28/10/2024

I have very often woken up without a thought of God and spent the whole of my day living in this world as it unfolds to my consciousness. It is very easy for me to continue to do that throughout each day. It has not always been so for most of us in the past and in the present for the poor and those involved in war.

Each of those who have led and are living saintly lives have many different gifts. We are all unique beings with one thing in common. Not one of us have arrived in time and space without growing in the wombs of our mothers exactly as do all mammals and we all have the same internal and unseen element that is the image and likeness of the Supreme Creator of all we see and Father of the Only Begotten Jesus.

The collapse of Faith in God is all too evident in my family, town and country. I have to ask why God chose to take the final step of his guidance by revelation at the historical point he did as the chosen people had retained their faith in IAMIAM to the extent that they would punish the "blasphemer" as they did do.

The Apostles, chosen in today's Gospel reading, have been followed by thousands of Bishops through whom, only with their, though frequently absent, cooperation, the grace  created for us by the final Sacrifice on Calvary. was to be channeled into the Church.

Where was the grace of God in the abyss of the worldly Papacy of the 10th century, the Albigensian Crusade, and countless individual killings of good men and women who would not conform to the Church that has never listened to the public announcement made by Jesus at his trial before Pilate?

St Paul in his letter to the Ephesians begins the interpretation of Jesus' life that is part of the start of the theology (commentary on revelation) of Christianity which is undoubtedly the Church for us "who have not seen and yet come to believe".

Jesus condemned hypocrisy wherever he saw it. He rejected the teaching of the scribes and the pharisees. The destruction of the Temple can be seen as a sign of IAMIAM's dissatisfaction with his chosen people but Jesus warns most particularly about how we should not read the will of God into historical events that are entirely of man's doing in his freedom in this world. 

Were those whose blood Pilate mixed with the sacrifices or were killed by the collapse of the tower at Siloam any more guilty than the millions of us who have lived and died since those days?

There are many of us for whom it is a pleasure to be alive. Others wake up to the sounds of war and of death showering down on them and their loved ones. There are others who instigate this horror for their fellows by pressing buttons or pulling triggers. There are others who cheer these belligerents on and yet others who decide whom shall be killed today. In factories far away from the events workers are calculating how much overtime that these conflicts are bringing to them and as for myself, I comment but do nothing. 

It is not only in temples and hierarchies that hypocrisy is to be found.

Dear Lord,  You know the state of your creation and yet we  continue to live today largely as we did yesterday. We prepare our daily bread but ignore our sins until we come to a crisis that we respond to by "Lord, Lord" without the integrity of a St Francis that stands naked before you in complete humility. I have to accept that you know the great sins committed by your Church in blasphemous use of your name as you know mine, yet she is still with us, as am I. I pray that it is the grace that flows from your side  and your words to Mary and John that maintain me in my striving to be what you created me to be. May the prayers of Mary, Saints and Angels continue to plead for us and may my own prayers join theirs and become the mercy that is needed by all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory and by the Church that has yet to attain the state of being that St Paul knew she should have "The Body of Christ on Earth".

 27/10/2024

The relationship that IAMIAM has with his people in the Old Testament lasts for centuries in human time. There are many times the people fail and see themselves as punished for their transgressions. 

In the New Testament Jesus responds to Mary's request for him to save her friends in Cana from the embarrassment of running out of wine at the wedding feast. She knows that he can but Jesus first demurs and then does as his mother asks. He knows that he has now begun his mission and can no more enjoy being a simple human being in the obscurity of Nazareth.

He is the Son of God, of IAMFATHERSONANDHOLYSPIRIT.

After the first miracle Jesus gives many other signs of his divine being. At the feeding miracles he always works through his Apostles the twelve whom he has ordered to follow him. When he cures the individual sick, however, he reaches out with love in answer to the petitions  of  themselves or their loved ones. 

Today Bartimaeus annoys the crowd by his loud-mouthed disturbance but Jesus answers his plea and cures him explaining that it is Faith that has saved him. What is the Faith that brings relief to the possessed, the lame, the deaf and the dumb?

All of the miracle cures of the sick were of people who had come to the end of their tether in the misery that was living as incomplete humans. The possessed were damaged in their brains, the crippled in their limbs, the blind in their eyes and their lives were unjoyful. They heard that there was someone from Nazareth who could cure and they reached out to him as their last resort.

In his miracles Jesus reveals to the community of his followers, to the followers of the Law, to his Church that he responds to the isolated, the damaged of this world, the hopelessly addicted who know only pain and anger, the truly weak who know that they are despised and treated as less than human. The Jews of  the Third Reich, anyone under the Rising Sun, the original inhabitants of the New World, the negroes of South Africa.   

 Our God has experienced for himself what it is to be scourged by life, rejected by his own people, the target of spittle, humiliated by nakedness, to become in the hands of men a "thing" to be hung by nails from the cross. He who has known the totality of human suffering is ever ready to respond positively to "Faith" that may be the result of a long but basically comfortable struggle (my own) or the blinding flash of realisation coming with the drawn out death on another cross to the "Good Thief". 

Dear Lord, Help me to stay with you and pray today. I ask that I can seek you with the total sincerity of the truly poor and damaged, those who trapped in the reality that brings death to them everyday and whose response is anger. How else could such victims of evil men respond other than with anger? We have got it wrong by telling ourselves that we live your way, truth and life in the Institutional Churches of this World, and have spent too much time making sure that ourselves and families are at peace and joyful but forgetting that our enemies are our brothers and sisters and that it is their human pain that you know which calls out for the cessation that only you can give to the wars in Africa and Middle-East. May the prayers of Mary and All the saints help me to become all that I should be as a witness to the evil of mankind and by prayer achieve what is beyond me as a man. Please return, Lord Jesus, without you our world is hopeless. We first prayed "Maranatha" let your will be done on Earth now just as it is in heaven. Amen

 25/10/2024

St Paul is this morning praying from the depths of his being that his converts become aware of the divine unity that is our purpose in life to seek and to witness by our way of living. Our own being is the "sign of the times" that we ignore at our peril.

Jesus does not often reveal annoyance. Nor does he conceal anything about himself that we need to know.

The incarnate IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows that mankind is focused on the material world which is known by our sense data, interpreted by human intelligence. Jesus our fellow man is not a created replica an "artificial God" which has been created by God to make a point in a debate that he has had since the beginning of time with an equal alternate eternity.

Jesus is the only Son begotten to experience the being of man lived in time. "True Man and True God".

This morning Jesus allows his human frustration to show in his exasperation and tells us the truth about ourselves. The "weather forecast" stands for the totality of human knowledge. He tells his listeners, all of humanity, that we are intelligent enough to explain the whole of creation and yet we ignore "the sign of the times" that never changes. Each one of us is a created eternal soul living through the time created in matter.

Time changes constantly but "My word will stand" and the "sign of all times" is the dying Christ on the cross outside the city walls. The body Jesus dies there in totality but the Resurrection completes the revelation made by Our Father throughout the ages and also today. 

We become "hypocrites" when we follow our own egos and block-out completely or  pay only lip-service to God's calling us to live sinless holy lives in this world. Death is not only the end in this world, but also  the beginning of a new life in the loving and never-ending peace which passes all understanding. It is the beginning of the Great Adventure that it is to stand before IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Dear Lord, Let this day become for me a prayer that keeps me focused on the Grace that is Your Love for your creation. Let me learn how to live for others as you showed on your way, truth and life. May my continuing life be one of penitence and fear of reoffending. Let me join my prayers to those of Mary and all the Saints and let me become part of the family unity that you knew for thirty years of your life and entrusted to Mary and John to continue. Let your mercy continue to shower down like the rose petals seen by St. Therese and let me be open to your guidance and thus be defended from devil, world and flesh. May the Holy Souls continue to pay their dues to justice and let us all realise that the utter pain of your sign for all times results from  even the simplest of our sins. Amen

 24/10/2024

For these few minutes that I spend reading and and then holding onto, the mass readings that are used in the daily mass of the Roman Church I am experiencing the best thing that can happen to me today for I am awakening my soul to remember that I am dust and will return to dust. It is only the word of God that has any permanence in this life.

It must be by the will of God that the Church which has lost its soul so many times in the World of Mammon and blathers on to impress itself and the world by its great intellects has also preserved  in its heart the scriptures and the Catholic Faith too can be seen, in the final analysis, to be based only on the reformers' slogan "Sola scriptura".

The slogan is simple and its application is also simple for me but I am only one of millions who approach God in sincerity of heart. We  all receive the same grace but we are all conditioned by the place and time in which we are born. That is why some of us declare before God that they will consecrate their lives to a life of prayer and will remain in the presence of the Lord throughout each day and ignore the conditioning that some call the "Providence of God" but in reality is the ever changing human culture created by the freedom of choice given by God to all of us.

To live consciously in the presence of Our Father is the perfect way of being human that Jesus and his mother revealed to us by their unknown lives in Palestine two thousand years ago. St Paul who was the first to be named newly converted Apostle selected as were the original twelve by Jesus himself tells that our adherence to Christ will become a communion with FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and all other believers. This ability to become unified in the peace of Christ is what all Christians long for.

In today's Gospel, however,  Jesus tells us that this is not to be in this world. We are shocked by the vehemence of his language but we know that he is the same Jesus who also said "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth". The grace of God is not controlled by any Institution even though it has resulted from Jesus' words "Thou art Peter and on your rock I will build my Church". 

I know by experience that "grace" has not deserted this world and find faith in the other words of foundation, those that were uttered from the Cross. "Woman behold your son, son behold your Mother." This creates the never ending kingdom that is not of this world and is the Spiritual New Holy Family where Jesus is now and promises to remain until the end of time. This is the grace that has often been hidden by the Institutional Church but is always there to be found in this world by those who seek it.

Dear Lord, You know that my sinful soul longs to be to able to know love and serve. I hope to be able to know your Glory, return your Love, and serve by doing your will in this world so that I can become part of the eternal event that you have created us to share with you. May Mary our mother lead all Angels and her children, your Saints in the prayers that is our greatest need on sinful earth and may we sinners on earth also share in the Mercy that is needed by the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus, Come

 23/10/2024

We all have access to God's will for us when we have hearts and minds that are truly open to the Word, when we know and accept the revelation that has already been completed. We do not have to struggle against the deceptions of men. The words of scripture are addressed to each of us and have always been the way, the truth and the life. Is it possible for there to be anything in this world greater than the Resurrection?

St Paul not only has been overpowered by his glimpses of eternity he has also entered into the depths of the mystery that is the unseen being that we call soul and for many of us is so overpoweringly absolute that we prefer to ignore it and then deny its existence.

Jesus, Incarnate IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, lived as revealed Son for only three years and for each moment of those years delivered the same message. "Be awake" for the absolute that is the centre of our being is not of this world, but a soul which we can never understand but must accept as a reality that is also a responsibility that we have to nurture and keep alert for, although we are free, our eternal soul is only ours to control for the limited "real-time" that is always passing away without check.

Many are the pursuits that we can follow to fill this time and avoid our God-given responsibility. Most of us have thick layers of self-deceit, "fig leaves" to hide our nakedness but we cannot ever avoid the  oversight of God and at our life's end will have to answer for the many occasions we have defied God and followed the wise and the clever into the supermarkets of Mammon to acquire one of the many bespoke millstones that are always on offer in this world.

Dear Lord, let me continue my efforts to be a witness to you in this world. Help me to be consistent in my prayers. Help me to shut up and listen for your response and not confuse it in the "pagan babble" you warned us about. Prayer is doing your will on earth as it is done by Our Lady and the untold numbers of your saints in Heaven. May all those dying as I write this receive your mercy may the penance of the Holy Souls become acceptable so that they too may join you in the peace of being that is your Glory and completed perfection of lifetimes spent in awareness that you are God who creates us to choose to be your image and likeness. Amen

 22/10/2024

I am never able to approach FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT without questioning my own motives. I am not looking for targets to complain about in this world but some do project themselves into my consciousness as does St John Paul II whose feast-day is today. I know that I am a sinner and that I have to look carefully at my own thoughts and words and try to judge them objectively. 

I do, however, take umbrage against the Church when it  acts as if it doesn't believe its own message. I am still convinced that the histrionics of St. John Paul were of no spiritual benefit to anyone except his own image of himself. I was particularly embarrassed by his attempts to stir up the adulation of the "youth" of England at Wembley Stadium. Mass hysteria cannot ever be a sure foundation for anything of lasting value.

