14/04/2025

Monday in Holy Week

I am sitting here two thousand years after the last events that are recorded in the Scriptures. I believe that Jesus is Lord and that he has the words of eternal life.

The Jewish people who were the first to have the reality of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and his creation revealed to them were also the first to know the Incarnation  and to walk with Jesus in the land of the living. They also were participants in the events of the three days for which we are still preparing.

They had for centuries been expecting a renewal of their nation which had been gifted by God with prophets whose one message had always been to worship God by accepting his word and being obedient to his commandments. Jesus had commissioned his disciples to continue with this same message when he had sent them out to preach, "The kingdom of God is at hand".

We cannot experience the level of despair felt by the Apostles/Disciples when their hoped for "Great Leader" was taken from them to become a target for human contempt and hatred. We do know the outcome, however as did those first disciples some of whom were converted scribes and Pharisees. 

In the first years after the Resurrection they tried to accommodate in their understanding the teaching of Jesus, the events of that final Passover and the New Life that had been witnessed by some of them. They, as do we, believed in the Resurrection even if they had only the words of witnesses but they were still Sons of Abraham so searched their Histories of Salvation to reconcile the disconnect between the anticipated Glory of the Messiah son of David and the dirty, bloodied corpse dead on a cross, of the actual Messiah, the Son of God.

That is why the Church founded on Peter has kept the facts of Jesus' life on Earth alive in the hearts of true believers who accept all that has been approved in the Scriptures and Celebrated in the Public Liturgy, as complete "Truth" unmodified by human opinion.

Life, Faith, Hope and Love can be completely intertwined in our innermost being which has only this chance to respond positively to the arms stretched wide on the cross. Those arms of Jesus son of Mary, and SON of God are open to bring the whole of Creation that is the work and joy of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, who is forever greater than anything we can possibly imagine, into the new creation where he will be ALLINALL.

How could we refuse such Love?