24/07/2025 and 25/07/2025

Dear Lord, help me to truly open my heart, the depths of my being, to be able to receive your revelations and thus know, love and serve during your gift to me of life. You know that each day I try to concentrate my being on You and never quite make it as the total distraction that is this material world always intrudes and ruins my best intentions.  You are now reminding me that You did only the Father's Will on Earth by "Living for" each one of us and that I have to follow this example to become able to do 

" Your will on Earth as it is in heaven"

I  cannot serve you more than by loving my neighbour as myself.  It is by praying for the salvation of each and every person whom I meet during my lifetime, that I can come to know, love and serve You in this world and thus accept your grace to prepare myself for the life of the world to come.

You know that I have always had difficulty in following your teaching about parables that is today's Gospel reading. You also know how many times I have tried to understand Father Bailey's thesis on that subject. You also know how he was commended to me recently as a "man of integrity". May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.

Dear Lord, Help me to learn how to care for all "my neighbours" with unselfish devotion, as I did for your priest Philip, and for all my living family with the natural love that seeks only that their souls become enlightened and thus able to accept your Grace and also that Your Mercy brings Salvation to all who have  already died and need to experience the penitential grace of Purgatory in preparation for Your Parousia.

I thank you Lord for today's reminders and pray that I never again lose touch with Jesus, True God and True Man, True Saviour of the World who to do your will lived and died for us that we truly become the "beloved of My Father". May this prayer become part of the heavenly chorus of praise and petition that is led by Our Lady Queen of Heaven as we all await the "Second Coming" promised by Jesus Our Lord. Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus, Come.