22/02/2025

St. Peter's Chair in Rome

In the Liturgical Calendar that was in use during the first years of my life this feast was celebrated on my birthday so it was always of interest to me. In those days today was the feast of St Peter's Chair in Antioch.

The Liturgy is not the only change in Jesus' foundation on the faith of Simon bar-Jonah that I have witnessed during my Lifetime.

I often wonder why the Incarnation happened at the time it did.

I am sure that the many failures of the Chosen People to maintain their relationship with IAMAIAM in this world came about because of the sins of each individual Jew. The righteousness of some was not enough to overcome the evil created by the sins of the many. 

Mankind has been created with the freedom able to achieve the Holiness that is the reflection of the creative Love that bursts forth from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and can be recognised by each soul that is created to become image and likeness.

Our God knows each one of us. 

We have created for ourselves communal units of being that share their human love. God responded to the collective Jews by revealing to the Prophets how each individual unit of being had to become holy.

No man can know God.

God knows that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is impossible for us to know and before time began, in the beginning Son is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Jesus is true "Light from light", "True God from True God" "Begotten not made" He is the Being through whom all of creation comes into existence. He is also Son of Mary for the holiness that is the purpose of creation is not thrust upon us for us to discover as are the laws of material science. The complete revelation about mankind's place in creation is made by the only "true man".

Two thousand years ago in Palestine, Jesus walked, talked and completed the wonder of God's revelation.

He inaugurated a community of believers who were to maintain the visible signs of God's love for creation, the blood that flowed during the passion of Our Lord becomes the grace of the Sacraments.

Of course, I still do not know why Jesus came when he did. 

Yesterday Jesus referred to the people of his time on Earth and to us also, for we still have the Lord present among us, as "an adulterous and sinful generation". I now should ask of "Our Father" whether there has ever been a time in the history of the world when any of one of mankind's, with the exception of the Holy Family, families, churches, nations been without sin.

If we keep ourselves free from sin each of us can be part of the Mystical Body which can join each individual human being, through Mary and John, to the Crucified Lord whose human pain becomes the Glory of the Resurrection, The Saviour of the World.

We can only do this for ourselves for, although Church can help us, Jesus is the only Eternal Word and Temple through which we all came into being and can also return to God. 

As individual's we came and it as individuals we shall all return.

 21/02/2025

Friday week 6 Ordinary Time

In the Old Testament the Jews are inspired to keep a record of their response to God's revelation of himself. The Old Testament is the only record on which we can follow the development of our ensouled bodies that comprise humanity. 

In it we can find the words of those, who, just as I am trying to do at this moment, tried to have a rational response to the Being who is still the Creator of the wonders of the objective reality in which they became subjectively self-aware.

Adam, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David are some of the names, inspired by IAMIAM, of those who strove to keep humanity aware that we are all more than the DNA which we share with material creation, for the "I" which is intimately known by each individual one of us is also known by God.

The Chosen People were surrounded on Earth by powerful empires, advanced philosophies, dynamic cultures but only they were chosen to remain conscious that ONEGOD loved and guided them.

Throughout the Old Testament prophets were the messengers who reminded them that the Law of Moses was the not some human thinking. God commands us to live with each other and that each one of us has to obey the ten Commandments revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai.

In the announcement of the Incarnation to Mary, God finalizes his support for the Jews and in so doing reveals that IAMIAM is in reality IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The Tower of Babel symbolises the break up of Adam's family on earth. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the unifying Son, true man and true God who enables us to follow the Law of Moses and use the freedom "image and likeness" of our being to choose to be part of this "adulterous and sinful generation" or follow the way, the truth and the life to remain standing with Mary, and all the angels and saints dead in body but living in the light that is the life of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

 20/02/2025

Yesterday I was knocked back by a very unimportant accident coupled with the Old Testament reading about Noah and the Flood. 

I do these reflections as my response to all that the Scriptures reveal and I want to accept both the Old and the New as the record of God's dealings with mankind. He is "Our Father" and we his children who are born  to do His will on Earth. We are part of the concrete creation that is generated as material being out of the Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S self-awareness.

As I wrote the above, I too was aware of myself and realised that the sincerity that produced that paragraph was truly from my heart; at those moments I was totally concentrated into being a "human will" striving to become an image and likeness, with limited capacity for knowing but able to choose to serve and to love.

My denture plate broke.

I know that there are millions of us alive today who  have never known anything but ill-health during their lives There are many wicked men living at this moment. Children are being abused. Babies are being killed even before they have been born.

But from the moment I woke up yesterday I became totally self absorbed in finding a solution for the broken artificial teeth which I only need for cosmetic purposes as I can eat without them. Even though I do pray and try to prepare for my death on a daily basis, it is very easy for me to lose sight of the purpose of my being and become enmeshed in the things of this world. 

We are surrounded by wonders, bodily delights and ourselves. It is possible for some of us to create a personal self that is never troubled by thoughts of death and is ready to accept as "sleep" the inevitable end of life.

For me a broken dental prosthetic was enough to completely fill my awareness of being when I should have been concentrating on Noah and the first of IAMIAM'S covenants.

Dear Lord, help me to believe the stories of Genesis. It is easy to believe all the events of the New Testament for although viewed as "supernatural" by all the human witnesses,  they are "natural" for SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Forgive me for all the times that I have sinned by putting my corporal and social being before the care of my soul. Help me to continue to live aware of the sufferings you underwent to enable all the peoples of the world to return to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. The best thing of all that I can ask for would be the end of time and your return to inaugurate the New Creation when you will be all in all but first of all forgive me my sins, those of my family and all sinners on Earth and bring pardon to the Holy Souls. May my prayers be joined with those of Mary and all the Angels and Saints who are filled with the Holy Joy that you are for everlasting human life. Amen

 18/02/2025

Tuesday week 6 in Ordinary Time

The Scriptures contain the Word of God. They are the revelations of the Supreme Being  given to the Chosen People. They contain the way, the truth and the life. The great flood that really happened in Mesopotamia is interpreted as God punishing the Earth but saving the "first remnant" as a reward for the righteousness of Noah.

The Old Testament contains other extinction events that are linked only to the Jews. I am always disturbed by the exclusiveness of the Old Testament. Even in the days of Noah there were many other races of mankind that did not benefit from the care God lavished upon him and his biological and spiritual descendants. Yes, I am jealous.

Today I believe that each one of us is created to be a willing and happy participant in the purpose of creation. I have not been left alone to do this. Each of us is known by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and His will for mankind was first revealed to Jews. 

They, however, lost themselves in the wonders of their own intelligence and of the world. They did not become the human beings that could fulfill God's purpose by revealing his Glory in this world. Theoretically, they lived in awe of God even to the extent of not naming him but by referring only to his existence IAMIAM but in reality they became their own religion and still are today

God knows that I am always asking what it was about the world and the Temple religion of the first century that required the completion of all revelation "I am the way, the truth and the life" Jesus, the human son of Mary and SONofIAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to live and die as he did.

Two thousand years later I am still the disappointed disciple of the Resurrection pleading for the promised return that will be the start of the New Creation.

Dear Lord, help me to overcome the concerns that the Old Testament always raises for me. You know that I am truly disturbed by your apparent unconcern for "Gentiles". You know that I am not quibbling but sincerely facing doubts that many others than me raise in our prayerful meditations. Help me to continue to pray throughout this day that my sins may be forgiven and let my soul join the praise that is the relationship of Mary, Angels and all the Saints now in Your Presence. May all those who are continuing in their sinfulness become aware that their deeds in life that are disobedience to your revealed will result in a punishment that cannot end for it will be paid by their imperishable souls. Let my prayer be heard that at least one Holy Soul be relieved of some of his torment. 

 17/02/2025

I have to say that the ongoing story of Adam/Eve and their children is very hard for me to enjoy. 

It does seem that it portrays God as a trickster who in the beginning trapped Adam and Eve into spoiling the Good that was creation and then spoilt their sons by showing favouritism to one over the other.

Today and on many other days I try to talk to God. I see myself as an ensouled body trying to become what Our Father intends me to be and often I fail miserably and become just another material body only able to know and sometimes enjoy the things of this life.

I try to talk to God because I have within me a deep seated need to do so that has only ever been met by the teaching of Jesus interpreted by the Catholic Church.

Coming to the end of my life I have realised that that "Institution" has for the most part only ever been a human institution totally embedded in the material fabric of this world but  found that the words of Jesus to his mother and John on Calvary are the spiritual foundation which brings comfort now and thus prepares me for the event that either ends or explains all.

I know that I am not the only one who has had the disquietude that is in my being today. 

Jesus seems to be exasperated by the Jews who only want "signs". Two thousand years later I am yet another voice crying out in the wilderness that is still the Jesus' (the completed revelation of God) generation. Everywhere I look at the world I see the signs that are the sins of hedonism and greed being the main activities of the mankind Jesus suffered so much to save.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals in my heart, however, that the eternal vastness of his Love is much more than even what is the collective knowledge and experience of all the people who have ever been created, used now to create "Artificial Intelligence", and can first be seen in the smile of our own mothers and in the "fiat" of Mary who is the Sign that we have been reconciled and that all sins can be forgiven.

The Incarnation is the first sign of the revelation that God loves all of us. The life of Jesus teaches us how to begin our own step by step response to that revelation. The Resurrection is the completion of that Love that is not just an idea or an opinion but the reality that God himself shares with us. He is the first fruits of the New Creation that will also be ours.

If I lose touch with that my life has been lived in vain.

 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.