31/10/2025

Friday Week 30 Ordinary Time

All of us who are awake at this moment know that we are alive, aware both of our body and of the "I" which itself both remembers the past, experiences the present and develops as the future unfolds.

We are all thus individual units of rational being living in time and known as such by our loving creator, self-revealed to be the totally beyond human comprehension IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Our bodies are completely limited by the laws of nature but each "I" has a "God-like freedom"  to react as it wishes to whatever we encounter during our life-times.

As are we all, St Paul is a totally unique human being. It is only he who was stopped on his persecuting mission to Damascus and blinded by the Resurrection  but he is also one of the "Chosen People" and in today's letter he is horrified that the Jews who had been so blest over centuries, even to the extent of having their DNA chosen to be the human vehicle for the Incarnation should now choose to be accursed and basically declare war on God.

God knows that it has always been hard for me to believe that he did have favourites. I always feel sorry for the civilizations of  India, South-East Asia, China, Japan, for the cruelties endured by the ancient peoples of the Americas and for the tropical ignorance that still exists.

Creation is the result of the Love which is the Eternal WORD, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, and that Love is completely revealed by Christ on Calvary. Mankind is the billions of "Egos" who have to choose to do the revealed will of Our Father for righteousness to be found on Earth.

I am awake at this moment and remembering the past, breathing in the present and praying for the future that the Lord do even more to help us his stupidly wayward children on Earth to become as were Mary and Jesus  sinless and perfect human beings in both body and soul for even after the Incarnation there have not been very many of us who have achieved the state of holiness for which we were created.

The proof for this is one click away on any News or historical website.

 29/10/2025

Wednesday Week 30 Ordinary Time

There is nothing that has ever existed, exists or will exist that is not known to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for unlimited Love, desire for only "Universal Good " is  his ever-greater being.

I only know about God what I am able to try with my limited capacity to understand from what he has revealed about himself.

Disobedience to his revealed Commandments is the "Cancel Culture" from which only the Incarnation can save the Eternal Life which he has created for each of us to accept or reject by using  freedom to choose how to behave during our human lifetimes.

This morning's letter to the Romans aims to bolster up our Faith by assuring us that in God's Eternity we are already called, justified and glorified. It can, however, raise deep questions and fears about human freedom.

A modern theologian writing about our "Christian Hope that All can be Saved" more than once asks how it is that so many Church Authorities over the centuries "know" that Hell is crammed full of suffering sinners.

St. Paul knows that even though we do not know how to pray properly the unseen Paraclete, the Spirit of IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is always the supporting conduit of the Father's Merciful Love made manifest by Jesus' death on Calvary. 

The Holy Spirit brings us to Heaven. Our own choices bring us to Hell.

In today's Gospel Jesus warns us that we have to fully strive to cooperate with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's manifest will during our lifetimes. Not only is there no ambiguity about his commandments but there is also a limit to his patience. 

We all really do have to choose to do God's Will during our lifetimes for by the closing of Death's Door at the end of each life we lose our one opportunity to choose to  join Mary, the Angels, the Apostles  and all the Saints in the Glory of God, the Joy of Eternal Life in Love. 

Dear Lord, may I do thy will this day and may thy Holy Spirit overcome what it is that leads so many of us into temptation and devote ourselves to the creation of Evil which can only lead to the state of hateful pain and suffering that we call Hell.

 28/10/2025

Feast Simon and Jude

Both the first and second reading for today's Feast Day are from the New Testament. St Luke records what he had been told about the events of the day that Jesus made this public choice and appointment of  the Twelve Apostles. 

When St Paul writes to the Ephesians thirty years have passed by within which time IAMFATHERSOHOLYSPIRIT has finalised his revelations through word and deed. Everything that each human being needs to know to live lives of holiness is now present in the world, recorded in the Scriptures.

Mary, the chosen Apostles, Matthias and the "untimely one" are the only sources of the direct teaching Word, Son of God and Son of Mary made to us in the historical events of which they were participants in Palestine 2000 years ago.

We always have to remember that as soon as Popes, Patriarchs or Priests became involved with "Empire" the essential spiritual quality of the Gospels was compromised and this world, Mammon immediately began the conquest of the Church founded on St Peter that has become more and more successful throughout my lifetime.

I have had to face up to my personal sinfulness ever since childhood and know that even today which I begin in sincere prayer and contemplation that it is so easy for me to sin even though I know that I can always access the support of Jesus, "I will be with you always even to the end of time".

I have to tell myself, however,  that even though I cannot completely understand all that I read about God and that my own thoughts are dismissed as "simplistic" God is also simple in his Love and Commandments for us. He tells us how to live because he knows that we are capable of becoming holy for that Love he poured forth as human blood on Calvary has the Power to enable us all to be secure in his New Holy Family where there is only Love in which we can join with all the Apostles and Saints to proclaim "Blessed be God for ever!"

"Woman behold your son, Son behold your Mother"

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus

Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen

 27/10/2025

Monday Week 30 Ordinary Time

If we try to live as Christians we all have to become a little bit of a theologian and even when we accept "sola scriptura" as the arbiter which defines the belief on which we base our lives we cannot avoid using our minds, our intellects, to clarify for ourselves what IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has finally revealed about himself, his Love and Will and our place in his creation.

St John is known as "The Theologian". As a child I was always captivated by the words/Word of what was then the "last Gospel" at the end of Mass and in this I am not alone for it can be considered to be the intellectual foundation on which most of "Theology" and Scripture is an expansion thereof.

Even way before John's final writings, however, Peter, James, John and Jude had written to different congregations on "Theological" topics, commentaries and expositions of the "Good News" that they had witnessed in "Real Time" and Paul had become the Rabbi who first taught how the Incarnation/Resurrection is God's concluding guidance begun with Moses on how to prepare for the "Last Days/The Second Coming".

Some of the words used by St Paul in this mornings first reading can be paired to open up a mental route through the heights and depths of all that can possibly be known by us about IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT: Flesh/spirit; Abba/Christ; children/heirs; suffer/glorified.

In the Gospel, Jesus, the carpenter from round the corner, known as the son of Joseph and Mary, again blasts the learned and the clever and all hypocrisy both of "those times" and of now. Luke also records that he had  heard from the Apostles that the ordinary worshippers who witnessed his words of authority were at that time overjoyed by the power he then displayed.

Our hindsight, however, lets us know that it would not be long before the "rejoicing at all the glorious things that were done by him" would turn into the "Crucify him, crucify him!" of his final day on Earth.

Dear Lord, help me to overcome everything within me that becomes impressed by my own thoughts and being. Self-love always breeds hypocrisy and ultimate hatred of You. I am repeating nothing that you do not already know but hope that for some of today's time I can live, honestly and faithfully accept the Love and Grace you bequeathed to the whole world in those final words to Mary and John.

"Woman behold your son, son behold your mother."

 26/10/2025

Sunday Week 30 in Ordinary Time

During the centuries when only the Jews received direct guidance from IAMIAM through the inspiration received via the prophets it seems that they were overwhelmed and dominated by the physical observances attributed to revelations received by Moses.

Their religion was not entirely of this world, however, in that "The Lord" was unseen except in the "good deeds of his chosen people" and in the prophetic utterances that were continually being repeated to correct infractions but to no lasting effect.

During the half millenium before the birth of Christ their Jewishness became under threat from the other great worldly "religio cultural" system of that time, Hellenism. The gods being non-existent had no attraction for the people of IAMIAM but the human culture that their adherents developed was and still, with Christian elements accrued over the last two thousand years and now known as Westernisation, is so attractive that very few people of this world have completely resisted it.

Last week the King of England met the Pope in the Sistine Chapel. The artistic wonder of the setting could be taken as a visual proof of the triumph of Hellenistic Humanism in our life on earth. It is also true that both Pope and King are developments  of the historical failure to believe the literal meaning of Jesus' declaration before Pilate "My kingdom is not of this world".

The Incarnation reveals  that human life itself, being alive in the present moment, is the greatest good that we have had given to us. God also becomes true man but lives always aware of the horror he is to undergo. How is it that we have refused the basic teaching of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT voiced by such a saviour, for so many centuries peopled by so many generations?

Life is nothing more than an opportunity for each individual to become righteous as finalised by Jesus for he has shown us by Way, Truth and Life that even though we lather Gold over everything and proclaim our names to the whole world, all material being is futile and finite, dust that will itself become nothing. 

He, however, is the Resurrection and having confidence in him is not "boasting" but the result of pure faith that brings us to salvation. He never lies and is both our Good Shepherd, the gate to the heavenly sheepfold and the founder of perfect safety in this life, our Mystical Church of Love, the New Holy Family. Amen

 25/10/2025

Friday Week 29 Ordinary Time

My sleep is a problem for me these days. It is now 1:30 a.m. on Saturday 25 October. I didn't sleep at all on Thursday night and was not able to bring myself to approach the readings for Friday with anything like a right attitude. 

I have just read Friday's passage from St Paul to the Romans, however, and thank God that I have done so for I understand exactly what he is revealing about his innermost self. He who has seen the Resurrection, experienced the Glory of Lord, is also a man for whom each moment of life is a new challenge to avoid sin.

He does not have an abhorrence, a hatred of the human body but acknowledges that we cannot let it become the ruler of our being. We are all of us special individuals created and known as such by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to respond in ourselves to the invisible, supreme perfect Love that is the unknowable Being, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, who as the Incarnate One shared our humanity even to the extent of being hung on a cross, pierced by nails and spear and thus bled to death.

Of course, we must not hate our bodies. God created and shared in them. 

The Jews among whom Jesus lived 2000 years ago were the generation to whom IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT decided to make his final revelation. In the Gospel, man to man, God to his creatures he minces no words "You hypocrites!!!".

Since those days we have not improved either as Churches, nations or individuals.

We must not forget, however, that among that crowd so shamed by the living Word were the chosen ones. Mary has always been known in God's own way and the Apostles were to become the Saints who still guide us. Many others were and still are known as holy only to God.

Thank God that I got up from my bed and faced yesterday's readings. God knows that this is my prayer, my being raised as far as it is able for me in mind and spirit to recognise the power and glory of God and to again remember that the "Woman behold your Son, Son behold your Mother" spoken as the last "Human Words" from the Cross are the guarantee of the Mercy that delivers St Paul and will deliver us all "from this body of death."

Dear Lord help me to remain true to the delight that sometimes fills my heart when I think and pray to you. Help to truly purify my being and defend it from the temptations that surround us all in our lifetimes. I am "alone" before you. Help me to not be selfishly so and always aware that I have to implore your grace not only for me but for all my loved ones. You Jesus died so that all might be saved. Amen

 23/10/2025

Thursday week 29 Ordinary Time

In the first reading for this morning, St Paul tells the Romans that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has  completed his revelation to which each individual human being has to respond. Each one of us has the same choice as had Adam. We can choose to sin or to obey.

In the second reading, the Gospel, the "hard sayings" of Jesus are at their hardest. "I came to cast fire on the earth" is a stark warning of the reality that the world has been both before and since the Incarnation.

There is no pastel coloured, sentimental blather anywhere in the Revelations that come, as an infinitude of lasers directly from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT into each soul that has been created by the Will of  his Being. His Love for us is displayed, however, for all to see on the " big screen" of world history in his acceptance of "fire" in the torment that finalized his life on earth.

In the Liturgical Worship that is today's mass the Scriptures are linked by the Psalm that is itself a restatement of the what we and all other human beings have to know and use to live out our lives. We have to aim for the perfection that comes from "doing Thy will on Earth" but unless we truly accept "My kingdom is not of this world" our humanity dominated "World" can never experience the "Peace that comes only from God".

I have always loved the first and last stanzas of this morning's reconstructed Psalm so I will end my morning's reflection with the neglected, by me, middle one

"He is like a tree that is planted 

beside flowing waters,

that yields its fruit in due season

and leaves shall never fade;

and all that he does shall prosper."

in the hope that even though there is little hope for the "World" I can personally find the peace that you bequeathed from the cross into the "New Holy Family, the Church of Love"

"Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother."

Dear Lord, 

Help me to become as one who "delights in your Law" and avoid the "electronically transmitted company" of sinners. Forgive me my past sins and let me be guarded and guided this day by the prayers of Mary and all your Angels and Saints. Amen

 22/10/2025

Wednesday Week 29 Ordinary Time

St Paul wrote this letter to guide the very first Christian community that was then in its infancy in Rome. It has become since then a foundational text for all Christians. 

Most of the first Christians fall into the category of "blessed even though they have not seen" which we also share with all subsequent  generations. St Paul himself is the only Apostle who was personally called after and by the Resurrection and who learned all that he knows of Jesus' life and teaching as do we from the then still living "friends" of Jesus and from the Old Testament.

I have come to realise that the Middle-East chosen by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to be the location in this world of the timeless Incarnation was in those days at the beginning of the Pax Romana a place of intellectual and cultural ferment where the creation of vast wealth had enabled millions to devote their time to physical and mental activity which without the Revelations made to Jews in Palestine, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God" is a "literal waste of time" and of human life. It was not just the pure simplicity and poverty known by Jesus in Galilee.

St Paul wrote this letter only twenty-five years or so years after the Resurrection and we  2000 years later have also to encounter and respond to this the final event of God's Revelation as did St Paul on the road to Damascus.

The wealth of the world is now far greater than even then and we are more entangled in our technologically enhanced consciousnesses. We have still been given the gift of rational life, however,  by "Our Father" to enable us to make the free choice to which St Paul encourages the Romans and all other would-be "Christians"  to devote our lives. 

"Become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed and having become free from sin become slaves of righteousness".

 21/10/2025

Tuesday Week 29 Ordinary Time

I try to start each day by the recollection of my place in the vastness of the Universe. I welcome the guidance that I find in the Scriptures that have been preserved for millennia and I try to be aware that when they were first recorded they were the work of living men who had been part of their living generation and products of their cultures, just as I am of mine.

We are all unique individuals but are also a product of our times and place. St Paul could never have lived the life of righteousness that he did if he had not been directly chosen by the Resurrection to proclaim for all time that God does not have favourites but he was also aware that he, Saul, was himself one of the Chosen People, a Jew, educated in the exclusivity promoted by Hebrew Scripture.

The Incarnation is a historical event. 

We cannot explain why God chose to complete his revelation  of Salvation and that individual human beings known in His eternity by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT were chosen to be offered the choice to co-operate by their own free choice with the Will of God at that moment two thousand years ago, but have to accept it as the greatest of all historical events.

All the characters of the New Testament and Church founded on St Peter, the enemies or friends of Jesus were products of either Hebrew or Greek culture who had to respond to the uniquely eternal events that had happened during their lifetimes.

Jesus is "Son of Man" because he is in his being the pure humanity of Adam and Eve, uncorrupted by either sin or touched by the culture of his time and place. My response today to the same events has to resist the influence of both "Now" and two thousand years of history. 

God's grace abounds and I can become righteous for "although sin reigned in death, grace reigns through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Christ Jesus".

Dear Lord, help me to respond to all that you reveal as did sinless Mary without fear and complete trust for you are Our Father, my Lord and my God.

 20/10/2025

Monday Week 29 Ordinary Time

At this moment, I am trying to become in my response to the words of scripture used in this morning's mass, a receiver uncontaminated by neither the "noise" of self nor the "white noise" of my environment, the universe of which I am a tiny speck but a speck, as are we all, empowered by our creator to free our invisible selves, our souls from the material, temporal distractions which keep us from the faith which "God counted as righteousness in Abraham".

At the moment 2000 years ago when IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRT was a living man showing us how to recover the holiness lost by the disobedience we call "Original Sin" he was speaking to each of the crowd that was then melling around him and also to each of us who have ever lived since then.

The people who formed the crowd of which he was the centre was formed of individuals who all were beset by human worldly problems. Jesus' response to the man who appeals to him for help in a family dispute tells us that his mission is not to create a just society, a kingdom of this world.

The only way that there can be political, social justice in this world is as a result of the personal righteousness of each of us. Our Father has created us in love for us to love one another and 2000 years ago he sealed his completed revelation on the Cross and confirmed the Way, the Truth and Life with the Resurrection.

We are all called to strive for holiness by avoiding the supreme danger to righteousness that is to be found in material being. The world and all that is in it is captivatingly wonderful but "I am" and  thus part of it to acknowledge and do only the will of its creator.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven,

Give us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil

 19/10/2025

Twenty Nineth Sunday in Ordinary Time

I am constantly aware that my consciousness, my being, is not completely under the control of my rationality. 

It has never been easy for me to control my "moods" and I have often resorted to chemicals starting with Alcohol "to gladden the heart".  Each day, I thank IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that forty years ago I was forced into abandoning "drinking"  that had become my misuse of God's bounty.

Physician prescribed medicines can also affect my moods and damage my ability to pray but most of all my being can be dominated by the unseen power brought about by the events of this world.

I have to believe that "All Scripture is breathed out by God" and that when I weaken in the fight against this world and all its delights the angel of the Lord will lift me up as did Aaron and Hur hold up the arms of Moses. 

