01/09/2024

As usual the readings for today bring to my mind a review of how I can live my life in the presence of the Lord. I have tried to put myself entirely in the hands of FatherSonHolySpirit aware that I only know him because I too AM. I am aware that my being although real is puny in comparison to that of other human beings who are living now or have lived before me.

The word of the Lord spoken through the Prophets of the Old Testament tells us that we have only to follow the commandments he reveals with a pure heart and we become part of the greatest "nation" on Earth., the worshippers of IAMIAM.

The Jews were unable to face the Glory of IAMIAM's promise to Moses and somehow began to feel that they were "great" because of themselves. They were then and now only human beings who owed everything to the Providence of God".

I am a nonentity in the eyes of the world but I am known to FatherSonHolySpirit. All the praise, fame, admiration that many other humans  receive and attribute to themselves as a just acknowledgement of the value that they know is theirs by right of being, is more serious than the frippery it appears to be for it is out of such pride that sin is still dominant in our world.

I am afraid of hypocrisy. There is nothing easier to spot in others. I know that I can be accused of thinking about the world as I do out of jealousy of the success of others. The Truth is that I really do believe that Jesus is the Son of God. His Resurrection is the first-fruits of the New Creation that is to be the "Second Coming". 

The Mystical Body of Christ, the Communion of Saints is the Church of the Spirit that survives in the hearts of many of us although the Institutions succumbed to Mammon many centuries ago we can be part of  the Family of Love founded by Jesus' words to Mary and John. These are the "words which will stand to the end of time" as "My kingdom is not of this World" has been long forgotten.

Dear Lord, help me to be ready for your call. Help me to truly despise my sins and lose the ambivalence towards them that you know is still there. I thank you for the length of my life which has been unexpected and I ask that my faith be increased to the point that I can really know that the immensity of grace you bring from Calvary covers the whole world even the mortal weakness that I am. May we all remain within you mystical body which has been the Church of Love ever since that Sabbath eve on Calvary and may these prayers join those of Mary, the Angels and Saints and all the innumerable and, anonymous to us but known by name by You, souls crying out for Mercy on Earth and in Purgatory.