15/12/2024

I really do have to take myself by the scuff of the neck and shake myself into the awareness of God that is the purpose for which I have been created.

Even I am a wonder. Everything about me is amazing. And when I look beyond the tip of my nose and see the other "wonders" that surround this self that I know intimately I realise, yet again, that it is very easy to live as my body in this world that has not yet exhausted its material potential.

This morning's prophet, Sirach, reminds Israel that IAMIAM sent them a message through Isaiah that was to bring them back to the seriousness that was a befitting response to the loving-kindness that had rescued them from the slavery to Mammon that was life in the pagan world that surrounded the promised land.

There has not been one change in the 10 commandments that if honoured by our obedience would have let us all live righteously in the world as it is created to be in the "being" of our God. 

He is never ending, unlimited in ability, capable of creating  innumerable universes without any diminishment in his own being and yet aware of each speck that is the basic components of matter in which mankind has lost its soul, fascinated by the process of measuring the corruptible into ignoring the eternal IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

God knows that I have meant every word that I have written above while meditating on the mass readings; he also knows that it was yesterday's readings that I was triggered by. Today is Sunday 15th; ten days before Christmas 2024.

Dear Lord, I know that time has no affect on you. We on earth, however grow to adulthood and then begin to crumble with age related bodily problems. We also often tie ourselves to the things of this world and that St Peter's  Church has never fully become that which you created it to be. The world managed to take over when the Church first challenged the Emperor and our pastors lost touch with their own souls. You know that I am still trying to fathom out  how it has happened that the world in which I am now living has lost touch with you. May I live out my life in the grace which I have often ignored and may these prayers join with those of Mary and all the Saints for Mercy without which none of us can complete your will for us. Pray for us most holy mother of God that we and the Holy Souls be loosed from our sins and help all still struggling on earth to find and complete the will of Our Father, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Amen.

 14/12/2024

There have been many prophets since The Lord spoke to Abraham. There have been many saints since Jesus completed the total revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. There have been many brilliant theologians who interpreted revelation since that time. And yet.....

Somehow the people who were led out of Egypt and given free rein in the Promised Land were unable to justify the confidence that IAMIAM had had in their ability to recognise and respond to His love for them.

In addition to his general condemnation of the faithless cities in yesterday's Gospel Jesus also specifically condemned the Jewish scribes, pharisees and priests, those who claimed to be able to know and follow God's teaching through the prophets.

It seems that their failure was in not practising what they preached and thus scandalising the little ones who were desperately in need of a Good Shepherd. 

Jesus knows what is going on in my soul at this moment. He knows the struggling in my mind that comes out through my fingers on this wonder of mankind's own making. He knows the disappointment that I feel when reading the works of the learned and the clever for their thoughts and words are magnificent but the Church they have left for me and all the other little ones has never been more successful in guiding us than the Temple Sacrifice that was replaced by the Incarnate Son, God himself.

It seems to me that the state of all Ecclesiastical Institutions is very much the same as was the Temple Religion known by Jesus and the Apostles. 

"Our Saviour liveth" but we are getting further and further away from him by getting mired down into the futility of temporal life on Earth and ignoring his loving revelation of the eternal joy that is ours by choosing to accept over anything else his Love and Will in this world.

Divine Justice is tilted in our favour by Divine Mercy so by even the slightest positive response on our part we can reap unimaginable rewards. We do, however, need to start getting our wedding garments ready and spare batteries for our lamps as we do have the word of Jesus that we need to be ready for "we do not know the hour of his coming" or even our "going".

Dear Lord, join my prayers to those of the millions of others that are being raised to thee. May the power of Holy Spirit grant pardon for all my sins and remind all of your children that although we are brilliant at manipulating thoughts and matter we are fragile and that our main responsibility is to you. The universe and all it contains is destined to pass away but my prayers will stand for they are You speaking through me. Help to remain faithful. May the spiritual family that you created on the Cross be for me more than an idea but the reality of my remaining life and may prayers for the pardon of my sins and those of the Holy Souls be joined to those of Mary and all the saints of heaven. Amen.

 13/12/2024

Today's Gospel reading carries on from yesterday. Jesus speaks to "today's" generation. His words are not only for those who had assembled around him. His "todays" are for all men and all time and not confined to that moment shared with his listeners.

These were the days and years when he spoke to real men and women and in real time. God was present in Israel 2000 years ago and completed IAMIAM's revelation to his "top of the range" creation, mankind.

Jesus is appalled by the lack of consistency in his chosen people who have always had difficulty in accepting "prophecy", God's wisdom revealed to the Jews through the prophets. 

They are like little children "mucking about in the playground". Jabbering away they contradict themselves time and time again and are blind to the way, truth and life.

