25/09/2024

Today we read of the very first assignment given to the twelve chosen disciples. It is the first mission given by God not to a single individual but to a group of people. Each of the twelve is  to "shout out" that God is always near and to cure diseases. If there is no favourable reaction Jesus tells them to forget that town and blot it from their memory. They are to shake off even the dust collected in that place from their feet.

The people who inhabit the towns to be visited are all following a way of life taught to them by Moses. They have grown over centuries to become a people who have always had God close to them, who have followed the "Law" and worshipped together in Temple and Synagogue. They all know that they are special in the eyes of IAMIAM, the divine fire that filled the mind and soul of Moses and the other prophets.

Two thousand years later we are witnesses to what has developed from those simple instructions given by Jesus to his "twelve".

First we have to wonder what it was that FatherSonHolySpirit found unsatisfactory about the human beings in the created universe at that time rather than previous other times, particularly as these were the  ones that had been chosen to know God and worship him in this world.

It seems to me that human wisdom had become lost in the grandeur of its own abilities and "religion" was largely lip-service without the purity of heart that could reflect the holiness of God. However, only FatherSonHolySpirit can understand the Infinite Loving kindness that is Calvary.

The Twelve, an elven to one mixture of mostly good and mostly bad human beings has grown to become the same mixture of humanity but on a vastly greater scale.

We have been given complete freedom to choose where we want to be in the eyes of God, if not Adam's sin would have wiped us out before we got going. There is something about us that our Father knows and loves. We can choose to accept that he wants from us the righteousness that he has revealed as the way, truth and life.

Jesus and the eleven continue  to proclaim "Emmanuel" and we still have grace and opportunity to respond with love to Love. Even I can aim at the Apostolic ratio of eleven to one in my own being and never forgetting  that nothing is impossible ( Judas can be saved ) for the Mercy of God passeth all understanding. My redeemer liveth.

Dear Lord, I hope that I am getting to the point where I can confidently say that I have got closer to your will for me than I did yesterday. Jesus condemned hypocrisy and it is my greatest fear that I fall into the self-satisfaction that disguises itself as love of God. It is in my behaviour that I reveal the secrets of my heart not in the thoughts and words that come to me each day. Let me on earth at this moment join my prayers to those of Mary and all the Angels and Saints as we all proclaim the Glory and Goodness of you, Our Father in Heaven. May my sins and the sins of the whole world be smothered by the eternal sacrifice you made in our worldly time on Calvary and may we all come to know how to subdue our human ego to save our immortal souls. May our souls and the souls of all the departed rest in your peace. Amen

 24/09/2024

"Nothing is impossible to God". "Be it done unto me according to thy Word" with these words the Annunciation is completed and now the whole of humanity in the person of this Palestinian teenager begins to be aware of a new phase in God's revelation of His being; 

IAMIAMISFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The all powerful "oneness" of God is in fact a Trinity of persons. Nothing is impossible to God.

Mary is in the reality of the physical universe carrying in her womb the timeless God, who is still visiting his people, now as the same prisoner of finite time as are all his creatures. Nothing is impossible to God.

Elizabeth has conceived in her old age, past her menopause, a child. Zachariah is still speechless, but Elizabeth knows that Mary is pregnant with the Son of God. Nothing is impossible to God.

Mary tells Joseph what has happened to her. He also is inspired by God to accept the "preposterous" story of the Incarnation. Nothing is impossible to God.

"The blind see, the lame walk and the lowest of the low have the Gospel, (God's purpose) preached to them". Nothing is impossible to God.

"Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my church". "Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother." Nothing is impossible to God.

Jesus is God in the resurrection of the  crucified body that still bears the wounds received for us on Calvary. Nothing is impossible to God.

According to the ability of human beings all of the above events are "foolishness". They are all supernatural in the eyes of men but they are natural for our all powerful FatherSonHolySpirit. Nothing is impossible for God.

Dear Lord help me to know, love and serve. Help me by your grace to defy sin that still pursues me. Help me truly know that your creative "Let there be Light" and Mary's assent "let it be done to me according to thy word" contain all that we can ever know about living in this world. Holy Righteousness is not a preposterous goal, pie in the sky, but is prepared for us by the wisdom of Father, the example of Son and supported by the grace brought into our hearts by Holy Spirit. There is absolutely no reason for me to blabber on. You know what is my petition for today. We learnt about love in our care for the little soulless animal that is now in need of comfort. There are many other millions of poor and needy human souls that stand before us in the priority of life in your creation. You know that I am not testing You but asking for help. I think that your being is a limitless intimacy of person to person so, Father, I can ask for all the big things, forgiveness for my sins and ever-more mercy for the Holy Souls and you will not ignore the totally innocent, preprogrammed animals that you created before us.

 23/09/2024

In the beginning there is only IAMIAM but the beginning, now and the end are all one to the Eternal Light whose nature we have revealed to us as Love for IAMIAMFATHERSONANDHOLYSPIRIT creates us to love and be loved.

We live in the light of God's revelation of himself. We do not have words that can match his Glory but we can all become the beings that it is the nature of God to create. None of us are the "Light" that should not be hidden but we can share in it as the nature of FatherSonHolySpirit is to give Love to all his creation.

Jesus lives for us. He guides us. He suffers death for us. He is resurrected for us. Even in his resurrection he retains the wounds in his flesh that are his, crucified for us, humanity. 

It is the Nature of God to respect the summit of his creation by letting us live beyond the genetic coding that prisons us within the flesh that he humbled himself to experience as "true man". It is our spiritual being that seeks out God's guidance to bring peace into our beings and there is nothing that is impossible for God to do that we cannot witness.

I know that I am still deficient, but, thank God, I am getting there and have been able to accept and retain the grace which our Father,SonHolySpirit showers down on us all. Today we remember a naturally human man who has been able to accept the Natural Evergreatness of God and become engraced to reveal in his worldly body the scars that save the world.

There is nothing "supernatural" about any "miracle" for they are  revealed to natural man by our God whose natural reality is to be Ever-Greater. I once had nothing but through the Grace of God I know now that  green shoots of a harvest that I must protect are sprouting.  I need to retain what I have been given but can only do so by co-operating with the Will of FatherSonHolySpirit.

Dear Lord, You know that I am but shallow soil that has often started to sprout many times before now. You know that I am struggling to supress an excitement of pride that thinks the thoughts that have come to me today are from you. I do know that Faith is not thoroughly expressed by thoughts or words but by the  deeds that reveal the depth or otherwise of our sincerity. Help me to live this day illuminated by the Light of Calvary and let me too share that grace with which you united your Church of Love "Woman accept your Son. Son she is your mother". May I never forget to seek pardon for all my sins and united with Mary and all Saints plead for the light of your mercy to shine on all sinners both here and in Purgatory.

 22/09/2024

The readings to be used in this morning's liturgy of the mass did not choose themselves. 

The writer of the Book of Wisdom was guided by the Holy Spirit to not only worship God but to also  think rationally about himself, his people and especially about mankind's relationship with IAMIAM.

 David or whoever first sang the Psalms was guided to sing joyful praise of the wonder of God's Glory and seek pardon for the sin of mankind. 

James had witnessed the sinless life of the perfect man and had never turned back from the road that led to his personal martyrdom. 

Mark repeats what the Apostles had prayerfully reminisced about the teachings of Jesus during their formation on the roads, at table, and in the Synagogues and Temple of the Holy Land even though those memories often reveal their incomprehension and shame.

Today we have the twelve displaying our totally human greed for the future, ambition and its inevitable dissatisfaction and jealousy. Jesus presents to them a child as the perfect example of how we are to live in the Love of FatherSonHolySpirit. I can remember being a child and know that there were lots of sins and jealousies in the child that I was then.

To become a child of Jesus we have  to be able to put away childishness. From the moment of our births we are aware that we have the mystery of "being" and that another "being" is our willing servant. To become physically comfortable all we need to do is to scream. This is the childishness that can remain with us and was put away by St Paul.

The "child" of Jesus has to know that there is a supreme being, that our mother's love is only a shadowy reflection of his love for us, and that we can seek for help but never scream, and that my "I" must always seek to do the will of God by always being at the service of others.

