11/01/2025

In the eyes of God there are no "bit-parts" to be played in creation by anonymous bit-players. I am sure that my life is known by "Our Father" as completely as he knows those of everyone who has ever existed.

The vastness of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT cannot be comprehended but can be known by anyone who lets his soul be guided by grace into the faith shown by "He must increase but I must diminish".

John the Baptist is the "Faithful Chosen People" who not only listens to the "Word" but follows the "Law" in his heart and gives his whole being to IAMIAM even to his martyrdom at the hands of the then "rich and famous" and now the "great" of written history.

There are very many others who were in the crowd that had followed Jesus and his disciples to "Aenon near Salim" a place with more than one source of water, a spring after which it is named, where Jesus and John were both baptizing.

None of the Evangelists record Jesus personally baptizing any individual.

The outward signs of God's mercy are all preserved in this world by the Institutions that have grown out of "Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my Church." There are many "great figures of history" who are the Saints whose example we try to follow. 

There are many more of us who are "the little children", the "beloved" to whom St John is writing who also can rest in the mercy of the Lord for we are all invited to be baptized in the Grace that is the blood poured out for all of us on Calvary.

Dear Lord, Help me to stay true to the faith that sometimes seems to fill my being but also gets lost in the things of this world which can push your Love to the back of my mind. Help us all who are trying to respond to your call as Institutional Church founded on St Peter or New Holy Family as founded by your words from the cross spoken to Mary and St John to "declutter" ourselves of the dross of materialism and become the being that is the fulfilment of your Love for each of us. Let me too decrease  as he increases, let myself become "anonymous" lost in the flood of your Love. Amen

10/01/2025

I always try to start my day in this way because I want to live out my time in this world in a better way than I have done in the past. I want to respond with my mind and soul to God's saving grace. I want to be what God showed to his people as when Son walked and talked. I want to be accepted now into the sheepfold of the Good Shepherd.

I cannot, however, avoid becoming entangled in the net of materialism for I am also a degenerating body and surrounded as are we all now and have always ever been by the paraphernalia of our time and place. 

I depend on this keyboard to enable me to check my own thoughts and state of mind by recording them in black and white.  

This all "I, I, I" but that's who "I am".

Yesterday I struggled to restrict all the thoughts that were provoked by Jesus in his home-town synagogue. 

There he had announced himself to be as it were the "Jubilee" of mankind, the complete reset of  our spiritual reality, and by his death and resurrection the blood of John's "Spirit, water and blood" thus become the spiritual new discs for us to format in the ways that are acceptable to FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Then I addressed the "Jubilee" as it has been announced by Pope Francis. The name Francis invoked an image of the Poverello becoming holy poverty naked before the church in Assisi. 

St Francis reminds us of the radical message that is the Incarnation; our Pope reminds us that our Church has become a worldly Institution that can only become Jesus' foundation on St Peter by truly becoming the Jubilee year of God's favour when debts are cancelled, the land rested, property restored to original owners. and captives freed.

Then I lost the whole of my text!!!

Jesus really did proclaim a "Jubilee" in Nazareth he sounded a "ram's horn" to remind  us all that each one of us is a "clean clay tablet" into which we have to  inscribe our record of living. 

Today I noticed that there seemed to be something missing from the First Reading. I had to Google for 1 John 5: 7 and found that here there is a whole can of worms about this "missing verse".  There is nothing, however,  missing from "My kingdom is not of this world" except its implementation.

Let the Ram's horn sound and there be a true Jubilee starting in Rome!

 08/01/2025

It seems that the Apostles' first days with Jesus were not without self-questioning doubt. They had each been inspired enough to follow him. They had witnessed miracles but "their hearts had hardened" whenever they were away from the actual presence of Jesus.

We have to guard our Faith. It is a gift from God. We do not create it but we do have to tend it. 

Mankind has created the "techno-sphere" by "reverse-engineering" the empirical being of the material that is our environment. This "techno-sphere" within which I am recording myself is the most powerful enemy that keeps us from achieving the perfect love that has created us to know, love and serve.

Every one of my waking moments can be spent engrossed in things of this world. My mind can be filled to capacity with the wonders of culture which can vary from dross to sublime giving each one of us the opportunity to revel in the superiority of our own taste.

Our God, however, loves us all not because we are worth it. 

