29/03/2025

Saturday Week 3 Lent

In these days, i.e. the last 2000 years, most of us receive the "Word of God" by what we read. Even Jesus quoted directly from scriptures. Among his last words were the opening words of psalm 22."Eli Eli lama sabacthani".

For some of us reading the Scriptures has become a liturgical way of life and they have made "For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings" a personal reality.

In those days i.e. 2000 years ago most of those who met in Solomon's portico and each other's house were still in awe at what they had witnessed during the life-time of the "Word of God", Son, "true man" had lived amongst them. For many, the Crucifixion had been a hope-destroying real-time horror but they had seen the resurrected Son and were fervently preparing for his return that they were sure was imminent.

In these days, now, the passage of time has long since removed those eye-witnesses and their sense of urgency from our midst, we are again in the same condition as were the scribes and pharisees of Jesus' day. Our only knowledge of the Word comes to us through words written by man and we have to search for the voice "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased".

The books of Moses and the other prophets were words spoken into their hearts which they revealed to God's chosen people. Today's parable illustrates how they had been received. 

What is our learning and intelligence in the eyes of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for whom there has never been anything to learn? It is we who have to learn everything that is revealed in the scriptures and truly to believe so that we can always be the little one, the tax-collector, poor in spirit, empty of self who speaks to Our Father and is answered not by crescendos of thunder and lightning but by the still quiet voice that, as did Mary, we can ponder within our hearts.