31/07/2024

In the first reading Jeremiah is "fed-up". He has felt the inspiration to preach God's Word, but he is reproached by those you hear him. He knows that it is God's truth and not some human thinking that he preaches and yet even "loan-sharks" do not receive the hatred that faces him.

He has never done anything contrary to the will of God. In fact, he has loved to hear God's voice in the Scriptures and in his heart but God lets his enemies have the upper-hand to the extent that he questions the value of being born.

Part of God's reaction to Jeremiah's woes is to reassure him that he has been preaching the Word. He must not change the message of God to suit the world of his generation.

In my life time I have witnessed far too much backsliding by those who should be leading us on the way, truth and life by demonstrating that they too believe and are guided by  the words that they preach.

Jeremiah did not limit his complaints to human words only. He faced up to the worldliness that was corrupting the chosen people and tarnishing their devotion to the crystal clear message that he knew came from  God. He knew that both people and temple, sheep and shepherds would, in time, incur their well-deserved punishment but it was himself who was duly punished by the hypocrites who hid their corruption under priestly garments and ostentatious display of "holiness" for his temerity in attacking the reality of their Godlessness.

Jesus always challenges us. He is the perfection that Father, Son and Holy Spirit offer us as the example to which we should aspire. Sometimes his words themselves become the "hard sayings" collected by Bible-Scholars. The image of the "treasure" being found, but not revealed to the owner of the field, does not add to my concept of fair practice in business and if the treasure is himself, the Resurrection, the Word, the Kingdom of Heaven this becomes the hardest of all "hard sayings".

There is nothing in scripture, however, that we should avoid or ignore.

 Dear Lord, help me to find the truth in all your "sayings" and deeds recorded in the Bible. Let me access the meanings which may be hidden among the words. Let my mind be open to receive the completed will of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Help those who are always preaching their own version of the morality which should rule our life on Earth lose their self -love with which they re-hammer the nails into your hands and feet. 

May my prayers join with those of all the faithful to counteract the influence of the World within your Church which has sullied you foundation  since Apostolic times. They are much interested in the "signs of the times" but your cross is the sign for all times and the teaching, life and death of Jesus is our never changing road-map to your Eternal Glory. Let my prayers open my heart to receive your grace and pardon here on earth as do the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen

 30/07/2024

The background music to my sinful life over the last twenty years has been a realisation that our Church has never been true to the Mission given to the Apostles. That "sweeping statement" has become my response to the reality which I face each morning when I wake up. 

Jesus preached to the chosen people who for centuries had been "the apple of God's eye" but had always treated God's bounty as their due not as the gift that our consciousness of reality is to us all.

Today I cannot see that our Church has ever been any different from the "Law" that Jesus came to fulfill. I think that, as a Catholic, I have been for all my life one of the "Anonymous Jews" who demanded the execution of Our Lord. 

St Paul is aware that Jesus changes everything as he, the Son, is the total revelation of the Father, Himself and Holy Spirit. Moses and all the  prophets did not fulfill God's will for his people by condoning their backsliding to become no different from their neighbours.

Our ancestors born into the Church in any of the generations since Apostolic times have always been guided by a human organisation that focussed its attention on its place in the world of Mammon, power and possessions. Any individuals who sought the truth of the Holy Spirit and did not follow the misguidance of Popes and Bishops were ruthlessly condemned and even killed.

In the first centuries there were many of us who tried to open our hearts to the Holy Spirit, who recognised that "Church" was much more than the exoskeleton that was the Hierarchy of Clerical Orders.

 "I have sought you with all my heart, let me not stray from your commands."

But  God never forgets. Jesus has never left us alone. "Do as the Pharisees say, not as they do". He grew up until he was thirty in the perfect example of the Holy Family. He was unknown until he began to open himself to the eyes of his generation and in the process became unrecognisable to his family members.

His last words from the cross were to John and Mary and in these words I can find the hope that means that God is not letting us go our own way on the sweet road to perdition that is the "dust" of bodily life.

Our souls are the breath of the Holy Spirit, the sweet source of God's grace and we can have faith, hope and love still in our lives even though we Christians too have repeated the sins of the ancient Jews. 

God does not love us because we are wonderful but we are wonderful because God loves us.

Dear Lord, I always have to ask for grace to call me back to reality. I give myself over to you knowing that I have been filled with sin for most of my life. I know that your Church has had many holy priests but they retained their holiness in spite of the failing organisation. Our generation is guided by the desires of the flesh and the cupidity of mammon please show all the world that you are God, the Supreme Being who out of Love for sinful man chose to be in human flesh, only you  could pay  the price for the Mercy you shower down on us. 

 29/07/2024

The Jewish scriptures that have been preserved by the Church should have been accepted by the people of the Old Testament. They are, first of all, God's revelation of his being; IAMIAM and then of his guidance on how to follow His Will during our lifetimes.

Jeremiah really did not make a lot of friends by comparing his neighbors to worn out and discarded underwear. He, as do we all, could only have his own image of God. He interprets his inspiration in human terms and attributes to the eternally unchanging almighty power which has created the Universe and each individual "I" as part of it, the same emotions that confuse our own humanity. Father, Son and Holy Spirit is unfazed by ignorance but deliberate disobedience has had to be countered by the mystery of Incarnation.

The Christian writings together with the Old Testament that has been preserved by the Church should have been accepted in their totality as the legacy of Jesus and his Apostles, the objective source of how to live as the adopted sons of God in this world.

The history of Christendom both East and West is a revelation of how we have failed to live up to God's complete revelation of himself. We by our sins are as guilty of mocking God as are those who mocked his Last Supper before the whole world in Paris recently.

The failure by Jews and Christians continues to be witnessed by the remnant which is still slaughtering, continuing its own Holocaust, in Gaza and by the eastern and western Church which has never been true to neither Jesus' "my Kingdom is not of this world" nor to Martha's words of complete Faith "Yes, Lord, I do believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who has to come into the world."

Dear Lord, let me become true to you. Each one of us has to be completely open to You, Father Son and Holy Spirit and accept that it is only by our individual righteousness that we can do your will on earth; "I am the Resurrection and the life, if anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." Help me to be open to the grace that the prayers of all your friends in heaven bring to me and let your mother's pleas for all sinners here and in Purgatory be fulfilled by my sincere penitence and acceptance of your merciful justice. Amen.

 28/07/2024

Our Father  in heaven is "three in one". He is the source of all being. Without him there would be nothing. God has no beginning or end. He reveals himself and we respond. We are because God created us and knows us and every other atom of matter that he has ever created.

Creation is measured by time, but there is no way to measure God or his Eternity, which is without beginning or end. "There is one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism and one God who is Father of all, over all, through all and in all and within all".

Our relationship with God has us curtail our freedom and measure our selves against the rules of conduct that are also part of his creation. We are conscious of our being, we know that we are alive and know that our bodies obey the same instincts as do all animals and have a life-time limited by biological constraints.

One nation, known by its unique DNA, was favoured by God. The Old Testament is a record of that nation's failure to overcome its self-love. Their beauty, intelligence and unique position in the eyes of God became too much for them and Human Pride always forgets God.

We cannot understand our God for he is eternal and our understanding of events is trapped in time and we see cause and effect in everything that we know. I have always tried to understand what it is about mankind that is so valuable that in the Old Testament God loves the Jews, chastises, loves  again and finally reveals the entirety of his Love by bringing total forgiveness in the way that he did on Calvary.

The first reading and the Gospel has the same miracle. Eternity is seen in our time and space and there is a change in the laws of Physics. Neither of  the miracles seems to have any lasting effect. Jews went on to instigate the death of the author of the miracle, the incarnate Son of God and we Christians are today mostly led by the same materialism that is the "Gospel" of Mammon and is the dominant force in our world today.

