29/07/2024

The Jewish scriptures that have been preserved by the Church should have been accepted by the people of the Old Testament. They are, first of all, God's revelation of his being; IAMIAM and then of his guidance on how to follow His Will during our lifetimes.

Jeremiah really did not make a lot of friends by comparing his neighbors to worn out and discarded underwear. He, as do we all, could only have his own image of God. He interprets his inspiration in human terms and attributes to the eternally unchanging almighty power which has created the Universe and each individual "I" as part of it, the same emotions that confuse our own humanity. Father, Son and Holy Spirit is unfazed by ignorance but deliberate disobedience has had to be countered by the mystery of Incarnation.

The Christian writings together with the Old Testament that has been preserved by the Church should have been accepted in their totality as the legacy of Jesus and his Apostles, the objective source of how to live as the adopted sons of God in this world.

The history of Christendom both East and West is a revelation of how we have failed to live up to God's complete revelation of himself. We by our sins are as guilty of mocking God as are those who mocked his Last Supper before the whole world in Paris recently.

The failure by Jews and Christians continues to be witnessed by the remnant which is still slaughtering, continuing its own Holocaust, in Gaza and by the eastern and western Church which has never been true to neither Jesus' "my Kingdom is not of this world" nor to Martha's words of complete Faith "Yes, Lord, I do believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who has to come into the world."

Dear Lord, let me become true to you. Each one of us has to be completely open to You, Father Son and Holy Spirit and accept that it is only by our individual righteousness that we can do your will on earth; "I am the Resurrection and the life, if anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." Help me to be open to the grace that the prayers of all your friends in heaven bring to me and let your mother's pleas for all sinners here and in Purgatory be fulfilled by my sincere penitence and acceptance of your merciful justice. Amen.