15/01/2025

The Apostles knew Jesus for only three years of their lifetimes. 

Each day that I read the readings for the morning mass I am a man striving to be aware that I am a tiny speck of created being but at the same time secure in my place in the Love that is the timeless being of  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Today the disciples looked for Jesus and found him in a deserted place in prayer. If they could help it, they were not going to let this new friend out of their sight. The cure of Simon's mother-in-law had been followed by the cure of many others sick in body and mind.

They were Jews who knew that IAMIAM had often spoken to their ancestors through inspired prophets and had rewarded and punished their nation as he had done no other. They could only interpret the cures that they had seen Jesus make as a sign that this man was especially favoured by God.

The preaching in the Letter to the Hebrews is the interpretation of the events that had been witnessed by Apostles and converts to the reformed Old Testament religion, of which the Resurrection was much more than a confirmation, within the previous three decades.

No other of the Prophets had ever had to stress either their own or any other person's humanity in the way that this morning's reading from the Letter to the Hebrews does for Jesus.

The 3 years of public life that Jesus is known by his Apostles is only ten percent of the time he " dwelt among us"  and yet it completes the Covenants and guidance that God had made over thousands of years, with Noah, Abraham and Moses so that we can all now hope and have faith in the Love that is God. 

IAMFATHERSONHLYSPIRIT never abandons us even though we can as easily lose sight of him and stifle the "inner voice" that is the Holy Spirit speaking to our souls as did his "chosen people" long ago.

Dear Lord, help me to remain open to your word and remain aware that I can only fulfill your will by remaining faithful  as revealed throughout the ages and and also to my own inner self which is never unaware of my lifetime of sins for which I need the grace to atone in complete sincerity. May my prayers join  the prayers of Mary and all the saints as with one voice we proclaim your Glory and seek pardon for my sins, the sins of all the world and for those of the Holy Souls. Amen