27/01/2024

"The devil, the strong man, Beelzebub makes work for idle hands. There are so many ways in this world that we can feel that our hands are not idle. 

Yesterday I suffered from a broken keyboard and spent hours trying to find a solution. I did not think that I was "idle" during that time. Everyday we are all busy with the things of this world and as a result forget to bind the "strongman" who still attacks wherever and whenever he sees an opportunity.

We all live in our bodies and consequently have necessary tasks to maintain them.

Yesterday St Paul reminded us that our important life is in the being we have as members of the "Body of Christ". Today the readings help us to understand why this is so. Those who first formed the " Mystical Body" had either known, seen or heard about Christ as Jesus of Nazareth. I know that we  belong to the then future believers who receive Christ's blessing for "those who do not see ".

The Scribes and Pharisees knew themselves to have been appointed by IAMIAM as guardians of the Law of Moses to which the majority of the first century believers owed their allegiance. They were so captivated by their own unique relationship with God, so filled with their own self-importance that they had to vilify Jesus' miracles as the work of the devil.

Our Father who is also our Brother, Son of God, Son of Mary, and our resurrected evidence of the Mercy of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals in today's readings that we can all be at peace in the certainty of the Loving Kindness that is Mercy.

We do have to cooperate, however, by turning our focus away from the things of this world and recognising that we can do nothing of greater importance in this life than proclaiming that the unspeakable humiliation of a man on the cross is the humility of the source of the eternal Redeeming Covenant of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT with the mankind who continue to reject him.

It is the Holy Spirit that is always ready to enter into our hearts and minds that know the material world and our place in it will pass away but still cannot take the first step to follow Jesus into eternal Joy.

We are all closer to the "unforgiveable sin" than I fear to think about.

Dear Lord, help us to avoid all sin and to renounce the "strong-man" who even in his defeated-state is determined to take us with him into the total pain that is his self-created-self. Help me to continue to seek out your Grace to be shared with the whole world and the Holy Souls as we are all supported by the prayer that is the verry being of Mary and the forgiven saints who are now truly part of your creation, i.e. Love and Mercy. Amen

 24/01/2025

There are always two parties to any legal agreement.

The "Letter to the Hebrews" today reminds us that the Love which our ever-faithful Father gives to the whole world is the original enlightenment that took the form of "contracts" between himself and his people, Israel.

Our God knows what he has created. In his Divinity he is beyond human understanding. There are no degrees of knowledge in the eternity that is Our Father. Everything that exists, has existed or will exist is known in its totality by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

God has revealed in Creation that our human being is the manifestation of his Love. He first revealed this to Israel who had to learn how to use the freedom that is essential for the  being created to become his image and likeness.

Israel, the Jews, have always become so overpowered by their wonder at their own beings that they have become for themselves IAMIAM even though some of them they still utter "Lord, Lord" from their mouths as they perpetrate on others the same evil that has so often victimized them. 

Gaza now shares the evil of Auschwitz.

The first ministers of the Church that is God's completion of his revelation are appointed in today's Gospel. It was after the Resurrection that they became truly aware of the significance of the events of which they had been a part even though only the three Marys and John remained to witness the bitter end.

They were completely human and without the physical presence of the Lord to guide them they were soon able to become victims of their own ego-dominated intelligent freedom of will and began the quarrels and divisions that are still part of the Church founded on St Peter.

There is also the never to be forgotten Church of Love, the New Holy Family created by  Jesus' words from the cross to his mother and dearest friend, John. This is the unseen Mystical Body of Christ aimed for but never attained by any of the human institutions we know as church.

Dear Lord, help me to avoid all temptations and respond to your call with sincerity of heart. Let my thoughts be guided to your Truth. I hope that I am still growing in understanding of you and not swelling my own ego as I write these prayerful thoughts. May I become obedient as was Mary but with an unuttered "How can this be?" recognise your will for me and follow it faithfully until I breathe my last breath. May my family, my world and all other sinners be open-hearted to receive your Mercy and may our souls and the Holy Souls come to the knowledge of our own faults that we have to have before we can be forgiven by your suffering human being you freely offered up for the the righting of the my sins and all the sin of the world which has so malformed the Good of creation.

 23/01/2025

I can understand why there are many scholars who are unwilling to attribute the "Letter to the Hebrews" to the Galilean fisherman John. It seems that the interpretation of Jesus he presents to the Jewish Christians is the result of educated deep reflection on the "being" and deeds of his friend Jesus.

The Gospel of St John is similarly as much theological reflection as it is a "memoir" of the days he spent with Jesus, the miracles he witnessed and the Glory that overcame him on Mount Tabor. All these events are sealed and overshadowed by the Resurrection. If this letter, the Gospel and the Apocalypse are the Spirit inspired work of one man then we have to be in awe at the depth of thought and recollection of which one human is capable.

David sings his delight in the beauty of the Lord. He knows that IAMIAM is truly worshiped by the lives of his people who do his will. The animal sacrifices of his priests are unnecessary for although the Temple is magnificent it is by listening for the Word and being obedient to it that we are able to sing with the joy that comes from knowing IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

In today's gospel, the crowds that pressed about Jesus on the beach at Capernaum have become the billions of believers who have followed them over the last 2000 years and many of those have added by thought, word and deed to what is the recorded collective response of humanity to FATHERSON HOLYSPIRIT by the awareness of being that is the soul of each of us.

In a very small way that is what these few lines are doing. My being is responding to what I have learnt, said and done in my own life always in the living presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who knows every hair on my head, my response to the temptations of devil, world and flesh and the sincerity of my acceptance of the guidance he reveals to the whole world in the Scriptures.

Dear Lord,  you know the puniness of my mind and body. There is so much knowledge in the world and so many intellects that are far greater than mine. I thank you that we are all known equally by you and that you did suffer and die to create the grace that is your free gift to us all. May my prayers be united with those of the whole world, sinners and righteous, with Mary and the Saints of Heaven and with the Holy Souls who although suffering now have complete understanding that your Mercy is far greater than any of us can deserve. Grant that I may live out my life in peace and that I never forget the evil violence that is being perpetrated throughout the world on my brothers and sisters by my brothers and sisters who regardless of their deeds can also become your forgiven. They like us have only to ask and they will be saved. We really do need for you to return Dear Lord. Come Lord, Jesus come back to us. Amen.

 22/01/2022

The reading from the "Hebrews" in today's mass presents us with an event in Jerusalem about which there can only be speculation.

Melchizedek is presented as an ever-living being about whom nothing is known except his name and his entry into Jewish/Christian consciousness as an "eternal high-priest" who was known to IAMIAM and thus become a legitimate receiver of the tithe which Abraham wanted to make as a thanks-giving offering for the benefits he continued to receive from his Father in Heaven.

For us the Holiness of the Holy Land primarily rests in the life, death, resurrection there of Jesus but for the Jews of Jesus' day the very soil of the Holy Land was holy and had always been so even before Abraham had first taken possession.

In the Synagogue this morning Jesus, who is becoming well-known, is aware that all eyes are upon him; that priests and scribes are looking for ammunition to fire accusations at him; that he is in the process of becoming the final Revelation of human relationship with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that will be recorded for posterity in the Gospels; that he will be challenged by those adversaries who will become the politicoreligious clique that will organise his death.

As true man Jesus was both angered and saddened by their trickery. As SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT he knew that what was happening to and through him would bring forgiveness to all generations of mankind. 

He also knew that many of us would lose sight of his divine revelation just had his fellow country men for whom he was going to become the first fruits of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S final revelation, the Resurrection.

 

 21/01/2024

The psalmist is able to sing out his praise to IAMIAM in words that come directly from his heart and is thus able to inspire us who not only hear but also listen and cherish them.

We have only to open our eyes and we can see the wonders of our material world in the light that is because God ordered it "to be".

We are the bodies of which we are aware because our total beings are the work of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

We can become "Saints" when we  order our lives to justify God's trust in us to be able to become his "image and likeness".

In the Letter to the Hebrews today the first believers are encouraged to continue to serve "the Saints". The first saints were not canonised souls as is today's St. Agnes and the many other names that fill out the Ecclesiastical Calendar.

Those Saints then and today are the living, breathing and eating human beings the neighbours whom by loving as our selves we begin to follow in the footsteps of the Resurrection, the way of life that leads to the personal holiness that is the intended image and likeness of our creator.

Thou shalt love the Lord our God with all thy might and all thy strength and your neighbour as your self.

Dear Lord, help me to continue to find in your scriptures for each daily mass the confirmation of faith, the trust in hope for forgiveness and the love for you and all humanity that becomes the individual holiness that defeats the evil that is disfiguring the world. Let me be so aligned with your saints that my prayers can be united with Mary, Angels and all the saints and my soul thus become, although useless on its own, somewhat an of "image and likeness" so that I can ask for your Mercy for me my family, and all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory. Help me to truly know that without your trust in me I can do nothing on my own.  I make this prayer in the name of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT your revelation of your being preserved in the scriptures. Amen

 20/01/2025

The writer of the letter to the Hebrews knows Jesus to be the supreme perfection of the High Priesthood. The Temple priests of his day were responsible for the Temple Rites. They act as intermediaries between the people and IAMIAM.

They slaughter the animal sacrifices and use the blood and burnt flesh to sanctify themselves and the people.

All around them in the Nations, the heathen were doing the same thing to appease the life-less objects of their own creation that they called gods.

Jesus knew that his people Jew, Greek and we their descendants could not live our lives dependent on our own freedom alone. He knew that we would get ourselves lost in the material wonderland of his creation and that we needed to understand more of his being than had his chosen people who had lost sight of him in their absorption into the joys of their own intelligence and beings in this world.

In the Annunciation to Mary he reveals himself to be IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and it is to confirm this that Jesus lives his life of loving example completely for us by becoming the completion of all blood sacrifices and teaches us that we can become holy as he is by focussing on our inner-beings, our souls and their worship of him.

The Church he founded on Peter soon became as wrapped up in its own self as its predecessors the Jews had ever been and also became just as tangled up in this world as Israel had also always been.

Although we have to doubt the legalistic priesthood of  all the Christian Churches (by their deeds you shall know them) we can rest in the arms of our Saviour outstretched to embrace the whole world as he utters his last words to Mary and John. This is the kingdom that is not of this world, the completely spiritual "New Holy Family", Jesus' Church of Love which will be with us till the end of time.

19.01/2025

God's revelation to Isaiah becomes beautiful literature as he tries to deliver it in his own words to God's people, Israel.

St Paul has been blasted by God into an unquestioning Faith that after getting approval from the other Apostles he walked and sailed around the Empire bringing the Good News to the whole world.

Jesus begins his public life by responding to his mother's unspoken request at a wedding feast in an obscure location in Palestine.

What about us? 

Do we in 2025 also fail to become the image and likeness, that was God's revealed intention for the Children of Abraham finalised by the Resurrection, as did his original chosen ones.

God's answer to that failure by his first chosen-ones is the Incarnation, Crucifixion and Resurrection.

Has our Institutional Church ever truly lived up to the preaching that it first heard from the Apostles and was codified in the Scriptures for that is all we late-comers have that we can implicitly trust with our souls.

We all as individuals have to live by the Scriptures because IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has in the Resurrection completed his revelation of how we can, each one of us, do his will and become ever closer to his image and likeness thus becoming a new song to be sung to the Lord as we  bless his Holy Name in chorus with David

Jesus sealed his promise to be with us always by his words from the cross to Mary and John on Calvary.

We all can become his creative intention for each of us only by completely aligning our wills with His.