Scripture is the primary source of the power we call "Grace" and there is only "Good" in it. I must never be separated from the history of the Salvation event inaugurated in Genesis and rounded off by St John's revelation.

The power of this world's Anti-Christ has many sources. I can at this moment instantly "click" my way into hours, days and lifetimes of attention-grasping fact and fiction that spits into the face of our Crucified Saviour.

I am also aware that seemingly innocent pass-times can be stronger than my best intentions. Can it be doing God's will that I am totally miserable for days when my football team suffers a defeat?

Today I pray that I may digest Paul's words to Timothy and that nothing disturbs me from the complete peace  safety and righteousness found in the Church of Love, the New Holy Family;

"Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother."

 17/10/2025

St Ignatius of Antioch

When I have completed thoughts inspired by this morning's Ferial Mass readings, I will have to look up what I remember about today's saint. That he complained about his guards on his journey to death in Rome as "panthers" and actively was welcoming this journey to martyrdom sticks in my mind but I cannot remember the details.

In the first reading, St Paul continues to emphasise that it is faith, pure belief in God, that will bring us to the righteousness that is the target we have to aim for in our lives lived out in this world. Our faith can be witnessed by our deeds that conform to the Will of God but the institutional worldly deed that is following the "Law" as it had become by the time of the Incarnation had lost the sincerity that empowered it to achieve personal righteousness for its followers.

There was a reason that the Incarnation happened when it did.

Our God respects our freedom and completed his revelations by becoming man and experiencing for himself the limitations of the human mind, body and soul in dutifully accepting a life completed by death with the self-willed refusal of sin that is both our worldly example and source of supernatural grace.

Even three hundred years after the Resurrection Christian Martyrs were still willing to make the same absolute commitment to Faith in IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that was Jesus' faith in his Father and ours. St Paul makes his first appearance in Scriptures as a participant in the "Joint Venture" that was the murder of the first martyr. 

I am pretty sure that St Ignatius welcomed his own death and I guess that I too will die sooner than later. I am sure, however, that Jesus tells all of us who read this morning's Gospel that there is nothing to be feared about death if we appeal for the free gift that he created 2000 years ago in worldly time on the hill outside the city walls in yet still painfilled Palestine.

The ultimate horror of that death becomes the Glory of Grace that is the Resurrection and available to all who allow themselves to experience Faith that is the Church of Love, the New Holy Family established at that moment in the real-time of this world when Jesus, dying God and man, declared

"Woman behold your Son. Son behold your mother"

 16/10/2025

In today's first reading we are listening to the totality of IAMIAM as experienced by the Old Testament confronted by the Resurrection. St Paul is a living Jew who is part of the human generation that not only knew the Law as revealed through Prophets but lived and had shared the same material Universe at the same time as the Incarnation.

The Law had been for Paul and the actual friends and enemies of Jesus as necessary for their lives as the air that they breathed and the food that they ate. The Lawyers whom Jesus challenges  in this morning's Gospel have so intellectualised the events of the past in "Scriptures" that even today Jews continue to "boast" about God as they live lives that continue the face to face defiance of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT many of them showed to Jesus and which resulted in the Crucifixion.

The life, death and resurrection of Jesus is not about creating texts for us to study and discuss. The Way, Truth and Life does not lead to anything that is temporal. How could any one add to the "Greater Glory of God"? The Resurrection completes the revelation that the essence of my being is timeless spirit which has been created to live in material time by freely conforming to the revelations made to past generations and by being ready to receive those made to each of us.

Our recognition of the material universe depends entirely on the evidence provided by our senses but our eternal lives can only be recognised by Faith in the revelation of Love completed by Jesus and the works that this Faith inspires from us during our limited lifetimes.

 14/10/2025

Tuesday Week 28 Ordinary Time

How could it ever be possible that Paul would ever be "ashamed" of the "Gospel" revealed to the world by the Incarnation, Jesus, Son of God and Son of Mary?

I have throughout my lifetime sometimes felt embarrassed by the outward signs of my religion and  recently been truly ashamed by the manifest failings of the "Institutional Church", but the only shame that I can associate with the Word of God comes about from my personal failure to live unwaveringly the Way, the Truth and the Life revealed for all peoples and all times in the Holy Land engraced in time and place by the presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT two thousand years ago.