Dear Lord, I have been taught that by knowing, loving and serving I can become the being that you created me to be. I live in time and know how I change from minute to minute. You never change and  Father,Son,Holy Spirit of one substance you will only good for your creation and for me. Help my being control itself so that I am never swayed to deny you again by sin. You promised that you would return. It's bit pointless my repeating, thy will be done, as of course it will but I do hope that the continuing denial of you that is the World today can be brought to an end so that we can all come to the joy that will be New Creation when you are all in all. Amen

 27/07/2024

We have not been wound up like autmaton and left to run on in the time that is the result of God's Creation of the Universe. We have a much more important role than constructing temples and utilizing our intelligences. First of all we have to recognise that we do have a role in this world.

Jeremiah proclaims the truth from the mouth of God that we need to live as image and likeness by never preferring our own good to that of our fellow humans. We are not gods but we have the ability to know that within the Love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit there is nothing else but Good. Our role is to complete the will of God in our bodily lives as if we are already in heaven and thus proclaim that the we are using our mortal lives to prepare for the Eternal Joy that we call heaven.

We have been created able to hear the "Word of the Lord" and have learnt that we first of all need to never stray from his guidance. The deeds of my fellow creatures are indeed beautiful and wondrous but the structures are all destined to crumble, the power is always used against itself and the men/women who built our cities thus revealing the wonder of mankind will themselves become dust.

The great evils that are being done today and have been done in the past are all done by the cumulative disowning of the Spiritual Kingdom proclaimed by Jesus, by millions of souls.The enemy still polluting the wheat  that is this world is inside each one of us who continue to refuse the Word that was with God in the Beginning. "Let there be Light".

Millions of us are living and have lived since the Beginning and before the End. We the living are the ones who can chose between God and Mammon, eternal spirit and bodily corruption. We are the ones who are still failing God and building vast New Temples and proclaiming man's defiance at the one who has only loved us even to becoming "True Man" so as to be able to create a perfection of mercy and justice in this world that none of us deserve. 

How can we forget what happened 2000 years ago in Palestine!

Dear Lord, 

We are always in need of an awakening from the slumber that bodily delights bring into our beings. Our souls welcome the sloth that sin encourages at all times of the day and night. Help me to hear your word more clearly and let the egoism that drives my useless pride refrain from containing a denunciation of the sin that the bodily delights of sex create for all humans. They are the  most common sins we commit and which drive the pride that has always challenged you are those of the body, that seek only pleasure without the commitment to the reproduction that is doing your will.

Help us to defeat the evil that is growing as I write these words. Help the Church which I know quickly lost its way and the sects who sincerely tried to right the issues in her, become a voice listened to in this world so that more may come to you "Our Father" and seek the Eternity that can be praised on earth even before the judgement that will know us as wheat or darnel.  

I make this prayer to and through Father, Son and Holy Spirit knowing that it can join those of Mary and all the saints pleading for forgiveness of those on earth and in Purgatory. Amen

 26/07/2024

I have lived most of my life in awareness of my own sin. I know that I have sinned by the misuse of my freedom. For many years I believed in the teachings of the Catholic Church and accepted her interpretation of God's will for mankind. I still do. 

Jesus told us to listen to the Pharisees but not to do as they do.

I was thus able to justify to myself the obvious sins committed by our shepherds over the centuries. The words "I will be with you always even to the end of time" were enough to silence the doubts I had. The most important link in the chain, however, was the Sacrament of Penance. I could never live in peace with the guilt I felt for my sins and the fear of dying in a state of mortal sin.

I thus had to believe that sacramental holiness could be found only in the Catholic Church and that "Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my Church" was the foundation stone for the only objective holiness to be met in this world.  

I wanted for myself the peace of mind that comes from being faithful to God and obeying his will each day of my life. Over the centuries the Church founded on Saint Peter has been challenged internally and externally by this mission/duty.

It is not for the first time in the history of humanity that we have turned ourselves away from God. Jesus who is His declaration of Mercy for the whole world is also God's restatement and expansion of his revelation to Moses for those could not keep their side of the Covenants. The Godless descendants of those backsliders are, as I write this, again denying God as they slaughter without remorse their enemies, men, women and children in Gaza.

Our Christianity too, has never lived up to the teaching of its Rabbi. Jesus' explanation of the meaning of the "Parable of the Sower" could be interpreted as if our fate is predetermined in the soul which has been given to us by God. The truth is, however, that Jesus  throughout the Gospels teaches us by word and example that we have been created by the Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that we can follow his example and choose to become a one who is the rich soil within which God's Word can flourish.

Mercy and Holiness are a gift to those souls who seek it. They are not confined to any institution for all institutions are man-made and belong to this world. Peter too was aware that the John to whom Jesus had entrusted his mother was somehow "not of this world"; hence the "What of this man ?"

The Church, however, in both East and West soon lost the Spirituality of its Founder and for some centuries became indistinguishable from the institutions ruled by the  descendants of the Caesar, before whose representative Our Lord had declared "My Kingdom is not of this world".

The Institution founded by Jesus is now aware that its shortcomings cannot be concealed any longer and it really has no idea how to rectify the glaring failure it has become as was the Temple and its clerics 2000 years ago.

Dear Lord, Help me to grow in Faith, be secure in Hope and fulfilled by Love which I can share with all others. I do not wish to judge others but am never free from the awareness of  my own guilt. These years at the beginning of our century display humanity which is so part of this world that we are trying "to conquer" the Universe even though we cannot live by your commandments as individual souls. Let me be guided by Holy Spirit throughout this day and not be overcome by the tasks of this world which take over my being and have me forget the constant prayer which should fill my soul. May Mary, her parents and Joseph and John unite the prayers of all the saints in pleas for your forgiveness of all sinners, both here and in Purgatory, Amen.

 25/07/2024

My computer is quite old. Each day it seems slower than the day before. 

Why have I begun a reflection on the Scriptural mass-readings for today by talking about my computer? I have read, on my computer, the passages but although for the few seconds I was reading my mind was in 1st Century Palestine, it was soon brought back to the present day by "news stories" flashing across the screen as I waited for this "app" to open.

St Paul, unlike me, is a man who having been called to his mission never lost touch with the Lord. The Grace with which he was filled was never lessened. No matter how much he spread the Good News it was never diminished for him, Paul the Pharisee. It was the same Good News by which he was blinded on the road to Damascus. All of the problems of this life were overcome for Paul by his focus on the Resurrection.

Today's Gospel reading is a bit of "gossip" about the "machinations" of "The Mother of Zebedee's Sons". The mother was determined that her sons should not lose out when Jesus' kingdom became a reality. The "sons" both fully-grown men accept this intervention by their mother and accompanied her.(I bet they both felt mortified whenever this event came to mind in later life.)

But there is never anything that is trivial about Jesus and this embarrassing seeking after worldly success for her sons by a mother, is an opportunity for Jesus to emphasise that he is not the Jewish long-awaited Messiah, King of this World. He is the "Suffering Servant"; he does not wish to be seen as anything in life other than the Incarnate Son, who serves; his total being is  Father, Son and Holy Spirit, incarnate for our sakes. 

When he is raised up on Calvary; a naked near corpse nailed to a cross; we all know that this is  "the cup" that Jesus had to drink and the blood-stained reality of  "The Son of man came not to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many."

Dear Lord, accept my humble worship. The thoughts that become prayer. Help me be as you would have me be. Let my words come from the Holy Spirit in communion with Mary, John, James,  the other James and with all the Saints and be a plea for forgiveness and enlightenment for all sinners still breathing in this world or suffering the pains of Purgatory until your final return. Maranatha Lord. Come Lord Jesus Come.

 24/07/24

I have to renew my faith each day. As I wake up and stagger to my feet I have always uttered at least one "Lord have mercy" and also questioned what that means before I am ready to start walking. 

The time of leaping out of bed to face the hope of a new day has long gone as has the self inflicted horror, thanks be to God, of trying to recall what stupidities or harm I had done "under the influence" the night before.

Isaiah had had his lips touched by a "burning coal", today Jeremiah is touched by God himself. It  should be that God himself will also touch the lips of those who attend this morning's liturgy. He will provide the words for those who are tangled in their thoughts but need to proclaim the good news and the food and drink to sustain them during the day. 

