St Paul's letters are a treat to read; his message is always consistently clear and flawlessly presented. I have written the first sentence after reading today's Epistle but I can't instantly recall what it was. I am writing this again with the intention of praying and and preparing for today. This is the message the words of which I cannot recall clearly, but its seems that I am a proof that what is written in the heart comes from the Spirit and  cannot die. Moses shone with the reflection of God's Glory that comes from the Law; but this fades. Jesus promises us that the Law is fulfilled by following him. By keeping all the commandments each individual living on earth can come to salvation and shine with the Glory of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.; the Glory that was promised to a people but is now welcoming each individual of humanity.

Dear Lord may all the people of the world come to know and worship the Love that is the Father's, Son's and Holy Spirit's and may I not in reaching temporal goals, lose sight of  my final end.

 We need always to  be aware that it is God's revelation of himself that we read in the Scriptures. The missionary work of Paul and his companions has the guarantee that it is the Word that is being preached. Christ is the manifestation of God; more than that he is the Word together with the Father and the Holy Spirit. We too can see the Spirit in our hearts as did Paul and we must recognise it and put it first in all our works. Jesus wants our works to be seen as an  example and a light to all the world. We are the salt that can bring out the true taste of God's creation but not by hiding our true Christian selves. 

This brings me to the "no". Paul reminds the early church that there is no "yes and no" about Jesus' message. Jesus is "yes" to the Father and we must be the "YES" without quibbles to him. We the "Church Today" must not collapse into a confusion of messages promoted by the growth of "human knowledge " but must be a clear "Yes" to the promises of our Triune God.

Dear Lord help me to see clearly your Will for me and with the support of the heavenly Church Triumphant let your Will be seen in my works this day.

 Today's support from St Paul prompted me to think as I read it that there is no need for change if I can continue to put my faith in God. I can suffer ( I am afraid of this) and receive consolation. I can live and I can die. Tomorrow is only another day. If today is genuinely devoted to God so tomorrow can be no greater. My first thought has to be God and Jesus' blessings are what I need to aim at. I need to keep myself out of my mind and learn to automatically choose the right. I do not need to be a winner the other is also a child of God. Have I ever truly mourned for my dead? What have I ever gone without for the good of others? My life has always had my personal satisfaction as its goal. I don't think I have ever been in a position to show mercy but forgiveness to another is another matter. I know that if all the scabs of sin are cleared away there is in me a purity that is from God. Let me scrape away the dross so that this can see God. How can I make peace within the corruption that the Church has become? Each day I face this question and sometimes respond to foul bloggers; but, what is this?

Dear Lord you know what I am please direct me on the Way and let me be receptive to your Holy Spirit. 

 Our dependence on Almighty God is this feast of Corpus Christi. Jesus the Son has been sacrificed to the Father and been accepted in the Eternal Love that is the Holy Spirit and we the people of God can only stand back in awe at this Truth which is our Life our only being without which there is nothing which means I cannot even imagine such a state. Our lives are created with  the same Love which is the Trinity and our rightly lived lives will not end with the death of our bodies but continue not in time but in the Being that is God. This Sacrament which is not only the memorial of Christ but is also the reason that God clothed himself in flesh, God cannot suffer in his Being, to make the perfect sacrifice, is the ever greater thing on this earth. 

Dear Lord, this Body of Christ is the reason for our Church our Clergy and ourselves, let us always keep this in our minds and truly repent for the sins which we still cling to. May your Mother and ours help us by her prayers. Keep us from unholy communions and let my soul become as you created it to be.

 The Angel Raphael reveals himself as a messenger of God and emphasises how in this world some conduct is righteous but not so with God. We should shout out our love for God. We need to broadcast His praises. We need to tell all about his Glory. We need to live according to the Gospels. In these days we have become voiceless. I remember when there was always a Catholic voice raised in public. During the war when Hitler's deputy was interned after flying to Scotland a Catholic priest organised  a rally in Leicester to demand that he be exchanged for 100,000 inmates of German concentration camps. In these days the only public appearance of our Clergy has been to apologize for vile conduct and coverup. We are loth to shout our support for God's Church when its leadership is less than praiseworthy. 

Do I think that I am shouting out my joyful belief in God by clicking this keyboard?

Dear Lord your first revelation was to a people in these times your Son and Holy Spirit speak to the individuals who make up the People of God. Let each one of us know that you can support us  when we speak unpalatable truths. 

 All our joys come from the Lord. This is how we too must praise God. This is too how we must thank God. This is too how we must trust God. The relationship that Tobit and his family have with God is the message that is given to us today to be part of our worship in church and outside it for that matter. All the good things that we experience come from God. 

The sufferings that we sometimes face make this hard to be remembered. Tobit's joy in his returned sight and in his new daughter-in-law wipe out the times of sightless  suffering. God has scourged him. Jesus too is to be scourged with the torturer's flail. He too suffers to the utmost and seems to lose trust in his Father. Many of the sufferings of mankind are hard to reconcile with our understanding of a  Loving God. Many people are faced with so much suffering that their hearts and minds cannot be raised out of constraints of pain that bind them. Being the Son does not remove the human suffering of Jesus the man. The source of this pain is my sin.

Dear Lord you know that I really do want to be able to praise you with the fervour of your people of old. You know that I cannot keep from sinning in my thoughts and words. Let me not be so immersed in myself that I forget to pray for all the people suffering from the results of Man's injustice. Lord save thy people.

 The saga of Tobit continues and what is emphasised is the foremost place given to the praise of God. Tobias approaches his bride in the spirit of Genesis. All is for the love of God and he prays that he may live together with Sara into a peaceful old age. The man will support the woman as she will him and he prays that God will keep them from hardships; He will pity them.

A scribe asks Jesus the question about the commandments and Jesus tell us that the most important thing in our lives is to know and love God and that we must treat all people in the way we would want to be treated; the Golden Rule. It seems that Jesus was always in confrontation with the Leaders of Temple Worship; they indeed worked to weaken Jesus' preaching  and ultimately contrived to have Him crucified by the Romans. There are those who use this apparent animosity between Jesus and the organised religion of his day to condemn all our clergy; Jesus, in fact practises the Golden Rule and sometimes, as today even  praises a scribe or Pharisee .

Dear Lord help me to follow the teachings of Jesus in all that I do and think. Today I will labour please give success to the work of my hands and if that cannot be let me accept the failure without resentment, knowing that only good things come from you.