08/06/2025

Pentecost/Whit-Sunday

The Lord Our God knows all that fills our minds and souls. 

We who are billions are the humans created throughout time on this speck of material amongst billions of other such specks have come to know much about what we are in God's eyes. We know that we are individual persons who can know each other and the reality of our place and time of being. 

We the Jews and their Christian descendants have received the direct revelation by God of his own vast personal being and loving intentions for all mankind and we have been given the task of working with God to spread "The Good News".

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals that he creates, saves and supports our spiritual being which exists within a physical body grown out of the biological life with which he has endowed this planet. 

What we know ourselves to be is totally the gift of God. We are truly wonderful living beings, incredibly superior to all the other forms of life our God has gifted to us. We know that we have minds and that we are free to choose  how to use our reality of being in the time of our consciousness.

The Lord Our God only knows Infinite Good. Adam is not "Son", his perfect human free being is able to refuse his Creator and for evermore unto the end of time man-made sin has existed in this world.

Adam and Eve created Sin and thus we, each individual, have to avoid becoming an enemy of God by following the Original Guidance of the Holy Spirit which is then codified first for Jews but then for the use of all of us.

As history has evolved it demonstrates to us that all humans from the Equator to the Poles are capable of excusing to themselves their most despicable selfishness and first families and then societies have forgotten their Original Brotherhood claiming for themselves possession of land, chattels and even of strangers which causes them to become warriors proud to be able to defend and expand their possessions and kill their enemies.

In reality we have become the enemies of God as Empires, including the Jews of the Old Testament, attribute their wealth and power to the favour of God.

Our Loving Saviour makes our enmity to the Infinite Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT absolutely clear as he accepts  the scourging, the nails, the piercing of his heart that lead to the Death that offers us the pardon for the immensity of sin with which we disfigure our world and our individual souls.

The only time on Earth when we can ever be truly free from our guilt as Enemies of God is when we stand with John and Mary at the foot of  the Cross and accept the Grace that we have to choose to become part of the New Holy Family which is guaranteed by the Holy Spirit whom today and every day we welcome into our hearts.

The only possible way for any of us to conform to God's will on Earth is by accepting the Father's Mercy created by the Son's Sacrifice which is not the possession of any human institution but freely distributed by Holy Spirit who responds to all who by avoiding sin sincerely seek his grace.

"All of us who are led by the Spirit are sons of God".

God forgive me for ever doubting your Love. Amen

 07/06/2025

Yesterday I anticipated the enigmatical answer to  "But what of this man?". Today, John's Gospel is now complete but never finished as it generates millions of ideas, thoughts and words throughout the rest of time.

We each of us have to open our beings to the promised "Spirit of Truth" which the today's Gospel Acclamation reminds us is the reason we begin our days with a liturgical celebration of the Incarnation.

There is so much truth that we can find in the Church of Peter that I have to ask myself what it is that makes me question whether it is truly fulfilling its role as preserver of the Sacramental Presence of God in this material world.

Similarly I always wonder what it was about the Jews of Jesus time on earth that he had to rectify even though they were his "Chosen people".

Today we have no difficulty in recognising that many sins are being perpetrated in defence of their "God-given Land" by those who occupy Palestine as their "Right" arising out of the response of natural justice to the evils they have suffered at the hands of " The Church of Peter, Christians" over the centuries that have intervened between the Sacrificial Confirmation of  Gods' love for the world and for all us human beings, and the "these times" in which humanity's special relationship with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is either forgotten or denied.

It is always a sin to hammer a nail through the hand of a man. It is a still a sin to pour fire over the heads of little children whom Jesus asked us to baptise.

Today I can only grieve for all the violence that  continually plagues our world. I am only one man but I must plead for forgiveness for there is never justification in the eyes of the crucified Jesus for any violence. 

I have always regretted and tried to make up for any of my personal violent moments. Who is to accept responsibility and atone for the images of burning children from Cambodia in the 60s to the  Gaza of yesterday that have become part of my awareness of being alive at this moment?

