10/06/2025

Whenever I do not literally begin my day by attending to the Mass Readings, even though I have not  always been wasting my ability to concentrate in uselessness, I have to search for the guidance which has been the surprise of my life when I do recognise  the Holy Spirit, only "Yes", in my present and past reflections.

In fact, it is more often than not that I do respond and though I was worried today about my delay,  St Paul's unqualified faith in the Son of God and confidence in the Holy Spirit can only bring me the Joy of being consciously in the presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The Eastertide readings from John's Gospel of Love have now been completed and we return to the "real-time" of Matthew as we follow and listen to the Incarnation as he calls his People back to the Covenants and the "True Law" of the Scriptures, away from the self-deception that is personified as the "Pharisees" but is the pit on the edge of which I know that I too am always tottering.

Jesus really loves his disciples. He thinks that we are great, the best of all creation. We are the "Salt of the Earth". We are the ones who are to enhance the work of our Creator by living in the Light and reflecting his Glory by not only avoiding but also by condemning sin. 

Back in my own "real-time" "now" on earth, I know that Jesus' feet are as firmly planted in the dust of this world as are his and his disciples' that day in Palestine and the "Begotten not made, True man" knows that for us to guarantee our perfect obedient worship of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT requires us to curb the Liberty that is our human splendour but must be acknowledged as gift of the "Good" seen by Our Father, His "Dad" if we are to annihilate self-love, the source of all sin.

Every time I read Jesus' "You are the salt of the Earth" I remember a Turkish Language proverb used to this day in the Asia Minor of Paul's missionary journeys. 

"Use salt to stop meat rotting. But what if the salt is rotten?

Jesus answers that it is trampled into dust as are all material delights and their sensual enhancements.

We are all responsible for our own lives but we only have to ask and the Grace of Our Evergreater Father really becomes Paul's guarantee of our place in Christ, Mystical Body uniting Heaven and Earth, Church of Love, New Holy Family and the only source of complete safety until the End of Time.