25/02/2025

Tuesday Week 7 Ordinary Time

At the moment I am sitting down to write my response to the Word of God that is part of today's liturgical celebration and as I do so I am aware that the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church is hovering between life and death. In my prayer for him, I pray that I too may in the moment of my death be aware of how my life has been sinful and how I still require the grace of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to bring my soul into the previously unseen Glory that God has prepared for us.

All the disciples were men such as we are. Even more so than we are for they were all Jews who had been immersed in the revelations made only to the descendants of Abraham. Jews' acceptance of their exclusive relationship with IAMIAM had been way beyond their self awareness and they had become incapable of accepting the reality of God but had created and lost themselves in a "Law" that filled them with a human pride that they mistook for true worship of God.

Today, Jesus is walking with Apostles and disciples. They still do not fully comprehend the Jesus who teaches them not from the  commentaries of  Scribes and Pharisees but directly from the scriptures and  from his own being. They cannot understand what "rise from the dead" can possibly mean but the miracles that they have witnessed confirm in their minds that they are following the Messiah who will bring earthly power and glory to their nation.

They are human; "what's in it for me?" is a normal reaction to any new event. Jesus knows that none of his followers have yet been prepared for the ultimate truth he will reveal during the most important three days that have ever taken place in human time.

He tells them then and all who have lived since then that leadership in the church  he is to found on St Peter is a matter of service to other people not as it is in all other human institutions of the power wielded over them.

"My kingdom is not of this world".

May God have mercy on the soul of the Pope and inspire those in conclave to seek out ways in which they can demonstrate to our world that Church is not just another human institution but can become the Spiritual Body of Christ who shows by his life, death and Resurrection that he is Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. He is our only "way, truth and life".