God's covenant with Israel was to promote righteous living. The incarnation is to  save us from that failure by man. 

I have always been captivated by the idea of being known by God. I have not always lived up to that image hence the recalling and renewing that happens each morning that I wake up. I have not received the Sacrament in a very long time.

God's sacrifice of himself on the cross was to defeat sin by bringing Sacramental Grace into our world.

God knows that I am not blind to my own sin. He knows the shock and horror that the coming to realise that the Church, founded on St Peter, has never been free from the sinful corruptions of this world, was to me. I cannot sustain belief in her claims to there being "Holiness" in her Institutional Structure which is definitely of this world,  but with which she claims to confect the Sacraments without any necessity for  personal holiness on the part of her priests and ministers.

God has not left me ( or anyone else ) alone in this world to struggle to righteousness on my own as a lost sheep. The pain of the cross is God's enabling of individuals to come to him each moment of our lives. 

We can all become part of his new spiritual Holy Family instituted from the cross by standing with John and Mary and accepting his final mission "Woman behold your son; son behold your Mother". 

We too can join that New Holy family and be sure that Jesus will never be absent from our midst for this Church/Family is truly "Not of this world"and he will be with us the Head of the Family until the end of time.

Dear Lord, you know that I have been driven from the Church you founded on St Peter by its unwholesome corruptions and lack of faithfulness to your categorical requirements. You have no need of sacrifices, temples or churches. The blood of animals is just that and valueless to you The wonders human's have made out of the material of your Universe are just that, corruptible materials What you do want from us is pure hearts that reach out to return the Love you poured out on Calvary. May Mary, John and all the Saints support the hidden community of the New Holy Family that is known only by Father, Son and Holy Spirit and all the souls whose worship is always "not of this world". Forgive us our trespasses and help us all to continue to avoid sin. Amen!

 23/072024

Today's short reading from St Paul is very,very short but has to become a life-time of reflection. The Galatian Church to whom he writes must be of mainly Jewish origin for how could pagans have understood what he meant by "Law".

I am at fault for treating this letter as an isolated communication. There is a context. He had previously taught this community and had left behind a framework of inspired teaching on which his converts could ponder. St Paul's letters are all "preaching to the converted" and in the process developing Theological doctrine by which Christians could judge themselves.

I am wondering how these descendants of, Hellenized by two or three centuries of living among Greeks, Gauls could have understood " Through the Law I am dead to the Law so that now I can live with God."

The Paul whom they had met as a physically unprepossessing though charismatic Jew was definitely a living man. Why does he now claim to have been crucified and yet be still alive? They knew that his preaching was not about this world. He had lived with them and only spoken about God and the events that had happened twenty or so years before in Jerusalem. It was somebody else not he who had been crucified and become the "Resurrection".

We too today two thousand years later have to ask the same questions, doubt the same doubts and come to the same conclusions as did those men and women long ago in Anatolia. Paul is inspired by God to present the only Truth that can bring us to perfect peace of mind in this world and to the welcoming arms of the Angels and Saints in the Presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit at the end of our bodily lives. 

Our Faith and theirs is in "The Son of God who loved me and sacrificed himself for my sake." In his short public life-time Jesus reinforced everything that the Law had revealed and the Resurrection has confirmed.

Dear Lord, our lives on earth have to be lived out strengthened by Faith in your word, Hope for Eternity and Love for you and our fellow men. Help me to be true to these thoughts for today which have not got beyond the "first reading". Perhaps they can get no further for if I can live with you as my being is there anything else that I might need? I am nowhere near  perfection with much accumulated dross that prevents my soul from being near to the holiness with which you lived those first years on earth in your Holy Family. I am a hermit amidst the hustle and bustle of everyday life. If it be your will let me be alone no longer but knowing that I am sincere in these efforts is, in reality, enough for me. Come Lord. Jesus come.

 22/07/2024

We hear of many people in the Gospels but we know very little about most of them. Mary of Magdala has had many legends repeated as fact about her. The one fact that we can be sure about is that it was she to whom the Resurrected Christ first appeared on the "third day" in the same form as the Crucified Christ but in a new form of being, nobody to whom he appeared recognised him immediately, "the first fruits of the New Creation, the Resurrection".

Father, Son and Holy Spirit has completed the revelation of the meaning of "life". "The meaning" that each one of us has to accept for himself. This vast and beautiful self-expression of matter, the Universe is the ongoing result of the Father,Son,Holy Spirit's joy in the Love that is Being God.

 Mankind is the ultimate end of created matter for our being is the only one with the freedom to accept or deny God and the intellect to understand the structure of our material universe. God lacks nothing so we could have been his "Artificial Intelligences" pre-programmed to live as do all his animals with certain instincts and limited awareness. The Infinitely  Free-Being knows the supreme value of "freedom" and that is why human freedom is part of our being. 

The vastness of God's Being is the Creative Love that has created us as "Image and Likeness". The limitless Universe is not the limitless Love that knows the hairs on our head and the deepest thoughts of our minds.The only blight in creation is Sin which Adam/Eve chose to accept thus marring its Perfection.

God has never abandoned the people of the Covenant or of his Church. The Old Testament is the record of the breaking of the Covenant. The New Testament reveals the standards by which each individual should live in the new creation that is today. The blight of mammon fueled hedonism is still the sin of the world. 

Our Lord is still with us, even in the institution that claims to be the Church founded on Peter. That structure has never withdrawn and condemned the worldliness that has never been absent from its Roman beginnings but has become more and more the antithesis to the public declaration made at his trial before Pilate, by our Incarnate God. "My kingdom is not of this world."

Dear Lord, help me to become able to live without sin. Help me to overcome all the temptations that surround us in this material world. Let me live with my focus firmly on the last things. May Mary and all the saints of heaven pray for me and mine that we can live in accordance with your will in this world and that somebody else can benefit from these my words which I hope do no harm to anyone. Open up the hearts of all sinners here and in purgatory to understand the abhorrence that sin is to you and thus realise how much Jesus suffered undergoing atonement that we all might join thee in the New Creation that is life after death. Amen!

 21/07/2024

Those who have felt that God has called them to be shepherds of his people have been called to display in all their doings the integrity of the Trinity. There is only one Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The Holy Orders of Sacramental Life are still with us and are a huge responsibility for mere men to carry. The Church that I have met, or been met with, as I grew in life has never ceased to change as many generations of us have been born and the role of "The Good Shepherd" has been continued in an ever-changing world.

In the second reading, St. Paul, is writing to the Church in Ephesus. He is still totally aware of "them and us". "Us" are Jews and "you" are Gentiles. He himself has become God's "New Man". We are all to be united as the same "New Man". This is the meaning of the Cross. One God and one people. Vertically God to man and man to God, horizontally man to man .

In the Gospel, the missionaries have returned to Jesus. There is much "to-ing and fro-ing", lots of "busyness", lots of human nature. John the Baptist has been beheaded and Jesus knows that there is need of time for reflection as too much is happening all at once. 

So they get into the boat only to be preempted  by the crowd and thus is completed the preparation for one of the "feeding miracles" that precede the "Last Supper",  the source of the first ordination of New  Shepherds, all Jews, for the New Humanity, in the Kingdom which is not of this world.

Dear Lord, You know that I am struggling this morning to find the words that will make me feel to be truly satisfied that I am truly aligned with your will for me. I do listen to my own words and question whether they are truthful. I have to place all my trust in you and the saints who have faithfully served in this world. Let me be helped by joining my prayers with those of Mary and all the saints and let me live in the hope that my words do have a meaning that you will reveal to me. I do really want to know love and serve in this world for that is when I am happy in this world, the only world I know. Help me to the grace of holiness that you poured out on all this world at Calvary. You know that I am weak and sinful and helpless without your aid. Let the prayers of all of us bring  grace to the clergy that they may remain true to the calling by which they were first inspired. 

 20/07/2024

In today's first reading Micah denounces the sins that flourished during his time on Earth that he lived without ever losing touch with the Law, the symbol of the Covenant, the fence that separated the Chosen People from the "Nations".

