16/08/2024

Each of us has to accept the Scriptures for what they are, the record of the revelation made by our Creator of himself at various times in the history of mankind. We have always treated these revelations as revelations of the "Supernatural" . 

It sometimes, however, seems to me that they should not be considered to be anything other than natural for it is God who created us and shapes our being. We are not abandoned alone in the world to make of it what we can as was the baby girl in the first reading.

Our Father was not "passing by" and noticed us, by chance the unwarted and discarded child. He is aware in his eternity of every moment of time and of all that it contains.  The mystery of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a creative loving kindness that by its nature creates from nothing, new created yet free individual human life that can chose to be informed by his revelation.

Reality is not only determined by the scope of our senses but is also God and our souls  longing for him. We all have totally natural souls that are all created equally to enjoy the Eternal Glorious Freedom of the Sons of God. 

The material discoveries of empirical science have bedazzled our being as did her awareness of her beauty,  Jerusalem. We have become infatuated by our awareness of our "Knowledge". It is hard for our children to grow up in a world that even denies that "male" and "female" are true categories of created being. 

Jesus came at a specific time in the history of the world. His chosen people had, yet again failed him, and since that time the overpoweringly human institution that was the Church founded on St Peter has many times proved itself to be more of this world than part of "the kingdom that is not of this world".

Jesus brings the first phase of revelation to its completion. He will never leave those who respond within their hearts, love answering love, abandoned in their own blood. He knew the faults of the world and the response of the Chosen People as a human being who confronted opposition and disbelief each day of his mission. He promised that he would return from the Father and confirmed us with the Holy Spirit.

Since then, we have changed the material face of the earth beyond recognition but we have to live lives that proclaim our faith in Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Our Father is not impressed by anything that is material. He is looking for us to recognise only his Love and to live lives that openly declare this to all others. He wants to find Faith in his Love on Earth when he returns. We have to become a  people who look for and do the will of Father, Son and Holy Spirit during our lives on Earth.

Dear Lord, help me to use words to offer myself to you. You know all that is happening in my head at this moment. That I am now and have had a past. Let me make right choices for the future and be sincerely sorry for all my offences. May Our Lady the only complete body mind and soul with you in what we call the perfection of bodiless after-life, heaven, lead all the saints in their shared moment of ultimate joy that proclaims their praise of God and their pleas for the Mercy that forgives all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory. Amen.