07/05/2025

We are coming to the end of the readings from the "The Letter to the Hebrews". It contains the complete guidance of how we are to live in this world guided by the preaching of the Apostles and the other church leaders of the first Christian Century.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

I had to have a look at "Wikipedia" to see which of the Herodians it was who ordered the execution of John the Baptist. Then I had to forcibly drag myself away from the fascinating history of the Idumean Dynasty which had gained control of Israel. 

Although we live in changeable time we have to be always with the Lord in the present moment that is summed up by:

                           Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

We are only alive and able to respect the will of "Our Father" in our moments of pure conscious being. That is why St Paul tells us to remain awake and in the garden Jesus reprimands the Apostles when they fall asleep.

It is not easy to live in the awareness of the presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but we can do. There is nothing in our human life that is more important than conforming to the will of Our Father. Everything that we need to know and do this is revealed by Scripture and we can be sure that we can do this because

     Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

 06/02/2005

Today St Mark records what he had heard from Peter about the first mission that had been entrusted to the twelve. They were to walk through the towns and villages of Palestine without any preparation and proclaim that ........?

After the Resurrection and Pentecost it is obvious that they would  proclaim Jesus to be "the Son of God" but there was nothing new about teaching the people to "repent". They were still not sure that Jesus was the "promised one" for he did not meet any of their expectations about the Messiah and his instructions for them to go, without any preparations, in absolute poverty did not impress them let alone any potential believers.

They would, however, not have been completely unknown for John had prepared the way and Jesus was mystifying "multitudes" by his presence and ability to cure the sick. He was already known to the "Temple" as a "wonder-worker" who was therefore a challenge to their place in the World as the only mediators between IAMIAM and the people of God.

Jesus tells us that "True Faith" can move mountains. He himself cured the sick by his words alone. He had changed water into wine at Cana for the humdrum reason of saving his acquaintances from social embarrassment at the non-too- happily received request of his mother. He brought dead people back to life. He fed multitudes with very little resources. He also passed on this power to defy the laws of nature to his Apostles.

It is no wonder that the miracles of Jesus caused the multitudes to flock around him. Those who first heard the words of his teaching, however, were appalled to the extent that they wanted to throw him off a cliff.

The Miracles of Jesus are by the limitless power of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT acting within temporal reality. They are part of the Good News that is the Resurrection and the teaching of Jesus. We may feel that we do not need them to believe in the teacher of the Beatitudes but they were necessary to prove to the "Institutional Temple"  that they, the Chosen Ones had lost their way and had yet again broken the covenants which their Ancestors had made IAMIAM.

Our churches are haemorrhaging the faithful and yet the Institutions continue to bolster themselves. e.g. Jubilee year in Rome. The first "preachers" sent out by Jesus were explicitly told to take nothing with them. How can today's readings be ignored by those who should be clamouring for all their worldly tasks to be removed so that they can concentrate on achieving the holiness that is the only thing asked from each one of us in this life.

We can all access the Grace that is available for all who are willing to repent. We do, however have to be 100% sincere in our admission of the guilt that needs the torture and death of Christ to create that grace which is the only source of Salvation. "Rejoice for our Saviour liveth".

 05/02/2025

Everything that we know about Jesus the "true man" amounts to less than 30% of his time on earth.

We are known in our only being by "Our Father", his and mine, 100% of the time from our conception to the last breath we take.

Today the Letter to the Hebrews continues the support that came from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to the first Christians. The letter can be dated but the revelation is of the eternal grace that we can receive to enable us to live in worldly time in holiness as part of the creation that God looked upon and saw that it was good.

Holiness is not only virtue that is attained by the few whom we recognise as saints. 

We know how the "friends" of Jesus carried out their mission and remained dedicated to their memory of him by spreading the Good News. Among the first Christians there are also many examples of heroic faith who lost their lives in their attempt to be true to their "vocation" which had become their freely accepted conversion to the way, truth and light that had first illuminated first century Palestine but is for the benefit of all mankind.

It was not easy for St Agatha to defend herself. St Stephen knew in the last minutes of his life that he could retract and thus avoid the rocks that were being thrown at his immobilised, helpless body.

We know the names of many saints but there were many other people of whom we know nothing who had been parts of the "multitudes" that listened to Jesus and the Apostles and then had lived "normal" lives but in a state of holiness, not as the Pharisees in search of worldly recognition, but always turned inwardly, obedient to God.

I am sure that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows each of us as a unique being. He is the support of all that we do if our intentions are first of all to act within his will. I am equally sure that I must not treat lightly the sinfulness that has marred my life. I may relax in my trust in my repentance and the mercy of God but I must not forget that it is I who hammer nails through the human hands and feet of SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Holiness knows that Salvation was won for us, but its reality it was not as easy as reading or meditating about it.

Dear Lord, help me to grow in faith, be truly repentant for my past sins and to withstand the temptations that fill our world with the attractiveness that deceives so many of us into sin. In an ongoing effort to reach holiness, a day, an hour, a minute or even a second can be a long time. Without your grace to uplift me, I know that I could in the twinkling of an eye lose all hope of Eternity. I am however known by You and live in the unseen body of believers that turns in prayer to your Mother as she is also ours. I know that there are no "anonymous Christians" for you and that every little one of us receives the same  loving grace from you. It is our responses to it that make you seem to favour some more than others. With your help, I can drive out the roots of bitterness that can so easily germinate to bring sin into dominance in my life. I make these prayers to FATHERSONHOLYSPIRT calling on the grace won for us by Mary, Agatha and all the Saints, that we sinners still living lives on Earth and the Holy Souls in Purgatory may be forgiven our sins. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit .Amen

 04/02/2025

When the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews used the image of a "cloud" to refer to the mass of witnesses that had already testified to the events and preaching that still bring the Good News to us today and every other day that has passed since Jesus left his Apostles, his mother, and all the other eye-witnesses to the Event and events that confirmed to the Jews and revealed for all of us who have lived since those days that our sins can be forgiven, he had no idea that the same image would become the symbol for the human manipulation of matter that is able to store and record all the events of human history including what I am writing now. 

"The Cloud" is everywhere and is able to know everything. It can be accessed by anyone. It can become aware of every breath I take. It can deliver immeasurable real-time rewards in the currency of this world to its servants and creators.  It seems like God but its origin is totally man. All the previous self-created idols of mankind had eyes, but could not see, ears but could not hear, mouths but could not speak. Now our New Mammon can replicate all that our living brains can do and so fascinate us that it blocks us from responding to Our Father.

I have lived never becoming subsumed in the things of this world. Or so I tell myself. I could always despise the vanity that needed fancy clothes, that chose to watch the most banal of TV. I have sold off many of my clothes but still have two wardrobes to clear out and the last 4 hours of everyday I spend in front of the rubbish that I congratulate myself for choosing to watch because it is rubbish.

The course of the race that we all have to run in our lives is not laid out for us but is created by our own wills. St Paul, if it is he who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews, tells us that we ourselves can recognise the course that we have to become and remain sinless to follow.  

The true course that is to be completed demands that we freely align our wills to the revelations with which we too are guided. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is the gentle breeze that blasts away all the clouds or products of "The Cloud" within which easily lose our way. He is the kindly light that never fades and can only be obscured by our refusal to be found.

 03/02/2025

Unlike their contemporary Scribes and Pharisees, the writers of the New Testament are not trying to impress anyone by the extent of their knowledge.

They are trying to fulfill, as best they can, the "Good News" that they have witnessed in person or have had proclaimed to them by those who spent three years of their lives with the person that is "The Good News". The Good News that is the outcome of all the revelations that comprise the Old Testament. 

The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews has been nurtured in and thus acquired the culture favoured by IAMIAM. The lore of  Old Testament is known to him in the detailed Law of Moses which for him had been his reason for being.

The Ancient Israelites had suffered as a people and as individuals for centuries but in the days of Our Lord they still retained both the Temple and the Law and were living in the calm of the first "Pax Romana".

IAMIAM had originally trusted Abraham and then his descendants with the ability of how to know that he is the "Lord, the God of Israel".

No man can know God. No man is without freedom. No man is sinless.

The Incarnation changes everything for humanity. Mary's son, is a man who knows God as his very self. First of all the people of Palestine then the whole world are encouraged to use our freedom to choose the Good News. Jesus, through his death and resurrection  reveals how  that the death of each  can be followed by the new life of resurrection when we walk the sinless path he treads out for us.

The only ones, Scribes and Pharisees, ever condemned by Jesus were not condemned for their learning as such but for the stubborn pride that still refuses the revelation that the  "I" of IAMIAM IS FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Our God has never encoded anything into our conscious beings but expects us to use our freedom to believe the evidence that is revealed by those who were his prophets from of old and by the Good News that is part of our daily Christian worship whether in a Church or in our hearts.

In our personal freedom we have the ability to know, love and serve thus becoming the image and likeness that we have been created to be.

 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 ?