2/03/2025

Sunday Week  8 Ordinary Time.

It is hard for me, a sinful man, to believe  the words of this morning's Entry Antiphon and yet I do for "he saved me because he delighted in me" produced an instant reaction that was my human joy to be known by "Our Father".

It is my filth that is revealed by the sieving of my conscience. I have to follow the paths revealed by the grace of God in my own thoughts and reasonings.

It is I who have to sing praise in the morning and strive for holiness throughout today.

I am the one who can confidently respond to "be steadfast, immovable" and ultimately "know that my labour is not in vain".

It is Jesus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, who warns me to respond to him with my whole being, body, mind and soul to become the perfect vessel thrown by his hands on his potter's wheel, the whole fruit that will become eternal delight in his kingdom that is not of this world.

Dear Lord, you know that I am sincerely afraid of hypocrisy. You know that I can always smell it out in others. I always am aware of the potential plank in my own eye. You also know how I am afraid of turning my conscience into a sieve so fine that it becomes filter paper that results in despair at the evil I have been party to at many times in my life. I keep on saying "you know" because I know that you are complete knowledge, total perfection, total love and that iam  because you are our creator God and also our loving Father who enables us to rejoice with Mary, Angels Saints secure in the love that can forgive even my sins and the sins of the whole world. Help all sinners to accept your grace and discard the sin that blocks the meshes of our Consciences and let your grace pour into our hearts to become the delight that it is to know, love and serve. Amen

 1/03/2025

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Patron Saint of Wales, St David.

St Paul in the first reading tells us that he has come to the understanding that the only thing that matters in our lives is knowing and following Jesus Christ. It is by our aiming to become an embodiment of faith in Jesus that we can be brought closer to the human perfection that is our goal in life.

In the psalm another David, King of Israel, sings of the joy and the peace that complete faith in God can bring to us even in this world. Our Father supports those who faithfully devote themselves to him. Each one of us is able to accept the grace that is the eternal being of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. He loves each one of us in our complete human identity, "warts and all".

In the gospel Jesus commends his followers as the "Salt of the earth". We are to reveal in our worldly lives the Light of the Eternal IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to those who lose themselves in the sham of this world.

Yesterday the "sham" of this world was completely revealed by the President of the USA who acted out in front of the whole world, every bit as successfully as any professional wrestler the "kayfabe" (the false narrative that gives fake emotive authenticity to the characters who fight in the ring) the lie of "face" (Putin) and "heel" (Kelensky) himself becoming the alternating heel/face "Mr McMahon".

There we all witnessed an event that was lies, all lies and nothing but lies deliberately fabricated for the cynical./Satanic purpose of deceiving the whole world.

Dear Lord, It seems that our world is still beyond redemption. Jesus paid the supreme price for our sins but we have continued to serve idols of our own making rather than devote ourselves, know, love and serve, to returning your love. I cannot forget my own sinfulness and hope that I can do only your will throughout the rest of my life. Have mercy on all the little ones, children and adults whose lives are defined by suffering and death and may those whose self-belief is their doom come to the understanding that their freedom is your gift to enable us to avoid creating any more of the evil with which we drive out the "Good" you see in your creation. May Jesus soon return and begin the end of time that is  God All in All. Help me to remember to pray always for all sinners on earth and in Purgatory and to never forget that we can all choose to be bound by the Love you created for all on the Cross outside Jerusalem. Amen.

 

 28/02/2025

As with all human written recorded history so it is with the Scriptures. No matter what is written the reader is always interpreting as he reads. 

During the reading from Sirach/Ecclesiasticus I was applying his words to my experience and acknowledged that my only friend is my wife. I have at various times been part of friendship groups when to alleviate the loneliness of separation from our families I have shared in common activities with other temporary "bachelors".

The "friends" from those years are either dead or dispersed throughout the world.

In these latter years of my life I have been striving to become a "friend of God". I have tried to live each day in accordance with his will and with my mind and will focused on my understanding of the guidance that is recorded in the Old and New Testaments. 

I like to think that "my understanding" is more than some human thinking just as the Bible is more than a book and that I can make the psalmist's words "Grant me the insight that I may keep your law and observe it wholeheartedly, guide me in the path of your commands, for in them is my delight." truly mine.

Dear Lord, let me thank you for the steadfast care my wife has had for me and my family. Help me to atone for my sins and inspire her with grace to once more know the "loving kindness" that we all can know as we turn back our hearts to thee. Amen

 

 27/02/2025

I have read the Mass readings for today and hope to be able to respond in the way that Jesus teaches us to know him in this life. 

During the whole of my life I know that I am not alone in wondering  how it is that God allows the world to so obviously exist in a way so contrary to his revealed will.

The horror being perpetrated on the Jewish People is an event that seemingly has had no retribution on its instigators, was a reality for millions of souls during my first 4 years of life.

Since then millions of people have lived and died in Palestine as a reactions to  the evil created at that time but the families and descendants of the perpetrators have gone from strength to strength in their prosperity.

Each one of the human beings who were and still are involved in trying to resolve this particular evil that we have created in this world by our disobedience to God could have followed the way, the truth and the life revealed by Jesus, IAMSONFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and in so doing would be now living in a very different reality.

The moral teaching contained in Ecclesiasticus is not so different from that of Jesus. God, however, was still aware that his "image and likeness" was not following His way of truth. He knew that His chosen ones were diverting themselves into self-centred being that another Jesus son of Sirach, amongst others had warned them about. The very Being of Our Father demanded a complete atonement and renewal of His created ones.

The incarnate Son not only continues the direct teaching of the inspired prophets he also "crosses" the existential chasm between human time and eternity and by his Resurrection he enables every human soul to become what our Father seeks from us.

Jewish pious theology could produce the aesthetic wonders of the psalms and the philosophy of Sirach but there was something missing from the Faith of the Temple that could only be corrected by the grace of the Incarnate Son.

In this age, as our Pope comes to the end of his long life I hope that he can clear his conscience and meet his maker without fear. 

Here on Earth, however, I continue to wonder how the long line of heirs to St Peter could have worn their triple crowns without ever even attempting to divest "the Church" of its roles in this world and its accumulated wealth. 

Our only reason for living is to do the will of Our Father. It is has never been possible to do this following the guidance of the Church that has never been able to live up to "My kingdom is not of this world" and actually, was, for centuries a temporal ruler of thousands of "little ones".

 25/02/2025

Tuesday Week 7 Ordinary Time

At the moment I am sitting down to write my response to the Word of God that is part of today's liturgical celebration and as I do so I am aware that the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church is hovering between life and death. In my prayer for him, I pray that I too may in the moment of my death be aware of how my life has been sinful and how I still require the grace of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to bring my soul into the previously unseen Glory that God has prepared for us.

All the disciples were men such as we are. Even more so than we are for they were all Jews who had been immersed in the revelations made only to the descendants of Abraham. Jews' acceptance of their exclusive relationship with IAMIAM had been way beyond their self awareness and they had become incapable of accepting the reality of God but had created and lost themselves in a "Law" that filled them with a human pride that they mistook for true worship of God.

Today, Jesus is walking with Apostles and disciples. They still do not fully comprehend the Jesus who teaches them not from the  commentaries of  Scribes and Pharisees but directly from the scriptures and  from his own being. They cannot understand what "rise from the dead" can possibly mean but the miracles that they have witnessed confirm in their minds that they are following the Messiah who will bring earthly power and glory to their nation.

They are human; "what's in it for me?" is a normal reaction to any new event. Jesus knows that none of his followers have yet been prepared for the ultimate truth he will reveal during the most important three days that have ever taken place in human time.

He tells them then and all who have lived since then that leadership in the church  he is to found on St Peter is a matter of service to other people not as it is in all other human institutions of the power wielded over them.

"My kingdom is not of this world".

May God have mercy on the soul of the Pope and inspire those in conclave to seek out ways in which they can demonstrate to our world that Church is not just another human institution but can become the Spiritual Body of Christ who shows by his life, death and Resurrection that he is Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. He is our only "way, truth and life".

 24/02/2025

Monday Week 8 Ordinary Time

In the mass readings for today, Our Father reveals to us his being that has never known a beginning.

The "iam" that is my "being" seems to begin each day that I wake up and know myself to be still alive.

Each day is different for me but "iam" always "miniminiscule" in this Universe.

It is impossible for me to "think" about God but I can respond to revelation.

This morning's first reading "reveals" that he is of one being with the wisdom that knows himself and that there is within creation a rationality which we have to "fear" for we are all, as am I, tiny of the tiniest  in the presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The psalmist gives voice to the response we all have to have when we try to ponder all that God has revealed of himself.

This morning's Gospel let's us know that Jesus, Son of God,  is also "True Man". He is as human as are we all and can be irritated, but never sinfully so, by our persistently misunderstanding that to believe is to trust and that if we trust, we have to pray; ask for God's help to be sinless in all our doings.

We are all "free beings" and so can all choose how to live out each day as we come into it. The prayer that we all have to make is to know that God has already shown the loving trust he has in us. We respond by conforming our freedom to his will and thus confound the evil that we individual human beings continually create by our willful disobedience.

Dear Lord, help me truthfully  to repent for my sins and to know that I have not done your will throughout my life with the faithfulness that your Love of me requires. You know that I am full of love for your creatures on Earth but do not really know what it is to return your Love for me. You know that each day my being, my wisdom continually fluctuates and I am never consistently at peace as I am now at this moment. Even now there is a nagging from my inmost being that I have to deliberately silence but do so willingly. May my prayer become one with the prayers of Mary and all the saints as we  seek their help in overcoming  evil in this world and imploring the forgiveness that Jesus bestows on all the penitent both living sinners and Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen.

 23/02/2025

Sunday Week 8 Ordinary Time

I know that  my preoccupation with a family event is not going to help this, my morning's response to the the mass readings for today. 

All today's readings stress that God is "Compassion and Love".

This does not mean that we can preempt forgiveness and continue in our sin.

The First Commandment tells us that we should love our God with total commitment and by so doing we become part of the family of mankind that links all of the souls that accept the Loving Mercy that Jesus' blood pours out to become the Mystical Body of Christ; the New Holy Family founded by Christ in his words from the Cross to Mary and John.

Jesus always put  conforming to his FATHER of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's will as his first priority while living in human time. That is the target of which we too should never lose sight and thus become able to fulfill the words of St Paul by becoming "the man of Heaven" even as we live out our lives on Earth.