13/10/2024

The mass readings for today are, as usual, all about how we need the grace of God to live according to his will in his creation where we have our being. We are all individual body, mind and soul alive at this moment and known and loved by "Our Father". 

The themes of the readings for today are wisdom and wealth. Wisdom is praised as a goal worthy of being sought by each one of us. Wealth, however, is a hindrance to following the path to God revealed in the historical events and words of Scripture.

Wisdom tells us that the body and mind which are my material being can be guided by our souls to access in this world before anything else the Love that comes from God. Jesus, the incarnate Son is the Love of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in a human body just as is ours and subject to the laws of nature.

This eternal event of complete revelation occurred in created time and was with us for 33 years teaching by word and example before being finally rejected by those for whom he had only shown Love and Mercy.

God's knowledge of all things includes all the billions of results that can come from the innumerable free-wills that are at work creating our human reality now and in every other second past present or future and  known to us as God's Providence.

 He has not created any one of us to follow his programming of our "Algorithm" we are always a "work in progress" and able to make the choice between wisdom or wealth, spirit or material, God or Mammon that becomes the Eternal Life prepared for us by the Love that proceeds from the HOLYSPIRITFATHERSON, the Trinity that we adore.

Dear Lord, help me live out this day with only love in my heart although saddened by the killing perpetrated by my contemporaries. It is your will to forgive all sinners, You know that this is not an opinion but a fact of life that it has taken me a lifetime to realise. May all of those, family and friends, whom I know also come to the same realisation and that the damage in this world caused by mankind can only be realised by a conversion to YOU that can only happen in each individual's heart. May my prayers be joined with all who are now raising their minds and hearts in worship and with those who have completed their earthly journeys and who pray with Angels and Saints, with Mary and John in the eternal never changing Love that is heaven. May the Holy Souls who are experiencing Holy Justice in Purgatory know that they are for ever known in your love as they come to closer understanding of what was their sin.

 12/10/2024

Each one of us has to be responsible for our own conduct throughout our lives on Earth. The scriptures have been recorded for each one of us to experience for himself how God has dealt and is still dealing with his creation. We pray to be "safe from sin just for today".

St Paul tells the Galatians, as he tries to correct their acceptance that the "Law of the Scribes and Pharisees" can ensure their eternal life and that their souls will be guided into the presence of IAMIAM only by being scrupulous in observance of that Law, that, in fact, it is only belief and dedication to Jesus, the culmination of IAMIAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's revelation, open to the free choice of all of us, which is "Faith" that is the only spiritual compass to the same perfect life on Earth, as was Jesus', Our Lord and complete exemplar of living out God's will on Earth.

The living presence of Jesus in Palestine two thousand years ago is the most important intervention of God into the lives of his people. Peter and the twelve were not the only ones who were captivated by the Son of God. Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, John, Lazarus, Martha are  names that come instantly to mind. There are many others mentioned but not named.

I know that it is possible for all human beings to be in the ranks of the nameless, in this world, receivers of the Word. I can strive for "Faith" and shout out with the anonymous voice in today's Gospel praise because I know that we can all be blessed by "hearing the word of God and keeping it". 

Dear Lord, Let me have the blessing of faith enough to know that you have created me to be able to respond to Your Faith in your created image and likeness. Faith can be seen in action in the words of the Apostles and in your words and deeds recorded by the evangelists. The lives of the first Christians were filled with distractions and squabbles with fellow believers, This is still the state of the world and the Church, the sign of all human times. The world, the flesh and the devil can all be overcome not by the LAW of institutions but by the Spiritual New Holy Family, Mary John and we who can overcome our sins by the help of your grace and can live not spectacularly, but with lives of faith, which is our own, and Your Love which passeth all understanding. May my sins and the sins of the whole world be forgiven  as are those of the Holy Souls suffering in certainty the redeeming pain of Purgatory. Amen.

 11/10/2024

Jesus' warning about the ability of devils to survive even the condemnation of God has been somewhere in my mind since first I heard it. I have never been able, however, to visualise the spiritual creation that is also the work of God. Hence, I have never felt comfortable in recorded visions of Heaven, Ezekiel, Daniel, Book of Revelations.

