03/09/2024

Today in the readings at mass, both St Paul and St Peter reveal their inner total commitment to Jesus. The words of St Paul are recorded for all time in black and white as his awareness that God knows our inmost thought. He tells us that he has been trusted to work for FatherSonHolySpirit and his work is to spread the Good News. There is nothing that he looks for in this world, although it would not be sinful to accept material support, he preaches out of the Love for his congregations that comes from God.

St Paul has really seen God as much as any human is capable of. The splendour of the Resurrection has been imprinted onto this human being. He has the total consciousness of God that was Adam's in the Garden but he still knows that he has a personal "sting" that is also known by God. He has an awareness in the depths of his being that he can respond here on earth by both sharing with mankind and returning love for Love to the Father. 

Our dear friend, St Peter gets it right this time.

Jesus addresses us all personally when he begins  "But who do you?" There is nothing in anybody's life on earth that can be greater than our personal response to God's revelation of himself Being to being, IAMIAM to "I am". It is not the institutional structure and hierarchy of any "Church" that brings the love of God into our hearts  The Holy Spirit blows where he will and is not a captive of any "Liturgy".

St Peter and all the 12 to be designated "friends" were first captivated by the man, Jesus, to the extent that they literally took on a new mode of living and literally "followed" steadfastly until their faithful unity was shattered by what they, except for The three Marys and John, were too broken to witness outside the city walls.

We thank God for that hopeless and empty separation from the Lord was overcome by the "Third Day" and the Marys, the Apostles and the anonymous ones saw their "Beloved" here on Earth in the Glory that is to be ours in Eternity.

It is no wonder that those first days of the "Church" were proclaimed with such fervour and success.

Dear Lord, time is still passing for me. You know that I am still the searcher after personal holiness that has always been able to slip out of my grasp. We know of St Paul's faith and also know that there must have been many other faithful Jews who adapted faith in IAMIAM to match the Glory of Your Resurrection. St Peter is always the human being that we experience in our own selves. We are all children of Adam and Eve and retain the ability to deny you even as we walk with you. Help us all to restrict our personal freedom in such a way that we can live Spiritual Lives on earth and reject all the temptations that material being brings to us. May I live this day free from sin and be joined in my prayers by all souls on Earth, Mary, and All the Saints that we sinners on Earth and in Purgatory realise that our sins have to be overcome by Christ Crucified and that we have to stop ourselves in awe to think about this to enable us to become the "forgiven ones" that is your will for us all.