04/12/2024

Today's readings are dominated by the "Loving Kindness" or "Parental Care" that all humans have received throughout our historical past and our present lives, first from IAMIAM as revealed through the Old Testament prophets. 

The psalmist exults in the guidance of the "Good Shepherd" who reveals his perfect love in the kindness of his deeds, done for the sake of his being and not because of any merit on our part.

Isaiah has a vision of the end of time when the whole world shall be saved on the Mountain of the Lord where there will be perfect peace for all creation. The creation that has been marred by man will become the perfection of bodily and spiritual life that has always been  God's target for our freedom to aim for and achieve by recognising and accepting his will.

In the New Testament Jesus reveals the completeness of God. 

IAMIAM is IAMFATHERSONOLYSPIRIT. 

The pride of mankind has always resisted the Truth that we have to subdue our own being to be able to recognise and live by in this world. Many of the Chosen People did revolt against God and his Prophets.

The Acts and Pastoral Letters reveal the same revolt as a fight for unity in the very early days of Apostolic Resurrection Faith. Many of our Church Fathers struggled to maintain unity as expressed by the words  of belief, our Creed. 

Whenever the early Church was free from Jewish and Pagan persecution the resultant peace was always shattered by prideful Bishops who not only disagreed with each other but also used mob and state violence as had done the High Priests and Pharisees against Our Lord, to establish their version of Truth and control their "Kingdom" which was a Church of East and West very much of this world.

The Institutional Church has always been part of this world but in fulfilment of the words of Christ it has never been abandoned by the grace and every word that comes from the mouth of God for from the cross he left us all in the care of his sinless mother and beloved disciple John. 

"Heaven and Earth may pass away but My Word will stand" is the guarantee that no matter how sinful our own, and the lives of our worldly pastors, the Grace of God still reaches out for us to access from the  Communion of Saints that is the Living Reality of all souls, the  Forgiven, the Still Vulnerable and the Thankfully Penitent, Triumphant, Militant and Suffering. We have all been and still are trusted by Our Father to make the right choice by denying the world, flesh and Devil. 

We only have today to do so, now is always the favourable time.

Dear Lord, help me continue to raise my heart and mind to you by being in control of my body and my mind. Let me know that aligning myself to your revelations is the only way to become what you have planned for me to be in the future. Help me to be less focussed on my self and let me learn how to beseech your grace to be shared by all my family and all living souls. May Mary and all the Saints continue in their support for all of us who seek to do your will on Earth by avoiding sin and acknowledging failure by seeking your forgiveness. Let us all hope to rejoice with the forgiven Holy Souls in Heaven after the atonement that is a share in your pains on Calvary. Amen

 3/12/2024

As I begin to pray today I read the first reading for today's mass, it is from the prophet Isaiah. As with most of the Old Testament prophets I know the name but very little about how he lived out  his life in Israel.

I also know very little about the psalmist.

I know much more about the life of Jesus and his teaching to his friends and have have tried throughout my life to recognise his truth and conform my life to it.

Isaiah is used by IAMIAM to help prepare his chosen people for the great joy that he has prepared eternally for them to accept when he is Emanuel in Time and Human form. David too unknowingly sings of the "Incarnate Lord" and that "All nations will call him blessed".

Of all the Jews so favoured by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and so dedicated to the study of the Scriptures, the ones who have wisdom and understanding are bypassed by the final revelation.

The first knowledge of the Incarnation is given to a young girl and a humble carpenter. It is their eyes "That are first blessed to see what you see."

 The wise and understanding have still to work hard to become the Unequivocal Marian YES. Less than three hundred years after the Resurrection they were already arguing about Son and Father and Spirit and also even killing each other in support of their "wisdom and understanding".

Filled with the Joy of the Holy Spirit Jesus proclaims to his disciples of all generations the Trinity, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and this what we need to believe to support our search for righteousness, conformity to the will of God.

"All things have been handed over to me, by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

Dear Lord, may you be known thus to me as it was to Mary, according to thy word. Dissension came into the Churches founded by the Apostles much too soon and was exasperated by the worldliness that first arose about property and human pride of intellect and person. There have always however been those who were enabled to resist error and innovation. God is with us to the end of time, but we have to make the effort to lose all our worldliness knowing that he is the Eternal "All in All" into which we have been created to be welcomed . May Mary and all Angels and Saints who rejoice with FatherSonHolySpirit implore that the never ending mercy of heaven flow down onto all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory. May these the words of my prayer be a sincere worship and petition uttered in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

 02/12/2024

Each morning I have to confirm my believe in God by these my personal prayers of the Faith that I support by reflections on the Scriptures. The Scriptures that I read are those chosen for the mass of the day by the Catholic Church.

The Jews who became the first Christians had already belief in the supreme being whom they did not name except by what I  express as IAMIAM. They also had a belief in what they termed the Law. It was by their devotion to this Law that they were able to aim for Righteousness.

As a modern Catholic Christian I am aware that there must have been something intolerable in creation, the world of 2000 years ago, for FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT  as he emptied himself of his divine immensity and chose to follow that same life route  as all his created mammals to become as human as we all are. He thus still trusted humanity to make his final revelation but in order to do so it is he who becomes true man from conception to the grave.

Jesus praises the Centurion  for his "faith" which the Centurion explains by a simple analogy between his own power derived from military discipline and the power he recognises in Jesus' own person. 

As we prepare for Christmas we will find many such incidents in the Scriptures in which the power of God is displayed by the man Jesus. The Angels sing, the shepherds worship, the Sages bring gifts and Herod, the non-Jew King appointed by the Romans will make the first attempt to kill the Son of God.

Dear Lord you know how I am perturbed that you yourself become man to ensure for me and for all of us salvation by following your way, truth and life. You know that we are still not really following your will on earth in these modern times. Is your Church any better than were the scribes, priests and pharisees of your day? Are we anymore righteous than the crowds who chanted "Crucify him, Crucify him"? Help me to access your grace so that I can do your will on Earth and join my prayers with those of Mary and all the heavenly chorus that my life will become all that you will me to be. Help me to know, love and serve by following you to my own personal death and thus be ready for the Loving Mercy that is your eternal being. Amen.

 01/12/2024

We should be ready every moment of our lives to be judged by God. I hope that it will happen for me in a less stark way than that sentence implies. I have lived for many years tied up in the affairs of this world. I have struggled against my personal sins and being tied up with the business of living in this beautiful world.

The Lord looked on what he had created and saw that it was good. Even human beings have a part in that unequivocal "good" and are still trusted by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to join him in maintaining that good which is to be found specifically in the "image and likeness" that is the human soul.

I have rarely fulfilled the obligations that are the will of the Father for all mankind. In this I am not alone and even, very shortly after the "Resurrection" there was dissent about how to complete God's will in this world among the very Apostles and disciples who had seen  the Risen Lord and received his final command.

What we now know as the Church has grown in this world over the last 2000 years and has maintained her teaching, preaching the word of God, in the face of great internal and external opposition but has always been contaminated by the sins of those who have fought against the teaching of Jesus to pridefully  present their own version of the Truth. 

Jesus is present in the Institutional Church ."This is my body". And where is Jesus there is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. "Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother" is the Spiritual Church of Love, the New Holy Family which has always saved our Faith from the damage which ignoring "My Kingdom is not of this world" has inflicted upon us and the "Church."

The very best thing that the Eastern and Western Catholic and Orthodox institutions have achieved is the preservation of the Scriptures and with them Liturgical Prayer and Seasons. Today She begins Advent and we all can follow Jesus' advice about Pharisees given to his friends "Listen to their words but do not do as they do" and thus prepare with Mary and Joseph to welcome God into the world.

Dear Lord, help me to become that being whom you have created me to be. Help me to keep on trying to understand how I can prepare  to leave this life and become a soul in your presence together with Mary and all the Saints. May the communion of Saints become a reality for me and let the prayers of your Holy Ones bring your Mercy to us sinners on Earth and to those saved and happily accepting the penitential regime of Purgatory. May those who mistake their personal pride for love of You be shaken up so that they do not continue with their self-centered perversions of truth to lead the little ones that they have forgotten that they too are into the Temptation that is the flash-in the-pan headline only religion that insults both You and us, God and man. Amen

 30/11/2024

Today St Paul assures us that we have to believe  in the Resurrection; to believe that the one who was crucified, who gave up his life, who poured out his blood on the way from his trial to calvary until  the spear pierced his side and removed the very last drops of his life; we have to believe that he who was shut up in the tomb was the one who warned Mary Magdelena not to touch him on the third day.

Jesus was not born into complete obscurity. The Magi had travelled from their home lands to welcome a "king". They were shocked to find "the king" in an animal shelter. He was known to some of the families of Nazareth as the one who had gone missing in Jerusalem and had been found amongst the scribes who were  amazed at his knowledge. The first of his public signs amazed the steward at the wedding feast at Cana and before that he had  shocked some fishermen into literally following him.

Today we are surrounded by wonders which have been created out of physical matter by the genius of mankind. It is hard for us to be shocked by anything. We are not only being told to control our birthrate but now "they" have assured us that it is also a "good" to terminate our lives when we can bear no more of life's pain.

When we believe "the Resurrection" we have to also find out how we can witness this belief by our own lives. I am always worried that whoever reads what I write will only mock my lack of literary skill. I am who I am, image and likeness, and I can do no more than that of which I am capable. 

The Resurrection has guided human life for two thousand years and has affected millions of souls. We all have to die. Many early Christians even sought after Martrydom and thus show that they had misunderstand what it is to live in the grace of the Resurrection which completes Jesus' Way, Truth and Life, the only way for us to complete God's will for us and be with him at the final resurrection which his love has intended for All.

