09/06/025

Mary, Mother of the Church

Today we are left speechless by that moment when Jesus completed the worldly life of the Incarnation. John's "It is finished", in Mathew and Mark, is the uncomprehending despair of "Lama Lama Sabachtani" . Luke, who is to continue his record of God's final intervention into the human-time of this creation as "The Acts", has a much more hopeful "Into thy hands I commend my spirit".

But "Scripture" is much more than words. It is the living presence of the Holy Spirit who has never left us alone to follow our own way through the time and material of this creation. God communicated without words to Adam but the first disobedience created the corruption that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT still trusts us to use our freedom, His Image and Likeness, to defeat.

The "words" of Scripture use human language to record the deeds of mankind and revelations of God in the spiritual light of that revelation in order to guide us back to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

The lesson of the Old Testament is that even with God as present to them in revelation and deed as he was to so many of their generations the Human Freedom of the Jews was able to continue to add even more to the ever growing burden of unrighteousness that was their inheritance and bequest to the world and to their own children.

Every moment in time is unique and has a unique significance as part of "human-time". There has never been and there will never be any moment as particularly important to all subsequent generations of humanity as when the almost lifeless body of "True Man" breathed out "Woman behold your Son, Son behold your Mother".

As with the Jews, the first People of God, the "Church", seen as an Institution, has failed, generation after generation to perfect the "Will of God" on Earth. 

But our Church is much more than an Institution founded on Peter. In her we can find the New Holy Family created on Calvary as recorded in today's Gospel Reading, the living Body of Christ as taught by Paul, a Church of Love preached by John, and guaranteed to be the place of Safety here on Earth where we can be sure that we will never misuse our divine gift of freedom as we let it be guided by the Mother of God who is also our mother and today is proclaimed "Mother of the Church".

Each one of us has to live on Earth truly believing "My Kingdom is not of this World" in order to witness "I will be with you even to the end of time", the Eschaton and promised New Creation.