15/09/2024

Today's Gospel contains another of Jesus' "buts". He first asks for a summary of how the world sees him. To do that today would be a lifetime's work, a summary of all that has ever been written about God and our relationship with IAMIAM; an Old Testament and a New together with all the other commentaries that have ever been made about IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

Our God is only one BEING and I too am only one being. Jesus asks me the same question, directly to my face; he in the Palestine of the Romans and I at my desk two thousand years later. He does not want  me to condense the wisdom of the ages in my being. He trusts every human being to be able to face this direct question throughout our lives.

He knows me in the same way that I know my family. He has a wondrous Love for me and every other person that has ever lived, is living or will in the future but I have to filter through a mind that has often been cluttered and lost in the tangle that is it, my body and soul; a sometime sinful mess out of which I am being pulled by "Amazing Grace".

My body is surviving largely as the result of the wonders of man-made science which has unravelled many of the mysteries of bodily life. My mind is a human intelligence that is able to inform and seek out Truth. My soul is pure spirit that unifies the "I" of my being; it is the gift by which God shows to us all that he is FatherSonHolySpirit, the Creator, the Guide, the Saviour of us all.

We all have to respond directly to "Who do you say I am?". Parroting "Lord, Lord", the Lord's Prayer, the Creed is not enough. Our lives are all "events" in time. Our "event" has to respond to the "Jesus event" that is the "timelessness" of Eternity entering into creation as "True man and True God". 

It is the very Nature of mankind to know, love and serve, and we can turn this into temporal reality by joining in Peter's answer to his Lord and ours. "You are the Christ, Son of the Living God." 

The Nature of God is totally knowing, loving, and serving by revealing his purpose to mere children. He is, indeed, the Ever-greater but there is nothing imaginary about his creation and his Love for all. He is revealed on the Cross and is boundless, everlasting and his Grace can be accessed by our deeds, our way of life for he came to save not to condemn.

Dear Lord, help me to truly avoid error in my thoughts. Help me to remain in your grace. Help me to avoid sin in my thoughts words and deeds. Let me be the being You created me to become. You know how I feel unguilty about my words today to you. Let me continue to be conscious of my being always within your consciousness as an individual sinner who can strive to do your will for him. May my prayers join those of Mary, Angels and all the Saints in the Unity that is your Mystical Body on Earth, Heaven and Purgatory, the human unity that thrives in the Mercy that you poured over all creation and which, as in this morning's readings, you ask us all to acknowledge and prove by our actions.

 14/092024

For some time now, I have tried to put myself into the mindset of the first Christians. 

The first conversions were made not by the beauty of a liturgy or the intellectual power of a logically systemized dogma, a Theology, but by the shared charisma of the first believers. These human beings were filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit and it was into this community of joy that all converts were attracted and welcomed. 

They also expected that the promised return would happen in their own lifetimes.

Human patience can be stretched but for each of us there are limits. Moses' followers had had enough for their "slavery" to the Egyptians had kept them alive in comfort. The life of the desert although lived in freedom was intolerably harsh, their internal elastic bands broke and they defied both IAMIAM and Moses.

The Jewish early Christians had grown up listening to the readings of the scrolls and the wisdom of the Rabbis, but for the gentile converts part of the "Good News" that they heard from the all Jewish Apostles was the prefiguring of Christ to be found in the Old Testament. We continue to treat it as such.

Our FatherSonHolySpirit never runs out of Love; he is eternally patient. Jew and Gentile converts all share the New Life that is limited in our bodies but without end for our souls. The Old Testament is a training ground for us to use to prepare our souls for the one historical event that reveals the Glory that awaits each one of us.

The Resurrection unites the first believers and us for all time. We are united in the Spiritual Body of Christ who rose from the dead. We all have to choose this for ourselves as we are the new Chosen People, chosen to accept or reject the place prepared for each one of us by our resurrected and ascended Lord.

We must never forget, however, that this place is not a birthright but has been bought for us by the triumph and horror that is the "True man's" true death on the Cross. "By this sign" we will conquer not the world, for that is an empty triumph, but the weakness that draws us into sin. 

We will become an individual saved by our choice to follow the Son "sent by God not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved."

Dear Lord, you know that I still struggle to remain free from sin. You know that my mind is still filled with all sorts of images of remembered failures. You also know that there is also a continuing hope that I can remain true to you. To your teaching but most of all true to the remembrance of the suffering that FatherSonHolySpirit undertook in the person of Jesus to eliminate the Evil created by sin. May my prayers join those of Mary, the Angels and all the saints in that joyful moment  when all is completed and I will sin no more. Let us all become part of the community of souls, the Church of Love the New Holy Family that remains untainted by the world "Son behold your mother, Mother behold your son". May I, this day, remain in your merciful care as I say "Our Father.......

 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.