31/12/2025

Seventh Day within Christmas Octave.

Today's Mass Readings summarise what has been revealed about how we have to continue to live out our lives in the full knowledge of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that had matured in the "John" who had both shared in the "time of this world" engraced by the INCARNATION as historical events and pondered their Eternal significance for all subsequent generations as he continued to live out his own long life.

The mystery of the Glory of God that is how John begins his memoir and interpretation of the "Life of Christ" has always held me captivated ever since I first heard it as "The Last Gospel" at the Liturgies I attended as a child.

God knows that the old man that I have become is still irretrievably engaged, not always happily so, when trying to "know, love and serve". It's easy for me to beat my breast and say "Forgive me Lord for I am a sinner" but in the depths of my being I am one with the first believers whom John writes to in the first reading and feel lost and possibly abandoned  in that Jesus has not returned and that even after Incarnate, life, death and Resurrection mankind has never become the coopted into the Family of God on Earth that is promised by;

"But to all who did receive him, who did believe in his name, he gave the right to become Children of God, who were born not of blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man , but of God".

The difficulty that we humans have always faced is that we are totally free to follow our own ways during our lifetimes. It is impossible  to imagine how many are the ways of man we unravel as we choose how to spend each moment of the time we experience as our lives.

If, however, we do "receive him" and hold on to that thread in the skein of reality that is also Truth and Life we will understand that we are "anointed by the Holy One" and we can "all have knowledge". The Created Universe is as it was created to be, my own being is to "know, love and serve" and "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" is the promise that Anti-Christ, Satan will not prevail and that each of us already is enfolded by the Loving Grace that we only have to choose to accept as it is freely offered to the whole world from the Cross on Calvary.