12/04/2026

Low Sunday

Each day that I open the "Universalis" website to view the Liturgical readings chosen to be read at mass I am aware that there are millions of us who are actually attending mass and are part of a worshipping community. 

Today we are taken back to our origins. We congregate in awe to listen to the men who were the friends of Jesus, the teacher and wonder worker whose death on a cross was witnessed by many of us but who has since been seen to be alive and he has promised to soon return. The promises made to Abraham, to Moses and to all the prophets are being fulfilled in our lifetimes.

St Luke records the events and expectations that flooded the very first community that celebrated the Resurrection. Biblical scholars hardly ever agree about exact dates but they are sure that it was written at least 30 years after the Resurrection but before the political disturbances and war that caused the relocation to Pella and culminated in the destruction of the Temple/

I know that I am not the only one to wonder how the original Church began as a "commune" in the Portico of Solomon and ultimately becoming two empires, Rome and Constantinople is despite all of  its failings  still custodian of the WORD.

The end of the first millennium and the beginning of the second were centuries of grotesque Ecclesiastical Corruption. The Hierarchies, both East and West, were much more of "this world" and openly competed for secular power rather devoting themselves to doing the will Our Father and caring for the souls placed in their charge.

 We can be sure that Sts Luke, Peter and John know and share with us Truth that comes from God. The Psalmist is also directly inspired by GOD to proclaim his heartfelt need to sing in praise

Give praise to the Lord, for he is good, his mercy endures for ever.

I actually know nothing about the life of the cleric who wrote today's sequence but each year that it has become part of the Easter Liturgy I have become more sure that it is the authentic voice of the Holy Spirit teaching us how to pray and I thank Our Father that even though his Church visibly rebels against the WORD his Love still stands as it has  always done in the Church of Love, our New Holy Family the heart of the community which met for 20+ years in the Portico of Solomon.

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

"Give praise to the Lord, for he is good, his mercy endures for ever."