24/10/2024

For these few minutes that I spend reading and and then holding onto, the mass readings that are used in the daily mass of the Roman Church I am experiencing the best thing that can happen to me today for I am awakening my soul to remember that I am dust and will return to dust. It is only the word of God that has any permanence in this life.

It must be by the will of God that the Church which has lost its soul so many times in the World of Mammon and blathers on to impress itself and the world by its great intellects has also preserved  in its heart the scriptures and the Catholic Faith too can be seen, in the final analysis, to be based only on the reformers' slogan "Sola scriptura".

The slogan is simple and its application is also simple for me but I am only one of millions who approach God in sincerity of heart. We  all receive the same grace but we are all conditioned by the place and time in which we are born. That is why some of us declare before God that they will consecrate their lives to a life of prayer and will remain in the presence of the Lord throughout each day and ignore the conditioning that some call the "Providence of God" but in reality is the ever changing human culture created by the freedom of choice given by God to all of us.

To live consciously in the presence of Our Father is the perfect way of being human that Jesus and his mother revealed to us by their unknown lives in Palestine two thousand years ago. St Paul who was the first to be named newly converted Apostle selected as were the original twelve by Jesus himself tells that our adherence to Christ will become a communion with FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and all other believers. This ability to become unified in the peace of Christ is what all Christians long for.

In today's Gospel, however,  Jesus tells us that this is not to be in this world. We are shocked by the vehemence of his language but we know that he is the same Jesus who also said "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth". The grace of God is not controlled by any Institution even though it has resulted from Jesus' words "Thou art Peter and on your rock I will build my Church". 

I know by experience that "grace" has not deserted this world and find faith in the other words of foundation, those that were uttered from the Cross. "Woman behold your son, son behold your Mother." This creates the never ending kingdom that is not of this world and is the Spiritual New Holy Family where Jesus is now and promises to remain until the end of time. This is the grace that has often been hidden by the Institutional Church but is always there to be found in this world by those who seek it.

Dear Lord, You know that my sinful soul longs to be to able to know love and serve. I hope to be able to know your Glory, return your Love, and serve by doing your will in this world so that I can become part of the eternal event that you have created us to share with you. May Mary our mother lead all Angels and her children, your Saints in the prayers that is our greatest need on sinful earth and may we sinners on earth also share in the Mercy that is needed by the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus, Come