19/05/2026

Tuesday Week 7 Eastertide

Our Lord Jesus Christ when he was on Earth warned us about "the Pharisees" as they were failing to put into practice what they preached. I know that that is a criticism that can easily be levelled against me. I also know that to accept that "criticism" as true does not excuse it. 

In the first reading, St Paul knows that he has come to the end of his mission to instruct both Jews and Gentiles of Roman Asia directly, and indirectly, all subsequent generations how to live in this world to ensure that their and our souls can partake of the never-ending life for which we have been created.

St Paul was a Pharisee who clung to the Living Lord and whose letters bear witness to and teach the Great Reset of salvation that is the Life / Death/ Resurrection of the Lord of Life.

In the second reading, Jesus knows that as true man he is about to experience in this world the bodly Sacrifice that creates the new Sacrament of Salvation and as True God knows from outside of time that the Divine Will to Pardon of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT can only be fulfilled by His real-time worldly human torment and private hiatus leading to the Glory and Divine Joy of Easter.

I have to treat each day as if it were my farewell to this world and thus pray for forgiveness and the grace to avoid further sinfulness. I have neither the human strength of St Paul nor the sinlessness of  Jesus but I do have the assurance of Jesus that he will never leave us to be alone and that the Holy Spirit will be our helper during our lives. Shortly after the farewell to his friends, Jesus would be deserted by them all and taken to to be tried before Pilate. As he breathed his last breath from his cross he created the New Holy Family with Mary and John who had come close to the place of execution to be the witnesses, together with the other Marys, of his death and the guardians of his corpse.

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