26/11/2024

The freedom that God has given us is real. When, as a child, I disobeyed my mother or father there was nothing in that disobedience other than that I freely preferred my own will to that of theirs.

In the first centuries of "Resurrection Faith" it seems that that the first task for the Apostles was to keep themselves devoted to the revelations of IAMIAM for "With Justice he will rule the world, he will judge the peoples with his truth" and simultaneously ponder the events that they had witnessed in the physical presence of the Son of God and inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

The Acts and Letters of the Apostles record the results of the arguments between those who demanded that we all follow Moses as did the first "People of God" into the "promised land". The expectations of Jews and Gentiles were not too different in that they were centered on this world.

"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but suffer the loss of his own soul?" This is a direct warning from SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, and is fundamental to "knowing, loving and serving."

Jesus is totally a human being as are we all except that he is sinless. It is no wonder that Mary brought him up always pondering him in her heart; caring for his bodily needs as she herself received spiritual nourishment from him.

Our Church, as she grew out of the meetings in the Upper Room and in the Portico of Solomon also pondered what she too had been taught and struggled to live on in the world which had not then or now experienced "the return" . "Where were the mansions that Jesus had promised?"

We cannot look at today's Gaza and just accept that it is the "Will of God". That Roman persecutions of Christians were God chastising his people for the institutional faults that had already arisen in the short history of the Petrine Church. It is not the "Will of God" that His Church should own so much "dust" of this world. It is not God's will that I have sinned as an innocent child and not so innocent adult too. 

It is God's will that each individual should live the wonderful life of a human being in the beauty of creation and never prefer ourselves to Him or our Neighbour. When so many of us have failed in this commandment over centuries we have created evil were there was only good and waste our time when we do not acknowledge the True End-of-Life Justice that each "I" has to face as an individual, for the Ever-greater is also a parent who knows each one of us with Love.

Dear Lord, you know that I am a weak creature but that I am not abjectly grovelling out of fear and superficiality. To try to bring my mind to face the power that is you is not an easy task although Jesus has taught us how to do so. All my being is aware that I can avail myself of the grace that you expect us to welcome into our souls so that we can prepare for the great adventure that is the identical end for each of us. Mary and the Angels and Saints all are your creatures and I hope to join with them today in the prayer that brings holy life to our beings, hope for our futures faith in your Love Almighty Father and forgiveness to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen