04/03/2025

Tuesday Week 8 Ordinary Time

Tomorrow the Institutional Church begins the "fasting" that is her preparation for the great mystery of salvation that is Easter. 

Everything that we can know has its beginning in the Eternal Word, begotten of the Father before time began, Incarnate of the Virgin Mary 2000 years ago and still present to those who consciously choose to live guided by the Holy Spirit as part of the Mystical Body of Christ.

Each one of us has to know that  iam, no matter how tiny, has to become an offering pleasing to  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Today the first reading proclaims that it is by righteous obedience that we can become the sacrifice that is pleasing to Our Father.

In the Gospel Jesus confirms that life in this world is not straightforward for us the ensouled highest of creation, the image and likeness. 

Material creation cannot veer from the paths that are the laws of science known and always discoverable by human intellect but we are completely free to choose how we will respond to the "life" we all know that we have. Peter begins to appeal for more enlightenment but Jesus' answer surprisingly confirms only that a life dedicated entirely to him can have benefits in this world, in human time and that this does not preclude the Eternal Life of the World to Come.

This "Good News" helps us to accept the material and social benefits that some of us are born into in the time of this world but the words of Jesus that we read this morning are concluded with an enigmatical warning which we ignore at our peril.

"But many who are first will be last, and the last first."