22/01/2022

The reading from the "Hebrews" in today's mass presents us with an event in Jerusalem about which there can only be speculation.

Melchizedek is presented as an ever-living being about whom nothing is known except his name and his entry into Jewish/Christian consciousness as an "eternal high-priest" who was known to IAMIAM and thus become a legitimate receiver of the tithe which Abraham wanted to make as a thanks-giving offering for the benefits he continued to receive from his Father in Heaven.

For us the Holiness of the Holy Land primarily rests in the life, death, resurrection there of Jesus but for the Jews of Jesus' day the very soil of the Holy Land was holy and had always been so even before Abraham had first taken possession.

In the Synagogue this morning Jesus, who is becoming well-known, is aware that all eyes are upon him; that priests and scribes are looking for ammunition to fire accusations at him; that he is in the process of becoming the final Revelation of human relationship with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that will be recorded for posterity in the Gospels; that he will be challenged by those adversaries who will become the politicoreligious clique that will organise his death.

As true man Jesus was both angered and saddened by their trickery. As SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT he knew that what was happening to and through him would bring forgiveness to all generations of mankind. 

He also knew that many of us would lose sight of his divine revelation just had his fellow country men for whom he was going to become the first fruits of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S final revelation, the Resurrection.