09/02/2026

Dear Lord, you know what it is that  I want to ask you. 

My words cannot come close to the disappointment that I feel knowing that the intense joyful Faith of the people of Solomon in this morning's first reading fades and has to go through many generations of failure and renewal before your INCARNATION resets our relationship with you.

Even in the first year of his public life Jesus becomes a figure that is recognised by "multitudes" who seek him out for his power to cure the sick. Many more multitudes have sought him out over the centuries that have passed since those days and yet we still live in this world as if we have never known your guidance.

We have somehow  missed the meaning of the message of the angel accepted by Mary for the world in which I live  is far from what you revealed to be possible by your real presence in creation. 

Help me to overcome the gloom created by worldly events which overshadows even the hope that I have in your words to Mary and John.

I know that I am responsible for my own soul but you Lord died so that we all might live. My prayer is thus first for me but the "me" who implores your mercy is part of a family, a Church, a nation and a World and one of the billions of "Holy Souls", living in this world and also in Purgatory who  completely recognise that they are sinners and completely dependent on you. Lord have Mercy.