31/03/2025

There are some people who can understand the timelines of all four of the Gospels. Well, they can understand Scripture better than I do. They can find in it the very words of Christ and also the additions not made by the Evangelists themselves.

The comment "(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in his own home town)" seems to be ill-placed as it is made according to this morning's Gospel Reading on leaving a Samaritan town on his way into Galilee.

The revelation made through Isaiah has still not materialised in the real-time that is the reality in which we live every moment of our lives on earth. We have had the whole of God's purpose for creation revealed to us but just as the time and place of the Incarnation was revealed only as it happened  so will what we know as the Eschaton, be known only by the event itself.

It will happen and we should hold it in our minds and live each day as if it were the last for there are as many personal "last days" as there are persons. Let us hope that that personal last day, if it does precede the Eschaton, find us prepared and aware that by coming to the end of our biological lives we are not ending our beings. 

Our being is God's image and likeness which is not of this world but which will be used by our Creator, FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, as part of the new creation, a heaven and earth in which our sins will not be remembered for "Jerusalem will be a joy, and its people gladness".

 30/03/2025

In the Old Testament God is revealing his will for a whole community. The Israelites were saved from Egypt, educated and chastised in the desert and entered the Promised Land as the one nation which was to reveal that IAMIAM is the only God by his achievements through them.

That is a very brief summary of the centuries that had passed before the Incarnation and the direct face to face teaching of Jesus to his Apostles, disciples and to all who had ears to listen.

Jesus still speaks to the multitudes, now millions, as individuals. He tells the paralytic to take up his bed and walk. He tells Peter that he will have the responsibility to bear the weight of what he has witnessed during the past three years. 

He tells each one of us that we need not be afraid even though we are sinners for he is always ready to forgive and welcome us back with open arms.

The father who welcomes back the prodigal is "Our Father" and so we pray as taught by Jesus to him who is 

                                                Our Father not confined by time or space. 

                             FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, is a totally perfect three-in-one glory beyond  our wildest imaginings. 

We know that we are to see him "all-in-all" and for this kingdom we long.. 

We are free individuals and can thus choose to obey his will and come closer to His perfect holiness. We can also refuse.

We ask to be supported in this life on Earth to enable us to aim to be the image and likeness of His being in our personal lives, our souls. 

We acknowledge our sinfulness and pray for a share in the Mercy of Calvary. 

We ask to be able to discern and avoid the temptations of materialism and thus be safe from the evil of this world's addiction to Mammon 

 29/03/2025

Saturday Week 3 Lent

In these days, i.e. the last 2000 years, most of us receive the "Word of God" by what we read. Even Jesus quoted directly from scriptures. Among his last words were the opening words of psalm 22."Eli Eli lama sabacthani".

For some of us reading the Scriptures has become a liturgical way of life and they have made "For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings" a personal reality.

In those days i.e. 2000 years ago most of those who met in Solomon's portico and each other's house were still in awe at what they had witnessed during the life-time of the "Word of God", Son, "true man" had lived amongst them. For many, the Crucifixion had been a hope-destroying real-time horror but they had seen the resurrected Son and were fervently preparing for his return that they were sure was imminent.

In these days, now, the passage of time has long since removed those eye-witnesses and their sense of urgency from our midst, we are again in the same condition as were the scribes and pharisees of Jesus' day. Our only knowledge of the Word comes to us through words written by man and we have to search for the voice "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased".

The books of Moses and the other prophets were words spoken into their hearts which they revealed to God's chosen people. Today's parable illustrates how they had been received. 

What is our learning and intelligence in the eyes of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for whom there has never been anything to learn? It is we who have to learn everything that is revealed in the scriptures and truly to believe so that we can always be the little one, the tax-collector, poor in spirit, empty of self who speaks to Our Father and is answered not by crescendos of thunder and lightning but by the still quiet voice that, as did Mary, we can ponder within our hearts.

 28/03/2025

I know that I am sitting in front of this screen seeing words pass out of my brain through to my fingertips and keyboard to appear before me. I also know that this is not the "Kingdom of Heaven". 

Some of Jesus questioners were trying to trick him into giving heretical answers. Some, like the rich young man and the scribe of today's Gospel were trying to probe what it was that gave this "carpenter" the charisma that inspired others to hang onto his every word. These were sincerely looking for the "Kingdom of Heaven".

There are very few times that Jesus, "but I say to you, love your enemies", condemns any one whom he meets during his lifetime. He condemns the towns that refused his teaching and warns the scribes and pharisees that most of their "religion" is empty show. Their religion was far from the "Kingdom of Heaven".

Jesus is for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Absolute perfection cannot change. Our Father knows that his chosen creation, mankind, however can always go rushing off after the trivia that is the work of our hands. We continue to threaten our souls by treating our material goods as gods and it is to the very back of  our minds that we push the "Kingdom of Heaven".

Dear Lord, help me to never lose track of your way, truth and life which is the only goal that can bring me and mine into the perfect love that can only be shared by consistently being attentive to your will for us. You know me and reveal my sins  so that my life on Earth can become cooperation with all disciples who pray as taught by you, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, to seek the infinity of grace that is Jesus, Son of God, the perfect peace where we find total joy, Your "Kingdom of Heaven".

 27/03/2025

I know that every moment that I am alive it is possible for me to lose touch with Our Father.

The millennia long  struggles of the Chosen People is replicated in my daily life.

"Am I struggling to be free of God or am I truly longing to become perfect in this world as were Jesus and his Mother?"

It is obvious what the answer should be but only IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and myself know how often my "Yes" in the spirit has been compromised by the thoughts in my head and the deeds of my body.

