13/02/2025

Thursday week 5 Ordinary Time

 "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" is the question to which the only one possible answer is the one which is guided by grace.

Man's intelligence is able to interpret the evidence found in the material of this world that is the reality that we can see, touch, taste by using our senses and thus explain the processes by which the universe was created. 

Science does not lie about bodily matter. Nor does God's revelation about our souls.

The Book of Genesis is the beginning of the revelation that is God's evidence of Himself. He is limitless "being" and revealed as such to the descendants of  Adam/Eve. He informs Abraham that he is "IAMIAM" and that he is not an idea within the mind of man but the living reality of the "Good" that he sees in his decision to become manifest.

God created us to be free so it is "good" that we are not straitjacketed by "code" as are our bodies. Those " in charge" of the  world claim that it is a heavy responsibility but, in fact, each individual's personal response to the revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT contained in Old and New Testaments is the only response that matters in the infinite spiritual "Kingdom of Heaven".

Our Incarnate God is a Jew. He has no sin in him. In his Jewish response to the gentile woman he uses a common proverbial saying which enables the woman to speak for all of us who have ever wondered why God favoured the Jews and excluded us.

It has always been hard to be a Gentile. There are, however, no crumbs under the Eucharistic Table just as the only exclusion from the merciful embrace of the Cross is by our own choice.

Dear Lord, I know that my sins make me less than a dog that is soulless but still your creation and does your will by stirring up in our hearts love for all other creatures. Jesus, your Word and Son, became true man, our brother, subject to all the limits of animal being as are all human bodies. You know how I have always been disturbed by the concept of the millions of us who have not had the opportunity to confirm their lives to your will. Help me to pray each day as a public witness to your Love. May my prayers be linked with those of all sinners in this world, always remembering that you came to save the lost sheep, and with the those of the Holy Souls who are still seeking your merciful pardon in Purgatory.