16/02/2025

The Psalmist, this morning does not sing only of the security that we can find in the Love of the Lord but warns us that we must not mistake human contentment in life for the eternal blessing that we have been created to find only by knowing, loving and serving IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT

All of the four readings in today's liturgy repeat the same message. Jeremiah rages against God's chosen ones and warns that we must not put our trust in ourselves. Man is not the creator of mankind let alone of the Universe.

Saint Paul explains to those of weakening faith in Corinth and of all times since then that Jesus did live and die but it is the overpowering event of the Resurrection that we must have no doubts about for that is the completion of God's revelation, the "why" and the "how" with which we must live out our lives on Earth.

Many billions of thoughts and words have been written about Jesus and how he alone gives rational meaning to our human life. Amongst all those words "The Lord has risen and appeared to Simon." is the  sentence on which the total revelation by God and our relation to him stands.

All the Old and New Testament contain the record of how God prepared us to become witnesses to this event. The pristine Temple and Law of Moses became human institutions and thus failed to be the evidence of the "Will of God" in this world. The Church founded on St Peter has survived but is growing evermore weaker as its role as a human institution becomes less tenable even than when it was struggling to dominate the secular world on its own terms, by its wealth and power.

Our Saviour in this morning's gospel is not addressing the Temple or the Scribes and Pharisees but is speaking directly to each one of us, even if we are Scribes and Pharisees. 

The Apostles stood with Jesus and saw a multitude. Jesus, however, did not see a multitude as he began to speak, IAMFATHERRSONHOLYSPIRIT saw each person with the love that has created each one of them and us too and blessed us with the eternal love that we and they can ponder within our hearts.

We and they, however, are also free beings and can choose to remain enslaved in the wonder and magnificence that is the worldly creation of mankind alone but Jesus warns us that if we do we will be rejecting the Eternal Reality of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT  that he reveals by his life, death and Resurrection.