20/10/2025

Monday Week 29 Ordinary Time

At this moment, I am trying to become in my response to the words of scripture used in this morning's mass, a receiver uncontaminated by neither the "noise" of self nor the "white noise" of my environment, the universe of which I am a tiny speck but a speck, as are we all, empowered by our creator to free our invisible selves, our souls from the material, temporal distractions which keep us from the faith which "God counted as righteousness in Abraham".

At the moment 2000 years ago when IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRT was a living man showing us how to recover the holiness lost by the disobedience we call "Original Sin" he was speaking to each of the crowd that was then melling around him and also to each of us who have ever lived since then.

The people who formed the crowd of which he was the centre was formed of individuals who all were beset by human worldly problems. Jesus' response to the man who appeals to him for help in a family dispute tells us that his mission is not to create a just society, a kingdom of this world.

The only way that there can be political, social justice in this world is as a result of the personal righteousness of each of us. Our Father has created us in love for us to love one another and 2000 years ago he sealed his completed revelation on the Cross and confirmed the Way, the Truth and Life with the Resurrection.

We are all called to strive for holiness by avoiding the supreme danger to righteousness that is to be found in material being. The world and all that is in it is captivatingly wonderful but "I am" and  thus part of it to acknowledge and do only the will of its creator.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven,

Give us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil