24/11/2025

Monday Week 34 Ordinary Time

Over the last few days I have not been able to raise my heart and mind to God. Words of "prayers" have passed through my mind but I have not felt myself at one with the "Our Father", "Hail Mary" and "Glory Be" that are my eternal childhood prayers.

The "Parable of the Minas" always does unsettle me. God knows that I am always upset by his revealed favouring of the Jews and raise the response "Why not me?" not only on my own behalf but also on behalf of the millions of other "Gentiles" who have always been the majority of the humans created by Him.

I have also faced family turmoil for which I am not totally culpable.

Neither does today's "Book of Daniel" help me to regain the calm peace of a soul that was growing closer to knowing, loving and serving in this world for it takes me into another world that is totally a repeat of this one but on a grander scale.

Jesus, our Incarnate God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, lived a sinless hidden life for 30 years in this world. For three years, he taught us everything that we need to know by word, signs and example. Help me Lord to overcome all that keeps me  from accepting the spiritual support that is your free gift to souls that are true and offer, as did the widow in the Temple, the whole of their life, as unqualified trust in God.

Dear Lord may my prayers join those of Angels, Mary, Apostles and all Saints in seeking pardon for my sins, the sins of the whole world and especially for the Holy Souls who have to rely on our charity to obtain their share of your Divine Mercy. 

 20/11/2025

Thursday Week 33 Ordinary Time.

There is absolutely no need for me to begin each day with thoughts and words, these prayers, as I do . It is impossible to hide from God even if I wanted to. I always pray for and with an open heart that is sure that it has and will continue to receive all that is necessary from Our Father to enable me to do his will on earth. 

Our Father who art in Heaven, has absolutely no need of stone tablets, parchment scrolls, paper books or this electronic media that I am now using to try to capture what is happening within my consciousness of being to reveal to us that our lives are not limited to the bodies  which enclose us in the material laws explained by Science.

I know that even those who have in the past and still do manage to catch a glimpse of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT are always much further away from than they are close to him but that cannot stop me from trying to fathom the depths revealed in Scripture, especially during the lifetime the Incarnate Word, Jesus of Nazareth spent on earth.

Today I am praying that I will come to recognise the "TRUTH" that is still concealed for me within the Parable of the Minas with the same clarity as is the same "TRUTH" in that of the "Good Samaritan". 

In St John's Gospel Jesus tells us that  it is to bear witness to the "TRUTH" that he came into the world. This means that everything we need to know and do to become his disciples  is revealed, made clear to us all in Scripture and does not need any further human interpretation.

Dear Lord help me to face your Truth and make it the only essential part of my being. Let it be the free choice of my will and become the guidance that is your Holy Spirit, Your Mystical Body, The Church of Love, the New Holy Family that is your gift from Calvary and unlike the Minas of the parable incapable of being increased but without our freely-given positive support can and does lose its way on Earth. May my prayers join all of those which with heavenly sincerity are being offered today for our good and the good of all the Church including the Holy Souls. You know that I really do wish that you would soon return. Amen

 19/11/2025

It is about two hundred and fifty years before the final revelation, the Resurrection, confirms that the death of our bodies is not the end of our being that the events of this morning's first reading took place in Jerusalem .

The mother of the seven sons knew that each had been formed in her womb but that she was not the source of their life and that the whole world was also the work of IAMIAM. This is the base on which we all have to build our lives in this world.

Even if human intelligence were capable of truly knowing God human language is not capable of communicating that knowledge. Matthew, Mark and Luke often make assumptions about Jesus' motives in teaching when and what he does.

Today Luke feels justified to presume that Jesus was motivated to teach this parable because of  his, with his followers, proximity to Jerusalem and their ever present hope that he would soon establish a new Davidic Kingdom, a never-ending Jewish state.

This is another parable which leaves me with a feeling of disquietude as it does not fit easily into the definite "My kingdom is not of this world" declared before Pilate. The words "To them that have more will be given" is definitely true in the Billionaire World of Mammon but I am at a loss how to apply them in my spiritual life that strives to be "true to every word that comes from the mouth of God".

The conclusion to this parable said by the king who rewards in this world "Bring them here and slaughter them before me" is also not at all "Christian". 

It is, however, condemned by the message of his whole life in this world as lived by Our Saviour and so is probably some sort of textual aberration rather than a true saying  of Jesus. 

 18/11/2025

In the Old Testament we read the public, historical record of how the Jews, the chosen "People of God" tried to do the will of "Our Father on earth as it is done in heaven". 

In the first reading Eleazar is being forced by his apostatising own people to conform to the Hellenization of Israel that they have accepted. This had to be a recorded public event for the enemies of God wanted to prove that their "kingdom of this World" was more powerful than the invisible God revealed to Moses as the creator, source of all being, IAMIAM.

The invisible Eternal Word that is "The Beginning" was certainly the source of that old man's strength. He it was, however, who chose to accept the inspiration that came to him and his participation in this public event seals a life that has been a righteous following of the Law and an example of the capabilities of a human being to choose to resist the evil that confronts us in this world.

Today as I try to sort out in my own mind the lesson that I can learn from the Mass Readings by raising my mind and heart to God, I am  aware that Jesus told us to do this thing we call praying in the depths of our own being where he will respond as our ever-mindful, loving spiritual father and we will be able to stand alone before him ashamed, as were Adam and Eve, aware of our unconcealable naked sinfulness, but secure in his Mercy. 

We can never grasp the immensity of Our Father for whom all of time/creation is always as present as is this keyboard and the words appearing on the screen are to me but that immensity has created me to know/return his love and given me a likeness of his being in the freedom that I always have to chose between Our Father who art in Heaven and the Father of Lies, Jesus and Mammon, the eternal being of my soul and the putrefaction that is the destiny of all animal material.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows everything, always but my puny being will have forgotten the "sincerity" of this moment within hours. Eleazar and all the other heroic martyrs were given the grace to bear indelible witness to their faith at that moment as they left this world in agony inflicted by other men. 

As I continue in life it is all too easy for me to repeat my mistakes and so I make these "posts" to be my personal reminder that I can and do choose to live righteously for the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is and has always been with those who conform their own beings, body and soul to doing the Will, listening for the Word and accepting the Wisdom that we can find by praying the Scriptures.

It is a revelation of the INCARNATION that sin is absolute and requires the unimaginable pain of  all  the deaths of humanity concentrated into the person of WORD to consummate the salvation of the world

Dear Lord, help me to become peaceful in my "secret room" where my whole being should be directed away from me and only to you. Help me search not for things too great for me but to humbly beat my breast as did the other publican and pray for the forgiveness of which only you and I know how much I am in need Also help me to remember always that I am never alone when I pray. Our Lady and all the Saints are also praying with me. May my prayers join theirs in praise and supplication for the grace to eliminate my individual sin and overcome the world as did Eleazer  in his old age as, with your grace, so will I. Amen

 17/11/2025

Monday Week 33 in Ordinary Time

Today Jesus responds to all of us who in various degrees of blindness sit by the roadside that is our present moment in the reality of our lives and call out to him. 

There are many of us for whom the layers of blindness that is "This World" are too thick and comforting for our  awareness of being, that is also our inner eye, to be conscious that the "Son of David" is both never far from us and also, always asks what it is that we want from him.

In the first reading many of the Jews ruled by heirs of Alexander had allowed themselves to become blinded by the worldly allure and comfort of Hellenism. Many had welcomed  the deification of the human form, the cultural pride and the military success that were epitomised in Alexander and were the the source of human glory and of non-existent gods.

For some of them, however, the inner eye that sees the WORD, Christ light of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, was not completely clouded and those "Sons of David" who were able to remember the promise made to that king succeeded in rededicating their Temple and Nation to our God.

When I choose to remain in sin rather than seek the forgiveness that is the free-gift  of Our Father, I begin the self-blinding process that becomes layers upon layers of mere superficialities that become, however, dense enough to prevent my inner eye truly recognising the "Son of David" and responding to his presence.

We have to be so careful in our lives as these layers of blindness are not only physical and obviously sinful but can also be religious even spiritual. 

Dear Lord, help me to find a place no higher than  the roadside where you pass by for "Blessed are the poor in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven". Amen

 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.