06/08/2024

What I call "reflections" are my attempts to tell myself how to react to the passages from scripture that are part of the liturgy of the Catholic Church in the UK. God knows that my intentions are honest. Why would anyone try to deceive God? 

I know that I have often tried to "kid" myself. Long ago, Jesus warned us that saying "Lord, Lord" in public achieved nothing. We have to listen to the revelations made by God and act in accordance with his commandments at all times in our lives. 

I am always trying to peel the onion that is the accumulations of my being after 80+ years of life to become the sinful soul aware that I am, as much as were Adam and Eve, naked in the eyes of their creator and mine.

In today's first reading from Daniel the visionary is himself a naked mortal soul looking beyond the stars that fill our Universe into the eternity that is filled with the Glory of God. In the Gospel, Jesus takes Peter, James and John apart to show them the glory that he has as Son of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

They, of course, do not want to lose the perfect Faith of that imponderable moment, but come down from the mountain with Jesus in awestruck speechlessness but mystified by what could be the meaning of "rising from the dead".

Dear Lord I thank you for the words that I have found to help me be the man you created to live a sinless life within the fullness of your Love. I can bow my head over this keyboard in the safety that comes from your grace and is strengthened by the prayers of Mary and all the saints. Help me to avoid sin and to persevere in prayer as I am soon going to learn the meaning of "rising from the dead" as I face you "the first fruits" and your judgement of my lifetime of thoughts, words and deeds. May my prayers become part of the chorus of praise led by Mary and may my soul be cleared out of the debris created by my sinful life. I am praying to and through Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Lord hear my prayer. Come Lord Jesus Come!