13/03/2025

Thursday First Week of Lent

The only human opponents who were faced by Jesus during his lifetime of preaching were the "clergy" of  the Temple. 

As I began the reading for this morning's mass, as usual, I began with the familiar regret that I have a very limited knowledge  of Scripture and what knowledge that I do have is only of the English Translation. 

Those who listened to Jesus and became attached to him were all of them first attracted to him by his miracles and the reports of them that were spread by word of mouth "come and see we have found the Messiah". 

Jesus was not a "bolt out of the blue" but an event for which the Jews had been prepared by their history and prophets, the Old Testament. Those who try to follow the final revelation that is Jesus Son of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT have to try to relate to the reactions of those who believed from Jesus' words and deeds that he was the Messiah. 

The blood covered corpse, abandoned on Calvary by all his followers, except for the unlettered handful of women and John, was proof for the learned and the clever that they were in the right with their expectation of a Messiah who would be a sort of Jewish Alexander but even much greater as he would have the support of IAMIAM.

During the three years of his public ministry Jesus taught us that we are known and loved by Our Father who has always answered the prayers of the faithful, Esther, the woman who touched the hem of his garment, Moses and the Prophets. 

God is Incarnate Son for he has to be truly man to eradicate by the experience of his own physical death the reality the results of the sins of mankind. 

God knows each one of us and will answer the prayer of the lowliest and of the highest of us when we become aware of our sins and sincerely ask for forgiveness by living henceforth in prayerful awareness of Our Father and never forgetting 

"So that whatever you would wish that others do to you do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets"

We must always remember that the shattered hopes of Peter, Mary and John, their depths of misery were to come face to face with the Resurrection and it is by this historical event that we too can find peace for our souls during our lifetimes and hope for a place in the "kingdom that is not of this world".