30/11/2025

Sunday Week 1 Advent

There must have been millions of people like me who have come to the end of their lives knowing that they are still searching for the peace of mind that no matter how they try still remains out of their grasp.

My consciousness is never at rest but is always bombarding itself with memories, imaginings and simultaneously aware of the physical reality of the present moment. 

In my case, at this moment, reality is awareness of the sincerity with which I am trying to draw close to "Our Father" and also aware that it is in my little "i" that I can come closest to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and that it is thus that myself can displace my God and become Sin.

Jesus told us that he did not come to bring peace to the world. There was no need for him to bring the "sword of war" mankind had already done that. What was the "sword" that he did bring? It was also light, a sheer all penetrating, invisible, laser direct from Love, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, into the insignificance, but thus "deified", of each human soul, "iam". 

Each one of us has to grasp the Sword that is our consciousness of being and guided by the scriptures live the life that is and comes from Jesus, which is also the way and the truth. The natural reality for our souls is the Love that knows each one of us. God is total reality way beyond anything that has or has ever had material existence

Jesus taught us that "Our Father" is not a Supreme Supernatural Being, an abstract idea completely beyond human intelligence, but that he is "Abba", "Daddy" and it is thus that he has to be loved and trusted by his little children.

Today we, this eightieth Jesus Generation are again beginning the preparation that was the ninth month of Mary's pregnancy. It is only mothers who can truly know the physical presence and growth of another being within their own bodies. 

Mary had fully accepted God's choice of her to begin the concluding narrative of his assurance that he and his love for us are complete reality and thirty three later she was also to accept the role of  Mother of all mankind.

"Woman behold your son, son behold your mother"

Dear Lord, help me today to avoid all that does not conform to your will and thus remain ready for your personal call to me or your promised return to this world. May my prayers join those of Mary and all the saints that the sins of mankind living and dead be wiped out and that your Mercy soon become All in All.

 29/11/2025

Saturday Week 34 Ordinary Time

Today Jesus gives a direct warning to his disciples about letting ourselves become held in the embrace of bodily dissipation, deluded by the confusion of drunkenness or enslaved by the material cares of this world.

At that time his disciples were mostly from among the "poor" of Israel although some of the "high and mighty", "rich and powerful" and "learned and clever" were also attracted by his "signs" and stayed to be captivated by his "wisdom". All of this social mixture of followers, however, were expecting him to deliver some sort of New Order  from the political status quo that was the "Pax Roma" in which they reluctantly lived in those days.

Jesus, however, was calling all of the individual souls alive then and now to become holy because he is holy. This is the only way that our Holy Mother the Church could have become what Our Lord had intended when he stated his intention to found her on Peter, at the Gentile shrine of Pan in Northern Galilee.

Today I know that "dissipation" is not confined to the public lives of the "rich and famous". 

It was the scandal of child abuse that first opened my eyes to the lack of integrity in the heart of the Church and that this dishonesty is not, in fact, a new phenomenon but has existed for centuries. I have also always known how "lust" can so easily rule my every waking moment. Personal poverty is not a guarantor of freedom from sin.

Today I also know that 40 years ago I was dragged into the clarity of sobriety by the Love of God working through the shared experience, strength and hopes of the caring strangers of AA and become thus able to strive to respond to Jesus' call to become holy.

But at this very moment, I am still entangled in the things of this world. I am enraged by the failures of the football team that I support. Captivated by the posturings of political commentators and unbelievably devasted by bureaucratic failures that have little importance except in my mind.

When we first became the "Jesus Generation" many of us were sure that the resurrected physical body of Christ, Jesus of Nazareth would soon return from the unseen spiritual heaven of the Father to rule "an everlasting kingdom where all dominions would serve and obey him". Until that time we would be supported by the Paraclete.

Two thousand generations later, we are still the "Jesus Generation",  and nothing has changed. St Paul and the other Apostles and Evangelists formulated Resurrection Faith and John and Mary knew then that it was in mutual care for each other that the will to love of the Father was manifest. 

Peter's Church soon began to ignore "My kingdom is not of this world" and the holiness that can be found within it is the result of individual spiritual effort and adherence to John and Mary's Spiritual Church of Love, "Woman behold your Son, Son behold your mother" rather than to the Institution that was long ago captured  and still remains within the "this" worldliness that is the emptiness of Mammon.

 26/11/2025

Thursday Week 34 Ordinary Time

The writer/writers of the Book of Daniel were singing to the Lord. Their Canticle has been part of the Christian Liturgy for centuries but the writers of Daniel knew that they were not compiling a historical record of events that had truly happened during the reign of Darius. 

Sometimes I too feel an upwelling of feeling that I can only call Joy but it is really something that is way beyond my ability to give words to and can only find its voice in the ancient, psalms and hymns recorded in Scripture.

"Blessed be God for ever".

The Evangelists from whose memories and close associations with Our Lord and/or his Apostles was composed the Gospels were trying to present a factual account of the human life lived in his own creation by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in the person of Son, by the Eternal Resurrection Christ the Lord.

