31/03/2025

Tuesday in Holy Week

I often have wondered why it was that Our Father should have chosen the time that he did to enlighten the Chosen People by begetting the Incarnate Son, his reset of his relationship with mankind, the pinnacle of creation in this world.

I believe that it is true that every individual in every generation of mankind has been given the freedom to choose for ourselves either to listen to and take heed of the unseen voice that tells each one of us in the depths of our being that we are loved and need to return that love by following the revelation of how to follow the way to holiness that is WORD taught by Jesus and revealed in the Bible.

During the centuries in which the Old Testament was recorded, IAMIAM was always ready to support the children of Abraham  because constancy is part of  the nature of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. They did not come close fulfilling :‘I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.’

There are numerous occasions, however, in the time of the New Testament when Jesus is filled  with compassion for the plight of the people who are helpless and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd and it is from these moments that we can begin to have some inkling that Our Father has been somehow hurt by our response to his love, even though many of the learned and the clever have decided to teach that God is impassable, beyond all human emotion.

In the passage from the passion narrative of St John we are given some insights into the mental state of Jesus only hours before the Crucifixion. He has both the prescience of God and the growing terror of a man condemned to a terrible death. 

All sinners such as I can easily condemn the treachery of Judas but we know in our hearts that we are making him the scapegoat for our own sins for it is the sins of each of us that still create the opening for evil to come into this world and by its power still attract us from doing the will of Our Father that is the only reason for our being.

Dear Father who art in heaven help me to open my heart to the forgiveness you won for us on Calvary and help me to remain in the Church of Love that you created as the New Holy Family in your dying words from the cross and share this insight of salvation with my loved ones and with the whole world. Amen

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

 30/03/2026

In today's first reading, three thousand years ago, inspired by God, the prophet Isaiah proclaims the Glory that Our Father reveals to us when we cooperate with his holiness by opening our spiritual eyes to his self-revelation made through patriarchs and prophets.

Even though the Psalmist can sing, 

The Lord is my light and my salvation;

whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life; whom should I dread? 

over the next thousand years, the then living people of God were not able to be consistent in their acceptance of the covenant that they and their forefathers had received through the prophets and they often ignored the will of God.

When we reflect on the state of humanity today we have to remember that the Jews of the Old Testament had failed to  answer the "call to righteousness". This is not my human judgement but the reality of the Divine reset of the loving relationship that IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT constantly reveals throughout the Old and New Testaments and specifically began when 

"the angel of the Lord appeared unto Mary and she conceived by the Holy Ghost".

I don't see how today we are any better than "those days" for we still are the same mixture of proud sinners, hypocrites, lukewarm and sincere believers  met by Jesus 2000 years ago.

The Incarnation is not a reward for mankind but is the final intervention by Almighty God to enable those of us who  listen to the WORD to co-operate in doing his will during our temporal lifetimes.

The Church was founded to preserve the "body and blood" as  Sacrament, a new form of being. She still exists but for too long was a part of this world and thus contradicted Jesus declaration before Pilate.

"My kingdom is not of this world".

I do know that I may be mistaken, but I do know that "The Temple" is no more and Church has never been consistently true to the words of its founder. I am also sure, however,  that I can still have the Faith that is beyond all understanding in the words to Mary and John uttered on Calvary as God died to bring into creation the grace that is merciful redemption and certainty of happiness, the Church of Love, the New Holy Family.

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

 29/03/2026

Palm Sunday

It is right and fitting that in her liturgy the Church points to WORD that is to be found throughout Scripture. 

Today we are able to ponder the renewal and finalization that occurred in historical real-time of the promises of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to guide us through our lifetimes in this world as preparation to "see him as he really is".

The preliminary reading from Matthew sets the scene as we too become witnesses to the fervour and messianic hope that Jesus of Nazareth had inspired wherever he had preached throughout the Holy Land.

Seven/eight hundred years prior to the event that we joined in the first reading, Isaiah did not resist WORD but opened himself, listened, accepted and then joyfully proclaimed what would come to pass in Jerusalem.

