28/05/2026

Jesus always treats our human weaknesses with compassion. 

During the three days which concluded his life on Earth he confirms for all ages that our own love for each other is a reflection of the LOVE that is generated by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. I am because God loves me. My life has to aim for the righteousness, the holiness that knows that I must not contaminate the purity of my own ability to love by being absorbed into the things of this world, 

That is the significance of the three renunciations made at our Baptism into the Christian Faith

In today's Gospel he awakens the sleeping Apostles with  an affectionate yet sorrowful  " Could you not watch one hour with me", knowing that they cannot be aware of what is about to transpire. He later offers compassion to the women whose tears would have also pulled at my heartstrings. To pray for the forgiveness of those hammering iron nails into his flesh however is totally beyond my capabilities as is the reward for the explicitly human honesty of "the Good Thief". The Total Human and Divine Love of the entire Crucifixion is possible only for "The True Man and True God".

The Incarnation concludes the History of Salvation which begins in today's first reading.

I have heard the Abraham/Isaac event referred to as if it were a parable to preach against the concept of human sacrifice. A command from God to destroy the life of our own child is an unthinkable denial of the "Infinite Good" that calls us to worship "Our Father".

"God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believe in him will have eternal life."

It is very not often that "the things of this world" align in real time specifically with the liturgical readings of the day. In the media today, however, there is much talk of the "Abraham Accords", which only God knows the sincerity or otherwise thereof, the name given to a political initiative to solve the latest stage of the tragic conflicts that permanently deface the Holy Land.

God knows how it has always been difficult for me to understand how His favour was for so long focused on one nation and how I have always wondered about the "emptiness" of the lives of  people civilised and primitive who were scattered about the world other than in the Middle-East even in the days of Abraham.

Dear Lord, You know that there is not one human who can reproach you and that I do accept responsibility and seek forgiveness for my own sins. You also know that I am sincerely troubled by my non-comprehension of why it is that You created  a "chosen people" from out of all the human souls you love into being. Why is it that their descendants still refuse the "grace" you created on Calvary? Help me also to understand  why so many of the inhabitants of this world have not yet learnt that YOUARETHEWAYTRUTHLIFE that welcomes all the World into your Church of Love, the New Holy Family. Amen

                                    "Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother."