27/10/2025

Monday Week 30 Ordinary Time

If we try to live as Christians we all have to become a little bit of a theologian and even when we accept "sola scriptura" as the arbiter which defines the belief on which we base our lives we cannot avoid using our minds, our intellects, to clarify for ourselves what IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has finally revealed about himself, his Love and Will and our place in his creation.

St John is known as "The Theologian". As a child I was always captivated by the words/Word of what was then the "last Gospel" at the end of Mass and in this I am not alone for it can be considered to be the intellectual foundation on which most of "Theology" and Scripture is an expansion thereof.

Even way before John's final writings, however, Peter, James, John and Jude had written to different congregations on "Theological" topics, commentaries and expositions of the "Good News" that they had witnessed in "Real Time" and Paul had become the Rabbi who first taught how the Incarnation/Resurrection is God's concluding guidance begun with Moses on how to prepare for the "Last Days/The Second Coming".

Some of the words used by St Paul in this mornings first reading can be paired to open up a mental route through the heights and depths of all that can possibly be known by us about IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT: Flesh/spirit; Abba/Christ; children/heirs; suffer/glorified.

In the Gospel, Jesus, the carpenter from round the corner, known as the son of Joseph and Mary, again blasts the learned and the clever and all hypocrisy both of "those times" and of now. Luke also records that he had  heard from the Apostles that the ordinary worshippers who witnessed his words of authority were at that time overjoyed by the power he then displayed.

Our hindsight, however, lets us know that it would not be long before the "rejoicing at all the glorious things that were done by him" would turn into the "Crucify him, crucify him!" of his final day on Earth.

Dear Lord, help me to overcome everything within me that becomes impressed by my own thoughts and being. Self-love always breeds hypocrisy and ultimate hatred of You. I am repeating nothing that you do not already know but hope that for some of today's time I can live, honestly and faithfully accept the Love and Grace you bequeathed to the whole world in those final words to Mary and John.

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