08/10/2024

Jesus makes it known for all time that becoming entangled by the physical necessities of life is a lesser part of doing his will on Earth than being at his feet in prayer. Martha is not wrong in taking care of her guests but if we have a choice we must put being with God before taking care of our bodies.

We all do have a choice and those who do consecrate their whole beings to God on this Earth have no need at all of the "restaurant quality" food that I have eaten as a guest at a monastery table. Those who have taken a vow of "Poverty" should live as an example of God's Truth in the world and follow their own promise to stay in one place and make their daily lives the prayer that is doing as did Mary, sitting at the feet of the Lord and loving him.

Yet again I hear "responsorial cries" of "Simplistic" from those comfortably discussing how to maintain the place of the Institutional Church on the "Synodal Path". These are the Gyrovagi, what a lovely word, the wandering monks that are always ready to speak, anywhere in the world about how they devote their lives to their own notions of the "Good", in many cases religious minds have been shaped by human philosophy, have left the airport lounges to become stable in Rome for the duration of of this gathering of Clerical Overseers.

Jesus lifetime on earth was spent in withstanding temptation and becoming the exemplar by word and deed of how we are to use the grace that was to bring the world out of the backsliding that his "Chosen Ones" are still unable to avoid.

The problem, for me, however is that the hypocrisy condemned by Jesus has never been far from Institutional Christianity, Papal, Orthodox or Protestant in that all versions of the Good News are concealed by Mammon as the denominations  are all property owners in this world and as diligent as Martha at worldly, i.e. domestic tasks .

I try to avoid these negative sentiments as much as I can as I  know that Jesus is always present even in the hearts that sometimes vest themselves in the Cappa Magna that obviously stupid sign of worldly authority that together with the Papal Tiara have never had a true place in the Church of the  FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who so humbled himself, as to become man and accept the death common to us all, even to the extent of making his own, the ultimate agony of death on the cross.

Dear Lord, There is nothing that we can do in life that is so pleasing to you as to sit and know you are present in this world with us who accept the grace to sit at your feet. I pray we are not the learned or the clever for their intelligence is a sometimes overwhelming source of pride, but that we can be those whose  hearts are in no way childish but of the childlike maturity that can believe what we say "thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." We must all pray for the Jews that they whose history is so intermingled with your revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT can finally forget the worldliness that causes us all to sin and accept that the Holy Spirit of the Father did beget Jesus in the womb of Mary of Nazareth and become the Emmanuel of the prophets, the Glory revealed to Abraham, to Moses and all the prophets but still being sullied by both their physical and spiritual descendants even as I type these Words. May my prayers be joined to those of Mary and all the Saints that those meeting in Rome are all open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, that we can all find the forgiveness promised to us and that we all cooperate to do your will in this life so that we can be happy in the next. Maranatha Lord Jesus. Please return to us soon and thus reveal the Glory of Your New Creation.