Jesus did tell us that he used parables to help us to understand his words and so I have only thought this story of how dangerous are the devils against whom we have to fight as, for me, a well-known cycle of piety, temptation, sin, confession, piety temptation and yet again a far more guilt-laden sin.

Psychiatrists have built reputations and fortunes by helping patients come to terms with their personal acceptance of the strangeness that is the mind of human life. St Paul had always in addition to his problems with fellow Jews, the Apostles, the knowledge of his own part in the death of Stephen, to face up to a "sting" which was present with him but unseen.

Today I know that Jesus is not a psychiatrist. He does not analyse and seek to cure mankind of guilt. He takes away the sins of the world by revealing FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S intentions for his material creation and for the image and likeness, mankind, that has been given the capacity to continue the work  of creation with our ability to choose to live according to the will of Our Father.

All our souls are real, an unseen presence within us, God is real, an unseen all powerful Love, devils are real, unseen enemies of God and Creation.

I can believe God, the Mystical Body of Christ, heavenly Love none of which I can see. It seems that it would be a much more rational of me to face-up to the Enemy of God and his creation with the Grace that I have never used to the fullest for St Peter's "roaring Lion"  does indeed continue to hunt for souls in the wilderness created by Godless Man.

Dear Lord, help me to do my duty in this life. Let me bear witness to you in my deeds, let my devotion to you be completely sincere, and let my life become prayer that will never lead me into temptation. I ask for your grace to be aware that the World of the Spirit has within it dangers that must be fought by Angels but can become evils when implemented in this world by sinful men of whom I am one. I know that Our Lady and Jesus are present in Heaven in enhanced material bodies which we can all share when God becomes for us "All in all". But now I am a body, mind and soul with soul being my way, truth and life to the gates that are always open not matter how hard the enemies block them by distracting us by the wonders of our abilities to understand and adapt the material of creation. May all sinners dying by shared violence today be cleansed of their sins by the abundance of your Mercy in Purgatory and may my sins and those of all the world be acknowledged with atonement even as I conclude this prayer for today. Amen

 10/10/2024

Today, St Paul, probably in Rome, is writing to the Galatians, a people of Celtic origin who had over centuries become Greek speaking Anatolians and at the time Paul was writing to them were part of the Roman Empire. St Paul is greatly disappointed that the Church, he has founded as part of his FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT given mission, has been corrupted by Judaizers who insist that to worship in truth "the Law" must be followed.

 IAMIAM has cared for and known the Jewish people for centuries and they have known him in the "Law" that governs their lives. The Chief Priests, Scribes, Pharisees and many ordinary Jews were people who had lived with pride in the "Divine Shield" that was revealed by their prophets and professed in their Temple Worship and by following the Law. 

Jesus of Nazareth is much more than a prophet. He was killed in Jerusalem, as were many of the prophets, by the people to whom he was showing in "real time" the completed meaning of the relationship IAMIAM has not only with Jews but with all mankind. 

The Resurrection of Jesus is the event that is for ever the revealed being of God, IAMIAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT with us to the end of time and nothing can be added or taken away from the eternal truth.

St Paul challenged the Galatians; "You must be mad!" and I too cannot understand but not ignore the events during my life-time in the Middle-East beginning with the terrorist attacks that were the prologue to the State of Israel to the nonsense  of a former Prime-Minister claiming that his foolhardy attacks on "nuclear facilities" in Syria were made to protect the World. 

They must be mad! It does seem that the devilish irrationality of the Nazis lives on in the hearts of the recipients of their hatred that is certainly not love, and nothing like the words of today's psalm.

"Blessed be the God of Israel he has visited his people and redeemed them, he has raised up for us a mighty saviour in the House of David, his prophet as he promised through the lips of holy men, those who were his prophets from of old."

