11/01/2026

The Gospel Readings that are part of the liturgical worship of the "People of God" with whom I try to pray each morning to start my day aware that I am always in the presence of God, present us with a series of events that are taken from the memories of Mary and the followers who remained closest to Jesus throughout his life.

My life can become righteous only to the extent that I also follow the teaching as a New disciple of the Scriptures that are the written records of God's presence in creation.

The familiar "In those days" is the only seemingly contradictory "Eternal-time" when God was here on Earth in the flesh of a created being but "begotten not made". Jesus really did live with us as "True Man and True God".

Two Thousand years ago in Palestine, there were "multitudes" of people who saw the Lord and witnessed his miracles. Most of those multitudes, including the Apostles were followers of the Law and thus somewhat spiritually prepared for an Epiphany, but only three had received the laser-like clarity of TRUTH directly into their beings. God had told only Mary, Joseph and the embryonic John of  Eternal WORD, Mary's child.

"Good Man" Joseph quietly did God's will and cared for Mary and her son, Mary also quietly "pondered TRUTH in her heart" but the Baptist began a public mission to prepare the way for the Lord by preaching to his contemporaries and to all of us to reject the devil, world and flesh by accepting Baptism as the Cleansing of all the Human Sin that has spoilt the perfect reality of TRUTH, GOOD and BEAUTY of God's creation.

On that day at "Bethany beyond the Jordan where John was baptizing" God himself proclaims by word and deed the TRUTH on and out of which all being, spiritual and material is created.  Father, Son and Spirit are equally Trueman Jesus in his life, death and Resurrection

"Trinity" is not a human concept but is "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" who has loved each one of us into being and revealed how we should live our lives in praise and thanksgiving for the wonder of his Incarnation.

Jesus is helpless in the stable. Accepts with joy the sustenance of Mary's breast. Learns the skills of a carpenter and studies the Scriptures but today in the Jordan his Infinite identity has  been made known to all generations and we all have to bow before him as we proclaim;

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit 

as it was in the beginning, is now and  always will be.

Amen