16/11/2025

Sunday Week 33 in Ordinary Time

In today's reading from St Luke's Gospel we listen to  ETERNALWORD, TRUEMANTRUEGOD, during the brief spell of ever-escaping time he used to enable all individual humans to lovingly accept and conform our own freedom to all that is revealed in Scripture. 

Five hundred years before then, Malachi had felt trapped in a world dominated by the "arrogant and evildoers" but he "took this as his opportunity" and CHRISTETERNALWORD gave him the "mouth and wisdom" that still cannot be contradicted twenty-five hundred years later.

St Paul who is in person "the Jews" the first target, focus of the blinding WORDLIGHT, has to face the practicalities of how to become the Resurrection Church  founded on St Peter in the real world amidst the informed yet blinkered hostility of his own people and the confusing intelligent ignorance of the Hellenes and other gentiles.

St Paul knows that our sole legitimate aim in life is to become Holy in body and soul, to provide a fitting welcome in our unseen beings for the Resurrection, WORD who is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

He knows that "My kingdom is not of this world" but that Jesus too had worked with his human body, for the Incarnation is not just a concept but a truly debased human animal bleeding to death in unimaginable agony in the real-time event of Calvary.

We all live lives of different experiences in this world. We are all pressured by the providence that we meet from the moment of our births. Today Jesus seem to be speaking about temporal events both to his own  and all future generations but the "do not be terrified" comes from the Father directly to each one of us who heard, hears or will ever hear these words.

We all know that the appearance of material reality can be controlled by technology. Our screens can hold and reproduce events of the present and the past. Our bodily senses can and are deceived on a daily basis by man-made machines and we can experience all human pleasures, pains and fears that are totally illusory as if they were real.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT today warns us "to not go astray". He tells us to live in the reality that only he reveals for as the Psalmist knew, "he will come to judge the peoples in fairness". The wealth and beauty of the Temple has departed just as easily as do the images on our screens but we can still welcome the WORD for as he died on the cross, Jesus created for us his Church of Love, the New Holy Family, Our Spiritual Home until the end of time.

"Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother."

 14/11/2025

Friday Week 32 Ordinary Time

Over the last few days I have been deeply impressed both by the intelligence displayed in the readings from the Book of Wisdom and beauty of the Psalms. At the same time the Gospel readings let me never forget "that there is something greater here".

Each generation that has been born after the Resurrection is part of the reality that is the completed purpose of IAMFATHERHOLYSPIRIT as partially revealed by the WORD in the Old Testament and finalised by the one event LIFEDEATHRESURRECTION of his INCARNATION in real-time, 2000 years ago.

Jesus IS certainly something greater than Moses and he IS before Abraham was. He also revealed to them and all his "Chosen People" that they were still as free as Adam had been and could choose to defeat the effects of sin by agreeing to be part of a "Special Relationship", the only Covenant made by God.

Jesus did not bring another New Covenant with any nation, into the world. On his Cross he poured out his blood for the benefit of each individual sinner from Adam to me.  At his trial He made it perfectly clear for all ages that the time for a Worldly special relationship was over. "The Den of Thieves" had always been a storehouse for the Gold of this world then, and the Chief Priests handed him over to the Mammon that is still the god of this world now. At the Temple of Pan in Caesarea Philipae, he had already founded His Church and at the Last Supper given authority to a new priesthood.

Today, I am a lone individual raising my mind and heart to God with Faith, Hope and Charity aware that over all Charity should rule my being, that I can be sincere in my prayers only to the extent  that I look far beyond myself first to God and then always to put the tangible needs of others before my own.

All sins are forgiven by the event that surpasses all understanding and even though I am sure that today's Christian Institutions have never been completely as Christ intended them to be for they very quickly became a new Priesthood, Scribes and Pharisees, individuals composing the Temple condemned by Jesus for failing to live up to the Truth that had been revealed to them, my place in the peace that  surpasses all understanding is secured by the words "Woman behold your son, son behold your Mother" for it is Jesus who thus establishes the Spiritual Church of Love, his new Holy Family, Mystical Body where he will be until a New Beginning will be brought about by the end of time. "Omega and Alpha". 

Dear Lord, I know that you have  always been with your creation and men have always denied this  but you have never refused to support those who with their hearts and minds seek to do your will on earth, in this life as they hope to continue to do so after death .

"In the Beginning was the Word".

"Let it be done unto me according to thy Word".

The Eternal Incarnation has been manifest in real-time for two thousand years.

"This is my body".

"Into your hands I give up my Spirit"

"Have mercy on me for I am a sinner".

Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

 12/11/2025

Week 32 in Ordinary Time

All of us begin to "know" either by accepting or denying that we cannot be exactly sure about what it is that makes us the unique person that is our consciously existent being. All individuals have always struggled when they dare to face the question "who am I?" and most of us abandon that struggle and just accept as enough what comes to us in the material reality of this world. 

The evidence that we have for the earliest communities of human beings is in the material remains that they have left behind; weapons, tools and primitive and yet amazing buildings and bits of their bodies. We do not know anything about what was being thought by the builders of Goktepe or Stonehenge as they struggled to build permanent structures out of the corruptible materials of this world.

God has revealed first through Moses and concluded through St. John that he has added to his created evolutionary process by the creation of souls in his image and likeness for Adam and Eve and has continued in his compassionate care for mankind even though we have consistently refused to return his love.

There is nothing material about our God who throughout the records of time passing recorded by his Chosen People reveals more and more about his spiritual being. IAMIAM becomes ultimately IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

We, however, are also evolutionarily developed animal bodies which are corruptible flesh deified by the Eternal Incarnate Word and self-aware in the individual freedom, the being of our unique soul, created for each of us by Our Father at the moment of our conception, with which we know ourselves and all  others, first of all God, within the limits of our consciousnesses.

The readings from the "Wisdom Literature" are roughly contemporaneous with Greek Philosophy which is always rational though unguided humanity facing the reality of being. 

The Truth that comes from God, however, is also Love, Mercy, anything including Life itself that is Good and  can only be found in The Word that is the Scriptures, the Church, Body of Christ, New Holy Family and souls who choose to accept the infinite grace created by Calvary to do God's will on earth.

It is certainly not to be found in any of the Human Institutions developed by the followers of Mammon who began incredibly shortly after the Resurrection completed God's Revelation, to impose their human wills  and  seem to have taken complete control in total opposition to  God of our world during the last fifty years of my lifetime.

To you then O monarchs are my words directed

that you may learn Wisdom and not transgress.

For they will be made holy, those who observe holy things in holiness,

And those who have been taught them will find a defence.

Therefore set your mind on my words, 

long for them and you will be instructed.

Although this Psalm is directed at the high and mighty of this world it equally applies to all of us; it is to be holy that we have all been created. Only Jesus and Mary share  the sinless flesh of perfect humanity. We do not know what awaits us after the Return when God will be all in all. 

Today, we have to turn our lives into the prayerful recognition of Our Father that never ceases to trust in the saving passion, death and Resurrection that was THE real-time event two thousand years ago in Palestine as recorded in the Scriptures. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has shown us his complete purpose and told us the meaning of our lives. Our freedom determines how we respond.

 11/11/2025

Tuesday Week 32 in Ordinary Time

Everything that has been selected from the Bible to become part of Liturgical Prayer has been selected to reinforce Truth. Today's first reading is from the wisdom literature that has become part of the intellectual culture of the Western World and with the teachings of Jesus are the foundations of what even the anti-God establishments ruling "This World" consider to be "personal integrity".

As an immature youth in my first week at University I was told to read and write an essay on Francis Bacon's "Of Truth". It's opening sentence has never left my consciousness, "What is Truth said jesting Pilate and did not stay for an answer". 

That task effectively blocked any academic career that I might have had for I did not know where to begin and even today I am not even able to have another go as "Truth" still opens  a doorway into a vast void of longing for the certainty of perfection that is always beyond my grasp.

Science offers a true empirical description of the composition of matter and millions of us are more than satisfied by its revelations but the answer to my longing cannot be found in anything temporal which is destined for corruption.

Pilate's words were in disparagement to Jesus', '"Actually I was born and came into the world to testify to the Truth". Jesus did not come to be a "King" then or now but to fill the void that can only be filled by doing the will of Our Father and striving never to be satisfied and silenced in our longing, by being anything less than becoming "the unworthy servants who have only done our duty". 

 08/11/2025

Saturday Week 31 Ordinary Time

In the year 2025, in the 85th year of my life, I am trying to live, as instructed by St Paul in this morning's first mass reading, "according to the command of the eternal God" as revealed/recorded in the Old and New Testaments, the Christian Bible.

In his letter to the Romans, St Paul sent greetings to many individuals who were part of the first Church in Rome. He was always surrounded by friends and fellow workers wherever he was teaching .

In the reading taken from St Luke's Gospel, Jesus is preaching to the whole world and to all ages but at that specific moment he is surrounded by a crowd of the Jews, eternally chosen by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to receive the WORD first through direct revelation and finally to be the source of the human body and soul begotten as "True Man and True God" in the womb of Virgin Mary, Theotokos who is also the mother of his Mystical Body, Church of Love, the New Holy Family in which we all without exception, except by personal choice, can find salvation. 

Not only are Jews the same living flesh as Our Lord but also they are inextricably linked with his consummating sacrifice "it is finished". The worldly power of Rome drove in the nails and pierced his side but it was his own people, including all sinners whose refusal to live on earth, even now, according to his will who gave him up to the power of "The Strong Man" ruler of this world. 

The Love that creates us free beings has in his Resurrection  shown us that worldly life and death in our material world are not completed being, they are only the foundations that we have to use to prepare to be "welcomed into eternal dwellings" where we rejoice in true life and love at source.

St Paul and Jesus were both surrounded with friends. For the last few years, I have pretty much lived in partial solitude. I have wasted much of the time freed up by my absence from the local Church, but tried to pray and look for the Word of God both in the scriptures and in the writings of wise men and women of this present age and of long ago.

Each morning that I use this keyboard, I am, with sincerity, consciously trying to bear a permanent Christian witness to Our Father and his loving will for all of us and I know that even though nobody else may read these words, they are eternally present as my response to him, my prayer in the mind of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT where we are all known, loved and judged with justice and the mercy that passeth all understanding. Thanks be to God!!

Dear Lord, you know how I can always make excuses for my sins and how I don't really understand how serious they are. Help me to avoid sin "just for today" and let my own sins and those of the Holy Souls known and unknown to me always seek forgiveness  in the Prayers of Mary and all the Saints. Amen

 O7/11/2025

Friday Week 31 Ordinary Time

Again it is only the pure prayer of the Psalm that brings me into the conscious awareness that it is possible for me to abandon myself  completely to the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, The Good Shepherd who leads us, even in this world, into his peace which is beyond all understanding.

The translation that I read just now is made up of English, human words, but is the pure joy of a created being in the certainty that he has an eternal Father and Saviour who never forgets him. It is the epitome of prayer that is the "thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven" we were taught to pray by Jesus, our Lord and Shepherd.

The first reading from St Paul's letter to the Infant Church in Rome holds my attention for it can be read as not only an exhortation to all of us but is also an assessment made by the doubly chosen one of God,  of how he himself has responded to his own calling and overwhelming vision of the Resurrection.

He is satisfied that he has been successful as is evidenced in the Faith of the communities in which he has preached and baptised. He is humble about this success however and knows that it is only by the grace of Jesus that the way to truth and eternal life is being followed by his converts, but he is still human and mars his humility by a self-centered ambition to always be the only "foundation builder".

All of God's revelations are about relationships. First of all we have to know God. Then we have to deal with ourselves and other people.

In today's Gospel Jesus, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT incarnate, tells us a parable which is set in the economic world of material wealth and networking. He commends the dishonesty of yet another "executive" who by worldly standards  has displayed a shrewdness often lacking in those who seek to live a spiritually focused way of life.

Although I have heard many plausible versions, it has always been difficult for me to work out for myself what is the spiritual equivalent of this basic dishonesty unless it is simple personal sinning of which God is always aware without need of the reports of others.

I don't think it is the best of Jesus' parables and wonder how only St Luke came to include it in the record of Jesus' life he had learnt from Mary and the Apostles.

 06/11/2025

Thursday Week 31 Ordinary Time

One of the difficulties that I face when I begin to try to "pray" by raising my heart and mind to God through the Mass Readings that I access on this computer, is the attention-grabbing turmoil of "headlines" that my browser inflicts on me, without ceasing.

This has never been a problem for anyone before my generation but even so our forefathers in Faith had to contend as did Jesus himself with the "learned and the clever" who are still ready to value themselves and their ideas before the revelations made by God.

Even though many of the Jews of the first century, the Chosen People, had to endure the "Gaxafication"  of first century Jerusalem and of all their hopes and beliefs, most of the first few Christianized  generations after the Apostles were able to enjoy peaceful lives in spite of outbreaks of persecution, as the result of the Pax Romana and thus had the same basic security which enabled the intellectual and cultural foment that characterised the first two or three centuries of the Roman Empire have its effect in the Church founded on St Peter.

The Gentiles who became the majority of the people renewed by the Resurrection had made conscious efforts to understand how this "Impossibility" could have happened and have been witnessed by their first Bishops. 

The Jews who believed in Jesus, the Apostles, including St Paul, had seen the resurrected Jesus and they knew him to be the one prefigured in the Law and the Prophets but as there could be no doubt that "each of us will give an account of himself to God" those who followed them were inspired to verify their beliefs in a rationality that could be intellectually preserved and taken to heart by future generations.

The only way to be a "Christian" today and in any future generation is to know that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT completed the  revelation of  his purpose in creating the Universe and each individual and free human being with his Resurrection, Old and New Testament and his Last Words to Mary and John.

There are too many obviously unjustifiable "headlines from historical events" about the development of the Church founded on St Peter for me to agree with her that she is the sole source of salvation. There are too many solid historical facts of present and ancient history that are much more serious than the ephemera of the distracting "Popups" on this machine, that bother me each day, for me to have confidence in such an Institution. 

Just as do the Jews, however, she does still exist and can never until the end of time be ignored for the Lord is still with us and and present within hearts and minds that find him in the Scriptures and seek out the grace promised from the cross in the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of Love, the New Holy Family. 

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living

The Lord is my light and salvation.

Whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life,

Whom should I dread?

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living

There is one thing I seek from the Lord,

Only this do I seek,

To live in the house of the Lord,

all the days of my life.

To gaze on the beauty of the Lord,

To enquire at his temple.

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living

I believe I shall see the Lord's goodness,

In the Land of the living.

Wait for the Lord; be strong;

Be stout-hearted and wait for the Lord!