28/09/2024

Today the preacher of Ecclesiastes reminds us of how futile life can sometimes seem to be and he advises those who are still young that their heydays will not remain for ever. Even as we grow old, however, the cycle of life that is God's creation still continues even as our sight of it diminishes.

"There is nothing new under the sun" is another of his themes. Would he still say that if he were to be returned to his homeland today?

The secular states that dominate the world we live in now are given over to the  creation and preservation of wealth. There is sometimes in the West a veneer that remains of Christianity and governments try to present themselves as guardians of a "new morality", that they are protectors of human freedom even as they fire rockets at the other humans who oppose them.

They create laws which are in effect much more petty than the Law as taught by the Priests and Pharisees which Jesus condemned. Material wealth is only disguised "dust" that has accrued because mankind is dominated by our own greed. Sorting out the waste created by our way of life is presented as the height of morality but protest against the killing of unborn children, who are treated  as the waste product of immorality, is anti-social behaviour that must be suppressed.

There is no doubt that Jesus knew what his mission was to be. Even though he discarded his Divinity,  as a sinless perfection of humanity he was never out of touch with His and our Father. We have all been diminished from that perfection to which we must aspire and sometimes have to battle our way through the morass of our own sins to be able to open our hearts and minds to the Love that is the being of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

I am still not able to know the true enormity of sin except by trying to understand how it can be that the Creator had to become true man to  be able to create a new Grace in our world of time. A human being really is something special but can easily become a monster to fall into the hands of, especially when he thinks that he is doing the work of God.

Dear Lord, help me to become sinless throughout the rest of this day. Help all of us to choose to follow in your Son's footsteps and accept what we have to do to access the Grace that has been available in our world since those years you lived on our Earth. May that grace flow into the hearts of all ministers of religion that the words they preach control their own beings. Nothing is impossible for you but for us the reverse is often true. May Mary and all the saints continue in their praise and pleas for mercy for us. But your words to Dives seem to have come true for your Resurrection seems to have been forgotten. There are still some righteous souls on earth for the sake of those and for sinners like me please return in a recognisable form to convert the whole world. We are failing again as did your beloved Jews. Help us Lord, help us.