19/03/2026

I don't suppose that many of those who have known me at various times of my life over the 85 years that I have been alive would think of me as a "man of faith". My recent prayers and personal "sermons" with which I begin my day and am still saving in "Blogger" tell the true story of how I try and have always tried to live in this world knowing that I, a sinner, am always known and still loved by our God.

The scriptures that we read in this morning's mass are about a total faith without any quibbles. Even though God speaks directly to David he is always aware that he is a sinner who cannot live without the mercy that comes from God.

St Paul has been immersed in Scripture all his life but has seen the Resurrection and taken into his being the revelation that it is not outward observances but inward intention directed by Faith that is the correct response we have to make when we open ourselves to God.

Abraham did not know "The Law" but lived by Faith and proved it on Mount Sinai.

Joseph is a name. It is the name of the husband of Mary. The only thing that we know about him is that he was the first after Mary to have the Incarnation revealed to him.

There was never any necessity to have him become "St Joseph the Worker" (God does not see us as billionaires or paupers), as we have to thank God for the wonder of this human being who had the perfect Faith to accept the "message of an Angel" and to quietly accept the role he had been assigned in the reset and completion of revelation that took place in Palestine two thousand years ago.

Joseph was the head of the original Holy Family which lived in obscurity for we do not know exactly how many years as he had died before the "Wedding Feast at Cannae". 

The New Holy Family, our Church of Love also lives in obscurity, and consists of Jesus, Mary and John and all of those souls who can with the same Faith in God displayed by Abraham, David, Mary, Joseph and Paul in today's readings  accept the invitation to be guarded and guided in this World by the Eternal Love that we have been created to share.

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