18/11/2025

In the Old Testament we read the public, historical record of how the Jews, the chosen "People of God" tried to do the will of "Our Father on earth as it is done in heaven". 

In the first reading Eleazar is being forced by his apostatising own people to conform to the Hellenization of Israel that they have accepted. This had to be a recorded public event for the enemies of God wanted to prove that their "kingdom of this World" was more powerful than the invisible God revealed to Moses as the creator, source of all being, IAMIAM.

The invisible Eternal Word that is "The Beginning" was certainly the source of that old man's strength. He it was, however, who chose to accept the inspiration that came to him and his participation in this public event seals a life that has been a righteous following of the Law and an example of the capabilities of a human being to choose to resist the evil that confronts us in this world.

Today as I try to sort out in my own mind the lesson that I can learn from the Mass Readings by raising my mind and heart to God, I am  aware that Jesus told us to do this thing we call praying in the depths of our own being where he will respond as our ever-mindful, loving spiritual father and we will be able to stand alone before him ashamed, as were Adam and Eve, aware of our unconcealable naked sinfulness, but secure in his Mercy. 

We can never grasp the immensity of Our Father for whom all of time/creation is always as present as is this keyboard and the words appearing on the screen are to me but that immensity has created me to know/return his love and given me a likeness of his being in the freedom that I always have to chose between Our Father who art in Heaven and the Father of Lies, Jesus and Mammon, the eternal being of my soul and the putrefaction that is the destiny of all animal material.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows everything, always but my puny being will have forgotten the "sincerity" of this moment within hours. Eleazar and all the other heroic martyrs were given the grace to bear indelible witness to their faith at that moment as they left this world in agony inflicted by other men. 

As I continue in life it is all too easy for me to repeat my mistakes and so I make these "posts" to be my personal reminder that I can and do choose to live righteously for the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is and has always been with those who conform their own beings, body and soul to doing the Will, listening for the Word and accepting the Wisdom that we can find by praying the Scriptures.

It is a revelation of the INCARNATION that sin is absolute and requires the unimaginable pain of  all  the deaths of humanity concentrated into the person of WORD to consummate the salvation of the world

Dear Lord, help me to become peaceful in my "secret room" where my whole being should be directed away from me and only to you. Help me search not for things too great for me but to humbly beat my breast as did the other publican and pray for the forgiveness of which only you and I know how much I am in need Also help me to remember always that I am never alone when I pray. Our Lady and all the Saints are also praying with me. May my prayers join theirs in praise and supplication for the grace to eliminate my individual sin and overcome the world as did Eleazer  in his old age as, with your grace, so will I. Amen