The latest English addition to the highest ranks of Institutional Church Authority has for years skipped about preaching a doctrine of "love" in support of a "community of sinners" who celebrate their sin with "Pride". Jesus warns us all about the millstone that awaits those who teach others to sin. This Cardinal Preacher is responsible for his own sins but should as preacher preach the "Word of God" and not some human thinking that is produced out of the minds of the wise and the clever.

Today's Saint and tomorrow's Cardinal are both men as I am. I know that even though my lack of talent is obvious, it is very difficult for me to control my own pride. The help of the Holy Spirit ensures that I am getting better at doing so. Men like the Saint and Cardinal whose talents shine out, have a real difficulty in curbing pride for their superiority to most of us is obvious.

God's Truth, however is that Son, the only begotten, is the only perfect Man, although Mary is sinless she is still a creature. During his time on earth Jesus always forgave the sins of individuals even those of the soldiers who nailed him to the cross. Throughout the centuries, Popes Cardinals etc. have never acted as if they were aware that the only sinners ever condemned as a group by Jesus were not  "the Jews" but those holding in the world of the Old Testament Revelations, positions in human life now claimed by those in the Apostolic Succession. 

Dear Lord you know how much truth, if any, there is in my dissatisfaction. I am trying to avoid sin by honestly starting each day consciously in your presence with my mind soul open to receive your grace. I do not wish to condemn anybody. Indeed, how could I who know how willfully I have so often refused your grace? I would always prefer to be positive in my thoughts, prayers and petitions each morning, but today I am sure that those who "show-off" in their intellects and supposed piety are failing in their duty as priests who should be warning sinners to seek redemption not have excuses found for them. May Our Lady, your Mother who has zero knowledge of how depraved humans, who forsake her Son, can become, lead those who have accepted your Mercy to be able to join the Angels and Saints in the unity of Holiness that contains no shadow of dissent and pleads for our imperfect souls and the penitent in Purgatory to receive your Mercy with the thanks that needs eternity to express it fully. Lord heed my prayer and forgive us all even me who has so often sinned. Amen

 21/10/2024

Sometimes when I begin my day I feel that I am on the right path to becoming the end that God created me to be.

Today St Paul tells us that we were under God's anger. I do not want to think that it is possible for FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to be subject to any negativity at all about the creation that is the product of Divine Love.

St Paul knows that we are all alive in our "sensual bodies" which in these times we know are determined by our DNA and the "I" which comes to us by ..... 

If I say "chance" 

I am denying the "freedom" that Adam had to obey or not to obey for the "I" that we all have is determined by the human culture into which we are born. Adam and Eve were direct creations who stood naked and ashamed in the sight of God. 

If I say by the "will of God" 

I am again denying our "freedom" for there has never been anyone, except for Jesus, who decided for himself where and when to have his being and birth.

Jesus makes it clear that our purpose in life is not to build up material wealth. In fact, he tells us that the material of the Universe is a distraction and that it is to caring for our unseen spiritual being that we need to devote our lives on Earth. God wanted Adam & Eve to chose to share paradise with him.

Our Father who still knows each of us as completely as he knew Adam and Eve in the first days of our times wants us to accept his will for us as the only objective of our being. That is why the psalmist can sing "How good is the Lord to us, Eternal is his merciful Love, He is faithful from age to age" and Jesus tells us "watch and be on your guard against avarice of any kind." 

The "any kind" must  include even for spiritual favours that are not ours to win but which we have to accept in humility that does not display itself by accepting office yet claim superiority to its worldly display. Like Pope like Cardinal!

Dear Lord, You know that as man I think that I can have a rational understanding of your purpose  but am never going to comprehend your being. In fact to understand myself is often beyond my capacity. You created me to know, love and serve and to never disparage, despise or offend my neighbour for he too is an equally created soul that belongs to you. Let the eyes of my understanding be opened by your grace to accept that FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT can be known only when we remove the last vestiges of human pride from our souls to become the "perfect me" who can join with Mary, Angels and all Saints in the response that is the creation of your love, perfect prayer. Amen