the prophets" and calls out to us who are living in the wilderness that, without awareness of the Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is life on earth 

God's first and last answer to the sin that is brought into being, first by Adam and then by all of us is Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus bled out the whole of his human life's blood to create his Spiritual Body on earth, his Church. 

Even though we have never been true to the Kingdom that is not of this World, God is always true to the Spiritual Church that he founded speaking his last words to mankind, Himself, John and Mary, are to be as a new Holy Family to receive the infinite grace being literally poured out at that moment as he spoke, onto the soil of our world.

God can be found in Institutions but he is not solely located in their Hierarchies. The Liturgical/Sacramental Presence of God cannot be assured by sinful celebrants just as a papal declaration could not change the shape of our world. We can all feel sure that God is with us as long as we conform our lives to his revelations of his will for us.

The Prophets warned the Israelites that the patience of IAMIAM could come to an end. I cannot look at the world this morning without thinking  how much more distasteful this reality must be to God our Creator than it is to me. Jesus was rejected by many of his own people and we today are no better. Are we the generation to witness, at last, the Parousia? Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus Come!

Dear Lord, you know how for the last week I have missed my mornings reflections which help me to raise my mind and love to your loving mercy. As I wrote the above I realised that I do believe what I write from my thoughts. They are not words of wisdom but I am not ashamed to utter them in sincerity as my own awareness of the greatness of your Love and  Merciful Forgiveness for me and for your own world. Help me to be free from sin this day and save my family from their entrapment by the world of Mammon. Let these prayers be united with those of Mary and all the saints and may they bring relief to the Holy Souls and forgiveness to us sinners still living this finite life in hope for the infinity of your Kingdom to come.