IAMIAM is patient with his so off-the-mark "image and likeness". "Who can know the mind of God?". He has always known that we are so much like him that we challenge his right to determine how we should live out our life-times. He has made freedom a part of our being. It is stupid of him to expect us not to use it as we think fit. Such are the thoughts of those who choose to oppose God.

The Psalmist knows that all sin in Micah's day " Woe to those who plot evil who lie in bed plotting mischief", is a result of deliberate defiance of God's Law and similarly in his own day sin has taken over the Chosen People to the extent that the "Wicked man boasts of his heart's desires, the covetous blasphemes and spurns the Lord. In his pride, the wicked says, "He will not punish, there is no God." Such are his thoughts".

The all powerful IAMIAM, reveals his will for his creation in the Old Testament.  Mankind's failure to curtail its own freedom of will, however, is not met with  devastation but with the Incarnate Word and all that the future generations (us) need to lead holy lives is revealed and completed in the New Testament. 

 A holy life is fulfilled by acknowledging our sinfulness and after that by continuing to be guided by the the Holy Spirit who is the Life of the Spiritual Body of Christ which can be found any where that two or three people are gathered in his name, even in the institutional worldly church that has never understood that Father, Son and Holy Spirit really did mean, "My Kingdom is not of this world". 

Dear Lord, I know that the learned can refute the thoughts that come to me as I begin each day. I am still aware of the sins that have marred my life. My penitence can never match the grievous harm that I have done to my own soul by sin. I do not need to be able to understand your ways but attempting to know them is a way of worshipping you that is never concluded. The history of your Worldly Institution is not a happy one and many of its deeds can be seen for what they really are, mortal sins. Help me to live without sacraments in this world but always be open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit who can breach the shield of self-love if only I truly open from my side the wall built by sin and deep rooted delight in my material body and cleverness of mind.  I make these prayers in my mind but with an unvoicable striving to be true to your teaching and with you Now! Maranatha . Come Lord Jesus! Come !

 19/07/2024

Those who witnessed the miracles that show to us the Supreme Power that  "I Am Father, Son and Holy Spirit" has over the material universe, his creation, were not all instantly converted to lives of faith-filled holiness. All those who witnessed "Isaiah's Miracle of the Sun" did not begin and continue to live righteous lives after that miraculous moment.

St Peter, who had witnessed the Transfiguration and numerous other miracles, still denied knowing Jesus when confronted during the trial. I have never in my own person ever experienced the power which at first blinded St Paul and then filled him with the Holy Spirit so much so that he has become a standard for us who can read his letters and be guided  2000 years after they were written.

Today I am living with Faith, Hope and Love in my heart.  I am  aware of my own sinfulness. I am also aware that I was never as committed to sinfulness as I am now, thanks be to God, committed to sincerely seeking out God's will for me and pledging my being to follow it. This makes for a much better life even in this world than I have any right to expect for myself.

Many of us who are co-operating with the Holy Spirit see the change from habitual sin to the search for holiness that we experience in our lives as a "miracle", something that is an exceptional occurrence and contradictory to the laws of our nature.

In reality the nature of all creation obeys the laws of matter that are part of that moment the Love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit uttered in the Eternal Being "Let there be Light". Mankind, me,  and the billions of others that we are, are created to know, love and serve. It is sin that is the aberration. An  incredible negative deed, a reverse miracle of human will that denies the Love and Trust of Father, Son and Holy Spirit which is the natural place for us all to accept and to live within.

Dear Lord, you assured the Pharisees that you were the Son, coequal with the Father and with him the Holy Spirit. IamIam's true Being revealed to all mankind. After prayer in the Temple did some Pharisees always join the throng captivated by your charisma and medical miracles from which you ofttimes sought in solitude the perfection of being fully united in prayer with Father and Holy Spirit? Help me to ponder as did Our Lady during her life on Earth the incomprehensible wonders of your being. Let me find truth in Scriptures and in the writings of your saints, never forgetting that if I truly open my heart you will fill it with all that I need to atone for my sins and learn to hate them as the source of the pain you underwent on my behalf. You know that I have lost touch with the Worldly Institution which your foundation has been for the last 1800 or so years . Help me to be part of the "Sabbath" that you also founded, from the agony of the cross, in the New Holy Family of Mary and John. Dear Lord hear my prayers and help me to avoid  occasions of sin which mankind is still choosing to increase as a function of our mastery of matter. Amen. 

 18/07/2024

I always have to wait after reading the mass-readings for this page to appear on my screen. Sometimes I lose touch with what I have read minutes before. God knows that this blog is a record necessary for me to retain my hold on the reality of God's purpose for me and of the contrition that is not just the acknowledgment of my sins.

My aim is to seek God's Truth in what I read and respond in my truth to the inspired words, the Scriptures, that begin about 3,000 years ago and contain all that we need to know to complete our lives in righteous integrity, the holiness that is God's will for us all to enjoy.

We should all be happy even in the most miserable of circumstances.We who have welcomed the completed word of the Lord and recognise in awe-struck gratitude that Jesus in his "time" writhed in the agony that is the only possible, atonement great enough to eradicate the "evil" we inherit from Adam/Eve and is the root cause of all the wickedness created by mankind throughout the ages.

I know that  AdamEve, Mary, Jesus are the only human beings who have begun their lives on earth without sin. AdamEve disobeyed. They did not do this through ignorance for God had warned them. 

In today's Gospel Jesus tells us that to follow him even to the cross is easy, not at all a heavy load. Most of my life I have not opened my heart and not even tried to respond to "my yoke is easy, my burden light". Convinced of the  impossibility, I have not  accepted these words as an eternal truth spoken as was the "do not eat of the tree of knowledge". 

God is really lovely and great and in his eternal totality he offers his world for us to see the good with which he surveyed the whole of his creation. He promises to help us and has sealed that promise with the perfect sacrifice on Calvary. 

That is why Jesus can say, "Come to me all you who labour and are burdened and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke, and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden is light".

 17/07/2024

Yesterday we heard Jesus uttering a grave warning to the towns of Galilee. They had not completely accepted the revelations he had made to them even though they had also witnessed the miraculous healing of the sick and heard him preach.

In the first reading, Isaiah attributes the success of their enemies as a punishment wreaked on Judah because of its backsliding from its part in the covenant. God deals with Israel and the other nations as if those nations in the Old Testament were each a communal person and selects only a few individuals to become the prophets through whom he explains his purpose.

That has also been to this day the attitude of the American Evangelical Christians towards the resettlement of Palestine by the Jews who had survived the holocaust perpetrated by the failed Christian Culture of Europe. They have taken on the position of Old Testament prophets and regard the slaughter and theft of  Palestinian lands as God's support for his chosen people.

Not only I, but every individual born into the world has no responsibility for the historical events that have resulted in the reality we find ourselves to be part of at the moment of our birth.

Neither has God, for he has created us to be free to choose how we live out our lives and what to do with the creation into which we are born.There is nothing that we have done to modify creation that is directly attributable to God.

 We are indeed wondrous beings but far less than the mere children, in comparison to Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that Jesus praises the Father for making recipients of his revelation.

There can be no doubt that the Jews are special in this world for it is from their physical race, now known to be DNA, that Father, Son and Holy Spirit chose to be begotten as true man. They are also "learned and clever" and it is this "cleverness" that has lead to the Atheism of Zionists who have slaughtered thousands to fulfill their self perceived destiny.

God has created us to become aware of the wonderous eternity into which we have been created to bow before him in perfect worship and live accordingly in this world by knowing, loving and serving. 

This is the Theology of the "mere children" schooled by the penny catechism and has, by the learned and clever, been expanded into millions of books but none of them greater in significance than the two words "Our Father" with which Jesus taught us to begin our prayer.

Dear Lord, help me to become by accepting your grace, one of your children who can pray to you in sincerity having learned what love is in the arms of our mothers. You too accepted with joy the human love with which you were welcomed into the lives of Mary and Joseph. It is impossible for any human being except yourself to truly "know" the love that you are and the joy that even my penitence can bring into your kingdom. May Mary and all the saints join in all the prayer that we sinners on earth proclaim as we raise our minds and hearts to You our Almighty Father who is the timelessness of Heaven. May my sins and those of all near to me be forgiven and may we all find peace to live calmly unto the end of our worldly lives. Amen.

 16/07/2024

I have often faced the thought of dying with great fear as I have known, even as a child that sin was as a seemingly inescapably a part of my being as my head is a part of my body. 

The Old Testament treats sin and its punishments as part of human life on Earth the and "after-life" as a continuum from "Abraham's bosom" to the torments of Dives, the rich man, which were made much worse for him by an awareness of the delights being experienced by Lazarus, the poor man whose earthly needs he had ignored.

Jesus has left us with no doubts that individual human freedom can choose for itself  everlasting joy. 

Many have speculated about this but no matter how great our intelligence no one can truly know the Father, Son and Holy Spirit until he brings us into his presence and we are all judged on how well we have used, not our human talents in this world, but the Mercy that is the sign of the cross. 

Jesus also left us with no doubts that our individual human freedom can also choose to ignore the Mercy that is the purpose of his Incarnation.

This too has caused much speculation but no matter how great our intelligence and knowledge we cannot think our way out of the hard truth that Jesus, the supreme being, had to undergo unimaginable suffering to bring this Mercy to all mankind. 

The most wonderful part of being alive is to know, love and serve and that the crumpled, helpless and desiccated old thing that some of us become can  pass through the gateway of death to live a new life face to face and filled with the Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Jesus has made it quite clear that we are free to choose or refuse Mercy. He has also made it quite clear that by refusal we choose to challenge Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is Jesus who unequivocally reveals that Hell really does exist and teaches us on the Cross what Our Father has done to help us save ourselves from its clutches. 

Hell is not only truly Horrific it is also unending  and it is to bring us security from this foul result of our making wrong choices, it is we who choose to sin, that Jesus bled out on the cross to become a lifeless disfigured, naked, humiliated, corpse. A corpse accepted into the arms of the mother who had fulfilled her mission and was heart broken in her sorrow. 

Dear Lord, I try to pray by praise, by petition and by penance. You have absolutely no need of praise but I do need to be aware "How great thou art". You resist no legitimate request for help in this world but always know what is best for the petitioner. I hope that I face up to whatever penance is needed to erase the guilt of my sins. May Mary, Your Mother and ours lead all the Saints in the heavenly chorus in a petition that will shake all sinners out of the clutches of this world so that  we accept your Mercy to find forgiveness from sin and so be able finally to join the Holy Souls in the perfect penance of Purgatory. 

 15/07/2024

God has never left us alone to oversee his creation. He has always guided humans who have come to realise that the meaning in their lives is not the result of the achievements of mankind.

In the Old Testament, Job is mankind accepting that we all live in the providence that is not decided by God but arises out of the interrelatedness of decisions for good or evil made by each one of us. 

Isaiah is inspired by God to give warning to us all that what is required from us is to know, love and serve him and no matter how brilliant the achievements of ourselves or our forefathers we are all individuals who must make a personal response to "Our Father".

Jesus speaks to us "man to man". He does this always but sometimes he hits us hard with  pure truth. Today we hear one of these "hard sayings" which we struggle to understand. 

The sword, family discord and universal strife is hardly the stuff of the blessings received on the mount earlier in Matthew's Gospel.

The Church founded on St Peter has always been guided by some great individuals whose relationship with God has been so brilliant that all have recognised their holiness. Today we celebrate the holiness of St Bonaventura who revealed to mankind his devotion to the Lord in his teaching and writings.

When I read of the holy lives of saints I always try to find out the state of the Institutional Church during their lifetimes. St Bonaventura as did St Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon served in an "unholy church of this world" ruled by Popes who were devoted to politics and Mammon.

In my lifetime millions of souls have been lost by the Church, a worldly institution that is the not nearly perfect product of not  practising what was declared by its founder in open court to the representative of Mammon . "My kingdom is not of this world".

We all admire, or are envious of, those intellects which are greater than our own. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, however, has no need of "Theology", our God is "All-Knowing". The Good Shepherd, however, seeks out all sinners that he might save us all from our sin and reminds us that no matter our place in the hierarchy of this world  we have to return to him as naked, helpless infants to be judged by the deeds of our lives.

Dear Lord, help me this day to live without sin. Let my being be open to the words of Scripture and the promptings of your Holy Spirit, one God with Father, and Son. Help me to never forget that you know me for what I am even in the vastness of your creation. Jesus and Mary are present with you in the glorified bodily humanity that you have prepared for us all, Help your creation avoid any further sinfulness by becoming open to the Holy Spirit and may your "second coming" bring us all into the "glorious freedom" prophesised by St Paul. Open all hearts to receive the pardon shared by all sinners here and in Purgatory. May that "final coming" be soon. Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus Come!

 14/07/2024

Dear Lord, You know how yesterday I failed through my own stupidity to perform one worldly task which has since that moment dominated my thoughts and will not go away even though my will is turned to You. Help me to  understand the revelation that is in the scriptures selected by the Church for reading at the masses celebrated throughout the world today.

I am created in Your image and likeness. I too cannot disown my own self. So, as usual, I am the basically selfish being for whom Jesus accepted his Eternal Mission "to take away the sins of the world".

You know us all and in my case you know the secret depths of my own self-conceit that is the source of all the sins I have ever committed. 

Hosea has been called to reveal your Truth to your people Israel. St Paul is formed by IAMIAM, the result of  the revelations of all the prophets, although, you had to confront him in person for him to know your eternal purpose and mission selected for him.

Jesus is your total self-revelation, the perfect guidance for how to live in human time. He is Your self-utterance Incarnate in the material of this world becoming the perfect human deed to counteract the sin of Adam that disfigured the perfection of creation.

Today we are chosen to be in the world but to remain focussed on the mission given to the Apostles that we all have to preach, repentance, not solely by prayer but also by public deeds. Since the time you shared our humanity the world has grown ever more entrenched in Mammon and we have become more and more captured by pride in our own ingenious creations.

Each one of us is known by Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are each "sealed with the Holy Spirit of the Promise, the pledge of our inheritance which brings freedom for those God has taken for his own, to make his glory known."

The achievements of mankind are wonderful but of no use whatsoever as we think of the helplessness of nothing into which we all flounder without belief in the the Resurrection of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Dear Lord you know how I have been troubled as I struggled to reflect on your Word today. Today you know my worldly problem is a lost MS password. Jesus spoke in many parables. The loss of one sheep by someone we don't know has helped millions of us understand the depth of the Father's Love. In today's world being locked out of "MS Windows" shakes many of us to the core. Comparing this event to losing the Grace won for all mankind by Jesus has helped me in this morning's reflection to understand that there is nothing trivial about Grace and that sincerity of heart opens our Souls to the finding of the Seal of the Holy Spirit. Let us shout out with joy when we do!. May my prayers join those of Mary and all the Saints that we sinners on Earth and in Purgatory accept the gift that will keep us within the embrace of Father, Son and Holy Spirit for ever more. Amen! May my worldly problem also be solved today. I cannot put our God to the test. Thy will be done.

 13/07/2024

Our God to whom I raise my heart and mind each day is totally without limits; which means that Father, Son and Holy Spirit is far greater than the words with which I worship him. I have within me bits of all the ideas about God received or created by men over the last 3 or 4 thousands of years. It is not my words that determine my place in the all encompassing Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Isaiah's vision of God who rules the Cosmos is described in words that really do, if we let them out of the confines of our minds, take us into the presence of the Lord and we can together with Isiah be filled with breath-taking fear together with the joy that being known by God brings to each one of us.

It is not my words that determine my place in the all encompassing Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Jesus tells us today that though Satan, the lure of materialism and Mammon, has great power in this World we need not be fearful that we inevitabley succumb. The protection of the Love that knows everything is always with us. If we call on the Lord and bear witness to him we have accepted to join the Mission that Isaiah chose voluntarily and Jesus will become our witness in heaven.

