05/12/2025

Friday Week 1 Advent

"Our Father who art in heaven" knows that I have spent much of my lifetime in sinfulness.

In the passage from Isaiah read at this morning's mass, the prophet responds to the WORD, as he receives it in the real-time of his day. The WORD is Eternal Truth that has always intimately known with love each individual soul whose interactions with HIM and with each other become the ever changing "this world" in which Jesus assures us that we cannot find the reality of the eternal kingdom.

Isaiah proclaims that the sufferings of mankind  are inflicted by evil doers who are themselves blind and deaf to the WORD will come to an end when we their children "sanctify my name; sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and stand in awe of the Holy One of God."

In this morning's Gospel the Incarnate Word performs signs to satisfy the Jews who in those days are still the sole recipients of divine revelation, the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and who are then  part of the concluding worldly events with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT completes his revelation to all subsequent generations of humanity.

Each one of us is responsible for living our individual lives in obedience to the "Ten Commandments". Adam and Eve introduced Evil into the Garden and ever since then IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, Our Father, has told us that we have to choose for the entirety of our lives to return his LOVE by free obedience to his will.

Every evil, individual or cumulative act that is happening at this moment is the result of human choice. We are defying God in our sinfulness even though we know that the wages of sin are the second death by which we condemn ourselves to unimaginable torments.

The Crucifixion of Jesus is the Mercy of God Incarnate. The Nativity for which we are now preparing happened in real-time 2000 years ago, was necessary for the vastness of the human sin of Adam could only become capable of atonement by the "impossible pain" of God suffered in the real-time of human history.

Jesus, himself, prayed the Psalms not only with his disciples but also with Scribes and Pharisees whom he met on many occasions in the Temple and Synagogue. Today I am praying with the psalmist knowing that my sins can be forgiven and that I can "dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life" for Jesus himself promised that the Church he founded on Peter was also the Eternal Love of the New Holy Family, Himself, Mary and John, the replica of the Holy Family he completed by his birth in the stable at Bethlehem.