All of this evil is the sole responsibility of  human beings who from the beginning have always ignored God's orders and then refused to acquire the Mercy that is the Sacramental Love of his very being, the free gift that is always the "Good" he sees in his creation no matter how much we disfigure it

Maranatha Lord. Come Lord. Jesus Come and fill the hearts of the faithful as you did when we were alone with you in the wonder of your New Creation.. We can do zilch without You but Nothing is impossible for you. Help us all to seek out your Mercy for all our personal sin and that of our communities which we condone by our silence and inaction

 06/06/2025

Jesus lived his life on Earth as "True Man". As true man he shared not only in religious festivities and prayer meetings. When the teaching that we have read over the last few days, took place he was not standing as a speaker at a formal dinner party or a preacher before a congregation. He was seated/reclined at table sharing a meal with his friends.

Today he has himself prepared on the beach one of those impromptu "family" gatherings, in this case a barbeque, that are often more enjoyable than more formal "get-togethers" to be enjoyed by his friends whom he will leave behind to repeat his mission of enlightenment until the end of time.

The deeds and words of his lifetime are to be recorded to guide us through our lives, but only two of the evangelists ( one possible and one sure ) are sitting on the coarse sand of the lakeshore in the pleasantly cool morning air. 

John and Peter, James ,Thomas, Nathanael, who are possibly calculating in their heads for how much they will be able to sell their fish, are still overawed in the presence of the Resurrection. Jesus is definitely their friend whose corpse disfigured by wounds had been buried by the charity of Joseph and Nicodemus but the "something greater here" is no longer disguised.

Of those present on this morning of farewell only John had witnessed the bitter end on Calvary. Peter, the designated leader, had actually denied his friendship with Jesus. The three denials during the trial at Jerusalem are now formally forgiven and the purpose of the institutional Church is established for ever.

It is sure from the words of Jesus that the Church founded by Jesus of Nazareth has to copy his life and always, in every way be directed out of itself and focussed on the eternal benefit of the "sheep". We must all be sure that there is not one material thing that is of this world that will last or live for ever and base all of our living in the real-time of "now" on the Eternal Love of God.

Peter knew this as he asked "What about this man". The evangelist John, himself provides Jesus'  enigmatical reply, but when he recalled these events and words in his old age he had been long living in the pure love of Mary who during her sinless life had never asked anything for herself other than 

"Be it done unto me according to thy word".

Dear Lord, help me to live this day guided by the prayers of Our Lady and all the Saints let me truly belong to the New Holy Family that you created during your pain and true death on Calvary. Help me to become dead to temptation and truly contrite for all the sins of my life. Let my loved ones become aware of these my words of Faith. Amen.

 05/06/2025

In today's psalm there is expressed in words the human longing for peaceful calm that can only be fulfilled when a soul has completed its span on this Earth. 

To achieve that we have to commit ourselves to living in the will of God by acknowledging/accepting responsibility for our sins and thanking IAMFATHERHOLYSPIRIT for the historical events with which he created the free-gift of Mercy which we are all to seek.

St Paul is presented to the Jewish Council for judgement by a Roman Governor who could not "get his head round" the religious squabbles of the Jews whom he had to rule. The parallel with the trial of Jesus is too obvious to be mentioned by those for whom the Resurrection was a recent event and the Second Coming an imminent expectation.

St John's Gospel of Love continues to emerge from Jesus' prayer before he begins his passion. The words are a record of the effect of the real-time deeds in the Garden and on the Hill. By the deeds of "True man and true God" in this world has been  created for us the legacy of grace that has as its sole purpose the salvation of each one of us who is personally known by the Supreme Being, that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, "Our Father", Abba. Dad.

When we remember the suffering that Jesus underwent that we might be saved we should all be silent for it is totally impossible for man to reciprocate such Love. 

Nothing is impossible for God.

 04/06/2025

In the continuation of his Gospel, The Acts of the Apostles,  St Luke recalls the events that followed the Resurrection.