It is not my words that determine my place in the all encompassing Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord, you know that I am hoping that these words with which I pray to start each day become my declaration of Faith, Hope and Charity, my confession of belief in all that you have revealed to me.  May Mary, together with all Saints within the heaven of your presence continue to support the prayer of this world which humbly seeks forgiveness for our sins and succour for the repentance of Purgatory. I make my prayer in the name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and implore your mercy to become St Theresa's shower of roses onto me and all my loved ones.

 12/07/2024

The first steps that I make towards God are inspired by faith and reinforced by my choice. I must have no fear that I am despised by worldly standards. This is fear is the self pride which I know is stupid,especially for the wretch that I truly am.

 Jesus tells his disciples that they have to have no fear that their words will not be adequate for the mission he is entrusting to them. The Holy Spirit will shape their thoughts and they will never be at a loss for words to do justice to their task. We can still take heart from these words of the Lord.

"Do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes; for it is not you who will be speaking; the spirit of your Father will be speaking in you."

All of the Bible is a record of this inspiration received throughout History. We are all surrounded  in the love and mercy that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We have to recognise that all that we are, the all that we know comes from the creative Love of the Trinity. 

The earthly mission of each one of us is to acknowledge that we have to know, pray with sincere faith in the Father , love, accept with joyful thanks the incarnate Resurrection, and serve, do what ever is revealed to our consciences by the Holy Spirit working through the Father and Son.

Throughout the 2000 years since Jesus spoke  these words 

"I tell you solemnly that you will not have gone the round of the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes" 

Millions of us must have been disappointed and millions have used Jesus' as yet unfulfilled promise to return to justify their own sinful lives and mock the faithful.

We have to be prompted by "faith" to reach out for God during our lifetimes and as we draw to the close  we can be sure that we will have to answer to Jesus for the being that we have made of ourselves. 

The "Word" that I have made of myself has to answer to the Word of God.

Dear God, let me not loose touch with the Love that is your being. Let me become sincere in my faith and let these words reflect the reciprocated love that inspires me each morning. One day I know that I will see you as you really are and then let me just "be" with you. May I never loose sight of Mary and all the Saints who together can bring your mercy to all us sinners on earth and in Purgatory. Help me to know your ways and let me atone for the sins of my lifetime which can be washed away by your bountiful mercy and my sincere penitence.

 I make these thoughts and prayers to and through Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Lord have mercy.

 11/07/2024

For those of us who have been rattled in our faith by the sinfulness that for over two millennia has been covered up by the  Institutionalizing of the Church founded on St Peter, Monastic Communities are still an existing enigma. Many of them are unable truthfully to resist the challenge that their own rules present to their chosen way of life. 

How can the ecclesial virtues be practised by communities that are giving their members a life style that is anything but poverty-stricken? And yet their communal life punctuated by disciplined prayer is an example for us all to follow.

St Benedict is one of the last Romans but is not one of the first hermits. As a Roman he was aware of the austerity that was a hallmark of the original Republic which had become an Empire and destroyed its own integrity by the vice of luxurious living. 

As a hermit he had wished to be left alone to get on with the prayer and meditation which he knew would help to bring him to the the life free of this worldliness that Father, Son and Holy Spirit has created for each one of us.

The representatives of the Institutional Church resented the contrast  that the holiness of Benedict's life presented to their own and there were two attempts by priests and monks to poison him. The corruption that is the Sin of this world was already rampant in the worldly institution that has still never fully realized that Jesus truly meant his proclamation before Pilate, "My Kingdom is not of this world".

St Benedict has been entitled "Patron of Europe" by the elites who rule that continent. I expect that if it were possible to ask him, the hermit of Subiaco would reject all the worldly values that are espoused by "Brussels", today. 

He would also be deeply hurt by the monks on planes, in airports and in prisons who have all vowed to abandon all earthly ties and stay in one place to pray, pray and pray again. He knows that God is not to be trifled with and that monastic communities have a responsibility to become centres of a holiness that we can trust; an example that it would be good to follow.

Dear Lord, help me to live today without sin. Let me continue in my studies. May I become less resentful of other peoples' lives and focus only on taming sinfulness that is potentially with me at every moment of my own life. May Mary and all the saints pray for the "Roman testudo" of worldliness  that we have erected over our beings and communities, to be broken and let us all become helpless as children needing only your love to care for us. Amen

 10/07/2024

It is very difficult for those living in today's overpowering world to raise our hearts and minds to God, "to know, love and serve" with integrity. 

My own life has been lived constantly aware that I am a long way from the "holiness" that is the will of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But I have always been able to avoid the unwavering commitment to the Father that is the way to perfection shown to the world by Mary and her son Jesus.

Mary is created as the perfect woman totally without sin. Jesus is the eternal Word who in perfect oneness with the Father and Holy Spirit is able to enter into created time as the perfect human bodily antithesis to the sin of Adam. 

I say that "I have been able to avoid" holiness because although I search my soul and confess that I am "sinful" my personal sincerity, my integrity is always called into question as I again turn my back on God and choose to disobey the Loving Kindness that is Our Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

There has always been with me ever since I can remember a longing for holiness and simultaneously an awareness that the total commitment has to be just that and not the "bring me chastity but not now" attitude that has been the story of my life. 

I can see the never ending salvation that is God's gift to us all, but I still cling to the things that are present to me in the here and now even though I know that they are as corruptible as my body and become unusable by me at the moment of my death.

In this morning's Gospel Jesus commissions his first missions that are all entrusted to Jews solely for Jews. My hope and faith is in the Almighty. His total integrity neither deserts any of his faithful followers nor  does he thrust any sinner beyond the scope of his mercy. He chooses both Peter and Judas as missionaries. Both are unable to hide their sins but as are we all, still able to choose to accept the mercy that  is created in the mystery of the events in the garden and on the hill of Calvary.

The message of the first missionaries is to continue the preaching of Jesus, word and deed.

         "The kingdom of heaven is close at hand". Fear not, for God is never far away!

Dear Lord , you know that I am afraid that by choosing you I have set a task that is beyond my ability. I know that saving myself from the power of sin is, indeed, beyond me but there is nothing that is beyond you so "I place all my trust in thee", eternal Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Save me from all my sins  and let my soul be united in prayer with Mary and all the saints that as we praise and worship your Glory our prayers will bring your perfect merciful judgement to us the living sinners and to the Holy Souls secure in their penitential amends in Purgatory.

 09/07/2024

Hosea continues to condemn the creation of idols. Mankind in all corners of the earth has at sometime  chosen to answer the inner voice that calls for an explanation of  the amazing thing that is our consciousness of "being". We all know that we are and that we are not alone; but we are all the unique one that is "I".

I cannot remember or imagine what it was for me to be an infant, a totally helpless but conscious being. It is out of remembrance of the care given to us by our mothers that the primitive female idols the "Great Mother" came to be. 

After more than 80 years of self-awareness, I know that I am more than what I think, see, hear, touch and taste. The psalmist warns us that if we make idols we will become like them senseless and inanimate. If we continue to give up our autonomy to our technical creations that is what will happen to us.

We are not dolls, the playthings of heaven but are formed in the image and likeness of the creator who spoke to the Jews through his prophets. We are not his puppets controlled by his strings. We are intelligent beings who have been given personal control of our consciousness. We are trusted by Father, Son and Holy Spirit to live in this world with hearts full of loving obedience to our unseen God and with goodwill towards all men.

We are not expected to do this by our own efforts but we can be sure of our salvation if we choose to disown Mammon and all worldly idols. God chose to be in human time and incarnate he suffered the unimaginable agony that is the sin brought into the world by our continuing disobedience.

Dear Lord, help me to pray. Help me to see my thoughts always in your light of revelation. Help the Institutional Churches to break with Mammon and subservience to sinful social policy which denies your created man and woman and praises the slogans of "Gay Pride" and the untruth "My body, my life". Help the "iams" who shout these to realise how tiny they are even though they are astonished by their own knowledge and cleverness. May Mary our heavenly mother lead all the saints in praise of the perfection of your being and implore your grace to purify all souls on earth and in Purgatory. I make this prayer in what I hope is sincerity of heart. Save me from the snares of Satan and his innumerable allies in this world.

