26/11/2025

Thursday Week 34 Ordinary Time

The writer/writers of the Book of Daniel were singing to the Lord. Their Canticle has been part of the Christian Liturgy for centuries but the writers of Daniel knew that they were not compiling a historical record of events that had truly happened during the reign of Darius. 

Sometimes I too feel an upwelling of feeling that I can only call Joy but it is really something that is way beyond my ability to give words to and can only find its voice in the ancient, psalms and hymns recorded in Scripture.

"Blessed be God for ever".

The Evangelists from whose memories and close associations with Our Lord and/or his Apostles was composed the Gospels were trying to present a factual account of the human life lived in his own creation by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in the person of Son, by the Eternal Resurrection Christ the Lord.

We, therefore, have to believe all that is recorded in the Bible. By that I mean that I cannot pick and choose. I have to accept with equal force "I am gentle and humble of  heart and my yoke is easy" and "I come not to bring peace but the sword". The Parable of the Minas and the Good Samaritan are both teachings of the Lord.

Today in the Gospel we read a statement made by Jesus about the future of Jerusalem, the Liturgical Heart of his Chosen People. It is a prophecy which St Luke was one of the many disciples to see fulfilled in their lifetimes.

I have lived during equally devasting times. Christian civilisation was unable to resist the evil that had arisen in its heart and the industrialised slaughter of Non-Europeans happened within the nations of the somewhat Christian but now Enlightened, in human eyes, to Godlessness, Gentiles.

Two thousand years after the words spoken in today's Gospel and after the Resurrection of Jesus completes God's revelation, mankind is still not listening to "Our Father" and Jerusalem is again "trampled underfoot" but not by Gentiles.

The Jews who again control Jerusalem have still not got beyond the strictures of personal delight in their own beings that Jesus condemned in them. 

The Church founded on St Peter has never fully grasped that the words of the Lord which she studies every day do, in fact, mean what they say. 

How could the Byzantine Emperors claim to rule Church and State as would have Christ? How could Pope after Pope wear  a triple crown in the full knowledge of Jesus' declaration before Pilate? How could Reformers claim that material worldly success was proof of God's favour.

I do not know what Jesus means by the "Age of the Gentiles" but it must include these days when mankind, Jew and Gentile, refuses to listen for the Word of God and tells us by their deeds that it is Mammon that is "All in All". 

They are but a repetition of all that has ever been created  by Godless humanity  and desperately require the return of Our Saviour for even though we have often abandoned Our Father he has never abandoned us. 

Since the return of Jesus to His and Our Father, every generation has been able and we too still can  choose to live in the Church of Love that has never been excluded from the Church founded on St Peter but has always existed for those with Resurrection Faith  in the words spoken to Mary and John, by her dying son.

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

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