We, therefore, have to believe all that is recorded in the Bible. By that I mean that I cannot pick and choose. I have to accept with equal force "I am gentle and humble of  heart and my yoke is easy" and "I come not to bring peace but the sword". The Parable of the Minas and the Good Samaritan are both teachings of the Lord.

Today in the Gospel we read a statement made by Jesus about the future of Jerusalem, the Liturgical Heart of his Chosen People. It is a prophecy which St Luke was one of the many disciples to see fulfilled in their lifetimes.

I have lived during equally devasting times. Christian civilisation was unable to resist the evil that had arisen in its heart and the industrialised slaughter of Non-Europeans happened within the nations of the somewhat Christian but now Enlightened, in human eyes, to Godlessness, Gentiles.

Two thousand years after the words spoken in today's Gospel and after the Resurrection of Jesus completes God's revelation, mankind is still not listening to "Our Father" and Jerusalem is again "trampled underfoot" but not by Gentiles.

The Jews who again control Jerusalem have still not got beyond the strictures of personal delight in their own beings that Jesus condemned in them. 

The Church founded on St Peter has never fully grasped that the words of the Lord which she studies every day do, in fact, mean what they say. 

How could the Byzantine Emperors claim to rule Church and State as would have Christ? How could Pope after Pope wear  a triple crown in the full knowledge of Jesus' declaration before Pilate? How could Reformers claim that material worldly success was proof of God's favour.

I do not know what Jesus means by the "Age of the Gentiles" but it must include these days when mankind, Jew and Gentile, refuses to listen for the Word of God and tells us by their deeds that it is Mammon that is "All in All". 

They are but a repetition of all that has ever been created  by Godless humanity  and desperately require the return of Our Saviour for even though we have often abandoned Our Father he has never abandoned us. 

Since the return of Jesus to His and Our Father, every generation has been able and we too still can  choose to live in the Church of Love that has never been excluded from the Church founded on St Peter but has always existed for those with Resurrection Faith  in the words spoken to Mary and John, by her dying son.

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

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 25/11/2025

Yesterday on TV I watched some very intelligent people mocking other people, who were not present to defend themselves, for the same weakness of the humanity which they themselves were displaying by their very mockery.

No living human should be sure that the material reality in which we all live is absolutely the  limits of being. Even though the secrets of the material world are today made manifest by science it is plain stupidity to deny that at the moment of death even though it seems that the "bodily time" of each one of us ends no-one can be certain until that moment arrives for him or her.

"Feet of Clay" tells us all that we need to know about our human kingdoms, knowledge, wealth and power. The writers of Daniel were not the only humans to know this. But there is something greater than Daniel, Plato, Buddha, Confucius or even Moses here with us even now.

During his life on earth the Son of God confronted the "learned and the clever" but he never mocked them. He himself was mocked on the Cross. They spat at him but he bled for them, They derided him but he loved them. The events of two thousand years ago are still being repeated as I write this.

I have always known that I am a sinful being but I have to thank God that I have not become my own idol. My "Feet of Clay" is not sinfulness but the actual "image and likeness" which has to always know that "There is something greater here", but too often fails.

" The greater" is not an unknown "Other" but the eternal presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who saves us from the unimaginable pain of knowing lovelessness  by his revelation of TOTALLOVE. I hope and pray that there is no-one who has ever lived who has not known at least a few seconds of either being loved or of loving another.

"Faith in the love that lives in the heart" is the only proof that I can have of my belief that this life in time is not the totality of my being. In today's Gospel Jesus is preparing his disciples for the event that will change the Created Universe for ever. He promises that for them and for us, their future, there is nothing to fear. "You will be hated by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head will perish"

Today he promises but soon after he was to confirm by the words of eternal love uttered in real-time using his dying breath. "Woman behold your Son. Son behold your Mother" shortly followed by "It is finished" thus finalizing the Revelation that we have still never lived up to.

It is only by each one choosing to live in the gift of Calvary, New Holy Family , the Body of Christ, the Church of Love that we can make a world that is as it was created to be by Our Father, and thus a World that is able to welcome the Second Coming of Christ our Saviour.

Maranatha Lord. Come Lord Jesus. Please come soon. Amen

 25/11/2025

Tuesday Week 34 Ordinary Time

Today I am still troubled. 

I am, however, not giving up on the the daily effort that is required to bring all the elements that constitute the "Idol" Daniel revealed as the dream of Nebuchadnezzar that I make of and for myself out of the self-centred delusion that is the life of this world, into the never-ending reality of the life of Christ, living in me.

My body, on feet of Babylonian reinforced concrete, iron and clay, is rapidly crumbling but my personal soul, "image and likeness" of Our Father is still striving for the "Heaven" that once truly accepted is the never changing perfection of "seeing IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" as he truly is.

"Today I am still troubled" but how troubled must those have been those who stood with Jesus and heard his very words spoken in today's Gospel. Many of them were to be part of the Crucifixion mob and then  overcome by the Resurrection. They were to witness the complete destruction of their Temple and at the same time continued to live personal ordinary lives amidst "wars and tumults", "famines and pestilences".

That first generation of Christians who had known the friends of the Lord became his foundation on the Rock, the solid rock that was the very real human Peter, the early Church but they remained in the purity of heart that can see God for only a short time.

It is no wonder that my "my soul is still troubled" for I am one of yet another generation who have not truly fulfilled the will of God during our time on earth even though we have not only been called and shown how to become the Kingdom that is not of this world, but have also heard the dying Jesus' assurance of our place in his personal New Holy Family, His Mystical Body, the Church of Love.

Will we on earth, who still have Faith, see the Son of Man again in the land of the living? Maranatha Lord. Come Lord, Jesus come for we still are in as desperate need of YOU as we ever were. Amen

 24/11/2025

Monday Week 34 Ordinary Time

Over the last few days I have not been able to raise my heart and mind to God. Words of "prayers" have passed through my mind but I have not felt myself at one with the "Our Father", "Hail Mary" and "Glory Be" that are my eternal childhood prayers.

The "Parable of the Minas" always does unsettle me. God knows that I am always upset by his revealed favouring of the Jews and raise the response "Why not me?" not only on my own behalf but also on behalf of the millions of other "Gentiles" who have always been the majority of the humans created by Him.

I have also faced family turmoil for which I am not totally culpable.

Neither does today's "Book of Daniel" help me to regain the calm peace of a soul that was growing closer to knowing, loving and serving in this world for it takes me into another world that is totally a repeat of this one but on a grander scale.

Jesus, our Incarnate God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, lived a sinless hidden life for 30 years in this world. For three years, he taught us everything that we need to know by word, signs and example. Help me Lord to overcome all that keeps me  from accepting the spiritual support that is your free gift to souls that are true and offer, as did the widow in the Temple, the whole of their life, as unqualified trust in God.

Dear Lord may my prayers join those of Angels, Mary, Apostles and all Saints in seeking pardon for my sins, the sins of the whole world and especially for the Holy Souls who have to rely on our charity to obtain their share of your Divine Mercy. 

 20/11/2025

Thursday Week 33 Ordinary Time.

There is absolutely no need for me to begin each day with thoughts and words, these prayers, as I do . It is impossible to hide from God even if I wanted to. I always pray for and with an open heart that is sure that it has and will continue to receive all that is necessary from Our Father to enable me to do his will on earth. 

Our Father who art in Heaven, has absolutely no need of stone tablets, parchment scrolls, paper books or this electronic media that I am now using to try to capture what is happening within my consciousness of being to reveal to us that our lives are not limited to the bodies  which enclose us in the material laws explained by Science.

I know that even those who have in the past and still do manage to catch a glimpse of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT are always much further away from than they are close to him but that cannot stop me from trying to fathom the depths revealed in Scripture, especially during the lifetime the Incarnate Word, Jesus of Nazareth spent on earth.

Today I am praying that I will come to recognise the "TRUTH" that is still concealed for me within the Parable of the Minas with the same clarity as is the same "TRUTH" in that of the "Good Samaritan". 

In St John's Gospel Jesus tells us that  it is to bear witness to the "TRUTH" that he came into the world. This means that everything we need to know and do to become his disciples  is revealed, made clear to us all in Scripture and does not need any further human interpretation.

Dear Lord help me to face your Truth and make it the only essential part of my being. Let it be the free choice of my will and become the guidance that is your Holy Spirit, Your Mystical Body, The Church of Love, the New Holy Family that is your gift from Calvary and unlike the Minas of the parable incapable of being increased but without our freely-given positive support can and does lose its way on Earth. May my prayers join all of those which with heavenly sincerity are being offered today for our good and the good of all the Church including the Holy Souls. You know that I really do wish that you would soon return. Amen

 19/11/2025

It is about two hundred and fifty years before the final revelation, the Resurrection, confirms that the death of our bodies is not the end of our being that the events of this morning's first reading took place in Jerusalem .

The mother of the seven sons knew that each had been formed in her womb but that she was not the source of their life and that the whole world was also the work of IAMIAM. This is the base on which we all have to build our lives in this world.

Even if human intelligence were capable of truly knowing God human language is not capable of communicating that knowledge. Matthew, Mark and Luke often make assumptions about Jesus' motives in teaching when and what he does.

Today Luke feels justified to presume that Jesus was motivated to teach this parable because of  his, with his followers, proximity to Jerusalem and their ever present hope that he would soon establish a new Davidic Kingdom, a never-ending Jewish state.

This is another parable which leaves me with a feeling of disquietude as it does not fit easily into the definite "My kingdom is not of this world" declared before Pilate. The words "To them that have more will be given" is definitely true in the Billionaire World of Mammon but I am at a loss how to apply them in my spiritual life that strives to be "true to every word that comes from the mouth of God".

The conclusion to this parable said by the king who rewards in this world "Bring them here and slaughter them before me" is also not at all "Christian". 

It is, however, condemned by the message of his whole life in this world as lived by Our Saviour and so is probably some sort of textual aberration rather than a true saying  of Jesus. 

 18/11/2025

In the Old Testament we read the public, historical record of how the Jews, the chosen "People of God" tried to do the will of "Our Father on earth as it is done in heaven". 

In the first reading Eleazar is being forced by his apostatising own people to conform to the Hellenization of Israel that they have accepted. This had to be a recorded public event for the enemies of God wanted to prove that their "kingdom of this World" was more powerful than the invisible God revealed to Moses as the creator, source of all being, IAMIAM.

The invisible Eternal Word that is "The Beginning" was certainly the source of that old man's strength. He it was, however, who chose to accept the inspiration that came to him and his participation in this public event seals a life that has been a righteous following of the Law and an example of the capabilities of a human being to choose to resist the evil that confronts us in this world.

Today as I try to sort out in my own mind the lesson that I can learn from the Mass Readings by raising my mind and heart to God, I am  aware that Jesus told us to do this thing we call praying in the depths of our own being where he will respond as our ever-mindful, loving spiritual father and we will be able to stand alone before him ashamed, as were Adam and Eve, aware of our unconcealable naked sinfulness, but secure in his Mercy. 

We can never grasp the immensity of Our Father for whom all of time/creation is always as present as is this keyboard and the words appearing on the screen are to me but that immensity has created me to know/return his love and given me a likeness of his being in the freedom that I always have to chose between Our Father who art in Heaven and the Father of Lies, Jesus and Mammon, the eternal being of my soul and the putrefaction that is the destiny of all animal material.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows everything, always but my puny being will have forgotten the "sincerity" of this moment within hours. Eleazar and all the other heroic martyrs were given the grace to bear indelible witness to their faith at that moment as they left this world in agony inflicted by other men. 

As I continue in life it is all too easy for me to repeat my mistakes and so I make these "posts" to be my personal reminder that I can and do choose to live righteously for the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is and has always been with those who conform their own beings, body and soul to doing the Will, listening for the Word and accepting the Wisdom that we can find by praying the Scriptures.

It is a revelation of the INCARNATION that sin is absolute and requires the unimaginable pain of  all  the deaths of humanity concentrated into the person of WORD to consummate the salvation of the world

Dear Lord, help me to become peaceful in my "secret room" where my whole being should be directed away from me and only to you. Help me search not for things too great for me but to humbly beat my breast as did the other publican and pray for the forgiveness of which only you and I know how much I am in need Also help me to remember always that I am never alone when I pray. Our Lady and all the Saints are also praying with me. May my prayers join theirs in praise and supplication for the grace to eliminate my individual sin and overcome the world as did Eleazer  in his old age as, with your grace, so will I. Amen

 17/11/2025

Monday Week 33 in Ordinary Time

Today Jesus responds to all of us who in various degrees of blindness sit by the roadside that is our present moment in the reality of our lives and call out to him. 

There are many of us for whom the layers of blindness that is "This World" are too thick and comforting for our  awareness of being, that is also our inner eye, to be conscious that the "Son of David" is both never far from us and also, always asks what it is that we want from him.

In the first reading many of the Jews ruled by heirs of Alexander had allowed themselves to become blinded by the worldly allure and comfort of Hellenism. Many had welcomed  the deification of the human form, the cultural pride and the military success that were epitomised in Alexander and were the the source of human glory and of non-existent gods.

For some of them, however, the inner eye that sees the WORD, Christ light of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, was not completely clouded and those "Sons of David" who were able to remember the promise made to that king succeeded in rededicating their Temple and Nation to our God.

When I choose to remain in sin rather than seek the forgiveness that is the free-gift  of Our Father, I begin the self-blinding process that becomes layers upon layers of mere superficialities that become, however, dense enough to prevent my inner eye truly recognising the "Son of David" and responding to his presence.

We have to be so careful in our lives as these layers of blindness are not only physical and obviously sinful but can also be religious even spiritual. 

Dear Lord, help me to find a place no higher than  the roadside where you pass by for "Blessed are the poor in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven". Amen

 16/11/2025

Sunday Week 33 in Ordinary Time

In today's reading from St Luke's Gospel we listen to  ETERNALWORD, TRUEMANTRUEGOD, during the brief spell of ever-escaping time he used to enable all individual humans to lovingly accept and conform our own freedom to all that is revealed in Scripture. 

Five hundred years before then, Malachi had felt trapped in a world dominated by the "arrogant and evildoers" but he "took this as his opportunity" and CHRISTETERNALWORD gave him the "mouth and wisdom" that still cannot be contradicted twenty-five hundred years later.

St Paul who is in person "the Jews" the first target, focus of the blinding WORDLIGHT, has to face the practicalities of how to become the Resurrection Church  founded on St Peter in the real world amidst the informed yet blinkered hostility of his own people and the confusing intelligent ignorance of the Hellenes and other gentiles.

St Paul knows that our sole legitimate aim in life is to become Holy in body and soul, to provide a fitting welcome in our unseen beings for the Resurrection, WORD who is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

He knows that "My kingdom is not of this world" but that Jesus too had worked with his human body, for the Incarnation is not just a concept but a truly debased human animal bleeding to death in unimaginable agony in the real-time event of Calvary.

We all live lives of different experiences in this world. We are all pressured by the providence that we meet from the moment of our births. Today Jesus seem to be speaking about temporal events both to his own  and all future generations but the "do not be terrified" comes from the Father directly to each one of us who heard, hears or will ever hear these words.

We all know that the appearance of material reality can be controlled by technology. Our screens can hold and reproduce events of the present and the past. Our bodily senses can and are deceived on a daily basis by man-made machines and we can experience all human pleasures, pains and fears that are totally illusory as if they were real.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT today warns us "to not go astray". He tells us to live in the reality that only he reveals for as the Psalmist knew, "he will come to judge the peoples in fairness". The wealth and beauty of the Temple has departed just as easily as do the images on our screens but we can still welcome the WORD for as he died on the cross, Jesus created for us his Church of Love, the New Holy Family, Our Spiritual Home until the end of time.

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

 14/11/2025

Friday Week 32 Ordinary Time

Over the last few days I have been deeply impressed both by the intelligence displayed in the readings from the Book of Wisdom and beauty of the Psalms. At the same time the Gospel readings let me never forget "that there is something greater here".

Each generation that has been born after the Resurrection is part of the reality that is the completed purpose of IAMFATHERHOLYSPIRIT as partially revealed by the WORD in the Old Testament and finalised by the one event LIFEDEATHRESURRECTION of his INCARNATION in real-time, 2000 years ago.

Jesus IS certainly something greater than Moses and he IS before Abraham was. He also revealed to them and all his "Chosen People" that they were still as free as Adam had been and could choose to defeat the effects of sin by agreeing to be part of a "Special Relationship", the only Covenant made by God.

Jesus did not bring another New Covenant with any nation, into the world. On his Cross he poured out his blood for the benefit of each individual sinner from Adam to me.  At his trial He made it perfectly clear for all ages that the time for a Worldly special relationship was over. "The Den of Thieves" had always been a storehouse for the Gold of this world then, and the Chief Priests handed him over to the Mammon that is still the god of this world now. At the Temple of Pan in Caesarea Philipae, he had already founded His Church and at the Last Supper given authority to a new priesthood.

Today, I am a lone individual raising my mind and heart to God with Faith, Hope and Charity aware that over all Charity should rule my being, that I can be sincere in my prayers only to the extent  that I look far beyond myself first to God and then always to put the tangible needs of others before my own.

All sins are forgiven by the event that surpasses all understanding and even though I am sure that today's Christian Institutions have never been completely as Christ intended them to be for they very quickly became a new Priesthood, Scribes and Pharisees, individuals composing the Temple condemned by Jesus for failing to live up to the Truth that had been revealed to them, my place in the peace that  surpasses all understanding is secured by the words "Woman behold your son, son behold your Mother" for it is Jesus who thus establishes the Spiritual Church of Love, his new Holy Family, Mystical Body where he will be until a New Beginning will be brought about by the end of time. "Omega and Alpha". 

Dear Lord, I know that you have  always been with your creation and men have always denied this  but you have never refused to support those who with their hearts and minds seek to do your will on earth, in this life as they hope to continue to do so after death .

"In the Beginning was the Word".

"Let it be done unto me according to thy Word".

The Eternal Incarnation has been manifest in real-time for two thousand years.

"This is my body".

"Into your hands I give up my Spirit"

"Have mercy on me for I am a sinner".

Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

 12/11/2025

Week 32 in Ordinary Time

All of us begin to "know" either by accepting or denying that we cannot be exactly sure about what it is that makes us the unique person that is our consciously existent being. All individuals have always struggled when they dare to face the question "who am I?" and most of us abandon that struggle and just accept as enough what comes to us in the material reality of this world. 

The evidence that we have for the earliest communities of human beings is in the material remains that they have left behind; weapons, tools and primitive and yet amazing buildings and bits of their bodies. We do not know anything about what was being thought by the builders of Goktepe or Stonehenge as they struggled to build permanent structures out of the corruptible materials of this world.

God has revealed first through Moses and concluded through St. John that he has added to his created evolutionary process by the creation of souls in his image and likeness for Adam and Eve and has continued in his compassionate care for mankind even though we have consistently refused to return his love.

There is nothing material about our God who throughout the records of time passing recorded by his Chosen People reveals more and more about his spiritual being. IAMIAM becomes ultimately IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

We, however, are also evolutionarily developed animal bodies which are corruptible flesh deified by the Eternal Incarnate Word and self-aware in the individual freedom, the being of our unique soul, created for each of us by Our Father at the moment of our conception, with which we know ourselves and all  others, first of all God, within the limits of our consciousnesses.

The readings from the "Wisdom Literature" are roughly contemporaneous with Greek Philosophy which is always rational though unguided humanity facing the reality of being. 

The Truth that comes from God, however, is also Love, Mercy, anything including Life itself that is Good and  can only be found in The Word that is the Scriptures, the Church, Body of Christ, New Holy Family and souls who choose to accept the infinite grace created by Calvary to do God's will on earth.

It is certainly not to be found in any of the Human Institutions developed by the followers of Mammon who began incredibly shortly after the Resurrection completed God's Revelation, to impose their human wills  and  seem to have taken complete control in total opposition to  God of our world during the last fifty years of my lifetime.