 08/07/2024

The people  who surround Jesus  in this morning's Gospel are all Jews. They are all together in the same time and culture as each other. Their human consciousness has been formed by the only God who is the totality of being represented by "IAMIAM". Their souls and consciences have listened to the revelations made through the prophets. Of all the nations they are the only one who has a mission. Of all the nations they are the only one to be as close to God as a wife is close to her husband.

They are also all individuals who respond to their experience of living in a unique way known only to themselves and God. I always wonder whether we are right to assume that Jesus is God during his time on earth. We tend to assume that his miracles are a sign of his divinity. I wonder whether all the supernatural events witnessed in the Gospels  could have come from the perfection of  sinless humanity that had been destroyed by Adam, but fulfilled in Christ. Perfect faith really can move mountains

The perfect "image and likeness" always prays the perfect prayer and thus has a will perfectly aligned with that of the Father. He becomes one with the Father through the workings of the Holy Spirit and is always answered in what ever he prays. This could be why he experienced total horror at the end of his life on Earth. He had lived every moment of his human life in the sinless perfection that had never lost touch with the Father and Holy Spirit but in the Garden he becomes the first human to be really aware of the abyss of the Godless eternity created by human sin. 

We are created to know, love and serve. Our "true man" knows the Father as perfectly as no other man has ever done, he loves Our Father who art in heaven, with that same love that he loves all his disciples but first of all his human relations who, except for Mary who never ceased to treasure him in her heart, were embarrassed  by the "public show" he had made of himself in the synagogue. By his human bodily sacrifice of himself  he fulfills the perfect human co-operation for the eternal will of the Father to be complete. The Resurrection is the new  Adam, the first fruits of the new creation, who remains sinless and is with us till the end of time. He is also the Word who was with God in the Beginning.

Dear Lord, you know everything. You can strengthen my soul with your grace. you can inspire me to follow your example and to teach me that there is no need for sin. I can use my mind to understand how we have come to the same state of  corruption as were the Jews at the time of your Incarnation as True Man. Help me to resist temptation as you did during your time in the desert and let me grow in faith so that I may face death without fear. May Mary and all the saints keep us all in their prayer as they timelessly give praise to you and may your merciful love save us all living and dead. Come soon Lord Jesus, Come soon!

 07/07/2024

Today's Gospel reading has become part of the "extraordinary" revelations made to and through St Paul mentioned in today's letter to the Corinthians. In the first reading Ezekiel is in no doubt about the mission he has to complete during his life in this world. 

IAMIAM has not given up on his people and is sending Ezekiel to call them back to Jerusalem to build a new Temple and make sincere worship of God the centre of their being and their life  here on earth.

Who can know the mind of God? I am under no illusion that my attempts to bring my course through life into line with the revelations made first through men, the prophets, and then through Jesus, are the whole story of life on earth. There is much that I cannot understand especially the reasons for God making so many overtures and new beginnings for Israel.

It seems that our freedom to choose Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the most important part of the human being created by God. My personal being is in God's Image and likeness but infinitely smaller so it is not surprising that I cannot understand how the spiritual message revealed through the prophets was not accepted by the people who had received such care from God.

Jesus' three years of public life spells out for us our Creator God's purpose "in the beginning", the Creative Love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

The Annunciation reveals to us the Trinity through Mary's personal freedom which accepts her role in God's plan. Today's Gospel emphasises our "freedom". Is it possible that we can act in a way that surprises God? Jesus is "amazed" by the reactions to his preaching. He announces himself as the herald of the "jubilee" and that appals his towns folk and most of all dumbfounds those among whom he has grown from infancy to manhood.

Dear Lord, each day my prayer is the cry from the heart of a sinner. I am happy to live this life but continually afraid that daily temptations will lead me to sin again. My reflections on the mass readings are the rock, the Church that keeps in my mind, the communion of souls, the New Holy Family that does not reject you in body mind or soul. Mary and John stood in for us all at the foot of your cross in real-time 2000 years ago and as the family that does not reject you today but freely prays for the Mercy with which you flood our world only for many of us to dam it out from our souls by choosing to favour our corruptible bodies and Mammon over the Word of God. Jesus lived, suffered died and was resurrected  to open our world to the the forgiveness to be welcome as it outpours from the centre of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

 06/07/2024

I am sure that God knows every individual who is living, has lived or will ever live in his creation. He first revealed himself to the Jews a tiny nation at the heart of the battleground between the great powers that ruled the cities of the area we know as the Middle-East. It is to this people that  God has made his first and his final revelations of himself and of what he expects our image and likeness of himself to become.

The greatest gift that we all have from God is freedom. We must use this freedom in the bodily lifetime that within which it is ours to know, love and serve. We are not machines that come into the world programmed by our DNA. Our bodies do follow the laws of created nature and in this they are "good". 

To retain our place in and maintain the "good" that is creation we have to choose to follow the revelations made by IAMIAM through his prophets in the Old and completed by the Incarnate Word, Jesus in the New Testament and supported throughout history by the Holy Spirit. Three persons, one God.

Today's Gospel is the meeting of the Old and New Testaments. The servants of IAMIAM  present us with the question about the identity of this then "unknown quantity" from Nazareth. We know the answer but we live in a material world powerful enough even to corrupt and destroy God's creation, nature. A material world which smothers the Kingdom of God and brings human failure into our Churchly Institutions.

Jesus did not attempt to prop-up the failing Temple and its "Law". He sacrificed himself to bring mercy into the world. He allowed the partnership between state and religion to kill him. The Resurrection  becomes the true being of the Sacramental Life of the Church and its Liturgy.

But, how many others since then have been slaughtered by that same unholy alliance? 

Dear Lord, you know that today I have much on my mind.  Let my prayers be heard as I try to get on with the domestic tasks that I should share but often neglect. May Mary and all the Saints help me by their prayers as I begin the clear-out that is so long overdue. As I pray I hear myself and realise that it is not only my room that needs clearing out but also the room that Jesus' tells us to enter as we say "Our Father" Help me Lord.

 05/07/2024

Even though I am sure that the Institutional Church founded on St Peter has never been completely true to the intention of Jesus, to the purpose of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I am also sure that there is within it great flashes of human wisdom inspired by the revelations of the Old and New Testaments.

Today the reading from Amos presents the hopelessness of living outside of God's Law, of not following the Golden Rule. The Gospel presents the emptiness of  the words of the "Law" corrupted by Man and the Merciful Forgiveness that is the Word of God. Pharisees vs Jesus.

We can all be sure that the "Chosen People" failed in their God-Given task of showing to the world the delight of knowing that they were in God's favour and were the magnet to draw all of us into knowledge of the Love that gives "being" to all of creation. 

We are sure of this because the Incarnation to remedy the failure of his people lived among us for 33 years suffered, died and rose again. The Resurrection is the final seal of final revelation. The Word of God is authenticated and remains with us to the end of time to be delighted in by all who have listened to the Good News.

The economic crimes of materialism listed by Amos have never left us and the man-made wonders of this world still hold most of us in the grip of Mammon. Today's psalm emphasises that our true life is not to be found in this material world but in our souls protected by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 

Have the Christian Institutions and their hierarchs ever lived up to this essential message, the "core policy statement" that Jesus emphasised at his public trial before the Roman World of his day, and the still Mammon ruled world of today,  "My Kingdom is not of this world"?

Dear Lord,  you are our all knowing and all powerful God. Let me kneel before you in my weakness and failures knowing that although you are unseen by me, you see me and all my brothers and sisters living now with eyes of mercy ready to forgive us our sins as much as we can forgive any who sin against us. Help me to maintain the sincerity of these moments I spend thinking about your word and help me to live today without adding to my sins. May my soul be accepted into the Love that is the prayer of Mary and all the Saints of Heaven and may this communion prayer bring your Mercy to this World and to the Holy Souls in Purgatory.

