04/07/2025

My very first conscious attempt to grasp at a rational understanding of my own being begins in the English Penny Catechism. "Why did God make you?" "God made me to know, love and serve Him in this world and be happy in the next".

It is from that point, 80 years ago, that I began my fitful efforts to learn how to live righteously. These efforts begin in the Church founded on St Peter. She is herself the guardian of  Scriptures and of the Sacramental Body of Christ.

Scriptures begin in the Book of Genesis  an inspired recollection of how sinful man survived and grew as an independent human "spiritual freedom" in the vastness of "being" revealed by the stars and the specific physical necessities of being a "coded" animal living within the divinely printed circuits of material being.

Our "freedom" has always looked beyond the stars that become silent awe in an unlight-polluted desert night and we have always "meditated", let our minds wander outside of our bodies, as did Isaac in today's first reading.

In the Psalm for today we join in the joy of knowing that Isaac's "meditation" is not a closed circuit of self-expansion but that it is received by the Lord and answered with the revelation of He who, although himself beyond all knowing, knows and wants only Good for each one of us.

The response of the Righteous Israel is recreated in our own beings by the words that separate and link the readings for today.

"Give thanks to the Lord for he is Good, for His Mercy endures for ever."

The New Testament is the proof that the Jewish Temple Religion did not complete the promises to God made by their Patriarchs. 

For the last 80 generations we have had it made clear to us how to achieve the personal holiness with which to give the thanks and praise which are his due to Our Father and yet we are still continuing to let our personal beings create evil just as did Adam and Eve in the Garden and the Chosen People in the Promised Land.

Dear Lord, forgive me for my sins and let the prayers of Mary and all the saints re-kindle the Faith of the Church that she might learn that she has never had any business becoming enthralled in the things of this world as she was only founded to help souls to become dwellers in your presence to await the New Creation at the end of time. Come soon Lord Jesus to bring the promised New Creation Maranatha.