Many of us really old are still striving to attain that goal but "Our Father" never fails to encourage us and guide us though the Son's example by the Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord you know that I thank you for helping me to start this day in the company of the Word which comes from You and is You. My body is still screaming for the care it knew as "King Baby" but thanks be to you I have been guided away from the human tantrums that display themselves in the carnality of our world. Mammon triumphs in the pride that is  the satisfaction of sensual greed. Worldly barns are full of the treasure that decays to dust and we your people feel that we have been deserted by those who are the spiritual children of your Apostles. You know that I am a child unhappy that the reality of this world dominated by sin is not what I expect the outcome of your Eternal Sacrifice to be. I pray that these prayers are not the babblings of a babe in arms but a sincere avowal of Faith, Hope and acceptance of the Love that passeth all understanding by one making a conscious effort to become one of your obedient children. May my efforts to live in your Grace be supported by Mary and all the Saints who never cease to implore your Mercy for all who need it but know that you are also always Just. Amen

 21/09/2024

I have often been condemned both in my youth and adulthood for claiming to have faith but living as if I had none. I was being judged by others.

Today the Psalmist looks into the night and sees the almost solid mass that are the stars and in his awe and humility proclaims the Glory of God. That moment of "awesome wonder" has been shared by all who look up into an unpolluted night sky but it has also been denied by many who in their human pride can explain the physical universe and condemn as ignorance the God-inspired awe of our far distant ancestors.

St Paul knows better for he insists that we have all been born and called by God to do his work on Earth. We are also warned that on completion of our Earthly existence we will be judged not on the state of our bank balance, status in the world or number of offspring but on the way that we have responded to the call to holiness that is his sole purpose in creating us.

The night sky is an indication of the greatness of the God who created us; so are the tiny, short-lived particles that make up the atoms that are the common building blocks of all material being. The true greatness that is FatherSonHolySpirit, however is not a material substance that can be measured by us but is in fact what we call Spirit, the naturally unseen that at this moment is trying to explain me to myself, to open my heart to God, to accept the enormity of "Image and Likeness".

Our souls are greater than anything that mankind can achieve. It is no wonder that we lesser mortals ponder the things such as this that helps me record my thoughts and prayers in slices of mineral and are overcome by wonder at what is the shining  greatness of mankind.

Our God, the Evergreater, however guides us to Truth by his revelations. St Paul enumerates the ways in which FatherSonHolySpirit calls us to serve him in our life times. God's priorities for us have never included coding or chip-making, or their technical predecessors; they  together with money making are the great temptation that is "Mammon".

The Incarnation, Jesus, has the one purpose of calling us all to live virtuous lives by listening to the Word of God and avoiding sin. It is thus that we will discover the greatness of God and realise our own true greatness as we leave all the world behind and hopefully accept the freedom of the Children of God.

Dear Lord, my head is bowed, I am one being only, I listen to your word but know that I can easily fall into temptation, save me from the sin of Mammon that dominates every second of my waking life. Help me to be quiet in my heart and act only out of kindness. Let me  listen to YourHolySpirit and never choose to harm my "image and likeness" which you have created to bring eternal life to this weak vessel that is my mind and body. May my prayers and all those of all the world join in the chorus of heaven that is led by your mother, imploring that we on Earth live the lives that we have been created for and that we recognise our sins and look on Calvary as the source of merciful forgive that it is for all humanity. Amen

 20/09/2024

Each morning when I begin to read the mass readings I also question myself as to what are my intentions. Why am I doing this self-imposed task?

When we read St Paul's preaching and encouragement we are in no doubt that he is striving with the whole of his being to share what he learnt from Christ on the road to Damascus. It was not only the sight of the Glory of the Resurrection that he received; he also received a mission in which he continued until the day of his martyrdom.

In today's letter he is desperate that he is losing some of his converts. Some are denying that the Resurrection ever happened but he is sure that we all are going to experience the same event that he witnessed the "first fruits of" in the personal epiphany that changed his life for ever.

Today's martyrs had been brought up in a civilization that had managed to bring order into the lives of millions of men and women for centuries. It was an order that was able to achieve a peaceful stable society that must have impressed the first Europeans from the continent of wars who first witnessed it. 

In many ways it was a delight of peaceful calm as was the Empire of the Chinese. It was however a totally human order with an unknowable world of Spirits that had to be appeased and ancestors for whom they brought immortality in Buddhist inspired "rebirth". 

The Christian FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's revelation to Westerners in Palestine has no equivalent in any other place in this World.

I cannot not believe in FatherSonHolySpirit and in the Bible as the true story of God's intentions for mankind. I do not believe that to be one of the chosen people of the Lord is a result only of God's Providence, my birthright. I do believe that I can live in this world and by following the way, truth and life of Jesus become the holiness that God makes possible for all human beings.

Manmade technology means that all the world can receive the revelations that were first preached in Palestine. Even these ideas, weakly expressed but my own, can be accessed  anywhere on Earth. Could this be the reason that God has tolerated all the evil perpetrated in his name all over Europe and the Middle East?

I cannot forget that God is complete Truth and Mercy but his Justice can only be complete if each individual is proffered the opportunity to respond to his teaching.

This is today's answer to my self-imposed question.

Dear Lord, I have always felt sympathy for the unknown thousands slaughtered and driven out in the first land clearances of the Holy-Land recorded in the Old Testament. Also the aboriginal peoples encountered by European settlers in all the "new worlds" discovered outside of Europe were given short shift. You know that I am trying to be aware as much as is possible for me to find the "good" that you saw in creation. I can only be responsible for the soul that is the centre of my being, but hope my profession of faith is not a pandering to my pride but a true confession of how I try to know love and serve each day that I begin in this way. May my prayers be joined with those of Andrew Kim and the many others of all races who have accepted death rather than deny you. May your mother continue to lead all Angels and Saints and we sinners on earth and in Purgatory in praise of you and pleas for the Mercy that is needed by all the other souls that you have created.

 19/09/2024

"All generations shall call me Blessed". It is thus how Mary received God's announcement to all of us that from her generation onwards all human beings were to receive in this world the gift from our Creator that would enable us to avoid the sin that more than tarnishes the "Good" that God saw His Creation to be.

In that single historical event we learn that IAMIAM is three persons and that SON is to humble his eternal self to become a temporal human; true man; that he has become man within the only sinless being since Adam fertilized by the naturally spirit, Holy Spirit.

Of course, I am now wordlessly awestruck when considering that plain statement of how the story of Salvation began.

Today we read in the first and second readings of two sinners who had both seen the Lord. St Paul had been chosen; he had been blinded by the Resurrection and reborn as an adult to preach what he had to first learn for himself from the Apostles. He had been a notorious member of the Chief Priests' "Gestapo". How hard it must have been for Peter and the others to accept the conversion of the man whom they had witnessed participating in the murder by temple authority of their friend Stephen.

The second sinner is depicted performing a welcoming ceremony for an honoured guest that had been neglected by the host. I find the image of the woman using her hair to dry Jesus feet quite disturbing as she is of "ill repute" but whatever they were, Jesus forgave her her sins. There are many unanswered questions presented by Scripture and the identity of this woman and her subsequent history is yet another one.

The psalm that unites the Epistle and the Gospel is a song of thankful praise that should be the thanks of all mankind for the intervention that changed the choices that we in our God-given freedom can make to do justice to the free-gift of the loving mercy poured out in the human blood and agony of the cross. The whole of the Gospels of the New Testament is the history of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT living as Jesus to create that only thing that can lead us away from temptation and deliver us from the evil that doesn't exist until we choose to prefer our own to the will of God.

Dear Lord, have mercy on all of us who continue to sin within the time of your creation. Angels, and Mary are the only ones of your created beings who are with you now in the naturally sinless spiritual and bodily way of being, that have never sinned. The Saints have all had their sins forgiven. I can do nothing more than implore that your Grace is as unlimited as you and can be poured out over all the peoples on earth to keep us as free from new sin as are the Holy Souls in Purgatory. May my soul be united with and by the prayers of Mary and all the saints within your Mystical Body which never fails to respond favourably to cries for mercy and forgiveness