04/12/2025

Thursday Week 1 Advent

As I begin my day with thoughts of prayer, I am a totally blank screen both before my eyes and behind the bone of the skull that encloses the brain within which these thoughts have their beginning.

Thinking about prayer, however, is not prayer. 

I believe that making the conscious effort to respond to WORD as revealed in the Scriptures is the utmost  human beings can do to prepare themselves for the final revelation that our deaths bring to each one of us.

Isaiah knows that all prayer has its origin in WORD who is Christ the Lord in whom "we have to trust for ever". Christ is himself the rock that is the foundation we all have to "put on", in the words of St Paul,  to become the Church where the New Holy Family can flourish in every generation after "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother" announces the birth of  the Church of Love.

Today Jesus warns his disciples, and each one of us who is now living, that recognising him for what he is, "Lord of All," is only the beginning of the way to the kingdom. 

He also warns me directly that even though I am pleased with these words that are still coming out of my finger tips and think that I am praying, if I do not do as he does, proving it by my love of neighbour, and love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT then I am surely the foolish man for whom the sand of his own being can never become a replacement for the Rock of God.

Dear Lord help me to truly respond to the Love with which you reach out to the whole world. Help me to know that the spittle of the bystanders and their jeers, the nails driven through your hands, the spear thrust into your side are still a reality in your eternity and that you still undergo them as a result of my sins the weight of which you know that I have never truly understood. As we prepare with Mary for your Nativity help us to know, love and serve as did she in the Holy Family and still does in the Church of Love, the New Holy Family that you became man in order to create. Amen