October 13 2014

That this can be anonymous Dear Lord I pray. Let these words be from a heart unconscious of self. Let me not feel anything but the wish to follow you and witness to your death and resurrection.  Why then this writing? I pray that what I write may be seen to be the words of a sincere soul getting closer to death, who everyday can only remember that his family is lost to God and that he and his generation are to blame for this loss.

The world, as is  usual, is filled with the stench and the sweetness of sin. Every waking moment offers us new opportunity. We mostly accept the sin and then dare to ask how it can be that an all-knowing, all-loving all-powerful God can allow such evils to flourish in our world.


First reading for October 13 2014
Galatians 4:22-24,26-27,31-5:1

The Law says, if you remember, that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by his free-born wife. The child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary way; the child of the free woman was born as the result of a promise. This can be regarded as an allegory: the women stand for the two covenants. The first who comes from Mount Sinai, and whose children are slaves, is Hagar – The Jerusalem above, however, is free and is our mother, since scripture says: Shout for joy, you barren women who bore no children! Break into shouts of joy and gladness, you who were never in labour. For there are more sons of the forsaken one than sons of the wedded wife. So, my brothers, we are the children, not of the slave-girl, but of the free-born wife.
    When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.

We have been baptised into the freedom of heaven but freely choose the yoke, the slavery of sin.