I cannot, however, avoid becoming entangled in the net of materialism for I am also a degenerating body and surrounded as are we all now and have always ever been by the paraphernalia of our time and place.
I depend on this keyboard to enable me to check my own thoughts and state of mind by recording them in black and white.
This all "I, I, I" but that's who "I am".
Yesterday I struggled to restrict all the thoughts that were provoked by Jesus in his home-town synagogue.
There he had announced himself to be as it were the "Jubilee" of mankind, the complete reset of our spiritual reality, and by his death and resurrection the blood of John's "Spirit, water and blood" thus become the spiritual new discs for us to format in the ways that are acceptable to FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.
Then I addressed the "Jubilee" as it has been announced by Pope Francis. The name Francis invoked an image of the Poverello becoming holy poverty naked before the church in Assisi.
St Francis reminds us of the radical message that is the Incarnation; our Pope reminds us that our Church has become a worldly Institution that can only become Jesus' foundation on St Peter by truly becoming the Jubilee year of God's favour when debts are cancelled, the land rested, property restored to original owners. and captives freed.
Then I lost the whole of my text!!!
Jesus really did proclaim a "Jubilee" in Nazareth he sounded a "ram's horn" to remind us all that each one of us is a "clean clay tablet" into which we have to inscribe our record of living.
Today I noticed that there seemed to be something missing from the First Reading. I had to Google for 1 John 5: 7 and found that here there is a whole can of worms about this "missing verse". There is nothing, however, missing from "My kingdom is not of this world" except its implementation.
Let the Ram's horn sound and there be a true Jubilee starting in Rome!
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