09/09/2024

I am still having the same trouble using the "on screen" keyboard as I did yesterday. 

This has prompted the thought that although I am completely sincere in that I am consciously turning my heart and mind to FatherSonHolySpirit this record is here only because human technology makes it possible for me so to do. 

St Paul and the other Apostles had to walk through the Provinces of the Roman or Persian Empires to spread the Good News. Those who wrote their letters and memoirs had the assistance of a "scribe" the human forerunner of the AI assistant which tries to preempt my words as they appear on this screen.

This morning, St Paul is appalled by a situation that is all too common in my own experience of life. "Who am to judge? answers the successor of St Peter to a question posed by those with even more ill-will than those who were always trying  to trap Jesus into an ill-considered answer. 

Jesus did not prevaricate.. He taught us "Yes" is yes and "No" is no.  Neither did St Paul. St Paul was appalled by the blatancy of sinners whose self-conceit enabled them to feel able to flaunt their sins even in front of the "Church".

 "Who am I to Judge?" Francis . St Paul, "I already condemned this man". I ask myself which of these two responses to the problem of sexual sin is gong to be of more help, by bringing me or any other sinner closer to Jesus', "Go your sins are forgiven", "I did not come to condemn this world but to save it", 

Prophets, Popes and Prelates can preach the Word of God, but Jesus is the Word that will stand until the end of time. He is all God and True man; our way, truth and life. Blessed be his Holy Name!

Dear Lord you know that I should be praying to raise my mind and heart to you, not to add to the billions of words that are clogging the internet. This tool, however does help me focus my mind, so today I do not feel ashamed to ask for your help in fixing it.  More importantly, I truly pray for my both living and dead family. May our prayers join with those of the Saints and Angels who led by Mary raise a never-ending chorus of praise, thanks-giving and petition for your mercy to overcome all that leads us to sin on earth and help the Holy Souls to bear the total shame that overcomes them in their realisation of what is the true enormity of what they have done that could have been  avoided during their lifetimes.

My prayer has been answered so I can edit the above with the ease of a real keyboard under my fingers. Thanks be to God. Amen