21/07/2025

God knows that I am one of the many who find it very hard not to blame him for the appalling events that continue at this very moment to disgrace all of our humanity in Gaza.

We have always found it hard to understand how it is that our "Loving Father" begins his revelations of himself in the slaughter of Egyptians and the first recorded "ethnic cleansing" to make way for the "Chosen Ones".

Moses brought the Tablets of the Law down from the mountain but was met with the Golden Calf. The prophets repeatedly called the people back to the way of the Lord but during the centuries of the Old Testament there was never a completely righteous generation.

We can never understand the ways of God but we do know that Infinite Knowledge is exactly that and that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT must know "In the Beginning" all the possible outcomes that can result from the "Liberty" with which he chooses to endow his "Image and likeness".

He did not encode Adam & Eve or Abraham. William the Conqueror chose to invade England. Trump or Netanyahu are free to act as they wish. My sins are my choice but our all knowing, prescient God cannot ever have been surprised by any temporal event.

God also knows  "in the beginning" that the only possible way for mankind to be able to atone for the damage done to his Creative Love by our refusal of his Loving Kindness was for the Word to make the perfect Sacrifice and so also "In the beginning" he prepared a "dwelling place " for Incarnate Son.

I am not the only one who is disappointed by way the Church founded by the Perfect Sacrifice has not lived up to her mission but we also know that we have never been left alone for the grace known "In the Beginning" is still with us. Theotokos with maternal love, still cares for the "Beloved Disciple" and for us all who choose to be part of the Unseen Church of Love, the New Holy Family that Jesus created directly from the cross.

Dear Lord, help me never to forget that your plan for the salvation of mankind included Mary from the beginning. It is she that has never been absent even when your Institutional Church has acted as badly as  your Chosen People did in the days of the prophets, in your day and are continuing so to do today. She has been present with you since  the creation of the world and by her "Yes, be it done unto me according to thy Word" confirmed that we sinners could be saved when we align our choice with hers.

Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with you,

Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary Mother of God,

Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen