14/12/2025

Sunday Week 3 Advent

Only God can know how I am struggling at the keyboard this morning. I have read Isaiah and as usual am inspired by his acknowledgement of God's Glory but also somewhat resentful of God's seeming neglect of millions of others by his choosing only the one people to favour with direct revelation

I don't think that I have been neglected by God because I am not a Jew. Or do I have  to collapse in awe before the superiority of the human talents displayed in the arrogant self-confidence of Zionism and the wonder of the outstanding Jewish presence in all the affairs of this world?

God knows that I do not have it in me to hate anyone. My petty anger has always been short lived and resulted in embarrassment and self recrimination rather than lasting resentment of the other. He knows that I am not an "Anti-Semite" but He also knows  how weak I am and how I am such a fragile vessel to contain his Saving Grace.

Nevertheless, even in the depths of my tininess, I have been instructed by the TRUTH taught in word and deed by the living person INCARNATESON, Jesus of Nazareth and so am emboldened to  ask my "DAD" "Why were there then, the Gentiles, and are now so many souls in the world who have not accepted the benefit of your Love or even known that it has been revealed to them"?

Jesus bleeds out Loving Mercy for all mankind on Calvary. There we are all adopted into his "New Holy Family" but all this happened in time and it took  centuries for  many of us to even hear the name of Jesus. 

That is why today I pray with Jesus, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do", for all who and ever have been out of ignorance tied exclusively to "the things of this world" and for the rest of us, who have ignored the revelations concluded in the bitter pain of Calvary, I also pray for the Mercy that is thus totally beyond all human understanding. 

How could I refuse such Love. God forgive me. Amen

 13/12/2025

Saturday Week 2 Advent 

Everything that is happening now is also unique for "time" does not repeat itself. We all know this but I also know that I have never truly lived in each moment of my life for I have always responded to myself  before responding to the Infinity of Love which is the awareness of each one of us that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Our Scriptures also happened at never to be repeated moments of time. In today's Gospel, Peter James and John have been shaken in the very depths of their beings for they have just seen on the mountain with their bodily eyes the Glory that is beyond imagination and heard words that confirm that they are living and at that moment walking with the INCARNATE WORD under the same sun that shines, then as now, equally on the whole world.

So, at this moment, I, as were those disciples, am trying to respond to a historical event that is more important for each human being than even our own births. Peter, James and John were chosen to experience ultimate reality but there is a way in which we the subsequent generations know more than they did.

They did not know at that moment the meaning of "The Son of Man will suffer at their hands". John was to hear "It is finished" but James and Peter even though they had witnessed the "Transfiguration" were missing from the final agony. 

For us not only the whole of God's revelation is available to guide our passage through time but we also are witnesses to our own personal failings and the historical failings that were/are the inevitable result of refusing to live following  the way, truth and life that is to be revealed in the Real-time of 2000 years ago by the birth of SON for which we prepare in this season of Advent.

For the last few minutes I have been living consciously in the presence of Our Father and trying to know, love and serve as is the purpose of my birth, HIS sharing of our mammalian humanity by Incarnation in the womb of Mary hat is the most important thing that I can recognise about God and pray that I can today do His will and avoid sin for indeed "My Saviour Liveth" Amen

 12/12/2025

Friday Week 2 Advent

I have over the last few years tried to respond on a daily basis to the life and teaching of Jesus that is recalled in the Mass Readings that are published on the Internet by the Universalis Website.

This morning Jesus is speaking then, 2000 years ago. I am listening now because I  know that I am as alive in His sight as were those people who then walked with him throughout Galilee and Judea. I am of the same generation who witnessed the completion of God's revelation which is TRUTH, yesterday, today and forever.

I do not have anything like the huge  knowledge of Scripture or its languages acquired by so many theologians and scholars but some words, images have become part of my daily awareness of being in the presence of "Our Father", IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, God. My prayer.

I entitled this my record of reflective prayer "Alone but Known" because I had become estranged from my local church and felt unable to return. I am still sure that the present and historical failures of the Church founded on Peter are not the will of God and desperately seeking how to be "free from the company of scorners" and to "delight in the Law of the Lord", I embraced the idea of a Johannine Spiritual Church of Love that I first encountered in struggling with the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar. 

The "New Holy Family" is my Spiritual Home within which I am sure there is the Jesus who promises to be with us until the end of time for it is as equally founded by the words of Jesus as is the Church of Peter. 

Jesus words "Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my Church". "Woman behold your  Son. Son behold your mother" have become ideas that are always present when I start my day by trying to understand the WORD.

Today Jesus addresses his contemporaries as "This generation". It has recently been coming into my mind that the sinful failures of mankind that are considered by "This World" to be "progress" happen because we have never truly become the People of God by making him the centre of our lives, by truly knowing loving and serving. We are still failing to become the Jesus Generation. It is not only the Institutional Church that has failed to live up to the purpose of its creator.

Each one of us has only one important task in this world and that is to be open to the presence of the Lord for we have been created to be image and likeness and are the guardians of our own being which was created out of the JOYINBEINGIAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, the love that the Father has lavished upon us.

Every generation is but the collection of its individuals and for the World to improve each one of us has to make an effort to be true to the WORD in this world which is our one opportunity to obey the Father always remembering 

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,

But the way of the wicked will perish.

 11/12/2025

Thursday Advent Week 2

In this morning's Gospel it sounds as if Jesus is speaking long after the martyrdom of John the Baptist but  for many of his listeners "in those days" John was the trigger that had prompted them to accept that with Jesus of Nazareth "there is something greater here" and therefore follow him. It is thus only a short time after Jesus had received the news of John's death.

I am present in this world two thousand years later, listening to the same words, and can work out a meaning for the "violence which assaults the kingdom of heaven" but "the violent take it by force" is as still as enigmatic as it must have been for those who were standing there; those who not only had active physical and spiritual ears to hear but were also similarly seeing Jesus as he spoke.

The revelations of both Old and New Testament are the eternal WORD always present in the minds and souls of those who open themselves to the  Resurrection, Our Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 

This morning's Old Testament image of the "threshing-sled" chewing up the mountains has over the centuries become a reality in that mankind has taken  control of all the physical material of this world. In so doing, however, many of us  have lost touch with the kingdom, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

Human activity that is not informed by "rejoicing in the Lord, glorifying the Holy One of Israel" becomes the violence that destroys and can never renew the face of the earth nor prepare us for Jesus' promised return.

The Crucifixion of Incarnate God happened in real-time two-thousand years ago. It happened exactly as it is recorded in the New Testament. Those who chose to do it did not regret it in their subsequent years and many of  their descendants still display in their deeds that they think they can still "take the kingdom by force" but everything achieved in the material of this world is doomed by it very nature to become dust.

Dear Lord, help me to come to rest in your New Holy Family. Help me to understand your ways. Help me to "extol you, my God and King and bless your name for ever and ever". Maranatha Lord, Come Lord Jesus, come.

 10/12/2025

Wednesday Advent Week 

Today's reading from Isaiah continues to celebrate IAMIAM as the Creator of being ('isness') which is manifest for each of us now not only in the tangible temporality of the visible Universe as it has always been in "This world" but also for us, now in the year 2025, informed by the exponential increase of human Scientific knowledge, in the fleeting invisibility of particles of the energy which are the totality of matter.

Today we Christians are all challenged to face up to the historical sinful failures that have been made by each generation during the two thousand years that have passed since the Resurrection. Each one of us has to strive to know God  who reveals in the Scriptures how we are to respond to the Love of his Being which creates our reality out of the Joy of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Two thousand years ago, there was something that was so terribly wrong with this world which had wasted and was still wasting the Love of God that the Incarnation had to happen to enable our human being to return to its true nature and not only know, but also love God.

The historical events of the New Testament comprise the completed teaching, revelation with  which  Our Father guides each individual soul in this world. During his real-time on Earth Jesus completed many miracles to prove to those Jews living then that he was "something greater here" he also instituted a new order of priesthood to replace the temple scribes and pharisees, together with a  completely new order of Sacramental being, the Eucharist.

I know that I am not alone in the horror  which the collapse of Christianity has brought about in my own and in every other post Resurrection generation.

