02/03/2026

The inspiration of the Holy Spirit has never left us to be alone since the time when Adam/Eve brought sin into creation.

Today is no different than the many centuries that have passed since the real-times within which were written the mass-readings for today. They  are interpretations of  real-time history informed by both subsequent contemplation and events.

Today is no different for our world is again obviously submerged and engrossed by the evil that mankind brings into it and is not even trying to do the Will of God but engaged in a war that is the result of millennia of accumulated individual sin that feeds the pride of nations and their leaders.

Today is an ancient Jewish "high day and holiday" that is still celebrated after some two and a half millennia. We can be sure that Jesus celebrated this festival, first in his own Holy Family and then with his disciples. 

I am first struck by the huge irony of history that Purim which celebrates God's release of the Jews, the chosen people, from Persian oppression is being celebrated as the modern descendants of Hebrew and Persians are slaughtering each other at the exact moment I am tapping out these words.

The story of God's revelation of his purpose in creating humanity was completed on Calvary "It is finished" and proclaimed by the Apostles in reaction to the Glory of the Resurrection.

There has never been a generation since those times that has been devoted to doing God's will. There has never been a generation without war and the sin which is always its ultimate cause. Every century which should be "Years of Our Lord" has been marred with Crusades, Jihad and Pogroms.

Our Churches have failed even when fed by the continuing sacramental real presence of our Saviour. The Jews are as stiff-necked as ever. The Moslems are still denying the Incarnation and following their false prophet. All three are locked in yet another asinine and totally unholy struggle in the land that God gave to Abraham whom all three claim as their forefather.

All my life I have intermittently tried to find the Lord who promised to be "with us always even to the end of time" and have always realised that he has been ignored by most of us who have ever lived since those times. Our Churches have always become too  entangled with the things of this world to fulfill their mission that was built on Peter.

In these latter times of my life, however, I have begun to realise that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has never left us completely alone. He is the Word that we may find in uncontaminated Sacraments but surely can find in Scripture which leads us into the certainty that  is the Spiritual Church of Love, the New Holy Family .

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