11/02/2024

In the Old Testament all the books are written within the context of the "Law" which governed the communal life of the human community we know as "The Chosen People", the Jews. The "Law" had become much more than the "Ten Commandments".

Mankind has always been the same in that self-centredness rules our very beings; try as we may to be "objective" we can only see the world from our own standpoint; we are not multiple beings. There is only one of us and we are amazed and enthralled by the wonder of the "I" we all know ourselves to be. We see the achievements of our ancestors and glorify their intelligence and mastery of the material of this world and forget God. It is only God who knows us all and He "so loved the world that he sent his only Son that we all might be saved".

The Chosen People also continually lost sight of "IAMIAM" and became one with all the nations in that they forgot the First Commandment and sought only the things of this world. They turned their worship away from its focus on God into another of those things. The Pharisees' piety became a "good" the possession of which filled them with pride that overtook  "Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all Soul and with all your mind" as the mainstay of their lives.

Similarly, The Institutional Church founded on Peter soon became so wrapped up in the things of this world, power, prestige, wealth, wars  that for centuries she seems to have been in the same state as were the Chosen People at the time Jesus' announced the "Kingdom of God"; not really confident that they believed in their own God

At the most public moment of his entire life on Earth, his trial before Pilate, Jesus assured all mankind  then and for all time "My Kingdom is not of this World". We have to know that the Kingdom of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is far greater than our Universe and that God is always ready to welcome repentant sinners at our bodily deaths and to fill our open hearts with the  Love that never dies. Maranatha, Lord Jesus. Return to us soon to fill the world with righteous joy.

Dear Lord let us all know that there is nothing in life better than knowing your Word and seeking out to do good. Inspire all Church leaders to become sincere in their preaching and to believe in the Sacraments that preserve your Incarnate Grace on Earth. May Mary and all the saints of heaven welcome those who have finished with time and been freed from their bodies to the  boundless love that is the Glory of the Lord. Amen

 10/02/2023

Our Lord God let's us live in a strange world that is  our own adaptation of his creation. He himself walked around Palestine with the intention of making us all aware that we are all known to God and that we can live holy lives."The KIngdom of God is at hand". He did take away the sins of the world and to ensure that we did listen and live according to his preaching showed us many signs that he had divine authority. 

We, the Father's finest creation have from the first become so entwined within ourselves that we have never ceased to create for ourselves finite powerless alternatives to Eternity. Adam and Eve chose "No"and ever since we have disregarded our call to be with God. 

Jeroboam got it right. If the Devil, the World and the Flesh are to succeed, all three enemies of our God and the souls he has created for us to share his  wonder of Being with him, have got to make themselves so desirable that mankind can completely forget Eternity and the way, the truth and the life. Golden calves have got to be our "all in all".

The Jews have continually messed up their special place in this world but the inexhaustible Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit shows us again and again that it is we ourselves in our God-like freedom who have to call out for the Grace that is created by the Final Eternal Sacrifice on Calvary and is to be shared with all the world. God's freedom is mirrored in our own, "Yes or No?"

First the Jews and now the Church fail in their calling to let us all know that "My Kingdom is not of this World" and that the pride in humanity, wealth of Mammon, Joyful delights of our bodies are totally valueless when we take our last breath on Earth but continue to be the   souls for which we have been created to care.

Dear Lord, You have told us many times that there is a correct way for all of us to live in your creation. Your Wisdom honours us by freeing our souls from the laws of matter the scientific understanding of which has fueled our pride. We can choose to live in righteousness and thus be part of your Mystical Body that supported by the Holy Spirit and Mary and all the Saints is part of the Eternal Kingdom that is not of this world. Dear Lord save us from the nonsense of Popes and Prelates and let my days be guided only by your love.  Amen

 09/02/2024

Throughout the time that we have inhabited the Earth there are only a few of us who have tried to orientate our lives towards God. "Few" that is, in comparison to the millions who are alive today. I am always trying to face God as a free soul created by Him to do his will during my life.

To the extent that I am able, I bow before Father, Son and Holy Spirit as the Evergreater Creator and accept the revelations made to the prophets and completed by the Resurrection. I have known for years that my sins are forgiven and that God is Love,Truth and Mercy but I have to face the fact that for myself sin/evil is still as easy as is breathing.

It is obvious that I cannot contain the mind of God in my brain but this is what I have understood about my "being", aware of self and of others and of the Eternal Other that is revealed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are all created as individual free souls who are born by Providence into bodies that are the highest form of Life on this planet. We are all born for the purpose of knowing, loving and serving Our Father. God has not created any of us to be Evil. Each one of us creates our own sin by ignoring God.

I am a weak and sentimental man. God is my Evergreater Creator. It is impossible for me to challenge him, but I have to ask for the grace to be able to understand why so many of us throughout History have been born according to His Providence into cultures that achieve high moral and ethical ways of life but do not know Him. Does Jesus also welcome those who do not formally acknowledge You?

Dear Lord, you know that I am only ever ready to accept your grace. You have saved me from the bodily sins that could have resulted in my death years ago. Let me not waste the time that I have left to pray and worship you. My prayer for there to be a way for my misguided yet sinless brothers and sisters to come to you is that of a weak and sentimental man but it is sincere.  May Mary and all the Saints pray that all sinners can become reconciled and join the total eternal worship that is the Mystical Body of Christ.

 08/02/2024

One thing that is sure about today's readings is that Jesus did not insult the Lebanese woman by calling her a dog. The woman of Tyre is one of the few whose words in reply to Jesus are recorded in the Gospels. She is shown to be her own person and not overawed by this stranger whose reputation as a healer has gone before him.

Jesus is aware of the depths of her misery at the condition of her daughter and of her sincerity of belief that he could cure her. She does not seem to have had any faith in IamIam but is a pagan. Jesus praises her for speaking the truth even from her weak status as a gentile petitioner for a favour and thus blesses the unbeliever.

Jesus responds to this woman because she is desperate for her daughter to recover. There were thousands of other souls living in sick and deformed bodies in those times. The ones cured by Jesus either presented themselves or had a petition made on their behalf directly to him. Why were others left then and now to live miserable lives while Solomon (e.g.) who lived in comfort and splendour proved to unworthy of the blessings that he had been given?

There is no way for us to fathom the ways of Providence. Most people in the world think that we are all born into a predetermined fate. The talents of others so captivate themselves that they know that the world is "their oyster" and accept all the benefits  that come their way as their just desserts.

God's message first to the Jews and then to all peoples is that we should know that each one of us is a loving gift of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Each individual is a completely free spirit who can choose to live reflecting the love of God. We can correct the mistakes of our fathers but we can achieve nothing unless we bow our heads and pray  "Our Father" as taught by Son whose cross we have to choose to share and whose Spirit we have to welcome into our beings to guide our lives to the "many mansions" of Eternity.

Dear Lord I know that I am responsible for all my thoughts and actions. My emotions always seem to be beyond my control. It is emotions that insult hate and kill. Help me to control these aspects of my being that are an affront to you. May Mary pray with all the Saints of Heaven that we on earth can have the patience to accept your love and truly love our neighbours as ourselves in the loving mercy that we all need to access to become your people.

 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.