22/02/2025

St. Peter's Chair in Rome

In the Liturgical Calendar that was in use during the first years of my life this feast was celebrated on my birthday so it was always of interest to me. In those days today was the feast of St Peter's Chair in Antioch.

The Liturgy is not the only change in Jesus' foundation on the faith of Simon bar-Jonah that I have witnessed during my Lifetime.

I often wonder why the Incarnation happened at the time it did.

I am sure that the many failures of the Chosen People to maintain their relationship with IAMAIAM in this world came about because of the sins of each individual Jew. The righteousness of some was not enough to overcome the evil created by the sins of the many. 

Mankind has been created with the freedom able to achieve the Holiness that is the reflection of the creative Love that bursts forth from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and can be recognised by each soul that is created to become image and likeness.

Our God knows each one of us. 

We have created for ourselves communal units of being that share their human love. God responded to the collective Jews by revealing to the Prophets how each individual unit of being had to become holy.

No man can know God.

God knows that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is impossible for us to know and before time began, in the beginning Son is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Jesus is true "Light from light", "True God from True God" "Begotten not made" He is the Being through whom all of creation comes into existence. He is also Son of Mary for the holiness that is the purpose of creation is not thrust upon us for us to discover as are the laws of material science. The complete revelation about mankind's place in creation is made by the only "true man".

Two thousand years ago in Palestine, Jesus walked, talked and completed the wonder of God's revelation.

He inaugurated a community of believers who were to maintain the visible signs of God's love for creation, the blood that flowed during the passion of Our Lord becomes the grace of the Sacraments.

Of course, I still do not know why Jesus came when he did. 

Yesterday Jesus referred to the people of his time on Earth and to us also, for we still have the Lord present among us, as "an adulterous and sinful generation". I now should ask of "Our Father" whether there has ever been a time in the history of the world when any of one of mankind's, with the exception of the Holy Family, families, churches, nations been without sin.

If we keep ourselves free from sin each of us can be part of the Mystical Body which can join each individual human being, through Mary and John, to the Crucified Lord whose human pain becomes the Glory of the Resurrection, The Saviour of the World.

We can only do this for ourselves for, although Church can help us, Jesus is the only Eternal Word and Temple through which we all came into being and can also return to God. 

As individual's we came and it as individuals we shall all return.