30/04/2025

Jesus in his lifetime did not ignore any of the people living in Palestine. 

Although his most intimate friends, however, were the twelve Apostles , who I am always pleased to remember were "ordinary" men and in no way "the learned and clever", "the great and good" of  modern society, he also had time for the non-Jews, Greeks, Romans and Samaritans, and also "the learned and clever".

Today's Gospel is Jesus' private interview with Nicodemus before the Passion and Resurrection. His words then were for all time and sum up the intentions of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed in the incarnation.

Jesus is the Love that is Divine Being sitting face to face with the Pharisee and telling him that mankind has to believe that He is the Son of God if it is fulfill the will of the Father.( I think that John must also have been present. Did he take notes.?)

In the first reading St Luke reports one of the many incidents that happened in Jerusalem after the Resurrection. The infant Church is already being persecuted and facing up to the unbelieving world. 

The Truth of the Love of God is so much easier when thought of as intangible belief rather than as a daily struggle to "Love the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbour as your self."

Love is not just a word or warmth in the heart. It is not the self satisfaction of well-accomplished tasks. It is the way, the truth and the life lived only for us by Jesus.  It is any life that strives to  heed the word of the Lord and despises life in the Darkness that is our alternative to Love, the world without IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but full of transient pleasures and delights that are our constant and certainly not irresistible temptations out of which only trust in Our Father can lead us.

 29/04/2025

In the first letter attributed to St. John can be found a summary of the spiritual growth of one who had literally lived the Gospels and who was one of the founding fathers of Christianity but probably knew himself to be as one of the Jews still following the Law of Moses.

Today we read and try to open our ears to the far from simple analogy that God is light. He does not worship the sun as the source of light but points us to the intangible substance that is essential for our lives on earth to continue. He develops the depth of the analogy by telling all believers that we are all in a fellowship, a communion of saints when we accept the truth that can only be seen in the Light.

The Light of IAMFATHERHOLYSPIRIT has been generated by the final sacrifice of the Old Testament which is the first and only sacrifice of the New. The blood of his friend which he had seen poured out on Calvary was for the whole world an everlasting promise that when we acknowledge our own personal sinfulness the price of our ransom has already been paid.

St John was found by Jesus when he was mending his nets by the shore in Galilee . There were thousands of well-educated, cultured and sincere holy men of God in the Palestine of the first century but Jesus chose simple, rough and tough working men to be the first recipients of his "Good News".

My hope is that the grace that happened for them can also be acquired by me and that I can truly find the rest that is the light yoke and easy burden of the sinless life promised to all of us by Jesus.

 28/04/2025

In this morning's first reading St John is entranced that some of his "Church", the flock that he has guided into holiness have remained faithful even to their deaths. He hears the "voice" of God confirming that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows that for a human "holiness" is not an automatic state of being and celebrated when it is achieved in the  Kingdom of Heaven for it is in total accord with God's purpose and an individual's participation in the victory that is the unimaginable pain of Calvary.

The psalm which would have been known and often sung in the synagogue by Jesus and his Apostles is the total joy of the people of God when they returned from the Babylonian exile to the Holy Land.

I always have to laugh in amazement at the realistic power of St Paul. He could easily be seen as an egotistical narcissist as he writes about his missionary experiences and achievements. What he does do in his "my" sentences, however, is present himself as a true example of what Jesus tells us all that we should expect in this life  if we are sincere in our commitment to Him.

I know that I have had an easy life in comparison to the experience of millions of others. I cannot say that I have been hated by anyone because of my Christian principles. I have been disliked by many for my character defects, but never hated for my principles. 

Maybe that is not true for one of the reasons that I had to begin this record of personal prayer is that I was denounced in public from the pulpit and responded in kind as it was made clear that I was not to be welcomed in that House of God.

 27/04/2025

Low Sunday

I don't think that it is a good idea to turn away from anything in scripture that I don't quite understand. The reality that was Incarnate Son on Earth  bequeathed to us a rational faith that is still revealed to us by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in the words of Scripture that we accept as Truth that comes from God.

Each one of us has to have our "eyes of Faith" opened by an act of free choice. Many of us  are surrounded by much that is attractive in our lives. We can even take pleasure in ourselves and become self-enamoured, even besotted with our own being to the extent that it becomes easier for us to ignore God rather than strive to do his will.

Jesus lived his human life surrounded by people who knew themselves to be special. They were the only Nation that had a Temple dedicated to IAMIAM, the only God, who each morning called only them to listen to him. Jesus, however, during his human lifetime lived each moment in love of the Father and for the benefit of each one of us who can still call to him.

In this morning's readings I was at a loss to understand who is meant by "none of the rest" as in "none of the rest dared to join them but the people held them in high esteem" but much more so than this lack of understanding I am faced today with St. John's vision of Eternity.

