02/10/2024

Yesterday I was rather overcome by the continuing improvement in the health of our dog. God knows that I am truly grateful that my prayers were answered.

Today the Church is celebrating the total opposite of the "soulless" creatures that can fill our hearts with love. Angels are bodiless totally spirit beings that sometimes bring God's Word to us. Their bodiless pure spiritual being can be imagined by our minds but they do not inspire the warmth of human love as do other creatures.

They are beyond our ability to know except when FatherSonHolySpirit sends them to confirm his will to chosen ones. We can be sure that such unseen beings exist for in today's Gospel Jesus assures us that each "child" has a "Guardian Angel" who is always near to both FatherSonHolySpirit and the human soul that they try to guide along the right paths of life.

Job is still confounded by "being" he knows that he is alive and that there is an unseen power, far greater than he is, who can bring all his endeavours to find peace in life to nothingness. The Psalmist sings to the Lord. He knows that God is not his enemy but the Almighty Power that knows him and that can answer prayers in the land of the living.

Jesus is very much in the land of the living. In fact he is the perfect man who is the also the Almighty IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. His is the same humanity as Job and David, his DNA reveals the same evolutionary track as does our own. But he is sinless and can thus become the perfect sacrifice to take away the sin of the world. He is totally free mankind as God envisaged us all to be.

Dear Lord, you know that I am loth to look at the "news" on this machine this morning as I expect that the same stories of evil being perpetrated throughout the world will still be there. The "land of the living" becomes the land of death for thousands of us still engaged in the slaughter that your Old Testament records was first begun in your Name. Yours is the world and all that is in it, but our freedom continues to "lead us into temptation" and subsequent evil. I am not Job nor gifted with his honest perseverance. I cannot sing as did David. I can follow the path first walked by Jesus because I have been open to your Loving Mercy and his Sacrifice is more than sufficient to save an infinite number of worlds. Please send the countless legions of Angels that Jesus told Pilate were at his disposal and fill the heart of world, Jerusalem and the land you walked with a spiritual boundary that can stop killing and reveal, yet again, your power to sinless men. Caring for your creation is a task that is beyond our capabilities. May Mary and all the Angels and Saints plead for us that we resist Mammon and Satan and use the boundless Love that you poured out for us to live no more in the acceptance of personal sin that builds up to become the hate that so many have accepted into our hearts. May all those dying at this moment together with the Holy Souls receive the boundless Mercy and Love that is your being. God forgive us all. Maranatha, please return soon. Amen 

 01/10/2024

Today I know that I am still alive as was Job; but I know that I have been answered by FatherSonHolySpirit and the tiny created soulless creature that is our dog will live out his natural time to warm our hearts with the selfless love that is generated by his innocence. 

"Love" is a word that we often use without thought. It is a mainstay of song writers who sometimes hit on a line that has the same "Truth" as taught by his Jesus and his Apostles.  "All you need is Love, Love is all you need" could be an intentional paraphrase of St Paul's "over all put on Love" in his letter to the Colossians. The tune, composed by a different Paul, cements the words into our minds. Yesterday Jesus told us that "Truth" is not a monopoly of his twelve Apostles.

G.K. Chesterton in the person of Father Brown once warned us  that the sentiment that is generated by our companion animals should not take the place of the reverse spelling of "dog". Of course he was right. I am aware that the weight of  the recovery of a dog is nothing in proportion to the slaughter being perpetrated by humans all over the globe. God helped me. Surely the deaths happening as I write these words are much more deserving of attention than I am but I can still have to respond to God's loving kindness to me for his Love is limitless.

We, all of us, are known to "Our Father". Jesus told us that every living thing plant and animal is known in the infinite mind of God. Throughout history there is nothing that is too small for it to have escaped the attention of God, even I am known by him. All the artificial greatness, Empires, Art, Institutions, Science to be found in this world are the work of men who in their pride have largely forgotten that they are created to do the will of Our Father.

St Therese never forgot this and by her short and painful life, which she lived out without ever uttering Job's "I curse the day that I was born" or ever blaming God for her disease, she proves that to confound the great God really does choose the poor and the weak. "Showers of roses" may seem a childishly simple and sentimental image of Divine Mercy but for her "Little way" they are far more real than all the great churches in which her memory will  be venerated today.

Dear Lord, You know that it is your Mercy that is needed more than ever by our World. I know that we cannot expect more than you have already done for us. Sins are forgiven, the sick are cured, the lame can walk again but many of us are still possessed by the pride that excludes you the Truth from our lives. Jesus has completed your Revelation; we know that each one of has to live in support of others and that all we possess and are has to be as devoted as is Jesus to our fellow human beings, our neighbours. May the prayers of all the peoples of Earth, Heaven and Purgatory be united and become the way, truth and life that brings all sinners to accept the St Therese' "shower of roses", as the fragrance of our final home with Mary, John and all the Saints in your eternal presence. Amen

 30/09/2024

What we refer to as "Scripture" is largely the work of St Jerome whose memory is today celebrated by the "new remnant" that we Christians of the West have become in 2024. We did not know Jerome but we have to thank God for his life's work. This is why we can "celebrate" his memory.

In today's world, human beings have become so manipulated by Mammon that even personal grief at the death of those we love has been marketed successfully as "celebration of life". A moment's thought can see the nonsense of this phrase which delivers that much beloved of the counselling business "closure" to survivors but is empty of any true meaning other than "Let's party, he's gone."

Our Institutional Church has been so infiltrated by Mammon that those who have devoted their lives to preaching God's word, as codified by St Jerome, have gone along with the merchandisers and there are now very few "funerals" as such.

The Book of Job treats our lives as our acceptance of a world created by God. A world in which we can only make sense of our span by patiently accepting our fate which is beyond our control. For Job, and Hamlet,  "the Lord" is "the divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will" and is to be known only by the events we encounter throughout our lives.

The revelation of God's plan for his creation makes it clear that rather than stoically accepting our fates Jesus has revealed that we must, each one of us seek God's will for himself and choose for ourselves the right path. We are each able to find the way, the truth and Eternal Life because we are each known and guided by God. We are not alone in an eternal desert but are loved for ourselves not because we are worth it, but because FatherSonHolySpirit is Love.

The total Scriptures translated by Jerome take us into the minds of men who consciously interacted with IAMIAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT over thousands of years. The Bible records the true history of faith and is our infallible guide to life. The history of the Church records the acceptance of God's completion of his revelation by, at first, the named twelve and their disciples, and finally two thousand years later we who have to do battle with the same false friends as did Job.

God has revealed himself to real people over the whole of time. In the realism of today's Gospel, the real friends of Jesus are still arguing about themselves even in the presence of the Living Lord. Dear Lord help us all to change.

Dear Lord, You know that I am always full of thanks that my sins can be forgiven. There are no words to express the yearning that I have to become a forgiven one of the billions of souls standing in the light of your revealed Glory knowing that nothing can separate me from the Joy it is to be one of your creatures. You know that I am also praying for the soulless scrap of non-humanity that you have given us to enkindle within all who have ever seen him an instant smile of unconditional love. Guarding your creation is one of the worldly tasks that we can perform without forgetting our souls. May I join with Mary and all the saints, who will remain with you without change until the instant that we will all know our Eternal place with you, in the prayer, that is now their being, for Mercy that we all need together with the Holy Souls, whom you never forget, in Purgatory.

 29/092024

It seems that the "Spirit" recognised by the Israelites on Moses and also on Eldad and Medad was a tangible something. I cannot do any more than wonder what it could have been, but Moses was sure that it came from IAMIAM and was a testimony to his presence although invisible to the human eye.

James, who probably grew up with Jesus remained in Jerusalem to become the first "Overseer, boss" of the Church there and had huge authority among the Jews who had become believers in the Resurrection, warns us that the riches that we accumulate are worthless as the material they all are will certainly decay. He would undoubtedly agree with later secular philosophers that "all property is theft" and that there is no wealth that has been acquired without part of the chain that links it to its origin being unjust in some way.

IAMIAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT put some of the "Spirit" that was on Moses onto the Elders.

The "millstone around the neck" is such a powerful warning that it always amazes me that corrupt clergy and supporting Bishops of our and any era could have the "brass-neck" to even think of continuing in office after committing their crimes.

Jesus' "name" is available for all the people of the world to use in  good .faith.

I wonder what it was that John witnessed that so offended him to the extent that he reported it to Jesus. Jesus' response is instant and unequivocal. 

John is bothered that what he was learning from Jesus is also being acted upon successfully, "devils were cast out," outside of the "magic circle" of the twelve. Jesus' reply that the real problem is not acting as a Christian without affiliation to His organisation but rather that any corruption of hand, foot or eye within the organisation "The Mystical Body of Christ"  should be recognised at once and cut off. 

For our Institutional Church this is as unthinkable a task as mutilating our own personal bodies would be for us.

Dear Lord, Help me to avoid the jealousy that caused John to condemn a good deed made in the "name of Jesus". Your infinity of being is not contained or limited in any way by the things of this world. You know each one of us and help us to make the right response to your grace which searches us out as the "Good Shepherd" searches for his lost sheep. You, who have engraced the body for ever by the Incarnation, know that to be righteous we have to keep body mind and soul free from sin and open to your grace which when you were on Earth not only saved us from our sins but also fed and cured our bodies. May my prayers continue to be linked with those of Theotokos, it was your truly human body that she bore, and all angels and saints that my sins and the sins of all the world be forgiven and that the Holy Souls will receive your merciful forgiveness. 

 28/09/2024

Today the preacher of Ecclesiastes reminds us of how futile life can sometimes seem to be and he advises those who are still young that their heydays will not remain for ever. Even as we grow old, however, the cycle of life that is God's creation still continues even as our sight of it diminishes.

"There is nothing new under the sun" is another of his themes. Would he still say that if he were to be returned to his homeland today?

The secular states that dominate the world we live in now are given over to the  creation and preservation of wealth. There is sometimes in the West a veneer that remains of Christianity and governments try to present themselves as guardians of a "new morality", that they are protectors of human freedom even as they fire rockets at the other humans who oppose them.

