27/01/2024

"The devil, the strong man, Beelzebub makes work for idle hands. There are so many ways in this world that we can feel that our hands are not idle. 

Yesterday I suffered from a broken keyboard and spent hours trying to find a solution. I did not think that I was "idle" during that time. Everyday we are all busy with the things of this world and as a result forget to bind the "strongman" who still attacks wherever and whenever he sees an opportunity.

We all live in our bodies and consequently have necessary tasks to maintain them.

Yesterday St Paul reminded us that our important life is in the being we have as members of the "Body of Christ". Today the readings help us to understand why this is so. Those who first formed the " Mystical Body" had either known, seen or heard about Christ as Jesus of Nazareth. I know that we  belong to the then future believers who receive Christ's blessing for "those who do not see ".

The Scribes and Pharisees knew themselves to have been appointed by IAMIAM as guardians of the Law of Moses to which the majority of the first century believers owed their allegiance. They were so captivated by their own unique relationship with God, so filled with their own self-importance that they had to vilify Jesus' miracles as the work of the devil.

Our Father who is also our Brother, Son of God, Son of Mary, and our resurrected evidence of the Mercy of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals in today's readings that we can all be at peace in the certainty of the Loving Kindness that is Mercy.

We do have to cooperate, however, by turning our focus away from the things of this world and recognising that we can do nothing of greater importance in this life than proclaiming that the unspeakable humiliation of a man on the cross is the humility of the source of the eternal Redeeming Covenant of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT with the mankind who continue to reject him.

It is the Holy Spirit that is always ready to enter into our hearts and minds that know the material world and our place in it will pass away but still cannot take the first step to follow Jesus into eternal Joy.

We are all closer to the "unforgiveable sin" than I fear to think about.

Dear Lord, help us to avoid all sin and to renounce the "strong-man" who even in his defeated-state is determined to take us with him into the total pain that is his self-created-self. Help me to continue to seek out your Grace to be shared with the whole world and the Holy Souls as we are all supported by the prayer that is the verry being of Mary and the forgiven saints who are now truly part of your creation, i.e. Love and Mercy. Amen