03/04/2025

Yesterday I did not acknowledge as I usually do that I had read and accepted as the Truth that comes from God the human words with which Jesus spoke his explanation of himself and which were recorded in his Gospel by St. John.

Our Father knows all the difficulties that I have made for myself and others during my sinful life.

He also knows that I am now, at the end of this life, trying to follow his teaching and Law in both the words and the spirit that he made them as a Father joyfully welcoming back all repentant sinners, as Saviour Son in the Perfect Sacrifice to destroy the evil that still dominates our world, and Holy Spirit distributing the sevenfold free gifts of Faith and Love that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT offers to all of us who turn to him in sincerity.

The latter part of St John's long life were spent as a son given into the care of Mary. There is nothing more than "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother" that we know about that "New Holy Family" created on Calvary.

In today's Gospel, Jesus says directly to the "Jews," the Temple Institution that had grown from the Word received by Moses, "I know that you do not have the love of God within you". There have been many times in the 2000 year history of the Institution founded on St Peter when the same condemnation could have been made to those who were supposed to be the Spiritual leaders of the Kingdom not of this world.

We know that Jesus has promised to be with us until the end of time. 

In these days there is a secular Israel but still consisting of Jews, still stiff-necked, still land-clearing by war, ethnic cleansing, and the killing of its rightful owners. There is a weakened Church very much of this world even to the extent of being influenced by the human norms of  Society rather than challenging them to show the way, truth and life which is the mission you entrusted to the Apostles.

We can all ask "Where is the promised presence of Our Lord?" in this historical reality of our times and yet I know that there is truly a spiritual body of Christ of which we can all become parts for that is the "Church of Love" that can be found by devotedly searching for and praying with the joyful community of Saints who, led by Mary, pray in the timeless presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that we on Earth become aware of our sins and sincerely seek forgiveness as do our brothers and sisters in Purgatory. 

It is for this that Jesus came into the world and made it possible for us too to become sanctified by his grace won in "bitter pain" on Calvary.

Dear Lord guide my heart onto the right paths that it is the sole purpose of my being to find and which have been eternally opened by You, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen

 01/04/2025

As we follow the Church's scriptural preparation for the liturgical celebration of the culmination of the presence of Son, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, in this same material universe that we know today we have to continually assess our own reactions to the teaching and miracles that marked the three year period of Jesus' public ministry.

As True Man, Jesus is the only sure guide to understanding what it means to be alive in our bodily beings, there is nothing about being a living body that he does not experience. But there is something greater than body here.

As true God he has a crystal clear concept of literally everything. He knows that I am struggling to grasp my fuzziness of thought within which there can be found some true faith. But there is something greater than faith here.

As Our Father, he has only love for us so he is often disappointed by our individual failures and not  impressed at all by the progress we have made by use of the material of creation to understand how thoughts can be turned into solid matter by using the physical laws that he created in the Beginning. But there is something greater than science here

As Our Saviour, Jesus  has shown us how to defeat temptation. We have to find through prayer the way, truth and life, The free gift that is Holy Spirit reaches out to us as Person to person. He knows our names. But there is something much greater than "we are" here.

As the Acceptable Sacrifice Jesus has freely accepted the monstrosity that is death on the cross. This was a real event in time but with an eternal effect. The saving grace created for Eternity during the last three days Jesus was with us as True Man and True God is distributed by the Holy Spirit.  There is no "but" here.

We can know nothing greater than this except, perhaps, that it was all done to eliminate the evil that we continue to manufacture by our sins. This is indeed a wonder.

Our lives in time give us the opportunity to choose to join IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in this world by following the way, truth and life that received its final revelation 2000 years ago in Jerusalem in preparation for the New Creation that will be the promised end of time.

 31/03/2025

There are some people who can understand the timelines of all four of the Gospels. Well, they can understand Scripture better than I do. They can find in it the very words of Christ and also the additions not made by the Evangelists themselves.

The comment "(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in his own home town)" seems to be ill-placed as it is made according to this morning's Gospel Reading on leaving a Samaritan town on his way into Galilee.

The revelation made through Isaiah has still not materialised in the real-time that is the reality in which we live every moment of our lives on earth. We have had the whole of God's purpose for creation revealed to us but just as the time and place of the Incarnation was revealed only as it happened  so will what we know as the Eschaton, be known only by the event itself.

It will happen and we should hold it in our minds and live each day as if it were the last for there are as many personal "last days" as there are persons. Let us hope that that personal last day, if it does precede the Eschaton, find us prepared and aware that by coming to the end of our biological lives we are not ending our beings. 

Our being is God's image and likeness which is not of this world but which will be used by our Creator, FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, as part of the new creation, a heaven and earth in which our sins will not be remembered for "Jerusalem will be a joy, and its people gladness".

 30/03/2025

In the Old Testament God is revealing his will for a whole community. The Israelites were saved from Egypt, educated and chastised in the desert and entered the Promised Land as the one nation which was to reveal that IAMIAM is the only God by his achievements through them.

That is a very brief summary of the centuries that had passed before the Incarnation and the direct face to face teaching of Jesus to his Apostles, disciples and to all who had ears to listen.

