28/12/2025

The Holy Family

Over the centuries that she has been an institution the Church founded by Jesus to be His presence amongst all subsequent generations until the end of time  has had as her focal point the first Mass, the "do this in remembrance of me" ; the Last Supper. 

In the "Upper Room were present the faithful Apostles, the traitor, and the "True Man and True God" who created in the seconds of real-time it took for him to say "This is my body" the completely new form of being to which he would bear witness by Cross and Resurrection. The Eucharistic Sacrament is the continuing Real Presence and is thus our Spiritual Food.

Eighty generations after that event I am a sinner grappling with all the mish-mash of historical truths, half-understood ideas, momentarily-grasped insights but fundamentally believing human being that makes me what I am today. 

Our Father knows that it is only because of "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" the invitation into the Church of Love, which requires only an open believing heart and does not need us to ignore an Institution's  present and past sinful entanglements with the things of this world if we are to share in the Mystical Real Presence promised by "This is my Body" that I am able to know that it is true that He will be with us always even to the end of time.

Jesus lived totally anonymously as a Jew for thirty years of his life. Joseph guarded the sinless holiness of Jesus and his mother. This is the Holy Family that the Church celebrates today. 

On his cross in the utter pain of his public death he creates directly by his words the spiritual relationship between himself, his sinless mother Mary and his beloved disciple John that we can all choose to become part of for it is this New Holy Family within which "even though heaven and earth pass away "MY WORD" will stand."

 27/12/2025

God knows that I have already tried to begin this day in awareness that I have to choose to know, love and obey. He does not force himself into my being but welcomes me back from sleep into His Love that never sleeps but promises to maintain all that "is" in existence until the end of time.

Now, some time after waking-up, I am still making that "Act of will" to avoid sin by now opening my heart to the guidance of the Scriptures chosen to be part of today's liturgical re-enactment both in time and in eternity of the completion of Incarnate WORD'S life on earth.

In the first reading John addresses us as "Beloved" for he really knows that that is what he himself is. He is the "Beloved Disciple" who knows that that is the complete meaning of "and your neighbour as yourself" which is not a "Second Commandment" but rather the completed Act of Obedience to " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind and strength". 

We are all "Beloved". The babe in the manger hearing the breathing of ox, ass and sheep, feeling their touch and smelling their dung, scratched by straw and hungry for his mother's milk, this total human weakness that is every baby has chosen to become thus out of ETERNAL LOVE that knows each individual human being that has, is and will ever be created. His Love is available to bring us all to salvation.

I know that human words can never express the immensity that is God. 

Incarnation, Nativity, Crucifixion, Resurrection are four words that have generated billions of others but they are much more than words for they are the temporal acts of ETERNAL LOVE of  which  John is a witness to TRUTH when he addresses us as "Beloved" for that is what each of is to "Our Father, Abba" as he "forgives us our trespasses" in the pain of Calvary. Amen

 26/12/2025

"In those days" was for us,  yesterday,  the recollection of that very brief moment in the time of this world when the Eternal Word of Our Father began the manifestation that is our forever guide and rule for living out our own lives on Earth. 

Jesus warns us that he did not come to bring peace on Earth, but for many of us the celebration of "Christmas Day" is always a brief reminder of what might have been if he had.

"In those days" for today takes us back to the first events experienced by the founders of the Church built on Peter in the True Enlightenment created and bequeathed by Jesus during the time leading to His concluding Death and Resurrection.

Millions of us have since "those days" "pondered in our hearts" the words of these events and striven to enfold our being within them to ensure the personal purity of holiness that is the only way of life that completes the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

We all can only truly live by every word that comes from the mouth of God. We can only find the WORD in the many words and deeds of Scripture. 

The martyrdom of John the Baptist is the heroic human concluding event of the Old Testament. The martyrdom of Stephen is the first heroic human response to Jesus' life, death and Resurrection but the Church that was already growing "in those days" although watered by the "blood of martyrs" was soon to lose sight of Jesus' words declared to Pilate "My kingdom is not of this world".

Dear Lord, Please remember your promise and return soon. We have not done as well as we should have done after being engraced by your Life, Death and Resurrection. Please return to save us yet again from ourselves. 

 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