02/02/2025

Sometimes I am just an empty being (IknowthatIam) as I wait for the moment that I come alive and begin the thought that thanks God for this known "wonder of being". That is a "thought" that should always be my spiritual environment as I live out each day. 

Even the perfection that is Jesus' human flesh, however, in the agony of crucifixion cried out in the desolation of the inevitability of bodily death felt by his human soul, the words of the psalmist "Eli, eli lamasabach tani". 

Today Mary and Joseph adhere to the Jewish ritual that required the dedication of the first-born son to IAMIAM. Two devotees present in the Temple at that time recognise the eternal perfection of this newly born child. Mary and Joseph are simply overawed and filled with wonder at the will of Our Father which is now dominating their lives.

Jesus is true man.

"True" man, however means that he was as untouched by sin as was the first Adam/Eve at the moment the freedom of being that is mankind's was created by the will of God out of his created material that is the totality of the visible universe within which we have our being.

The baby Jesus filled the souls of Mary/Joseph with an awesome exclamation of joy that was replicated in Simeon and Anna and became an irresistible attraction to the adult apostles and disciples.

Mary, from the moment of the incarnation, and the Apostles, during their real-time experience, were brought to the sure knowledge that Jesus is also Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed "in those times" as his supreme being who knows each one of us "person to person". 

Jesus is "True God".

That group of first century Jews were the recipients of the unimaginable Good News for each and every other human being. They have been blessed in the visible "Real-Presence" and so have we who have been blessed by Our Saviour for the sincerity of our spiritual belief although we have not seen with our physical sight.

Dear Lord, help me to lose all traces of pride and know that even the greatest of this world are also souls who need your Love and our prayers. May our rulers and their stewards remember that you trust them as much as you trust me to do your will in our lifetimes and that at the moment of our deaths it is by the record of our deeds in life that we will be known/judged, not by our presentation of self or our self-esteem. Help me to live sinlessly today. Accept these thoughts and prayers for what they are. My sincere attempt to do your will on Earth as it is done in Heaven. May I too share in the praise of Mary and all the saints as together with all the angels as we seek your pardon for all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory. Amen

 01/02/2025

I don't think that we can ever "sing a "new" song to the Lord" for it seems to me that all my prayers are always a renewal of belief, praise and petition.

Each one of us who thus sings to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is the same person as yesterday but the deeds of this day are never the same as those of yesterday as we all are carried along in the stream of the ever changing time of material reality.

The Jews who were the intended recipients of the Letter to Hebrews were intimately aware that IAMIAM had made a special revelation of himself and his intentions for mankind to their Father Abraham and to them through the Prophets.

In the first century only some of the Chosen People had accepted that there had been an event in their lifetimes that had renewed the face of the earth.

Jesus!

They had been inspired to sing with Simeon the song of praise that is the "new song" of the New Israel, the New Covenant between the now self-revealed to be IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and all the peoples who have lived, are living or who will ever live out their lives in creation.

All we individuals from the time of our births carry with us the burden of our own cultures. The burden, St Paul's "smoked glass, or maybe the shadows of Plato's cave becomes heavier and heavier for we individuals to off-load as the density of our knowledge of the material world becomes ever more greater by the efforts of mankind acting alone in freedom.

The Jews who first refused Jesus are still with us and have been joined by many of the spiritual descendants of the first Christian believers. Although most have now added total atheism to their refusal of Jesus, they still act as the "chosen ones" and burdened by this cultural "superiority" arrogantly kill and slaughter thus denying that non-Jews have a right to live in this world.

Such opinions as these always prompt accusations of "Anti-Semitism". I believe, however, that all actions by mankind are the result of an individual man's freedom and can thus be or not be in accordance with the revealed will of God.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT does not march with any of the world's armies but condemns all killing by both sides in the Middle-East today or in any of the world's conflicts, past, present or to come.

I am sure that Our Father does forbid the use of violence in the corporal existence which is part of our being but I have never had to react to anyone using or threatening to use violence against me or my friends and family.

Many of the Christians who have preceded me in historical time have believed in the concept of a "Just War" but the past  destruction often wreaked in the name of God has never been willed by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.  

The carnage of Crusaders or the destroyers of Dresden is not the actions of men who live in the  Good News brought by he who sought the forgiveness of Heaven for the Sinners who nailed him to the wood of the cross both by their sins and actual nails, in real-time, through his human flesh.

All sins can be forgiven except for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. We have been warned and yet we have always developed with our knowledge of the material world weapons that are designed to kill more and more of our fellow humans.

Could this be blasphemy against the Holy Spirit ?

 31/01/2025

Those who had first met in the Portico of Solomon had become spread out through their world by the time the "Letter to the Hebrews had been written".

The Palestinian Jews and "Gentile God Fearers" had suffered greatly. Firstly at the hands of the Temple and then during the war that had destroyed the Temple and greatly added to the "Dispersion", the Jews scattered throughout the Empire.

I know that it is easy to lose the focus that trying to keep IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to the forefront of my mind entails.

It was no easier then for those, some of whom had even seen Jesus, the crucifixion and Resurrection and listened to the Galilean Apostles and St Paul.

In those years of disappointment at the still unfulfilled promise of the "Second Coming", Faith Hope and Love could only be maintained by human endurance supported by each person's sincere commitment to keeping each heart open to the Holy Spirit, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to become one of those who "have faith and preserve their souls".

It is exactly the same for us today. And so is the alternative!

