21/05/2022

Reading the readings for mass each morning opens my soul to the Word of God and is also "interesting"for its own sake. The difficulties for early Christians are mentioned here in "passing" as it were. Timothy an adult? has undergone circmuscision probably at the hands of St Paul. St Paul grows in Faith and later agrees that the Law of Moses, which he knew so well and loved, is no longer necessary for believers. After Lystra did St Paul preach on his journey to Troy? All the places mentioned were in the Roman Province of Asia but he turned back at Bythnia which was a separate province on its own.

Jesus brings salvation to the World; our sins are forgiven by the Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The suffering on the three days before resurrecton are the horror undergone by God to eliminate the sin brought into the Good Creation by Adam. The Creation and Jesus' 33 years are in our time but God is not affected by this for him everything is the Eternal Now. Jesus tells us that the "world" hates him and us who are his believers. We have to accept and strive to understand his teaching. We are opposed to war, fornication, thievery, blasphemy and sin of any kind. We must accept that the "world" rejects the Word and for this reason we must not be deterred by the hatred shown to us for striving to belong to God.