14/02/2026

Everything that is real in life, everything that never changes was present in the  real-time of 2000 years ago.

The Lord, Paul and Barnabas whom we read or hear about in today's liturgy were flesh and blood, living beings. With Jesus there is always "something greater here" but Paul and Barnabas were exactly the same as we are today. We know that in "those days" there was an ongoing  great re-set of the relationship between mankind and God, but they were men as we are actually living the change that we can only, as did Mary, ponder in our hearts.

The City where they were teaching was already an ancient settlement when they arrived there. It had been occupied by many cultures all of which had left physical traces of their presence that can still be seen and excavated. 

It is still a real place in the reality of this world as it is in the present day and has experienced all the changes that have been accomplished by the 80/100 generations that have lived there since the Good News was brought to them by Paul and Barnabas.

We all are real in the time of this world and the reality of the roads walked by Jesus and his disciples, the buildings in which they lived are still real but they have the reality of ruins, they are the "dust", as we will become, from which they were made.

Together with Paul and Barnabas, we have been taught by Jesus that the physical reality we know as life in "this world" is not the only gift we receive from Our Father nor is it the most important one.

We all of us have in our being the unseen reality that is our soul, unseen image and likeness created by the Eternal Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT which we are able to preserve in holiness for in his Mercy Jesus has not only created his Priestly Church to distribute Sacramental Grace but also enabled us to join Him in His New Holy Family with Mary, John and all the saints, His Mystical Body, Church of Love, into the protection of which we have all been individually invited by our Saviour who knows each one of us better than we know ourselves.

                        "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother."