07/07/2022

Our relationship with God is revealed by Amos. Our Father has been completely aware of us since the moment of our creation. He has created us with the loving heart of a parent and observed all that we have done as we grow towards maturity. He is aware of the turning away from him that happened in pre- Christian Palestine and revealed the necessity for right religion through the words of his prophets. 

The Son, Jesus, is much more than a prophet. He tells the 12 to rely entirely on the providence of God to provide for their needs as they preach from town to town. What is the "peace" that they offer to each house if it can return to them? 

They preach that everyone has to return to the worship for which they were created. They preach that Father, Son and Holy Spirit is near. The Kingdom is not some other creation distant from our daily lives. The being of this world is in the being of God. God himself reveals that humanity is created to ultimately know the Glory of God and that we have a complete freedom of being to accept or not, to believe or deny, to know Eternity or to refuse the gift of life.

Everyday I try to live in accordance with God's plan and know that each pasing day in human time is shortening my chance to bear witness to the Lord of all. I have to do much more than just say "Lord, Lord!"

Dear Lord help Faith to teach me your ways. Let each second that I breath be passed in your presence. Let the sinful attractons of all the evils that are happening now be crushed by the heel of your Mother who in the Glory of your Pure presence can plead for forgiveness and the mercy you have won for us.

 06/07/2022

Although Jesus himself makes clear that his Mission is to all manknd, in his command to the 12 he also makes quite clear that they are to preach, to call to only the Jews. They are to keep out of Samaria and the Decapolis, places  which he himslf visited and in which he preached more than once during his presence on Earth.

The Lord of the Old Testament is true to his Covenant but the occupiers of the vinyard  do, in the real world, take the "King's son" and kill him. The ways of God can be witnessed but not understood for the betrayal by Judas is the  "happy fault" that is necessary for Jesus to complete his role as incarnate Son on earth.

God is still with us. The Kingdom of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is at hand. We have overwhelming grace available for the purpose of creation has been fulfilled in that betrayal has been answered in the Resurrection. We are completely fee agents who can constantly seek the face of our Evergreater God or deny him seeking non-being death for ourselves.

Dear Lord let my thoughts be turned towards you. Let me honestly seek your face and recognise the Grace that leads to the right path. Nothing on Earth is more beneficial than sincere prayer, worship and petition. All the events that happen today and ever happened before are known intimately to you. I am only in your grace. May Mary who, besides yourself,  is the only human bodily present in Eternity continue to support us, sinners on earth and in purgatory and with the Holy Spirit strengthen the priestly descendants of your Apostles.

 05/07/2022

I try to follow the path to the holiness that leads to God. God knows that I try but always fall short of my good intentions. I know that my striving after holines is the truly most important thing in my life. I have to be truly devoted to Father, Son and Holy Spirit and I truly believe that the Grace to do so is flowing without ceasing from the heart pierced by the lance on Calvary.

I am too often trapped by the matter of this world and face covetness and jealousy componded by lust of the body and a weakening of the will to resist. All of this is known to Almighty God and he knows that the fault is truly mine as I close to door to his Love. St Paul encourages us to follow the sound teaching he he has brought to the churches he has founded. Jesus tells us to be like little children.

Little children are at first all trusting and all believing. I speak from the experience of  the disappointment that there is no Santa Clause. That image of childish innocence is only partially true for I can also remember dishonesty and lies. Lust also begins in childhood and as we grow we need to understand the "sound teaching" for living by instinct will not lead us to holiness. 

Jesus is the way, the truth to eternal life that I can access only by having my will fortified by openess to his free grace. We, the adopted chidren of God, do not believe in Santa Clause but without qualms and in complete trust  turn over our lives to God who in his incarnation knows all the beauties and pitfalls of our daily lives.

Dear Lord forgive me my sins and let my faith not be tarnished by weakness in resisting temptation. May Mary your real mother whom you have given to us not be overpowered by the  vast number of sinners, who as I have done, offend the Infinite Goodness that is you Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

 04/07/2022

We are all called to a personal relationship with God. We must accept him as Our Father. Jesus teaches us to pray in this way. Amos has God in a relationship with Israel that is described in nuptial imagery. Jesus uses the affectionate "Dad/Abba" to talk with the creator of all the world especially when he is pressured by the restrictions to his freedom that he has accepted out of Love for mankind.

The direct line between Father Son is the Holy Spirit, who is himself pure Love, becomes entangled when we get our questioning human freedom involved. We are puny in truth but  become more and more prideful as we become part of the empty time-filling that is our worldliness. Satellites spin around our globe carrying our messages. Poweful industrial complexes build machines our forebearers couldn't have imagined. It is hard for us to envisage anything more powerful that the humanity that can manipulate the matter of this world in such ways.

We all have to face death one day and then will find out how puny we really are. We will then see with our dying eyes what we should have seen while living. There is nothing greater than the Love of God and he always knows us as we reach out in complete self-effacing humility to touch the hem of his garment. Faith is the only answer to God's Love and it is Faith that will restore us to the true Humanity that he created us to be.

Dear Lord help me to come to you with faith seeking out for the love and mercy that is your being to help me on the right path. Your mother Mary is the perfection of creation may she continue to lead the prayers of eternity in seeking help for the lost souls still living and the Holy Souls awaiting in penitence. your ultimate mercy.

 03/07/2022

The 72 were filled with joy that even the devils obeyed them when they proclaimed that they spoke through the essence of Jesus. "In his name".This they reported with joy for it confirmed what they and other disciples had come to believe. Jesus was the promise of God announced by Isaiah. He was the all-consoling Jerusalem, he was the flood of peace overwhelming all in full spate. He was the true power of God. His being was irrisistable by all creation. Even the devils cannot disobey his delegated ones.

Jesus responds immediately. We are not to rejoice in his witnessing power on Earth. We are not to become proud of the deeds done through us. We must not be overcome by our sense of living a virtuous life on Earth for it is not our place in creation but our place in the Kingdom of God that is important; our place in the Eternal moment that is the joy brought by the sight of Father Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord only you know the 72 . They have received the promised reward, the timeless reward of being in your presnce. Even they do not enjoy a bodily presence. May Mary who bore and nurtured you on Earth continue to plead for an end to  the evil suffering brought about by the wickedness of the devil working through sinful men. We all need your prayers to be added to ours as we pray that all mankind can turn to God seeking his Mercy.

 02/07/2022

The present state of Israel seems to be another completion of God's will foretold in today's passage from Amos. Amos foretells  the Holy Land again to be a place of great wealth and holiness. In today's Jersualem there is great wealth but of holiness there is little to be found and turning the other cheek is something that would be impossible for a state which always retaliates before it is wronged.

Jesus' blessing is freely given to all of mankind and the restrictons of the Old Testament are broken to open up for us the gates of Eternity. We cannot act arrogantly in the presumption that we are the ones chosen.We have been chosen not to rule the world; not to be able to increase  our wealth; not to forcibly remove others from their lands. Jesus has choen us to be the the poor people of God, the despised people humbly accepting our lot, living in a state of holiness always aware  that Father Son and Holy Spirit will show us the mercy that each of us needs.

I live in the world at the moment and am aware that we are surrounded by evil which is flourishing but each day I have to return in my consciousness to God who still searches out for me and all his lost sheep for it is he who will repair our sinful souls with the shrunken cloth of his grace to ensure that  faith does not get torn out of us by our failures at patching our weaknesses. 

Dear Lord I try to understand the teaching of scripture; I try to respond positively but sometimes my response is only half-heartd with none of the joy that being in your presence should bring. I have renounced the world the flesh and the devil but will always be in need of the grace so painfully gained on Calvary. May Mary the Mother of God continue to seek for me and all the suffering souls in Purgatory and on Earth evergreater graces to strengthen our resolves to avoid sin and worship Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

 01/07/2022

Every day when I pull myself from bed I have to wake myself to the way I am each day. I have no idea which way my thoughts are going to go but by an act of will I turn my thoughts to God. I suppose that my religion is what I was taught in my family and going to church was part of my being. Many years later my soul, my worshiping self is still turned to God and I am as a little child still looking for heaven but sinning without thought.

Wavering between Father, Son and Holy Spirit and my ego is the story of my life. Greed and pride were my first faults, later lust dominated and greed changed its object to drink. Jesus tells us that he is here to call sinners to repentance for we are required to give up our sins and use our freedom to live righteously in the Love of God.

The Old Testament has God acting directly in the world to reveal his Evergreatness in order that we may come to know his Glory. This is  not a truth that needs to be investigated but a reality in which the billions of created Souls have their existence. The psalm is our prayerful reponse; a prayer in which  the Holy Spirit reveals how we should know the Father, love the  Son and be open to and obey the summonses of the Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord you know how I fall short in my attempts to do your will. Help me to focus on my own faults and sinfulness the sinfulness of others is between them and you. Let all of sinful mankind come to the realisation that each of our souls is known and loved and it is only by each one of us rsponding positively that evil will be conquered. Mary my prayers for the sick and needy are known to you. Please beseech your son to  bring health to the sick and forgiveness to sinful and fortify all of sinful manknd to accept Mercy and live in the Love of God.