07/10/2024

I know as does St Paul, that there is only one version of the "Good News". I also know that there is also only one version of the "I" that I am. I am responsible to live my life in accordance with the will of the Father who has revealed to each one of us in the image and likeness that is our being, the gift of life which unfolds us into reality every second that we live. 

We are always the same soul that God creates for us at the moment we begin to live in our mothers' wombs until we face the Justice and Mercy, of which there is also only one version, at our deaths.

There are billions of us who receive the gift of life and the freedom that accompanies it. Each one of us  is restricted by the culture in which we are educated into adulthood in one of the very many versions of human being that exist. St Paul is disappointed in how quickly the "Good News" he brought to the Galatians has been changed by other Jews who refuse to believe that the Jesus whom their fellows executed taught anything that was not based in their culture, the Law. 

St Paul, however, has been sandblasted clean of all cultic accretions and reflects with his whole being the light of the Good News. There is only one version of God and Jesus who dies on the cross is the only begotten Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT the unique, all powerful one God.

It doesn't take very long to read the New Testament and learn that there are many who witnessed the important events of God's Presence in time, but there is only one human, Theotokos, who was there from Annunciation to Descent of the Holy Spirit. Mary is the human partner who accepts Salvation on our behalf and who ceaselessly implores the Lord to continue to envelop us in his loving mercy purchased at a much higher price than two denarii.

In the Rosary, today's feast, we are continually reminded that God was present living through the same "time" that is our inescapable background for living and that the mystical events that are his being were enacted out in the reality of that land of unending pain and revenge where once was born, lived, died and resurrected the Son of God to become the perfect image, of how we too are to live out our lives in God's peace as "Good Samaritans" in the reality of our daily living.

Dear Lord, help me to become what it is that you want me to be. Help me to lose all traces of pride and to accept the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These words are shaped by my mind but I pray that their inspiration is in my soul which has uncluttered the "way" for me. Let this day become for me a sinless journey to complete my life guided by you and your mother who ceaselessly leads, as Queen of Heaven, all the angels and Saints in their praise of you and pleas for forgiveness for all sinners here on earth and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen