10/06/2026
I did not read the first Reading for today with any great attention as "Do not put the Lord thy God to the test came into my head" and I wandered off into Mohammad who has led so many millions of us away from the Way Truth Life that is the Resurrection and although welcomed by many as such proved himself not to be the Holy Spirit as he certainly centered his teaching not only in this world but he himself became a political leader.
That the revelation of his Being to individuals should result in the hatred that is exploited to justify the completely unholy way of life that is the warfare that began in Southern Arabia 1400 years ago and has never ceased is certainly not by the "Will of God".
Three Religions claim a share of the Abrahamic Blessing/Revelations.
The Incarnation told us that in Christ everything was completed, "It is finished", for Our Father, himself, completed in Real-Time the sacrifice that he had prevented Abraham from making, also in real-time", and thus the Church founded on Peter is the custodian of the Real Presence in the Sacramental way of being.
We cannot explain in human words the event that began with the Annunciation. We can however pray for the guidance to recognise the immeasurable Love/Mercy/Forgiveness/Humility it is as the final direct intervention in creation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.
And yet within half a century of the Resurrection the spiritual descendants of the Apostolic Church had become as lost within their own intellectual pride as had their Pharisaical forebearers and this pride soon resulted in armed conflict.
In their own minds to be Jewish was for the Jews of the Temple the "be all and end all". Their descendants are much the same and mostly centered on the things of this world.
Moslems have elevated Arab social customs into a New Law, perpetuated some Rabbinical anti Christian falsehoods into articles of Faith and deny that it is human freedom that creates what is done by man in this world.
As for we "Christians" we have never attained "Christendom" although we have expended much blood and needless death in trying. The TRUTH is everything that "comes from the mouth of God". The sentence "My kingdom is not of this world" is always true "yesterday, today and for ever" but we have never truly listened to this declaration made by Jesus at his trial before Pilate.
Nevertheless, I believe that many Jews, Moslems and Christians have been accepted at their deaths as "Beloved of my Father" for Jesus came into the world, not to condemn the world but to save it and since "those days" the whole world has been the recipient of that Love poured out on Calvary and it is only God who knows the secret places of our hearts.
Even the invitation he made in his dying breath for us to accept a place in the New Holy Family is as inclusive as his command "to go out and teach the whole world".
"Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother".
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