05/09/2024

We are all living in a world where everything changes as soon as it happens. Every time we stop to think about this phenomenon we try to capture what we can never control. The passing moment never returns but it, "this moment", is always the sum total of all the moments that I have ever experienced it is my only "now" of this world.

I am not wise but I am also not stupid enough to become obsessed by the worldly realities of the "times" in which we live. 

The first reading at today's mass is St Paul's letter to the "Church" in Corinth that had split into factions in the usual way of any group of humans and Paul is worried that the Word of God, which had captured him in that moment when eternity had touched time on his way to Damascus, has not stayed in the hearts of his converts as it had stayed in his.

The Gospel takes us back to that moment when Jesus began to call his Apostles. The miraculous draught of fishes was hard to be dragged into their boats but the Word of God standing on the shore had an instant effect. They just did as they had been told and left everything.

I guess that there were many others watching the four men struggling to land their huge catch but Jesus chose those four to become the first of the ones he would later call "friends".

We do not need what the world calls "wisdom" or intelligence, which is in these times being artificially created, to know that everything about this world rots and passes away. The moment that Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James and John has never passed away for it is the only the "Word of God" that will stand until the end of time.

Dear Lord, I know that you call to us all to accept and fulfill your will for us on Earth. St Paul condemns human thought as useless in your eyes, but humanity is much greater than its "wisdom" for you became incarnate and suffered death to redeem us all. I know that You love your creation and have never repeated the flood to wipe us all out. You call to us all to accept your Word and learn that the Word of the spirit is not "supernatural" but as natural to our beings, our nature, as all the created material of the Universe. Your Spiritual/Mystical body has never left this world alone and is to be found wherever it is recognised by our souls. The "rock" that is Peter can still be our foundation in faith, but your Holy Spirit can be with us at any of the passing moments we open our hearts to You. Your Love excludes not one of us. But each of has to positively answer your call as it is our nature to become one body in communion with Mary, Angels and saints as we worship you and pray for your forgiveness to overcome all sinners here and in Purgatory. Come Lord Jesus, come soon.