08/07/2025

Along with Jacob, I always wrestle, but with myself, when I try to begin each day in prayer, searching for the "holiness" God has created me to choose to be my way of life.

As I begin my daily, sometimes hourly, struggle not to lose sight of God within the confusion of data that composes my being, I know that I am a son of the Church founded on St Peter.

I am thus an heir to the Covenants recorded in the Old Testament and also the recipient of the command to Love that is the "Shema" and fulfilled by a life of adherence to the "Tablets of the Law".

I also know that God  never ceased to guide his people adding through the prophets more to our awareness of his "unknowableness" and of our self-willed failings and the means to atone for them.

God's guidance for all humanity was completed when the events of the Gospels ended 2000 years ago in Israel and the Eucharist is to remain as the Sacramental Real Presence until the end of time.

I am but one man who has sinned much and who devoutly seeks pardon. Yet, each day of my life I am also aware of the grotesque insults that we human beings fling and have flung into the face of our loving Father. I can seek forgiveness for my own sins but for the present and historical sins of the Church and Society I can do no more than mourn as I turn my inward eye to Calvary. Forgive us once more, Dear Jesus.