11/07/2025

Jesus completes the revelations that begin in the Book of Genesis. We have to use "Wisdom" to live with integrity. We have to avoid all the ensnarements of hypocrisy into which self-righteousness can so easily lead us.

St Benedict knew that "My Kingdom is not of this World" means exactly what it says and he also knew that the Church of his day was not fulfilling the will of her founder . He also knew that human pride can sully even the most sincere of our intentions even in our personal devotion to Our Father. His "rule" was to be an aid for individual Christian Living in but not of this world and could be considered as the "Shema" of completed revelation.

Jesus tells us that the more we abandon the things of this world the greater will be our reward in the New Creation. Today we are not told to dishonour our family ties, break the fourth/fifth commandment but to remember that the way to perfection begins with the First Commandment which leads us into a new family of the Children of God.

We all have to remember this each day of our lives. 

St Benedict knew that the Church founded on St Peter had already become entangled in this world, can his remaining monks be sure that they are meeting the requirements of their own vows when living in the vast almost empty spaces that are their remaining monasteries?

God knows, that there is much more important Christian work that needs to be done in my country than attending to the education of the wealthy, upper-classes and promoting the elite exclusivism of the Latin Mass Society.

 10/07/2025

Dear Lord, You know that at this moment, I am overcome by my own sense of total weakness and futility confronted as I am with the incomprehensible vastness of Your Creation. Yet, even my puny self is able to know and somewhat understand the difference between the knowledge we have found out for ourselves, and what you have revealed to us.

I do know that I have a brain and that controls my body and can be analysed and probed in its physical reality by the Scientifically Enlightened, the Learned and Clever of the last three or so centuries.

I also know that I have consciousness that is aware that it is an immortal "image and likeness" created and revealed by the Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT forever in the True Reality, that is the Your Holy Mind.

It is this consciousness my own "iam" that reads today's mass readings.

I can experience the guilt that almost paralyses his brothers when Joseph reveals himself to them and the simultaneous joy of Joseph's forgiveness, the loving mercy that is God's participation in that historical event  recorded in the Scriptures.

I am inspired to the piety that is the liturgical beauty of the Psalm for we have no words that can record the "wonder" that is safety and peace in the You.

I too receive the mission given to the Apostles that enables us all to live to the full the life that we have been "loved" into being to complete. The Garden, Covenants and Law are completed by the Life, Death and Resurrection of our Incarnate God.

I am still, tiny, weak, puny, insignificant and pathetic but never "futile" when I put all my trust, belief and faith in "Our Father".

May my sins and the sins of the whole world continue to be forgiven and may we all become as children putting their hands into those of their parents with the undoubting confidence of unconditional love. Amen.

 09/07/2025

All of us who have ever lived have been created as the pinnacle of material being and thus our bodies are limited by the laws of science which include "entropy", the complete physical death which cannot be escaped.

It has always been possible for each of us to live as if we were nothing more than this but mankind has always known that the "life" which is no more in any dead body, even of the animal he has successfully hunted is, "something greater here".

The "something greater here" can become known as "image and likeness" but begins at birth as a non-physical awareness of self and each one of our physical responses to the safety of "my mother".

The "something greater" can become known as "image and likeness" because "Our Father" has always shared the absolutely supreme wonder of his loving freedom with "the apple of his eye" who is completely unrestricted in his personal choice.

IAMIAM has completed the revelation of himself as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT which began in the twelve tribes of Israel, with Jesus and his Twelve Apostles. The Bible contains everything that we need to know about how to say "Yes" to "Our Father" and yet we continue to add to the weight of sins that began with Adam.

It seemed that in that original Jesus generation there was a community of faith and love that could not be shifted and yet the Momentum of Mammon has continued unabated and even increased in my own times to deny to God's face the need for forgiveness of any of our sins.

Dear Lord , You know that I am a sinner and deserve punishment but so many of your children are swamped by this world  which has lost itself in materialism and through no fault of their own are in grave danger of losing their souls. May my prayers join those of Mary and all the saints and bring true enlightenment back into the world. Forgive me for what I have personally done and witnessed without public protest and may the Church founded on Peter become true to her roots. St Francis was able to stand naked before you, she too can strip herself of all worldliness to truly become your Mystical Body but it has to come about by her own willingness to be true to your word.

 08/07/2025

Along with Jacob, I always wrestle, but with myself, when I try to begin each day in prayer, searching for the "holiness" God has created me to choose to be my way of life.

As I begin my daily, sometimes hourly, struggle not to lose sight of God within the confusion of data that composes my being, I know that I am a son of the Church founded on St Peter.

I am thus an heir to the Covenants recorded in the Old Testament and also the recipient of the command to Love that is the "Shema" and fulfilled by a life of adherence to the "Tablets of the Law".

I also know that God  never ceased to guide his people adding through the prophets more to our awareness of his "unknowableness" and of our self-willed failings and the means to atone for them.

God's guidance for all humanity was completed when the events of the Gospels ended 2000 years ago in Israel and the Eucharist is to remain as the Sacramental Real Presence until the end of time.

I am but one man who has sinned much and who devoutly seeks pardon. Yet, each day of my life I am also aware of the grotesque insults that we human beings fling and have flung into the face of our loving Father. I can seek forgiveness for my own sins but for the present and historical sins of the Church and Society I can do no more than mourn as I turn my inward eye to Calvary. Forgive us once more, Dear Jesus.

 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.