The very nature of the "House of the strong man" means that it cannot provide a home within which there can be any love at all. In Hell there can be no peace, only the "grinding and gnashing of teeth". This brutal image is all that we need to know about the alternative to the door that is Jesus. The Son of God is the gate of the sheepfold that leads us into the mansions of the Lord.

In the three years of Jesus ministry in Palestine, the Incarnate Son taught us all that we need to know to follow him into the highest levels of human possibilities and achievement. 

In three millennia of Old Testament history our Father had continuously revealed his will to the Chosen People but they continued in the disobedience that could only be rectified by the completion of Abraham's interrupted sacrifice. 

How can we match with our praise the greatness of our God who so identifies with his people as to become the sacrificial victim that takes away the sins of the world.? 

Nothing is impossible for IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

We have all been created in so great an "image and likeness" that it is possible for each one of us to accept, love and serve to the very limits of our being and thus live out our lives in the righteousness that is the "Mystical Body of Christ/ the New Holy Family that was founded on Mary and John by the words of our dying Saviour.

 26/20/2025

We all know that we are unique beings in a Universe that is vast beyond our comprehension.

In the first mass-reading for today Moses is inspired to proclaim that to be known by God is the envy of all who have not been favoured in the same way as have the Israelites. They are known and cherished by IAMIAM to the extent that they are having the rules for living holy lives revealed even as Moses speaks to them.

The historical nations who will dispute the territorial claims of the interloping Jews will not have the support of IAMIAM who will demonstrate through the Jews that he is the only God. All the others who were worshiped are only human names of the non-existent products of the imaginations of the "non-chosen" people.

The Jews, however, prove themselves to be incapable of compliance with the essence of what is revealed to them and become just as other Middle-East nations, pawns in the human power struggles between the great Empires that grew out of the fertility of the lands watered by the Nile and Tigres/Euphrates.

Moses was something greater than all Mesopotamian and Egyptian Emperors but the great civilizations of the Middle-East did not become the vassals of IAMIAM or the Temple in Jerusalem. It was the pagan "gods" of Greece and Rome that devoured the Temples of the Middle East.

As we read the scriptures we always have to remember that it is the whole of the Bible that is speaking to us. Jesus' "there is something greater than Moses here" was triggered in my mind by today's  confirmation of the place that "The Law of Moses" must play in our lives.

There is nothing greater that we can do during our lives than know and obey the Lord. We have had the final revelation made to us and yet our world is getting farther and farther away from the will of God for his people. The Jews who had had the first revelations made to them had lost the spiritual link to the Eternity of IAMIAM, who reveals through Jesus that he is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, that was symbolised by the Law and Temple. 

 Jesus has filtered out and purified by his blood the accretions that we use to  block out his grace. He has made the "once for all" sacrifice but the institutional churches, just as the Jews, have not been able to separate themselves from the things of this world and the result is, although spread throughout the whole world, a Christianity whose teaching is largely ignored. 

Jesus declared before all the "chosen people" and directly to all worldly power in the person of Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. "My kingdom is not of this world". There has never been a time since then when we have acted in "our times" as if we believed him.

 25/03/2025

The Annunciation

In moments of awareness of my sinfulness I have wondered, asked God, why it was that I have been born.

Today I can understand that in so doing I was challenging God. I was blaming Him for creating me to be sinful. This sinner can now only thank God for the opportunity to confess his sins and do penance for them.

There is no need to ask why the sinless Mary was born. She is essential to creation for the Incarnation is the Word who is with God in the beginning and is God. She is the sinlessly created source of the human body that is needed for IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to become "True Man", from fertilized egg to the tomb, and she is totally sinless; she is the spotless womb wherein Jesus was laid; she is Theotokos. 

She was also a teenager.

Her sinless human perfection could respond to the Angel by "How can this be?". The Incarnation is a human biological event that was accepted by Mary. God really become "True Man".

Of course, I am "gob-smacked". How else can anyone react to the wonder that is the historical fact of the conception and gestation of  "True God" as are not only all humans but also all mammals? It is to be a revealed mystery great enough to last a life-time of prayer that should need to know nothing more. 

I was also a teenager. 

I am a sinful man, a being who is self-aware but who wants to live a life as "God-aware" as was Mary and Jesus. I live in my time and although willing to say with Mary "Be it done unto me according to thy word" each passing moment is so filled by awareness of the World and of the sinfulness that I can add to it that I am always having  to make a personal act of will to turn my consciousness back to Our Father, his heavenly holiness, and my obligation to do His will on Earth.

Dear Lord, you know what I need to do to live according to thy will. Help me to share the grace that protected your mother all of her life and let the carapace of sin that has kept your grace from my heart be broken and reformed as the "St Patrick's breastplate" celebrated by the Church earlier this month. Our Lady is present with you in heaven and leads angels and saints in that eternal "now" of praise, thanks and petition that becomes the loving forgiveness so needed by sinners both on Earth and in Purgatory.

 24/03/2025

Monday 3rd Week of Lent

I don't think that the introductory title given to today's Gospel by the website I use to find the daily mass-readings is really appropriate.

Jesus, like Elijah and Elisha, is not sent only to the Jews.

Jesus himself affirms the opposite about "Elijah and Elisha" in the parable of the vineyard. St Paul's "God does not have favourites" is not borne out by the history of salvation as recorded in the Old Testament. IAMIAM does not reveal his name before the Incarnation in any of the civilisations or religious practises that co-existed with Egypt and Mesopotamia  in other parts of the world

Jesus the Resurrection is an historical fact as true as the life and death of my own parents. That God favoured the Jews is also an historical fact of the same weight and cannot be magicked away. It has to be faced head on.

The Chosen People, as such, are an essential part of God's creation and are, in fact, given the most important human roles in revealing the IAMIAM, Son and Holy Spirit of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, the Trinity of persons that is one God. Theotodox is not a Chinese teenager. The crowd that bayed for the death of God were not Persians.

 "Woman" the other Marys and John who waited with the crucified Jesus on his cross for his death pangs to overcome him were also Jews and chosen to become the New Holy Family which is the Church of Love that will be with us until the end of time.  "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother".

The Mystical Body of Christ is welcoming to all who choose to make God the centre of their lives and strive to avoid in this world anything that is displeasing to Our Father. He has sealed with the Resurrection the revelation of the "Being" who is our Creator God, Our Alpha and Omega, ever faithful and all loving, the Good News, that has to be preached to all nations including those who reject him face to face.

 23/03/2025

Moses can see the flames but not the fire. He hears words, sounds created in real time to convey meaning, but does not see the source. This is a "real-time" encounter with IAMIAM.

On and after the third day the the women, the Apostles and disciples lose sight of Jesus as they recognise him. The encounters with the Resurrection recorded in the New Testament are all revelations initiated by the risen Lord. These are "real-time" encounters with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

In the "human real-time" of two thousand years ago the then materially present pre-resurrection Son, Jesus, true man and true God is asked to comment on the view point that IAMIAM can be seen to be acting in the events of this world.

It is pointed out to him that some Galileans had been slaughtered  in the Temple by the Romans, He says to us that this is an act of evil perpetrated by human will. The victims were blameless. God is not responsible for the evil actions done by man.

Jesus adds another example. A tower under construction in Siloam collapsed and killed 18 of the workers. This was a result of an innocent human error, no malice was involved. Jesus affirms again that this event is not God's response to the sinfulness of the men involved.

St Paul tells the Corinthians that the "real-time" events that record in the Old Testament the interactions between IAMIAM and His people are to be understood by them as instructions to be followed for they are living in the "final age". 

God's revelation of the LOVE that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has been completed. The real-time presence of God events of the Old Testament were examples to the then contemporary  Israelites and instructions to us The life of Jesus of Nazareth, his teaching, his Resurrection have completed the instructions that we need to follow to become "Children of God". We are part of the  final age that is still continuing and are responsible for all worldly events even those we attribute to God..

We have to remain "aware" at all times. St Paul reminds us that "Anyone who thinks that he stands, take heed lest he fall". Jesus' warning, however, is much more to the point "Unless you repent you will all likewise perish". 

Jesus whose Love for mankind we celebrate during this preparatory season is also Justice and is always fair in his response to our deeds and to our prayers. The gate to his sheepfold always opens to receive souls that yearn for him and his protection from the harm we self inflict and also inflict on others. We are the ones who thus create evil in our world.

 22/03/2025

Second Saturday of Lent

My first thought as I scanned through the familiar "Prodigal Son" was that the Jews are the eldest son, recipients of God's revelation of himself, but that the "Prodigal Son" himself is certainly not Jesus.

I "scanned" the Gospel not only because it is familiar but because I had been captivated by the beauty of the first reading and of the psalm.

I have often wondered what had displeased IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT so much about his "Chosen Ones"  that he had had to purge their guilt by himself becoming man to enable the "Perfect Sacrifice for the Forgiveness of sin" to be made.

How is it possible that the prayer that glorifies and submits to IAMIAM with such deep-hearted fervour in the Old Testament "You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from days of old" can have become unacceptable to the Loving Father of all mankind?

In the Gospel parable Jesus is telling us that we have to pray that we can become as ready as he is to forgive not only the evil created by our own sins but also that of the whole world so that His Love can grow in fertile souls that have been washed clean in the water of Baptism and fed with his Body and Blood.

We are only responsible for our own deeds. Each one of us is the "Prodigal Son" who by returning to Our Father fills His heart with joy for we have shown that we believe and take full responsibility for our sins which are so great that they have to be borne by the tortured, derided and dead Incarnate Son on Calvary to attain the infinity of Mercy that is their only absolution. 

Sin and its results has to be destroyed. The Jews couldn't do this on their own. Neither can we. It can only be done by True Man on the cross for he is also the infinite mystery of True God Infinitely forgiving those who turn to him. When we turn to him with faith and sincerity we can all be sure that we will be welcomed back into his arms with Loving Joy and much more than a "fatted calf".

 21/03/2021

When we read scripture we have to face what has been received and recorded as a reality that is still the loving guidance from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, as valid for today as it was when first it was received.

Today's reading explains how Moses found himself to be in Egypt. The original sin of Adam and Eve is still corrupting mankind, even though IAMIAM has made a covenant with Abraham, and thus their jealousy unites his great-grandsons in a plot to get rid of Joseph who is the delight of his father, Jacob, and likely to become heir to the "promise".

The Psalmist has contemplated the scrolls that are the Pentateuch and his wonder at the Glory of God and his revelations to Moses bursts forth in a paen of praise with which I can identify the burning in my own heart, but do not have the poetic ability to express for myself.

All those who heard Jesus' loving guidance would have known that there was "meaning" at the heart of his parables. At that moment 2000 years ago it is doubtful that his listeners could have understood the full import of today's tale of mankind corrupted by greed for the wealth of this world.

The "learned and the clever", however, knew exactly what Jesus meant. Some of them would have accepted that Jesus' words were the "Truth that comes from God" but most fell into the category of "scribes and pharisees" who are the only people Jesus warned even to point of condemnation.

Two thousand years of hindsight means that from the point of comprehension this parable is an easy "plot" in which the various elements of the "drama" are quite obvious and are repeatedly watched on TV in various formats with different actors.