In this Chapter of Matthew Jesus confirms that he is part of the continuing record of God's direct dealing with mankind. We know that the whole of his life, death and resurrection confirm the reality and revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Later in the chapter he warns us how "mucking about in the playground" is a waste of our time on earth. Those who have seen or heard the word of God but then blocked it off from their deeds by filling their time with the things of this world  are choosing to live in the cities for which he only has words of condemnation.

We have been warned. There is much more to our God than the "babe in the manger".

Dear Lord, help me to avoid sin this day by never departing from your truth. Help me to pray continually and do that now. Each moment of life is the favourable time for me to access your grace and cut myself off from obsession with the things of this world. May I join my prayers with  those of Mary, angels and all the saints that the world can turn to you and recognise that we block ourselves off from the reality of eternity when we make our material lives the sole object of living. May your grace continue to pour out over the whole world and may I help to spread this by prayer for forgiveness for sinners on earth and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen

 12/12/2024

I have ears and I am ready to hear and ready to listen with the ears of faith.

John the Baptist is the greatest of all human beings but he is not as great as the least of those in the kingdom of heaven.

I have to ask the Lord again what is this "kingdom of heaven"?

Jesus' first listeners do not know a lot about him. 

He is ostensibly the son of a carpenter from Nazareth. His family have been embarrassed by him as he has claimed to be the fulfillment of "Today the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, he has anointed me  I have been sent to set captives free". 

He has thus announced himself in the local Synagogue to be the complete re-set of life and economy (slaves were freed, debts were cancelled and leased land was returned to its owners) that had been the literal "year of liberty" or "Jubilee" for  Ancient Israel in common with other Middle-Eastern Civilizations where it was often declared at the beginning of the reign of a new king.

It is no wonder that his family thought him to be mad.

He had thus first come to the attention of the Synagogue congregation  as a "blasphemer" but had gone on to cure the sick and preach a message that had attracted a number of adherents. He had accepted "John's Baptism" and John had saluted him as "Lamb of God" and proclaimed himself to be not worthy enough to perform even the action of a slave for him.

John and Jesus are contemporaries and yet Jesus says "From the days of John the Baptist until now" as if there is a gulf of time between them. That gulf has been filled with violence against  "The kingdom of heaven and the violent take it by force." 

We with 2000 years of hind-sight can understand that there is a vast spiritual gulf between John, the last of the Old Testament Prophets and Jesus, the incarnate Son of the Trinity. Calvary is certainly violence against IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, but who are they who "force themselves into the Kingdom of God"? 

I remember yesterday's "my yolk is easy and my burden is light". I am sure that we do not have to break our way into the Love that is freely given but I have to accept Jesus' words as even his "hard sayings" come from the mouth of God

Dear Lord you know that I sincerely listen to your words with my mind tuned in to their meaning. Help me to understand what I read. Help me to remain faithful to your teaching and thus do your will on Earth which is always for us to target holiness and keep ourselves open to accept the "Grace" which you do not force upon us. It is in our freedom of will that we can find your image and likeness in our souls. May my soul be in communion with all who seek to do your will and may our aim for righteousness be supported by Mary and all Saints as we worship the Lamb of God who takes away all sins by the acceptance of the violence that mankind continues to inflict on the body of humanity as it did on yours on Calvary. Have mercy on me dear Lord, have mercy on all our world. Amen May the Holy Souls have the aid of your Mercy and may I remain this day consciously awake in the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

 11/12/2024

"My yoke is easy, my burden is light". 

The Lord knows that I am finding it very difficult this morning to find his promised rest. I am so pressured by the domestic tasks that I have neglected for weeks that I cannot find a place in my consciousness for me to become aware of my soul and raise it into the presence of God, "the peace that passeth all understanding."

I imagine that most human life is like that. Domestic tasks bring Martha to mind. The economically active rich young man went sorrowfully away.

 The more I read of ecclesiastical history the more convinced I become that what I have always known as "The Church" is not "The Body of Christ on Earth" as envisaged by St Paul nor is any of the other Institutions that call themselves Christian.

Jesus never preached to "a single disciple" instructing him how to continue his teaching after his Ascension. It is of course, impossible for a man or woman to become another Son of God. Peter's subsequent descendants in office have made much of the " The Keys" but Peter did not claim for himself to be "Christ's vicar on earth". As is the case with most Church dogma this claim came to be  after much protracted and often bloody struggles amongst ecclesiastical office holders.

The Passion of Jesus was certainly not "easy" or "light". Some of us have been called to live out our own versions of that in martyrdom even inflicted on "Christian" by "Christian" and many did so at the time of Pope Damasus.

 I cannot believe that the bloody strife that was the norm in Ecclesiastical Institutions during the first three centuries after the Apostles was in any way the "easy yoke and light burden" that Jesus promises to us all. Nor have there been many Bishops or Popes who match "the lowly and humble of heart" which Jesus holds up as the target to become which we have to direct our lives.

