22/06/2025

The parish into which I was born was named Corpus Christi. My Christian life thus began centered on the Body of Christ. It was on this Feast Day some 80 years ago that I first accepted that the masses which I had attended with my mum and dad, and at which I was to serve for many years after this my first communion were the most important events of mine and any other body's human life.

It is some years since I have received the Sacrament or even attended the liturgy which even in my sinfulness I truly loved.

The Lord knows that I am truly open to receive his grace that we all need to do his will on Earth. It is each individual human being that responds to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Some of us are gifted to do so with flights of creative beauty that are pure joy and delight in the knowing of God. We can all thank God for the scriptures and for the works of man that touch our hearts as today's sequence which is Faith, Truth and Beauty conceived in a human soul that adds love and service to his knowledge of "Our Father".

I have in recent times loved to try to understand the Theology preached by Balthasar and his friend Ratzinger but completely flummoxed as to how their Church has become less and less relevant over the centuries even though many other holy priests have also explained and expounded on their understanding of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The Institutional Church founded on St Peter has repeated the failings of the Chosen People and has never lived up to its own or the teaching of its founder. Just as humanity in the mystery that is revealed in the depths of Genesis could not begin to follow IAMIAM until Moses accepted his mission so even Jesus' declaration "My Kingdom is not of this World" has never been followed in its univocity.

It is a fact of history that the Incarnation happened at the time it did and that it was necessary at that time for the salvation of the world. 

Jesus promised that although he returned to the Father he would never leave us alone in this world. At innumerable times during the  80 generations of human beings that have dominated their times in this life since then we have to look back and ask how it could be possible for the Church to amass treasure in this world, expand its territory, kill its enemies and ever be able to fulfill its mission to be the Holy Guardian of the Sacramental Body and Blood which is the reason for today's liturgical celebration.

Dear Lord, forgive us for the violence of the Crusades that were instigated by Popes and other Bishops even at the same time as St Thomas glorified You in the holiness of his life's work, for the Second World War and those other wars that the dedication of holy Churchmen was unable to avert. And for what is happening now at this moment as a result of the alliance of unholiness of your once "Chosen Ones" with " Me me Me I'm Mammon and Good TV" in a world that can still become what you intend it to become for we can all still choose to be "The New Holy Family", live in unity with Mary and all Your Saints and thus complete our lives in holiness. We can all still accept your call to holiness, Thanks be to God! Amen.