15/06/2025

Trinity Sunday

Although this world has changed so much in my lifetime, the revelation of how and why we are to live in righteousness was completed 2000 years ago. 

The Church founded on Peter has only ever had one function to fulfill and can be judged only by how well she is still "feeding" the flocks that are all the new generations in this world of human bodies that accommodate the souls, "image and likeness" of the creative Love, that is the Supreme Being, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, and today celebrated as "The Holy Trinity".

In the first of this morning's readings we are taught that we can use our human "wisdom" to recognise and worship, as does the Psalmist, the "ever greater" Wisdom of God.

Very shortly after the worldly time of the Incarnation, St Paul is inspired to interpret how Jesus has completed all that we need to be able to do to become holy as Our Father is holy.

Today's Gospel is only some of the human words that reveal the Divine Truth that is part of the Church's mission to preserve and feed to each new generation. Our minds are all limited and can only partially absorb the "evergreatness" of God and our personal missions to know, love and serve. 

Wisdom tells all of us that even though "you have put all things under our feet" we can never challenge God and so we must aggressively resist any tendency to pride as, although loved with a love that surpasseth all understanding, we can build nothing in either the physical universe or in our minds that comes close to the Glory that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT finally revealed in the event that is Jesus, Life, Death and Resurrection.

He will glorify me for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

All that the Father has is mine.

Therefore I said , He will take what is mine and declare it to you.

 14/06/2025

God knows that I am still living after so many years fundamentally as did the child that became first aware of  my responsibility for my personal sin some 80 years ago. I can remember childish greed, jealousy and the dishonesty with which I tried to hide these manifestations of the selfishness which is still the source of the disquietude that prevents me from being consistently at peace with God.

St Paul, however, has complete confidence that Christ's self-sacrifice has achieved its objective and continues to live and preach the life of the Resurrection brought about by the literal "topsy turvy" and total conversion which inspires everything that he has experienced and preached since then even to the martyrdom with which he seals his own being in perfect imitation of Christ.

I thank God that I can read and not only understand Paul's perception of IAMFATHERSONANDHOLYSPIRIT but also believe that his interpretation of the Way, Truth and Life revealed by Jesus and by his legacy to his Apostles is the only way for all of us to live our lives in a way that is pleasing to Our Father.

As I tried to concentrate half a minute or so ago in 2025 on what Paul had written to the first generation of Christians living in Corinth  nearly 2000 years ago I was able to maintain confidence with heartfelt thanks in the Resurrection Faith that is still the same today as it was then. 

I also knew, just as did St. Paul, that the first friends of the Incarnation were still living and teaching not only "every word that comes from the mouth of God" but also proclaiming every deed of Immanuel. Our Father ensured by the contemporality of the Incarnation with Roman road-building that it was possible for the Gospel to spread "throughout the world" as quickly as it could ever have done before "those days".

Jesus brought forgiveness for the entirety of Sin and so in his teaching warned us also that every little disobedience even those of our childhoods are an offence against the perfect goodness that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

He has not abolished the "Law" but perfected it. I am, however, still far from perfect. I am still the "little child" that has to be allowed to approach the Lord. I cannot come to the perfect peace that "surpatheth all understanding" unless I completely overcome the  childishness of pride that begins with " King baby" screaming and shouting not only for the nourishment of food but also recognition of "being" that has to be subdued if we are to live in our right relationship to God.

 13/06/2025

St Paul is filled with the Light of the Resurrection. This is the unseen presence of the Holy Spirit that  each of us in every age can choose to recognise and by so doing call upon his help to strengthen the material, the  earthenware of our physical being, in our spiritual fight against sin.

Saul's completely human life had been brought to an abrupt halt on the "Road to Damascus". From that moment he became a man who never lost touch, even though completely in the world, with the  entirely not of this world living presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Today Paul repeats Jesus' prayer at the Last Supper, even before John had recorded it in writing, directly for the first believing people of Corinth and for us all to share with each other in the unity that is the Love, that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed.

We know that Paul lived in this world focused on the Truth that comes from God. Jesus is the Incarnation. God himself experiences " the treasure in jars of clay " that is human being and thus chooses to limit himself for 33 years in human time to overcome Sin not by Infinite Power but by Infinite Love.

I cannot fully understand but do "know", "believe and so I speak". 

God knows that sexual sins "adultery" are the most difficult for us to curtail for it is through sex that we can create the children for whom our ability to Love as "Image and likeness" becomes the most manifest.

Even in Jesus' time on earth human beings took steps to prevent the conception of babies and  killed the unwanted born. Modern biological technology has enabled us to completely separate sex from fertility and for the last two generations the quest for sexual pleasure has come to be the most dominant force in our world.

I do know, however, that it is not God's will for human beings to choose to live lives that prepare them to prove at the moment of their death that "Hell" is real and truly "The final outcome."

Help us Lord to overcome the power that we have to shape our own lifetime  failures even though you have already completed in the revelation of the Jesus and the Apostolic generation all that we ever need to know and do only your will during our lives on Earth. I always need more from you and am not alone in this. Help us by your grace!

 12/06/2025

Our Saviour is undoubtedly the "true man" son of God and son of Mary.

He has lived, except for sin, just as we do. He too has been begotten, developed as do all mammals, begun to breathe and then taken his final breath.

I know that I can never fulfill the yearning to understand that is part of the human being ("isness") with which our innermost "Image and Likeness" reveals a hint of the Infinite Splendour, which can never be grasped, that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

I do not know whether or not Isaiah's words are a description of a God-given vision or a creation of his human imagination.

I do know that John is remembering the real-time of the event at which he had been present 40/50 years previously. We are not reading a verbatim report. We have the "soul" of Jesus recorded in an instant of reciprocal Love that is beyond my mental understanding but can be sought, meditated upon and cherished by all who would be safe in the flock of the Good Shepherd.

Jesus has emptied himself of  his divinity to become "True Man" except for sin. The sublimity of John's account of the Prayer of the "Last Supper" is so overpowering that it seems that only "God from God" is present with the remaining Apostles in the "Upper Room". 

Our Saviour, however, is "true man". He is Son of God but also the Son of Mary, a human being born without sin, and as today we witness the wonder of Jesus in perfect prayer; as he is what we all are created to be, we can come to realise that what it is that is necessary to be restored in creation damaged by human sin can only be done by God's own participation. Fearful as that seems to be.

We can all be as close to Our Father as Jesus Son of Mary and know, love and serve with perfection for the Immense Horror that is sin has been defeated by Our God. Our Liberty, which is the touch of God's own Freedom, however has not been limited. We have to remember that it is still by our own choice that we accept the safety that comes from Son's own prayer.

I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known

That the Love with which you have loved me may be in them

And I in them.

 11/06/2025

Today's psalm returns the exuberant joy that Jesus displayed in yesterday's Gospel reading. The "salt of the Earth" responds with "A new song to the Lord for he has brought salvation" to his people. Many centuries have passed since the Psalmist taught his choir to sing that new song in the Temple at Jerusalem.

We are now at the beginning of the third millennia of  "Christianity". Millions of us have lived and died since the time the followers of "The Law" were first called Christians in Antioch. That City itself has been destroyed and rebuilt several times since the Apostles met, prayed and learnt how to centre their lives on the Resurrection Faith taught by the Incarnation.

In my life-time I have witnessed an incredible advancement in mankind's "greatness". This "thing" that is showing me what I am thinking as I literally manipulate it with the limits of my material being, my fingertips, is so wonderful that it could easily captivate me for the rest of today, even for the rest of my life.

The material world which, even with low-level technology, has always been able to captivate mankind with its natural wonders and challenges to our intelligences is the place created by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in which for us to have our being. We are all tiny "iams" that are intended by God to be the highest form of his created "Good" in this world.

There is always "something greater here". All of our generations have had "The Law" made known to us.  Each one of us has our freedom curtailed by our allotted time but within our time we all have been, are and will be guided by the eternal law of human life of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT which has never changed over recorded time. We have to use the wonder of our freedom to make the right choice each moment of our lives.

Christus heri, hodie et semper.

 10/06/2025

Whenever I do not literally begin my day by attending to the Mass Readings, even though I have not  always been wasting my ability to concentrate in uselessness, I have to search for the guidance which has been the surprise of my life when I do recognise  the Holy Spirit, only "Yes", in my present and past reflections.

In fact, it is more often than not that I do respond and though I was worried today about my delay,  St Paul's unqualified faith in the Son of God and confidence in the Holy Spirit can only bring me the Joy of being consciously in the presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The Eastertide readings from John's Gospel of Love have now been completed and we return to the "real-time" of Matthew as we follow and listen to the Incarnation as he calls his People back to the Covenants and the "True Law" of the Scriptures, away from the self-deception that is personified as the "Pharisees" but is the pit on the edge of which I know that I too am always tottering.

Jesus really loves his disciples. He thinks that we are great, the best of all creation. We are the "Salt of the Earth". We are the ones who are to enhance the work of our Creator by living in the Light and reflecting his Glory by not only avoiding but also by condemning sin. 

Back in my own "real-time" "now" on earth, I know that Jesus' feet are as firmly planted in the dust of this world as are his and his disciples' that day in Palestine and the "Begotten not made, True man" knows that for us to guarantee our perfect obedient worship of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT requires us to curb the Liberty that is our human splendour but must be acknowledged as gift of the "Good" seen by Our Father, His "Dad" if we are to annihilate self-love, the source of all sin.

Every time I read Jesus' "You are the salt of the Earth" I remember a Turkish Language proverb used to this day in the Asia Minor of Paul's missionary journeys. 

"Use salt to stop meat rotting. But what if the salt is rotten?

Jesus answers that it is trampled into dust as are all material delights and their sensual enhancements.

We are all responsible for our own lives but we only have to ask and the Grace of Our Evergreater Father really becomes Paul's guarantee of our place in Christ, Mystical Body uniting Heaven and Earth, Church of Love, New Holy Family and the only source of complete safety until the End of Time.

 09/06/025

Mary, Mother of the Church

Today we are left speechless by that moment when Jesus completed the worldly life of the Incarnation. John's "It is finished", in Mathew and Mark, is the uncomprehending despair of "Lama Lama Sabachtani" . Luke, who is to continue his record of God's final intervention into the human-time of this creation as "The Acts", has a much more hopeful "Into thy hands I commend my spirit".

But "Scripture" is much more than words. It is the living presence of the Holy Spirit who has never left us alone to follow our own way through the time and material of this creation. God communicated without words to Adam but the first disobedience created the corruption that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT still trusts us to use our freedom, His Image and Likeness, to defeat.

The "words" of Scripture use human language to record the deeds of mankind and revelations of God in the spiritual light of that revelation in order to guide us back to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

The lesson of the Old Testament is that even with God as present to them in revelation and deed as he was to so many of their generations the Human Freedom of the Jews was able to continue to add even more to the ever growing burden of unrighteousness that was their inheritance and bequest to the world and to their own children.

Every moment in time is unique and has a unique significance as part of "human-time". There has never been and there will never be any moment as particularly important to all subsequent generations of humanity as when the almost lifeless body of "True Man" breathed out "Woman behold your Son, Son behold your Mother".

As with the Jews, the first People of God, the "Church", seen as an Institution, has failed, generation after generation to perfect the "Will of God" on Earth. 

But our Church is much more than an Institution founded on Peter. In her we can find the New Holy Family created on Calvary as recorded in today's Gospel Reading, the living Body of Christ as taught by Paul, a Church of Love preached by John, and guaranteed to be the place of Safety here on Earth where we can be sure that we will never misuse our divine gift of freedom as we let it be guided by the Mother of God who is also our mother and today is proclaimed "Mother of the Church".

Each one of us has to live on Earth truly believing "My Kingdom is not of this World" in order to witness "I will be with you even to the end of time", the Eschaton and promised New Creation.