05/01/2026

Five January

When he began to write his memories of "those days" that are the Mass Readings for this morning 05/01/2026, John has had about fifty years to "ponder" the significance of the events he has witnessed during his long life.

Both the letter and the Gospel are still WORD who is now known to be IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for the Resurrection has completed the reset of His people by Jesus Son of God and confirmed by the destruction of the Temple.

In the letter, John is writing to the beginnings of the "New Israel" that has been founded on Peter and has been preached by the "Friends" of Jesus,  plus Paul, all over the Roman and Persian Empires. 

John has taken care of the Mother of God ever since Jesus' death and knows that it is love that feeds the holiness that makes up a believing heart and so he can tell us that we are able by words and deeds of sinless love to have confidence that our own consciences can guide us along the way, truth and life.

We all have to pray and ponder to build up sincerity of belief in our hearts. The everyday events of this world can very easily consume our attention to the extent that they occupy every moment of our consciousness and block out all thoughts of God. Think of all that is available only a click away.

I have become convinced that the "New Israel" lost its way even in the first centuries of her existence but I know that the WORD will stand to the end of time and I also know that even at the times of her greatest corruption there were still Holy Men and Holy Women to be found within the Church of East and West in spite of the worldliness that corrupted both their structures.

So again at the beginning of this new year I am confirming my thankful trust in the Incarnation and the total revelation that is the Scriptures that guide us all into the security of mutual love in the New Holy Family of Jesus Mary and John by listening again to the dying Jesus who guarantees our Eternal Life.

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