06/12/2024

Jesus fulfills the future that is the complete holiness of mankind proclaimed in today's first reading by Isaiah and then praised by the confident joy of the Psalmist.

Even the learned and clever, those who go away in the spirit and believe in their own version of the  present reality of their lives, will come to the realisation that what they are aware of now, their own being existing in time, what they can understand from the past, mankind's record of our place in creation and the unknowable future can also with the favoured "little ones" become the children of God.

For when he sees his children, 

the work of my hands in his midst, 

they will sanctify my name; 

they will  sanctify the Holy One of Jacob 

they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Two thousand years ago "Emanuel", Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled the faith of David.

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness 

in the land of the living.

Jesus walked the earth proving himself to the then-living by many signs and wonders and completed all that we the now-living, need to know on earth so that we can open our Souls, eyes and ears our very being to His Justice and thus 

We can be strong; wait for the Lord

be stout hearted and wait for the Lord.

For his Mercy is the never-ending stream of life poured out by him, for us on Calvary.

Dear Lord, you know everything and so I could sit back now and do nothing more and passively wait for my life to end. I know very little except that I am a living soul, a mortal body that is living in creation and that I have to actively fight against the tendency to sin that has always marred my life. I would like to become a serene presence in my own being, confident in You, untroubled by the Devil, World or Flesh but freedom is an essential if we are to become what it is you know us to have the potential to be. Let me know your will and help me access the Mercy that never ceases to fill up the Communion of Saints with the Struggling and Forgiven Sinners that enables mankind to become the "Image and Likeness" of You our Creator. Amen

 05/12/2024

Today I am very much having to control my thoughts to be able to recollect what I have just read this Thursday morning in the first week of Advent. The "Lord, Lord " discourse has frequently impressed itself on my mind and I have also frequently fallen away from the sincerity that Jesus thereby warns us all cannot be disguised from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.  

I can choose to reinforce the shield of sin that I use to block out my soul from receiving Grace, very much as I use sun screen to protect my skin, and this, deliberately ignoring God, can lead to the frenzy of sin leading to more sin and my soul thus, encased as a tortoise is by its carapace, my sin completes the work of devil, world and flesh.

I cannot be the judge of anything else but my own conduct. However,  it seems to me that the human community to which the prophet and psalmist of the first readings belong  has very successfully survived aware of sin, but very rarely avoided it, lost as it is in a total fixation on itself.

Jesus the perfect Jew is totally the opposite to the "Chosen People" in that everything he does and teaches is for all sinners, Jew, "Listen Israel IAM the Lord" and Greek "In the beginning was the Word" who now and then are seen in the laser light, which pierces our shield of sin, of God's Love for each individual soul, sinful or righteous. and calls us all to do his Will during our lifetimes. 

Isaiah and the Psalmist really do praise the Lord with words and poetic images but Jesus warns us with love for each individual that sincerity is not optional for  "the rains fell, the floods came, the wind blew and beat against that house and it fell, and  great was the fall of it." Sand cannot be disguised as rock . "Our Father who is in heaven" cannot be deceived and guides us all with revelations of Eternal Truth.

Dear Lord help me to overcome temptation as I live out this day. Help me be true to you in all that I endeavour and help me to show your love to my family that they too become able to return to you in prayer and thanksgiving. May Mary the greatest of created beings continue to lead Angels and Saints in praise of your Glory and may my "Lord Lord" become the reality of my being that you have created to know, love and serve. May the humble petitions of the Communion of Saints bring forgiveness to all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory. Let me break free of all that keeps me from total acceptance of your  will for me and let my "Lord, Lord" become a direct-line to your infinite Grace and totally sincere. Amen

 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.