30/04/2025

Jesus in his lifetime did not ignore any of the people living in Palestine. 

Although his most intimate friends, however, were the twelve Apostles , who I am always pleased to remember were "ordinary" men and in no way "the learned and clever", "the great and good" of  modern society, he also had time for the non-Jews, Greeks, Romans and Samaritans, and also "the learned and clever".

Today's Gospel is Jesus' private interview with Nicodemus before the Passion and Resurrection. His words then were for all time and sum up the intentions of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed in the incarnation.

Jesus is the Love that is Divine Being sitting face to face with the Pharisee and telling him that mankind has to believe that He is the Son of God if it is fulfill the will of the Father.( I think that John must also have been present. Did he take notes.?)

In the first reading St Luke reports one of the many incidents that happened in Jerusalem after the Resurrection. The infant Church is already being persecuted and facing up to the unbelieving world. 

The Truth of the Love of God is so much easier when thought of as intangible belief rather than as a daily struggle to "Love the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbour as your self."

Love is not just a word or warmth in the heart. It is not the self satisfaction of well-accomplished tasks. It is the way, the truth and the life lived only for us by Jesus.  It is any life that strives to  heed the word of the Lord and despises life in the Darkness that is our alternative to Love, the world without IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but full of transient pleasures and delights that are our constant and certainly not irresistible temptations out of which only trust in Our Father can lead us.