06/01/2025

I always try to put myself into the same  mind-set as those who first became the "Church" in the "real-time" that is recorded in the scriptures. 

The groups of people to whom St John wrote were only different from us in their lack of technology.

Those first century Greeks and Jews were the first products of human civilization that had for even then centuries faced the same questioning that was confronted by pure free human intellect in the case of the Greeks and by the same human intellect guided by God's revelation in the case of the Jews.

Each individual then as today can only understand the "why?" of his/her own being by confronting the fact of their own deaths. 

For the Greeks the philosophising of Socrates became intolerable and those for whom the celebration of the beauty of a purely human life was the totality of being ordered him to end his own life. He did so.

"I am the bread of life" "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood" were concepts that were totally intolerable to the Jews and they had the Romans, followers and admirers of Hellenic culture,  torture Jesus to death.

The resurrection and all the historical events recorded in the Bible are the complete "playbook" for human life. We are all ensouled bodies who need to live in this world guided by FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. We have this one chance to prepare ourselves for the judgement that  comes with our inevitable death.

When we open our beings to grace, the spiritual help that comes from God we have to be aware that it is very easy for us to become misguided by the seeming virtue promulgated by the unholiness of that enemy of the human race we call the Devil and all his works that are to be found in the world and in the flesh. 

Revelation is complete. Jesus is the Resurrection and he has completed the revelation of God's purpose in creating the Image and Likeness that is himself, the template for our humanity.

By this you know the Spirit of God. 

                Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is from God,

                                 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God

Dear Lord, help me to resist all temptations which even when they seem to be of benefit to me are in reality the work of the Devil. You know that I am not aware of the "spirits" which surround my physical being but recognise that my true life is in my soul which is confined in a material body in a material  world. We all can only know the Holy Spirit by raising our hearts and minds, our souls, to You and refusing the clutter of materialism that is powerful enough to keep our attention to the detriment of the soul that you have entrusted to the control of each one of us. You have never left any of us to search for you without help for on Calvary you entrusted John and Mary to the maternal and filial love of each other that forms the Heart of your Mystical Body that will be with us on Earth to the End of Time. You my God can understand the confusion that this prayer seems to be . I pray for your help that I may be able to understand more and thus become enveloped in your grace that pours out to forgive us sinners here on Earth and the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen,