27/02/2025

I have read the Mass readings for today and hope to be able to respond in the way that Jesus teaches us to know him in this life. 

During the whole of my life I know that I am not alone in wondering  how it is that God allows the world to so obviously exist in a way so contrary to his revealed will.

The horror being perpetrated on the Jewish People is an event that seemingly has had no retribution on its instigators, was a reality for millions of souls during my first 4 years of life.

Since then millions of people have lived and died in Palestine as a reactions to  the evil created at that time but the families and descendants of the perpetrators have gone from strength to strength in their prosperity.

Each one of the human beings who were and still are involved in trying to resolve this particular evil that we have created in this world by our disobedience to God could have followed the way, the truth and the life revealed by Jesus, IAMSONFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and in so doing would be now living in a very different reality.

The moral teaching contained in Ecclesiasticus is not so different from that of Jesus. God, however, was still aware that his "image and likeness" was not following His way of truth. He knew that His chosen ones were diverting themselves into self-centred being that another Jesus son of Sirach, amongst others had warned them about. The very Being of Our Father demanded a complete atonement and renewal of His created ones.

The incarnate Son not only continues the direct teaching of the inspired prophets he also "crosses" the existential chasm between human time and eternity and by his Resurrection he enables every human soul to become what our Father seeks from us.

Jewish pious theology could produce the aesthetic wonders of the psalms and the philosophy of Sirach but there was something missing from the Faith of the Temple that could only be corrected by the grace of the Incarnate Son.

In this age, as our Pope comes to the end of his long life I hope that he can clear his conscience and meet his maker without fear. 

Here on Earth, however, I continue to wonder how the long line of heirs to St Peter could have worn their triple crowns without ever even attempting to divest "the Church" of its roles in this world and its accumulated wealth. 

Our only reason for living is to do the will of Our Father. It is has never been possible to do this following the guidance of the Church that has never been able to live up to "My kingdom is not of this world" and actually, was, for centuries a temporal ruler of thousands of "little ones".