There are millions of us throughout the world who will have completely different reactions to the news seen on their TVs as each one of has to learn for himself that "Thou shalt not kill" cannot be viewed as a sliding scale and that our Saviour experienced the finality of death and yet liveth to bring the grace of God even into the hearts of those killers who view their own violence as righteous anger and those whose pride in self-hood resists the Grace of God as successfully as did their forbears totally deny Christ and their modern Iron Shield resists the missiles of the their enemies,

Dear Lord, You know whether or not, I am being able to to view "the signs of these times" without condemning anyone who lives in your Love. Violence is not according to thy will on Earth. The parents of my generation resisted Hitler but not without cynically choosing to wipe out hundreds of lives by blanket bombing residential areas of German cities. All sins can be forgiven even during our lifetimes  if  we turn to you in repentance with a sincere desire for atonement.  May all the Saints in heaven, especially today Denis, John and Paulinus pray together with the Queen of Heaven and all Angels and Saints that the leaders and servants of death on earth accept the forgiveness that is always being offered by Your Eternal Love that creates but never destroys. May we sinners on Earth, together with the Holy Souls who can sin no more, always accept your will and never stupidly choose to follow princes of this world into the pain of  nothingness that so many are facing at this moment as our bodies are broken by the enemy of life who is always on the sidelines, sniggering at how easy it is for him to mock God by captivating the will of mankind.

 09/10/2024

Today's Saint is John Henry Cardinal Newman. A long name  that has to be now prefixed with St. It is a name that was a "kindly light to lead thou me on" for most adherents of the Catholic Faith in my parents' generation. He is a person of whom I have shallow knowledge but in his lifetime he was known to millions in both his own country and the Empire which was confident then in its unassailable power and in its own version of living according to the will of God.

It does not seem possible now that an Anglican becoming Catholic was of any interest to anybody other than his own family and congregation, it seems impossible that a true scholar could have published so many, at their time, best-selling books. Today his works for the most part can be found neglected in Presbyteries and Vicarages mainly in the  English Speaking ex-colonies of the British Empire.

Before I knew that ST.JHCN was the human focus for today's mass, as I was opening my computer a headline caught my eye. "How the Catholic Church built Western Europe". It is undoubtedly true that after the decline of the Roman Empire the dedicated monks largely following the Rule of St Benedict were the ones who promoted the non-military, reading, writing and thinking on which is based all of our knowledge. Books were produced out of long hours of standing to copy manuscripts and to prepare the vellum on which they were copied.

The Synod that is meeting today is an outcome of the millions of hours of physical labour that produced the continuity of human knowledge which all the "learned and the clever" of this world have acquired and access at the click of a mouse. On this screen where my words are now appearing, I can  now read the thought and beliefs of men living in the Middle-East even before Abraham, the Sophistication of India and the Wisdom of China. 

This is probably why our Lord warned about the "learned and the clever" and told us unequivocally that he reveals everything  that is the creative purpose of IAMFATHERSONhOLYSPIRIT for us. This purpose has never included killing the defenceless at either the beginning or end of life, killing in the name of God, killing to take possession of land. 

"Killing" is the total antithesis to "Love" and cannot be tolerated either in the first Chosen People of the revealed IAM or the Friends of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who have somehow lost sight of their reason for being in the Worldly Institution that has helped to build Civilization but not lived true to the reverential awe that is the only response to the Love poured out by Five Holy Wounds and true human death on Calvary.

Dear Lord help me be open to your Grace and know that with it to support me nothing that is  contrary to your will can take over my life as it has done in the past. Help me to think clearly and avoid all self-concern that occludes my vision of what awaits my soul when my body dies and that this consciousness of self has to face you in the reality of mind and soul which could be the same being. May Mary, who is with you as the only other glorified body in heaven, implore you to help us still on earth to know and respond to your will for us. May she and all angels, all saints and today's St John continue to plead for us sinners on earth and for the Holy Souls that are confident in that their punishment, together with your Grace will secure the forgiveness for the guilt that they truly repent for having accrued in their lifetimes. Help the "learned and the clever" to accept that your love is child-like simplicity but never childish self centredness. May you FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT hear and accept this prayer of my heart. Amen.

 08/10/2024

Jesus makes it known for all time that becoming entangled by the physical necessities of life is a lesser part of doing his will on Earth than being at his feet in prayer. Martha is not wrong in taking care of her guests but if we have a choice we must put being with God before taking care of our bodies.

We all do have a choice and those who do consecrate their whole beings to God on this Earth have no need at all of the "restaurant quality" food that I have eaten as a guest at a monastery table. Those who have taken a vow of "Poverty" should live as an example of God's Truth in the world and follow their own promise to stay in one place and make their daily lives the prayer that is doing as did Mary, sitting at the feet of the Lord and loving him.

