16/07/2025

It is through the response of Moses to the fire that blazed in all its power but did not destroy that I can begin today by myself responding to all that has been recorded in Scripture of how that moment confirmed that the "God" of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is, has and always will be the one source of the holiness that each of us can accept to ensure that we truly become the little ones, the mere children that we can never be more than, for there is nothing greater in being human than each of us being able to share in God's own "Joyfulness in Being" by obeying his revealed will.

Moses and all the "names" of Scripture never become  greater than the moment of knowing themselves to be the a "child of God" and all evil comes into the World whenever even the least important of us forgets this and chooses to please himself rather than to obey the Word of the Lord.

Today Jesus, in thanking God for the simplicity of the completion of Revelation that is his mission from the Father tells us unequivocally to believe that what he Jesus, the Word of God, reveals to us by word and deed completes IAMIAM's teaching that we need to safeguard us on "the way, truth and life".

As a human child I knew that each moment of my life was different than the preceding one but that it was still "my life". It is with this simple certainty of being that is a child's that I can truly know my place in creation and obey. 

The learned and the clever, the Scribes and the Pharisees, all the Doctors of the Church and dead secular philosophers and scientists know now that they have never known more than the uneducated teenager of Nazareth who was chosen before the beginning of time to become "Mother of the Word Incarnate", Theotokos whom today the Church celebrates as "Our Lady of Mount Carmel" the inspiration of the Order dedicated to her pondering in her heart all that was revealed to her.

Dear Lord, May my prayers become united with those of the "Mother of my Lord" that all we sinners on Earth accept the Mercy which she witnessed her Son bring into this world by the suffering which broke her maternal heart. Let me not forget that it was the last of the original English Carmelites who built the parish in which I live. There have always been individuals within the Institutional Church who have resisted its corruption just as there were Priests, Scribes and Pharisees who welcomed Jesus as much as did the "little ones" who became his friends.