15/10/2024

Those who heard Jesus speak had to retain his message in their memories and at the same time go about the daily tasks that were the norm for 1st Century Palestine. In my case I feel that would be impossible for I cannot hold in my head even these short readings from Scripture until the end of each "today " that I live.

I can remedy that personal defect by accepting these personal prayers and reflections that I record here, as a Truth that comes from God, but I always have to quibble and fuss about them to achieve even a little of the confidence in God displayed by St Paul. "In those day" it was only in our natural intelligences that words and ideas were retained before they were written down with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 

The Gospels provide us with eye-witness accounts of the "headlines" of the three years when the Incarnate Son of  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed himself to the "Chosen People" who had somehow, not withstanding he direct help they received from the Prophets, not been able to become the examples of righteous living that would reveal God to this world.

St Paul had been well on the road to becoming a Pharisee perfecting himself in the Righteousness of the Law that was his birthright when he was stopped in his tracks and blinded by the light of the Resurrection into becoming a traitor in the eyes of his own sect and an, at first, "untrustworthy" convert to the infant church.

These two sources of my personal faith have had billions of words written about them, within which our primary purpose can founder in an ocean of claims of  knowledge and counter claims about FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that block out the light of pure faith. Incarnate God, however speaking as Jesus, warns us that it is only in purity of heart that we can choose the spotless perfection of grace to keep us on the way, truth and life that is always guided by faith according to the Will of God, Father of Jesus and Creator of all material and spiritual being. We are because God is.

Dear Lord, Help me to identify your true voice amongst the myriad of ideas and experiences in which I can lose the thread that leads me out of the labyrinth that is my own of the human minds that are for you as alive and known as I am to myself. Only you can know me in the depths of my being; you know all of my sins and have revealed that all of us can be forgiven if we make true amendment by using the Grace that was purchased in the horror of Calvary, the only way for this creation to become what you had intended it to be. May Mary lead all the Saints of heaven in supplication for us sinners on earth to cooperate with you and to know that each one of us can do your will and that even if our total plea for mercy comes late in our lives, Purgatory can provide for each of us the punishment that we have avoided on Earth. May my sins and the sins of the whole world be forgiven and may the Holy Souls find the forgiveness that is in your promise as Good Shepherd to seek out and bring all lost sheep back into the fold of YOUR LOVE. Amen