21/12/2025

Sunday Advent Week 4 2025

Our Father is complete in his being. He lacks nothing. He is total changeless perfection. Eternity.

We are created to be both sharers in and pointers to the Eternal Unseen Reality who tells each of us that we are a unique person an "iam" just as he is IAM.

Two thousand years ago in Palestine a teenaged bride and an older husband had to face up to what was on the surface, in human eyes an impossibility. 

"How can this be?"

God is completely true to himself. He has created the humanity that misused its freedom and out of the same creative love he begets the Eternal WORD as True Man out of the flesh of the Virgin Mary to become himself the only possibly great enough Sacrificial Victim to atone for Original Sin.

"Nothing is impossible to God".

Mary and Joseph do not talk about this "Message of an Angel" but accept the Word and play out their eternal roles in the human-time of  the subsequent years when "Jesus walked".

Mary, who had pondered in her heart all that she had had revealed to her, must have remembered as she trudged behind her son out of the city and up the slope of Calvary the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem that she had made with Joseph 33 years previously.

For her sinless being God had always been "ALL IN ALL" but she is completely human and as such she must have cared for Joseph the Good Man just as she is caring for all of us in the Church of Love.

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