05/10/2025

I am still alive this morning and aware that I am indeed a lone individual who cannot absorb all the happenings that the "BBC" or any other of the "News" purveyors, who are my ears, eyes and knowing of  the present moment, reveal to me as the worldly reality that the billions of us are experiencing in this NOW.

The "lone individual" that I am knows that, even though I am the accumulative experience of millions of seconds lived in this material universe, each continuing breath is a step into the unknown for my consciousness, contained in and limited to the past, cannot see beyond each moment of worldly life.

In the Old Testament, God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, spoke to each of us but only the response of some has been recorded. We know those as "Prophets".

In today's first Mass Reading, Jonah, too, was a "lone individual"  to and through whom "IAMIAM" again revealed that each of us must not sin and that it is a completely useless and stupid task for any individual being, family, culture, nation or religion to promote its self-will and try to resist the revealed will of God. 

The  Ninevites, however, repented and were saved by God's Mercy.

Jesus is God's Mercy, the Incarnation. He is God's complete self-revelation in worldly time. He lived in his human body second by second, as do all animals, from conception to death but is eternally the Word/Resurrection, the Power, Glory, the Ever-Present Mercy of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

He teaches by his life, death and resurrection that what was revealed through the prophets was the never-ending truth that comes from God. Each one of us has the same mission in life to obey our Loving Father and hate sin. 

We do not need to be overcome by our failures, however, as each breath we take continues to  provide us with the opportunity to prove by accepting his words from the cross, our "Love of God", both in prayer and selfless care for all the other lone individuals of whatever culture (today's Gospel  Luke 10 25-37 "Who is my neighbour?") that we lone individuals can become one people of God, the Church of Love, the New Holy Family 

"Woman behold your Son. Son behold your mother".