04/11/2025

Wednesday Week 31 Ordinary Time

I am one of the "Great Crowd" who accompanied Jesus in this morning's Gospel. Jesus turns to us all and basically says "Do you know what you are doing?"

We cannot partially follow the footsteps of Jesus of Nazareth. His human personality, his teachings attract millions of us to say "Lord, Lord!" but to truly follow him requires perseverance and total commitment only to him. Each step that he took on Earth led ultimately to the cross on Calvary where he "bled-out" in agony.

To be a follower of Jesus means that we are ready to live in this world exactly as he did and fight against all the temptations that disguise themselves as "normal" human activities. "Thou shalt not kill" means exactly that and even to protect our selves and possessions from "the strong man" dealing out death to another human is always wrong.

Wealth that has accumulated over centuries is all a product of sin for it has always been ultimately protected by war and it has always distracted us from the Way, Truth and Life. The actual living and breathing people who were rushing after Jesus in this morning's Gospel reading knew as much as we about our "normal" human concerns, family, wealth and protection. 

They too felt our shock at "Hate your mother and father etc". Those who did not abandon him, however, were able to come to the difficult understanding of "So, therefore, any of you who does not renounce all he has cannot be my disciple".

Two thousand years later, we know much more than did those disciples who saw the face of Jesus, heard with their living ears his words but for generation after generation we continue to miss the whole point of Incarnation/Resurrection.

We have to direct our whole living beings to do only the will of God. We do this first of all by obeying the Ten Commandments and then we can access the "Love" poured out for us on Calvary but it is up to us whether or not we make this our priority in Life even though doing so denies completely the norms of contemporary life.

 03/11/2025

Tuesday Week 31 Ordinary Time

In his guidance to the Early Church in Rome, St Paul has accepted his own personal Faith in Christ as the only way in which any of us can live out our lives in holiness. Each of us has the obligation to welcome the Resurrection into our souls during our lifetimes and thus live as one being with Jesus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, 

We have all been given spiritual gifts but it is we who have to recognise these and cooperate by using them to become the adopted children, spiritually living as one with the "Only Begotten Son".

I don't think that there has ever been an age when St Paul's Faith in his Mission has been completely realised on Earth except, possibly, during the time when John and Mary lived as the Incarnate Church of Love the New Holy Family in Ephesus and personal martyrdom was a real-time possibility for every Christian.

During the brief spell of his Life on Earth, Jesus became the perfect model for us to follow in our own lives. In today's Gospel he is again among the Scribes and Pharisees. ( I wonder whether any of the fishermen of Galilee were present with him at this public meal.)

We all recognise that those first invited to the feast are the "Chosen People", "The Jews of John's Gospel" and that the excuses presented in the parable are all "the things of this world" which Jesus continually warns us about.

I have always believed that all men are free to accept or refuse the Will of the Father. That is why we pray "Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven", but today I have noticed that in his exasperation "The Lord of the Feast" orders his servants to "compel people to come in".

In recognising the facts of History, I have had to come to the conclusion late in my lifetime that the Church founded on St Peter very soon lost its way in this world and came to resemble the Temple of Scribes and Pharisees more than the Mystical Body of Christ, Church preached particularly by St Paul.

Today's Gospel contains a warning that we should not be ruled by the things of this world. We are not born to become engrossed in material goods land, chattels or anything bodily but to accept the invitation to get ready for the "the other-worldly banquet" the spiritual feast that the Lord has prepared for us.

There is no way in which anyone can doubt the simple meaning of Jesus' declaration at his public trial in Jerusalem. He tells the Roman Judge "My kingdom is not of this world." 

How is it possible that any Pope could have worn a Tiara or any Byzantine Emperor claim to speak for Christ?

 02/11/2025

Solemnity of All Saints celebrated 2025

One of peculiarities of my generation is that the Christian Calendar which I try to follow is often adjusted to avoid????