Part of me tells me that I cannot  rise to the mystical heights displayed to e.g. Ezekiel and Daniel in the Old Testament and also e.g. Catherine of Sienna and Julian of Norwich in the time of the Church. I know this but also know that I cannot dismiss them as "beyond me" and thus refuse to accept what is part of the Revelation of Love made by the Father, through the blood of the final Sacrifice, Son on Calvary, and supported by the Ever Present Being, Holy Spirit.

With God it really is "All or Nothing".

 26/04/2025

The Pope whose funeral takes place today was castigated by many for his remarks that were randomly reported by hovering journalists. One of them which caught my attention and opened the mind of the seventy something man that I was then, amounted to "Nobody witnessed the resurrection but it was and still is proclaimed".

In fact this was a statement of the facts of the event which I thought I already knew. However, each of the Evangelists narrate this conclusion of the bodily active life of our Incarnate Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in a different way. They all remember with differences of detail but all really do proclaim, they shout out for all the Temple to hear that True Man lives in the perfect human image and likeness, the first fruits of the new harvest that is still being nurtured two thousand years later.

Some time ago when I first became aware of the really rotten state of some clergy and tried to accommodate my hope-filled belief in the sacraments into our Church's insistence that Christ in Heaven does the deed that changes the substance of bread and wine and that the holiness or otherwise of the celebrant does not matter, I read through a "Dictionary of Popes" and their edicts as recorded in Denziger. 

I know that this only skimmed the thinnest of Historical Surfaces but my life is centered in the texts of the New Testament and God did make his Final Revelation to "uneducated common" fishermen and their families. I was shocked by how soon the Church founded on Peter had become a wheeler-dealer within the temporal power of the collapsing Western and totally identified with the Eastern, Byzantine, Empire.

I also have tried to understand what it was about the Temple Religion of the Old Testament that it required "so great a saviour". Was it any worse than the so-called Pornocrasy at the end of the first millennium  or at the time of the Crusades, the slaughter of Cathars and Waldensians or the burning of individual heretics.

Today, I also have to ask how it is that a Pope could want to avoid giving an answer offensive to the world of our times by the refusal of responsibility that is "Who am I to judge?" when questioned about fornication which has always been condemned as sinful by Our Father.

I can only judge my own deeds by the light revealed in the Scriptures, Old and New and explained by some of the "Learned and Clever" who are more attached to God than to their own egos.

It is at the moment of my death that I will know how I have conformed myself to the will of God and welcomed  the Love that was poured out for the sanctification of the whole world and located in "I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven"; "On this rock I will build my church", " Whatsoever you bind on Earth will be bound also in heaven" "Whose sins thou wilt forgive are forgiven also in heaven", "My kingdom is not of this world", "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother." "I will be with you until the end of time."

It is possible to reflect on and discuss the meanings of Jesus' words but Cross, Resurrection and Holy Spirit are facts of history that tower above all other historical events much more even than do the World's Skyscrapers over the war rubble of Gaza, Yemen and Kiev or do the natural physical features of our globe over the total man-built environment.

 25/04/2025

Friday after Easter.

I know God as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT as it is as three persons that he completed his revelation of himself. The first existent human being Adam/Eve knew themselves as individuals. They knew an other than themselves and a complement to each other. They were male and female persons. They knew that the "garden" was the place where they had become the being that they were and that there was another being that was not them. God spoke to them and they knew that he was The Creator.

As an individual person I too know that in this damaged world I am a being created by Our Father and that I am a being free to accept the record of God's dealings with his people or dismiss it and so become at the moment of death aghast that I too have lost the immortality of mankind that was God's intention for us from the beginning. 

Our Father must have intended that man in the sinless garden would become something much more wonderful than I am. True man Jesus lived a life of perfect Love in this world. His miracles are such a wonderful manipulation of matter that we attribute them to God. No-one can say for certain that they were not the work of the sinless perfection of humanity that would have been Adam/Eve if they had not sinned.

The New Church both of Institution and of Love are standing on trial today in the Temple, face to face with leaders of the Chosen People just as Jesus had been. John and Peter,  humble fishermen of Galilee confront the Temple Hierarchy, the Chief Priests, who guided their nation on the path to righteousness, and are not abashed. 

These Priests were the ones who had pleaded with Pilate to kill Jesus. They were the ones who had concocted the story that is still used to deny the Resurrection but they do not even try to deny the reality of the cure of the cripple at the Beautiful Gate; they too knew that it had really happened. They do, however, continue to try to silence the "Word of God".

I pray that I may become as full in faith as is Peter who after all his weaknesses can proclaim in full view of all the Chosen People and their leaders.

This Jesus is the stone rejected by you the builders

which has become the cornerstone.

And there is salvation in no one else,

For there is no other name under heaven given among men or women

By which we must be saved.

 24/04/2025

We have to look to the first preaching of the Apostles to conform our faith to what they had learned during the time that they had accompanied Jesus on his mission to redirect the steps of the first "Friends of God" back onto the way, the truth and life.

Jesus message is in its core  simple "The kingdom of God is near to us". His own people, however, did not accept that he was speaking about himself. Neither did his followers, however, until the Resurrection became the clear light of Truth and the purpose of the Temple and the Covenants could be at last understood.

In those days the Apostles were first interpreting their own experience. They were of Abraham's nation, they were the "Chosen People". Their religious feelings had not only been nurtured by Jesus but their Faith was entirely the same as that of "The men of Israel" whom Peter addressed in the Acts read at mass this morning.

Many, many generations have followed on from "those days" in the lives of the Apostles. In our lifetimes they are always "These days" as they were for  Peter, everything he had learned from the Lord was fresh in his mind and he continued to be shocked as he learnt the full extent of the Jesus' reformation of the "Law of Moses".

Each new generation of mankind has to face the new situation into which each of us is born. We must not, however, trust the norms we receive as birthright. "Everybody does it " does not excuse any form of sin. While we are alive we have to live within the moral framework that is recorded in the  Bible. We have to accept Jesus and the Apostles as our contemporaries and live as they did lives of thankful freedom directed always towards Our Father for whom there is no other time than "Now".

 23/04/2025

The New Testament is a small book that is the only record  we have of the completion of God's revelation of himself.

Today's narrative from St Luke's Gospel tells of how Jesus joined two disciples as they trudged home to Emmaus in confusion about what the death on the cross and report of the "Resurrection" could possibly mean.

Jesus taught them how to interpret the texts in the Old Testament that prefigured the events in the worldly reality of "those times". Their hearts began to burn within them as they became aware of the " truth that comes from God" revealed by their companion. Their backs straightened up and with confidence in God restored they no longer trudged along the dusty road but with joyful hearts they welcomed their fellow traveller to take his rest with them.

All the appearances made by the Risen Lord to his original disciples include a period of unknowing followed by a recognition. It seems that their personal direct knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth has been a preparation for their encounter with the Resurrection which is the supreme moment of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's direct action in this world.

Saul the enthusiastic persecutor of the first believers, however, was overpowered by the Love which is concentrated into the Resurrection and was blinded into becoming  the St Paul who remained steadfast until his own martyrdom.

For two thousand years we have been waiting for the return that Jesus has promised. Many of us have grown away from what is dismissed as superstition revealed by the questions posed and answered in their  unsophisticated ignorance by the first believers. It is  truly believed by many that the material of this world is the only complete reality that we can know even though most of it requires vast resources to become aware of even before we try to understand it.

Our Church founded on St Peter has often been blessed with holy men and women but we have to search the scriptures and accept the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the history of those first days of Resurrection Faith in the Portico of Solomon is the only foundation on which we can build our lives to become the Friends of God that we were created to be.

 22/04/2025

All that we know about God in this world comes from the revelation of himself recorded by the first believers. 

To be able to read the ancient texts requires years of study and an insight able to understand not only words but also the inspiration of the Holy Spirit which filled the souls of those long dead but still living "Friends of God" who wrote the original texts. Most of us throughout history and still today rely on the translations that are the explanations of the Word of God.

Jesus revealed to us that to do the Father's will on earth we absolutely need to humbly kneel before the Lord and ask pardon for our sins, accept his forgiveness and then "cling" onto the grace that he pours out over the whole world.

All through my life I have known that outside the tomb Jesus told Mary not to "touch" him but the "touch" of all the previous English language translations and inspiration for innumerable paintings  has today become "cling".

I am sure that Jesus, "suffer little children to come unto me" has never and cannot possibly ever rebuff the total faith that "clings" onto IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Our Pope is now one of the millions of souls for whom the reality/illusions of this material world has been exchanged for God's Truth and he, therefore, now knows what was meant by "In my Father's house there are many mansions." 

I ask IAMFATHERHOLYSPIRIT to forgive Francis his sins and to ensure that our new Pope will try to bring the Institution founded on St Peter out of the legacy of entanglements in this world that is the great scandal made and perpetuated by previous Vicars of Christ. Dear Lord, forgive my presumption but I never forget that it is never you who leads us into temptation but that it was the Chief Priests, Scribes and Pharisees who condemned and crucified Jesus even as they claimed to be the epitome of holiness. Help me to truly join Mary and John in the New Holy Family, the Church of Love that is maintained by the Holy Spirit on you the Word to do the will of the Father by "clinging" to our Faith in every word that comes from God. Amen.

 21/04/2025

I have only just finished reading the mass readings for today but the world has already intruded, a couple of News Headlines caught my attentions and now I can only recall one item from the Gospel. 

The story, the account of subterfuge in the garden, the  "fake-news" concocted by the Temple "spin doctors" is still current not only among the Jews but also amongst Moslems.

We can only pray for those who should be our brothers for entering into polemics no matter how much we disguise such discussions as dialogue achieves nothing. I know by experience that this a fact.

We must love our enemies. That does not include listening to lies that have been current for two thousand years and pretending that Rabbinical Judaism and Islam preached by Mohamed are anything other than our totally human nature, Adam and Eve in disobedience to the Will of God.

This morning I turned eagerly to the Acts and responded joyfully to St Peter's first preaching with the Joy of the Resurrection still fresh in both our minds but have already forgotten what he said.. The "Anti-Christ" that is the Torah and Koran forced themselves into my mind which wants to focus only on the Love that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT offers to all of us who are of the " Good Will" that leads us to become "God's Friends".

There is no other "I", There is no other God. There is no other revelation than the Old and New Testaments. A memory from St Peter's sermon has just sprung up. The being of God is One but he is FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to deny this would be a sin against the Truth that is the Resurrection our promise of Eternity.

I can only pray for the forgiveness of my own sins knowing that the bitter pain of the cross was necessary for  the  redemption of all mankind. The disobedience of man must have a much greater significance than we can imagine for it to need so great a Saviour.

Each day I  pray that I am not bolstering my own ego by recording these prayerful meditations. I am still Alone but always aware that I am Known with divine Love, as are we all, to Our Father who art in heaven. Maranatha, come Lord Jesus come!

 20/04/2025

Christ has risen, he has truly arisen!

Throughout yesterday, Holy Saturday, the thought of what would happen today, Easter Sunday was not far from my mind. And yet I had nothing to say for although I went about my daily tasks, in my mind I shared in the emptiness  that had overcome the disciples who were at a total loss after the death on the cross.

God knows that I truly partake/believe in the revelation that has never been an instant welcoming of Jesus, True Man and True God, but was and still is an event evolving over the lifetime of Jesus of Nazareth into his death and today's confirmation of the Glory of God.

John waited for Peter to enter the tomb. Mary ran, Peter and John also ran. We are not told of "running" anywhere in the New Testament except on this morning when the news of an empty tomb compounded the misery felt by all the disciples.

No one but the participant True Man is present at the Resurrection, it is an event that can happen only within the triune being that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. The nativity of our Lord was an event that took place in the human time lived by the True Man and witnessed by Mary, Angels, Joseph and Shepherds.

All the recorded meetings with the risen Lord are initiated by him. 

He still chooses us, but still allows us to respond of our own free will.

He is still True Man and has not abandoned the corpse that was enclosed in the tomb.

He asks for food.

He is beyond the material restrictions of creation yet his body bears the wounds of the crucifixion endured as the reality of true man in this world.

He "vanishes" from the sight of witnesses as he is recognised.

The Resurrection is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S confirmation that he loves us and helps us to choose the Glory of Eternal Life that is his purpose in calling us "friends" and preparing a home for us within the "many mansions" that are His the "True God" of the "True Man" who today reveals what we will become when we bow our heads and from the depths off our beings co-respond with Thomas, "My Lord and my God". 

 18/04/2025

Good Friday

The disciples did sleep in the garden, but for Jesus there was no rest. He had to face the reality of sin personified by the hatred of his accusers and the "Crucify him" of the chosen people, sons of Abraham. My sin and also all the sins of mankind were present to "True man and True God" and he knew that the Loving creative purpose of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPPIRIT could only be restored by the shedding of his blood and the agony of the true death of the true man.

Our all powerful God always chooses that we should live holy lives of worship, thanks giving and praise. Love can only be generated by the free-willed response of the "other" but human sin always refuses to accept and return love. 

The death of Jesus is God's revelation to us of the power of our sin and of the depths of the Love that we deface by not knowing, loving and serving.

The Cross of Jesus tells that there is an infinity of Grace for us to call on in the avoidance of sin and that when we fail we have no need of self-crippling remorse, viz St Peter, for as we truly seek pardon we return to Jesus the only gift that is in our power to give. We all are free and can choose to accept forgiveness and thus become part of the unseen IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S universe of the eternal spirit.

For this we were created and for this we have come into the world. We too have to choose to bear witness to the greatness of our creator and know that the help of our so great a saviour has to be sought if we are to fulfill the will of God during our lifetimes.

 17/04/2025

Maundy Thursday 

We are now at the beginning of the events which are the conclusion of God's participation in human life exactly as it is experienced by each one of us.

The farewell meal and institution of the  Blessed Sacrament, Jesus' (IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT) forever presence in his Church, took place in the Upper Room. Jesus was the only one who knew the unique significance of his words. 

With "This is my body" a new way of being is created. He creates his Sacramental Presence, "I will be with you until the end of time", even before the events that seal the revelation that has happened over the 33 years he has spent as true man.

It must have taken some time for the Divine Reality of their Resurrected, "I call you friends", Rabbi to be absorbed into the disciples' consciousness and for the cosmic significance of the last meal they had shared together to become a liturgical event.

In today's letter to the Corinthians, written less that 30 years after Jesus had "returned to his Father" St Paul is quite clear in his instructions for how the nascent communities of "Christians" should worship together and share with each other the love that they had all received as they came to understand the great Love that Our Father had lavished on all his people.

The Great Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT still maintains the whole cosmic order that we experience in human life. We were to have the support of the Sacraments to help us to be part of this order of holiness. I do not doubt any of the teaching of Jesus "True Man and True God" but just as, "The Jews" of Jesus time on earth had failed to maintain holiness that was their side of the covenant and had thus required the Incarnation's Atoning Passion to set it right for us to be able to live according to God's Word, so it is that the Institutional Church has never acted as if it believed Jesus' publicly uttered "My kingdom is not of this World".

Three crowns are three too many for the successors of St Peter. Peter denied Christ 3 times as  Jesus warned at today's meal. His Patrimony is rather his tears of remorse than the territorial claims of so many of the Popes, his use of violence against the enemies of Christ was instantly condemned by Jesus' healing the wounded soldier rather than accepted as an act justified as self defence or resistance to evil.

Where are we able to find the Church founded on St Peter? I hope that it is the New Holy Family, "the Church of Love", "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother" that will be the Real Presence until the end of time. The History of the Petrine Institution affords too many examples of direct disobedience of the Word of God for it to be able to purify the Temple which responded to the Incarnation by the crucifying of Jesus Son of God and Son of Mary.

 16/04/2025

The only way to truly follow the way, truth and light to the state of being that is holiness is by hearing the Word of God and conforming ourselves to all that it contains. I have often thought that to be an impossible task of which I was incapable. 

The Old Testament Prophets all struggled to uphold the faith with IAMIAM and honour the treaty into which they and their forbearers had been invited by God's promise. 

All the prophets proclaimed to their own communities and to the whole world that they were safe in their obedience to the  guidance of the "Good Shepherd" for the "Lord our God helps me, who will declare me guilty?"

I know that I cannot hold God in my mind. I can, however, recognise/respond to his revelations made throughout the history of mankind. I can be sure that 2000 years ago his indivisible being was incarnate as the only SON and God reveals himself as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Over the next three days we meditate on the real-time events of 2000 years ago.

I have often asked "Why was it then that Jesus was born?". Faith can offer no other answer than because that is when it happened. The texts of the Bible have to be accepted by his "image and likeness" as the evidence of God's will working in Time.

Anger is a human emotion that we have attributed to God. God has always known that His creation is "good". He made it to be holy. The Incarnation is not a response made in anger at the failure of his people to keep their side of his covenant but a renewal in time of the source of the Love that is his Being and the Source of creation.

The events of the next three days had all the elements in real-time that fascinate us today as do novels, films and TV dramas. "But there is something greater here". 

The New Testament accounts to which we will listen and read have the one element that all human fiction is lacking. They are the Truth which comes from God. They are the way the Truth and the life. They are the Truth that is guaranteed, "My Word will stand until the end of time."

Dear Lord, help me to come closer to faith-filled acceptance of Your Word, true repentance for my sins and hope that I will be able to show to my dear ones that there is nothing that is more important in our lives than knowing, loving and serving for you are the Love that can fill our hearts with joy as we stand in sorrow with the three Marys and John at the foot of your cross. Amen

 15/04/2025

Tuesday in Holy Week

It is a long time since I had to go out to go to work. I am, thus, able to focus on the Mass-Readings for each day of Holy Week and stay synchronised with the liturgical rhythm of  the Roman Church..

But, I am also afraid to commit myself to the intensity of prayer that becomes total isolation from the things of this world. On each of these days the whole of the Liturgy immerses us in the real events that happened in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. That is always the sole purpose of any Mass. 

"Do this in memory of me". 

Holy Week, however, is for me the leaven that is the Grace of the Holy Spirit, recognised and accepted by the sinner that I am, that can defeat all the recognised sinfulness of my being and protect my soul from the apparently innocent self-centredness that blocks me and the other disciples from "spending one hour" with Jesus who as true-man actually, in real-time, needed the support of his friends for whom, as True-God  he had decided to bridge the inconceivable void that there is between the flesh of creation and the Evergreatness of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

In the above "second paragraph" there is the keyword "afraid". God knows that I would truly be afraid to step into the void which seems to separate me from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT if not for an inner voice. I thank God, therefore, for this inner voice that assures me that the bridge between us and the Father has not been made by any of the high priests, scribes or Pharisees but  is the Eternal Love that was revealed in Palestine 2000 years ago.

It is the truly infallible way, truth and life that is the Resurrection and the only Pontifex Maximus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who is responding to each one of us who prays with the spirit of a child to "Our Father". My God reaches out me.

How could I refuse such Love?

 14/04/2025

Monday in Holy Week

I am sitting here two thousand years after the last events that are recorded in the Scriptures. I believe that Jesus is Lord and that he has the words of eternal life.

The Jewish people who were the first to have the reality of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and his creation revealed to them were also the first to know the Incarnation  and to walk with Jesus in the land of the living. They also were participants in the events of the three days for which we are still preparing.

They had for centuries been expecting a renewal of their nation which had been gifted by God with prophets whose one message had always been to worship God by accepting his word and being obedient to his commandments. Jesus had commissioned his disciples to continue with this same message when he had sent them out to preach, "The kingdom of God is at hand".

We cannot experience the level of despair felt by the Apostles/Disciples when their hoped for "Great Leader" was taken from them to become a target for human contempt and hatred. We do know the outcome, however as did those first disciples some of whom were converted scribes and Pharisees. 

In the first years after the Resurrection they tried to accommodate in their understanding the teaching of Jesus, the events of that final Passover and the New Life that had been witnessed by some of them. They, as do we, believed in the Resurrection even if they had only the words of witnesses but they were still Sons of Abraham so searched their Histories of Salvation to reconcile the disconnect between the anticipated Glory of the Messiah son of David and the dirty, bloodied corpse dead on a cross, of the actual Messiah, the Son of God.

That is why the Church founded on Peter has kept the facts of Jesus' life on Earth alive in the hearts of true believers who accept all that has been approved in the Scriptures and Celebrated in the Public Liturgy, as complete "Truth" unmodified by human opinion.

Life, Faith, Hope and Love can be completely intertwined in our innermost being which has only this chance to respond positively to the arms stretched wide on the cross. Those arms of Jesus son of Mary, and SON of God are open to bring the whole of Creation that is the work and joy of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, who is forever greater than anything we can possibly imagine, into the new creation where he will be ALLINALL.

How could we refuse such Love?

 13/04/2025

All the events recorded in today's New Testament readings are the Truth as remembered by their authors or the Apostles who informed them. Although not exactly the same, these narratives written by men are also supported in their truthfulness by the Holy Spirit.

All human life comes to an end and it was no different for the "true man" SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Jesus lived a real life and suffered an atrocious death at the hands of those who either did not know what they were doing or who were sure that they were protecting God from blasphemy.

Many relished the sight of the blood shed by Jesus, his helpless nakedness, and death agonies, (today's perverts are not a new human phenomenon), but most of the witnesses of this event were normal human beings who were as easily misled into sinfulness as we are today. 

For my own part I know that it is probable that I would have enjoyed joining in the welcoming party given to Jesus 2000 years ago and truly meant the Hosannas that we all proclaimed. All the actors in these dramas that comprise Holy Week were at that time living human beings. They had lived their lives aware that "The Lord" watched over them, but were still every much sinners as we are today.

Since this day 2000 years ago millions of us have lived righteous or sinful lives. Those who condemned the Saviour to death were a necessary part of the mystery of atonement only which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT can truly understand. 

I also know that it is probable that I would have been part of the lynch mob screaming for the death penalty. Most of His disciples were to flee from the garden and in Peter's case even denied all knowledge of Him. Our Loving Father, however, did not then and has never since then abandoned any one of us who has turned to him asking forgiveness of our Sin.

We can do this in full confidence that Jesus during His suffering  has created the infinite mercy that we can receive not because we deserve it but because our God is full of mercy and compassion, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love.

 12/04/2025

In the St John's Gospel that we have been reading each morning, there has not yet been the narrative of the raising of Lazarus. 

This morning's translation gives the impression of being set in the Temple. "Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and seen what Jesus did, believed in him."

In other translations "with" is "come to visit" which now places us at the scene of the "raising of Lazarus".

Before I had noticed that discrepancy I had been at a loss as to how to continue my morning devotion.

Scholastic textual criticism has contributed billions of hours to the religious culture that is also part of the Earth that will fade away. Studying the "word" is not the same as living by it. The descendants of the Pharisees are still practising the stream of faith that finds fulfillment in increasing the stock of human knowledge but appear to have hearts that are still closed to the second commandment.

Each morning that I try to pray with the Mass Readings brings my soul into the presence of Our Father in communion with all others who are seen and completely known by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Noticing the problem of "with" led me back to the only thing of which I can be sure. 

Although many saw the resuscitated Lazarus, whose body had begun to corrupt in the Tomb, they still saw Jesus as a human problem to be solved and not as the Eternal Event he has always been and has to be accepted as such in this world.

The Resurrection, total perfection of human, mind body and soul also failed to break through the armour of self-satisfaction that still keeps many of the millions of my contemporaries from the everlasting Love that will surround us if we avoid the things of this World and make the right choice for ourselves. "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my Word will stand."

 11/04/2025

The Holy Spirit inspires John, who is coming to the end of his life, to record some of the discussions that Jesus had had with "the Jews". 

It seems that when John refers to the "the Jews" he is talking about the leaders of the Old Testament Temple Religion that was practised in his day. Most of the characters in the New Testament are Jews descendants of Abraham and it is thus that most of the disciples who followed Jesus were the Jews who in The Acts are contrasted with the "Greeks".

An awful lot of evil has been brought into this world by the enmity which has been produced by blaming the Jewish people for the deceits of the Temple and the persecution that resulted in the Crucifixion and divided the Infant Church.

As Christians today we have to accept that the Crucifixion of Son is the ETERNAL intention of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. The only humans to know this completely are "True man" nailed to the cross on Calvary and His sinless mother. 

We have to accept that our sins are such an offence to the Supreme Person IAMFATHERSONAND HOLYSPIRRIT that Only God himself can create the necessary forgiveness by becoming part of and experiencing our physical universe, the strictures that SON and we were born with and into.

I always wonder about the timing of the history of God's Salvation. Pilate, Annas, Caiaphas did not represent a generation more wicked that any other of the Old Testament. There have been many occasions since "Those days" when the Church founded on Peter has been only a part of this world and in direct opposition to the words of Jesus.

The lesson that I learn is that I am responsible for my own life but can always turn to the unseen community of faithful believers, the Mystical Body of Christ, the New Holy Family founded directly from the cross, the Church of Love, Our Lady and the Saints and mingle my prayers with theirs that the grace won for us on Calvary will flood out over our world inspiring us to seek pardon for all our sins and for those of the Holy Souls who together with us  are also hoping for the Second Coming.

 07/04/2025

When I am faced with a slow start to my morning prayers as I am today, I have to try to turn myself completely over to God. Everything about the way I pray requires a deliberate effort on my part,

First I always try to be sure that I am not watching myself and building up out of and for myself a false image of pious devotion, an "auto-idol" that is taking the place of God.

I always try to refer at least once to God as "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" for the one being "IAM" is always the three persons that have been revealed to us. When we think of one, all three persons are always present.

I always try to never avoid the questions that I raise when following an idea. So now from the previous sentence I have to ask "What about the cross?" Is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT present in the SON, "true man and true God" dead on the cross and in the tomb.

This question is not raised as a challenge but with the open heart and mind of a child seeking to learn from Our Father how to live guided by a rational Faith.

I totally believe that the events that we will remember in Holy Week are as historically true as is this moment which will become "history" recorded on this machine tomorrow. We are living 2000 years after the Resurrection but have to live out our lives with the faith and devotion completely in tune with that of the very first Christians. We are of one generation in faith. 

Jesus has spoken for the final time. "On this rock, I will build my Church", "My kingdom is not of this world", "Woman behold your son". "It is finished". 

Everything we need to become the "holy ones of God" is now freely available but we have to choose it for ourselves. We have to say "yes" to God and live according to his will. It is for this that we were born into the world as a prelude to God's plan for the New Creation where he will be "All in All".

"I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, 

but will have the light of life."

 06/04/2025

Fifth Sunday of Lent

I have read somewhere that some of the "learned and the clever" do not accept the authenticity of this morning's Gospel.

I have always loved this story of how the "learned and the clever" of Temple religion reacted to Jesus' challenge. When I spot the "mote" in someone else's eye and begin to condemn that person the message of this story always reminds me that I am responsible for my own soul, as are each of us. Each of us is a unique child of the Father and known as such.

This story is only contained in John's Gospel. I always have felt relief in that the enemies of Jesus could acknowledge some of the Truth that he taught and so would be disappointed if there were not an element of historical accuracy in the passage.

I have to know the Gospels of the New Testament as factual accounts by eye-witnesses of the days when SON shared in our humanity to be able to become the perfect sinless Jesus, true man and true God. I cannot pick and choose the ideas, images that those texts create and I retain in my mind.

I do know nothing about textual criticism but reluctantly have to agree that my image of the critics of Our Lord slinking shamefacedly away, silenced by his words does not agree with the historical facts that Jesus was rejected by those who had become enmeshed in ritual, law and casuistry. The psychology of this story leads us into a mass conversion rather than the reality of an execution.

Silence is never a characteristic of the "learned and the clever." Our own "Pharisees" are never short of a riposte nor were those of Jesus' time on Earth. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is found only in the truth of each moment we experience in our present lives. Scripture is the record and guide that leads us through the Passion and Death onwards to the Resurrection that is the Truth that is and comes from God.

 05/04/2025

Saturday Fifth Week of Lent

Today in John's Gospel the Chief Priests and Pharisees are trying to respond to the disturbance caused in the Temple by the anger of crowds of disputants. Some think that they have made the scriptural and hence final argument against Jesus. 

He comes from Galilee.

Nicodemus who had previously and personally investigated Jesus' proclamation of the "Kingdom of God" was able to ensure that God's purpose was fulfilled by persuading his colleagues that a public trial of Jesus should take place. The execution of Jesus should be seen to be a proper legal event in the eyes of the World's secular authorities as well as in the eyes of IAMIAM who was being blasphemed by "yet another "Maverick from Galilee of the Nations".

Jesus will die.

Jesus has now been set-up  by his opponents  to die but in so doing  he accepts Father's will and becomes our "saving-victim". He will have to steel himself against the helplessness that fear causes to weaken our human being. The child Isaac knew this fear. Many of us have lived with this fear. Some have experienced it only momentarily but no-one has been able to tell us what dying really feels like.

Jesus is "true man" without any weakness resulting from sin, however, and can calm the human panic that, in my case, overwhelms completely in the face of real fear. He is also SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and is in the process of allowing himself, in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, to know how it is for a human being to live and die.

We can all know the when, where, why and how of our own lives. We are all in the process of that unique experience at this moment. We can all use our intelligences to know something of the when, where and why of Jesus'  life on Earth but the "how" can only be revealed to our souls little by little as we try to do his will during our lifetimes in our personal Galilee of the Nations where we thank Our Father that we have one Guiding Light that we can trust for it guides us to its own eternal source.

 04/04/2025

Today the gospel reading tells us that Jesus went alone to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. He did not, however, hide himself in any way and was recognised by some of the congregation in the Temple when he was preaching to them.

"His hour had not yet come".

God is aware of all the potential human outcomes that ensue in the Time of this world. All the actual outcomes, however, are met as a result of human decision either personal or collective. We all are able to know what is happening right now and what has happened in the past but not what will happen in the future.

Did Jesus have to be true God to know that  "His hour had not yet come."?

The Jesus of the Gospels is truly man. He is, however, a very special man. There is not a trace of sin in his being. The only other sinless human being is Mary his mother. We treat his miracles as evidence of his being "True God" but they could be evidence of the "True Man" whose Faith, he tells us, if it were complete, could move mountains. 

We can be sure that if Adam had not sinned we would have a totally different human existence than we do now. We do not know how the "Divine Image and Likeness" would have turned out if Adam had not damaged creation. 

We do know, however, that after the passion and death of SON/Jesus was resurrected in the same body which had been crucified and laid in the tomb but which was not restricted by the same physical limitations as it was before.

We have all been created to choose the way, truth and life that is prepared for us by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and we are made able to make the right choice by knowing, loving and serving in this world. 

 03/04/2025

Yesterday I did not acknowledge as I usually do that I had read and accepted as the Truth that comes from God the human words with which Jesus spoke his explanation of himself and which were recorded in his Gospel by St. John.

Our Father knows all the difficulties that I have made for myself and others during my sinful life.

He also knows that I am now, at the end of this life, trying to follow his teaching and Law in both the words and the spirit that he made them as a Father joyfully welcoming back all repentant sinners, as Saviour Son in the Perfect Sacrifice to destroy the evil that still dominates our world, and Holy Spirit distributing the sevenfold free gifts of Faith and Love that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT offers to all of us who turn to him in sincerity.

The latter part of St John's long life were spent as a son given into the care of Mary. There is nothing more than "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother" that we know about that "New Holy Family" created on Calvary.

In today's Gospel, Jesus says directly to the "Jews," the Temple Institution that had grown from the Word received by Moses, "I know that you do not have the love of God within you". There have been many times in the 2000 year history of the Institution founded on St Peter when the same condemnation could have been made to those who were supposed to be the Spiritual leaders of the Kingdom not of this world.

We know that Jesus has promised to be with us until the end of time. 

In these days there is a secular Israel but still consisting of Jews, still stiff-necked, still land-clearing by war, ethnic cleansing, and the killing of its rightful owners. There is a weakened Church very much of this world even to the extent of being influenced by the human norms of  Society rather than challenging them to show the way, truth and life which is the mission you entrusted to the Apostles.

We can all ask "Where is the promised presence of Our Lord?" in this historical reality of our times and yet I know that there is truly a spiritual body of Christ of which we can all become parts for that is the "Church of Love" that can be found by devotedly searching for and praying with the joyful community of Saints who, led by Mary, pray in the timeless presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that we on Earth become aware of our sins and sincerely seek forgiveness as do our brothers and sisters in Purgatory. 

It is for this that Jesus came into the world and made it possible for us too to become sanctified by his grace won in "bitter pain" on Calvary.

Dear Lord guide my heart onto the right paths that it is the sole purpose of my being to find and which have been eternally opened by You, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen

 01/04/2025

As we follow the Church's scriptural preparation for the liturgical celebration of the culmination of the presence of Son, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, in this same material universe that we know today we have to continually assess our own reactions to the teaching and miracles that marked the three year period of Jesus' public ministry.

As True Man, Jesus is the only sure guide to understanding what it means to be alive in our bodily beings, there is nothing about being a living body that he does not experience. But there is something greater than body here.

As true God he has a crystal clear concept of literally everything. He knows that I am struggling to grasp my fuzziness of thought within which there can be found some true faith. But there is something greater than faith here.

As Our Father, he has only love for us so he is often disappointed by our individual failures and not  impressed at all by the progress we have made by use of the material of creation to understand how thoughts can be turned into solid matter by using the physical laws that he created in the Beginning. But there is something greater than science here

As Our Saviour, Jesus  has shown us how to defeat temptation. We have to find through prayer the way, truth and life, The free gift that is Holy Spirit reaches out to us as Person to person. He knows our names. But there is something much greater than "we are" here.

As the Acceptable Sacrifice Jesus has freely accepted the monstrosity that is death on the cross. This was a real event in time but with an eternal effect. The saving grace created for Eternity during the last three days Jesus was with us as True Man and True God is distributed by the Holy Spirit.  There is no "but" here.

We can know nothing greater than this except, perhaps, that it was all done to eliminate the evil that we continue to manufacture by our sins. This is indeed a wonder.

Our lives in time give us the opportunity to choose to join IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in this world by following the way, truth and life that received its final revelation 2000 years ago in Jerusalem in preparation for the New Creation that will be the promised end of time.