09/03/2025

First Sunday of Lent

The readings are about belief, about faith.

I believe with all my heart that God does not create anybody to be evil. I believe that by acting against the will of God each one of us creates and adds to the evil that is done in this world.

How can this be?

Our first parents were tempted and fell to the wiles of Satan. Satan was the Angel who chose to disobey IAMIAM and used his being to encourage all free consciousnesses, Angelic and Human to disobey the will of God.

In the Gospel for today Satan attacks Jesus, loses and bides his time. But he is still there. 

There is an immensity about the Incarnation that defies all of us to comprehend. Son's sacrifice of himself for us on the cross and his unknowable death "the empty tomb" destroy Satan but even in the new generation inaugurated by the Resurrection human evil continues to be. 

This is not the will of the Father. We have not been created to go to Hell.

Jesus proclaims for all times that his "kingdom" is not of this world i.e. embodied in our material universe. This is the lesson that has still not been learnt by any of the human institutions that claim to follow the Lord to become  the "Church" built on Peter.

Our Lord did not stretch out his arms for the executioners to provide human triumphs in any subsequent institution, society or political systems.

He did it so that the love that is the being of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT could engulf the whole world and embrace each individual one of his sons and daughters, his children living in his creation that he knew to be good.

He still trusts us to use our freedom to be guided by Holy Spirit into following the way and truth revealed by Son for this is the life and will of Father, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT which we only have this one chance of choosing for ourselves.

Dear Lord, help me to remain true to these thoughts which are a result of my living sinfully throughout my life but always aware that you are the Lord, our God. Aware that your mercy is far greater than my sin and regretful that I have rarely remained true to you. I am the source of my own sin for the power of Satan has been destroyed by your cross. May all sinners on earth and in purgatory receive of the grace that is in the prayers of all believers living in this world and in the joy of Heaven. As for myself I have to say "do with me as thou wilt". Help me to really mean it. Amen