To you then O monarchs are my words directed

that you may learn Wisdom and not transgress.

For they will be made holy, those who observe holy things in holiness,

And those who have been taught them will find a defence.

Therefore set your mind on my words, 

long for them and you will be instructed.

Although this Psalm is directed at the high and mighty of this world it equally applies to all of us; it is to be holy that we have all been created. Only Jesus and Mary share  the sinless flesh of perfect humanity. We do not know what awaits us after the Return when God will be all in all. 

Today, we have to turn our lives into the prayerful recognition of Our Father that never ceases to trust in the saving passion, death and Resurrection that was THE real-time event two thousand years ago in Palestine as recorded in the Scriptures. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has shown us his complete purpose and told us the meaning of our lives. Our freedom determines how we respond.

 11/11/2025

Tuesday Week 32 in Ordinary Time

Everything that has been selected from the Bible to become part of Liturgical Prayer has been selected to reinforce Truth. Today's first reading is from the wisdom literature that has become part of the intellectual culture of the Western World and with the teachings of Jesus are the foundations of what even the anti-God establishments ruling "This World" consider to be "personal integrity".

As an immature youth in my first week at University I was told to read and write an essay on Francis Bacon's "Of Truth". It's opening sentence has never left my consciousness, "What is Truth said jesting Pilate and did not stay for an answer". 

That task effectively blocked any academic career that I might have had for I did not know where to begin and even today I am not even able to have another go as "Truth" still opens  a doorway into a vast void of longing for the certainty of perfection that is always beyond my grasp.

Science offers a true empirical description of the composition of matter and millions of us are more than satisfied by its revelations but the answer to my longing cannot be found in anything temporal which is destined for corruption.

Pilate's words were in disparagement to Jesus', '"Actually I was born and came into the world to testify to the Truth". Jesus did not come to be a "King" then or now but to fill the void that can only be filled by doing the will of Our Father and striving never to be satisfied and silenced in our longing, by being anything less than becoming "the unworthy servants who have only done our duty". 

 08/11/2025

Saturday Week 31 Ordinary Time

In the year 2025, in the 85th year of my life, I am trying to live, as instructed by St Paul in this morning's first mass reading, "according to the command of the eternal God" as revealed/recorded in the Old and New Testaments, the Christian Bible.

In his letter to the Romans, St Paul sent greetings to many individuals who were part of the first Church in Rome. He was always surrounded by friends and fellow workers wherever he was teaching .

In the reading taken from St Luke's Gospel, Jesus is preaching to the whole world and to all ages but at that specific moment he is surrounded by a crowd of the Jews, eternally chosen by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to receive the WORD first through direct revelation and finally to be the source of the human body and soul begotten as "True Man and True God" in the womb of Virgin Mary, Theotokos who is also the mother of his Mystical Body, Church of Love, the New Holy Family in which we all without exception, except by personal choice, can find salvation. 

Not only are Jews the same living flesh as Our Lord but also they are inextricably linked with his consummating sacrifice "it is finished". The worldly power of Rome drove in the nails and pierced his side but it was his own people, including all sinners whose refusal to live on earth, even now, according to his will who gave him up to the power of "The Strong Man" ruler of this world. 

The Love that creates us free beings has in his Resurrection  shown us that worldly life and death in our material world are not completed being, they are only the foundations that we have to use to prepare to be "welcomed into eternal dwellings" where we rejoice in true life and love at source.

St Paul and Jesus were both surrounded with friends. For the last few years, I have pretty much lived in partial solitude. I have wasted much of the time freed up by my absence from the local Church, but tried to pray and look for the Word of God both in the scriptures and in the writings of wise men and women of this present age and of long ago.

Each morning that I use this keyboard, I am, with sincerity, consciously trying to bear a permanent Christian witness to Our Father and his loving will for all of us and I know that even though nobody else may read these words, they are eternally present as my response to him, my prayer in the mind of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT where we are all known, loved and judged with justice and the mercy that passeth all understanding. Thanks be to God!!

Dear Lord, you know how I can always make excuses for my sins and how I don't really understand how serious they are. Help me to avoid sin "just for today" and let my own sins and those of the Holy Souls known and unknown to me always seek forgiveness  in the Prayers of Mary and all the Saints. Amen

 O7/11/2025

Friday Week 31 Ordinary Time

Again it is only the pure prayer of the Psalm that brings me into the conscious awareness that it is possible for me to abandon myself  completely to the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, The Good Shepherd who leads us, even in this world, into his peace which is beyond all understanding.

The translation that I read just now is made up of English, human words, but is the pure joy of a created being in the certainty that he has an eternal Father and Saviour who never forgets him. It is the epitome of prayer that is the "thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven" we were taught to pray by Jesus, our Lord and Shepherd.

The first reading from St Paul's letter to the Infant Church in Rome holds my attention for it can be read as not only an exhortation to all of us but is also an assessment made by the doubly chosen one of God,  of how he himself has responded to his own calling and overwhelming vision of the Resurrection.