All our prayers are heard and acknowledged equally for when we pray from the depths of our beings we turn ourselves from all the wonders of material life, we give up on our fixation with our bodily pleasures and well-being and can increase the Faith that regardless of devilish temptation can recognise IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in Jesus.

We do not need Jesus to give us any signs to break into hardening hearts for we know that he is the Resurrection Grace that seeks out all us sinners throughout the world no matter how many "fire walls"  we use to try to hide our guilty souls from the laser-light that connects each one of us directly to "Our Father" and allows us all to make the right choice that brings us into the unseen Love that is the Mystical Body of Christ.

"Woman behold your Son. Man behold your mother."

Dear Lord, help us all to read and understand the scriptures that we might walk in the light that illuminated the lives of your first disciples. Help us all to avoid sin and forgive all our previous sins that we are solely responsible for. May Mary and all the Saints continue to support our faith as together we await  for the Love of God, his will, to become the reality here as it is for the Righteous, heaven, and for the Holy Souls, Purgatory. I make my prayer in the name of . Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

 07/01/2025

John tells us that we should love one another because by consciously doing so we become the image and likeness that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT created us to be. 

Our bodies have been created out of nothing in a process of creative evolution that can be understand by studying the evidence that has accumulated in organic remains that over millions of years have become as stone.

The bodies that we know as ours are totally limited by the laws of matter and have a limited "shelf-life".

Our non physical awareness of self has an empirical knowledge of all that is not "me" centred in the "I" which is "iam" and is revealed to be the "image and likeness" of our Creator, IAMIAM.

My being, my "iam" lives in consciousness of self and aware that my body has physical needs exactly as do all animals. 

Towards the end of his long life St John still knows that Jesus is not only his beloved friend but also knows that he is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who is the very being of Love.

He passes down his certainty that if each one of us strives to live in the Love that is the Being of God we will truly be able to become the "image  and likeness" and thus cooperate with "Our Father, who art in heaven" until the moment when we see "God as he really is".

Dear Lord, You know that I am still trying to live according to your will as revealed in the Scriptures. Let me not get impressed by my own words for You and I both know how my being fails dismally to become "image and likeness". I, a sinner, am aware how much of your grace I have spurned and pray that I will be able make amends for my cooperation with "devil, world and flesh" which were denounced at my baptism. May Mary and all the Saints help me in these days remaining to me that I truly repent and live according to your will and striving to make amends for all my sins. Amen

 06/01/2025

I always try to put myself into the same  mind-set as those who first became the "Church" in the "real-time" that is recorded in the scriptures. 

The groups of people to whom St John wrote were only different from us in their lack of technology.

Those first century Greeks and Jews were the first products of human civilization that had for even then centuries faced the same questioning that was confronted by pure free human intellect in the case of the Greeks and by the same human intellect guided by God's revelation in the case of the Jews.

Each individual then as today can only understand the "why?" of his/her own being by confronting the fact of their own deaths. 

For the Greeks the philosophising of Socrates became intolerable and those for whom the celebration of the beauty of a purely human life was the totality of being ordered him to end his own life. He did so.

"I am the bread of life" "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood" were concepts that were totally intolerable to the Jews and they had the Romans, followers and admirers of Hellenic culture,  torture Jesus to death.

The resurrection and all the historical events recorded in the Bible are the complete "playbook" for human life. We are all ensouled bodies who need to live in this world guided by FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. We have this one chance to prepare ourselves for the judgement that  comes with our inevitable death.

When we open our beings to grace, the spiritual help that comes from God we have to be aware that it is very easy for us to become misguided by the seeming virtue promulgated by the unholiness of that enemy of the human race we call the Devil and all his works that are to be found in the world and in the flesh. 

Revelation is complete. Jesus is the Resurrection and he has completed the revelation of God's purpose in creating the Image and Likeness that is himself, the template for our humanity.

By this you know the Spirit of God. 

                Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is from God,

                                 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God

Dear Lord, help me to resist all temptations which even when they seem to be of benefit to me are in reality the work of the Devil. You know that I am not aware of the "spirits" which surround my physical being but recognise that my true life is in my soul which is confined in a material body in a material  world. We all can only know the Holy Spirit by raising our hearts and minds, our souls, to You and refusing the clutter of materialism that is powerful enough to keep our attention to the detriment of the soul that you have entrusted to the control of each one of us. You have never left any of us to search for you without help for on Calvary you entrusted John and Mary to the maternal and filial love of each other that forms the Heart of your Mystical Body that will be with us on Earth to the End of Time. You my God can understand the confusion that this prayer seems to be . I pray for your help that I may be able to understand more and thus become enveloped in your grace that pours out to forgive us sinners here on Earth and the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen, 

 05/01/2025

I, along with all mankind, live my life in a body that is the product of millions of years of evolution. Our Creator is not constricted by the time that is the outcome of the Love, "let there be light" with which the IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT chooses to reveal in the "Good" that is his creation. 

The sole purpose of  our awareness of being is to learn how to return that Love. There has always been only one human being who knows the Father, only one being who has the message of eternal truth, only one who knows each created being better than we know ourselves.

Today the Church chooses to remember and give thanks for the moment in time when the Glory of Eternal Love chose to be totally present to the whole world within time in the form of a new-born whose crib was the feeding trough of an animal shelter.

Only Jesus can know why the freedom that was integral to our first parents was so easily misguided and how it did such an inordinate amount of damage to Divine Love that it was he who chose to become the perfect human sacrifice to take away the sins of the world. 

Only Jesus can know why it was that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, the Word, came into the time of our material universe at the time he did. The disobedience of Adam/Eve is obvious but, there does not seem to be anything unique about the failings of Temple Religion at that moment in historical time. 

The human choices made by the "Early Church" soon corrupted the visions, "the Epiphanies" of the converts and the human jockeying for positions that had marred the Apostles even in the lifetime of Jesus, became evermore obvious and viscous.

We have to love God for he never gives up on us and even though so much harm has been brought into the world by the Church founded on Peter as a result of the human failings of her members, clergy and lay, we are, each one of us, still able, by using our freedom, to make the right choices that are acceptable to Our Father for the merciful love of God is not confined in any person or institution. 

The only door that has to be opened for it to enter our being is operated by our own will.

Dear Lord let all the souls that form your mystical presence by the right choices we make continue to return the Love that you never cease to pour out over all your creation, seen and unseen. Let us become aware of the prayers of Mary and all the saints and consciously join our own to theirs that with the human hope that you return soon as mankind is still no better than were the priests, scribes and Pharisees who conspired with the Empire, the kingdom of this world, to kill you by torture and hanging you on a cross by means of iron nails driven through the flesh of your hands and feet. Help us to overturn  our own sins that were the cause of so much pain. Come back soon Dear Lord you know that we have corrupted your Church and continue to misuse our corporal lives by devotion to devil, world and flesh. Maranatha, please save us from ourselves. Amen

 04/01/3025

I know that I am not a biblical scholar. I sometimes regret this in the same way I regret not having put my mind to Science during my schooldays. 

I am reminded of this today as I am taking note for the first time in my life of the historical discrepancy between John and the other Gospels in this account of the first meeting between Jesus and those who were to become the core of his "Church".

I have always liked to picture "Our Lord" walking on the beach at Capernaum and out of the blue summoning the fishermen to follow him. That they did so has always filled me with awe at the charisma of Jesus. Jesus did not have the same effect on his own family who were so ashamed by his  claim to be the "Jubiliee" in person at their local Synagogue that they declared that he was mad.

John's account of how the two pairs of brothers became the first disciples does not have the drama  of the fishermen instantly leaving their boats, nets and families. It is, however, more in keeping with the continuity of the narrative that begins with the Annunciation in that the brothers were disciples of "The Baptist" and thus were aware that their "voice crying in the wilderness" was preparing the way for one much greater than he. They had found the Messiah who is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Dear Lord, help me to consolidate my faith. Help me to understand the message that is your life and works. Faith comes before understanding because we are all enabled to live righteously by making a personal choice. No-one can understand you who are the "Ever-greater" but you know each one of us and always respond when we totally commit ourselves to your offer of salvation that began publicly in Capernaum so many years ago. It was to forgive the sins of the devil, world and flesh that you walked among us so we can all turn to you and say "forgive us our trespasses" and we can also love our neighbour by making sure that we completely forgive those "who trespass against us". Let my prayers join the chorus of praise led by Mary and all the Saints that channels your forgiveness to all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory.