21/12/2025

Sunday Advent Week 4 2025

Our Father is complete in his being. He lacks nothing. He is total changeless perfection. Eternity.

We are created to be both sharers in and pointers to the Eternal Unseen Reality who tells each of us that we are a unique person an "iam" just as he is IAM.

Two thousand years ago in Palestine a teenaged bride and an older husband had to face up to what was on the surface, in human eyes an impossibility. 

"How can this be?"

God is completely true to himself. He has created the humanity that misused its freedom and out of the same creative love he begets the Eternal WORD as True Man out of the flesh of the Virgin Mary to become himself the only possibly great enough Sacrificial Victim to atone for Original Sin.

"Nothing is impossible to God".

Mary and Joseph do not talk about this "Message of an Angel" but accept the Word and play out their eternal roles in the human-time of  the subsequent years when "Jesus walked".

Mary, who had pondered in her heart all that she had had revealed to her, must have remembered as she trudged behind her son out of the city and up the slope of Calvary the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem that she had made with Joseph 33 years previously.

For her sinless being God had always been "ALL IN ALL" but she is completely human and as such she must have cared for Joseph the Good Man just as she is caring for all of us in the Church of Love.

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

 20/12/2025

Saturday Week 3 Advent

King Ahaz' "I will not put the Lord my God to the test" sounds as if it is a faith-filled confirmation that has accepted whatever we experience in life without questioning for if it happens it must be the will of the "IAMIAM" who is all-controlling and has thus today become the "IAMALLAH" of the false prophets Jesus warned us about.

Jesus is not a response to the prayers of the Chosen People. He is not "sign". He is the freely given Eternal Merciful Response of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to the spurning of his LOVE that began in the Garden, incarnated from the womb of the Virgin Mary in Nazareth in real-time about eighty generations ago.

Adam and Eve, humanity, are not GOD but they and we share an image and likeness of God's unbounded freedom that can choose how to act during the experience of life in the material reality which is not only time but should also be awareness of  revealed Eternal Reality.

Humanity, even when chosen (Jews) and fully informed (Christians) has never been faithful and we have always become deluded and overcome by the wonders of our bodily beauty, intelligence, Divine Image and Likeness and brought evil into the World by choosing to be guided in the ways of life by ourselves and not by the WORD who has always been with us and can be known by each one of us when we sincerely open our beings with the unequivocal "Be it done to me according to thy word" of the "Teenager" of Nazareth who at that moment becomes both "Theotokos" and Mother of the Church of Love, the New Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and John.

Dear Lord, how can it be that, after so many generations of humanity and the perfect sacrifice of Calvary we are still as lost in the "wonder of our own being", as were Adam and Eve? Help me to become the being I was created to be by joining my prayers with those of the whole world as we seek your mercy in forgiveness of our sins and those of the Holy Souls. Amen

19/12/2025

Friday Week 3 Advent

It is possible for me and every other soul on earth to live without sin. Sometimes this has nearly happened but it seems that God's will for a sinless creation has never materialized in the human reality of time on earth.

My experience of living my own life has largely been one of trying to face up to the consequences of what I know to have been my own, my personal sins. I know that they are my own because although I knew that they were being done in opposition to the will of Our Father I still did them and then panicked overcome by the fear of retribution.

This concept of a fear-driven relationship with an all-knowing, all-powerful "God" is what those who today reject God and his revelations even to the extent of today claiming to be able to choose to become either man or woman is the basic lie on which the "Father of lies" has always built his case against God. It was thus in the Garden and has ever been so.

During the thousands of years when God confined his revelations only to the Jews in the Old Testament there were many "Heroes" who displayed during their lifetimes seemingly super-human qualities that expressed their total commitment to IAMIAM, the LORD whose will they accepted as their own.

Samson is today's example. And appropriately so for it is in long suffering Gaza that he dies in agony.

There were also Prophets whose faith had been acknowledged by the insights with which they proclaimed the Eternal WORD.

Today John the Baptist is identified with Elijah.

In the person of John the Baptist the functions of hero and prophet are combined and concluded. With his martyrdom the Old Testament has officially ended for he has seen the ONE whose shoe he is not fit to undo and at the Baptism of Jesus it is made quite clear that with Jesus  there is "Something greater here".

The "learned and the clever" have always been able to contemptuously tell me that my "fear-driven" childhood prayers for forgiveness of sin are simplistic and not worthy of the humanity that can display the intelligence of a Plato or an Einstein and especially their own.

