+ Today we have very important, even I may add “critical” readings
for mass – especially the gospel passage. The whole incarnation
of the Word of God, which really happened, the enfleshment of God-Speech, as
Jesus! God only spoke one Creative Word – by the working of the Holy Spirit – and
that word is WORD! And this WORD became flesh – so as to save us from sure and
certain eternal doom and damnation – the result of the sin of our first
parents!
And so, we have just recalled
and celebrated the great high holy days of our religious observance: Holy
Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil!
Now there is likewise only one
way to get totally connected and hooked up to these eternal life saving events:
and that is the method that Jesus himself prescribes: saying to Nicodemus in
the gospel passage: “YOU MUST BE BORN FROM ABOVE!” you MUST be BORN FROM ABOVE –
you must access God in the way in which will be salvific for your life here and
hereafter!
YOU MUST BE “BORN AGAIN”! – of
the SPIRIT! but Nicodemus is tripped up by the phrase: “BORN AGAIN” How can
this happen?? Can a fully grown man crawl back inside his mother’s womb, for a second
birth, a second launching into the world. Well, no and yes!
Jesus begins to assure
Nicodemus that it is a supernatural, spiritual reality that he is talking
about, not the natural event that Nicodemus is thinking about!
Being born again and truly
living the life we were meant to live consists in this: Jesus further
extrapolates: you must be baptized, first for the forgiveness of sin, in my
Name; then later you must affirm and confirm this “sacrament” by another
deepening sacrament: Confirmation; and then if you want the fullness of the
life of the Spirit, you must be baptized in the Holy Spirit – so the same
experience that happened on Pentecost Day can happen to you – then you will be
fully armed, charged and launched as a spiritual force into the world to help
combat the opposing force that wants to deter people on earth from their
rightful eternal inheritance of peace, and joy and love!
More on all this later as this
Season and the Season of Pentecost unfolds in a few weeks.
Let it suffice to say: that
subsequent actions, which speak louder than words, testify to the fact that
this Spirit life in the Mystical Body of Christ is real, palpable and accessible
to anyone at all who wants it: and the action involved are actions of
self-sacrifice, love, sharing, caring, compassion, empathy and Service after
the Heart of the Lord Jesus who washed his disciples feet at the Last Supper he
ate with them in the pre-resurrected human life form that he possessed.
In whatever degree we now
possess the Spirit – always knowing we can proceed to the next and more deep
level – let us live our faith joyfully, recklessly, peacefully and happily this
day as we help in some way every single person God puts in our path!
Belief in the Son of Man who
was lifted up from the earth is essential for eternal life! I BELIEVE LORD
JESUS, LORD CHRIST, LORD SAVIOR! how can I help you today!
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