23/072025

God knows that I am often close to despair when I remember with horror my sinfulness which has been dominant throughout most of my life. He also knows the many pangs of remorse that I have suffered  accompanied by fear that I am not truly repentant but only making an empty show of accepting the Mercy which he pours over our "flesh", our worldly being.

All the Saints have been examples for us to follow and become united with in our individual journeys through the life of this world. Today St Paul has no doubts, "It is no longer I who live, it is Christ who lives in me ", he was saved from his self-chosen path, meticulous devotion to the Torah which had revealed itself in his fierce persecution of the brethren who met in the Portico of Solomon, by the direct intervention of the Resurrection.

The interconnectedness of individual beings is expressed in modern times by using the image "network" which is the lifeless equivalent of the many "vines" of human solidarity that had preceded the Incarnation. 

Jesus is the "True Vine" because he is "True God and True Man" and he is the sole source of the Grace that enables us to avoid the clutching tendrils of sinful vines and know that we can always choose to be grafted into the  Living Vine that flourishes from the wood of the cross.

Saints are human events in history who have been able to never lose  sight of the "mystery of their being". They have truly known that their origin is in God but that they are responsible for their own conduct and duty to know, love and serve throughout their lifetimes.

Although we cannot ignore the failings of Institutional Church, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has never left us to stew in the sinful worldliness of many priests, popes, and other prelates and directly revealed himself through unlikely and dissimilar individuals who become "mystical events" in the history of Christianity.

St Brigette and St Paul are as unlikely a pair of humans as you could get but both were touched in this temporal world by the Infinity that is beyond understanding.

Those who have to strive  to  join the "Communion of Saints", can do so even though the Institutional Church is repeating the failure of the Prophets and the Temple. We can resist sin by accessing the grace we all need in the Church of Love "Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother" which is as much a fact of revelation as "Thou art Peter". The New Holy Family has never been marred by any attachment to the " kingdom of this world" and is our sure hope of the world to come. 

May the Lord our God forgive me for my sins and for the weakness of faith that still troubles my conscience. Amen