04/12/2024

Today's readings are dominated by the "Loving Kindness" or "Parental Care" that all humans have received throughout our historical past and our present lives, first from IAMIAM as revealed through the Old Testament prophets. 

The psalmist exults in the guidance of the "Good Shepherd" who reveals his perfect love in the kindness of his deeds, done for the sake of his being and not because of any merit on our part.

Isaiah has a vision of the end of time when the whole world shall be saved on the Mountain of the Lord where there will be perfect peace for all creation. The creation that has been marred by man will become the perfection of bodily and spiritual life that has always been  God's target for our freedom to aim for and achieve by recognising and accepting his will.

In the New Testament Jesus reveals the completeness of God. 

IAMIAM is IAMFATHERSONOLYSPIRIT. 

The pride of mankind has always resisted the Truth that we have to subdue our own being to be able to recognise and live by in this world. Many of the Chosen People did revolt against God and his Prophets.

The Acts and Pastoral Letters reveal the same revolt as a fight for unity in the very early days of Apostolic Resurrection Faith. Many of our Church Fathers struggled to maintain unity as expressed by the words  of belief, our Creed. 

Whenever the early Church was free from Jewish and Pagan persecution the resultant peace was always shattered by prideful Bishops who not only disagreed with each other but also used mob and state violence as had done the High Priests and Pharisees against Our Lord, to establish their version of Truth and control their "Kingdom" which was a Church of East and West very much of this world.

The Institutional Church has always been part of this world but in fulfilment of the words of Christ it has never been abandoned by the grace and every word that comes from the mouth of God for from the cross he left us all in the care of his sinless mother and beloved disciple John. 

"Heaven and Earth may pass away but My Word will stand" is the guarantee that no matter how sinful our own, and the lives of our worldly pastors, the Grace of God still reaches out for us to access from the  Communion of Saints that is the Living Reality of all souls, the  Forgiven, the Still Vulnerable and the Thankfully Penitent, Triumphant, Militant and Suffering. We have all been and still are trusted by Our Father to make the right choice by denying the world, flesh and Devil. 

We only have today to do so, now is always the favourable time.

Dear Lord, help me continue to raise my heart and mind to you by being in control of my body and my mind. Let me know that aligning myself to your revelations is the only way to become what you have planned for me to be in the future. Help me to be less focussed on my self and let me learn how to beseech your grace to be shared by all my family and all living souls. May Mary and all the Saints continue in their support for all of us who seek to do your will on Earth by avoiding sin and acknowledging failure by seeking your forgiveness. Let us all hope to rejoice with the forgiven Holy Souls in Heaven after the atonement that is a share in your pains on Calvary. Amen