30/05/2026

Saturday Week 8 Ordinary Time

Two thousand years after the Incarnation there is nothing that we can do during our lifetimes that is any better than what is recorded in the "Acts" and in the Pastoral letters that have been selected to guide us through our daily lives. 

Jesus himself taught us how to pray and his instructions have become our formal prayer, the "Our Father". 

Miriam was angry that her sister was just sitting at the feet of the Lord leaving her to prepare their "daily bread" on her own. Jesus assured Miriam that Mary "had chosen the better part" but "The Resurrection" even prepared breakfast for his Apostles before their return from the unsuccessful fishing trip on Lake Galilee.

Our primary task in life is to praise God, bow down before HIM and do his will here on Earth just as if we were already part of the spiritual community of true-being for whom God is "All in All", that we call Heaven but we do all have to preserve our bodies with which we are united and so we also have to pray for the sustenance to maintain our bodily lives and for the ability to produce it.

What we must not do, however, is to allow the cares and delights of this material world and being occlude our spiritual senses and awareness of the futility that debases "the wonder of my being" into  "bucket lists" of finite delights by ignoring the basic fact that even though we all die we also contain the image and likeness that is Eternal Life.

We are all capable of raising our hearts and minds in the ways taught by the words and deeds of the Incarnation. "You Lord have the words of Eternal Life".

St Jude directs us to be "prayerful, compassionate beings" always remembering that to fulfil the purpose of the Father we are dependent on the free gift of Loving Mercy won for us by Son and distributed directly into our beings by HOLY SPIRIT. 

The Pharisees questioned Jesus' authority and he stretched out his arms to receive the nails from which he hung over the Whole World telling us that his "authority" is the LOVE which is ever available in the new Sacramental reality he created at the Last Supper and in the sacred familial Love that is the New Holy Family.

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