Our Faith, however, is in Jesus the Resurrection who taught us to acknowledge supreme reality with the child-like love expressed in the Aramaic, "Abba" and by knowing that during our lives we all can have a place in the secure reality of the New Holy Family he created as, humanly heroic as was Samson, he completed the WORD with the Sacrificial Death on the Cross that gives meaning to Life on Earth. 

18/12/2025

Today, exactly one week, before the Church celebrates the beginning in worldly time of the life, death, resurrection of  Eternal Reality whose NAME is INCARNATION she prepares for  the Sacramental Reality that is the Liturgical Consecration when bread and wine become the Real Presence of Our Saviour, by again asking with Mary;

 "How can this be?" 

The answer is still found only in Scripture.

St Paul was not the only "Scribe or Pharisee"  whom the Resurrection had blasted into a complete reset of the intellectual and spiritual foundations which secured his beliefs and sense of reality. These were the ones who although forced into belief in Jesus by the witness of their own worldly experience were also able to find  scriptural evidence that Jesus was  in "Accordance with the Scriptures", the Promised One, The Holy One of Israel, The Messiah.

Today we read revelation made through Jeremiah and have to contrast this with our knowledge of how the Zionist return to Palestine has never been "In accordance with the Scriptures" even those of the Old Testament". It is the persecuted and  crucified Saviour who is the only "Lord of Righteousness".

The Psalmist is overcome by  his awareness of the presence of IAMIAM and and loses himself in this joy. 

Blest be the Lord, the God of Israel

who alone works wonders,

ever blest his glorious name.

Let is glory fill the earth, Amen, Amen

In St Matthew, however, we read the plain facts of how St Joseph reacted to the Annunciation. Believing in God and doing his will is always a simple matter of "yeah or nay" but  its consequences are immeasurable and visible in every one of our deeds.

We too have to hear  the WORD that is in Scripture. We have to take HIM into our hearts and listen to HIM constantly for HIS is the only true narrative that can guarantee we are living towards the human holiness that can respond to the Immensity of Reality with "Be it done unto me according to Your Will."

May Mary, the Mother whom you gave to the whole world, from the unimaginable agony of the cross on Calvary continue to care for all her children and may her prayers bring your forgiveness to all sinners on earth and in Purgatory for you chose her before time began to be the source of the humanity with which you saved us from our own sins. Amen

 17/12/2025

Wednesday Week 3 Advent

In the first months after the Ascension of Our Lord, when the nucleus of what was to become The Church met to pray together in the Portico of Solomon and lived a communal life, the only texts that they used were those preserved by the Scribes.

Many of those who met together had seen the resurrected Jesus but did not really know how to process this evidence of their own eyes as they lived on in this world which basically remained unchanged after the Resurrection, following the same rhythms of life that it had always done.

As a modern Christian I can believe with the Creed "True Man and True God" but it is in "True God"  that I first believe, it is "True God" who chooses to become man. For most of the first Church even after his death and Resurrection, however, Jesus was a man chosen by IAMIAM to restore the human descendants of Jacob, Israel to their rightful place this world.

Matthew's Gospel is composed of his own personal memories and the reminiscences of his contemporaries and has to first establish Jesus' human credentials for him to be considered to be the Messiah even though Jesus' death and Resurrection, possibly confirmed by the destruction of the temple, had completely reset his understanding of scripture. Thus it begins with the genealogy.

At the moment I am really praying that I can come to know Jesus, the friend remembered by the Apostles, and how their memories of the words and deeds of that man are the final  revelations of the will of our creator to guide us through our time on earth.  

It seems easier to believe in "True God" but it had to be the "True Man" who was tortured to death and rose again from the dead. A true man who was begotten not made and whose birth we are now preparing to celebrate. 

Dear Lord, Help me to live out my days still searching for holiness and sharing in the confidence and love you had for not only "Our Father in heaven" but also the human love you had for Joseph and Mary in The Holy Family, the model for the Church of Love our New Holy Family of You, Mary, John and all of us who are open to your divine and human love. Amen

 16/12/2025

Tuesday Week 3 Advent

Yesterday my reflections were very much dominated by the tragic events that were unfolding in Australia but which are certainly yet another of the failures of mankind to be faithful to the WORD.

In yesterday's Psalm we prayed "Lord teach us your ways" and in the Gospel the Scribes and Pharisees were confronted by Jesus with a question that they correctly understood to be a challenge to their integrity and so they avoided it by refusing to answer.

Jesus' "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things" is not an empty riposte in reply to a moot point. It is a confirmation to each of them and to each individual who has ever lived since then that there is always only one answer to our human dilemmas.

