29/01/2025

The mass-readings for today contain the complete guidance that we need to live out our lives in the holiness that God intends for us all to use our freedom to attain.

The Letter to the Hebrews confirms  that the Temple sacrifices are now useless.  Jesus' sacrifice of himself has surpassed the religion of the Scribes and Temple. He is in his death the "saving victim" who has in a truly human freedom created the means for us to access the eternal loving mercy that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. By our sins we block off ourselves from God.

We have been living for the last 2000 years in the new covenant made on the cross that has been extended beyond the previous racial limitations to encompass the whole of humanity past, present and to come.

The Gospel, however, although it presents a straightforward image of how the one "word" can be received differently by the free beings who hear it, in Jesus' own interpretation we are faced with "to you has been given the secret of the power of God. But for those outside everything is in parables, they may indeed see and not perceive, they may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven."

We are advised that we should always receive "the hard sayings" of Jesus within the complete testimony that is scripture. Jesus is here quoting from Isaiah. It is a phrase that may have become proverbial but its plain sense cannot be ignored as it can be read as putting into question  our greatest gift from God "life in freedom to choose".

Dear Lord, you know that my prayers are always the same in that I know you in your Love for "sinful man" and strive to serve you by obedience. You know that I often have fallen short of these intentions in my past behaviours but hope that the state of my present being has become far closer to your image of what I could have been had I not succumbed to the temptations harboured in the stupidity of myself listening and acting out these sins that surround all of us during our lives on this earth. May my prayers become one with those of Mary and all the faithful souls who in their freedom have accessed the Grace that opens the gates of Infinity to those who look for, find and obey the Truth that is always available as the benefits of the bounty created for us in real human suffering and death on the cross by Jesus Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and son of Mary, the loving mother who has always been the perfection of humanity for which each of us should strive. May my soul become as are the Holy Souls confirmed in opposition to sin and aware that my punishment only comes close to what it deserves because of that final High-Priestly Sacrifice on Calvary that can also be the bloodless sacrifice of the altar.