04/03/2026

I suppose that anyone who has ever worked in "this world" can relate to the "indignation" felt by the Apostles at the "machinations" of the mother of James and John, to gain a worldly advantage for her own sons.

The total reset of how we are to live in this is world is taught by word and example throughout the Gospels. There is not one of the Apostles, however, who really understood what was being unfolded before them each day that they spent with Jesus. 

They were captivated by what they were witnessing "Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached:" but were not able to escape from their Old Testament conditioned culture which expected a "Messiah" to vindicate the covenant by restoring "kingdom" to the political Israel that was then controlled by Rome.

They were all expecting that Jesus would become able to repay them in the real-time which they were sharing with him while learning "the way and the truth". 

Even Peter, James and John who had been blessed by the Transfiguration were not able to anticipate the literal meaning of "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death" and of its details "and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day".

I pray each day that I can follow with the first disciples the revelations of "the way and the truth" because I am one of those "blessed who has not seen", I am better prepared than they for the desolation of Calvary as I know that it  is the necessary prequel to the Resurrection when Way, and Truth become one with Life in the LOVE that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S gift of Himself to ensure our salvation within his Church of Love, His New Holy Family where we can all find even in this world the peace that comes from God. Amen

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