22/03/2026

Lent Sunday 5

We are coming to the end of Lent and in the readings designated for the mass this Sunday we are given a summary of the meaning of God's revelation that has been preserved by the Church founded on Peter.

Everything that has been taught by the Prophets and finalised by the Resurrection is about the unseen force that is the Spiritual Life of Love in whose image and likeness we all exist in this world.

God's WORD was first recognised and recorded by Old Testament prophets who are the first "voices crying in the wilderness". Today Ezekiel is able to proclaim:

 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves,

and raise you from your graves, O my people.

 And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land.

The Psalm, "de Profundis" is the total pain of the lifeless loneliness it is for our souls to be cut off from Our Father. 

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord;

 Lord, hear my voice!

St Paul explains all that he has learned since his experience of the Resurrection and preaches the WORD of the Lord for all generations to hear, ponder and accept the grace that it brings. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you:

He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead

will also give life to your mortal bodies

through his Spirit who dwells in you.

In the Gospel,  St John gives us not only an eye-witness account of the events that preceded Jesus' triumphal return to Jerusalem but also his observations about the significance they had for his God and friend Jesus.

The Church after Christ's resurrection contained within it an, at first, deep division between Jew .and Gentile. In St John's Gospel the word "The Jews" is used about the enemies of Christ. In fact he uses it to refer to the Temple Authorities who had claimed for themselves privileges to judge others and had themselves been condemned as "whited-sepulchres" but forgiven with the encompassing "Rehamin" that comes only from from God.

     "Father forgive them for they know not what they do".

Today the peace of the world is again being shattered by war that, as always, results from millions of people not seeking to do only the will of God. Millions of us are filled with selfish hatred for our brothers and sisters. Jesus has revealed that each one of us has to know that the wonders of creation will pass away, that he does not have an agenda for Kingship in this world but that we all should know that we can align our beings with something that is far greater than any Empire, Kingdom or anything created by man.

We really do have souls and he has created for them a home in this world in which we can find security now and in the future the perfection that is the timeless moment we see Eternal Love. Jesus lived, died and was reborn to show us the Way, Truth and Life and everything he said or did was to warn us that this world and our present consciousness of it are not the reason Our Father, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, created each individual image and likeness out of nothing but as a response to the spontaneous Love that is not Supernatural but the very NATURE of God.