09/09/2025

Tuesday Week 23 Ordinary Time

St Paul lived in the first generation of mankind that had had the significance of human life demonstrated for us in real time. The "we" who are living now have still nothing more reliable to guide us on our way through the mystery of life than did they who lived and died 2000 years ago.

Just as did the Colossians, we too have to "see to it" that in "This World" we are not enthralled by human opinions and natural instincts that lead us away from the salvation that is ours only when we continue to live fully human lives exactly as Jesus showed us how.

Our Baptism has cut out original sin from our souls but we have to remember in our freedom that Christ works within us and it is each one of us for himself who has to consciously "walk, rooted and built up and established in faith abounding in thanksgiving".

St Luke's Gospel recalls what he had learnt from the Apostles about the event when Jesus had chosen and revealed them in the time of "This World". 

The Apostles are named but an anonymous multitude stands in awe before the Lord worshipping Him out of whom comes forth power to heal them all. How many generations of us have lived since that day? 

How many times have I rejected the healing grace won "in bitter pain" for me by my brother and my God?

Dear Lord, may I become firm of faith and thus avoid all sin. Let my prayers become united with those of Mary and all the Saints as we wait for the "Last Things" that have been promised on your return. Amen. Maranatha, Lord, Jesus Come. 

 08/09/2025

There is no doubt that somewhere in the world today efforts are being made to clone a human body.

 Perhaps there has already been a successful outcome. Even that unnaturally parentless individual's body, if he exists, however, has been determined by manipulated DNA.

For many families and cultures Human Genealogy (physical result of DNA) is still as important today as it was in the semitic culture within which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT chose to live in This World. Ancestors have to be known by name as they are the essential part of each of us and it could be said that DNA is the first thing that we possess in This World.

"Anyone who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple"

The genealogies in Luke and Matthew are  confirmation of the human reality of Jesus' body and soul. He is true man;

"Conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, 

suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. 

He descended into Hell.  

On the third day he rose again and ascended into Heaven, whence he will come to judge the living and the dead."

The prologue to John's Gospel confirms that with Jesus "there is always something greater here". He is also true God.

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God".

Today the Church celebrates the birthday of Mary who although completely human remains with all the angels and saints as the sinless Mother of Our Lord, chosen to share with her Son in the salvation of the world.

Dear Lord, help us all to accept the grace that Mary leads all the saints in distributing throughout "This World". Help us all to break the power of Satan that is the self-absorption, the source of all the sins of mankind.

 07/09/2025

Sunday Week 23 Ordinary Time

Today's Gospel records that Jesus tells us that to be his disciples we have to  "hate" all  created beings including ourselves.

It is easy for me to "hate" myself for I know that I am a pretty useless person who has never been able to retain the grace that the Crucifixion spread throughout the being that each of us receives and shares as "image and likeness".

"To hate" family, friends, the beauty of creation, however, is a totally different matter.

St Luke tells us  that Jesus interpreted his own "Hard Saying" with two similitudes which soften the force of the word "hate" but he still leaves us with the stark instruction to resist being overcome by what we have received from his providence in this world. 

In my case, I am quite happy to have been born into the "This World", the England that was resisting the German assault on Europe that we call World-War 2. "This world" in the UK became a joyful place in 1945. 

I have often wondered what Pope Benedict could have felt about his own Germanic Heritage as he wrote his seriously deep reflections on "The Life of Christ". As he wrote "Eschatology", did he remember Bavarian Dachau or his own Anti-aircraft gun?

Hans Urs von Balthasar had an extremely comfortable "This World" provided for him at birth and his pride at the historical accomplishments of German Aristocratic Art and Philosophy was no less than that of Wagner. In one of his sermons he speaks of the Swiss nation as being entrusted by "This World" to care for its gold. He does not condemn or refuse the evil results of Swiss "This Worldly" Secrecy.

At the end of the Old Testament, something was seriously wrong with the implementation in  "This World" of God's Word by His Chosen People. It was so wrong that it could only be rectified by the Incarnation. 

Since then there have been many times that the Church founded on St Peter seems to have acted in "This World" every bit as hypocritically as was the Temple of the Priests, Scribes and Pharisees acting when condemned by Jesus. We, however, in 2025 have had God's completed revelation with us for 2000 years now. There is nothing greater that can be done to bring us closer to Our Father than has already been completed on Calvary. 

Dear Lord, help each of us to hold onto your Word and with the aid of Mary and all the saints may the Church of Peter become  divested of all worldly entanglements. We receive your gifts to enable us to distribute them. Help us to disperse all patrimony and open our hearts to receive the Love, "woman behold your son, son behold your mother" created as the New Holy Family" by you from the cross.

 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".