10/10/2024

Today, St Paul, probably in Rome, is writing to the Galatians, a people of Celtic origin who had over centuries become Greek speaking Anatolians and at the time Paul was writing to them were part of the Roman Empire. St Paul is greatly disappointed that the Church, he has founded as part of his FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT given mission, has been corrupted by Judaizers who insist that to worship in truth "the Law" must be followed.

 IAMIAM has cared for and known the Jewish people for centuries and they have known him in the "Law" that governs their lives. The Chief Priests, Scribes, Pharisees and many ordinary Jews were people who had lived with pride in the "Divine Shield" that was revealed by their prophets and professed in their Temple Worship and by following the Law. 

Jesus of Nazareth is much more than a prophet. He was killed in Jerusalem, as were many of the prophets, by the people to whom he was showing in "real time" the completed meaning of the relationship IAMIAM has not only with Jews but with all mankind. 

The Resurrection of Jesus is the event that is for ever the revealed being of God, IAMIAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT with us to the end of time and nothing can be added or taken away from the eternal truth.

St Paul challenged the Galatians; "You must be mad!" and I too cannot understand but not ignore the events during my life-time in the Middle-East beginning with the terrorist attacks that were the prologue to the State of Israel to the nonsense  of a former Prime-Minister claiming that his foolhardy attacks on "nuclear facilities" in Syria were made to protect the World. 

They must be mad! It does seem that the devilish irrationality of the Nazis lives on in the hearts of the recipients of their hatred that is certainly not love, and nothing like the words of today's psalm.

"Blessed be the God of Israel he has visited his people and redeemed them, he has raised up for us a mighty saviour in the House of David, his prophet as he promised through the lips of holy men, those who were his prophets from of old."

There are millions of us throughout the world who will have completely different reactions to the news seen on their TVs as each one of has to learn for himself that "Thou shalt not kill" cannot be viewed as a sliding scale and that our Saviour experienced the finality of death and yet liveth to bring the grace of God even into the hearts of those killers who view their own violence as righteous anger and those whose pride in self-hood resists the Grace of God as successfully as did their forbears totally deny Christ and their modern Iron Shield resists the missiles of the their enemies,

Dear Lord, You know whether or not, I am being able to to view "the signs of these times" without condemning anyone who lives in your Love. Violence is not according to thy will on Earth. The parents of my generation resisted Hitler but not without cynically choosing to wipe out hundreds of lives by blanket bombing residential areas of German cities. All sins can be forgiven even during our lifetimes  if  we turn to you in repentance with a sincere desire for atonement.  May all the Saints in heaven, especially today Denis, John and Paulinus pray together with the Queen of Heaven and all Angels and Saints that the leaders and servants of death on earth accept the forgiveness that is always being offered by Your Eternal Love that creates but never destroys. May we sinners on Earth, together with the Holy Souls who can sin no more, always accept your will and never stupidly choose to follow princes of this world into the pain of  nothingness that so many are facing at this moment as our bodies are broken by the enemy of life who is always on the sidelines, sniggering at how easy it is for him to mock God by captivating the will of mankind.