05/02/2025

Everything that we know about Jesus the "true man" amounts to less than 30% of his time on earth.

We are known in our only being by "Our Father", his and mine, 100% of the time from our conception to the last breath we take.

Today the Letter to the Hebrews continues the support that came from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to the first Christians. The letter can be dated but the revelation is of the eternal grace that we can receive to enable us to live in worldly time in holiness as part of the creation that God looked upon and saw that it was good.

Holiness is not only virtue that is attained by the few whom we recognise as saints. 

We know how the "friends" of Jesus carried out their mission and remained dedicated to their memory of him by spreading the Good News. Among the first Christians there are also many examples of heroic faith who lost their lives in their attempt to be true to their "vocation" which had become their freely accepted conversion to the way, truth and light that had first illuminated first century Palestine but is for the benefit of all mankind.

It was not easy for St Agatha to defend herself. St Stephen knew in the last minutes of his life that he could retract and thus avoid the rocks that were being thrown at his immobilised, helpless body.

We know the names of many saints but there were many other people of whom we know nothing who had been parts of the "multitudes" that listened to Jesus and the Apostles and then had lived "normal" lives but in a state of holiness, not as the Pharisees in search of worldly recognition, but always turned inwardly, obedient to God.

I am sure that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows each of us as a unique being. He is the support of all that we do if our intentions are first of all to act within his will. I am equally sure that I must not treat lightly the sinfulness that has marred my life. I may relax in my trust in my repentance and the mercy of God but I must not forget that it is I who hammer nails through the human hands and feet of SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Holiness knows that Salvation was won for us, but its reality it was not as easy as reading or meditating about it.

Dear Lord, help me to grow in faith, be truly repentant for my past sins and to withstand the temptations that fill our world with the attractiveness that deceives so many of us into sin. In an ongoing effort to reach holiness, a day, an hour, a minute or even a second can be a long time. Without your grace to uplift me, I know that I could in the twinkling of an eye lose all hope of Eternity. I am however known by You and live in the unseen body of believers that turns in prayer to your Mother as she is also ours. I know that there are no "anonymous Christians" for you and that every little one of us receives the same  loving grace from you. It is our responses to it that make you seem to favour some more than others. With your help, I can drive out the roots of bitterness that can so easily germinate to bring sin into dominance in my life. I make these prayers to FATHERSONHOLYSPIRT calling on the grace won for us by Mary, Agatha and all the Saints, that we sinners still living lives on Earth and the Holy Souls in Purgatory may be forgiven our sins. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit .Amen