31/05/2026

Trinity Sunday

There are still millions of human beings who refuse to accept the revelations that were first made directly to individuals in the Middle East. 

It was there that the revelation to mankind that each individual's inner voice and awareness of being is activated to enable us to consciously respond to the "Creator" was first made and finally  brought to a conclusion on Calvary.

Moses came down from the mountain and the stone tablets now contain the words of God.

Everything is known to God; for him there are no probabilities or possibilities. Everything that has happened, is happening or will ever happen is known to Him. Each one of us, however, is not trapped inside an encoded programme that will determine how each moment of our life will develop. 

We are created in the image and likeness of God outside of whose being there exists nothing that exists, and we do share in the power of his freedom but  within the limits of Creation, the known Universe. Many of us over the centuries have been able to achieve wonders that are real, beautiful, and benign but we and everything that we do are always corruptible, subject to time.

Two thousand years ago God announced through the person of a Jewish teenager that he was going to completely reset the relationship between Himself and the Apex of  His Creation and to help us understand that the Incarnation is Real, that God can become man, he taught us that IAMIAM of Moses is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Today the Church reflects upon the "Trinity" and we too can with our body, mind and soul raise our hearts and minds to know that only the things of God, Faith, Hope and Charity are real in this world but that this is the only place where we can show our Love for God and that it was here that the Incarnation proved in real-time, once and for all of his creation that  Our Father is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Today I pray that ever more of us  open our hearts and ponder what it is that Our Father requires of us, ever mindful that his freely given support is always for us, also freely, to accept both in the Sacraments of Peter's Foundation Church and in the Church of Mystical Love the New Holy Family.

 "Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother."

 30/05/2026

Saturday Week 8 Ordinary Time

Two thousand years after the Incarnation there is nothing that we can do during our lifetimes that is any better than what is recorded in the "Acts" and in the Pastoral letters that have been selected to guide us through our daily lives. 

Jesus himself taught us how to pray and his instructions have become our formal prayer, the "Our Father". 

Miriam was angry that her sister was just sitting at the feet of the Lord leaving her to prepare their "daily bread" on her own. Jesus assured Miriam that Mary "had chosen the better part" but "The Resurrection" even prepared breakfast for his Apostles before their return from the unsuccessful fishing trip on Lake Galilee.

Our primary task in life is to praise God, bow down before HIM and do his will here on Earth just as if we were already part of the spiritual community of true-being for whom God is "All in All", that we call Heaven but we do all have to preserve our bodies with which we are united and so we also have to pray for the sustenance to maintain our bodily lives and for the ability to produce it.

What we must not do, however, is to allow the cares and delights of this material world and being occlude our spiritual senses and awareness of the futility that debases "the wonder of my being" into  "bucket lists" of finite delights by ignoring the basic fact that even though we all die we also contain the image and likeness that is Eternal Life.

We are all capable of raising our hearts and minds in the ways taught by the words and deeds of the Incarnation. "You Lord have the words of Eternal Life".

St Jude directs us to be "prayerful, compassionate beings" always remembering that to fulfil the purpose of the Father we are dependent on the free gift of Loving Mercy won for us by Son and distributed directly into our beings by HOLY SPIRIT. 

The Pharisees questioned Jesus' authority and he stretched out his arms to receive the nails from which he hung over the Whole World telling us that his "authority" is the LOVE which is ever available in the new Sacramental reality he created at the Last Supper and in the sacred familial Love that is the New Holy Family.

                                    "Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother."

 

 29/05/2026

Friday Week 8 Ordinary Time

What we know about St Peter we  mainly learn from the Gospels and from  his "encyclicals".

We know that the first sentence of this morning's reading is historically incorrect. For two thousand years, Christians have struggled with the disappointment that the "end of time" has not yet materialised.

What we are and have in our lives is "God's Gift", life itself,  which we have to consciously share with all others in order to become the prayerful beings that God has created to accept and reflect the Glory of the FATHER that SON reveals is HOLY SPIRIT, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

It is true that today "time" still continues and we are still waiting for Jesus' promised return. It is also true that each individual's life is his personal time. Jesus promises to be with us until the end of time. We can only hope and pray that he will be there to help us as we breathe our last.

We know that on the night before he was betrayed, Jesus created a Sacramental new way of being "This is my body" and an Order of New Priesthood " do this in remembrance of me" to perpetuate his coming Sacrifice. At the Shrine of Pan at the foot of Mont Hermon, he had already founded the Church of Jews and Gentiles; "Thou art Peter and upon this rock......."

The Word is always present for us to find in Scripture. The Institutional Church teaches that  Jesus is also present in the Sacraments even when she herself displays unrighteous conduct. 

The Incarnation really did renew the face of the Earth" and has given us a new way of being, a new reality ,the Sacraments, a new priesthood and as he completed the human time of True Man, bleeding out in public display on Calvary he also created a New Holy Family by his words to Mary and John.

                                            "Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother."

 28/05/2026

Jesus always treats our human weaknesses with compassion. 

During the three days which concluded his life on Earth he confirms for all ages that our own love for each other is a reflection of the LOVE that is generated by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. I am because God loves me. My life has to aim for the righteousness, the holiness that knows that I must not contaminate the purity of my own ability to love by being absorbed into the things of this world, 

That is the significance of the three renunciations made at our Baptism into the Christian Faith

In today's Gospel he awakens the sleeping Apostles with  an affectionate yet sorrowful  " Could you not watch one hour with me", knowing that they cannot be aware of what is about to transpire. He later offers compassion to the women whose tears would have also pulled at my heartstrings. To pray for the forgiveness of those hammering iron nails into his flesh however is totally beyond my capabilities as is the reward for the explicitly human honesty of "the Good Thief". The Total Human and Divine Love of the entire Crucifixion is possible only for "The True Man and True God".

