15/01/2025

The Apostles knew Jesus for only three years of their lifetimes. 

Each day that I read the readings for the morning mass I am a man striving to be aware that I am a tiny speck of created being but at the same time secure in my place in the Love that is the timeless being of  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Today the disciples looked for Jesus and found him in a deserted place in prayer. If they could help it, they were not going to let this new friend out of their sight. The cure of Simon's mother-in-law had been followed by the cure of many others sick in body and mind.

They were Jews who knew that IAMIAM had often spoken to their ancestors through inspired prophets and had rewarded and punished their nation as he had done no other. They could only interpret the cures that they had seen Jesus make as a sign that this man was especially favoured by God.

The preaching in the Letter to the Hebrews is the interpretation of the events that had been witnessed by Apostles and converts to the reformed Old Testament religion, of which the Resurrection was much more than a confirmation, within the previous three decades.

No other of the Prophets had ever had to stress either their own or any other person's humanity in the way that this morning's reading from the Letter to the Hebrews does for Jesus.

The 3 years of public life that Jesus is known by his Apostles is only ten percent of the time he " dwelt among us"  and yet it completes the Covenants and guidance that God had made over thousands of years, with Noah, Abraham and Moses so that we can all now hope and have faith in the Love that is God. 

IAMFATHERSONHLYSPIRIT never abandons us even though we can as easily lose sight of him and stifle the "inner voice" that is the Holy Spirit speaking to our souls as did his "chosen people" long ago.

Dear Lord, help me to remain open to your word and remain aware that I can only fulfill your will by remaining faithful  as revealed throughout the ages and and also to my own inner self which is never unaware of my lifetime of sins for which I need the grace to atone in complete sincerity. May my prayers join  the prayers of Mary and all the saints as with one voice we proclaim your Glory and seek pardon for my sins, the sins of all the world and for those of the Holy Souls. Amen

 14/01/2025

The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews had for some years after his personal conversion into following the Lord been contemplating the life, death and resurrection of Our Lord in the light of what he knew of IAMIAM revealed in the only scriptures that then existed.

He knows of angels as the messengers of God who entrusted them to carry his Word to the prophets of his favoured nation. He has come to understand that within his own lifetime Son of God, Jesus had for "a little while" in humility reduced his own being to be a "little less" than the angelic being which is with God beyond our created universe.

The "Word" is not only human words but much more in that he is the complete communication of the being of IAMFATHERHOLYSPIRIT to the souls who are embodied to live as the highest order of material being in Creation, that is known to all of us empirically by our bodily senses and spiritually by the souls of those who open their beings to receive the Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRT.

We can all choose to try to know what it means to live "Holy" lives. Jesus is the perfected human being and our example of virtue. There are billions of us yet "Our Father" knows us each in our personal uniqueness which he has created us to become by fulfilling his Will for us.

We are not all Jesuses. We are not all Marys.  We are not all St Thomases. We are not all St Francises or St Maximillian Kolbes. 

After the Apostolic Age, however we  are all those blessed ones who have not seen empirically but see by the eyes of faith which we live to  keep focussed on IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Dear Lord, please accept these thoughts and words as my imperfect praise of you. I know that you did not create me to become the the sinful being that has marred much of my life. You know that I have always regretted my sinfulness. Help me to really know how the suffering on Calvary was increased by my personal sin. May I join with Mary and all the Saints in seeking forgiveness for us sinners on Earth and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Let me know how I can avoid the self-satisfaction that is ever a stumbling-block when I begin to pray. It is so easy for me to become a 21st Century Pharisee. Help me to overcome this grievous fault. Amen

 13/01/2025

"The Lord is King let Earth rejoice." 

The "last days" for humanity on Earth began two thousand years ago in Palestine.

We have been living in the "last days" for 2000 years for IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has made his final revelation of himself. He has told us all we need to know about how we are to conduct ourselves in the material reality of this world.

Jesus was not born into a "priestly family". The bloodline of both his mother and guardian, Joseph, could be traced back through "David's line" to Abraham and ultimately Adam and Eve. The conception of Jesus was by the Holy Spirit of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT the unseen presence of eternity in time. It is to this spiritual presence that our souls can also proclaim with wonder.

