22/10/2024

I am never able to approach FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT without questioning my own motives. I am not looking for targets to complain about in this world but some do project themselves into my consciousness as does St John Paul II whose feast-day is today. I know that I am a sinner and that I have to look carefully at my own thoughts and words and try to judge them objectively. 

I do, however, take umbrage against the Church when it  acts as if it doesn't believe its own message. I am still convinced that the histrionics of St. John Paul were of no spiritual benefit to anyone except his own image of himself. I was particularly embarrassed by his attempts to stir up the adulation of the "youth" of England at Wembley Stadium. Mass hysteria cannot ever be a sure foundation for anything of lasting value.

The latest English addition to the highest ranks of Institutional Church Authority has for years skipped about preaching a doctrine of "love" in support of a "community of sinners" who celebrate their sin with "Pride". Jesus warns us all about the millstone that awaits those who teach others to sin. This Cardinal Preacher is responsible for his own sins but should as preacher preach the "Word of God" and not some human thinking that is produced out of the minds of the wise and the clever.

Today's Saint and tomorrow's Cardinal are both men as I am. I know that even though my lack of talent is obvious, it is very difficult for me to control my own pride. The help of the Holy Spirit ensures that I am getting better at doing so. Men like the Saint and Cardinal whose talents shine out, have a real difficulty in curbing pride for their superiority to most of us is obvious.

God's Truth, however is that Son, the only begotten, is the only perfect Man, although Mary is sinless she is still a creature. During his time on earth Jesus always forgave the sins of individuals even those of the soldiers who nailed him to the cross. Throughout the centuries, Popes Cardinals etc. have never acted as if they were aware that the only sinners ever condemned as a group by Jesus were not  "the Jews" but those holding in the world of the Old Testament Revelations, positions in human life now claimed by those in the Apostolic Succession. 

Dear Lord you know how much truth, if any, there is in my dissatisfaction. I am trying to avoid sin by honestly starting each day consciously in your presence with my mind soul open to receive your grace. I do not wish to condemn anybody. Indeed, how could I who know how willfully I have so often refused your grace? I would always prefer to be positive in my thoughts, prayers and petitions each morning, but today I am sure that those who "show-off" in their intellects and supposed piety are failing in their duty as priests who should be warning sinners to seek redemption not have excuses found for them. May Our Lady, your Mother who has zero knowledge of how depraved humans, who forsake her Son, can become, lead those who have accepted your Mercy to be able to join the Angels and Saints in the unity of Holiness that contains no shadow of dissent and pleads for our imperfect souls and the penitent in Purgatory to receive your Mercy with the thanks that needs eternity to express it fully. Lord heed my prayer and forgive us all even me who has so often sinned. Amen