Paul, however, was a Pharisee who could have known or been known to those condemned by Jesus in this morning's Gospel reading. He had been personally called directly by the Resurrection and knew that "everything within him had been cleansed" for he had let go of all that  had not come from God which defined him as "Paul"  and he thus became an example of how to live a life of faith by clinging onto the Resurrection throughout his life and preaching this up to the very moment of his death.

I know that there is nothing about me that is not known to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and pray that I too may be an acceptable offering, a libation, as was Paul, for I am a sinner who can be cleansed only by Mercy to finally become at home within the New Holy Family, preached by Paul as the "Body of Christ", the Church of Love that will stand until the end of time.

 13/10/2025

Monday 28 Week in Ordinary Time

There are billions of us living in this world at this moment. 

Millions of us have lived and died since that moment when Paul began his letter to his distant friends, those who knew themselves to be loved by God and ready to return that love by becoming living saints, defined by holiness. 

In his greeting he defines himself, the individual who had been blasted into belief by the "Resurrection" as a "servant" who has been sent by Our Lord to continue the revelation first made through the prophets he knew from his study of scripture.

Each one of us also knows our individual selves and it is with this "I" that we are free to respond to all that our awareness, temporal, mental and spiritual makes known to us. 

Jesus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, is "True Man" and as such lived amongst contemporaries with whom he formed a unique human generation. It is only from the recorded lived experiences of this generation that we have the final testimony that "Our Father" completes thus making his will for us completely transparent and never changing.

Jesus never equivocates. "Before Abraham was, I am" . 

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life" tells us that we can all overcome  the stark warning of "This is an evil generation" of this morning's Gospel addressed first to those on whom we have to rely as the foundations of our faith and quest for holiness, and subsequently to all of us who have ever lived.

 05/10/2025

I am still alive this morning and aware that I am indeed a lone individual who cannot absorb all the happenings that the "BBC" or any other of the "News" purveyors, who are my ears, eyes and knowing of  the present moment, reveal to me as the worldly reality that the billions of us are experiencing in this NOW.

The "lone individual" that I am knows that, even though I am the accumulative experience of millions of seconds lived in this material universe, each continuing breath is a step into the unknown for my consciousness, contained in and limited to the past, cannot see beyond each moment of worldly life.

In the Old Testament, God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, spoke to each of us but only the response of some has been recorded. We know those as "Prophets".

In today's first Mass Reading, Jonah, too, was a "lone individual"  to and through whom "IAMIAM" again revealed that each of us must not sin and that it is a completely useless and stupid task for any individual being, family, culture, nation or religion to promote its self-will and try to resist the revealed will of God. 

The  Ninevites, however, repented and were saved by God's Mercy.

Jesus is God's Mercy, the Incarnation. He is God's complete self-revelation in worldly time. He lived in his human body second by second, as do all animals, from conception to death but is eternally the Word/Resurrection, the Power, Glory, the Ever-Present Mercy of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

He teaches by his life, death and resurrection that what was revealed through the prophets was the never-ending truth that comes from God. Each one of us has the same mission in life to obey our Loving Father and hate sin. 

We do not need to be overcome by our failures, however, as each breath we take continues to  provide us with the opportunity to prove by accepting his words from the cross, our "Love of God", both in prayer and selfless care for all the other lone individuals of whatever culture (today's Gospel  Luke 10 25-37 "Who is my neighbour?") that we lone individuals can become one people of God, the Church of Love, the New Holy Family 

"Woman behold your Son. Son behold your mother".

 03/10/2025

Today Baruch tells his contemporaries that the shameful behaviour of their leaders, kings and priests is  the result of the personal defiance of God made when each one of them sins. (Baruch 1 15-22)

Today Jesus warns us that to reject his teaching is to reject God. (Luke 10 13-16)

In the real time of this morning, I know that I am a sinful man and that I am personally responsible for adding to the cumulative sin of this world.

God also knows that I am "sore distressed" and pained in my soul that his final revelation, Incarnation, Crucifixion and Resurrection, Our Lord Jesus Christ is still being dishonoured by the sterile selfishness of mankind. 

Today, those who claim to have faith  continue to kill each other to prove the validity of their beliefs and . those who have completely given themselves over to Mammon are preaching an invisible material "New God" they have invented and  named "Crypto". (BBC News 03/10/2025)

Dear Lord, help me to be open to your grace and let my prayers be united with those of Mary, the angels and all the saints that mankind become united against sin and totally aware that Jesus is the only way, truth and life.