He is satisfied that he has been successful as is evidenced in the Faith of the communities in which he has preached and baptised. He is humble about this success however and knows that it is only by the grace of Jesus that the way to truth and eternal life is being followed by his converts, but he is still human and mars his humility by a self-centered ambition to always be the only "foundation builder".

All of God's revelations are about relationships. First of all we have to know God. Then we have to deal with ourselves and other people.

In today's Gospel Jesus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT incarnate, tells us a parable which is set in the economic world of material wealth and networking. He commends the dishonesty of yet another "executive" who by worldly standards  has displayed a shrewdness often lacking in those who seek to live a spiritually focused way of life.

Although I have heard many plausible versions, it has always been difficult for me to work out for myself what is the spiritual equivalent of this basic dishonesty unless it is simple personal sinning of which God is always aware without need of the reports of others.

I don't think it is the best of Jesus' parables and wonder how only St Luke came to include it in the record of Jesus' life he had learnt from Mary and the Apostles.

 06/11/2025

Thursday Week 31 Ordinary Time

One of the difficulties that I face when I begin to try to "pray" by raising my heart and mind to God through the Mass Readings that I access on this computer, is the attention-grabbing turmoil of "headlines" that my browser inflicts on me, without ceasing.

This has never been a problem for anyone before my generation but even so our forefathers in Faith had to contend as did Jesus himself with the "learned and the clever" who are still ready to value themselves and their ideas before the revelations made by God.

Even though many of the Jews of the first century, the Chosen People, had to endure the "Gaxafication"  of first century Jerusalem and of all their hopes and beliefs, most of the first few Christianized  generations after the Apostles were able to enjoy peaceful lives in spite of outbreaks of persecution, as the result of the Pax Romana and thus had the same basic security which enabled the intellectual and cultural foment that characterised the first two or three centuries of the Roman Empire have its effect in the Church founded on St Peter.

The Gentiles who became the majority of the people renewed by the Resurrection had made conscious efforts to understand how this "Impossibility" could have happened and have been witnessed by their first Bishops. 

The Jews who believed in Jesus, the Apostles, including St Paul, had seen the resurrected Jesus and they knew him to be the one prefigured in the Law and the Prophets but as there could be no doubt that "each of us will give an account of himself to God" those who followed them were inspired to verify their beliefs in a rationality that could be intellectually preserved and taken to heart by future generations.

The only way to be a "Christian" today and in any future generation is to know that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT completed the  revelation of  his purpose in creating the Universe and each individual and free human being with his Resurrection, Old and New Testament and his Last Words to Mary and John.

There are too many obviously unjustifiable "headlines from historical events" about the development of the Church founded on St Peter for me to agree with her that she is the sole source of salvation. There are too many solid historical facts of present and ancient history that are much more serious than the ephemera of the distracting "Popups" on this machine, that bother me each day, for me to have confidence in such an Institution. 

Just as do the Jews, however, she does still exist and can never until the end of time be ignored for the Lord is still with us and and present within hearts and minds that find him in the Scriptures and seek out the grace promised from the cross in the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of Love, the New Holy Family. 

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living

The Lord is my light and salvation.

Whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life,

Whom should I dread?

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living

There is one thing I seek from the Lord,

Only this do I seek,

To live in the house of the Lord,

all the days of my life.

To gaze on the beauty of the Lord,

To enquire at his temple.

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness,

In the Land of the living.

Wait for the Lord; be strong;

Be stout-hearted and wait for the Lord!

 04/11/2025

Wednesday Week 31 Ordinary Time

I am one of the "Great Crowd" who accompanied Jesus in this morning's Gospel. Jesus turns to us all and basically says "Do you know what you are doing?"

We cannot partially follow the footsteps of Jesus of Nazareth. His human personality, his teachings attract millions of us to say "Lord, Lord!" but to truly follow him requires perseverance and total commitment only to him. Each step that he took on Earth led ultimately to the cross on Calvary where he "bled-out" in agony.

To be a follower of Jesus means that we are ready to live in this world exactly as he did and fight against all the temptations that disguise themselves as "normal" human activities. "Thou shalt not kill" means exactly that and even to protect our selves and possessions from "the strong man" dealing out death to another human is always wrong.

Wealth that has accumulated over centuries is all a product of sin for it has always been ultimately protected by war and it has always distracted us from the Way, Truth and Life. The actual living and breathing people who were rushing after Jesus in this morning's Gospel reading knew as much as we about our "normal" human concerns, family, wealth and protection. 

They too felt our shock at "Hate your mother and father etc". Those who did not abandon him, however, were able to come to the difficult understanding of "So, therefore, any of you who does not renounce all he has cannot be my disciple".

Two thousand years later, we know much more than did those disciples who saw the face of Jesus, heard with their living ears his words but for generation after generation we continue to miss the whole point of Incarnation/Resurrection.

We have to direct our whole living beings to do only the will of God. We do this first of all by obeying the Ten Commandments and then we can access the "Love" poured out for us on Calvary but it is up to us whether or not we make this our priority in Life even though doing so denies completely the norms of contemporary life.