On Friday "My God, my God why have you forsaken me" will be prayed from the cross by the dying sinless Son but sinners know that it is we who abandon Our FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and are in no way deserving of the Mercy created in bitter pain on Calvary outside the city walls.

Scholars inform us that St Paul is quoting a pre-existing hymn in the perfection that he too proclaims with joy in his heart. We know that this single-minded hard-core Pharisee had been captured by the direct intervention of the Resurrection and was thereafter inspired to formulate Resurrection Faith into an intellectually comprehensible form that itself has become part of the Scriptures.

During the early years of the Church there were many living eye-witnesses who had experienced the events celebrated during Holy Week. We cannot say that any of the Evangelists have the physical realism that man's technical advancement has made possible, but the undoubtable TRUTH is that which comes from God and is infallibly found only in Scripture.

Although Gospel details may vary and scoffers deride our Faith we all have to bend our knee at the name of Jesus and thank Our Father through the Holy Spirit for the revelation which we hope to share with the whole world as we open our whole beings to welcome the merciful grace that became a physical reality in the body and blood sacrificed for us 2000 years ago in Jerusalem. Amen.

 27/03/2026

Friday Lent Week 5

In Tuesday's Gospel Jesus was confronted by men who had devoted their whole lives to doing the will of God that was revealed to them in the, at that time, incomplete Bible, the texts that recalled the experiences and words of the Patriarchs and Prophets. They were not "evil" but, although confident and sincere in their own belief, they were intrigued by the "something greater" that was the charisma that had attracted many of their contemporaries to follow Jesus.

Similarly today Jesus has to face up to sincere believers who have become so frustrated by the obvious dichotomy between the reality of his person, words and deeds and their unwillingness to accept that they were in truly in the presence of the "something greater" that was always "here" with Jesus. 

On Tuesday their frustration was so great that it seethed into anger and they picked up rocks to hurl at the "Blasphemer". Today they want to arrest him.

For more than three thousand years the people of God have been guided as to how to do God's will on earth; to cooperate with Our Father and live righteously. Our Bible, however, is filled with violence and although we are told "thou shalt not kill" there have always been thousands of us who have accepted the concept of a "Just War" and point to God's support of Israel and Judea in their Old Testament wars.

There is nothing at all about the motives of all the combatants in any of the Middle-East Wars of my lifetime, that are continuing even as I type this, that could be considered to be just. The originating act of partition by the representatives of Britain and France was the morally unjustifiable arrogance of the victors who emerged from the Great War, which itself was one of the long line of failures to  learn from the great reset of revelation that was concluded on Calvary.

Jesus died for our sins to enable us to do on earth the will of Our Father in Heaven. During his trial he declared "My kingdom is not of this world". We have never even tried to implement this and have actually often defied him by claiming that our killing of enemies was done in his name.

Can God really want us to avoid protecting our loved ones? Jesus accepted death on the cross that we might be loosed of our sins. His death is perfect Love. 

"There is no greater love than that a man die for the sake of his friends". 

It is not an easy task to think these thoughts and write them down but it is certainly much harder to be faced with a deadly attack. I have always been protected from that terrifying experience and can only thank God for never having been truly tested by anything remotely resembling combat.

Dear Lord, help me to grow in Faith and to do your will by avoiding my personal sins and placing all my trust in being able to participate in your Church of Love, the New Holy Family you created and bequeathed to all mankind as you hung, dying on the cross.

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

 26/03/2026

I have never been aware of hearing the voice of the Lord but everything that supports what is virtuous in my life is revealed WORD interpreted  in the human words which make up Scripture.

I do not understand the word play in Hebrew that is signified by the change of "Abram" into "Abraham". I have read or heard read this passage of Scripture thousands of times during my lifetime and before today in my 86th year I don't think that I have ever even looked for an explanation.

In the Gospel in its translated into English version that I read today, however, the Jews who were listening to every word that came from the lips of God heard "never taste death" and were shocked to the centre of their beings for they knew that death was as sure as the taxes they paid to Caesar.

