30/10/2024

I expect that for many of us St. Paul's acceptance of slavery as a fact of life is a source of bewilderment, embarrassment and shame. 

We all have been born into different times and places. We all have to make sense of our own lives but there are some of us who have been born to fulfill promises made to our natural parents as were the descendants  of Abraham.

God knows that I have never been happy with the truth that FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT by choosing only one family to whom to reveal his PRESENCE has not really helped us to overcome the stupidity of Adam and Eve. 

Israelis, descendants of the Chosen People, have been cursed by their sense of unique place in the World. They are not doing the will of Our Father by inflicting pain, suffering and death upon their enemies at this very moment as I begin my daily attention to the word of God read at Catholic masses today.

The soul that I am knows that the plank that is in my eye, when I stand before the Eternal Altar of God's Being, is everything that can be contained within this crumbling body, a life which I still love and cherish, a life which looks towards FATHERSONANDHOLYSPIRIT but wonders why I have to find out for myself the meaning of the "Will of God" in this time and place which is the only chance that I have of returning to the garden where Adam and Eve hid in shame before their Creator and brought death into the world.

Dear Lord, every time I open myself to your grace I have to say "You know" for that is the truth. You know me in my entirety as I am now, as I have been, and how the billions of choices I still have to make during my worldly lifetime will complete my life. I ask you for the grace to have the faith that is preached by St Paul, exemplified in Jesus and accepted on behalf of we thy children in the "Yes" of  Mary's "Let it be done according to thy Word". I am sure that the world in which my generation is living is not of your doing. Help us by your grace to make amends for our sins and leave again in this world the sure signs of your Love by Faith in your life, death and Resurrection, I don't think that there is more than this that I can do. I only hope that I can become the man you have created me to be. May my sins and all the sins of the world be wiped out by the mercy  for all sinners here and in Purgatory that pours down from the prayers of Mary, Saints of Heaven and Angels who by their presence before you receive the infinity of your mercy to support us in our struggles on Earth and total acceptance of your Justice in Purgatory. Amen