Yet again I hear "responsorial cries" of "Simplistic" from those comfortably discussing how to maintain the place of the Institutional Church on the "Synodal Path". These are the Gyrovagi, what a lovely word, the wandering monks that are always ready to speak, anywhere in the world about how they devote their lives to their own notions of the "Good", in many cases religious minds have been shaped by human philosophy, have left the airport lounges to become stable in Rome for the duration of of this gathering of Clerical Overseers.

Jesus lifetime on earth was spent in withstanding temptation and becoming the exemplar by word and deed of how we are to use the grace that was to bring the world out of the backsliding that his "Chosen Ones" are still unable to avoid.

The problem, for me, however is that the hypocrisy condemned by Jesus has never been far from Institutional Christianity, Papal, Orthodox or Protestant in that all versions of the Good News are concealed by Mammon as the denominations  are all property owners in this world and as diligent as Martha at worldly, i.e. domestic tasks .

I try to avoid these negative sentiments as much as I can as I  know that Jesus is always present even in the hearts that sometimes vest themselves in the Cappa Magna that obviously stupid sign of worldly authority that together with the Papal Tiara have never had a true place in the Church of the  FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who so humbled himself, as to become man and accept the death common to us all, even to the extent of making his own, the ultimate agony of death on the cross.

Dear Lord, There is nothing that we can do in life that is so pleasing to you as to sit and know you are present in this world with us who accept the grace to sit at your feet. I pray we are not the learned or the clever for their intelligence is a sometimes overwhelming source of pride, but that we can be those whose  hearts are in no way childish but of the childlike maturity that can believe what we say "thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." We must all pray for the Jews that they whose history is so intermingled with your revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT can finally forget the worldliness that causes us all to sin and accept that the Holy Spirit of the Father did beget Jesus in the womb of Mary of Nazareth and become the Emmanuel of the prophets, the Glory revealed to Abraham, to Moses and all the prophets but still being sullied by both their physical and spiritual descendants even as I type these Words. May my prayers be joined to those of Mary and all the Saints that those meeting in Rome are all open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, that we can all find the forgiveness promised to us and that we all cooperate to do your will in this life so that we can be happy in the next. Maranatha Lord Jesus. Please return to us soon and thus reveal the Glory of Your New Creation.

 07/10/2024

I know as does St Paul, that there is only one version of the "Good News". I also know that there is also only one version of the "I" that I am. I am responsible to live my life in accordance with the will of the Father who has revealed to each one of us in the image and likeness that is our being, the gift of life which unfolds us into reality every second that we live. 

We are always the same soul that God creates for us at the moment we begin to live in our mothers' wombs until we face the Justice and Mercy, of which there is also only one version, at our deaths.

There are billions of us who receive the gift of life and the freedom that accompanies it. Each one of us  is restricted by the culture in which we are educated into adulthood in one of the very many versions of human being that exist. St Paul is disappointed in how quickly the "Good News" he brought to the Galatians has been changed by other Jews who refuse to believe that the Jesus whom their fellows executed taught anything that was not based in their culture, the Law. 

St Paul, however, has been sandblasted clean of all cultic accretions and reflects with his whole being the light of the Good News. There is only one version of God and Jesus who dies on the cross is the only begotten Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT the unique, all powerful one God.

It doesn't take very long to read the New Testament and learn that there are many who witnessed the important events of God's Presence in time, but there is only one human, Theotokos, who was there from Annunciation to Descent of the Holy Spirit. Mary is the human partner who accepts Salvation on our behalf and who ceaselessly implores the Lord to continue to envelop us in his loving mercy purchased at a much higher price than two denarii.

In the Rosary, today's feast, we are continually reminded that God was present living through the same "time" that is our inescapable background for living and that the mystical events that are his being were enacted out in the reality of that land of unending pain and revenge where once was born, lived, died and resurrected the Son of God to become the perfect image, of how we too are to live out our lives in God's peace as "Good Samaritans" in the reality of our daily living.

Dear Lord, help me to become what it is that you want me to be. Help me to lose all traces of pride and to accept the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These words are shaped by my mind but I pray that their inspiration is in my soul which has uncluttered the "way" for me. Let this day become for me a sinless journey to complete my life guided by you and your mother who ceaselessly leads, as Queen of Heaven, all the angels and Saints in their praise of you and pleas for forgiveness for all sinners here on earth and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen