25/11/2025

Yesterday on TV I watched some very intelligent people mocking other people, who were not present to defend themselves, for the same weakness of the humanity which they themselves were displaying by their very mockery.

No living human should be sure that the material reality in which we all live is absolutely the  limits of being. Even though the secrets of the material world are today made manifest by science it is plain stupidity to deny that at the moment of death even though it seems that the "bodily time" of each one of us ends no-one can be certain until that moment arrives for him or her.

"Feet of Clay" tells us all that we need to know about our human kingdoms, knowledge, wealth and power. The writers of Daniel were not the only humans to know this. But there is something greater than Daniel, Plato, Buddha, Confucius or even Moses here with us even now.

During his life on earth the Son of God confronted the "learned and the clever" but he never mocked them. He himself was mocked on the Cross. They spat at him but he bled for them, They derided him but he loved them. The events of two thousand years ago are still being repeated as I write this.

I have always known that I am a sinful being but I have to thank God that I have not become my own idol. My "Feet of Clay" is not sinfulness but the actual "image and likeness" which has to always know that "There is something greater here", but too often fails.

" The greater" is not an unknown "Other" but the eternal presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who saves us from the unimaginable pain of knowing lovelessness  by his revelation of TOTALLOVE. I hope and pray that there is no-one who has ever lived who has not known at least a few seconds of either being loved or of loving another.

"Faith in the love that lives in the heart" is the only proof that I can have of my belief that this life in time is not the totality of my being. In today's Gospel Jesus is preparing his disciples for the event that will change the Created Universe for ever. He promises that for them and for us, their future, there is nothing to fear. "You will be hated by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head will perish"

Today he promises but soon after he was to confirm by the words of eternal love uttered in real-time using his dying breath. "Woman behold your Son. Son behold your Mother" shortly followed by "It is finished" thus finalizing the Revelation that we have still never lived up to.

It is only by each one choosing to live in the gift of Calvary, New Holy Family , the Body of Christ, the Church of Love that we can make a world that is as it was created to be by Our Father, and thus a World that is able to welcome the Second Coming of Christ our Saviour.

Maranatha Lord. Come Lord Jesus. Please come soon. Amen

 25/11/2025

Tuesday Week 34 Ordinary Time

Today I am still troubled. 

I am, however, not giving up on the the daily effort that is required to bring all the elements that constitute the "Idol" Daniel revealed as the dream of Nebuchadnezzar that I make of and for myself out of the self-centred delusion that is the life of this world, into the never-ending reality of the life of Christ, living in me.

My body, on feet of Babylonian reinforced concrete, iron and clay, is rapidly crumbling but my personal soul, "image and likeness" of Our Father is still striving for the "Heaven" that once truly accepted is the never changing perfection of "seeing IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" as he truly is.

"Today I am still troubled" but how troubled must those have been those who stood with Jesus and heard his very words spoken in today's Gospel. Many of them were to be part of the Crucifixion mob and then  overcome by the Resurrection. They were to witness the complete destruction of their Temple and at the same time continued to live personal ordinary lives amidst "wars and tumults", "famines and pestilences".

That first generation of Christians who had known the friends of the Lord became his foundation on the Rock, the solid rock that was the very real human Peter, the early Church but they remained in the purity of heart that can see God for only a short time.

It is no wonder that my "my soul is still troubled" for I am one of yet another generation who have not truly fulfilled the will of God during our time on earth even though we have not only been called and shown how to become the Kingdom that is not of this world, but have also heard the dying Jesus' assurance of our place in his personal New Holy Family, His Mystical Body, the Church of Love.

Will we on earth, who still have Faith, see the Son of Man again in the land of the living? Maranatha Lord. Come Lord, Jesus come for we still are in as desperate need of YOU as we ever were. Amen

 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