28/02/2023

This morning I looked at the readings for St Irenaeus' mass. I wanted to brag to myself that I knew who he was. What I did do was look at the first reading of that mass from St Paul's letter to Timothy. Avoid idle "speculations"!

In today's Gospel for Wednesday Week 12. Jesus is speaking to all of us. Beware false prophets! In her liturgy the Church really does continue Jesus' message into our lifetimes. 

It is how she acts on that message that really bothers and makes me want to cry for the stupid nonsense that Bishops and Priests have perpetrated and then tried to cover up. Don't they know that there is nothing that can be concealed from "Our Father who art in Heaven"? Jesus tells us to call no man "fool" but how are we to refer to those who are reading the Church's texts today and then continue to try to  deceive first themselves and then God.

Abraham received the "Word" in a dream, he didn't  know the origin of "being" by Philosophical speculation but by listening directly to God. Through him the whole of mankind was shaken up by the true God who was ready to accept the sacrifice of physical wealth in animal form as the token of worship, thanks and praise for the Love with which the Being we now know as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, created all that is real.

 The rottenness that disfigures the face of the Institution that the community of friends and disciples of Jesus has become so obvious that I cannot believe that the confected "Eucharist" can be relied on to be the Sacramental Real Presence. The Church's teaching on this which relies on God not requiring holiness on the part of his priests for them to act with him during the Liturgy falls easily, in my opinion, into the category of "idle speculation"and has long been perpetuated  by the "false prophets", who have acquired the vast economic wealth of this world which shackles our Church to the profane. 

Today Jesus himself warns us about the futility of expecting good fruit from a rotten tree. I can hear him and believe the simplicity of his Truth. How can anyone close his ears to the purity and clarity of the Holy Spirit? Can the Father still look on his Church and his creation and "know that it is good".

Dear Lord, my prayer is always that you take back your Church from the "Pharisaical" hordes of Clergy and hangers-on. Let us the simple be bolstered in our Faith rather than mocked by self-centered clergy of all ranks. I pray that I can be a part of the "Spiritual Church of Love" that has always been present despite the malfeasance of clergy and that Mary, John and Irenaeus and all the saints plead for the return to the Church of the Holiness that your hands conferred on the Apostles. You know my sinful state Lord, please help me and all sinners to return to sincerity of Faith, Hope and Charity. Amen!!