Jesus only ever condemned the religious practices of his contemporaries when they became hypocrisy.

The Apostles had to modify their personal adherence to the "Law of Moses" to avoid binding their Gentile converts with the scruples that Jesus had condemned. 

St Paul knows that "meat sacrificed to idols" is still just meat for the act of sacrificing to idols is a meaningless act made to the non-existent, but if his newly converted are being scandalised he will avoid it to avoid adding unnecessary stress to the "weak". 

I suppose that adjustment to the Calendar and the ignoring of "Holydays of Obligation" has come about in the same spirit displayed in Paul's letters to the Corinthians but what is the spirit of "these times" that supports the "Pride" in fornication and "Slaughter of the Innocents" by distributing the Body and Blood of Christ not only to the known perpetrators but also to the politically powerful who encourage these sins?

All the events recorded in Scripture are either historically or allegorically true; they are the Truth that comes from God with the purpose of guiding us on the Way, Truth and Life. No-one has ever seen IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. The Book of the Apocalypse finalizes Revelation. 

Each generation since the Resurrection has been composed of individuals who are able to listen to the WORD, do the WILL and to finally become part of the WONDER of the Eternal Spiritual Creation revealed in this world only to John and the other visionary prophets.

We are all able to become Saints of God in Heaven for from the Cross we have all been made members of his New Holy Family here on Earth in order for us to receive the super-abundant grace of the Resurrection but it is we who have to make the right choice. 

God help us. Amen

 

 01/11/2025

The Scriptures, Eternal Word recorded within the bodily time of past generations, have been completed. 

In them, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has revealed all that we need to know in order to lead righteous lives on Earth.

The Old Testament is human experience recorded and interpreted by only one race. 

Even though God not only created, but also enlightened His Chosen People over countless generations, they have never been able to use their freedom to bring to the perfection required by God the self-directed righteous lives that is the only just return that can be made to Our Father for the wonder that is our being.

The New Testament completes God's revelation with the Incarnation still, at first, to the Chosen People but then to the whole of mankind both Jews and Gentiles.

In the 100 generations or so since the Resurrection, we Gentiles have proved ourselves to be no more capable of the collective holiness that is the only choice that each one of us can make to return in simple fairness the Love that "the Father has lavished on us" than are the still self-proven to be "stiff-necked Chosen Ones".

Today/tomorrow the Church founded on St Peter which very soon forgot, or never at all listened to, "My kingdom is not of this world" reminds herself that her true function is to guide "her sheep", our souls, into the safety of Jesus, the sheepfold but that the Church of Love, created  as he was being overcome by  the agony of death with his last words spoken to mankind, "Woman behold your Son, Son behold your Mother" has never failed in so doing for many holy individuals, known and unknown Saints, have been welcomed into the "mansions of the Lord" by the intercession made to her son by Mary and her New Holy Family.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,

Now and at the hour of our death. Amen

 31/10/2025

Friday Week 30 Ordinary Time

All of us who are awake at this moment know that we are alive, aware both of our body and of the "I" which itself both remembers the past, experiences the present and develops as the future unfolds.

We are all thus individual units of rational being living in time and known as such by our loving creator, self-revealed to be the totally beyond human comprehension IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Our bodies are completely limited by the laws of nature but each "I" has a "God-like freedom"  to react as it wishes to whatever we encounter during our life-times.

As are we all, St Paul is a totally unique human being. It is only he who was stopped on his persecuting mission to Damascus and blinded by the Resurrection  but he is also one of the "Chosen People" and in today's letter he is horrified that the Jews who had been so blest over centuries, even to the extent of having their DNA chosen to be the human vehicle for the Incarnation should now choose to be accursed and basically declare war on God.

God knows that it has always been hard for me to believe that he did have favourites. I always feel sorry for the civilizations of  India, South-East Asia, China, Japan, for the cruelties endured by the ancient peoples of the Americas and for the tropical ignorance that still exists.

Creation is the result of the Love which is the Eternal WORD, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, and that Love is completely revealed by Christ on Calvary. Mankind is the billions of "Egos" who have to choose to do the revealed will of Our Father for righteousness to be found on Earth.

I am awake at this moment and remembering the past, breathing in the present and praying for the future that the Lord do even more to help us his stupidly wayward children on Earth to become as were Mary and Jesus  sinless and perfect human beings in both body and soul for even after the Incarnation there have not been very many of us who have achieved the state of holiness for which we were created.

The proof for this is one click away on any News or historical website.

 29/10/2025

Wednesday Week 30 Ordinary Time

There is nothing that has ever existed, exists or will exist that is not known to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for unlimited Love, desire for only "Universal Good " is  his ever-greater being.

I only know about God what I am able to try with my limited capacity to understand from what he has revealed about himself.

Disobedience to his revealed Commandments is the "Cancel Culture" from which only the Incarnation can save the Eternal Life which he has created for each of us to accept or reject by using  freedom to choose how to behave during our human lifetimes.

This morning's letter to the Romans aims to bolster up our Faith by assuring us that in God's Eternity we are already called, justified and glorified. It can, however, raise deep questions and fears about human freedom.

A modern theologian writing about our "Christian Hope that All can be Saved" more than once asks how it is that so many Church Authorities over the centuries "know" that Hell is crammed full of suffering sinners.

St. Paul knows that even though we do not know how to pray properly the unseen Paraclete, the Spirit of IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is always the supporting conduit of the Father's Merciful Love made manifest by Jesus' death on Calvary. 

The Holy Spirit brings us to Heaven. Our own choices bring us to Hell.

In today's Gospel Jesus warns us that we have to fully strive to cooperate with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's manifest will during our lifetimes. Not only is there no ambiguity about his commandments but there is also a limit to his patience. 

We all really do have to choose to do God's Will during our lifetimes for by the closing of Death's Door at the end of each life we lose our one opportunity to choose to  join Mary, the Angels, the Apostles  and all the Saints in the Glory of God, the Joy of Eternal Life in Love. 

Dear Lord, may I do thy will this day and may thy Holy Spirit overcome what it is that leads so many of us into temptation and devote ourselves to the creation of Evil which can only lead to the state of hateful pain and suffering that we call Hell.

 28/10/2025

Feast Simon and Jude

Both the first and second reading for today's Feast Day are from the New Testament. St Luke records what he had been told about the events of the day that Jesus made this public choice and appointment of  the Twelve Apostles. 

When St Paul writes to the Ephesians thirty years have passed by within which time IAMFATHERSOHOLYSPIRIT has finalised his revelations through word and deed. Everything that each human being needs to know to live lives of holiness is now present in the world, recorded in the Scriptures.

Mary, the chosen Apostles, Matthias and the "untimely one" are the only sources of the direct teaching Word, Son of God and Son of Mary made to us in the historical events of which they were participants in Palestine 2000 years ago.

We always have to remember that as soon as Popes, Patriarchs or Priests became involved with "Empire" the essential spiritual quality of the Gospels was compromised and this world, Mammon immediately began the conquest of the Church founded on St Peter that has become more and more successful throughout my lifetime.

I have had to face up to my personal sinfulness ever since childhood and know that even today which I begin in sincere prayer and contemplation that it is so easy for me to sin even though I know that I can always access the support of Jesus, "I will be with you always even to the end of time".

I have to tell myself, however,  that even though I cannot completely understand all that I read about God and that my own thoughts are dismissed as "simplistic" God is also simple in his Love and Commandments for us. He tells us how to live because he knows that we are capable of becoming holy for that Love he poured forth as human blood on Calvary has the Power to enable us all to be secure in his New Holy Family where there is only Love in which we can join with all the Apostles and Saints to proclaim "Blessed be God for ever!"

"Woman behold your son, Son behold your Mother"

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus

Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen