25/10/2025

Friday Week 29 Ordinary Time

My sleep is a problem for me these days. It is now 1:30 a.m. on Saturday 25 October. I didn't sleep at all on Thursday night and was not able to bring myself to approach the readings for Friday with anything like a right attitude. 

I have just read Friday's passage from St Paul to the Romans, however, and thank God that I have done so for I understand exactly what he is revealing about his innermost self. He who has seen the Resurrection, experienced the Glory of Lord, is also a man for whom each moment of life is a new challenge to avoid sin.

He does not have an abhorrence, a hatred of the human body but acknowledges that we cannot let it become the ruler of our being. We are all of us special individuals created and known as such by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to respond in ourselves to the invisible, supreme perfect Love that is the unknowable Being, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, who as the Incarnate One shared our humanity even to the extent of being hung on a cross, pierced by nails and spear and thus bled to death.

Of course, we must not hate our bodies. God created and shared in them. 

The Jews among whom Jesus lived 2000 years ago were the generation to whom IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT decided to make his final revelation. In the Gospel, man to man, God to his creatures he minces no words "You hypocrites!!!".

Since those days we have not improved either as Churches, nations or individuals.

We must not forget, however, that among that crowd so shamed by the living Word were the chosen ones. Mary has always been known in God's own way and the Apostles were to become the Saints who still guide us. Many others were and still are known as holy only to God.

Thank God that I got up from my bed and faced yesterday's readings. God knows that this is my prayer, my being raised as far as it is able for me in mind and spirit to recognise the power and glory of God and to again remember that the "Woman behold your Son, Son behold your Mother" spoken as the last "Human Words" from the Cross are the guarantee of the Mercy that delivers St Paul and will deliver us all "from this body of death."

Dear Lord help me to remain true to the delight that sometimes fills my heart when I think and pray to you. Help to truly purify my being and defend it from the temptations that surround us all in our lifetimes. I am "alone" before you. Help me to not be selfishly so and always aware that I have to implore your grace not only for me but for all my loved ones. You Jesus died so that all might be saved. Amen