19/09/2024

"All generations shall call me Blessed". It is thus how Mary received God's announcement to all of us that from her generation onwards all human beings were to receive in this world the gift from our Creator that would enable us to avoid the sin that more than tarnishes the "Good" that God saw His Creation to be.

In that single historical event we learn that IAMIAM is three persons and that SON is to humble his eternal self to become a temporal human; true man; that he has become man within the only sinless being since Adam fertilized by the naturally spirit, Holy Spirit.

Of course, I am now wordlessly awestruck when considering that plain statement of how the story of Salvation began.

Today we read in the first and second readings of two sinners who had both seen the Lord. St Paul had been chosen; he had been blinded by the Resurrection and reborn as an adult to preach what he had to first learn for himself from the Apostles. He had been a notorious member of the Chief Priests' "Gestapo". How hard it must have been for Peter and the others to accept the conversion of the man whom they had witnessed participating in the murder by temple authority of their friend Stephen.

The second sinner is depicted performing a welcoming ceremony for an honoured guest that had been neglected by the host. I find the image of the woman using her hair to dry Jesus feet quite disturbing as she is of "ill repute" but whatever they were, Jesus forgave her her sins. There are many unanswered questions presented by Scripture and the identity of this woman and her subsequent history is yet another one.

The psalm that unites the Epistle and the Gospel is a song of thankful praise that should be the thanks of all mankind for the intervention that changed the choices that we in our God-given freedom can make to do justice to the free-gift of the loving mercy poured out in the human blood and agony of the cross. The whole of the Gospels of the New Testament is the history of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT living as Jesus to create that only thing that can lead us away from temptation and deliver us from the evil that doesn't exist until we choose to prefer our own to the will of God.

Dear Lord, have mercy on all of us who continue to sin within the time of your creation. Angels, and Mary are the only ones of your created beings who are with you now in the naturally sinless spiritual and bodily way of being, that have never sinned. The Saints have all had their sins forgiven. I can do nothing more than implore that your Grace is as unlimited as you and can be poured out over all the peoples on earth to keep us as free from new sin as are the Holy Souls in Purgatory. May my soul be united with and by the prayers of Mary and all the saints within your Mystical Body which never fails to respond favourably to cries for mercy and forgiveness