They create laws which are in effect much more petty than the Law as taught by the Priests and Pharisees which Jesus condemned. Material wealth is only disguised "dust" that has accrued because mankind is dominated by our own greed. Sorting out the waste created by our way of life is presented as the height of morality but protest against the killing of unborn children, who are treated  as the waste product of immorality, is anti-social behaviour that must be suppressed.

There is no doubt that Jesus knew what his mission was to be. Even though he discarded his Divinity,  as a sinless perfection of humanity he was never out of touch with His and our Father. We have all been diminished from that perfection to which we must aspire and sometimes have to battle our way through the morass of our own sins to be able to open our hearts and minds to the Love that is the being of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

I am still not able to know the true enormity of sin except by trying to understand how it can be that the Creator had to become true man to  be able to create a new Grace in our world of time. A human being really is something special but can easily become a monster to fall into the hands of, especially when he thinks that he is doing the work of God.

Dear Lord, help me to become sinless throughout the rest of this day. Help all of us to choose to follow in your Son's footsteps and accept what we have to do to access the Grace that has been available in our world since those years you lived on our Earth. May that grace flow into the hearts of all ministers of religion that the words they preach control their own beings. Nothing is impossible for you but for us the reverse is often true. May Mary and all the saints continue in their praise and pleas for mercy for us. But your words to Dives seem to have come true for your Resurrection seems to have been forgotten. There are still some righteous souls on earth for the sake of those and for sinners like me please return in a recognisable form to convert the whole world. We are failing again as did your beloved Jews. Help us Lord, help us.

 27/09/2024

There is indeed a "time" for everything that we have to do in this world. The writer of Ecclesiastes knew that we all live in time and react to it in the way that seemed to be a "good idea" at the moment when we or others did what we are remembering.

It is easy for me to fill my mind with personal and historical examples of the unanticipated results of decisions made in good faith at the time they were made.

The Gospel reading for this morning, however, presents us with the only decision that takes us out of time by confirming how we should live within it . It is again Jesus stopping  our lives with  "But?" There are numerous answers to Jesus question at that moment in the "peacefulish" Palestine of the first century. Jesus' "But", however, stops time for the moment then and now.

He asked the Apostles for their own reaction to his presence in their midst. He asks the whole world since then and also today is asking the same question.

It is not a "trick" question (we get more than enough of those from the Pharisees). It is the most important question that we all have to answer not with words but with our whole life that is to be our offering to the FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT at the moment we share with Jesus who cried out from the cross; "Lama Lama Sabachthani". How does my life answer to "But, who do you say I am".

Dear Lord, You know that I am always wary of myself when I feel that I have responded to your Word in a way for me that is approved by You. Help me to feel secure in my heart and act out the rest of today aware that I can do your will for you have delivered me from evil. Jesus you are still with us as the spiritual body that welcomes all who reach out to you and so I can join Mary, Angels, SVP, and all the other Saints in praising your Glory and seeking pardon for all sinners still on earth or happily accepting punishment in Purgatory.

 26/09/2024

This morning's mass readings begin with the writer asking us to face the question asked by all human philosophers. In his age there were and had been many who asked this basic "WHY?" question and we all seek to answer it as we turn ourselves to God in our morning worship or self-assessment of our place in the world.

I have answered the question of what it means to be alive by trying to turn myself over to God. This means that "Vanity, vanity. All is vanity" reinforces the framework for living that I have constructed for myself out of Biblical revelation.

I can now sit comfortably in front of this screen and continue my train of thought by selecting letters on the keyboard. There are billions of other humans who cannot do this. 

"Vanity, vanity. All is vanity" is itself a meaningless "vanity" for those hiding from violent men. It does not feed the starving. It does not raise sinners addicted to their own way of  escape from the futility that we all recognise at the bottom of our beings unless supported by God. It does not help the abused nor the abuser. I feel secure in "the way, the truth and the life" but for the child dying from hunger, milk means much more than any words.

Jesus has not bequeathed to us words but the Truth for living never for ourselves but always for others as he did, "pro nobis" on  Calvary. It is God's will that we live our lives dedicated to his revealed will for us not in the "Vanity of vanities" that is displayed by the shallow "anxiousness" to see Jesus of the man who had ordered the decapitation of John on a whim, but in our deeds that show to the world, and to ourselves, that we truly are "desperate" to know, love and serve.

Dear Lord, you know that I am really aware that my love of life comes about from the comfort with which I am able to live my life. Words are easy and can hide the reality of thought. I am secure that you really do know the core of my being and can awaken my love for you by your Love for me. I implore your aid for all those who are dying by the violence that comes about from not following your Will on Earth and becoming blinded by the delights of our material being dwelling in a material world. Mankind is a pathetic creature if not truly dedicated to you and all of us need to know that the only "real-life" is to live according to your will on earth and so find the place reserved for us in the Eternity that is Heaven. May my prayers and those of Mary, Angels and All the Saints bring the Mercy that can forgive and guide away from sin all sinners on Earth and pardon for the Holy Souls. Amen