16/02/2025

The Psalmist, this morning does not sing only of the security that we can find in the Love of the Lord but warns us that we must not mistake human contentment in life for the eternal blessing that we have been created to find only by knowing, loving and serving IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT

All of the four readings in today's liturgy repeat the same message. Jeremiah rages against God's chosen ones and warns that we must not put our trust in ourselves. Man is not the creator of mankind let alone of the Universe.

Saint Paul explains to those of weakening faith in Corinth and of all times since then that Jesus did live and die but it is the overpowering event of the Resurrection that we must have no doubts about for that is the completion of God's revelation, the "why" and the "how" with which we must live out our lives on Earth.

Many billions of thoughts and words have been written about Jesus and how he alone gives rational meaning to our human life. Amongst all those words "The Lord has risen and appeared to Simon." is the  sentence on which the total revelation by God and our relation to him stands.

All the Old and New Testament contain the record of how God prepared us to become witnesses to this event. The pristine Temple and Law of Moses became human institutions and thus failed to be the evidence of the "Will of God" in this world. The Church founded on St Peter has survived but is growing evermore weaker as its role as a human institution becomes less tenable even than when it was struggling to dominate the secular world on its own terms, by its wealth and power.

Our Saviour in this morning's gospel is not addressing the Temple or the Scribes and Pharisees but is speaking directly to each one of us, even if we are Scribes and Pharisees. 

The Apostles stood with Jesus and saw a multitude. Jesus, however, did not see a multitude as he began to speak, IAMFATHERRSONHOLYSPIRIT saw each person with the love that has created each one of them and us too and blessed us with the eternal love that we and they can ponder within our hearts.

We and they, however, are also free beings and can choose to remain enslaved in the wonder and magnificence that is the worldly creation of mankind alone but Jesus warns us that if we do we will be rejecting the Eternal Reality of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT  that he reveals by his life, death and Resurrection.

 15/02/2025

We shall never know what it was God had intended for his "image and likeness" to be in this created Universe.

The disobedience of Adam/Eve created the sin which has striven to dominate human life ever since the original place for man has been closed off to us as a result of that sin.

It seems that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is a "hard master" but he has never stopped loving his creation for that is his being. The trinity of persons is the perfection of being that is the source of all that is good. It is impossible for God to create anything other than good. 

We can only respond to "Our Father" from the starting place in which we can choose to be during our mortal life-times. 

That place is revealed to us by Scripture. IAMIAM revealed his loving creativeness first in the disobedient  Adam/Eve. Then He chose a people to receive direct revelation of His being but their freedom was misused to become merely a justification for their own self-centredness. 

On Calvary, the dying true man, Son of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT became the source of the grace that is the Holy Spirit renewing the face of the earth revealed to us in the Resurrection.

Although the original garden is closed off to us, Our Father is still only loving and merciful and supports us throughout our lives so that we can choose to be one with the spiritual Body of Christ the Church of Love, the New Holy Family, "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother", that is most definitely, "Not of this world" but founded in the place where never ending Divine Mercy flooded out in human blood. 

Calvary is the place where we have to stand  to choose to live holy lives. If we do that we will become what Our Father has created us to be.

Dear Lord, help me be true to these words with which I try to know love and serve. I think that my intentions are sincere but you know how I still doubt myself as I know that there is no sin of which I am incapable given a change of circumstances. Let me aspire to the holiness with which you lived on Earth for I do know that I am the sole reason for my failures to do your will on Earth as it is done in Heaven. Let my prayers be joined with those of Mary and all the saints for the forgiveness of sinners both in the fluctuations of this world and the certainty of Purgatory. Amen.

 14/02/2025

Thursday Week 5 in Ordinary Time

Today is one of the special days which although of Christian origin has been commercialised to the extent that it has become part of the economic culture of the world and has lost all connection with the saint after whom it was named.

The last time I attended mass in the local church I was denounced from the pulpit for writing a letter which had been published in a national "iffy Catholic" magazine complaining about the presence of Christmas Trees in Catholic Churches.

St Valentine's day and Christmas day are alike in that both have been taken over by the "World" and although the name remains the holiness of "Saint" and the saving perfection of "Christ" have been long forgotten by the people of Mammon, who rejoices at this evidence that we are losing sight of our souls that are mired in Godless Materialism.

The material of which we and all the Universe are made is not evil, God looked at it and saw that it was good. We in our lives in this world have to obey God and thus we can remain good. If we forget God and fill our beings with the delights of material reality we are creating the evils for which many of us put the blame on God.

God did not only create a material Universe. We are all individual souls that are known with Divine Love as spiritual image and likeness. This image and likeness is complete in all respects and so part of our essential being is freedom. This freedom has enabled us to find and understand the impossibly small particles and impossibly great space that make up the material Universe.

We did not find God either in the heights or the depths. He revealed himself to us and informed us that it is by our free recognition of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that we become what he intended for  Adam/Eve in the garden. They were to share in his joy of being.

Just as Adam/Eve were created to do, we either do this by using our bodies to continue the virtuous joy of procreation or choosing to dedicate our complete being, body and soul, to the "follow me" with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT still speaks to our souls

In today's Gospel Jesus is walking back from Tyre and is in the Decapolis on the other side of the Jordan. For most of his life on earth Jesus lived anonymously in the private life of the "Holy Family". Today's Gospel is not the only time that he orders the recipient of healing to keep silent about their miraculous cure. 

He also us tells in another place, that we should not keep the light of our holy joy that comes with faith, hidden. It is no shame to be truly happy in this world.

Dear Lord, help me to remain true to the "know, love , serve" of the penny catechism for those are three words that if followed can ensure that I am on the way. Faith, hope and charity are another trinity of words that can result in doing your will on earth. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is name that is above all. You are the Ever-Greater that is our all loving Father who condemns sin but has forgiven sinners who use his grace to ask for forgiveness in sincerity. May my prayers join those of all other sinners on earth and those welcoming the punishment that is the Justice of Purgatory. And may Mary and all the saints continue to plead my case before you in Heaven. You know that I am weak and easily distracted even as I type these words of petition. Have Mercy. Lord, Have Mercy.

 13/02/2025

Thursday week 5 Ordinary Time

 "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" is the question to which the only one possible answer is the one which is guided by grace.

Man's intelligence is able to interpret the evidence found in the material of this world that is the reality that we can see, touch, taste by using our senses and thus explain the processes by which the universe was created. 

Science does not lie about bodily matter. Nor does God's revelation about our souls.

The Book of Genesis is the beginning of the revelation that is God's evidence of Himself. He is limitless "being" and revealed as such to the descendants of  Adam/Eve. He informs Abraham that he is "IAMIAM" and that he is not an idea within the mind of man but the living reality of the "Good" that he sees in his decision to become manifest.

God created us to be free so it is "good" that we are not straitjacketed by "code" as are our bodies. Those " in charge" of the  world claim that it is a heavy responsibility but, in fact, each individual's personal response to the revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT contained in Old and New Testaments is the only response that matters in the infinite spiritual "Kingdom of Heaven".

Our Incarnate God is a Jew. He has no sin in him. In his Jewish response to the gentile woman he uses a common proverbial saying which enables the woman to speak for all of us who have ever wondered why God favoured the Jews and excluded us.

It has always been hard to be a Gentile. There are, however, no crumbs under the Eucharistic Table just as the only exclusion from the merciful embrace of the Cross is by our own choice.

Dear Lord, I know that my sins make me less than a dog that is soulless but still your creation and does your will by stirring up in our hearts love for all other creatures. Jesus, your Word and Son, became true man, our brother, subject to all the limits of animal being as are all human bodies. You know how I have always been disturbed by the concept of the millions of us who have not had the opportunity to confirm their lives to your will. Help me to pray each day as a public witness to your Love. May my prayers be linked with those of all sinners in this world, always remembering that you came to save the lost sheep, and with the those of the Holy Souls who are still seeking your merciful pardon in Purgatory.

 12/02/2025

Wednesday Week 5 Ordinary Time

Adam and Eve were warned but still disobeyed. 

Jesus tells us that we cannot be "defiled" by anything that we eat. The waste that our digestive system produces is unclean matter which all animals try to clean off their bodies. We have to strive to do the same for our souls.

Jesus is never about surfaces. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is born as incarnate Son to inform from within mankind by word and deed that we need to filter not our intake but our out-put. Our words and deeds have to be only those that in his mortal being, "true man" proves that we too can overcome the failure of Adam and Eve.

Our mortal time is not a constraint for Our Father. The first Chosen People were never completely right in their interpretation of the revelations made to them. Their wonder at their own humanity captivated them to the extent that they created for themselves over the centuries a "Law" and worshipped their own "knowledge" rather than their creator.

Adam and Eve were warned but still disobeyed.

Jesus was born as pure humanity. He is the final revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. All human knowledge is secondary to knowledge and worship of him who lived simply to reveal this to us all. 

The Apostles and Disciples who had lived with Jesus were devasted by his death which came at the instigation of their own friends and families, those of "Temple Faith". The Resurrection purged their beings just as an atomic explosion destroys the face of the earth. Their remaining years were spent in trying to understand how  Jesus had such an effect on their very beings. They obeyed the words of the Lord and spread the "Good News" throughout the world. 

Adam and Eve were warned but still disobeyed.

The New Testament, Jesus' life, death and Resurrection teaches how to live spiritual lives within our human environment. Our greatest priority has to be doing his will on Earth, knowing, loving and serving. Jesus is Jewish but he is not a Jewish Messiah. He is not only True Man but is, first of all, the Word who is also God. We have to follow his way of life recorded in the Good News for he is the only Son in IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

All the Institutional Churches are warned but still disobey.

"My Kingdom is not of this world"

Dear Lord, help me to act in the way that I have always wanted but failed miserably by losing the struggle that Adam/Eve also failed. Obedience should come easy for I know that you are a loving master who knows that we can share the Love that he has for all his people. We can love each other and frequently do but I have also known the opposite of love driven by my sins. You have on the cross paid the price impossible to imagine, for our sin. There is only one sin and that is the disobedience that manifests itself in many ways. The sins of the world and flesh are all too obvious in this world but only you and I are aware of the sin with which I disfigure my soul. May I receive of the grace with which you respond to the prayers of Mary and all the Angels and Saints and may all sinners be open to that grace as are the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen

 

 11/02/2025

Tuesday week 5 of ordinary Time.        Our Lady of Lourdes 

This morning's mass-readings remind us that mankind did not create itself. We are all part of the Universe that is created by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's loving awareness of and joy in his own being, God knows that he is and creates out of that Love.

Mankind is gifted beyond all other bodily creatures. In his self-awareness and rationality he is above all other animals. He is also "image and likeness" in his freedom of soul and power of will. We can choose to adapt and confine ourselves to God's revelation of himself or chase after the material illusions we generate as we lose ourselves in our own egos and prepare to vanish in solely identifying ourselves with the flesh that is certainly going to die.

Our Father knows that his beloved creation, mankind, is capable of much more than we have already achieved with the material of this world. Even though Adam and Eve instantly fought against our Creator he still trusts us with "freedom". All code is based on "on or off". We are not spiritually encoded but trusted to always become "yes" to the loving revelation God never ceases to make. 

I know that mankind fails to be true to itself and its maker whenever we choose to continue on the path that exults in its own power, beauty and creative ability. We have all been created by and to "know, love and serve" the Supreme Being.

Today Jesus faces the "Temple Religion" of his Jewish Humanity and warns for all time that "Institutional Faith" uses our freedom to perform all sorts of "workarounds" when faced with any fundamental question which requires us to completely deny ourselves in choosing to do God's will.

The Pharisees retained ownership of the wherewithal to take care of their aged parents by claiming that it was "dedicated to God". Our "Christian Nations" have always engaged in wars often waged in the "Name of God". "Thou shalt not kill" is the absolute Word  revealed to Moses, reinforced by the personal "Turn the other cheek" but always ignored as nations fulfilled their various "manifest destinies" by the slaughter of each other and especially of the weaker.

This morning Jesus addresses the pharisees who are challenging him but his answer is for all mankind to hear, by quoting from Isaiah,

"This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men".

Dear Lord, help me to live in the pure light of your grace and thus become able to know that I can live according to your will by always being open to Love that you pour out to each individual that composes humanity. We can only do your will when we say "yes" and acknowledge that you are always there to lead us into the holiness that Jesus demonstrated by his life lived for others. There must have been many "anonymous saints" in history for I cannot find a time in written history when "Your will was done on Earth as it is in Heaven". May I never forget, today is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, that we Mary and John are part of your Mystical Body, a New Holy Family within which your grace safeguards me from the snares of the devil and the evil that I can create by saying "no" to what you reveal to me. Amen

 10/02/2025

The creation story that we have received from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT through his O.T. prophets explains how I am able to sit here and read from the recorded revelations of the Love that has created our Universe and all that is, has been and will be within it.

Science can understand the matter which we all know by our bodily senses but does not tell us anything about the "being" which every little "iam" of us knows he has and is. We have been taught firstly by the prophets and finally by SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that all the little "iams" will only come to the final perfection of "image and likeness" when we experience our own deaths.

Today we are challenged by scripture to use our "freedom" to accept our world as the creation of the Supreme Being. We can all understand and know the Love that is generated by the internal relationship of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT only by opening our hearts to receive the Love which is God and which knows every atom of his creation, every particle which confirms the "material being" of this Universe.

At the same time as the event recorded in this morning's Gospel great events were taking place in every corner of the World but there was then and has never since been events as momentous as those unheralded ones that took place over a three year period in Palestine 2 Thousand years ago.

Dear Lord, help me to live out this day without sin. Help me to reconcile my awareness that millions of people did not receive the revelation that you made in Palestine with my belief in the personal freedom that each one of us has to do your will on Earth. You know what I am asking for. Help me face the difficulties that my freedom accepts in its choice to do your will. Your Supreme Sacrifice  and Resurrection in Palestine is enough Mercy to forgive an infinity of Sin so I must limit my little "iam" to the things that, with your Grace, I can understand. Let me join Mary in pondering within my heart and let my prayers join those of he the heavenly in supplication for all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory to truly acknowledge our guilt and humbly beseech your pardon.