30/01/2026

Friday Week 3 Ordinary Time

I always try to remember that whatever is recorded in the Old Testament was read and interpreted by Jesus during the "public life" he shared with the Apostles.

The Psalms that are attributed to David continue to stir in us the real-time emotions/reactions that were experienced by him the "King of the Jews" at different moments of his life 3000 years ago. They are also  a "Prayer- Book" used, 2000 years ago,  by the first assemblies in the Portico of Solomon that was the "mustard seed" that has grown into the billions of pages that comprise the texts that are the Liturgy that is still in use today.

Today, when we hear/read that Jesus spoke privately to the disciples and explained everything that was hidden in his parables, it would be easy to think that "the secret" he shared was somehow the preserve of "chosen ones".  

This is the sin of those who use the revelations made by IAMIAM to glorify themselves in this world even as they "sincerely" devote themselves to "Law", Scripture and Liturgy, priests, scribes and theologians.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT chose to make his final and totally complete revelation of the purpose of created being by accepting for himself the created life cycle experienced by all created animals but understood only by God and those spiritual beings to whom he chose to reveal himself. 

We, the whole world, all human souls, to whom the Apostles were instructed to bring the Good News, and are thus "the unbounded chosen ones ", just as the Jews before us, still not getting it right. 

We are totally free souls, (image and likeness) capable of recognising that it is INFINITE CREATIVE LOVE that creates and holds us in BEING who somehow become more involved with the things of this world and our own selves to the extent of shutting out the Grace of "Our Father" and thus enabling ourselves to ignore his Loving Will.

It is the "Love that comes from God" that chooses to save us from Ultimate Evil, the awareness of non-being which is unimaginable eternal pain and gave us the final confirmation of this during his agony on  the cross,  as he created for our souls the "place" of perfect surety in this world, the New Holy Family., the Church of Love.

                                            "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother"

 29/01/2026

Thursday Week 3 Ordinary Time

Today I am asking myself why I am again beginning my day with responding to events that happened 3000 years ago in the case of David and 2000 years ago in the case of Jesus. In fact, I do ask that same question, not in exactly the same words, but more than once each day.

Each day that I try to answer that question, I am reminded that I have not lived my life as perfectly as I would have liked. I also tell myself that I am unique and have lived in the reality of worldly time as a      real person. I was and still am because the Creator of the whole Universe created me and still knows and guides me along the true way to true Life which begins after my bodily death.

It is right and fitting that I should bow down before the Lord Our God in sorrow-filled gratitude that he has revealed this to me one of his children by his INCARNATION. I have to beat my breast and humbly accept the forgiveness that he created for us during his life, death and Resurrection.

Some days I can feel sure  that these my daily responses to the scriptures is true faith but, knowing myself, I also have to question it. The child that I once was, was often accused of showing off, "playing to the gallery". 

Dear Lord, help me to join Mary and John at the foot of your cross sharing not only in the promise "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother". but also sharing as did they the bitter real-time pain that my sins have inflicted on you. Amen

 28/03/2026

The Lord speaks openly through Nathan in today's First Reading. 

Solomon the son of David does eventually build the Temple to become the place in this world from which he will guide his "Chosen People".

There are millions of souls, Jew and Gentile, that have been created since that time but very few who have remained steadfast in the Holiness that is the only response to the gift of conscious life that is acceptable to God. But our God is merciful and ready to forgive all who turn back to Him.

In the Gospel, God Himself  is continuing his revelations to the "Chosen People" and has chosen 12 men with whom over a period of three years he shares the "SECRET" i.e. "INCARNATION".

He is the source of ETERNAL LIFE. IAMIAM. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. IAM the Bread of Life. IAM the Light of the World. IAM the Door. IAM the Good Shepherd. IAM the Resurrection and the Life. IAM the Way, the Truth and the Life. IAM the True Vine.

Two thousand years later there is still nothing more than what is revealed in the Bible that we need to know about our "being" and "life" in this world. Human Life is the product of God's Love and the World is the Reality in which he has shown us how to live and die. 

Life is the opportunity to avail ourselves of the limitless Mercy created on Calvary by Our Saviour God.

Dear Lord, Help me to live this day without sin. Let my prayers join with  those of Mary, Joseph, John and all the Apostles and Saints and with all those that we sinners on earth plead for pardon both for ourselves and the departed Holy Souls. Amen

 27/01/2026

Tuesday Week 3 Ordinary Time

To maintain my "being" as one of the "brethren" of the Incarnation I have to believe "every word that comes from the mouth of God" thus I know that the "brothers at the gate" in today's Gospel were not the children of Theotokos, Our Lady, the unique, sinless female being, created to be the human source of the flesh of "true man, begotten not made". 

Everything that I am and do during my lifetime after my infancy is and has been determined by my will exercised in freedom. Jesus assured us that the problem with the religion of the Jews of his day was not its base in belief " IAMIAM"  but the failure to practise the Commandments of "Our Father" with sincerity.

The reset of creation began by "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" started in a human family. Our Mother Mary joined the already existent family of Joseph which thus became the home of the Holy Family.

In today's Gospel it seems that Mary has come to find out what has happened to cause Jesus to be absent from home in Nazareth and has not come alone. Jesus response is not a denial of his family but to tell us all that we are the "children of God" and have to strive by fulfilling the second commandment to achieve that unity within which we can all hear the WORD that comes from the mouth of God and thus live holy lives in this world and receive  perfect joyful peace in the next.

The last instructions that Jesus gave from his cross "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" are our guarantee he is our "forever brother" and that we too can become part of the "New Holy Family" which is our place of Spiritual Safety within which to seek, find and obey the will of "Our Father". Amen

 25/01/2026

I have become increasingly obsessed recently by the "things of this world" and have not truly listened to the WORD.

There is nothing that should overcome or obscure my one true purpose in life. 

When I was born Europe was in the turmoil of war and Christian men were totally devoted to killing perceived enemies either by attacking or defending themselves. Many of these men  were even more seemingly devoted to God than am I.

I think that I take no part in the evils that polluted the face of the Earth in those days and have continued to do so during my lifetime, but I do know that my personal sins have all added to the Power of  Evil which is continually being accessed to strengthen the resolve of those who choose to become the enemies of God.

St Paul writes to the Corinthians that they should preserve unity with each other. We all have only one true purpose in life . We have to know, love and serve with faith hope and charity. Our sole source of peace and happiness is God whom we must never forget shared all human suffering. 

Jesus was nailed. Yes, "nailed" by having slips of iron hammered through his living flesh, He was nailed to the wood of the cross by human hands that felt the sticky warmth of his precious blood and still completed their ghastly deed.

It is my sins that are assaulting the WORD, SON, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and even though I am not personally contributing to the Great Sins of the World that I can witness by simply clicking this mouse I have to ask forgiveness for the sins that I have committed and thus bolstered the power of evil in this world.

Dear Lord, you know what my wordless being is aching for please let me me scour out from my heart all the residue of the sin that hinders my being able "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 holy temple." Amen

 22.01/2026

I am coming to the end of my life. Jesus lived for less than half the time that I have already lived. His explicit teaching is that we should never accept our life in this world as the sole reality. 

"My Kingdom is not of this world".

He teaches us that we should learn how to make our worldly lives a prayer of thanks for life which enables us to recognise the LOVE of  "Our Father" and to live in the wonder of HIS material creation by following the pathway walked by HIMSELF and to actively seek out the guidance of the HOLYSPIRIT.

Throughout the Old Testament although informed by revelation, the Jews never maintain the "Love thy neighbour as thyself" that is essential if we are "to give to God the things that are God's".

In this morning's Gospel Jesus directly confronts "Unclean Spirits" who seem to recognise the Incarnation. He orders them to take no part in revelation. In other Gospel readings Jesus also encounters "Legion" millions of other evil spiritual beings, devils who are all unseen but active in this world.

The Crucifixion releases Sacramental Grace into this material world and Baptism is our initial source of this grace as protection against devil, world and flesh but our misuse of our freedom, image and likeness  allows evil to flourish in this world. It is not the "unclean and unseen spirits " that disfigure creation but our failure to stop their takeover of our beings and thus bring them into the world where humanity has become the place where the "non-being" that evil is can become manifest.

Dear Lord, help me to resist the assaults made by the Devil which are often disguised as activity which seems innocent but in reality captivates souls into sinful self-satisfaction. You know that I am really trying to do your will in these last days of my life. I am sorry that I have lost faith in your appointed guardians of Sacramental Grace but am grateful that the New Holy Family can never be corrupted by the things of this world and pray that my prayers be joined with those of Mary and John to defeat the snares of the Devil who still prowls like a hungry lion seeking whom he can devour. 

 21/01/2026

"Thou shalt not kill."

Obedience to this "Commandment" is one of the essential behaviours by which we confirm our belief in the "Source of Holiness".

In the Old Testament reading for today David kills Goliath to initiate a mass slaughter of the Philistines.

"This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased" 

ends the Old Testament. Jesus has been identified and remains in public view for the next three years.

In his public ministry Jesus was under intense scrutiny by scholars who had been formed by devotion to the Law which began with the revelations made to Moses.

Today his critics are focused on the Sabbath Law.

Jesus, however,  reveals  by all of his words and deeds that when we know and love God with all our heart, and mind and strength we simultaneously love our neighbour as ourselves and automatically conform to 

"A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so must you love one another."

Our Saviour accepts death for himself but never kills. How can there be such an event as a "just war"?

"My kingdom is not of this world".