20/10/2024

When we read the scriptures we are connected with the eternal present that is God's Being. In the real-time of the world, the mystery of the "Suffering Servant" is way before the real-time of  the mystery of Jesus. It is not so for the Eternity of God.

Superstitious man has always tried to predict the future. The scriptures, however, are the records of eternally living prophets' inspired responses to the revealed glimpses of the eternal mystery of being that is always "now" to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

There is not one of us who has chosen to be alive at this moment. We all encounter personal realities and live in individual unique times and call this the Providence of God.

So it was, too, in first century Palestine when Jesus walked, taught and chose the twelve to maintain his presence in the world. Peter and the rest of the Apostles had no idea that they would meet the Son until called by Jesus and would only come to a less than clear understanding of what they were experiencing until after the Ascension.

They met a man such as themselves but one who they saw could change material reality at will. Mary had known from the time of the Annunciation that she was taking care of the "Son of God". Her "they have no wine" prompted the first Miracle. Mary had had God's purpose revealed by the message of an Angel but the Apostles saw the charisma and power of Jesus as evidence of the Messiah, a new Moses who would free their nation from the yoke of slavery to Rome.

They did not understand  that Jesus really did not have any plans to develop a new power to govern mankind in this world and so they quarrelled, ironically enough, about precedence in the Kingdom Jesus denied before Pilate. 

Jesus was solely concerned to give us the grace to recognise and do the will of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT so that each of our souls could be guided away from sin and onto the road to eternal happiness that was created by the unseen Love he poured out on Calvary.

I have come to the unhappy conclusion that JesusFatherHolySpirit has never been able to look at the Institutional Church and say "This is my beloved Church with which I am well pleased". 

We have never been left alone, however, even in the disgusting days of the first Vatican pornocracy and other godless periods of Church mal-governance to seek him without guidance, for Mary is not only the human mother of Our Lord she was also appointed the Spiritual Mother of Mankind while witnessing with John and the other Marys the gruesome real death that had to precede the overpoweringly real Resurrection.

Dear Lord help me to remain open to your truth and without anger as I become aware of the depths of corruption that Hierarchs of the Church have lead us into by misuse of your Name. All holiness that has ever been supported by your foundation on St Peter has had its origin in the grace you bestowed on your beloved Mother, the female and sole male disciples as they witnessed your death. The Church teaches that your presence in the Eucharist is ensured by going through the motions without any need for faith or holiness on the part of the priest. The learned and the clever claim to understand this but the little ones turn away in sorrow from such a lack of holiness that denies what first we came to believe about the mass. May my mind remain clear and my soul obtain forgiveness as I approach my bodily death. May Mary help us all to seek your grace and come to remember that we should continuously strive as did the Apostles to make a new "sign of the times" and  that is the eternal Sign of the Cross. Amen