25/11/2024

I was expecting Advent to begin today but, of course, our weeks begin on Sunday, the Lord's day. 

Jesus humbled himself to become "as we are" and thus had personal experience of time not as a spectacle viewed from without but as we do he knew the passing of all the measurements used by us to record  intangible "time", a currency that I have often wasted.

St John's vision can only be possible for him. or us, to see and contemplate if it is outside the realities of time. 

Jesus in today's Gospel is definitely within time for he "happens to notice" the anonymous widow who gives of her all. John certainly didn't "happen to have" that vision of ..........? I cannot say "Of eternal reality" because I know that Our God is far greater than anything that can be seen. However, I cannot refuse the "Word of God" and thus think  that the cultures of the times in which Jesus taught his Apostles were different than our own so their "Visions of the All Powerful" are beyond the limits of the receivers to share in anything other than in  their own vocabulary which we can interpret, but not truly visualise.

I also think that God's completion of  revelation of himself in the Resurrection is the reality that is far greater than any visions. 

We are all human and have to think about why it is that we try to pray everyday as did the Son of God. We have to know as much as we can about God. We are able to open our being to the communion that is the Spiritual Network ( St John's readers would be unable to instantly grasp what their humble fishing tools have become in the language of today) between "Our Father" and all living souls Joyfully completed in heaven, striving on earth with the aid of  Holy Spirit, Angels, Mary and all the Saints  and with humble, gratitude, penitent in the pains of Purgatory.

Dear Lord, help me to let go of pride. You always show me the way, truth and life that I must follow in atonement for my sins which willingly blocked out your grace and chose to do what is evil. You know all my sins help me to understand the pain that they inflicted on your human body and become much more than human "sorry" for all the harm that I have caused for others, to You, and to myself and loved ones. May Mary, Angels and all the saints join my prayers with theirs to plead for Your Mercy for all souls on earth and relief for those in Purgatory. Help me to know myself with faith in the hope that is your love. Come Lord Jesus Come.