"There is something greater here", however, as it is the Incarnate Son who is speaking to the whole of time and place, to the whole of humanity and the whole Truth about himself, the promised land and we the people to whom IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has completed his revelation of being and purpose.

        

 20/03/2025

Thursday Second week of Lent

Each day I have to bring myself into the practice of knowing that I am in the presence of the Lord. I have to know that I can and should respond to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's awareness of me. I have been created to do this.

Many people would tell me that I am "kidding myself" when I make myself respond to the revelations made in the Old and New Testaments. My faith is in God who has created each one of us to use our freedom to come to the blessed joy that he knows in the perfection of his own being.

I seem to have been driven out of the community of the People of God. I am not the only one. In the very first years of the Church there were more than one of the converts who could not accept the sharing of personal wealth that was the commonwealth led by James in Jerusalem.

I am "Alone but Known" and trying to become a tree planted by the living water that sprang, mingled with blood, from the side of Our Saviour. I can never forget my sins. I always know that my heart is a deceitful thing. It can always excuse my faults so I have always to pray to Our Father remembering that he knows all my thoughts and deeds.

Dear Lord, help me to stand with the three Marys and John at the foot of your cross knowing that the horror you are undergoing is the river of true life that washes away the sins of the world, my sins. It is truly the river of life seen by Ezekiel to be flowing from the temple and is there to be drunk from for all who recognise that life without worship of you leads into the "parched places of the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land" to which there is no end. Amen

 19/03/2025

St Joseph husband of Mary 

In the first reading, Nathan reveals IAMIAM's promise to David. God is speaking directly to the Jews.

St Paul, who had been chosen to encounter the Resurrection, writes to the newly converted in Rome. He relates his Resurrection Faith to the Old Testament. When faced with the reports of personal encounters with the Resurrection by the Apostles and Evangelists, the newly converted Jews,  had faced an almost insurmountable difficulty in having to completely renew the foundations on which all aspects of their lives were based. Each one of the converted had made a free choice for Jesus.

Approximately 33 years before the Resurrection an individual Jew, St Joseph had had to face what was for him the very personal challenge of  Mary's pregnancy. He had no way of knowing how to deal with this event. He was however, a good man, and decided in his human freedom not to quarrel with Mary and her family. God rewarded and supported his free choice with direct revelation.

The Incarnation was first revealed not to the learned and the clever but directly to Mary who was asked by IAMIAM to personally cooperate in the work of salvation. He thus reveals himself to be the Trinity of Supreme Being, IAMIAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and at the same time reveals the possibilities for humanity by his trust that the teenager, Mary, can use her freedom to accept His plan for us all.

We have no way of knowing how Jesus, Mary and Joseph lived as the "Holy Family". They had neighbours, they had the same existence as their friends and family. They lived as righteous Jews but in their midst was the Holy One of God, Jesus Son of God and Son of Mary and today's Solemnity celebrates the faith of Joseph the guardian, the human "father", of Our Lord in the first years of his life as True Man on earth.

 18/03/2025

The only way that we can collectively become the people of the Lord, is when each individual one of us becomes holy by living according to the revelations made through Moses and accepts that Jesus is SON and so is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

There is no nation or human institution that can assure us that by being part of it we can become holy in the sight of God.

Jesus warned his Apostles when they were discussing their possible places of authority within " Jesus' kingdom" that his only reason for being our Incarnate God is to reveal by undergoing human suffering that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is living a human life completed with real death to reveal to the whole world that it is  "Resurrection" that the Father wills for all of us. Everything else we know on earth will pass away.

The Lord is an inexhaustible well of living water, his being is only Love and this is not hidden from any of us. The function of the Church founded on St Peter is to show to all of us  that it is not only possible to live as he did, focused on the Father, but it is his will that we should all, and it is only as an individual being that we can do this, open ourselves to his merciful created Love.

Jesus knew that we who have received the revelations made by the prophets were never going to be as perfect as he is. Peter was plagued by inconsistencies even before the Resurrection. The Church founded on Peter is today what it has become after centuries of attempting the impossible.

An institution that accepts the conditions and standards of this world cannot possibly become holy and fulfill the mission of its founder. We have to live by every word that comes from the mouth of God. God speaks to all human institutions when he declares to Pilate "My kingdom is not of this world", directly to every human being who has ever lived when he speaks from the cross to Mary and John "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother".

 17/02/2025

Today is the feast of St Patrick who is credited with bringing the Good News to Ireland which became the land of "Saints and Scholars". 

In the Gospel Jesus commissions 72 men to go to various "towns" throughout Israel and repeat the message that they had heard him preach and to cure the sick. 

We hear later that they returned amazed by their own success which prompts Jesus to warn them that even if devils fled from them in this world, their biggest success was that they were recorded in the "The kingdom of God" which they had proclaimed.

As we read the Gospel narratives we are focused on Jesus and we move on with him through Galilee, Jerusalem, and the Decapolis. Lots of people did follow him but most who had witnessed his miracles and heard his words remained in their own towns. 

The "Jesus focused revival of faith in IAMIAM" must have been greater than it seems to have been as remembered in the Gospels. Seventy two is a very large number to have taken on the mission given to them by Jesus. It is no wonder that the authorities were worried by this "Jesus movement" which had such a charismatic leader.

In my youth I thought of Ireland as a charismatic place especially blessed by God to hold out  against the power of the British Empire and the Protestant Reformation. I have been amazed by how quickly the Church has lost its authority in Europe and the USA but the collapse of St Patrick's Church in Ireland, for me, has been truly horrific.

On his way to Calvary Jesus warned some of his grieving followers to reserve their grief for themselves and their children. When I first attended a public "Stations of the Cross" devotion some 80 years ago none of that congregation had even an inkling that mammon and hedonism were to take over the moral leadership of this world and that Our Lord's words applied not only to the women of Jerusalem but also to the Church in which I was to place all my faith and hope for salvation.

 16/03/2025

Today if we go outside our houses to look into the night sky, the sight of the universe is obscured by man-made light. 

In some locations, however, the same view of the heavens as seen by Abram is still that same awe-inspiring wonder as it was to him and all the other, unknown to us, human beings who were aware of the vastness in which they knew themselves to be alive.

In the first reading, IAMIAM reveals himself, the creator of the Universe, to be not only aware of Abram but also ready to support him in all his endeavours in this world if Abram reciprocate by righteous faith and worship.

Abram confirms his dedication by killing his animals as directed and IAMIAM consumes the offerings by burning them as a witness to seal this covenant between himself and mankind.

The Old Testament continues the history of how the revealed relationship between IAMIAM and the descendants of Abraham continued in this world until the moment IAMIAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed himself by the message of an angel to a virgin, a teenager in Nazareth.

There were no outward signs in the human persons of Abraham or Mary. They become the holy ones of God because they are chosen by the free will of the Supreme Being, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Jesus son of God and son of Mary is the final revelation. He lived a completely human life and revealed by outward signs that he was Emmanuel, true man and true God. Mary his Apostles and evangelists are the ones chosen to be human witnesses to all the wonders that God wrought in Palestine two thousand years ago.

Jesus himself was not a chosen one but the sinless one who chooses to be the perfection of human holiness to match and overcome the spiritual negative power we choose to unleash  by the abomination that is even the smallest of our sins. 

We cannot fully grasp with our human intelligences the vastness of the physical universe in which the whole world and its history is but a tiny speck. The sign of the cross, however, reveals the greatness of its Creator and his Love of each one of us. How can we refuse such Love from so great a Redeemer?

 15/03/2025

Lord have mercy on me for I am a sinner. These words have been repeated by me and billions of other human beings living and dead, billions of times but we have rarely lived up to their intent.

Jesus is Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT thus he is true God. He is true man also because he is the perfectly human but sinless Son of Mary. He is the final revelation made by Our Father to the whole world.

Most of the major players in the history of salvation that is the Bible share the same Jewish DNA, as does Jesus.

It is hard for non-Jews to read "and he will set you in praise and in honour and in fame high above all nations that he has made". My sense of fairness is appalled by the neglect of other races revealed by this decision to exclusively favour one nation.

I know that I am a tiny being, iam, a man created by God. I have to believe every word that comes from God. The Jews to whom Our Lord first preached also believed in the words revealed to Moses. It is very easy to understand why many of them were offended by the challenge Jesus' words made to their interpretation of the Pentateuch.

In my belief that living in this world is not an end in itself, the biggest stumbling block for this faith in the final revelation that is made by Jesus, outside of my own weakness, is what I see as the neglect of billions of us by Our Father. 

God knows that I am not trying to be clever or challenging but it seems to be a simple fact that there were hundreds of thousands of shepherd-less human beings living in this world during the times he favoured the Jews over all other of his children. 

  

 14/03/2025

The Mercy that comes from the being of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is infinite.

Today Ezekiel is inspired to reveal that although we live in time God always sees us as we are at the moment that is "now", "real-time" for us.

The Good Thief made no reparations for his sinful life but received mercy as a "free gift in real-time" by the grace that rewarded his recognition of the innocence of Jesus.

All of us who are alive today are known by our Saviour in the same "real-time" that he (for us) knew but (for him) knows, the reality of first century Palestine.

All our sins are forgiven by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in the person of INCARNATE SON dying on the cross but there is only one "Good thief".

We need to live not only by believing but also by deeds that reveal our purity of soul. 

The "real-time" of the Good Thief was his suffering on the Cross. He was forgiven but had his legs broken to ensure that he died. Jesus knew that this was real suffering.

The infinite Mercy that comes from God is also Justice. The crucified Jesus has made it possible for us to be forgiven. We have to cooperate by doing the will of the Father. Even little children can understand fairness.

 Forgive us Father even though we have all crucified Jesus knowing what we do.

 13/03/2025

Thursday First Week of Lent

The only human opponents who were faced by Jesus during his lifetime of preaching were the "clergy" of  the Temple. 

As I began the reading for this morning's mass, as usual, I began with the familiar regret that I have a very limited knowledge  of Scripture and what knowledge that I do have is only of the English Translation. 

Those who listened to Jesus and became attached to him were all of them first attracted to him by his miracles and the reports of them that were spread by word of mouth "come and see we have found the Messiah". 

Jesus was not a "bolt out of the blue" but an event for which the Jews had been prepared by their history and prophets, the Old Testament. Those who try to follow the final revelation that is Jesus Son of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT have to try to relate to the reactions of those who believed from Jesus' words and deeds that he was the Messiah. 

The blood covered corpse, abandoned on Calvary by all his followers, except for the unlettered handful of women and John, was proof for the learned and the clever that they were in the right with their expectation of a Messiah who would be a sort of Jewish Alexander but even much greater as he would have the support of IAMIAM.

During the three years of his public ministry Jesus taught us that we are known and loved by Our Father who has always answered the prayers of the faithful, Esther, the woman who touched the hem of his garment, Moses and the Prophets. 

God is Incarnate Son for he has to be truly man to eradicate by the experience of his own physical death the reality the results of the sins of mankind. 

