13/09/2024

The way of life preached to his world by St Paul is the same way of life that has been preached to every generation of us since his times. 

The World has indeed changed since then, but the Word is still our guide and standard by which we should judge ourselves. God never changes. We, however,  who look for the Word to find our Way, Truth and Life are unique beings both in our individual self-awareness and in our shared humanity.

Each of us is created out of nothing, (what a "gobstopper" is that), to be the summit of created matter on the one hand, and image and likeness of our creator on the other. We are created with wisdom proportionate to our needs and the life of Jesus, true man and true God, as our template of the "Good" that our creator sees in all his creation.

St Paul had been abruptly been dragged into apostolic friendship with the Resurrection, the Jesus whose followers he had seen as enemies of IAMIAM. The plank had been ripped out of his eyes, blinding him in the process, to become the enlightened, dedicated to sharing enlightenment with all his world. He was now  totally dedicated to becoming the "winner" that FatherSonHolySpirit, wants us all to be.

The Eastern part of the Roman Empire was still strong at the time of St John Chrysostom's birth, and although his contemporary Julian attempted to revive Hellenistic Paganism, Christianity was the "Established Church" of the Empire. 

I cannot agree that there was nothing that was flawed about the "Church" as she was three hundred years after her foundation. There were many individuals who ran in the same personal race as did St Paul but there was now an increasingly human organisation that was characterised by a hierarchy that was more concerned about maintaining its place in this world  and had become, in fact, a ruler amongst other rulers.

Today we can understand that we are dissatisfied with our churches for good reasons, but the Body of Christ, the New Holy Family, the Church of Love "Mother behold thy son, son behold thy mother" will remain until the end of time even though "My kingdom is not of this world" has been long forgotten.

Dear Lord, let the eyes of my soul remain open throughout the rest of today and let me not be overwhelmed by my struggles with technology. Let me become one with the psalmist's sparrows and  swallows hiding from predators in the temple that with your help I can build within my own being. May the prayers of Mary and all the Saints open for us all the floodgates of your mercy to overwhelm our closeness to sin and to confirm the merit of the sufferings of the Holy Souls which is as nothing to your total awareness of all the sins of myself and my fellows in the infinity of your being exposed to all the world on Calvary. Lord forgive me for my sins. Amen

 12/09/2024

Yesterday I missed leaving a record of my thoughts and prayers because I was entangled by changing my "broadband". This work of man's genius connects my "private room" to every other computer in the whole world. I do not understand it at all but have come to think that I am useless without it. 

This is the way that mankind has come to think that we can openly challenge the word of God for we are getting ever nearer to the moment that I think is sure to come when "cloned human beings" are shown to mankind as proof that we are the Supreme-Beings and that FatherSonHolySpirit are a fiction believed in only by the weak and unintelligent.

In the first reading for today St Paul tells the Corinthians that each of us receives the "Word" in the quantity that is sufficient to our needs, but "Godself"  is "EverGreater". The intelligent among his readers know that there are no such things as gods and that eating meat that has been sacrificed to them  is a "non-event" for those who are coming to know Jesus and follow the road-map for living in this world he reveals to all who seek to live along his way to truth and life.

For others who were previously devoted to their temple or to IAMIAM to see some in their  congregation eating meat sacrificed to idols is an affront to their consciences which St Paul advises by example to avoid by abstaining from meat altogether. Our holiness must be an affront to the wicked not to the weak, the little ones who must not be scandalised.

In my world there are many who although claiming to be "believers" live lives of sexual deviancy and in full-sight of their fellows approach the altar to receive the Sacrament without any qualms. Our Sacrificial Lamb is truly meat, begotten not made. He is Son of the Father and sacrificed to him to become the one perfect sacrifice. He is the Bread of Life. Any clergyman who ignores his responsibilities to guide the "little ones" along the right path and distributes the Sacrament merely as a matter of course to all and sundry spits into to the wearied and bloodied face of our Jesus Crucified, the everlasting-sacrifice of our redemption.

Dear Lord help me to become compassionate to all sinners and not just to myself. Help to grasp the full horror that my sins are but let me not be overcome by them. I am responsible for my own sins and have enough not to need to complain about others. May Mary and all the Saints implore you to shake up all sinners as you did to Saul and on this Feast Day of her Holy Name help thy ordained servants on Earth do whatsoever you tell them to as she told the waiters at the wedding feast at Cana in Galilee. 

May my sins be forgiven and let me one day find the security that justice is being done in the pain of Purgatory. May the souls of all we sinners on Earth and in Purgatory bow before you in shame but never forgetful of your Mercy. Amen Come Lord. Jesus Come soon.

 10/09/2024

When I consciously try to live a spiritual life based on the revealed will of FatherSonHolySpirit, I am a sinner trying to come back to the natural life that is the reason that I am alive. I am here in this world to, by my own will, accept the will of God for myself and out of the infinity of possibilities given by every breath I take become the being that God has created me to be.

This is the message of all the prophets. The history of the world has been recorded for thousands of years but the lives of the vast majority of individuals who are "the Greeks", "the Persians" and "the Romans" etc. are unknown to us.

All the Xerxes, Alexanders and other more modern "inspirational Heroes" have all challenged us to ignore "God" and follow them in trying to make possession of material goods and experiences the only "good" that can ever be known by our human being.

St Paul as a "prophet" of the Resurrection tried to form a community that is always aware that its true nature is to be the Spiritual Body of Christ on Earth, unsullied by the values of materialism. That is why he  is appalled that disputes between the "Saints of Corinth" have been referred to the secular lawmakers.

Today Jesus chooses the Apostles. This is an historical event that happened 2000 years ago. But, before and since that day FatherSonHolySpirit knows everyone of us and reveals his will in the center of our beings. All that we have to do is respond to this call and he will draw us into Love that is His Being, even though the World of Mammon/Satan clings to us with tenacity of a hungry Lion it will go hungry if we do not co-operate. We have to be the c.p.u.s of our own lives for that is the nature of the life entrusted to our care.

Dear Lord, You have always been aware of my immorality but have let me continue to be alive in this world. You have treated the whole of humanity in this way and allowed us to witness that mankind can even corrupt your foundation on Peter in which you enshrined your sacraments. I can only be thankful and hope that I am sincere in my conduct as I am in these words. Let me retain a spirit of gratitude and maybe one day to find words that truly express the center of my being that should be love for you but could just as easily be the self-love that has so dominated my life. May my prayers become part of the Heavenly Chorus led by Mary, the first to know your Incarnation and now present in the natural form of human being, body, mind and soul, in the spiritual heaven of Angels and Saints which ensures that your Mercy covers both the Earth and Purgatory so that we can do your will and forgive all whose Earthly presence is used to swell their egos and deny You my God.

 09/09/2024

I am still having the same trouble using the "on screen" keyboard as I did yesterday. 

This has prompted the thought that although I am completely sincere in that I am consciously turning my heart and mind to FatherSonHolySpirit this record is here only because human technology makes it possible for me so to do. 

St Paul and the other Apostles had to walk through the Provinces of the Roman or Persian Empires to spread the Good News. Those who wrote their letters and memoirs had the assistance of a "scribe" the human forerunner of the AI assistant which tries to preempt my words as they appear on this screen.

This morning, St Paul is appalled by a situation that is all too common in my own experience of life. "Who am to judge? answers the successor of St Peter to a question posed by those with even more ill-will than those who were always trying  to trap Jesus into an ill-considered answer. 

Jesus did not prevaricate.. He taught us "Yes" is yes and "No" is no.  Neither did St Paul. St Paul was appalled by the blatancy of sinners whose self-conceit enabled them to feel able to flaunt their sins even in front of the "Church".

 "Who am I to Judge?" Francis . St Paul, "I already condemned this man". I ask myself which of these two responses to the problem of sexual sin is gong to be of more help, by bringing me or any other sinner closer to Jesus', "Go your sins are forgiven", "I did not come to condemn this world but to save it", 

Prophets, Popes and Prelates can preach the Word of God, but Jesus is the Word that will stand until the end of time. He is all God and True man; our way, truth and life. Blessed be his Holy Name!

Dear Lord you know that I should be praying to raise my mind and heart to you, not to add to the billions of words that are clogging the internet. This tool, however does help me focus my mind, so today I do not feel ashamed to ask for your help in fixing it.  More importantly, I truly pray for my both living and dead family. May our prayers join with those of the Saints and Angels who led by Mary raise a never-ending chorus of praise, thanks-giving and petition for your mercy to overcome all that leads us to sin on earth and help the Holy Souls to bear the total shame that overcomes them in their realisation of what is the true enormity of what they have done that could have been  avoided during their lifetimes.

My prayer has been answered so I can edit the above with the ease of a real keyboard under my fingers. Thanks be to God. Amen

 08/09/2024

Today I won't be able to complete this my usual record of prayer for the day. There is problem with my keyboard and to click away at the onscreen keyboard is far too slow for my patience.

