24/07/24

I have to renew my faith each day. As I wake up and stagger to my feet I have always uttered at least one "Lord have mercy" and also questioned what that means before I am ready to start walking. 

The time of leaping out of bed to face the hope of a new day has long gone as has the self inflicted horror, thanks be to God, of trying to recall what stupidities or harm I had done "under the influence" the night before.

Isaiah had had his lips touched by a "burning coal", today Jeremiah is touched by God himself. It  should be that God himself will also touch the lips of those who attend this morning's liturgy. He will provide the words for those who are tangled in their thoughts but need to proclaim the good news and the food and drink to sustain them during the day. 

God's covenant with Israel was to promote righteous living. The incarnation is to  save us from that failure by man. 

I have always been captivated by the idea of being known by God. I have not always lived up to that image hence the recalling and renewing that happens each morning that I wake up. I have not received the Sacrament in a very long time.

God's sacrifice of himself on the cross was to defeat sin by bringing Sacramental Grace into our world.

God knows that I am not blind to my own sin. He knows the shock and horror that the coming to realise that the Church, founded on St Peter, has never been free from the sinful corruptions of this world, was to me. I cannot sustain belief in her claims to there being "Holiness" in her Institutional Structure which is definitely of this world,  but with which she claims to confect the Sacraments without any necessity for  personal holiness on the part of her priests and ministers.

God has not left me ( or anyone else ) alone in this world to struggle to righteousness on my own as a lost sheep. The pain of the cross is God's enabling of individuals to come to him each moment of our lives. 

We can all become part of his new spiritual Holy Family instituted from the cross by standing with John and Mary and accepting his final mission "Woman behold your son; son behold your Mother". 

We too can join that New Holy family and be sure that Jesus will never be absent from our midst for this Church/Family is truly "Not of this world"and he will be with us the Head of the Family until the end of time.

Dear Lord, you know that I have been driven from the Church you founded on St Peter by its unwholesome corruptions and lack of faithfulness to your categorical requirements. You have no need of sacrifices, temples or churches. The blood of animals is just that and valueless to you The wonders human's have made out of the material of your Universe are just that, corruptible materials What you do want from us is pure hearts that reach out to return the Love you poured out on Calvary. May Mary, John and all the Saints support the hidden community of the New Holy Family that is known only by Father, Son and Holy Spirit and all the souls whose worship is always "not of this world". Forgive us our trespasses and help us all to continue to avoid sin. Amen!