07/02/2024

I am sure that we the people of the World have not been created to kill each other. The slaughter in what was the Kingdom so admired by the Queen of Sheba that is taking place today is not by the will of God. The people who have been loved by God to the extent that the Incarnation was from the human body of Mary whose DNA shared that of Solomon have still not yet made a positive response to the Lord.

They have been slaughtered by sinful men over the centuries and they are still prolonging that  ultimate pride that is the killing of our  brothers as did Kane. God has given us all life and it is not for us to decide how long anybody, even myself, should live.

The Incarnation/Resurrection is truly the great divide in our history. After Jesus the daily lives of all of us can be lived filled  with wisdom to know God, the example to be followed each day, and enveloped in the love demonstrated on Calvary. The universal forgiveness created for each one of us requires us to acknowledge its greatness, cling onto it throughout our lives and thus reach the threshold of Eternity. 

Jesus tells us all univocally that the degeneracies created by our sinfulness make us unclean. I have known most of the sinful practices listed by St Mark and simultaneously known them all to be shameful but still succumbed. None of us is created to live a sinful life. My, and everybody else's too, sins are a product of our self-will. We are free beings.  I am repentant but think that my sins although forgiven need reparation on my part. 

Dear Lord, help me to find the way to cancel my sins.Your gifts are so great that no one can repay you. Help me to accept your Forgiveness and being filled with the Holy Spirit become part of the Body of Christ which fills creation with your loving glory. May my prayers be linked with those of your Sinless Mother and the Saints to create an unbreachable wall of  Grace to guard us against the Devil, World and Flesh whose sins are so much in evidence in my life and in our world today.

 06/02/2024

I always seem to be concerned with myself when I begin these writings inspired by the Mass Readings for the day. 

I am not writing anything other than my own thoughts in an attempt to understand how God was/is always with the Jews and how the Son of God has corrected the foolish sinfulness of all mankind. Sometimes I am sure that what I have written is a fair reaction to the Word of God but I am never dogmatic and always know that Father, Son and Holy Spirit is Evergreater and beyond all human comprehension.

The Revelation of himself that God made to Moses put the Jews into a unique position in our ancient World. Alone among the nations their Temple contained no graven image of the Almighty Power worshipped therein. God was the giver of the Ten Commandments and had empowered Moses to reveal to his People how to live in holiness. The pagans had an entirely different view of their Gods whom they had created or taken from other people.

Solomon stood before the Altar and proclaimed that God is greater than anything. He then began the process that resulted in the hypocrisy condemned by Jesus. The leaders of the people were able to use the "Law" to protect themselves from the aspects of the Law that were inconvenient to themselves.

The Pope, leader of the Church that knows that it is descended from Jesus' foundation on Peter claims that "God's Blessing" passed on by him and all his clergy to a homosexual couple is a "blessing on the persons" and not on their sinful union.

Today's Gospel tells him and all of us that that statement is nonsense. I pray that as he reads "How ingeniously you get around the commandment of God in order to preserve your own traditions" he is open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit and and confesses this sin of false leadership to all the World as the Pharisaical casuistry unfortunately preserved in the legacy of his own Order.

Dear Lord, while you were on Earth you confronted hypocrisy whenever you faced it. You our God could promise just punishment for all recalcitrant sinners. On Earth you enable all sinners to recognise their own sins before "casting the first stone. Your Mercy is without limits. You sought forgiveness for your own torturers. Can we repeat your prayer for the men who, 2000 years ago, hammered nails through your flesh, for our shepherds who have lost their way? "Father forgive them for they know not what they do". May the prayers of Mary and all the saints of Heaven bring forgiveness to all sinners both on Earth and in Purgatory.

 05/01/2024

The Lord knows me but I am always confused when I try to turn to him. My soul tells me quite clearly what I should do but there is always resistance from I know not where. Yesterday I was able to read what I wrote without shame. But for me to feel satisfied  is not the point of my morning meditation. 

I have removed myself from the Institutional Church but I know that we all have to pray in order that Christ's Mystical Body is known not only in Heaven and Purgatory but also here by the body and soul who is typing in front of this screen. 