The Incarnation concludes the History of Salvation which begins in today's first reading.

I have heard the Abraham/Isaac event referred to as if it were a parable to preach against the concept of human sacrifice. A command from God to destroy the life of our own child is an unthinkable denial of the "Infinite Good" that calls us to worship "Our Father".

"God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believe in him will have eternal life."

It is very not often that "the things of this world" align in real time specifically with the liturgical readings of the day. In the media today, however, there is much talk of the "Abraham Accords", which only God knows the sincerity or otherwise thereof, the name given to a political initiative to solve the latest stage of the tragic conflicts that permanently deface the Holy Land.

God knows how it has always been difficult for me to understand how His favour was for so long focused on one nation and how I have always wondered about the "emptiness" of the lives of  people civilised and primitive who were scattered about the world other than in the Middle-East even in the days of Abraham.

Dear Lord, You know that there is not one human who can reproach you and that I do accept responsibility and seek forgiveness for my own sins. You also know that I am sincerely troubled by my non-comprehension of why it is that You created  a "chosen people" from out of all the human souls you love into being. Why is it that their descendants still refuse the "grace" you created on Calvary? Help me also to understand  why so many of the inhabitants of this world have not yet learnt that YOUARETHEWAYTRUTHLIFE that welcomes all the World into your Church of Love, the New Holy Family. Amen

                                    "Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother."

 27/05/2026

St Augustine of Canterbury

There is no such thing as an empty word coming from the mouth of God. That is why I often struggle as I did yesterday trying to understand how Jesus could reply to Peter's question by stating that the things of this world i.e. family and wealth which he and the Apostles had "given up" would be returned "one hundredfold" in "this time".

"My kingdom is not of this world" has presented to each generation of Christian what is basically the same problem for we all grow to maturity in societies in which there are human norms that are contrary to the will of God and our Institutional Churches have from long ago fudged their adherence to "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are God's".

St Gregory the Great, who despatched St Augustine to convert the Pagan Angles, is credited by St Bede with the pun not "Angels not Angles". He had seen the blond Angles exhibited as merchandise in a "Slave Market". For the people of his generation a "Slave Market" in the Roman Empire was a normal commercial enterprise in which prisoners of war were sold into slavery. 

We are able to live just and holy lives only when we remain alert to the dangers that the human norms of the societies in which we live infiltrate our consciences even to the extent that in the "these days" of now we make no effort to deflect our children away from the excesses that are portrayed as norms by the media that can bedazzle us all into captivation that really does waste the time that we should use only to bring ourselves closer to God.

Dear Lord, help me to continue the struggle against all that is displeasing to you and with true sincerity of heart endeavour to accept the grace which never-endingly flows into the Church of Love, your New Holy Family in which we on Earth can anticipate the peace that it is to be know and be known after the self-inflicted turmoils of this life. Amen

"Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother."

 

 26/05/2026

We do not have a lot of words or sayings that have been attributed to St Peter and yet he is a focal point of  Christianity. 

He is the one who confirmed the break with Temple religion and Law on the basis that he had witnessed the Holy Spirit blessing Gentile converts. He baptised the uncircumcised Cornelius and also denied the necessity for dietary laws, but in his preaching today he is aware that the Hebrew Prophets were guided by the Holy Spirit to prepare the way for us to become able to accept the Incarnation as the completed manifestation of way to holiness in this world.

In the Gospel reading Peter is reacting to the  "rich young man" whose wealth held him back from  following the Lord. He is appealing for an indication from Jesus what is going to be the outcome for the Apostles having abandoned everything to literally walk with him around the villages of Galilee and Judea.

Jesus' reply seems to say that the earthly ("in this time") rewards of perfect discipleship will be huge.

At that time: Peter began to say to Jesus, ‘See, we have left everything and followed you.’ Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children, or lands for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.’

We really do have to interpret anything that we read in scripture in the light of the whole. Jesus has made it clear "that his kingdom is not of this world". To become the owner of the whole world is a profitless exercise if our soul is lost. He has thus told us not to become overcome by the things of this world and even here the last one of the benefits that we are to receive one hundredfold "in this time" is "persecution".

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.’

 24/05/2026

Whit Sunday

        Wisdom    Understanding    Counsel    Fortitude    Knowledge    Piety    Fear of the Lord 

The promised "helper" has arrived today and the "formation" of the first "Bishops" of the Church is complete. 

I was able to list the "Seven Gifts" not because I remember them but because the "click of a mouse" is not only the door to distraction but it can also be very helpful to those such as I who are aware that there is much that they should have remembered.

 At the moment I am avoiding facing the challenge that is posed by "tongues of fire" and "sound like a rushing wind".

Jesus is "true man and true God" and so "The resurrection" can show his wounds to his Apostles but he "breathes" onto them their spiritual authority to forgive sin. He does not hand over anything that is tangible.

The seventy-two were told that "if their peace were not accepted" they were to take it back. Simon Magus was ready to pay money to obtain "the Holy Spirit". Both incidents sound as if there were something tangible about "peace" and "Holy Spirit".

I know that I can raise my heart and mind towards God only with the unseen help that is Holy Spirit from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and that we can only "know" God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but never understand him even when we accept and truly make use of the gifts with which we begin and also conclude these reflections which are my prayer for this Whit Sunday, the celebration of the Holy Spirit, our Advocate and Helper. Amen

        Wisdom    Understanding    Counsel    Fortitude    Knowledge    Piety    Fear of the Lord