12/03/2025

Wednesday First Week of Lent

I am sure that although I am not of the "generation" that Jesus speaks to today he could also designate our generation as "evil". I am of this generation that has had much more then the "Sign of Jonah" revealed to it for Jesus has completed all that we need to know about why and how we are to live our mortal lives and still we fail.

The disciples who shared the time that Jesus spent on earth as the incarnate Son of  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT quarreled amongst themselves about the meaning of his teaching. Jesus explained again everything that confused them.

The Resurrection cannot be explained. The Resurrected One could only be witnessed, worshiped and proclaimed.

The Jews of first century Palestine were of Moses' generation although they lived many centuries after him for their kings and prophets had nothing new to add to the revelations made in the Pentateuch. They had always to recall the chosen people back to their Covenant with IAMIAM.

Jesus is the completed revelation and now we too belong to a new generation of human being who have had all that is needed to do God's will on earth revealed to us.

"Before Abraham was, I am".

We still ask our questions, we still doubt ourselves but God, the Trinity, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has not only revealed his being and his will for us but also created during the "Easter three days" his unseen sacramental grace to support our souls as they struggle to become the most important part of our being.

The Jesus generation to which we all belong has never changed since the Ascension. The message of Scripture is still that taught by Jesus walking through Palestine. It is this message that will guide us always and if we respond with open hearts we will join the eternal one generation, the Saints,  before the Lord in the "Kingdom that is not of this world". 

 11/03/2025

This morning's readings are about our attempts to communicate with God. 

IAMIAM  speaks to the Jews through the Prophets of the Old Testament and they reply by their own words and deeds. The liturgy of the Temple in Jerusalem is the focal point through which their individual responses are returned. So it is towards Jerusalem that they still turn when they answer IAMIAM with their own words.

The psalms are the record of the response of one man to the truth, majesty, justice and mercy he knows that he recognises in life, but sometimes rejects. He praises and thanks God for the wonders that he knows come to him from his Almighty Creator and also seeks merciful forgiveness which also can only come from God. They also have an intrinsic literary value as poetry expressing in words the emotions common to us all.

Jesus' whole life is prayer as, although "true man" he never loses touch with "Our Father". The New Testament is the Good News that teaches us how to pray and how to be at peace in this world by focusing on the "Heavenly Jerusalem " and rejecting things of this world that obscure the way, truth and life that is the total revelation of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT made by Jesus in life, death and resurrection.

Does this morning's new translation of Matthew's gospel imply by "when you pray do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do" that Our Father listens to all "prayer" even to that offered up to idols?

            

 10/03/2025

Monday First Week of Lent

I am always trying to be rational about my faith which is belief in all that has been revealed in the Two Testaments of the Bible.

I am sure that everything we need to do the will of God during our lives on earth has been revealed to us and sealed by the conclusion of INCARNATESON'S life on earth.

The fantastic material progress made in this world by mankind is not matched by moral stability, the righteousness preached by the Prophets and completed by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Each one of us who is living now surrounded by technological wonders is known by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in exactly the same way he knows all of his creation and reveals in Jesus the Love and concern he has for all us.

Jesus lived on earth a sinless life. He was always aware of Our Father. He cured the sick, fed the hungry and preached to enrich the lowly. He defeated Satan and bequeathed to us a spiritual entity, the Church.

The disappointment that is the subsequent history of the foundation made on St Peter and its moral standing today can only be countered by the words uttered from the cross to Mary and John.

The promise Jesus makes to us "I will be with you until the end of time" can only be found surely in this Church of Love, New Holy Family which leads us to the quiet still voice of Our Father that can be heard only in the depths of our beings when we clear out the burden and baggage of sin.

Holiness is  Good and stands firmly only on total obedience to the Ten Commandments of Exodus and complete openness to the grace that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT poured out for us on Calvary.

 09/03/2025

First Sunday of Lent

The readings are about belief, about faith.

I believe with all my heart that God does not create anybody to be evil. I believe that by acting against the will of God each one of us creates and adds to the evil that is done in this world.

How can this be?

Our first parents were tempted and fell to the wiles of Satan. Satan was the Angel who chose to disobey IAMIAM and used his being to encourage all free consciousnesses, Angelic and Human to disobey the will of God.

In the Gospel for today Satan attacks Jesus, loses and bides his time. But he is still there. 

There is an immensity about the Incarnation that defies all of us to comprehend. Son's sacrifice of himself for us on the cross and his unknowable death "the empty tomb" destroy Satan but even in the new generation inaugurated by the Resurrection human evil continues to be. 

This is not the will of the Father. We have not been created to go to Hell.

Jesus proclaims for all times that his "kingdom" is not of this world i.e. embodied in our material universe. This is the lesson that has still not been learnt by any of the human institutions that claim to follow the Lord to become  the "Church" built on Peter.

Our Lord did not stretch out his arms for the executioners to provide human triumphs in any subsequent institution, society or political systems.

He did it so that the love that is the being of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT could engulf the whole world and embrace each individual one of his sons and daughters, his children living in his creation that he knew to be good.

He still trusts us to use our freedom to be guided by Holy Spirit into following the way and truth revealed by Son for this is the life and will of Father, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT which we only have this one chance of choosing for ourselves.

Dear Lord, help me to remain true to these thoughts which are a result of my living sinfully throughout my life but always aware that you are the Lord, our God. Aware that your mercy is far greater than my sin and regretful that I have rarely remained true to you. I am the source of my own sin for the power of Satan has been destroyed by your cross. May all sinners on earth and in purgatory receive of the grace that is in the prayers of all believers living in this world and in the joy of Heaven. As for myself I have to say "do with me as thou wilt". Help me to really mean it. Amen

 07/03/2021

Friday after Ash Wednesday 

In the first reading, the warning given to Jews long before the Incarnation is not only about ostentatious fasting but is fundamentally about how we should live lives that acknowledge that God is "Our Father" and that we live only to know, love and serve.

Jesus' teaching consistently confirms that we have to pray in our "private room" and condemns the behaviour of the scribes and pharisees whose self-derived and self-driven holiness is empty sham. Jesus does not condemn the whole of Israel for he knows that there are many who worship IAMIAM with pure hearts and undefiled bodies.

When some disciples of John the Baptist, the forerunner, ask why Jesus and his disciples do not fast as do John and the Pharisees, he does not attempt to explain but  as "Truth" he speaks only plain truth, as he did to Mary and his brethren when they came looking for him.

Isaiah's message is that Lent, "fasting", is not about "giving -up" something but about a complete self-conversion to live with the awareness that "Our Saviour Liveth". To know  that "now" is "the favourable time". It is only "now" that we can choose to be with the Incarnate Son. "Now" is the only opportunity we have to do the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

We each have to make ourselves acceptable to Our Father by becoming the child that runs towards him with perfect joy and trust in the arms spread out over the whole world on Calvary.

Dear Lord, help me to become part of the only human generation that knows your living presence. The Church of Love, "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother". The people who walked behind you crumbled in the immensity of your pain, But you Our Loving Father strengthen us and them that when we seek you with sincerity it is you who overcome our weakness with the unseen Holy Spirit, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who accepts our prayers and forgives all sinners. May my prayers be joined with the prayers of Mary and all the angels and saints that we sinners on earth open our hearts by penance and so receive from the abundance of mercy that you create for the whole world and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.

 06/03/2025

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

When, as a child, I first heard the words that close the Gospel of today "For what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose himself" the Douay version of the Bible in English was crystal clear in identifying "the soul" as the eternal part, hence the essential part, of the trinity of being that is the reality of each of us. Body, mind and soul.

That translation was one of the reactions by the "the learned and the clever" to the legitimate objections to the condition  of the Church founded on St Peter made by those whom we now know as "Protestants". We still know them today because they were able to gain control  of  "kingdoms of this world" just as had  the "Greek Orthodox" 900 centuries previously, and as the Roman Catholic Church did until the 19th century. The Vatican is the last remnant of that Papal Empire.

May the Lord save us from the "Learned and the clever" is a petition that should be added to all the Litanies. Jesus condemned no-one except the "Thinking Jews" of his day. The wise men whose "wisdom" did not extend beyond their own prideful, self-awareness. All the changes within the Church that I have witnessed over the last 70 years have been introduced by those who claim to know better than did their forbearers. And "'twas always so".

Jesus is the Incarnation. His eternal being has no end. Past, present and Future are all one to him. When we become part of his mystical body we become part of the only generation that knows "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" for it is out of us that will come those who will not pass away without witnessing the end of time. 

We have to be the "little children" who welcome Jesús as soon as we see him and know that all that is material will pass away. We live out our lives as material beings always aware of "Our Father" and know that the "my" of "myself" is the "eternal human being" that there is not any reason to not call "soul" as did the translators of the Douay Bible.

"From the snares of the wise and clever, Good Lord deliver us."

 05/03/2025

Ash Wednesday 2025

The readings for today are a record of the revelations received by Jews, the people chosen to reveal by their way of life both the being of our Creator and his Commandments.

Joel is an individual who is inspired to denounce the evil that has corrupted the community who have to be guided by the Books of Moses and worship in the Temple.

He knows that the people are guilty but IAMIAM is merciful.

I too am a sinner and have always been able to identify with the guilt that is revealed by the Psalm. David knew that he had personally received great gifts from IAMIAM but had chosen sin thus bringing more evil into the world.

He knows that he is guilty but IAMIAM is merciful.

St Paul knows the Resurrection. Jesus has lived, died been resurrected and returned to the henceforth for all time revealed IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

He knows that it is the intention of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for every individual to remain free and accept for ourselves the Loving Mercy, forgiveness that is ours from the moment of our creation.

Jesus' teaching is always directed to every individual, every "my" soul. Praying has to take place in our secret room and fasting with joy in "my" heart and and on "my face".

I hope that these thoughts on Ash Wednesday  are not considered to be the 2025 equivalent of a "a long-faced pharisee parading his virtue on the street corner or in the market-place. To follow Our Lord I cannot be ashamed and have to pray that this is not a light that should be hidden under a bucket, there are no bushels in my kitchen.

Dear Lord, you know that I will try to live without sin during Lent and will pray "The Stations" on Fridays in my private room. You also know that this is pretty much what I try to do every day. Help me to open my heart to your grace and join these my prayers to those of Mary, Angels and Saints that what is happening here in my material being on earth be  also an offering acceptable to You. All sinners are still in need of your mercy help us to access this by penitence both here on Earth and in Purgatory. Amen.