06/09/2025

Saturday Week 22 Ordinary Time

Our world and all that is in it is because God, self-revealed as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, exists, which is enough, but he also chooses to celebrate his own super-abundance of eternal being with the creation of other similarly free beings, image and likeness, who can make their own choice to recognise or refuse his Love.

"This World" of matter, the Universe, vast though it is, is totally limited and can be completely analysed and predicted. It has no freedom. This is true also of living matter. But "i am" different than anything else in This World. All we "iams" of This World are unique "images and likenesses" created by and to share the loving freedom of the Supreme Power who is beyond all human knowledge but who chooses to know and be known by each one of us as "Our Father".

Each one of us is able to respond in loving obedience to the love that is God. All the obvious evil that has ever been and is undoubtedly still being perpetrated as I write this is a result of choices and actions  performed by all of us, me and you, my brothers and sisters, living and dead that have not conformed to the will of God.

Dear Lord, forgive me for my sins and for the sinfulness in which we your beloved children have continued to disfigure your creation even though it is 2000 years since Jesus made the perfect sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins and taught us how to do your will on earth as it is done in heaven.

 05/09/2025

Friday week 22 Ordinary Time

I am always aware that I have to be prepared for the moment that I die. 

The total purpose of these my thoughts and prayers recorded  here on blogger are a result of the belief that "this world" where I now am is not my permanent home and that all of the humanity of which I am one tiny speck also has to accept that for each speck "time will run its course".

Over the last couple of years I have been trying to be a Christian, a body, mind and soul that has decided to believe wholeheartedly the words and teachings contained in the Old and New Testaments and to conform my behaviour to the "holiness" that is the Spiritual being of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and lived to perfection only by Jesus and his mother as recorded in the Gospels.

I am awake for about 20 hours each day. I rarely need more than 5 hours to keep myself alive but spend most of the remaining 15 hours in mindless lethargy with the TV.

And yet, I am not fooling myself when I claim to be "always aware that I have to be prepared for the moment that I die".

I am sure that I was not prepared for the moment that I was born. Only our mothers know the gestation and pain that is giving birth to the babies that first fill them with love and then ???

God in his providence chose that each of us should be born into this world at the moment each one of us was. At our births we are all free beings within the worldly, families, tribes, religions, races, nations living in our own times amongst our own generation but we all have to become aware that our freedom means that we can choose how to grow and live throughout our lifetimes.

St Peter, Andrew, James and John  were born into the families of fishermen in Galilee of the Nations. They were not predestined to become "fishers of men". King Charles is King of England not because he has either a divine right or was chosen by God but because he did not refuse the throne of his mother. Only "Our Lady" seems to have been prechosen into an earthly role for she was conceived without stain of sin and yet it is taught that she could have refused her place in Salvation for God respects his gifts to his pinnacle of creation. There is no human freedom that is an illusion.

Dear Lord, help me to pray and follow your footsteps onward to my personal final moment which only by accepting your grace can I make acceptable to you. Amen

 13/08/2025

In today's Gospel reading Matthew records that Jesus promises that he will support us by his presence whenever we come together in "his name".

 07/08/2025 and continued to 10/08/202

My Faith

"It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins."

Some time ago, I made the necessary arrangements to have my corpse cremated without any of the ceremonies that have come to be known as "Celebration of Life". The fact of bodily death, however, is not the end of life and the life that has departed from the deceased bodies continues to either celebrate the joy of being now directly in the presence of Our Father or regret the waste of the opportunity that human life affords to all of us to conform to the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT first revealed through Moses and the Prophets and completed by Jesus as recorded in the New Testament.

I have, however, also prepared a "Funeral Card" and this will be distributed as my farewell to family and the few friends remaining in this world with the hope that some of them might give a thought to the eternity that awaits all of our beings when we come to the end of this life.

I have missed making my daily record of prayer, awareness of living in the presence of God, over the last few days and in this my eighty-fifth year of life know without a doubt that there is not much that I have done during it that could be considered an obvious witness to Christ's Life, Death and Resurrection and so today I begin a testament to the faith at which my "Farewell Card" only hints and after which I have unceasingly striven.

I am in the hands of God. 

I hope that today's Gospel event that happened at the shrine of the pagan god Pan, a source of the Jordan, reveals that I can still have time to ask for pardon for my sins and connect my being to the flood of mercy that has unceasingly flowed as has done that river through fertile Galilee, the truly lifeless Dead Sea  into the world ocean, from the Father even before the Final Revelation of which today's "Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my church " can be considered to be the definitive beginning. 

 Church as mystical Body of Christ is the total purpose and witness of the Incarnation. 

Each human being is known by God and we are given the wonder of life, free being, in the encoded material universe of natural beauty and our own bodies to enable us to employ our freedom of being to accept that each of is "I am" because God loves "me" as our total meaning, way, truth and life. When we deny or even forget this we add to the pain and suffering, the evil, that is the thus humanly created result, not God's punishment of sin.

We are "Image and Likeness" in our created freedom of  being. 

Adam and Eve could have obeyed God's Will and remained as perfect as the light that concealed the nakedness of their material beings but even divine Love can only be the result of Freedom so humankind has continued generation after generation to become the sin-filled history of the world that it has never ceased to be so since it was first recorded after the days of Noah.

The Bible of the Jews and Christians is the record not only of human events but also of God's revelation of his His Will for mankind made to the descendants, both physical and spiritual, of Abraham. 

In yesterday's Gospel, Jesus, true man, Son of Mary, true God, begotten not made, Son of the Father, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, through whom all things were made stood in the presence of both Pagan and Chosen Humanity in the Shrine of Pan at the foot of Mount Hermon to announce that he would finalise his declared will for mankind in the community of the faithful he created and  founded on the declaration of faith made by Peter.

"You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God."

The horrors resulting from the errors made by the subsequent generations that make up the hateful history of mankind since those times could only have been avoided and still be avoided by each one of us accepting the guidance to perfection that begins in faithful hearts that are open to accept the Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, the "Living God" of Peter's declaration.

My own generation was born into a world in which the grace created by Jesus and entrusted to his foundation on Peter had been routinely refused for centuries and human beings were embroiled into systematic destructive hatred of "enemies" whom by his words and own perfect example Jesus had taught should be loved even to the extent of  accepting our own deaths rather than doing harm to one another.

"My kingdom is not of this world."

This declaration made before Pilate by Jesus in the last hours of his human life on Earth has never been fully honoured. There is not a "kingdom of this world", however, that has not thought that it is special in either its acceptance or denial of God. "God save our King", "In God we Trust", "Manifest Destiny" "Liberte, Fraternite, Egalite", "One People, One Nation One Leader", but what has proved to be even more problematic for "Souls on Earth" is that the Institutional Church founded on Peter has become as entangled in the "this worldliness" that it was Jesus' mission from which to free the souls of his "Chosen People" and thus begin the liberation of all mankind from the self-centeredness that is Original Sin.

 " I will be with you always even to the end of time".

There has never been a generation regardless of the wickedness manifest by Church or State which has not been blessed by individuals who have lived out their lives in accordance with the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. We do not need to know their names but no-one is anonymous in the sight of God. Jesus was always at the side of such as Edith Stein, today's Saint, as she was one of the millions terrorised and  unjustly killed because of their, not necessarily Jewish, DNA as he is ready to be with any of us who sincerely handover our lives to his love.

"Be it done to me according to Thy word."

If you read these words do not be offended or annoyed for the "Faith" that they so poorly express is the only legacy that you can receive that will not perish as has the body of this person who struggled throughout his life to become a Christian and has only recently realised that the Mystical Body of Christ can become a reality in the Church of Love, the Spiritual New Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and John and even though the Institutional Church disappoints is always ready to welcome those who seek to become righteous in this world as preparation for the next.

"Woman behold your Son. Son behold your Mother".

 

 24/07/2025 and 25/07/2025

Dear Lord, help me to truly open my heart, the depths of my being, to be able to receive your revelations and thus know, love and serve during your gift to me of life. You know that each day I try to concentrate my being on You and never quite make it as the total distraction that is this material world always intrudes and ruins my best intentions.  You are now reminding me that You did only the Father's Will on Earth by "Living for" each one of us and that I have to follow this example to become able to do 

" Your will on Earth as it is in heaven"

I  cannot serve you more than by loving my neighbour as myself.  It is by praying for the salvation of each and every person whom I meet during my lifetime, that I can come to know, love and serve You in this world and thus accept your grace to prepare myself for the life of the world to come.

You know that I have always had difficulty in following your teaching about parables that is today's Gospel reading. You also know how many times I have tried to understand Father Bailey's thesis on that subject. You also know how he was commended to me recently as a "man of integrity". May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.

Dear Lord, Help me to learn how to care for all "my neighbours" with unselfish devotion, as I did for your priest Philip, and for all my living family with the natural love that seeks only that their souls become enlightened and thus able to accept your Grace and also that Your Mercy brings Salvation to all who have  already died and need to experience the penitential grace of Purgatory in preparation for Your Parousia.

I thank you Lord for today's reminders and pray that I never again lose touch with Jesus, True God and True Man, True Saviour of the World who to do your will lived and died for us that we truly become the "beloved of My Father". May this prayer become part of the heavenly chorus of praise and petition that is led by Our Lady Queen of Heaven as we all await the "Second Coming" promised by Jesus Our Lord. Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus, Come.

 23/072025

God knows that I am often close to despair when I remember with horror my sinfulness which has been dominant throughout most of my life. He also knows the many pangs of remorse that I have suffered  accompanied by fear that I am not truly repentant but only making an empty show of accepting the Mercy which he pours over our "flesh", our worldly being.

All the Saints have been examples for us to follow and become united with in our individual journeys through the life of this world. Today St Paul has no doubts, "It is no longer I who live, it is Christ who lives in me ", he was saved from his self-chosen path, meticulous devotion to the Torah which had revealed itself in his fierce persecution of the brethren who met in the Portico of Solomon, by the direct intervention of the Resurrection.

The interconnectedness of individual beings is expressed in modern times by using the image "network" which is the lifeless equivalent of the many "vines" of human solidarity that had preceded the Incarnation. 

Jesus is the "True Vine" because he is "True God and True Man" and he is the sole source of the Grace that enables us to avoid the clutching tendrils of sinful vines and know that we can always choose to be grafted into the  Living Vine that flourishes from the wood of the cross.

Saints are human events in history who have been able to never lose  sight of the "mystery of their being". They have truly known that their origin is in God but that they are responsible for their own conduct and duty to know, love and serve throughout their lifetimes.

Although we cannot ignore the failings of Institutional Church, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has never left us to stew in the sinful worldliness of many priests, popes, and other prelates and directly revealed himself through unlikely and dissimilar individuals who become "mystical events" in the history of Christianity.

St Brigette and St Paul are as unlikely a pair of humans as you could get but both were touched in this temporal world by the Infinity that is beyond understanding.

Those who have to strive  to  join the "Communion of Saints", can do so even though the Institutional Church is repeating the failure of the Prophets and the Temple. We can resist sin by accessing the grace we all need in the Church of Love "Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother" which is as much a fact of revelation as "Thou art Peter". The New Holy Family has never been marred by any attachment to the " kingdom of this world" and is our sure hope of the world to come. 

May the Lord our God forgive me for my sins and for the weakness of faith that still troubles my conscience. Amen

 22/07/2025

We do not know a lot about the women who accompanied Jesus and his disciples on the missionary journeys he made throughout Palestine. In fact, we know very little about the measurable human time that was witnessed in participation from within by the Incarnation. 

Even the first of our "Jesus Generations" consisted mostly of those who were "blessed" for believing without having witnessed in "Real-Time". 

Mary Magdalen has a a unique place in History for it was to her that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT first revealed in his own Resurrected Human Body what it is that the we will become if we completely accept and obey his revealed will for each one of us. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God".

The "Don't touch me" moment has inspired many artists to produce an image of that instant when the Resurrection was announced and much has been surmised about the woman therein depicted.

Much of the  non-Scriptural literature that 80 generations of Christianity have produced about this  Mary may have been written in good-faith but the only truth that comes from God to guide us in our lives on Earth that we need to know about her is that;

Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

What could be more wonderful than this?