Fiddling around on the computer I came across an illustration and article on the Human Genome. And everything there was tiny and in millions that I could not grasp and I realised that those who tell us that it is blind faith and somehow stupidity that leads to a belief in God and the Truth that he has revealed to us, should ask themselves what is it that enables them to believe these things that are not seen and numbers that can only be held in the artificial memory of a machine. How can the enormous scale of the tiny genome be witnessed without some sort of awe and doubt that such a thing could be the ultimate result of a random Big Bang.The question word "where" applied to the Big Bang does not seem to be answerable without resource to imaginative concepts such as Parallel Universes, Worm Holes and other constructs not far removed from the Schoolmen's "angels dancing on the end of pin". Where was/is/will it be that the Big Bang happened/ is happening /will happen?
Thank God for The Pope Emeritus . His words to the at the Pontifical Urban University remind us that the early Christians those who knew our Lord were faced with all the enemies of belief that we face to day. They knew the fear of opening their hearts to strangers; they knew the scorn of the unbelievers; but they knew the "Truth" and everything they did as missionaries was to bear witness to the Truth and to spread the Good News that God had visited his people and purchased for us the reward of Eternal Life. We are not confined to a space created by a Mythic Big Bang but we are the product of the Infinite Love of our infinite God.
This is the Truth and it is this that all evangelist whether new or old have to spread. Everything that is preached or read has to be measured by this yardstick of Truth. Distributing Holy Communion to those who are not under the proper dispositions is not an act of charity but a dismal disavowal of the Truth of the Sacrament.
Claiming that the Sacrament of Marriage can be imposed on each other by same-sex couples is a falsehood and if not recognised as such can only result in the loss of the chance of eternal life by those involved. At today's mass St Paul preached this Truth for today and always.
First reading
Ephesians 4:32-5:8
Be friends with one another, and kind, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ.
Try, then, to imitate God as children of his that he loves and follow Christ loving as he loved you, giving himself up in our place as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God. Among you there must be not even a mention of fornication or impurity in any of its forms, or promiscuity: this would hardly become the saints! There must be no coarseness, or salacious talk and jokes-all this is wrong for you; raise your voices in thanksgiving instead. For you can be quite certain that nobody who actually indulges in fornication or impurity or promiscuity-which is worshipping a false god-can inherit anything of the kingdom of God. Do not let anyone deceive you with empty arguments: it is for this loose living that God’s anger comes down on those who rebel against him. Make sure that you are not included with them. You were darkness once, but now you are light in the Lord; be like children of light.
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