 03/11/2025

Tuesday Week 31 Ordinary Time

In his guidance to the Early Church in Rome, St Paul has accepted his own personal Faith in Christ as the only way in which any of us can live out our lives in holiness. Each of us has the obligation to welcome the Resurrection into our souls during our lifetimes and thus live as one being with Jesus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, 

We have all been given spiritual gifts but it is we who have to recognise these and cooperate by using them to become the adopted children, spiritually living as one with the "Only Begotten Son".

I don't think that there has ever been an age when St Paul's Faith in his Mission has been completely realised on Earth except, possibly, during the time when John and Mary lived as the Incarnate Church of Love the New Holy Family in Ephesus and personal martyrdom was a real-time possibility for every Christian.

During the brief spell of his Life on Earth, Jesus became the perfect model for us to follow in our own lives. In today's Gospel he is again among the Scribes and Pharisees. ( I wonder whether any of the fishermen of Galilee were present with him at this public meal.)

We all recognise that those first invited to the feast are the "Chosen People", "The Jews of John's Gospel" and that the excuses presented in the parable are all "the things of this world" which Jesus continually warns us about.

I have always believed that all men are free to accept or refuse the Will of the Father. That is why we pray "Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven", but today I have noticed that in his exasperation "The Lord of the Feast" orders his servants to "compel people to come in".

In recognising the facts of History, I have had to come to the conclusion late in my lifetime that the Church founded on St Peter very soon lost its way in this world and came to resemble the Temple of Scribes and Pharisees more than the Mystical Body of Christ, Church preached particularly by St Paul.

Today's Gospel contains a warning that we should not be ruled by the things of this world. We are not born to become engrossed in material goods land, chattels or anything bodily but to accept the invitation to get ready for the "the other-worldly banquet" the spiritual feast that the Lord has prepared for us.

There is no way in which anyone can doubt the simple meaning of Jesus' declaration at his public trial in Jerusalem. He tells the Roman Judge "My kingdom is not of this world." 

How is it possible that any Pope could have worn a Tiara or any Byzantine Emperor claim to speak for Christ?

 02/11/2025

Solemnity of All Saints celebrated 2025

One of peculiarities of my generation is that the Christian Calendar which I try to follow is often adjusted to avoid????

Jesus only ever condemned the religious practices of his contemporaries when they became hypocrisy.

The Apostles had to modify their personal adherence to the "Law of Moses" to avoid binding their Gentile converts with the scruples that Jesus had condemned. 

St Paul knows that "meat sacrificed to idols" is still just meat for the act of sacrificing to idols is a meaningless act made to the non-existent, but if his newly converted are being scandalised he will avoid it to avoid adding unnecessary stress to the "weak". 

I suppose that adjustment to the Calendar and the ignoring of "Holydays of Obligation" has come about in the same spirit displayed in Paul's letters to the Corinthians but what is the spirit of "these times" that supports the "Pride" in fornication and "Slaughter of the Innocents" by distributing the Body and Blood of Christ not only to the known perpetrators but also to the politically powerful who encourage these sins?

All the events recorded in Scripture are either historically or allegorically true; they are the Truth that comes from God with the purpose of guiding us on the Way, Truth and Life. No-one has ever seen IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. The Book of the Apocalypse finalizes Revelation. 

Each generation since the Resurrection has been composed of individuals who are able to listen to the WORD, do the WILL and to finally become part of the WONDER of the Eternal Spiritual Creation revealed in this world only to John and the other visionary prophets.

We are all able to become Saints of God in Heaven for from the Cross we have all been made members of his New Holy Family here on Earth in order for us to receive the super-abundant grace of the Resurrection but it is we who have to make the right choice. 

God help us. Amen

 

 01/11/2025

The Scriptures, Eternal Word recorded within the bodily time of past generations, have been completed. 

In them, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has revealed all that we need to know in order to lead righteous lives on Earth.

The Old Testament is human experience recorded and interpreted by only one race. 

Even though God not only created, but also enlightened His Chosen People over countless generations, they have never been able to use their freedom to bring to the perfection required by God the self-directed righteous lives that is the only just return that can be made to Our Father for the wonder that is our being.

The New Testament completes God's revelation with the Incarnation still, at first, to the Chosen People but then to the whole of mankind both Jews and Gentiles.

In the 100 generations or so since the Resurrection, we Gentiles have proved ourselves to be no more capable of the collective holiness that is the only choice that each one of us can make to return in simple fairness the Love that "the Father has lavished on us" than are the still self-proven to be "stiff-necked Chosen Ones".

Today/tomorrow the Church founded on St Peter which very soon forgot, or never at all listened to, "My kingdom is not of this world" reminds herself that her true function is to guide "her sheep", our souls, into the safety of Jesus, the sheepfold but that the Church of Love, created  as he was being overcome by  the agony of death with his last words spoken to mankind, "Woman behold your Son, Son behold your Mother" has never failed in so doing for many holy individuals, known and unknown Saints, have been welcomed into the "mansions of the Lord" by the intercession made to her son by Mary and her New Holy Family.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,

Now and at the hour of our death. Amen