Dear Lord, you know how easily it is for me to fall into sin. Help me to find the grace that once found unites me within the spiritual body of believers that you founded on St Peter and guided by the teaching of your Apostles. I know that your Chosen People have not yet matched your promises made through the prophets and Your Institutions too have failed to do Your will. May my Faith in your words to Mary and John keep me unreservedly focussed on the sole aim in life that is to complete your will for me and all Souls to live righteously on Earth and then learn how great thou truly art. May the prayers of heaven join ours on earth in supplication for the forgiveness of sin both on Earth and in Purgatory. Amen

 10/12/2024

Sitting at a computer in the 21st century I can lose myself in the pastoral imagery of peace and contentment preserved from more than 2000 years ago, Isaiah and the Psalm for today. to prepare for Jesus' promises of infinite care in the Gospel

The Church that has preserved these texts from the Old and New Testaments and selects them so wisely really has done in this service, your will for mankind.

Those who followed Moses into the Promised Land were never able to match their lives to the Revelations granted to them. But they have never been abandoned.

Although not affected by it IAMIAM is always aware of the passing of time and knows each of the souls that he has ever created to live righteously in his temporal creation and he judges each one of us.

The failure of his Chosen People in their true purpose somehow displeased the Lord and he began to reveal his full Truth in their midst through the mouths of prophets and holy ones.

I am another soul, one of the billions known to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, who tries to respond to the revelations of the Scriptures by living according to the the moral code given to Moses and does this by actively seeking for the Will of God. 

I am a voice crying-out in the monstrous wilderness of man-made Mammon that we live in in the 21st century for the Grace which was rejected first of all by the Chosen People and then even from the earliest days of its founding by the Church that has always been of this world in direct opposition to the words witnessed by all who were present at the judgement of Pilate.

I am a lost sheep who has often failed to match with deeds the words of his own convictions. As I read this morning's Gospel I did so somewhat perfunctorily for I became the lamb that has so often been saved from perdition by Son who on the cross is the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that not one little one will be lost. 

Let this be my prayer for the day, may we all become and remain one of the innumerable flock carried in your bosom. Let us all live in the New Holy Family that has always been able to save us from the Scribes and Pharisees who have never left Mammon behind. To bring creation to perfection each little one must also seek for you as you do for the Lost Sheep. Let not the imperfections of Priests and Prelates block our souls from receiving the Truth that is the Love showered over all in Heaven, on Earth and in Purgatory. May my prayers become one with those of Mary Angels Saints and Sinners on Earth  that our sins be forgiven and that we remain faithful to You in the time that remains for us in this world. Amen.

 09/12/2024

Why is Mary "The Immaculate Conception"?

The Resurrection is the most important event in History. In Scripture God reveals to us how he wants us to live in his creation. The Resurrection is not, however, the sole revelation about "being" made by the Father.

The Resurrection is the beginning of the completion of the Old Testament faith that Our Father revealed in order to rectify the disruption to creation caused by Adam's and Eve's misuse of human freedom.

We have always struggled to understand how it is that Ever-Greater, the all knowing, supreme being seems to be in need of human co-operation for it is this supreme being "IAMIAM" that he reveals to Abraham.

Throughout the ages and throughout my lifetime he has trusted mankind and me to become his willing partners in the "Good" that he saw in this Universe. 

The Apostles and others who saw the risen Lord were completely mystified for they knew empirically that he was who dead on Friday was walking  and talking with them on Sunday.

Since that time millions of us have tried to as it were to "reverse engineer" the "Resurrection" and explain how and why this unique event took place.

The complete sinlessness of Mary, the mother-to-be has to be assumed if we are to use our human minds to assimilate the Truth of the Incarnation; IAMIAM the ONE reveals that he is in fact FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and that it is as a normal human, SON, that he sacrifices himself to destroy death, and so open for us  the Way, Truth and Life.

Jesus is a natural human being but without any trace of sin. For him to be thus his Mother too has to be without sin as he is "begotten of the FATHER not made" and so she is entitled the Immaculate  Conception for this is her uniquely sinless "human being".

Dear Lord, you know how I am trying to prepare for  the feast of your Nativity. As a human it is easy for me to become overcome by sentimentality at this time of year. I always feel ashamed by this but I hope that a soft heart is not too sinful if it does not interfere with the sincerity with which I am always preparing for "The Last Things". In the above declaration of Faith, I now realise that I did not mention Love. It is out of Love for us that you reveal that we need to cooperate and avoid the defect that is our stubborn rejection / forgetfulness of our need to respond to Love and keep ourselves from being drowned by the oceans of  this worldliness that makes sin the dominate force in out lives. May the holiness epitomised in the Holy Families both old new become the goal for all human life and may my sins and all other sinners be forgiven by your mercy poured out on Calvary for us and the Holy Souls. Amen