The Church is surely right in that she brings these events to the attention of us, the believers who need to base our lives on "every word that comes from the mouth of God" and on the events that give rise to our "Scriptures" as we live in these days that were the "those days" of two thousand years ago.

We all have an obligation to live in this world lives that reflect the life of Jesus. Jesus is the "True Man" the perfection of humanity. 

The Gospels record the three years that  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT showed himself, taught by word and deed the way that each individual who ever lives can respond to Our Father in order that we by doing his will, can attain our share in the Glory of Eternity. 

Our Father offers his loving support to all of us. None of us is ever truly alone except when we cling onto sin and deliberately separate ourselves from the Love that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT ceaselessly generates to search out for his lost sheep.

After a very shaky start St Paul becomes the perfect disciple and never looks back from the furrow he ploughs as powered by the Holy Spirit he broadcasts the seeds that still announce the Good News to the whole world.

Each of Paul's missions reflect the pattern of Jesus' life on Earth. Today Luke records his farewell to the Church at Ephesus, St John remembers that part of Jesus summary at the conclusion of his mission that emphasises that John and the other Apostles have witnessed his human life but "there is something greater here".

On Earth, we can never completely understand but we can all believe the Resurrection for when we follow the Way, Truth and Light nothing can harm us in this life and the death of each of us becomes the finalising of true contrition for all our sins and a glimpse of the Glory that we call "The Second Coming".

 03/06/2025

Today we have readings from the earliest days of the Church.

St Paul knows that his preaching is from God. He knows that the Resurrection which confronted him as he went in pursuit of "blasphemers" is Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God. He knows that he has become possessed by the Holy Spirit and that his whole being as a Jew has always been dedicated to the Father.

He is still human and is nervous about going to Jerusalem because he knows that he is now opposed by many Jews who cannot accept that the religion of their ancestors has been replaced by the Perfecting Sacrifice and the Resurrection of Jesus and that God not only welcomes all souls irrespective of their nationality but actively commissions this new preaching to be spread throughout the world.

In the Gospel Jesus puts into words that we can understand the totally greater than any of our thoughts, boundless infinity that is the being of God. We are given a conception of the Almighty that we can fit into our human capacity for thought but must always remember that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is always greater.

"Glory" is nothing that can be imagined. It is always to be worshipped as it is God. God from God. Light from Light. Begotten not made. Of one Being with the Father and Holy Spirit. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is Glory and we can only believe.

That is why we can call Charles Lwanga and his companions "saints". They believed and none of us  can do greater in this world than that.

 02/06/2025

In this morning's Gospel reading taken from the farewell discourse given at the Last Super, the Apostles  thank Jesus for his plain speaking. "Take heart for I have overcome the world". 

Nothing could be plainer than these words spoken by Jesus but this was mere hours before he is to complete his human life on the cross by hanging with all his blood being poured out by his pierced heart. 

St John's Gospel, however, was written towards the end of his long life and by the time it was written the Temple was no more and there was a Christian Presence throughout the Roman Empire. Those who had shared the life, abandoned him at his passion and become completely converted by the Resurrection had come to realise that these events which they had witnessed during their lifetimes, were the presence of Incarnate Son of IAMFATHERSONNHOLYSPIRIT.

Those who met in the Portico of Solomon did not learn a "creed" but came there to associate with those who had personally known "Godwithus" and prepare for His return. The converts Paul met at Ephesus had never heard of the Holy Spirit and therefore had not been baptised in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as recorded in Matthew's Gospel.

I do know that I have often been untrue to my Faith but I have never doubted the words of the Gospels.

I have no trouble at all in believing Jesus' words, his comments, on the  St Thomas event but I have never had an inkling of the  the physical signs of the Holy Spirit although I hope that the whole of my prayer life is a result of 

Come Holy Spirit

fill the hearts of your faithful

and kindle within them the fire of your love.

Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created.

And you shall renew the face of the earth.