26/10/2025

Sunday Week 30 in Ordinary Time

During the centuries when only the Jews received direct guidance from IAMIAM through the inspiration received via the prophets it seems that they were overwhelmed and dominated by the physical observances attributed to revelations received by Moses.

Their religion was not entirely of this world, however, in that "The Lord" was unseen except in the "good deeds of his chosen people" and in the prophetic utterances that were continually being repeated to correct infractions but to no lasting effect.

During the half millenium before the birth of Christ their Jewishness became under threat from the other great worldly "religio cultural" system of that time, Hellenism. The gods being non-existent had no attraction for the people of IAMIAM but the human culture that their adherents developed was and still, with Christian elements accrued over the last two thousand years and now known as Westernisation, is so attractive that very few people of this world have completely resisted it.

Last week the King of England met the Pope in the Sistine Chapel. The artistic wonder of the setting could be taken as a visual proof of the triumph of Hellenistic Humanism in our life on earth. It is also true that both Pope and King are developments  of the historical failure to believe the literal meaning of Jesus' declaration before Pilate "My kingdom is not of this world".

The Incarnation reveals  that human life itself, being alive in the present moment, is the greatest good that we have had given to us. God also becomes true man but lives always aware of the horror he is to undergo. How is it that we have refused the basic teaching of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT voiced by such a saviour, for so many centuries peopled by so many generations?

Life is nothing more than an opportunity for each individual to become righteous as finalised by Jesus for he has shown us by Way, Truth and Life that even though we lather Gold over everything and proclaim our names to the whole world, all material being is futile and finite, dust that will itself become nothing. 

He, however, is the Resurrection and having confidence in him is not "boasting" but the result of pure faith that brings us to salvation. He never lies and is both our Good Shepherd, the gate to the heavenly sheepfold and the founder of perfect safety in this life, our Mystical Church of Love, the New Holy Family. Amen