24/03/2026

Tuesday Lent Week 5

In today's reading from St John we are presented with John's recollection of how the leaders of Temple Religion responded to the mysterious yet simple words of the Jesus of Nazareth who was stirring  their complacency within the Law.

Those of us who read the Gospel passage to be read at today's mass are likely to be able to paraphrase and relate it in our understanding to the completed life of Jesus for we have been raised in a Christian culture that has had two thousand years to consolidate the teachings of Christ in our liturgies and private devotions.

In Jerusalem 2000 years ago 

                                  "I am going away, and you will seek me,

                                    and you will die in your sin.

                                    Where I am going, you cannot come".

was spoken for the first time by an uneducated "layman" who had appeared out of Galilee and caused disturbances in the towns and their synagogues of Israel because of his words and more dramatically, his  signs, "the blind see, the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear; the dead rise and the poor have the Good News preached to them."

Jesus did not seek to confuse his listeners. His words are always TRUTH and meant to enlighten those who saw and heard him during his lifetime and to be preserved so that all subsequent generations would be able to access the "Teshuvah" that is the essence of the reset of revelations that is the  Incarnate WORD.

The Pharisees began murmuring their responses among themselves and some forecast that Jesus was going to die by his own hand. They cannot agree and are forced to open a direct interrogation.

Who are you?

In his conclusion to Jesus' comprehensive reply, John tells us that 

  "As he was saying these things, many believed in him."

They did this even before understanding what he could possibly mean by;

‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he,

I have known for all my conscious life that Jesus is crucified that I may be loosed from my sins and in the depths of my being I know that I have really failed to live up to the mystery of redemption with which I try to guide my life.

For some reason the Jews of Temple Religion had not fulfilled the will of IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but some have never lost the WORD that is in the Psalms which were  part of Jesus' daily prayer, part of the Way, Truth and Life that he taught and confirmed by the Resurrection that was proclaimed after the Saving Agony on Calvary. 

Today all mankind needs to unite in seeking the "Teshuva" that is pleaded for in today's Psalm "Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you." and can be truly found in the Church of Love, the New Holy Family, Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus Come !

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