20/01/2026

God knows that my Faith, my trust in the events recorded in the New Testament is the foundation on which I try to cooperate in the construction of the "human being" that I am meant to be.

I always struggle with the Old Testament. 

As a Gentile I feel neglected by God and yet I know without a doubt that Jesus, scourged, spat upon, mocked, bleeding out as he hangs on Calvary, is the living WORD, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, accepting this humiliation so that each one of us can live, as does he, always aware of the Love in which we are created, and the Loving Mercy which he creates by suffering real pain for us to choose by our own free will to cancel the unimaginable sadness we inflict on Our Father by our sins, also revealed in the Old Testament.

The Mass Readings that are used to begin 2026 force us to be aware that Jesus is the centre of Human Reality. Nobody before him was able to become the perfect product of God's Being. On Calvary "It is finished". His guidance of mankind has been completed. The Resurrection is the seal that confirms the Truth of the Life, Death and Resurrection.

The "Kings" chosen by Samuel all failed in their missions to lead their people into righteous living. Neither did the prophets succeed. But God is determined that  human beings, the product of his loving, goodwill will by their own free decision come to return out of their own beings the Love that is Divine JOY.

Our complete guide book to righteousness begins with an announcement made not to a priest, prophet or King but to a teenaged girl in Nazareth. Mary has always been known in the Eternity of God but 2000 years ago she is made aware of her unique place in Creation and asks

"How can this be?"

The New Testament is the completed answer by which we have to live out our lives on Earth.