God knows each one of us and will answer the prayer of the lowliest and of the highest of us when we become aware of our sins and sincerely ask for forgiveness by living henceforth in prayerful awareness of Our Father and never forgetting 

"So that whatever you would wish that others do to you do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets"

We must always remember that the shattered hopes of Peter, Mary and John, their depths of misery were to come face to face with the Resurrection and it is by this historical event that we too can find peace for our souls during our lifetimes and hope for a place in the "kingdom that is not of this world".

 12/03/2025

Wednesday First Week of Lent

I am sure that although I am not of the "generation" that Jesus speaks to today he could also designate our generation as "evil". I am of this generation that has had much more then the "Sign of Jonah" revealed to it for Jesus has completed all that we need to know about why and how we are to live our mortal lives and still we fail.

The disciples who shared the time that Jesus spent on earth as the incarnate Son of  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT quarreled amongst themselves about the meaning of his teaching. Jesus explained again everything that confused them.

The Resurrection cannot be explained. The Resurrected One could only be witnessed, worshiped and proclaimed.

The Jews of first century Palestine were of Moses' generation although they lived many centuries after him for their kings and prophets had nothing new to add to the revelations made in the Pentateuch. They had always to recall the chosen people back to their Covenant with IAMIAM.

Jesus is the completed revelation and now we too belong to a new generation of human being who have had all that is needed to do God's will on earth revealed to us.

"Before Abraham was, I am".

We still ask our questions, we still doubt ourselves but God, the Trinity, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has not only revealed his being and his will for us but also created during the "Easter three days" his unseen sacramental grace to support our souls as they struggle to become the most important part of our being.

The Jesus generation to which we all belong has never changed since the Ascension. The message of Scripture is still that taught by Jesus walking through Palestine. It is this message that will guide us always and if we respond with open hearts we will join the eternal one generation, the Saints,  before the Lord in the "Kingdom that is not of this world". 

 11/03/2025

This morning's readings are about our attempts to communicate with God. 

IAMIAM  speaks to the Jews through the Prophets of the Old Testament and they reply by their own words and deeds. The liturgy of the Temple in Jerusalem is the focal point through which their individual responses are returned. So it is towards Jerusalem that they still turn when they answer IAMIAM with their own words.

The psalms are the record of the response of one man to the truth, majesty, justice and mercy he knows that he recognises in life, but sometimes rejects. He praises and thanks God for the wonders that he knows come to him from his Almighty Creator and also seeks merciful forgiveness which also can only come from God. They also have an intrinsic literary value as poetry expressing in words the emotions common to us all.

Jesus' whole life is prayer as, although "true man" he never loses touch with "Our Father". The New Testament is the Good News that teaches us how to pray and how to be at peace in this world by focusing on the "Heavenly Jerusalem " and rejecting things of this world that obscure the way, truth and life that is the total revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT made by Jesus in life, death and resurrection.

Does this morning's new translation of Matthew's gospel imply by "when you pray do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do" that Our Father listens to all "prayer" even to that offered up to idols?

            

 10/03/2025

Monday First Week of Lent

I am always trying to be rational about my faith which is belief in all that has been revealed in the Two Testaments of the Bible.

I am sure that everything we need to do the will of God during our lives on earth has been revealed to us and sealed by the conclusion of INCARNATESON'S life on earth.

The fantastic material progress made in this world by mankind is not matched by moral stability, the righteousness preached by the Prophets and completed by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Each one of us who is living now surrounded by technological wonders is known by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in exactly the same way he knows all of his creation and reveals in Jesus the Love and concern he has for all us.

Jesus lived on earth a sinless life. He was always aware of Our Father. He cured the sick, fed the hungry and preached to enrich the lowly. He defeated Satan and bequeathed to us a spiritual entity, the Church.

The disappointment that is the subsequent history of the foundation made on St Peter and its moral standing today can only be countered by the words uttered from the cross to Mary and John.

The promise Jesus makes to us "I will be with you until the end of time" can only be found surely in this Church of Love, New Holy Family which leads us to the quiet still voice of Our Father that can be heard only in the depths of our beings when we clear out the burden and baggage of sin.

Holiness is  Good and stands firmly only on total obedience to the Ten Commandments of Exodus and complete openness to the grace that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT poured out for us on Calvary.

 09/03/2025

First Sunday of Lent

The readings are about belief, about faith.

I believe with all my heart that God does not create anybody to be evil. I believe that by acting against the will of God each one of us creates and adds to the evil that is done in this world.

How can this be?

Our first parents were tempted and fell to the wiles of Satan. Satan was the Angel who chose to disobey IAMIAM and used his being to encourage all free consciousnesses, Angelic and Human to disobey the will of God.

In the Gospel for today Satan attacks Jesus, loses and bides his time. But he is still there. 

There is an immensity about the Incarnation that defies all of us to comprehend. Son's sacrifice of himself for us on the cross and his unknowable death "the empty tomb" destroy Satan but even in the new generation inaugurated by the Resurrection human evil continues to be. 

This is not the will of the Father. We have not been created to go to Hell.

Jesus proclaims for all times that his "kingdom" is not of this world i.e. embodied in our material universe. This is the lesson that has still not been learnt by any of the human institutions that claim to follow the Lord to become  the "Church" built on Peter.

Our Lord did not stretch out his arms for the executioners to provide human triumphs in any subsequent institution, society or political systems.

He did it so that the love that is the being of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT could engulf the whole world and embrace each individual one of his sons and daughters, his children living in his creation that he knew to be good.

He still trusts us to use our freedom to be guided by Holy Spirit into following the way and truth revealed by Son for this is the life and will of Father, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT which we only have this one chance of choosing for ourselves.