Jesus still speaks to the multitudes, now millions, as individuals. He tells the paralytic to take up his bed and walk. He tells Peter that he will have the responsibility to bear the weight of what he has witnessed during the past three years. 

He tells each one of us that we need not be afraid even though we are sinners for he is always ready to forgive and welcome us back with open arms.

The father who welcomes back the prodigal is "Our Father" and so we pray as taught by Jesus to him who is 

                                                Our Father not confined by time or space. 

                             FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, is a totally perfect three-in-one glory beyond  our wildest imaginings. 

We know that we are to see him "all-in-all" and for this kingdom we long.. 

We are free individuals and can thus choose to obey his will and come closer to His perfect holiness. We can also refuse.

We ask to be supported in this life on Earth to enable us to aim to be the image and likeness of His being in our personal lives, our souls. 

We acknowledge our sinfulness and pray for a share in the Mercy of Calvary. 

We ask to be able to discern and avoid the temptations of materialism and thus be safe from the evil of this world's addiction to Mammon 

 29/03/2025

Saturday Week 3 Lent

In these days, i.e. the last 2000 years, most of us receive the "Word of God" by what we read. Even Jesus quoted directly from scriptures. Among his last words were the opening words of psalm 22."Eli Eli lama sabacthani".

For some of us reading the Scriptures has become a liturgical way of life and they have made "For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings" a personal reality.

In those days i.e. 2000 years ago most of those who met in Solomon's portico and each other's house were still in awe at what they had witnessed during the life-time of the "Word of God", Son, "true man" had lived amongst them. For many, the Crucifixion had been a hope-destroying real-time horror but they had seen the resurrected Son and were fervently preparing for his return that they were sure was imminent.

In these days, now, the passage of time has long since removed those eye-witnesses and their sense of urgency from our midst, we are again in the same condition as were the scribes and pharisees of Jesus' day. Our only knowledge of the Word comes to us through words written by man and we have to search for the voice "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased".

The books of Moses and the other prophets were words spoken into their hearts which they revealed to God's chosen people. Today's parable illustrates how they had been received. 

What is our learning and intelligence in the eyes of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for whom there has never been anything to learn? It is we who have to learn everything that is revealed in the scriptures and truly to believe so that we can always be the little one, the tax-collector, poor in spirit, empty of self who speaks to Our Father and is answered not by crescendos of thunder and lightning but by the still quiet voice that, as did Mary, we can ponder within our hearts.

 28/03/2025

I know that I am sitting in front of this screen seeing words pass out of my brain through to my fingertips and keyboard to appear before me. I also know that this is not the "Kingdom of Heaven". 

Some of Jesus questioners were trying to trick him into giving heretical answers. Some, like the rich young man and the scribe of today's Gospel were trying to probe what it was that gave this "carpenter" the charisma that inspired others to hang onto his every word. These were sincerely looking for the "Kingdom of Heaven".

There are very few times that Jesus, "but I say to you, love your enemies", condemns any one whom he meets during his lifetime. He condemns the towns that refused his teaching and warns the scribes and pharisees that most of their "religion" is empty show. Their religion was far from the "Kingdom of Heaven".

Jesus is for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Absolute perfection cannot change. Our Father knows that his chosen creation, mankind, however can always go rushing off after the trivia that is the work of our hands. We continue to threaten our souls by treating our material goods as gods and it is to the very back of  our minds that we push the "Kingdom of Heaven".

Dear Lord, help me to never lose track of your way, truth and life which is the only goal that can bring me and mine into the perfect love that can only be shared by consistently being attentive to your will for us. You know me and reveal my sins  so that my life on Earth can become cooperation with all disciples who pray as taught by you, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, to seek the infinity of grace that is Jesus, Son of God, the perfect peace where we find total joy, Your "Kingdom of Heaven".

 27/03/2025

I know that every moment that I am alive it is possible for me to lose touch with Our Father.

The millennia long  struggles of the Chosen People is replicated in my daily life.

"Am I struggling to be free of God or am I truly longing to become perfect in this world as were Jesus and his Mother?"

It is obvious what the answer should be but only IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and myself know how often my "Yes" in the spirit has been compromised by the thoughts in my head and the deeds of my body.

The very nature of the "House of the strong man" means that it cannot provide a home within which there can be any love at all. In Hell there can be no peace, only the "grinding and gnashing of teeth". This brutal image is all that we need to know about the alternative to the door that is Jesus. The Son of God is the gate of the sheepfold that leads us into the mansions of the Lord.

In the three years of Jesus ministry in Palestine, the Incarnate Son taught us all that we need to know to follow him into the highest levels of human possibilities and achievement. 

In three millennia of Old Testament history our Father had continuously revealed his will to the Chosen People but they continued in the disobedience that could only be rectified by the completion of Abraham's interrupted sacrifice. 

How can we match with our praise the greatness of our God who so identifies with his people as to become the sacrificial victim that takes away the sins of the world.? 

Nothing is impossible for IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

We have all been created in so great an "image and likeness" that it is possible for each one of us to accept, love and serve to the very limits of our being and thus live out our lives in the righteousness that is the "Mystical Body of Christ/ the New Holy Family that was founded on Mary and John by the words of our dying Saviour.