 04/07/2024

We are all born into the worldly time that we know. The world as created by God and modified by man. In the Old Testament the Chosen People live out their time on earth within the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. The wonders of Egypt which still stand today were the "built environment" within which the sons of Jacob sought refuge from the drought which was threatening their lives.

The Pyramids still bear witness to the genius of mankind. Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain how the human brain became the intelligence that has not developed any further than that which was able to create the mathematics that are the rules of pure abstract thought.

The "prophets" of the Old Testament were inspired not to predict the unknown, the future, but to assure God's People that they were not alone in the world of matter, alone in the vastness of the night-sky pierced by innumerable pinpoints of light, the stars. This assurance is still with us and will be until the end of time.

Amos is not part of the institutional Brotherhood of Prophets, he is not a priest of Bethel, the then focus of God's presence on earth. He knows that he is a servant of God inspired to warn that sin is never acceptable to God and warns the King that sinful behaviour will bring calamity to himself and to the people.

Our God knows all individuals who are living or have ever lived. He knows with love each new soul that is the true life of every human; the image and likeness of God. He knows the wonders that human brains have created to master the secrets of his created material universe. He has always intended for us to be free. We are no artificial intelligence that has been coded into existence.

Amos warned the priest and the king what would happen if they and their people continued to forget God. The Old Testament has been completed and the good news is that Father, Son and Holy Spirit has completed and  sealed the revelation of the Glory of God. 

The Incarnation, Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus the only begotten Son and final prophet has shown us all that it is not only possible for each one of us to reciprocate the Love that has become creation but that it is only by being willing to have our sins forgiven that the wonder that is our souls will be able to share in the never-ending freedom of the Sons of God.

Dear Lord, help me to live out this day in accordance with your will by refusing temptations and sin. Let thy will be done in my heart and please accept this my morning prayer as it is only you who can understand the confusion that has been my life. You know that I am still afraid in the bottom layer of my being that I am still not cleared of my sins even though I stand before you in the all-revealing light that is the Love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Be not afraid for I am with you always says the Lord. This is my comfort together with my faith that Mary and all the saints pray for us unceasingly that we on earth and in Purgatory are always in the glorious light of Mercy earned for us in the horror of the Cross on Calvary.

 03/07/2024

I feel quite nervous as I try to take in what is revealed in today's mass readings. I can feel an idea growing within me but, as usual, I cannot grasp it before I have composed it into words. Our God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit is ever-greater than the total knowledge of mankind.

 St Paul, who did not meet the Incarnation in human time, is the first of us who are those blessed by the resurrected Lord in today's Gospel. St Paul who was "ambushed" by the Resurrection, received his personal revelation and was accepted into the heart of the Church. Today he teaches that we believers are used by God to form that same Church which is the Mystical Body of Christ, a new Spiritual Temple in human time, on earth.

St Thomas, however, who had been with the Lord during his lifetime refuses to accept the eye-witness accounts of the Resurrection. Jesus does not condemn this empiricism that expects the reality of life to be manifest through our senses. Jesus is "true man and true God".

It is no wonder that I feel nervous in this morning's settings for my life on earth. Father, Son and Holy Spirit really do answer my prayers. The Spiritual Body of God has been present in this Physical reality that I see, hear, touch, taste and smell every second of my life. I am a "thinking animal" but there is also another reality outside of  myself and yet deep within me that causes me to shout out with thankful joy.

Happy indeed are we who know that his love for us is strong and that it will last for ever!

Dear Lord, you know each one of us for the reality that we are in our being both as body and soul. Help me to be truly with you in Spirit during the rest of my life so that when this body decays into dust, my soul will be able to truly atone for all my sins. You know that there are millions of us who have become the willing but unwitting slaves of Mammon help us all to remove the lure of materialism from our eyes and know that it is only you who will be with us until the end of time. May my selfish prayers be joined with those of the sinless ones, Mary and all the saints and may we all be encompassed within the cloud of your loving reality. Amen.

 02/07/2024

Amos continues to denounce the sins of the "Chosen People". There are many "Hard Sayings" recorded of Jesus by the Evangelists of the New Testament but not as many as there are "Hard Deeds" predicted or complemented by the  "Hard Sayings" of IAMIAM recorded in the "Old".

I am but a tiny spark of consciousness within the knowable vastness of the Universe which is itself tiny in relation to its unknowable Creator. I feel a real sadness when I read "You alone, of all the families on Earth, have I acknowledged. Therefore it is for your sins that I mean to punish you." 

Did God leave the Non-Jewish majority of mankind to go its own way through life as only an intelligent animal and not know that it was a spiritual being loved by him?

Jesus changes everything that was known about IAMIAM. For the Jews he is the Completion of their historical relationship with The Lord and for the Gentiles he gives the answer to all the questions raised solely by the intelligence of mankind applied to the wonder of "Being", existence itself.

Our New Testament reveals that the one God is still IAMIAM but shows himself as three persons. Everything about the three years Christ walks visibly on earth is Supernatural his Miracles are "signs" to all generations that he is beyond the confines of matter. The simple fishermen of Galilee are astounded. 

"Whatever kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him"

 The sophisticates of Athens laugh St Paul out of court when he begins to preach "The Resurrection".

Today the psalmist prays "Lead me in your Justice". We can echo him with a plea for our Faith, Hope and Charity to be strengthened to guide us on a sinless path through life that we may bear witness to the  Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord, as a soul created by you I can come to you by my faith and my non-understanding does not detract from that faith. I can only use my will within the freedom you have created for me. I can pray for your mercy to relieve especially those who have not previously benefitted by your grace and for those such as myself who have senselessly chosen sin rather than your holiness. May this prayer be joined with those of Mary, John and all the Saints and  with those of Peter, Paul and all who knew you as the Incarnate God living the life of any man, but without sin, in the wonder that is your creation. Save us Lord Jesus and please come soon. Amen. 

 01/07/2024

I have missed responding by keyboard to the daily mass readings for the last 8 days. I did not ignore them but I have no remembrance of their contents except for the one from "Lamentations".

The first reading from today's mass is a listing of the sins committed by individuals within the community chosen by God to have the revelation of himself made known to them. These are the sins for which atonement could only be made by the direct intervention of the Incarnation, the physical presence of God experiencing all that it means to be human by living and dying in the "time" that continually slips away from us.

The psalm is the " the Word speaking through the prophets" and calls out to us who are living in the wilderness that, without awareness of the Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is life on earth 

God's first and last answer to the sin that is brought into being, first by Adam and then by all of us is Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus bled out the whole of his human life's blood to create his Spiritual Body on earth, his Church. 

Even though we have never been true to the Kingdom that is not of this World, God is always true to the Spiritual Church that he founded speaking his last words to mankind, Himself, John and Mary, are to be as a new Holy Family to receive the infinite grace being literally poured out at that moment as he spoke, onto the soil of our world.

God can be found in Institutions but he is not solely located in their Hierarchies. The Liturgical/Sacramental Presence of God cannot be assured by sinful celebrants just as a papal declaration could not change the shape of our world. We can all feel sure that God is with us as long as we conform our lives to his revelations of his will for us.

The Prophets warned the Israelites that the patience of IAMIAM could come to an end. I cannot look at the world this morning without thinking  how much more distasteful this reality must be to God our Creator than it is to me. Jesus was rejected by many of his own people and we today are no better. Are we the generation to witness, at last, the Parousia? Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus Come!

Dear Lord, you know how for the last week I have missed my mornings reflections which help me to raise my mind and love to your loving mercy. As I wrote the above I realised that I do believe what I write from my thoughts. They are not words of wisdom but I am not ashamed to utter them in sincerity as my own awareness of the greatness of your Love and  Merciful Forgiveness for me and for your own world. Help me to be free from sin this day and save my family from their entrapment by the world of Mammon. Let these prayers be united with those of Mary and all the saints and may they bring relief to the Holy Souls and forgiveness to us sinners still living this finite life in hope for the infinity of your Kingdom to come.