25/12/2025

God knows that the words of this morning's liturgy although composed by man have the beauty and power that is the pure, loving truth with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows his own being thus loving us also into being and forgiving us for all our sins.

He knows that every "iam" is totally miniscule but has created each of his human beings to be "IMAGEANDLIKENESS", as another person to respond in created time to his WORD which is recorded in the Old Testament and today is celebrated as the beginning of the New and Final Revelation that enables us to do his will on Earth, in our time, as it is done in His timeless, Eternity.

The writer of today's second reading has had some time in which to "ponder within his heart" the events that his generation has witnessed and knows that Moses and the prophets had received and proclaimed the WORD but he and his generation had been engraced by the living presence of the same WORD, Incarnate Son and that many of them had witnessed  real-time events that have been the historical reality of "True man and True God" on Earth.

When John came to write his personal memories that are still with him at the the conclusion of his long life he has to begin at the source of Reality and then recalls the real-time teaching of the WORD leading up to the Saving Event on Calvary.

Mary was the only other one present at both the temporal beginning and end of Jesus' life. John had accepted Jesus' commission and had taken her into his home but he does not elaborate on this. We 2,000 years later, do, however, have more than enough information about the sinful failures of the Institutional Church based on Peter but also know that Jesus promises to be with us even to the end of time we thus have to reconcile the perceived failures of history with the reality promised by the WORD.

Everyday that I raise my heart and mind to God I am aware of Calvary and of the words spoken by Jesus to Mary and John and accept these as the foundation of the  Church of Love that is the presence of Christ that can be found  even in the midst of the worldly entanglements that have confused rather than enlightened so many of the faithful who have been scandalised by  the Institutional Church.

More than ever, however, today is the day when we should remember  persons loved by God rather than try to interpret events created by human failure. The very nature of a baby is to inspire tenderness. Mary is such a young girl to bear  responsibility for a new life and Joseph is kindness and humility personified. The stable is filled with the sight, sound and smells of creation and we with the shepherds can only bow our heads and worship in awed silence for "unto us a CHILD is born" Amen

 24/12/2025

Wednesday Advent Week 4 Christmas Eve

Today we complete the preparations that we make to welcome into this world the Incarnate Son of God.

There are millions of us throughout the world who are today engaged in a frenzy of human activity. Some of us will also raise our minds and hearts to God but it seems that for most of us "Jesus" is only a name from the past.

At the time of the Incarnation, 9 months prior to today, 2025 years ago, Mary asked "How can this be?" and I too have repeated that question many times during my lifetime as I witness the remorseless rise of Mammon and decline of Christ which has characterised my time on Earth.

God knows that this losing sight of His purpose in creation is not something that I observe only in others for I too sometimes have a struggle to complete the words of the Lord's Prayer, his "roadmap" to Holiness.

Very few people knew what was happening that night in Bethlehem and yet it was the beginning of the most important 33 years of human history.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed his will to Mary through the message of an angel and to us through his birth, life, death and resurrection. Since those days he has never left us alone, but it is we who have to welcome him into our hearts and actively seek out and embrace his will for us.

Why would we refuse the Loving Fatherhood of God, a place in the New Holy Family as an adopted sibling of the Son of the Most High? 

Jesus dying words to Mary and John "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" complete his mission of salvation in this world the beginning of which we celebrate on this 

"Silent and Holy Night"

Dear Lord, help me to know love and serve as a created being by avoiding anything that is incompatible with your loving perfection and thus becoming the person you created me to be. Amen

 23/12/2025

Tuesday Advent Week 4

I am again unable to sleep. I am not, however, upset by what is becoming a familiar pattern of daily life for me although I would rather get through my nights in sleep.

God knows that I try to make use of this wakefulness by turning  my consciousness to thoughts of how to make myself ready for the moment when I will cross the threshold that leads out of this world.

I would like to be able to face the inevitability of that moment with the fortitude that comes about from true faith in the Mercy that is the Love which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT not only is but with which he creates and supports all of us who acknowledge him by doing his will during our lifetimes.

I always pray that my thoughts and prayers are not just empty or even ego-centric boastful words. Sometimes, however, they do please me and it is for protection against this sense of personal worth that God knows I do cry out as I raise my heart and mind to him.

"In those days" when the Gospels were being lived in real-time all communication between human beings was by direct contact with each other. In today's Gospel  all of the Hill Country of Judah was stirred up by and talking about the birth of John the Baptist. Human beings were sharing their feelings with other human beings.

If we are to live in the way IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT wants us to prepare ourselves for Eternity we have to complete our Love of God by following the Way, Truth and Life of Jesus to love our neighbour as ourself. We must actively seek out ways we can care and share, for and with, all other humans and not only our close relatives.

The Incarnate Word whose birth we are awaiting is not only the perfect sacrificial atonement for all sin, he is also the totally perfect human love and it is the following of his tender example of this that completes the salvation that is the Incarnation. 

"My yoke is gentle, my burden is light."

 22/12/2025

Monday Advent Week 4

I have always become totally uncalm when faced with anticipation of a future event. Today my whole being is without anchor and quivering its way through the time that remains to the great event that I am now focussed on.

When I had to travel overseas to work I would try to cope with this nervousness by what became the addictive misuse of alcohol and was only saved from this self-destruction by the mercy of God working through the kindness of strangers.

In these later days of my life, I have become aware that my essential being is still the same child who couldn't sleep as he anticipated the gifts that he hoped to find waiting on his bed when he woke up on Christmas morning.

For that child, however, Christmas was not just "gifts" it was the intangible atmosphere that occurred at no other time of the year and which even the onslaughts of the most ardent puritan, secular, humanist, feminist, now "woke" but at all times "ego-centric" enemies of God can not curtail.

The learned and the clever can easily demolish any of these my reflections into "sentimental claptrap" but I know that although I lack both wisdom and eloquence I am still the child created by "Our Father" and still able to find and respond with joy to the forgiveness that is God's "Christmas Present" to all mankind.

The crucified Jesus of Nazareth, is the Son of God and Son of Mary, who in his dying breath uttered the words that create the Church of Love, the New Holy Family which is our place of safety in this world until time ends and IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, becomes ALLINALL.

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

 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.