10/08/2024

It must have been very difficult for the members of the congregations that became the first generations of the Church to survive after the deaths of their founders left them on their own to continue to live aware of Christ living within them.

The first Christians were undoubtedly sustained by the Holy Spirit filling each of them with the belief that what their founders had witnessed in Jerusalem was undoubtedly the revelation of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the conviction that Jesus would return from the Father to save them at the, for them imminent, end of time. 

The Apostles in Jerusalem knew that Jesus had taught them to live out their lives in accordance with the revealed will of the Father. They knew that they had been touched by God and that they had a special duty to teach the whole world what their beloved Rabbi had taught to them.

They had to teach that each individual has an unseen inner being that is "not of this world". Jesus had made it abundantly clear that his whole being in this world had been to help our "human being" witness within this mortal life the Love that Father, Son and Holy Spirit has for each "image and likeness" that is our spiritual self.

By the time of the martyrdom of St Lawrence the Christians in all regions of the Roman Empire lived in communities of believers. The "Kingdom which is not of this world" had taken the first steps to becoming the institution that at first threatened Caesar and then fought unceasingly to be the supreme power in this mortal world.

Throughout my life I have been asking myself why it is that I have continued in sin even after sincerely pleading for forgiveness knowing that Jesus has reconciled us with the Creator.

I have come to realise, however, that what I can learn from the history of God's Providence is that first Jews and now Christians have not been true to the revelations of Love for his creation made by IAMFather,SonandHoly Spirit.

It is not God's will that his foundation on St Peter should have become so immersed in this world that its foundational role of caring for souls has long been forgotten and untrusted by so many of us who should be joining together to celebrate the life of Christ within us in this world so as to prepare us for the eternal life to come. 

Thank God that I am able to use this unseen technological miracle at my fingertips to join the unseen Mystical Body that is Christ still present in our Souls on Earth, in Heaven and in Purgatory but only if we open ourselves to him.

Dear Lord, only you can know that I am still the sinful being who is still sincerely seeking to do your will and avoid sin. May my soul today focus on its own reality which is life as a worshipping being in the immensity of your perfection and loving awareness of us all. May the soul of Sean and all the deceased find a place open for them in your forgiveness and may their souls and the souls of all the departed rest in peace until your final coming into your Universe. May Mary John and all the saints continue to add our prayers to theirs who did not succumb to  Devil, World or Flesh and may the Holy Souls wholeheartedly acknowledge the fact that it is their own sins that can be forgiven by your loving mercy. It is Christ Crucified who pays the price for our wickedness.