24/12/2024

I am again able to respond to the morning's mass readings.

Zechariah's joy at the birth of his son is more than just the  normal human joy at the birth of a son when he had already given up all hope of the continuity of being that "off-spring" bring to all our lives. 

It is also the joy of prophecy; the Holy Spirit enkindling the flames of Love in his heart. He proclaims the fullness of Old Testament time for John is "the prophet of the Lord most high and will go before him to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people, to forgive them all their sins".

Jesus condemned only the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. He completed the teaching of the Prophets. However, I have to accept the thought that tells me that "the chosen people"  must have failed to honour their part in the covenant and that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is now Jesus in order to give the Human Race a third chance. 

At the Annunciation God reveals that he is a Trinity of persons/events that is all one being. 

We have no chance of completely understanding the Ever-greatness that is God except by responding to his eternal revelations that have been made in the "physical time" that is the result of the matter that we all know empirically for we too share that same being with all that is the Universe.

We also have to maintain "image and likeness". 

Tomorrow we commemorate the event that begins the salvation of mankind. Jesus is born "true man and true God". He is not  "image and likeness" but "the real deal"; true man and true God. Jesus participates in the first dialogue between  Adam and God. He accepts Sin, all possible sin. The Jews, the Church and  the sins of each of us individuals are all of them gathered into the being born in Bethlehem to bring forgiveness in the final acceptable blood sacrifice.

Today, Christmas Eve, 2024, I believe that we, those to whom the complete will of God has been revealed directly in our midst by Son who is the complete being, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, God from God, begotten not made, of one being with the Father, through whom all things are made, are not living up to the grace that continues to be poured out for us and have always been pretty much as corrupted by Mammon and are just as addicted to materialism as were the Jews 2000 years ago.

We too are thus failing to become "image and likeness".

Maranatha. Please Come back soon Jesus! O son of God and son of Mary. Save us again from the sins with which we block-out your Grace won by your agony on Calvary.