12/12/2025

Friday Week 2 Advent

I have over the last few years tried to respond on a daily basis to the life and teaching of Jesus that is recalled in the Mass Readings that are published on the Internet by the Universalis Website.

This morning Jesus is speaking then, 2000 years ago. I am listening now because I  know that I am as alive in His sight as were those people who then walked with him throughout Galilee and Judea. I am of the same generation who witnessed the completion of God's revelation which is TRUTH, yesterday, today and forever.

I do not have anything like the huge  knowledge of Scripture or its languages acquired by so many theologians and scholars but some words, images have become part of my daily awareness of being in the presence of "Our Father", IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, God. My prayer.

I entitled this my record of reflective prayer "Alone but Known" because I had become estranged from my local church and felt unable to return. I am still sure that the present and historical failures of the Church founded on Peter are not the will of God and desperately seeking how to be "free from the company of scorners" and to "delight in the Law of the Lord", I embraced the idea of a Johannine Spiritual Church of Love that I first encountered in struggling with the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar. 

The "New Holy Family" is my Spiritual Home within which I am sure there is the Jesus who promises to be with us until the end of time for it is as equally founded by the words of Jesus as is the Church of Peter. 

Jesus words "Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my Church". "Woman behold your  Son. Son behold your mother" have become ideas that are always present when I start my day by trying to understand the WORD.

Today Jesus addresses his contemporaries as "This generation". It has recently been coming into my mind that the sinful failures of mankind that are considered by "This World" to be "progress" happen because we have never truly become the People of God by making him the centre of our lives, by truly knowing loving and serving. We are still failing to become the Jesus Generation. It is not only the Institutional Church that has failed to live up to the purpose of its creator.

Each one of us has only one important task in this world and that is to be open to the presence of the Lord for we have been created to be image and likeness and are the guardians of our own being which was created out of the JOYINBEINGIAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, the love that the Father has lavished upon us.

Every generation is but the collection of its individuals and for the World to improve each one of us has to make an effort to be true to the WORD in this world which is our one opportunity to obey the Father always remembering 

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,

But the way of the wicked will perish.