08/05/2025

The New Testament episode "Philip and the Ethiopian" takes very little of my time to read. 

The longest episodes of the New Testament are, as they should be, the Nativity Narratives and the accounts of Holy Week and the events that were witnessed after the Resurrection.

The "chariot" brings to my mind Assyrian and Egyptian reliefs of the war chariot that, even then, had been in use for thousands of years. Pharoah's army that had pursued Moses would have included chariots along with the "horse and rider that were flung into the sea." 

The eunuch, however, was seated and asked Philip to join him so he must have been riding in some type of carriage but not one of the war-chariots that I imagined.

In his public life Jesus had spent three years in preparing his newly chosen 12 sons of Israel for their mission to make IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S completed revelation of his Love for mankind known to the whole world. 

The whole of the Old Testament is a collection of real-time events that are episodic preparations for the  "something greater than Moses here " in the time of Our Lord. The Eunuch is studying scripture and as do all of us he needs help. 

His conversion takes only a matter of minutes. As I wrote that it occurred to me that it is only for minutes that I too ever devote my total being to Our Father.

Dear Lord, help me to be true to you, help me to know, love and serve sincerely and let me never forget that my prayers are linked with those of Our Lady and all the saints asking that my sins and those of all the world, together with the Holy Souls share in the grace of forgiveness that never ceases to pour out from the Resurrection of you the crucified "True Man" on Calvary.