Jesus is true man. He has experienced time just as we, the living, are still doing and so 2000 years ago he could say "I am" and mean that he is a living body and soul.

With Jesus "there is always something greater here" and so his "I am" in human time is always the WORD,  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, that is revealed by human language in the totality of Scripture.

It is God, himself who speaks in today's Gospel. 

"Before Abraham was I am."

 Within the words of scripture we find WORD, the Truth/Love of God and we all have the freedom to make the right choices and to access the guidance that was revealed and completed in Jerusalem by the inexpressible humility of the acceptance of death by our all-powerful and all-loving Saviour, Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Mary.

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

 25/03/2026

The Annunciation

Today we especially remember that Mary and Joseph were the first humans to learn by message of an angel that IAMIAM was initiating in this world the completion of the revelation of himself as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Everything that I am and know in this world has to take second place to the event in real-time assented to by the Virgin, a teenager and confirmed by her artisan husband in Galilee.

The completion of the Law is proclaimed by the historical events of the next 33 years when Infinite Power, Wisdom and Love experiences for himself the bodily life of the summit of his mammalian creation that he first ensouled as image and likeness, as Adam and Eve.

It is useless for me to add to the billions of words that already try to do justice to the immensity of this Saving Event that resets our relationship with Our Father. 

Each generation since those days has had "to go out and teach all nations" but before we can do that we have to try to become like Mary and Joseph and accept the message of WORD in scripture and learn how to live out " Be it done unto me according to thy word". 

We must never forget that by his conception Jesus created a Holy Family and that to enable us to do the will of Our Father in this world he created at his death the New Holy Family, his Church of Love which is our guarantee that there can be Faith, Hope and Love in this world as we strive after the righteousness that was his gift to us in Mary, Theotokos.

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

 24/03/2026

Tuesday Lent Week 5

In today's reading from St John we are presented with John's recollection of how the leaders of Temple Religion responded to the mysterious yet simple words of the Jesus of Nazareth who was stirring  their complacency within the Law.

Those of us who read the Gospel passage to be read at today's mass are likely to be able to paraphrase and relate it in our understanding to the completed life of Jesus for we have been raised in a Christian culture that has had two thousand years to consolidate the teachings of Christ in our liturgies and private devotions.

In Jerusalem 2000 years ago 

                                  "I am going away, and you will seek me,

                                    and you will die in your sin.

                                    Where I am going, you cannot come".

was spoken for the first time by an uneducated "layman" who had appeared out of Galilee and caused disturbances in the towns and their synagogues of Israel because of his words and more dramatically, his  signs, "the blind see, the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear; the dead rise and the poor have the Good News preached to them."

Jesus did not seek to confuse his listeners. His words are always TRUTH and meant to enlighten those who saw and heard him during his lifetime and to be preserved so that all subsequent generations would be able to access the "Teshuvah" that is the essence of the reset of revelations that is the  Incarnate WORD.

The Pharisees began murmuring their responses among themselves and some forecast that Jesus was going to die by his own hand. They cannot agree and are forced to open a direct interrogation.

Who are you?

In his conclusion to Jesus' comprehensive reply, John tells us that 

  "As he was saying these things, many believed in him."

They did this even before understanding what he could possibly mean by;

‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he,

I have known for all my conscious life that Jesus is crucified that I may be loosed from my sins and in the depths of my being I know that I have really failed to live up to the mystery of redemption with which I try to guide my life.

For some reason the Jews of Temple Religion had not fulfilled the will of IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but some have never lost the WORD that is in the Psalms which were  part of Jesus' daily prayer, part of the Way, Truth and Life that he taught and confirmed by the Resurrection that was proclaimed after the Saving Agony on Calvary. 

Today all mankind needs to unite in seeking the "Teshuva" that is pleaded for in today's Psalm "Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you." and can be truly found in the Church of Love, the New Holy Family, Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus Come !

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