09/09/2025

Tuesday Week 23 Ordinary Time

St Paul lived in the first generation of mankind that had had the significance of human life demonstrated for us in real time. The "we" who are living now have still nothing more reliable to guide us on our way through the mystery of life than did they who lived and died 2000 years ago.

Just as did the Colossians, we too have to "see to it" that in "This World" we are not enthralled by human opinions and natural instincts that lead us away from the salvation that is ours only when we continue to live fully human lives exactly as Jesus showed us how.

Our Baptism has cut out original sin from our souls but we have to remember in our freedom that Christ works within us and it is each one of us for himself who has to consciously "walk, rooted and built up and established in faith abounding in thanksgiving".

St Luke's Gospel recalls what he had learnt from the Apostles about the event when Jesus had chosen and revealed them in the time of "This World". 

The Apostles are named but an anonymous multitude stands in awe before the Lord worshipping Him out of whom comes forth power to heal them all. How many generations of us have lived since that day? 

How many times have I rejected the healing grace won "in bitter pain" for me by my brother and my God?

Dear Lord, may I become firm of faith and thus avoid all sin. Let my prayers become united with those of Mary and all the Saints as we wait for the "Last Things" that have been promised on your return. Amen. Maranatha, Lord, Jesus Come.