Dear Lord, help me to remain true to these thoughts which are a result of my living sinfully throughout my life but always aware that you are the Lord, our God. Aware that your mercy is far greater than my sin and regretful that I have rarely remained true to you. I am the source of my own sin for the power of Satan has been destroyed by your cross. May all sinners on earth and in purgatory receive of the grace that is in the prayers of all believers living in this world and in the joy of Heaven. As for myself I have to say "do with me as thou wilt". Help me to really mean it. Amen

 07/03/2021

Friday after Ash Wednesday 

In the first reading, the warning given to Jews long before the Incarnation is not only about ostentatious fasting but is fundamentally about how we should live lives that acknowledge that God is "Our Father" and that we live only to know, love and serve.

Jesus' teaching consistently confirms that we have to pray in our "private room" and condemns the behaviour of the scribes and pharisees whose self-derived and self-driven holiness is empty sham. Jesus does not condemn the whole of Israel for he knows that there are many who worship IAMIAM with pure hearts and undefiled bodies.

When some disciples of John the Baptist, the forerunner, ask why Jesus and his disciples do not fast as do John and the Pharisees, he does not attempt to explain but  as "Truth" he speaks only plain truth, as he did to Mary and his brethren when they came looking for him.

Isaiah's message is that Lent, "fasting", is not about "giving -up" something but about a complete self-conversion to live with the awareness that "Our Saviour Liveth". To know  that "now" is "the favourable time". It is only "now" that we can choose to be with the Incarnate Son. "Now" is the only opportunity we have to do the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

We each have to make ourselves acceptable to Our Father by becoming the child that runs towards him with perfect joy and trust in the arms spread out over the whole world on Calvary.

Dear Lord, help me to become part of the only human generation that knows your living presence. The Church of Love, "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother". The people who walked behind you crumbled in the immensity of your pain, But you Our Loving Father strengthen us and them that when we seek you with sincerity it is you who overcome our weakness with the unseen Holy Spirit, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who accepts our prayers and forgives all sinners. May my prayers be joined with the prayers of Mary and all the angels and saints that we sinners on earth open our hearts by penance and so receive from the abundance of mercy that you create for the whole world and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.

 06/03/2025

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

When, as a child, I first heard the words that close the Gospel of today "For what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose himself" the Douay version of the Bible in English was crystal clear in identifying "the soul" as the eternal part, hence the essential part, of the trinity of being that is the reality of each of us. Body, mind and soul.

That translation was one of the reactions by the "the learned and the clever" to the legitimate objections to the condition  of the Church founded on St Peter made by those whom we now know as "Protestants". We still know them today because they were able to gain control  of  "kingdoms of this world" just as had  the "Greek Orthodox" 900 centuries previously, and as the Roman Catholic Church did until the 19th century. The Vatican is the last remnant of that Papal Empire.

May the Lord save us from the "Learned and the clever" is a petition that should be added to all the Litanies. Jesus condemned no-one except the "Thinking Jews" of his day. The wise men whose "wisdom" did not extend beyond their own prideful, self-awareness. All the changes within the Church that I have witnessed over the last 70 years have been introduced by those who claim to know better than did their forbearers. And "'twas always so".

Jesus is the Incarnation. His eternal being has no end. Past, present and Future are all one to him. When we become part of his mystical body we become part of the only generation that knows "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" for it is out of us that will come those who will not pass away without witnessing the end of time. 

We have to be the "little children" who welcome Jesús as soon as we see him and know that all that is material will pass away. We live out our lives as material beings always aware of "Our Father" and know that the "my" of "myself" is the "eternal human being" that there is not any reason to not call "soul" as did the translators of the Douay Bible.

"From the snares of the wise and clever, Good Lord deliver us."

 05/03/2025

Ash Wednesday 2025

The readings for today are a record of the revelations received by Jews, the people chosen to reveal by their way of life both the being of our Creator and his Commandments.

Joel is an individual who is inspired to denounce the evil that has corrupted the community who have to be guided by the Books of Moses and worship in the Temple.

He knows that the people are guilty but IAMIAM is merciful.

I too am a sinner and have always been able to identify with the guilt that is revealed by the Psalm. David knew that he had personally received great gifts from IAMIAM but had chosen sin thus bringing more evil into the world.

He knows that he is guilty but IAMIAM is merciful.

St Paul knows the Resurrection. Jesus has lived, died been resurrected and returned to the henceforth for all time revealed IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

He knows that it is the intention of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for every individual to remain free and accept for ourselves the Loving Mercy, forgiveness that is ours from the moment of our creation.

Jesus' teaching is always directed to every individual, every "my" soul. Praying has to take place in our secret room and fasting with joy in "my" heart and and on "my face".

I hope that these thoughts on Ash Wednesday  are not considered to be the 2025 equivalent of a "a long-faced pharisee parading his virtue on the street corner or in the market-place. To follow Our Lord I cannot be ashamed and have to pray that this is not a light that should be hidden under a bucket, there are no bushels in my kitchen.

Dear Lord, you know that I will try to live without sin during Lent and will pray "The Stations" on Fridays in my private room. You also know that this is pretty much what I try to do every day. Help me to open my heart to your grace and join these my prayers to those of Mary, Angels and Saints that what is happening here in my material being on earth be  also an offering acceptable to You. All sinners are still in need of your mercy help us to access this by penitence both here on Earth and in Purgatory. Amen.

 04/03/2025

Tuesday Week 8 Ordinary Time

Tomorrow the Institutional Church begins the "fasting" that is her preparation for the great mystery of salvation that is Easter. 

Everything that we can know has its beginning in the Eternal Word, begotten of the Father before time began, Incarnate of the Virgin Mary 2000 years ago and still present to those who consciously choose to live guided by the Holy Spirit as part of the Mystical Body of Christ.

