20/07/2025

I know that what I read in the Mass Readings each morning is the record of how God has revealed to all mankind "the way, the truth and the life". He thus tells all of us how we are to become the individual person whom he knows, loves and guides throughout our mortal life.

I am still straining and bothered that I have never known and welcomed God as does Abraham when resting at Mamre. I have never had to suffer with  confidence, as does Paul, that my personal pain can be joined to that of Jesus in atonement for my own and the sins of others.

I can appreciate the exasperation of Martha at the domestic confusion which she has been left to confront on her own but have never had or recognised the overwhelming attraction that the presence of the Lord had for Mary as she became oblivious to all but him.

I pray this morning that my heart can be opened to know that which I believe with my mind is always the  loving power which consumes the hearts of all the Saints and that I too, helped by your grace, can scrape away the encumbrances that obscure the pure light of Holy Spirit from being welcomed into my soul.

Dear Lord, May my prayers become as acceptable as those of Mary and all those of the generations who have preceded me in faith. Help me to overcome the "void" that sometimes obscures my awareness of you. I am totally in your hands help me to have complete trust in this prayer. Let it not be a mere form of words. Amen