06/10/2024

There have been and still are many of us who become satisfied with our own version of scriptural revelation and can always seek and "find" ways there to forgive and justify our personal sins. Sin is always personal for it confronts and denies FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT the supreme being who in his infinitude knows each of his creation as the individual persons that are we all.

Jesus has no need to "explain" his authority for he is SON, the Word, and teaches us "the indisputable way" that we can follow to become the human being that is in the mind of God and to which we can aspire in our lifetimes in creation.

 But, in the Gospel reading for today,  Jesus suggests that God's Law can be adjusted to suit the capabilities of the persons receiving it, that is why Moses allowed for "divorce" in the "Law" that was to rule the People of God. 

God can be thus said to be responding to the "signs of the times". I have no doubt that this will become for some participants in the "Synod" a way to present their own solutions to life's problems as being approved by God, as it always has been for we sinners when we strive to escape the light of God's Truth.

An undoubted "sign of these times, 2024," is the ability to control or assist the natural fecundity which we share with all mammals. The "Joy" of sex is not the purpose for which we are all "Male or Female".

There are many for whom the "Sin of Adam" has not only damaged souls but also their material bodies. After the water into wine "the signs of Emmanuel" are  "the blind receive sight, the deaf hear, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the dead are raised to life and the poor have the Gospel preached to them".

Jesus, the best news ever, tells us that to do the will of "Our Father" we first of all have to put aside all prideful entrapments in self and acknowledge that way, way beyond us and yet as close to us as our own souls are to our bodies is "Father". Then we have to ask for his care in our present material world to enable us to recognise and seek forgiveness for sin which will itself enable us to put others before ourselves.

May the Church dignitaries engaged today, in discussion about themselves and their institution never forget that the "Chosen People" are still today disputing with God in their deadly acts perpetrated on their neighbours and that the Son of God, in his humanity himself a Jew, saves first of all, those broken in body and in mind and that it is only as "simpletons in the eyes of the wise" that we can find the humility that paves  each person's road back to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who is still bleeding Mercy onto an unthankful world.

Dear Lord, May your Mercy shower down as do the rose petals imagined by St Therese. May the words taught us by Jesus become engraved into our being. May the family unity of Mary and John continue to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that even the RC institution can be inspired by the children of the "New Holy Family" within her and avoid the way of Mammon that she has so often pursued in her place in the worldly entanglements which have meant more to Popes, Patriarchs, Prelates and Priests than your public declaration before Pilate, "My Kingdom is not of this world" and private counsel to the rich young man  "Sell all that you own and give to the poor". May our sins be forgiven as you look with mercy on the souls in Purgatory and may Holy Spirit sort out your enemies even as their "wisdom" is being displayed in Rome as I write this. I believe that the total mess that is sinful mankind can only fulfill your will when each one of us listens for the quiet voice that is the Holy Spirit touching us with your Grace. Help us to recognise that Palestine where you walked and taught is for each human being the "forever sign of the times", the sign of the cross. Amen, come Lord Jesus, come.