09/02/2025

Isaiah's first reaction to the concrete vision of God that is the beginning of his inspiration to preach the Word, is one of fear.

I think that I have experienced something like that fear when in a repeated childhood dream I have been part of a vast surging emptiness which I have tried to capture in my mind, a rolling nothingness overwhelming me and thus woken up in nothing but fear. 

All the Old Testament prophets had one simple message from IAMIAM to his people "Become Holy for IAM Holy and you have to become my image and likeness in this finite creation of mine."

It is still the same message that St Paul preaches to the Corinthians. Jesus is the Incarnate Holiness of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Paul did not witness the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In fact he was part of the Temple's persecution of the Twelve and their first disciples. He was captured by the Resurrection and thus filled with grace, the Holy Spirit of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and has remained holy by continuing to do the will of God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Isaiah became a willing disciple "Here I am send me". Paul was converted into Apostleship by "Saul wherefore persecuteth thou me?" The first Apostles are in today's Gospel going about their daily tasks and recruited by SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men".

All of us have to open ourselves to the Holy Spirit and pray that we can discern the right path that is our only way to fulfil the will of God. 

God speaks to us in many tongues so who benefits from new liturgical texts? The Institutional Church is still entwined with Mammon.

 08/02/2025

The Letter to the Hebrews that is brought to conclusion in this morning's first reading is written to those who are having to adjust to the "Good News" revealed by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT through the life death and Resurrection of Jesus the incarnate Son.

The Temple is still standing in Jerusalem. The followers of the "Way" are only being persecuted by the High Priests in Jerusalem. Peter and Paul have reached Rome where the first Roman persecution is about to break out. Antioch has designated us "Christians" but the Jewish adherents of Resurrection Faith are still arguing amongst themselves what the Incarnation means for them the chosen people.

Those of us who are today aiming to live by the revealed will of God know that we are known and loved by  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.  We cannot be "at rest" in any nation, community, religion or family to know the peace that comes from God.

We can all, however, open our own hearts to the "Good Shepherd" for he pours out over even our broken world the spiritual grace that is the "being" that is created "in the beginning" as "image and likeness" to be accessed by our choice to do his will in our lifetimes.

We have to become part of the multitude that searches out Jesus in the desolate parts of our hearts and even in the Godless Mammon that dominates the "World" we renounce in our foundational vows.

We can all find the encouragement and support we need to live out holy lives in the first century life of Christ and in the Scriptures that proclaim the Glory and Loving-Kindness of Our Father who knows us better than we know ourselves and forgives all who respond in sincerity.

To do this we have to repeat our "conversion" by never doing anything that is forbidden by our God.

 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.