07/07/2025

The events recorded in the scriptures all take place in this world and are witnessed by individual human beings in human time but they also involve IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and thus have universal, eternal significance.

This morning in Genesis it is remembered that the man "Jacob" was assured by the Lord that the place where he was then sleeping was to be his and his descendants for evermore.

I am sure that what is happening in Gaza at this moment as I type these words is not at all part of the intention of the Lord as he began his care of the Children of Abraham in the person of Jacob, at the first "House" of God, Bethel.

No matter how much I have sinned during my lifetime, Our Father never ceases to reach out to me pleading from his cross that I use my freedom to accept his Love and reject everything that does not comply with his revealed will.

The People of the Old Testament continued and still continue in their rebellious relationship with IAMIAM that could not grow beyond the sinfulness that is always the result of human self-love but are always present in His Love that is Beyond all Understanding. It was for their sake that God began the Incarnation in the womb of a teenager in Nazareth.

The Son of God made himself known to his Chosen People by deeds of healing and feeding, by his miracles that shocked many into an awareness that the Baptizer's call to repentance was being continued.

Two thousand years later we have billions of words that record the reactions of millions of us to the events of History but there has been nothing added that is more important for each individual one of us than the words and events of those years in Palestine.

That is why we should all try to return to and become part of the Jesus Generation. Help me with your grace. Amen

 06/07/2025

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Although I can never forget the sinfulness that has been the hallmark of most of my life I sometimes feel that I too can be an active part of the revelation that in today's readings begins nearly 3000 years ago with Isaiah, confirms itself in the peaceful liturgical beauty of the psalms and as "bodily stigmata" is proclaimed by St. Paul.

In today's Gospel Jesus appoints 72 of his disciples to become the means by which the "Chosen People" are reminded that it is to bear witness to the Love that God has for them that they have been brought into the world.

The 72 are not remodelled as angels. They remain men in this world but abandon all attachments to the past and provision for the future as they become the first missionaries of the gestating New Testament. We do not know their names but they are certainly not "Anonymous Christians", can there be any such?,  for they are known and loved, as are all of us, in the perfection of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but  "in those days" also in the "Real-Time Presence" of Son.

This "precursory Church" has no need of any sort of dogmatic or hierarchic structure for God is with them. Each one of the pairs is blessed by God and receives the Word that is to be preached directly from God.

Similarly during his dying moments on Calvary Our Saviour spoke directly to Mary and John. We can be sure that it is out of that divine commission to mother and friend that the Church of Love receives Grace to overcome the failings that have been and still are apparent in the Institution founded on Peter that has not lived up to " My Kingdom is not of this World". 

Jesus warned the returning first missionaries that there is only one outcome to life and mission that can be counted as life lived to fulfilment. We must never lose sight of Our Father and his will for us that will lead us all to Life Everlasting. Amen

 05/07/2025

At his trial before Pilate Jesus makes it absolutely clear that it is not his mission to create a "kingdom" in this world. 

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT always has had the power, "Legions of Angels", to stop Pharoah, Darius, Alexander, Caesar, Atilla, and all their more modern equivalent creators of Earthly Kingdoms.

We, generations of mankind, have continued to uninterruptedly succeed each other into the inheritance, spiritual, cultural and material that our human freedom continues to accumulate. 

I am sitting here struggling to begin my day striving for peace within the quandary that Jacob's despicable cheating arouses in me, in prayerful meditation because Human Freedom, Original Sin, has damaged the Divine Perfection of Creation. 

As "image and likeness" each one of us has within our humanity the "almost divine" freedom to choose to accept the grace won for us by Jesus to undo within our own being the effects of the sin created by Adam's choice. 

In Genesis Rebekah and Jacob conspire to acquire the fruits of this world, the "Kingdom" to be rejected by Jesus. They thus chose to embezzle the worldly inheritance that  continues for most of us at least for some of the time to obscure the infinite Glory of Being that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The New Testament is God Incarnate speaking directly to each one of us. He is not immaterial transcendent being  but "True Man and True God. Begotten not made. One Being with the Father". He is a true man inheriting all that we do except for sin. 

Today in the Gospel his humanity is revealed in the common-sense  wisdom that he uses to illustrate the unimaginably unique novelty, their common inheritance, the three groups of disciples do not yet fully comprehend that they are facing. 

 04/07/2025

My very first conscious attempt to grasp at a rational understanding of my own being begins in the English Penny Catechism. "Why did God make you?" "God made me to know, love and serve Him in this world and be happy in the next".

It is from that point, 80 years ago, that I began my fitful efforts to learn how to live righteously. These efforts begin in the Church founded on St Peter. She is herself the guardian of  Scriptures and of the Sacramental Body of Christ.

Scriptures begin in the Book of Genesis  an inspired recollection of how sinful man survived and grew as an independent human "spiritual freedom" in the vastness of "being" revealed by the stars and the specific physical necessities of being a "coded" animal living within the divinely printed circuits of material being.

Our "freedom" has always looked beyond the stars that become silent awe in an unlight-polluted desert night and we have always "meditated", let our minds wander outside of our bodies, as did Isaac in today's first reading.

In the Psalm for today we join in the joy of knowing that Isaac's "meditation" is not a closed circuit of self-expansion but that it is received by the Lord and answered with the revelation of He who, although himself beyond all knowing, knows and wants only Good for each one of us.

