04/01/2026

Second Sunday of Christmas

Each individual who is living now, will live in the future or who has ever lived begins each day in the awareness of self and of the world which is unique and experienced only by himself. I know that "I am" and I know that the physical world is also as real as the body that "I am" but with each of us  there is always something more than material body and physical awareness

The Prophet Sirach in this morning's First Reading proclaims joyfully that the "something more" of his being is the "Wisdom" which was given to the chosen people as awareness of the law which IAMIAM revealed in his love for his people. The Psalm is also a song of thankful joy for the gifts given to Jerusalem.

St Paul is one of the first to grasp that in Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has completed his revelation of how we should live out our lives in this world and that has been his eternal will for the created being that is "image and likeness" and which we all share.

The world is the reality within which we live but it must never become dominant to the extent that it blocks awareness of the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT from infusing into our souls.

St Paul tells us that we have been predestined to become "adopted sons" but that does not happen unless we use our freedom to co-operate with Our Father. Neither righteousness nor evil can be forced into us. We are created as free beings in "image and likeness" to refuse the Devil, World and Flesh and be welcomed into the loving safety that is knowing, loving and serving in this world. 

We can be sure to do this when we seek out the WORD in scripture and stand with Mary and John at the foot of the cross witnessing the total devastation that is the seeming triumph of DEATH  but is the  necessary precursor to the Resurrection, the completed revelation and complete reset of creation.