23/05/2026

7th Saturday in Eastertide

Many scholars have made their livings out of delving into the authorship of our scriptures.

The writer of the "Gospel According to St John" tells us that he is "The disciple whom Jesus loved".

Ever since I learnt the Penny Catechism I have tried to guide my life from childhood to "octogenarianhood" by "God made me to know, love and serve him in this world" and have had a waxing and waning interest in liturgy, scripture and theology. 

I have no illusions about the depth of my knowledge. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing". I do, however, find comfort in "No-one knows the Father except the Son and he  to whom the Son chooses to reveal him". 

In fact it is more than comfort that I find in those words of SON for Jesus thus assures us that when we  escape from the clutches of selfhood, this world, the flesh and the illusory non-being, evil that they create to deceive us, we become open to accept and return the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and thus prepare our souls in this world for the ALLINALL, the timeless and thus never ending perfection of ultimate worship.

All Scripture, Old and New Testaments are "texts", that over the centuries have been written by hand on scrolls and in books, printed by hand and rolling press and can now be brought to our screens by a click of a mouse. But just as with Jesus with the scriptures "there is always something greater here".

We have not been left alone in this vast but to us decipherable, that is why mankind becomes insufferably proud,  Universe. Those who wrote the scriptures lived in this world millennia ago but they are still beings and unequivocally know that it is the Spirit of Truth who guided their consciousnesses in this world and that we the living can still be guided by the work of their brains and hands into the way, truth and life. 

They who wrote the scriptures know that their personal identity is unimportant as the certain author of all Scripture is the WORD.

Our "Gospel" Mass Reading today concludes John's remembrances of the real time events in which he shared, that enable us to become the ones to whom Jesus chooses to reveal "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" to enable us to live our lives to the full.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.