15/06/2022

I try to begin each of my days with the readings chosen for the day's mass. I do not go to the mass for I am ill at ease about the sanctity of the Church. Too much evil has been revealed in recent times and I know that the priest celebrates the mass with the full intention of distributing the Blessed Sacrament to those who living together outside of matrimony are deliberately outside the Law and cannot benefit from this illicit performance of a rite. I cannot believe the teaching of the Church whereby the celebrant need not be in  a state of grace to perform the main function of his office. All over the world this is happening today and supported by Bishops .

Jesus tells us to not make a show of our religious beliefs but to go into our secret room and there pray to him for he is the only other presence in that place. I don't think that I am the only one trying this morning to meet Father, Son and Holy Spirit in this way and hope that my eforts are pleasing to him and not just easy for me.

In a way I suppose that this record of my beginning of each day is as it were standing on a corner of the network that is the WWW but nobody passes by. All is seen by God who knows how all of us try to live our lives according to his will. 

Dear Lord, thank you for the Loving Hope that is my Faith. Guide me along the path of life that is beset with so many attractive dangers of sin. Let my morning offering be pleasing to you and forgive all the sins mortal and otherwise that have filled my life up till now. May Mary and all the saints who are present in Eternal Life continue to support all the sick and wounded ones of this world that by their suffering they maybe turned to Our Father who...........

 14/06/2022

The Old Tesament reading today contains some fearful language and images. The sin of Ahab will cause him to be blotted out; the dogs will lick his blood. God is portrayed as totally vengeful but just. After Ahab's contrition God becomes again  God of mercy and compassion.

Jesus continues with his teaching of love and mercy. Loving our enemies is the "new" in the new Testament. The question "who is my neighbour?" is answered by the parable of "The Good Samaritan". Jesus tells us that anyone who does not accept the evidence of God in Jesus is against us. This negativity directed against God, Father Son and Holy Spirit comes from our enemies who, perhaps unknowingly, are the slaves of evil.

We must have no hate in us and the proof of this is love of our enemies and the measure of this love is our own forgiveness of those who wish us harm. I do not have to ignore the evil that is done to the world by those who refuse to know God. The vast wealth that has captured mankind in the grip of Mammon is the product of evil. The increasing value of corruptible matter is the province of Jesus' "tax-collectors" and condemned by him in the "widows mite" and the clearing out of the foreign exchange dealers and other business men from the Temple.

So many of us in this world are unable to avoid its attractions but this too like my body will pass away. I will have to answer for the sins of my life trusting in the Love that is God. Today I am alive  and must live without hate which can even be simply annoyance at another's grinding her teeth.

Dear Lord you showed us the mark of your love by the manner of your death. The nail hammerers just got on with their job following military discipline but you forgave them on account of their ignorance.Our world today is not ignorant but chooses to condemn you again by a point blank refusal to follow your revelation of the Good. Fogive us our trespasses and let the Holy Spirit inspire us to be totally free from hate. May Mary and all the saints continue to support the people of this world especially those who have the reponsibility of doing your will as the successors of your Apostles.

 13/06/2022

 The wickedness of Jezebel is in response to a sulking husband and is a total misuse of human freedom. Everything that is wrong with our world is the result of the misuse of this freedom. There is  a  multitude of examples of this today. The Ukraine war is  not an inevitable event that could not have been prevented. Russian troops crossed the border because Putin ordered this to happen. Thousands have died, millions made homeless because  in his human freedom one man decided to go for the glory promised by Satan.

This presents us with a huge problem in our human life. I don't think that any one in history has been able to "turn the other cheek"as we are told to  by Jesus. The concept of the "just war" dominated the leaders of Christendom for centuries. We feel that we had to withstand  the evil that was Hitler and his party. Our bombers had to kill thousands and destroy cities because ?............

Millions of wrong decisions are made every second of every day and as time goes by the evil of these choices accumulates capital to the extent that we can understand the "need" for us to take over the wealth of weaker nations.

Jesus does not give us any excuses. We are free and have been so since the creation of Adam but there are boundaries. Only Father, Son and Holy Spirit are totally free because God is love and wishes no harm to any of his creation.

Dear Lord let my will be totally synchronised with yours. Let me accept all that happens today in the spirit of "turn the other cheek",  that I am responsible for my own choices, that there is a way to live our lives and that way and gate are you. May we and the Holy Souls be constantly in the prayers offered by Our Lady and all the saints.

 12/06/2022

No matter how wise and sincere in wisdom any of us are the Trinity is a mystery that we can only encounter and accept that this is God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe and in believing we adore and thank God for our being; thank him for his revelations, guidance and most of all for his Love that is our example to follow and to accept.

We are the only beings that can find in ourselves God's image and likeness. This great gift means that we are capable of truly wonderous understanding and  manipulations of matter and its building blocks. This power of our human intelligence has so fascinated our race that many of us have forgotten that God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the "Ever Greater"who has created all and can destroy all.

