27/11/2024

I have always felt uncomfortable whenever my human attributes are used to interpret what happens in this reality that I know because I am alive. 

God, IAMIAM, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is totally beyond any of our human capabilities except loving obedience and acceptance of what he has revealed to his image and likeness, our souls.

I am able to become comfortable in my spiritual being when I remember that Jesus thanks God for revealing the Truth not to "the learned and the clever" but to "the little ones" who can also tune our wills into absorbing the Love with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT still engraces those who accept his Will completely and try to abandon themselves to the path chosen, followed and taught by the Incarnate Son.

Persecution and vile punishment were not the only experience of the first Christians. There were long periods of time when the "Church" thought about itself and the meaning that could be found in the Life of the Incarnate One and the preserved teaching of "his friends".

The longed for "return" did not materialise and  there were long drawn out intellectual battles between "the learned and the clever" which were also supported by the little ones. "I am for Apollos, "I am for Paul" were the slogans used by Corinthians and  condemned by Paul.

The Apocalypse that is the first reading for today was composed after the first wave of persecution had martyred Peter and Paul, Stephen and James had already been killed in Jerusalem. It is John's mystical response to the events that were terrifying all "Christians" for the attitude of the state was that if you called yourself a "Christian" you had to die whether you had committed a crime our not.

The psalmist sings praise of Almighty God "he will come to rule the world in justice, in fairness he will rule the people". For this to happen we have to willingly become completely at the disposal of Our Father. All peoples, the Great and the Good, rich and poor, young and old truly accept the truth of every word that comes from the mouth of God.

The human Jesus did that and Our Father expects it of us too for he creates in order to have us accept his Love.