I try to be guided by the Scriptures chosen by the Institutional Church for the daily mass as I still am tied into the things of this world and know that I need to be guided by the Prophets and by Jesus and the Apostles but I have lost all faith in the builders and preservers of buildings supposedly dedicated to the Lord.

How can a sinner such as I have a negative attitude towards the Ordained Clergy? God knows that I do not want to become part of  the hypocrisy of centuries. We have unworthy priests and bishops today because we have always had them.They who preached the Word not only deceived us but also burned and tortured to death those who spoke out against a Church embodied in the "Kingdom's" of the world in direct disobedience to the words of Our Lord, "My Kingdom is not of this World".

Dear Lord, help me to do your will as I live out this day. Let me truly seek you out in my prayers and never be satisfied that I am unable to do more to know you than I already have. Cleanse all your people of their sins and let the dangerous hidden sinfulness of clergy become known to all of us together with the knowledge that we can all seek out your ways as single souls and join your Mystical Body which flourishes as the Kingdom not of this World. May the prayers of Mary and all the Saints be joined to ours on Earth and in Purgatory and may the sins of the world be forgiven in the flood of Mercy that flows from your side.

 04/02/2024

The words of this morning's readings cover nearly 3000 years of human history. Job bemoans the futility of  living our lives that are finite and subject to the whims of fate. What is the use of a god if evil is as free as he is?

St Paul speaks as a man who knows the Scriptures. He knows the depression and stoicism of The Book of Job and the joys of David's psalms. He has been chosen by the eternal Resurrection to desist in opposition to the Way, Truth and Light and to spread the Good News of the Glory of Father, Son and Holy Spirit throughout the world.

In his days on earth Jesus was as human as we are. It would be impossible for God to be limited by the laws of science as we are in our bodies. God has always known that he has to be True Man to live as the Incarnation. If he curtailed our human freedom and directed our wills to do his we would not be part of the creation he knew to be good. The Word was made Flesh and dwelt amongst us. The Begotten not Made is the Fruit of Mary's womb. True man and true God.

Job speaks to me as another person who has known life as I do. St Paul is a faithful teacher of his flocks. Jesus is always the Son doing the will of the Father and inspiriting us through the Holy Ghost and he it is whom the Church has to serve in the same Spirit as St Paul.

I know that the vast Basilicas, the Cathedrals,  Monasteries, Churches and Chapels are empty today because we are the products of an institution which has never truly believed "My Kingdom is not of this world" and consequently we the flock also ignore our Baptismal Promises.  

The Devil, the World and the Flesh are the enemies that I must fight in every moment of my consciousness for to combat Evil requires that each one of us subject our wills to that of the Father, i.e. we must not sin. Jesus shows us the way to our lonely place, our private room the centre of our beings  our  spiritual centre where we can find Father, Son and Holy Spirit and open ourselves to his Love.

Dear Lord, I know as I meditate that I am watching and congratulating myself for turning to You. Thinking that I am doing your will. Help me to empty myself of this unwanted prideful presence. Teach me to live only as the sinner who has often been overcome with panic at the harm I must have done to others during my unholy life. May Mary lead the prayers of Heaven to bring forgiveness to the sinful in this world and to the Holy Souls who have to accept God's Justice before Mercy can forgive them.

 03/02/2023

Each morning as I wait for this computer to wake up, I ask myself the same questions about the life I have led.  There is very much that I regret about my own behaviour and very much about the world and the people who thrive in it which appalls me.

Solomon was born to become King. He accepted this as a duty revealed to him by God's Providence and prayed for Wisdom to govern him before he governed his nation.

Jesus knew that the Apostles needed time to pray and recover after their first mission and tried to take them to a deserted place but the crowds outguessed them and got there before they did. 

As man, the Incarnate Son was subject to the Providence of God which is not a Fate predetermined for each soul but is the result of the interactions of all the free human wills which are operating as I write and becomes History as time passes.

God does not will that the Church founded on Peter be so pathetic that it cannot even choose a Bishop.This is now happening in the Diocese of Plymouth. The Church has always been full of sinful men who are prideful, lecherous and avaricious and who have never striven to be part of the Mystical Body which by prayerfully connecting the souls of the living and the dead can keep us in the Love of Father,Son and Holy Spirit. It is we men that have weakened and continue to do so, the structure founded in the Resurrection to guard the souls of all of us and help us to Heaven.

For two millennia prideful priests and prelates have dominated their flocks by claiming that there is no salvation outside of the Church. They are right but wrong about what the Church, Christ's Body on Earth, really is. 

It is not a worldly Institution of whatever denomination but is the hearts and minds, the souls of all who humbly ask to be forgiven their trespasses and delivered from evil so that they can do God's will on Earth to prepare for the glory of heaven. We can all find this Church for it is within us founded by the Holy Spirit out of the Sacrifice of Son and Love of Father.

Dear Lord you know what I am really trying to say. I know that you have not created any of us to be damned. We can do your will on Earth because Jesus first trod the path and showed us the way to carry our crosses. May Mary who stayed with you during your tormented agony and accepted her role as mother to all humanity through St John continue to lead us all, Saints,Earth, Purgatory, in prayer that sins may find forgiveness and all Churches become divested of the things of this world.

 02/022024

 Anna was old in years and did odd jobs about the Temple because that is where she felt closest to the Lord. As another old person I can appreciate that she shared with Simeon a sense of disappointment that the longed for descendant of David had not yet appeared. 

Simeon had been promised that he would not die until he had seen the Messiah so they could still  hope in the Lord, for the  Lord was still guarding his people. His Temple was still being constructed.

Joseph approached the priests of the day with the appropriate offering and Father, Son, Holy Spirit, the true IAMIAM filled Simeon with the holy inspiration to proclaim what is still the Night Prayer of those who have devoted themselves to God in the centuries since that moment in the Temple.

My disappointment is that I am the only one in my family who has not been captured by Mammon. I pray and preach to myself, hoping, that my prayers for all my loved ones will be answered. Anna and Simeon hoped in the Lord and I too must follow their example.

Dear Lord, nothing is impossible for you. Please let the hearts and minds of those I love become aware that there is nothing that is secure in this world. You who are greater than the whole universe know each one of us. Let your Holy Spirit bring the Love and Joy that comes from you into the hearts and minds of all peoples. Let my prayers be heard as are those of Anna, Simeon and Joseph and let Mary's pleas as your Mother and ours bring to our world and to Purgatory the Mercy that has its never-ending source in you. Amen

 01/02/2023

Jesus chose 12 of his disciples to preach to others what they had learnt from him. 

The Mission given by Jesus to the 12 is to follow up on his teaching to the villages by putting themselves into the hands of providence and, without making any worldly preparations, become preachers of repentance to the villages of Galilee.

The villagers to whom the 12 preached were mainly Jews who were familiar with the Old Testament and who for centuries had known themselves to be chosen by God . The soil which they tilled was holy and the produce was for themselves and their families only. They knew that God willed it that they should govern themselves and not be under the yoke of idolaters no matter how powerful.

"We have found the Messiah" are Andrew's words to Peter after spending some time with John the Baptist who had pointed out Jesus to him and his companion. We have no record of what words the12 preached. but the totality of the message was no greater than "God is with us" for they, as had Andrew, had found the Messiah, "the Lamb of God".

At first the disciples hoped for a return to the days of David and Solomon for their expected "Messiah" was to rule for a thousand years. The mysterious "Lamb of God" was not to be understood until Jesus had completed his Mission for Father, Son and Holy Spirit, he is our Way, Truth and Life and although our Saviour and King, his Kingdom is not of this world.

Dear Lord, let me heed the words of David and be wise as Solomon to resist the tendency to sin that not only mars my life but crucifies Jesus your only begotten. We are all known by you in the timeless infinity that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, unconfined Love and Mercy. Let my prayers  join those of Mary and all the Saints in unending praise and pleas for the Mercy that will overcome all my sinfulness and bring forgiveness to all sinners who repent and accept the Justice of your punishment in this world and in Purgatory.