The events on  Bondi Beach and all other such "Evils" that have happened, are happening and maybe will happen are known by our all-knowing God to be the cumulative results of all human failures either to do his will or to respond to the challenges he makes as we come face to face with the WORD which is the teaching present in both Testaments that comprise Scripture.

The vastness of the power of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is matched only by the vastness of his justice, mercy and love. In his self-revelation, however, he treats each tiny one of us as an equal and offers us the freedom to make our own positive or negative response to the Love out of which we have our being.

He also knows that even being aware of our own existence can be an overwhelming task for such tininess in His Spiritual and Material Universe and has thus never left us alone. Jesus tells us that we can address the vastness of God as "Dad".

In this morning's first reading Zephanaiah's  insight into the purpose of IAMIAM is that He 

"Will leave in your midst  a people humble and lowly,

They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord,

Those who are left in Israel;

they shall do no injustice and speak no lies,

nor shall there be found within their mouth a deceitful tongue.

For they shall graze and lie down

and none shall make them afraid."

The INCARNATION is the fulfillment of this vision and Jesus' teaching in word and deed enables the whole world to become "Israel", "The People of God", for even the greatest of sinners is free to make the right choice to seek forgiveness and avoid sin.

Two thousand years ago in the animal shelter in the hill country of Judea, at David's City there occurred the event for which we are now preparing,  the reality of which has been largely lost within its own "Celebration" . For that short moment everything in Zephaniah's vision materialised; it was indeed a "Silent and Holy Night".

Thirty-three years after the joy of this night, that perfect child, had grown to become the adult victim that becomes both the Sacrament of Salvation and the founder of the Church of Love, the New Holy Family where the vision of Zephanaiah lives with Jesus, Mary and John and where when we choose it as our home "none shall make us afraid". Amen.

 15/12/2025

The Lord our God has revealed himself and his will for mankind continuously to the Jews and Christians ever since he walked with Adam in the Garden.

He is the creator of all that is real, the source of the invisible "being" the awareness of which confirms the reality of the "I" which we all know ourselves to be.

God first of all told the Jews that although he is unseen and vast beyond their ability to comprehend he is a person and is named IAMIAM and that they were especially chosen by him to have the opportunity to become his people who would be the light of  creation and show to all other rational beings how to live in the holiness that is his being.

The historical events of the centuries recorded in the Old Testament are the history of Jewish failure to justify the hope, love and trust that God has placed in them.

Our never changing God still has only love for His Chosen Ones and in his wisdom gave them, and thus us, another chance to do his will and live righteously, loving both him and their brother humans.

The historical events that began in real-time nine months ago, two thousand years ago in Nazareth INCARNATION, BIRTH, LIFE, DEATH and RESURRECTION are the complete revelations made again through and to the Chosen Ones.

IAMIAM told not only the JEWS but also the whole world  by his words and deeds in first century Palestine, recorded in the New Testament, that His NAME is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and that we have only one purpose in life; to obey his now completed revelations.

There is no greater witness to the failure of the Jews to return God's Love than the Crucifixion. One of the many witnesses to the gross failures of the Institutional Christian Church in the centuries of its existence is its treatment of the Jews.

Neither Jews nor Christians have ever lived in this world as the worshipping communities God's revelation made possible for them. We are, however, all free individual beings and not confined by the man-made corruptions of Temple, Synagogue or Church.

Jesus is not only God but a human son of a human mother. He knows Mary and Joseph for the individuals that they and their family of which he is a part, are. He similarly knows all his disciples and cares for them just as we know and care for our friends and families. He also leaves us in no doubt that Our Father knows "every hair on our heads". We are all first individuals in the sight of God.

When Jesus declares before Pilate that "My kingdom is not of this world" he warns us that he is not to be confined in worldly institutions developed by mankind; it is a grave mistake for the Church to ever have taught "extra Ecclessiam nulla salus", for with his dying breath he creates the mystical but very human relationship which assures us that he will always be present with Jews and Christians of all races, "go out to the whole world and teach all men", at the Heart of His New Holy Family, "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother".

When we choose to live according to the revealed will of God we become part of this "Church of Love" and thus become not of this world even though we are surrounded and threatened at every second of our lives by the rampant materialism that grows out of  the selfishness fostered by devil, the world and the flesh.

All acts of evil that are disfiguring the world at this moment are being done by or at the behest of individuals who act against the will of "Our Father". I can witness them at the click of this mouse.

Lord help me to resist all that separates me from your Love. Amen