"The Lord is King let Earth rejoice."

God had been present in time as human embryo, child, adult for about thirty years when he walked along the beach near Capernaum and chose his first disciples. A carpenter spoke to some fishermen. We have to wonder what those 4 working-men experienced as they, without qualm, instantly did what they were told.

"The Lord is King let Earth rejoice."

"Long time ago at many times and in many ways God spoke to our fathers by the prophets" . The Old Testament is the record of those days. Jesus is the key that unlocks our souls from the captivating wonder of the material universe and enables us to understand what is meant by :

"The kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the Gospel".

It seems to me that we have never lived up to this simple but not at all simplistic message from God as our world is still bursting at the seams with unholy worship of devil, world and flesh . 

The institutional descendants of St Peter can unravel the words of both New and Old Testaments and sincerely follow the threads back to their source in HOLYSPIRIT of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but they have never been able to let go of the Mammon that cannot take the decisive step that would prove that they truly believe. 

"My kingdom is not of this world."

Dear Lord,  You know that there are many souls who really do want to respond with joy and awe to your never-ending glory. I know that all of us are amazing things in body, mind and soul. The world becomes more and more of a wonder as science probes and reveals more and more of the material universe which is your creation. We know that we have to live out our lives righteously and that you go way way beyond Love to ensure that we can fulfill your purpose in our lives. May my prayers be guided by Mary and all the Saints as I too strive to become as devoted to you as were Peter, Andrew, James and John who were preceded in obedience by Mary and did not prevaricate but accepted your call in the instant it was made. May all we sinners seek pardon for our sins and  our souls and the Holy Souls welcome, by our willful preparation,  the mercy without which there can be no righteousness either in my life  or in that of  the whole world. Amen

 12/01/2025

I have often wondered how it can be that the people who were present at the Baptism of Our Lord could ever have gone back to their worldly lives after "hearing the voice of the Lord". 

"This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased".

The miracle at Cana had been more of a private or even domestic event between Son and his Mother. This was an Epiphany that was witnessed not only by the twelve but also by "the Baptist's" disciples and the "Voice of the Lord" should have been heard by all those who were present.

The later part of Jesus' life on earth was lived entirely in public. We have a record of the preaching and miracle working of only about 10% of his lifetime as witnessed by 50% of the Evangelists the other two are, as are we, "the Blessed who have not seen but yet believe".

Luke and Mark probably did not witness the Crucifixion but came to believe the Good News in the chaos that followed the death and Resurrection and listened, as St Paul also did, to the words of Peter and the other disciples.

We are reading today of God's openly declared presence as "true man" in the Nation that he had guided as he had guided no other then or since then.

His final interaction with the political power of that era was to deny and thus warn us that he "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" had any intentions for the political development of humanity. 

In this morning's Gospel,  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's final revelation to mankind is beginning to be made by the Baptism and acknowledgement of the person of Jesus by, Father and Holy Spirit. 

Speaking directly to all leaders and rulers for ever more at his trial presided over by the "Great Power" of his day he declares "My Kingdom is not of this world".

If we believe and each individual one of us concern ourselves with obeying the Truth that is God's revelations we would be able to conform to His will on earth, but as things stand today we are still as far away from image and likeness as were the Sanhedrin and Pilate who conducted the trial of God who has completed the revelation to the whole world publicly begun as true man in his Baptism in the Jordan by SON and thus by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Dear Lord let me continue in my prayer throughout this day. You know as "true man" that there are always temptations that surround us in this world. You know us all as your creation and also know each individual soul as the unique person that we are. Let me learn how to love all my brothers and sisters without envy for we are all equal in your sight. Each life is as valuable to you as the next and the cries of those lost in the cess-pits of materialism never go unheard as" This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased" must have done. We may ignore the "Voice of the Lord" but You search out all who go missing from the fold of Love. May Mary, whose maternal love cherished every moment of your childhood and youth as do all human mothers and accepted the role you gave her on Calvary, pray that we all become aware that we live by every word that comes from the mouth of God and show by our actions that we truly believe so.

 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.