16/02/2023

There is a well known and often used saying in the North of England, "There's nowt as queer as folks" and in these times we can vary it a little to say "There's nowt as queer as "woke" folk". God's sign for his covenant with Noah has been stolen to be the badge of the enemies of both Mankind and God. Their pride is their sin and their  diversity is the unity they have with Satan. 

They are also plain daft as reproductive organs define male and female even in the animal kingdom. Those who have had the misfortune to be born indefinite must be treated with respect but the patronising seekers of uniformity are a voluble minority who need to go the way of the child molesters who, a few years ago began to seek a lowering of  the age of consent.

Jesus knew Satan as the opposition to Father, Son and Holy Spirit that all, except himself and his mother, experience in our beings. Jesus heard the words of Peter and treated them as if they came directly from the "Tempter" he had rebuffed face-to-face in the aloneness of the desert.

Peter became the foundation on which Jesus began the human structure which with the guidance by the Holy Spirit was to maintain his presence on Earth. After 2000 years, we know this as the RC Church. Poor Peter! What a responsibility to have been put onto one man. 

Of course, Peter was not alone and he had not only Mary and the Apostles to support him but many enthusiastic men and women joined the witnesses of the Resurrected Christ in full belief in the Holy Spirit and expectation of the Second Coming. St Paul in particular knew that the resurrected Jesus Christ had not left us alone as he had been in the desert and then in that hiatus between his death and Resurrection.

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are God's". Jesus knew that the assaults by  Satan would begin as soon as he returned to the Father and continue to the end of time.

 Today,in the North of England, there is being played out yet another drama involving the Church structure and the wish to placate Caesar. An Archbishop of the Church, having been ordered by the Vatican to investigate nefarious conduct by a Bishop and also the events that lead to the suicide of a Cathedral Dean has avoided his duty by passing it to a lay person who had been given the title Chief Operating Officer of a different Diocese. What has this purely worldly administrative role got to do with Our Lord and his redemption of mankind, the saving of souls?

Popes, Archbishops priests in fact all members of the clergy and dedicated orders are absolutely nothing if they are not the "things of God" in that they form the visible form of Christ's Mystical Body. Almost immediately, however,  the acceptance as a necessity for there to be a human organisation originally to take care of "widows and orphans"but which was soon overcome by the same power of Mammon  that had corrupted the much vilified Judas, there began the conflict between holiness and worldliness in which today's English Hierarchy have faithlessly thrown in the towel. Westminster and Birmingham at the IICSA and Liverpool today.

Let them admit that there are many failures among the clergy who have damaged children and others. Let them admit that it is an added sin to pretend that this is not true. Let them admit that Church property is theft from the poor. Let them admit that over the centuries their predecessors in both West and East have always failed to make the right choice between God and Caesar. 

Europe's great Cathedrals and Monasteries are proof of this.

Dear Lord you are Creator and Saviour of Mankind. I know that I am responsible for my own life and I, although still upset by the failings of richer and powerful, am still aware that I fail in total response to the truth I read in your Gospels and writings of holy men. Please stir up the faith of those comfortable prelates who cosy up to the Caesar/ worldly society of our times and cannot  defy Satan by preaching only truth without regard for their own status and wealth. May Mary and all the saints continue to pray that thy people on Earth are not mislead by miscreant clergy and that reactions to others' misdeeds does not become the dominant force in my life. I know that I am always in need of Mercy and hope to share the same with my generation of Holy Souls in purgatory.