22/02/2026

First Sunday of Lent

Today the Church founded by Jesus guides us on this first Sunday of Lent by asking us to take stock of what, where and who we are.

We are not the first human beings. We are also not the first sinners.

The apex of the created material universe is the human being, Adam /Eve, who can now not only understand how he has developed from the simplest form of life but has also become capable of understanding and manipulating the matter of creation even to the extent of copying the intricacies of his own brain and produce non-living intelligent memory. We are, however, the product of the loving will of Our Father and so just, as with Jesus,  "there is something greater here".

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is the creator of all "being" but with us he has added to our "natural body" the "image and likeness", the freedom that is similar to, but impossibly to imagine smaller, than his own.

We are in the twenty-first century. We are still free.

We are part of the ninetieth generation that has lived and died since the reset of creation that was the Jesus Event, the real-time Incarnation of our God. I have for some time been unable to remain confident that the history of the Institutions that claim  to be the guardians of the sacramental presence of Jesus in this world are justified in their claim. I am not just disappointed by the failings of modern clergy but the bad deeds of historical Patriarchal Emperors in the East and Popes in the West does not convince me the Church has ever become the "kingdom that is not of this world", i.e. Jesus' own

We are followers of Jesus Christ. He has never deserted us.

Each one of us is free to become the recipient of the free gift of salvation created by the Incarnation. We are the followers of the Way, we recognise Truth and we seek Life, knowing that we can find them in the Church of Love, The New Holy Family for "if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man; much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ".

Jesus speaks to all of us from his cross and thus creates the loving familial security that we can all share.

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