God needs nothing from us except his Love accepted and returned in the freedom that it is given. He says to us be free but know that only I am without boudaries of any sort. Your freedom avails you of nothing unless it curbs itself to Know, Love and Obey. During our lifetimes we can live according to this belief. At our deaths this belief becomes the reality of our lives in God's Eternity.

Dear Lord confirm me in the sincerity that your scriptures inform and inspire. I am a sinful creature in need of your eternal forgiveness and hope that the adoration for you I can feel at this moment will guide me throughout this day. May Our Lady who at the time of the incarnation is the only human ever to have been totally aware of your Triunity continue with the work entrusted to her on Calvary and may we her children live our lives in the recognised Love of Father Son and Holy Spirit.

 11/06/2022

The Mission at Antioch had flourished and Barnabas was sent to witness this. What he found was a congregation guided by the Holy Spirit. If I ask myself what it was that pleased him so greatly, the answer must be that the converts believed in the Resurrection and the "Return" which they awaited eagerly. They would also have scoured the Old Testament for refernces to Jesus following the teaching Jesus had given to the disciples from Emmaus. There were there people who had witnessed the Crucifixion and had joined in the shouting for Barabbas when given the choice by Pilate.

Would the newly named "Christians" of Antioch been aware of the teaching in today's Gospel? We know that all the recorded words of what is the "New Testament" were in a state of growth and were not formally codified until the Fourth and Fifth Centuries but various versions had been circulating from the earliest times. St Paul's letters to his foundations were written within thiry years after the resurrection. The recollections of the Evangelists were all in existence before the end of the first century.

We have all of the direct teachings and implicatons of Jesus' recorded life to inform our faith but  those earliest words and prayers are still the basis of our .faith  Maranatha! The return of the resurrected Lord is still our greatest hope.

Dear Lord let me live this day in the protection of your love. Let me return that love without sinning. Protect all your people who with good intention are performing good deeds. Today Mary many of thy children are facing dangers to help others. Please commend their efforts to Father, Son and Holy Spirit in whose eternal presence you now are in body and soul.

 10/06/2022

Jesus warns us today that sinning is easy. He emphasises this by telling us that it is better to loose our body parts than to break the Law. Our sin takes place within us if we allow temptation space in our beings. Elijah finds the Lord in the gentle breeze not in the destructive powers of nature. We are not to divorce our wives except...... If we do they are not to be remarried. 

Elijah is driven to frenzy by the behaviour of the chosen people who are apostatizing and taking on the norms of the pagans. God orders him to anoint kings who will do his will and purge Israel of its sinfulness.

Our Church appoints Cardinals who are to administer the institution that the Church has become. This administrative act by the Pope has none of the hallmarks of Christ's Vicar on Earth. Cardinals of all ages seem to have exhibited the signs of pagan corruption and been without the humility that Jesus showed to their forebearers at the Last Supper. The wordly administration is required and becomes more necessary as the Church cares for so much wordly wealth. Our souls require that the Church regains the purity revealed by Jesus and found by Elijah in the gentle breeze.

Beautiful art and Cathedrals are fine but each human soul is greater than the sum total of them all for it is our souls that are created to avail themselves of God-given grace to reach Eternity.

 Dear Lord let my soul be open and welcomong to the grace that is superabundant and is the Love that will foregive our sins and open the gates of eternity where we will be joyfully in the presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. May Our Lady and all the Saints add their prayers to mine for all the suffering ones known and unknown to me.

 09/06/2022

I wonder what his contempories made of Isaiah's vision of God. This vision to me, reading it after centuries have passed seems to resemble the massive sculptures found throughout the Middle East more than it does the Jesus whom we know from the New Testament. The call to serve Father, Son and Holy Spirit is still the same and has not changed throughout the ages although the recipients have accumulated more knowledge of creation, and history has not stopped growing.

God's call to his people is still the same asking for his people to know their own freedom and to use this freedom to know serve and love God. Jesus is the Father Son and Holy Spirit and he has given us the perfect Unity which is to live in the Love that comes from God.

We are born into a reality that is beautiful and calls to us to enjoy our physical beings to the full. Jesus reveals the call from God to know that our physical beings are finite but life in the love of Father Son and Holy Spirit is ready for us. Our bodies are corruptible but our souls should live for ever. We are in control of this future which has been revealed to us and which will be ours if we avoid  the pride that challenges God, the pleasures of the flesh that occupy our minds and the self-satisfaction that fills our being and thus excludes God.

Dear Lord let your grace lead me on the only true path to you.Your Love is available to the whole world and it is only human will that rejects it. You know what it is that is true among the quagmire of my own experience and thoughts. Please send true guidance through the piety of your Mother and all your saints that I may know and pass on the way, the truth and the life that leads to your Eternity.