23/10/2025

Thursday week 29 Ordinary Time

In the first reading for this morning, St Paul tells the Romans that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has  completed his revelation to which each individual human being has to respond. Each one of us has the same choice as had Adam. We can choose to sin or to obey.

In the second reading, the Gospel, the "hard sayings" of Jesus are at their hardest. "I came to cast fire on the earth" is a stark warning of the reality that the world has been both before and since the Incarnation.

There is no pastel coloured, sentimental blather anywhere in the Revelations that come, as an infinitude of lasers directly from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT into each soul that has been created by the Will of  his Being. His Love for us is displayed, however, for all to see on the " big screen" of world history in his acceptance of "fire" in the torment that finalized his life on earth.

In the Liturgical Worship that is today's mass the Scriptures are linked by the Psalm that is itself a restatement of the what we and all other human beings have to know and use to live out our lives. We have to aim for the perfection that comes from "doing Thy will on Earth" but unless we truly accept "My kingdom is not of this world" our humanity dominated "World" can never experience the "Peace that comes only from God".

I have always loved the first and last stanzas of this morning's reconstructed Psalm so I will end my morning's reflection with the neglected, by me, middle one

"He is like a tree that is planted 

beside flowing waters,

that yields its fruit in due season

and leaves shall never fade;

and all that he does shall prosper."

in the hope that even though there is little hope for the "World" I can personally find the peace that you bequeathed from the cross into the "New Holy Family, the Church of Love"

"Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother."

Dear Lord, 

Help me to become as one who "delights in your Law" and avoid the "electronically transmitted company" of sinners. Forgive me my past sins and let me be guarded and guided this day by the prayers of Mary and all your Angels and Saints. Amen