16/10/2025

In today's first reading we are listening to the totality of IAMIAM as experienced by the Old Testament confronted by the Resurrection. St Paul is a living Jew who is part of the human generation that not only knew the Law as revealed through Prophets but lived and had shared the same material Universe at the same time as the Incarnation.

The Law had been for Paul and the actual friends and enemies of Jesus as necessary for their lives as the air that they breathed and the food that they ate. The Lawyers whom Jesus challenges  in this morning's Gospel have so intellectualised the events of the past in "Scriptures" that even today Jews continue to "boast" about God as they live lives that continue the face to face defiance of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT many of them showed to Jesus and which resulted in the Crucifixion.

The life, death and resurrection of Jesus is not about creating texts for us to study and discuss. The Way, Truth and Life does not lead to anything that is temporal. How could any one add to the "Greater Glory of God"? The Resurrection completes the revelation that the essence of my being is timeless spirit which has been created to live in material time by freely conforming to the revelations made to past generations and by being ready to receive those made to each of us.

Our recognition of the material universe depends entirely on the evidence provided by our senses but our eternal lives can only be recognised by Faith in the revelation of Love completed by Jesus and the works that this Faith inspires from us during our limited lifetimes.