11/11/2025

Tuesday Week 32 in Ordinary Time

Everything that has been selected from the Bible to become part of Liturgical Prayer has been selected to reinforce Truth. Today's first reading is from the wisdom literature that has become part of the intellectual culture of the Western World and with the teachings of Jesus are the foundations of what even the anti-God establishments ruling "This World" consider to be "personal integrity".

As an immature youth in my first week at University I was told to read and write an essay on Francis Bacon's "Of Truth". It's opening sentence has never left my consciousness, "What is Truth said jesting Pilate and did not stay for an answer". 

That task effectively blocked any academic career that I might have had for I did not know where to begin and even today I am not even able to have another go as "Truth" still opens  a doorway into a vast void of longing for the certainty of perfection that is always beyond my grasp.

Science offers a true empirical description of the composition of matter and millions of us are more than satisfied by its revelations but the answer to my longing cannot be found in anything temporal which is destined for corruption.

Pilate's words were in disparagement to Jesus', '"Actually I was born and came into the world to testify to the Truth". Jesus did not come to be a "King" then or now but to fill the void that can only be filled by doing the will of Our Father and striving never to be satisfied and silenced in our longing, by being anything less than becoming "the unworthy servants who have only done our duty".