Each one of us has to know that  iam, no matter how tiny, has to become an offering pleasing to  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Today the first reading proclaims that it is by righteous obedience that we can become the sacrifice that is pleasing to Our Father.

In the Gospel Jesus confirms that life in this world is not straightforward for us the ensouled highest of creation, the image and likeness. 

Material creation cannot veer from the paths that are the laws of science known and always discoverable by human intellect but we are completely free to choose how we will respond to the "life" we all know that we have. Peter begins to appeal for more enlightenment but Jesus' answer surprisingly confirms only that a life dedicated entirely to him can have benefits in this world, in human time and that this does not preclude the Eternal Life of the World to Come.

This "Good News" helps us to accept the material and social benefits that some of us are born into in the time of this world but the words of Jesus that we read this morning are concluded with an enigmatical warning which we ignore at our peril.

"But many who are first will be last, and the last first."

 03/02/2025

It is pointless to use weedkiller in greater amounts than the amount required to kill the intruder.

The grace that forgives us our sins, however also maintains us in the "blessedness" that is the support that is made available for all of us who pray.

Our relationship with Our Father begins when we kneel in his presence and continues when we show by our deeds that we have been converted by His words and deeds.

In this morning's Gospel the disciples were appalled by the stark "How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!". 

Jesus is and always reveals the truth that comes from God. His Resurrection confirms that living in the the physical universe is not the purpose for which we have our being. 

Prior to his final visit to Jerusalem Jesus prepared those who would become the first witnesses of the Resurrection by his words and miracles. Today, as usual, Jesus never fudges truth and hammers in his basic message that the kingdom, "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRT" is everything and material wealth is always a hindrance to our progress towards Life Eternal with the familiar image of camel and eye of the needle. 

There are many of us who today are trying to excuse ourselves by denying our possession of the worldly goods of which we are enjoying the use. " We are devoting our life to "prayer" and taken a vow of poverty". Others, such as myself, enjoy a life that is "normal" and "wealth" is something that others have to overcome.

Our sins have been eradicated by the Cross. The garden that is my soul, however, is ever more in need of the grace that can wipe out sin and promote growth but, as Our Father already knows, I am sore afraid and have never been able to walk away from my possessions.

 2/03/2025

Sunday Week  8 Ordinary Time.

It is hard for me, a sinful man, to believe  the words of this morning's Entry Antiphon and yet I do for "he saved me because he delighted in me" produced an instant reaction that was my human joy to be known by "Our Father".

It is my filth that is revealed by the sieving of my conscience. I have to follow the paths revealed by the grace of God in my own thoughts and reasonings.

It is I who have to sing praise in the morning and strive for holiness throughout today.

I am the one who can confidently respond to "be steadfast, immovable" and ultimately "know that my labour is not in vain".

It is Jesus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, who warns me to respond to him with my whole being, body, mind and soul to become the perfect vessel thrown by his hands on his potter's wheel, the whole fruit that will become eternal delight in his kingdom that is not of this world.

Dear Lord, you know that I am sincerely afraid of hypocrisy. You know that I can always smell it out in others. I always am aware of the potential plank in my own eye. You also know how I am afraid of turning my conscience into a sieve so fine that it becomes filter paper that results in despair at the evil I have been party to at many times in my life. I keep on saying "you know" because I know that you are complete knowledge, total perfection, total love and that iam  because you are our creator God and also our loving Father who enables us to rejoice with Mary, Angels Saints secure in the love that can forgive even my sins and the sins of the whole world. Help all sinners to accept your grace and discard the sin that blocks the meshes of our Consciences and let your grace pour into our hearts to become the delight that it is to know, love and serve. Amen

 1/03/2025

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Patron Saint of Wales, St David.

St Paul in the first reading tells us that he has come to the understanding that the only thing that matters in our lives is knowing and following Jesus Christ. It is by our aiming to become an embodiment of faith in Jesus that we can be brought closer to the human perfection that is our goal in life.

In the psalm another David, King of Israel, sings of the joy and the peace that complete faith in God can bring to us even in this world. Our Father supports those who faithfully devote themselves to him. Each one of us is able to accept the grace that is the eternal being of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. He loves each one of us in our complete human identity, "warts and all".

In the gospel Jesus commends his followers as the "Salt of the earth". We are to reveal in our worldly lives the Light of the Eternal IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to those who lose themselves in the sham of this world.

Yesterday the "sham" of this world was completely revealed by the President of the USA who acted out in front of the whole world, every bit as successfully as any professional wrestler the "kayfabe" (the false narrative that gives fake emotive authenticity to the characters who fight in the ring) the lie of "face" (Putin) and "heel" (Kelensky) himself becoming the alternating heel/face "Mr McMahon".

There we all witnessed an event that was lies, all lies and nothing but lies deliberately fabricated for the cynical./Satanic purpose of deceiving the whole world.

Dear Lord, It seems that our world is still beyond redemption. Jesus paid the supreme price for our sins but we have continued to serve idols of our own making rather than devote ourselves, know, love and serve, to returning your love. I cannot forget my own sinfulness and hope that I can do only your will throughout the rest of my life. Have mercy on all the little ones, children and adults whose lives are defined by suffering and death and may those whose self-belief is their doom come to the understanding that their freedom is your gift to enable us to avoid creating any more of the evil with which we drive out the "Good" you see in your creation. May Jesus soon return and begin the end of time that is  God All in All. Help me to remember to pray always for all sinners on earth and in Purgatory and to never forget that we can all choose to be bound by the Love you created for all on the Cross outside Jerusalem. Amen.