 30/01/2025

I have not been to mass for several years. I had always thought that nothing could keep me from the Church but here am I a lone soul trying to do God's will.

Since the day of my public humiliation by priest and by myself I have not lost touch with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. I always try to begin each day with prayerful reflection on the mass readings for the day and I always try to understand; become clear in my own mind about them so as to align myself  with the intentions of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

God knows that I do not try to bolster my own ego or excuse my own sin in these reflections that are my witness to the revelation that is Old and New Testament. I am saddened by my personal sin but know that this time remaining to me is the gift that enables me to seek forgiveness and mercy. 

I have also been saddened by the realization that the Church founded on St Peter through which I believed  I was being shown the "way, truth and light" has always been more focused on its place in the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom of heaven.

The disagreements we read of in the Acts of the Apostles and the Apostolic Letters were the intellectual ferment out of which our "Creeds and Dogmas" were formed.

The Church Fathers who developed those "Creeds and Dogmas" were as sophisticated and well educated as any subsequent Theologians, living or dead. So were their opponents. Thus "disagreements" became well-argued "Heresies" and in the East the Empire took on the Ecclesiastical role of purging the state of heretics. To do the same in Rome the Pope took on the role of Emperor even to the extent of using his titles. 

I know that Jesus has never lied to us and he has promised to be with us until the end of time. He definitely founded a "Church" on St Peter but I have to ask where this can be found in the worldly institutions descended from those of Byzantium and of the Papal States.

I believe that, on Calvary speaking directly to Mary and John, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, Jesus,  created the New Holy Family which is our sure hope of salvation sealed by his death and witnessed by his Resurrection. This is the Mystical Body of Christ preached by St Paul but never exclusively inherent in any human institution.

Today the Letter to the Hebrews tells me that I should not keep myself to myself but I should meet with others to encourage and be encouraged; to share in the Faith of the community of believers.

I can do no more than this.

 29/01/2025

The mass-readings for today contain the complete guidance that we need to live out our lives in the holiness that God intends for us all to use our freedom to attain.

The Letter to the Hebrews confirms  that the Temple sacrifices are now useless.  Jesus' sacrifice of himself has surpassed the religion of the Scribes and Temple. He is in his death the "saving victim" who has in a truly human freedom created the means for us to access the eternal loving mercy that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. By our sins we block off ourselves from God.

We have been living for the last 2000 years in the new covenant made on the cross that has been extended beyond the previous racial limitations to encompass the whole of humanity past, present and to come.

The Gospel, however, although it presents a straightforward image of how the one "word" can be received differently by the free beings who hear it, in Jesus' own interpretation we are faced with "to you has been given the secret of the power of God. But for those outside everything is in parables, they may indeed see and not perceive, they may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven."

We are advised that we should always receive "the hard sayings" of Jesus within the complete testimony that is scripture. Jesus is here quoting from Isaiah. It is a phrase that may have become proverbial but its plain sense cannot be ignored as it can be read as putting into question  our greatest gift from God "life in freedom to choose".

Dear Lord, you know that my prayers are always the same in that I know you in your Love for "sinful man" and strive to serve you by obedience. You know that I often have fallen short of these intentions in my past behaviours but hope that the state of my present being has become far closer to your image of what I could have been had I not succumbed to the temptations harboured in the stupidity of myself listening and acting out these sins that surround all of us during our lives on this earth. May my prayers become one with those of Mary and all the faithful souls who in their freedom have accessed the Grace that opens the gates of Infinity to those who look for, find and obey the Truth that is always available as the benefits of the bounty created for us in real human suffering and death on the cross by Jesus Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and son of Mary, the loving mother who has always been the perfection of humanity for which each of us should strive. May my soul become as are the Holy Souls confirmed in opposition to sin and aware that my punishment only comes close to what it deserves because of that final High-Priestly Sacrifice on Calvary that can also be the bloodless sacrifice of the altar.

 28/01/2025

My prayer for this day begins with the mass-readings for today, The Feast of St Thomas Aquinas. 

All of the Old Testament is a revelation made exclusively to the Jews. The Letter to the Hebrews is the summation of how scripture, New and Old, can guide all of us as we continue to live in this world.

It seems that it could have been written before the destruction of the Temple had stopped the animal sacrifices that sealed the covenants between IAMIAM and his Chosen People. It is  possible that this dating of the letter could be wrong but it is certain that it was written in the  "real-time" of the generation whose Institutions had crucified Our Lord. 

In their own sincerity those who brought about Jesus' death thought that they were doing the will of IAMIAM, "God's will" by protecting the "Law" from blasphemers.

In the reality of creation, the Incarnation, Jesus, was doing God's will by becoming the Human Sacrifice to complete the revelations of IAMIAM by revealing IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and his total love for Creation.

By becoming truly the brother of all mankind and revealing his Love that has forgiven all our sins IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT does not reject any of the mothers, brothers sisters who are doing the will of Our Father by trying to find a place for our being in the reality of His.

Today I am able to access the intellectual work of St Thomas. He and all the other dead great brains who have left a record of themselves, are, we must all pray, in the presence of God who is so much more than even they could conceive.

Nobody can think his/her way into heaven but it is there for the asking. 

The arms Jesus stretched out on the cross are still open to receive us into his New Holy Family of sincere believers who genuinely live only to do the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and reject the human self-will of the ones that crucified Our Saviour, made a Burnt-Offering of their descendants and continue to slaughter in the stiff-necked arrogance that only their father can forgive.

 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