 07/09/2024

I have been out of contact with my RC Parish congregation for at least 4 years. I sometimes bump into someone I know and chat but as to human fellowship in Christ there is none. I thank God that if  I am in the wrong no-one can see it more than I do. I have never claimed for myself anything more than that which the FatherSonHolySpirit reveals to the whole world and I was saddened by my break with the Church, founded to be a source of holiness, on St Peter but soon becoming a sinful institution where egos clash and personal sin is hidden by the wonder of the Liturgy and consequent authority of the clergy.

'Twas always so". Today in his first response to the "Corinthian Problem", St Paul continues to upbraid his congregation. As usual he speaks only the truth even though it might seem that he is boasting. It is impossible for anyone of us not to be aware of the huge contrast between St Paul, "a fool for Christ" and our own ways of life. 

All the hierarchy of the Church, Religious Orders, Protestant Pastors and the anonymous congregations have to face up to, as I try to do, the fact that we can become mired in the material wonders of this world, entangled by the briers of dogma and dedicated to tradition rather than becoming the vessels of personal holiness that is the purpose of Calvary. 

Jesus is "Master of the Sabbath". We are the ones that create sin and yet Son was begotten as perfect man to die on the cross to be for us, the only way to salvation. I am, as usual, alone with my computer  with a being that is open to the Holy Spirit, trying to access the grace without which my life will fail, knowing that in the eyes of this world I am also another "fool" aspiring to become one with Paul and "the foolishness" that is the Cross of Jesus.

Dear Lord, I know that I will not be completely devoted to you throughout this day but will become engrossed in many of the truly trivial events of this our world. Help me to become a support for my family let my love be accepted for what it is, a sincere affection, for all with whom I have shared my life of many failures. I know that you cannot reject the sincere prayers of  a sinner and will by your grace fill my heart with the Love that is YOU, FatherSonHolySpirit . I claim that I am always ready to do your will but this could be vain boasting so I turn once more to seek the help of Mary and all the saints ever aware of your words to her and John that form with all the saints, and sinners on earth a New Holy Family of which I hope to remain a part until the end of time.

 06/09/2024

For a change, this morning the Pharisees and Scribes are not trying to be subtle. They ask the direct question and Jesus becomes subtle in his answer.

The old cloak cannot be repaired by using a piece from the new. The implication being that his revelation has to be accepted as something that replaces the old. It does not address each failure in the fabric of the old  "hole by hole" but completely replaces it with a new garment.

Similarly the "new wine" which he is "to tread out" from the "vine of his own body" needs a completely new container otherwise it will all be lost.

So now we have some more seeds of what is to become the discord of the very early Church again sown by the very words of Our Lord himself.

On the one hand Jesus tells us that he did not come to "abolish the Law but to complete it" and today's answer to an, on this occasion,  honest question can be understood as quite the opposite. 

St Paul was completely single-minded in his pursuit of his mission received directly from the Risen Lord. He could not value any human critical opinion about God's revelation. It is easy to see why he was so hated by his fellow Jews and a convincing witness for the Gentiles.

The Early Church Fathers devoted much of their time to trawling through the Old Testament for texts which pointed to the Messiah and today's Churches all maintain the continuity of  Revelation by teaching both Testaments. 

The words of today's Gospel, however, emphasise a break with the past as do the main events of Jesus' life on Earth together with the words of the Last Supper which completely shatter the Old Testament's concept of  IAMIAM.

Dear Lord, I think of you in terms of love which  I can only know as a human being. You know that I have always been bothered by the killing that was perpetrated in Your name in the Old Testament and which has been continued during the course of centuries since Your Resurrection, which tells us that we have to continually rethink our relationship with You, FatherSonHolySpirit. You know that the Jews of today have never rejected the Scribes and Pharisees of your day who were determined to refuse the message of Jesus. The terrible camps of the German war machine have created for us a reluctance to think any thought that would prompt an outcry "Antisemitism". But you are Truth and guard us from sin by your Love which is for all that you have created for it is "good". My sin comes only from my own pride and greed which only if all humans confess to You and seek forgiveness for will begin to help us to find peace on Earth and become closer to your "true image and likeness", Jesus of Nazareth. May my Spiritual Self not be subservient to my body and the prayers of my heart join those of Mary, Angels and Saints in praise of you and in clasping your Merciful Resurrection reveal the truth of being to all who are in need of your Mercy. There are still many Sauls who need to be stopped by the open show of your power. Mass slaughter of your beloved created humans can never be a good thing by whoever does it. Help me to become sinless that I may hold your Love in my heart and complete my days with integrity of body, mind and spirit. Let me become truly the human person that I have been created to be. Amen