07/02/2026

Yet again I feel inspired by today's readings to pay more attention to reading the Bible not only for what it contains as selected by the compilers of the Liturgy but also to try to understand  how the first 2/3 generations of Gentile Christians came to base their whole beings on what is throughout the Old Testament a celebration of one race of Human Beings and a repudiation of all the rest.

What has struck me today is that the Psalm for today's mass is a wonderful prayer from the heart which expresses my own feelings and desires to live according to the will of God far better than I can myself. I have always prayed for the "Lord to teach me his statutes" and even in my sins, thank God, have not lost sight of the Mercy that is his, but this psalm seems to have been edited and later today I will use the wonder that is this machine to find out more about that,

The Apostles return from their first missionary journey exhausted and absolutely thrilled by what they have experienced. There are hordes of people milling around and Jesus knows that they need to rest. He takes them across the lake but the multitude  anticipates this manoeuvre and even on foot arrive there before them.

In the 2000 years since that moment, mankind has continued to act as sheep without a shepherd, We have had many kings and leaders most of whom have been as wise and even wiser than Solomon. We are all milling around either literally or figuratively seeking to to be secure in our own selves. We should all quieten down and even in the prime of life centre our lives on IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT even as this morning's multitude sought out Jesus.

There is nothing that anyone of us can do with our lives that is more important than  turning to Our Father and praying that we take the teaching of the Old and New Testaments into our hearts and live our lives accordingly.

It is only when each soul on earth lives righteously that our world can truly give thanks to the Loving Mercy which enables us to cooperate in the reset of creation that is the INCARNATION.

For God nothing is impossible and so I pray that nothing can separate me from the Love of God that is the very being of the Church of Love, the New Holy Family, founded from the cross by the dying words "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother" and sealed by 

"It is finished".