We all have an opportunity during our lifetimes to live following the revelations of  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT  in the Life lived by Son. He shocked the learned and clever of his own time but gave us who can cast aside the selfish wonder at our own being the free gift of knowing that his love for creation will surpass even the end of time. Even self-chosen death is not the end for each of our souls.

Dear Lord, help the people of my generation to learn again what you taught the little ones throughout Palestine during your lifetime. The truth that is your Preaching will never fail. The Life of Mammon that is controlled by democrats or autocrats in this world will inevitably become the wonder of the basic material you have created to be the "time" the location for human souls to, by following your will, become the human love that is our ultimate response to your divine Love and being. We will all become dust but our souls will never die. May Mary and all the Spiritual Beings of heaven continue to plead for all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory and help me to know that I am able to stay in your grace by welcoming the glimpses of your Truth that I find in the Gospels, Letters of the Scriptures and in the history of the Fathers and sometimes even in my own words. Amen.

 28/11/2024

Most people who have ever lived have never had the personal experience of IAMIAM given to OT prophets during their lifetimes on Earth. We are all dependant on the words which have recorded the events, spoken words and thoughts of others to enable us to have some understanding of our awareness of the needs of the  little "iams" that we all think that we know.

The Presbyter who records his "Vision" of Eternity in the first reading was coming to the end of a long life during which he had been part of the overwhelmingly most significant events since time began. He had been a close friend of Jesus. He had expected Jesus to overcome the worldly rulers of Palestine and had also expected a "human role" in the New Order.

His expectations had been met but not as he had anticipated. His role had been to care for Mary as if she had been his own mother during his remaining time on Earth. Mary is the first human to whom it was directly revealed that the one IAMIAM is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and she and John had been entrusted to become a New Holy Family, the Church of Love.

I live 2000 years after Calvary. I cannot believe that the Body of Christ is and has been the worldly institution that still tells us that Sacramental Holiness is "doing the actions" without any need for holiness or belief on the part of the celebrant at the Liturgy.

Many others than I have also had the same doubts about "clergy" . Some "lapsed" during the first persecutions of the early days. Many others were corrupted by physical pleasure and wealth. No matter how great the offences, however, we were not left alone and even during the "Pornocracy" souls were still able to achieve salvation in spite of the sinful Church.

I have not had a direct experience of God but I have always known that I am in need of the grace created on Calvary and promised from the Cross to those who care for each other as do John and Mary. I see this as the Spiritual Body of Christ that is not of this world but the image and likeness of Our Father. The creator still has Faith in us to do His Will on Earth but has also made His Last Revelation.

"I am with you till the end of time".

Dear Lord, help me to see your truth and live accordingly. You know my faults, my sins, help me to choose the right paths to avoid them. May the human failures that are evidenced in all institutional Churches be overcome by souls who appeal directly to you and to Mary and all the Saints. As always it could be the last time that I and my generation have the opportunity to become holy in your sight. May these petitions join those of Mary and all the saints that all sinners seek out the forgiveness that you died to give us all on Earth and in Purgatory. Maranatha, Lord Jesus Come soon. Amen

 27/11/2024

I have always felt uncomfortable whenever my human attributes are used to interpret what happens in this reality that I know because I am alive. 

God, IAMIAM, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is totally beyond any of our human capabilities except loving obedience and acceptance of what he has revealed to his image and likeness, our souls.

I am able to become comfortable in my spiritual being when I remember that Jesus thanks God for revealing the Truth not to "the learned and the clever" but to "the little ones" who can also tune our wills into absorbing the Love with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT still engraces those who accept his Will completely and try to abandon themselves to the path chosen, followed and taught by the Incarnate Son.

Persecution and vile punishment were not the only experience of the first Christians. There were long periods of time when the "Church" thought about itself and the meaning that could be found in the Life of the Incarnate One and the preserved teaching of "his friends".

The longed for "return" did not materialise and  there were long drawn out intellectual battles between "the learned and the clever" which were also supported by the little ones. "I am for Apollos, "I am for Paul" were the slogans used by Corinthians and  condemned by Paul.

The Apocalypse that is the first reading for today was composed after the first wave of persecution had martyred Peter and Paul, Stephen and James had already been killed in Jerusalem. It is John's mystical response to the events that were terrifying all "Christians" for the attitude of the state was that if you called yourself a "Christian" you had to die whether you had committed a crime our not.

The psalmist sings praise of Almighty God "he will come to rule the world in justice, in fairness he will rule the people". For this to happen we have to willingly become completely at the disposal of Our Father. All peoples, the Great and the Good, rich and poor, young and old truly accept the truth of every word that comes from the mouth of God.

The human Jesus did that and Our Father expects it of us too for he creates in order to have us accept his Love.