The response of the Righteous Israel is recreated in our own beings by the words that separate and link the readings for today.

"Give thanks to the Lord for he is Good, for His Mercy endures for ever."

The New Testament is the proof that the Jewish Temple Religion did not complete the promises to God made by their Patriarchs. 

For the last 80 generations we have had it made clear to us how to achieve the personal holiness with which to give the thanks and praise which are his due to Our Father and yet we are still continuing to let our personal beings create evil just as did Adam and Eve in the Garden and the Chosen People in the Promised Land.

Dear Lord, forgive me for my sins and let the prayers of Mary and all the saints re-kindle the Faith of the Church that she might learn that she has never had any business becoming enthralled in the things of this world as she was only founded to help souls to become dwellers in your presence to await the New Creation at the end of time. Come soon Lord Jesus to bring the promised New Creation Maranatha.

 03/07/2025

St Paul assures the Ephesians that by their decisions to follow the revelations that the Apostles have proclaimed they have become something greater than the reality of their lives in Ephesus on Earth could have achieved on its own.

When we read the Scriptures we are all reminded that we do all have an ongoing choice between dwelling in the "Great Temple of Diana of the Ephesians" or in the "household of God".

Each one of us can make the right choice with  complete sincerity of heart and thus become part of the the "dwelling place for God" that has never ceased to grow since Jesus assured Mary and John that they would be the New Holy Family.

Jesus also promised that he would support for the rest of time "His Church" so that we, the millions who have not seen, can know for certain that God Incarnate purified a way which would enable us to live knowing that HEISWAYTRUTHLIFE and thus become ready for the "New Creation".

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT can only be Good and so his Love is still present in this World. Scriptures, the history of his relationship with mankind has been preserved by Jews and Christians. 

As I raise my heart and mind to God this morning, however, he knows that for most of his created time mankind has preferred to be not part of his household and that we have largely forgotten the wounds we hammered into the body he begot for us so that the sins of  man could also be atoned for by "True man and True God" and not just canceled by Supreme Power IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Dear Lord, I bow my head before you in personal shame for the many sins with which I have stained my soul. I know that it is the combination of billions of personal sins that creates the Great Evil which human will continues to bring into the World. May we all open our hearts and minds to listen to you and know that every moment that we are not aware of You is a waste of the time which we are given to know, love and serve. May my prayers become part of the Community of "Love in your Presence" that is Mary and all your saints which can never cease to praise you and seeks pardon for all sinners here on Earth and in Purgatory. May St Thomas continue to care for the Christians who have remained faithful in his name,  for centuries. Amen

 02/07/2025

I am but a sinful man who, although not a scholar seeks to not only obey but to understand to the best of his ability the will of God as revealed in the Scriptures.

The Old Testament begins in The Garden where mankind is a solitary "i" in the presence of his creator, the Supreme "I".

What we know as "Genesis" is an interpretation, inspired by God, of events that had occurred over many generations before and had become part of the awareness of being that had defined Jews, at that time enslaved in Egypt, as the "Chosen People".

God has never lost touch with the descendants of Isaac, but where is the "Great Nation" to be descended from the child of Hagar?

Dear Lord, you know that I have always tried to do your will, to know, love and serve but have often failed miserably. You know that I am a messy accumulation of good and bad but have always known that I sin through my own fault and that it is my own responsibility to welcome you Son of God and Son of Mary for you bring redemption to all mankind regardless of race. You know that I have often been disturbed by your "choice of some" which I have always seen as rejection of others and that today I  have noticed for the first time that the "Gentiles on the other side" also reject you as did your own people of the Synagogue in Nazareth, when first they meet you as you begin your mission.

 01/07/2025

Tuesday Week 13 Ordinary Time

The disciples are reprimanded for their "lack of faith". Abraham and Lot are saved by theirs. I am still receiving and trying to follow mine. 

God in his infinite liberty chooses to reveal himself and part of our created being is the created freedom that can become either Faith or Self-Destruction.

Everything that we know about anything takes place in the minds of real people who are responding to our own personal awareness of subjective being and also of all the "Other" that is not within  the individual subject that each one of us is.

The People of Genesis are aware that their first forefather Adam had damaged creation and regarded natural disasters the Flood, today's obliteration of Sodom and Gomorrah as evidence of the Creator's displeasure. It  seems that God, at the beginning of time, has patience with the uninstructed ones and today we learn of the partial success of Abraham's pleadings directly to God in yesterday's first reading.

In today's Gospel the  "Disciples in the Boat" the product of all the Faith in Word and Deed of the Old Testament, are in the  presence of God Incarnate with them in the boat, and yet are still afraid they are about to suffer a violent death by a storm, a Natural event.

Although the Incarnation, Life, Death and Resurrection have completely renewed God's revelation of himself, mankind's "Faith" , part of "Image and Likeness" must always be complete and never change.

Noah and Abraham trusted to the extent that they felt secure enough to negotiate with the "All Powerful"; they had Faith. The disciples became panic-stricken by their lack of control of the boat but continue to learn from their Rabbi; they grew into Faith. 

I have often failed to bear witness  to the Faith that is my straightforward "Yes" to God and all that he reveals but I have never despaired and pray to God that I can continue to live as did Abraham and the Disciples in the Boat, growing in Faith, Hope and Love for what remains of my life in the time of this Earth.