I believe that in focusing my faith on "Woman behold your Son. Son behold your mother", "The Church of Love", "The New Holy Family", I am facing up to the sacrilegious desecrations within the Institutional Church that as much as the direct disobedience of Adam and Eve, the spittle of his Jewish accusers and my sins continue to reject the Love of our Lord and Saviour who continues to welcome each one of us with;

Come to me all who labour and are heavily ladened and I will give you rest. 

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly of heart, 

and you will find rest for your souls.

 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

 09/12/2025

Today I am again awake because I cannot sleep. 

Yesterday, after my morning prayer, I had felt some calming of my usual state of disquietude so I have returned to the keyboard in the hope that I can experience again the peace that comes when I am truly able to become the lost sheep that is found, the lamb held in the arms of the Lord.

Each day that I pray I know that although I am always the one "raising my mind and heart to God" for me to really "pray" I have to know that I am answering the call that is continuously the support of my being.

God is my creator and I have to never become engrossed in my own words or train of thought. I am the sheep and have to follow exactly where the "Good Shepherd" leads me.

I have not been gifted with a poet's tongue but I am always attracted by the music of the Old Testament. Today Isaiah sings ecstatically and thus glorifies the WORD. The words of the Psalmist too draws us into the very heart of his certainty of faith, again WORD, which we can thus share.

With Jesus "There is always something greater here" and so his plain narrative always means what it says for TRUTH has no need of human embellishments. He is present in Palestine living his human life and teaching his disciples and all subsequent generations, including me because "It is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish".

I don't think that there is anything enigmatic about this statement. We are all throughout our lifetimes called by IAMFATHERSONHOLYPSIRIT. How we proceed from that call is our choice but we are not alone.

Even though the Church founded on St Peter did not ever truly listen to "My kingdom is not of this world", the unseen Church of Love, the New Holy Family is the Natural Spiritual Reality that is still with us and will so be until the end of time.

Dear Lord, you know that I thank you for saving me from the depths of my sinful being but that at the moment I still only want to sleep. My body is a real mess and I truly ask that I will be able to soon lose the use of it. Help all of us who are now swamped with knowledge and the media awareness  that has become beyond all human understanding to the extent that it diverts the world away from the revelation that is the saving grace that comes only from you. Help me to empty my mind of the things of this world and let the prayers of Mary and all the saints bring the grace of your forgiveness to all of us, including The Holy Souls and me and mine. Maranatha, Lord. Come Lord Jesus come.

 08/12/2025

The Immaculate Conception

Everyday that I wake up I have to confront the reality of my being and of everything that it has become during my lifetime.

Although it seems that I am not the same person today as I was on the day I was born for my awareness of being is now the accumulation of 84 years experience of the ever-changing temporality of this world and of my engagement with it contained  within the "I" that thinks, knows and is this "awareness". God reveals to each of us that human being is a unique soul, my "I" that is created at the moment of our conception by the Eternal Being/Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

What I am today is the result of how I have chosen to live in this world where I have had the guidance of revelation to enable me to avoid the sin that defaced the "being" of the first souls and has consequently become part of our human being until the end of time.

Today the Psalmist sings a "New Song" for he knows that in Eternity Our Father's Love has prepared for the only way that mankind can atone for our own sin is by the Incarnation of  Word, Son in historical time to become the Saving Victim that was with God in the Beginning.

We all experience our lives in time although some claim for themselves "Intimations of Immortality". Jesus too is True Man and lived his own real time-line 2000 years ago in Palestine. But with Jesus there is always "something greater here" and  with Mary too there is also "something greater here". 

She is as far from being God as I am but she is the totally sinless human perfection that has been defaced by Adam and Eve, created to be Mother of God Incarnate, Theotokos, and it is for  this "Immaculate Conception" that we all have to thank "Our Father" for she is also "Woman" given to us in the dying words of Jesus as "Mother" of "The New Holy Family", "Mystical Body of Christ", "Church of Love" and why it is always right to sing with joy:

Regina, mater misericordiae:

Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus, exsules, filii Hevae.

Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes

in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, Advocata nostra,

illos tuos misericordes oculos

ad nos converte.

Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,

nobis, post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens: O pia: O dulcis

Virgo Maria.