07/12/2024

Today is the Feast Day of St Ambrose.

We can, all of us, during our life-times, find the Grace of the Holy Spirit that we need to walk on the path that is conforming to the will of God. It depends on our sincerity in seeking it out.

St Ambrose and his contemporary St Augustine are pillars of the Catholic Church, an Institution which  claims itself to be the source and guardian of  Jesus in the Sacramental Form he created at the Last Supper.

Even before the lifetime of St. Ambrose there were many unhappy divisions within the communities that formed the infant Church.

 It seems to me that in many ways St Ambrose, former Imperial Governor of Milan can be seen as an example of how the Roman Church became the Triple Crowned kingdom in this World  and thus deformed itself by not living up to Jesus' "My kingdom is not of this world" uttered in the presence of another Imperial Governor, Pontius Pilate.

Our lives are lived out in this world. God created us to be able to make the right choices to fulfill the Love, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, that "In the Beginning" looked at His creation and knew that it was good. 

I am sure that the institutional church known to St Ambrose was already losing its way for even then the ability to rule in this world was esteemed as a standard for those chosen for the Ecclesiastical Ministry that was already becoming entwined with the politics of government.

St Ambrose's  subsequent life, however, proved him to be a worthy spiritual descendent of the Apostles and tells me that it is I who have to be careful of how latching on to one historical fact (Bishop Ambrose was unbaptised when he was called to Office ) feeds my pride and reveals a weakness in lack of trust that God is the support of all that is good in this world.

There have been many saintly individuals within the Churches of East and West but the claims of both Rome and the Greek Orthodox to be the sole source of salvation in this world are just not true and have been the downfall of many of us whose faith has been more than scandalised by the failure of Churchly Institutions to be any better than the Jewish Scribes and Pharisees, who were the only people condemned in public, by Our Lord.

It is the failure of individuals to follow the right path that results in the corruption of all worldly institutions even those that have God's Word to guarantee their foundation. 

Dear Lord, I hope to avoid sin this day. Help me! May I become one with all the Saints and Mary in the community of Spirit that is the unseen power of Love in which we have image and likeness to your Infinity that cannot be known but can be only worshipped by reciprocation of that Love. Let me truly know the freedom that, with the help of  your grace, can know that today it has made a right choice and holds firmly to a place in the New Holy Family that was founded by your direct command  from the Cross to Mary and John. May my sins and those of the whole world find the forgiveness that is confirmed by Justice in Purgatory and the sure hope of the Holy Souls who now know that their mortal guilt has been overwhelmed by the Infinity of Mercy that is the Eternally Glorious Resurrection of  the Son that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Amen.