04/06/2026

Thursday Week 9 Ordinary Time

I know that I am a being created to know, be aware that my Creator has made me to choose to become during my lifetime a listener to the WORD and avoider of anything that contradicts that WORD.

There is absolutely no need for me to be sitting in front of this screen waiting for my reactions to this morning's Mass Readings to appear on it. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT already knows absolutely everything that passes through my mind.

I was originally drawn to the Jewish "Shema" prayer for the trivial reason that "asma" is the Arabic, English "listen" that began many sentences in Saudi Arabia and it contains the strange convolution of sounds as heard in "pelanty" the Arabic version of football's "penalty".

St Paul is much more focused than I am. He is there at the beginning of the Christian mission that completes God's proclamation to the world that he has now told us everything that we need to know. He has shown us how to live our lives in holiness and repeated the guidance that he has always made through the Prophets.

He has completed the perfection of revelation by becoming "perfect humanity", True Man, and accepted by dying as God a human death, the suffering that is the only way that the Antipathy to BEING that is Sin can be removed from its power base in the souls of we sinners still perpetrating evil in our own real-time.

But two thousand years after this reset we are still dominated by the things of this world. We can fill our time on Earth with marvels that human ingenuity has created and gape with amazement at relics of the past as wealth creates the benefit of more and more leisure. All of that "time-filling" literally prevents us from hearing the first commandment.

The Church built on Peter, has also often forgotten to "shema", "asma" LISTEN and each succeeding generation of scribes, priests, hierarchs, lawyers theologians and individual believer has had to face up to becoming less entangled in the things of this world than had their predecessors.

‘The most important is, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” The second is this: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” 

Our God chose to renew the worshipping face of the Earth by his Incarnation. My mouse, as always, instantly reveals by showing  to me the evils that flourish here on Earth, that seeking to sit at the feet Jesus is indeed the better part and that he also on Calvary made it possible for individual souls to be cared for in the Church of Love by choosing to join his New Holy Family when he spoke to Mary, John and all of us. Amen

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