12/01/2024

At the end of his life on Earth, Jesus, the Incarnation, the completed Way, Truth and Life makes it clear that this world, the created Universe, is not the "Kingdom" the revelation of which he will complete in his Resurrection.

In our awareness of "being" we are all challenged to explain to ourselves why it is that what we know as life will come to an end. We are, however, not innumerable "consciousnesses" abandoned in the vastness of the visible universe to find out for ourselves "the meaning of life". We are all the personal creations of Infinite Love that subjected himself to all the possible pain that Original Sin brought into the Garden to bring us to Salvation, his Kingdom.

The Holy Bible is the unique text that records the response of the People of God to WORD who completes the revelation of all that we need to become part of the "Kingdom" during his last week on Earth.

For the last 2000 years there are many of us who have been unwilling to accept the Risen Lord as the unwitnessed Resurrection Event. In fact, as the Institutions that developed from "thou art Peter" seemed to become successful in the mission to which Jesus calls Simon, Andrew James and John in this morning's Gospel their success in this world began to smother the reset of creation. that is the Church, Body of Christ. the Resurrection.

The Papal Tiara and Byzantine Diadem could never be compatible with "My kingdom is not of this world" but Jesus has promised to be with his Church until "the end of time" and we can be sure that the Church of His Love, the New Holy Family, Jesus Mary and John is where WORD is forever present.

 "Heaven and Earth may pass away but my WORD will stand."

 11/01/2026

The Gospel Readings that are part of the liturgical worship of the "People of God" with whom I try to pray each morning to start my day aware that I am always in the presence of God, present us with a series of events that are taken from the memories of Mary and the followers who remained closest to Jesus throughout his life.

My life can become righteous only to the extent that I also follow the teaching as a New disciple of the Scriptures that are the written records of God's presence in creation.

The familiar "In those days" is the only seemingly contradictory "Eternal-time" when God was here on Earth in the flesh of a created being but "begotten not made". Jesus really did live with us as "True Man and True God".

Two Thousand years ago in Palestine, there were "multitudes" of people who saw the Lord and witnessed his miracles. Most of those multitudes, including the Apostles were followers of the Law and thus somewhat spiritually prepared for an Epiphany, but only three had received the laser-like clarity of TRUTH directly into their beings. God had told only Mary, Joseph and the embryonic John of  Eternal WORD, Mary's child.

"Good Man" Joseph quietly did God's will and cared for Mary and her son, Mary also quietly "pondered TRUTH in her heart" but the Baptist began a public mission to prepare the way for the Lord by preaching to his contemporaries and to all of us to reject the devil, world and flesh by accepting Baptism as the Cleansing of all the Human Sin that has spoilt the perfect reality of TRUTH, GOOD and BEAUTY of God's creation.

On that day at "Bethany beyond the Jordan where John was baptizing" God himself proclaims by word and deed the TRUTH on and out of which all being, spiritual and material is created.  Father, Son and Spirit are equally Trueman Jesus in his life, death and Resurrection

"Trinity" is not a human concept but is "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" who has loved each one of us into being and revealed how we should live our lives in praise and thanksgiving for the wonder of his Incarnation.

Jesus is helpless in the stable. Accepts with joy the sustenance of Mary's breast. Learns the skills of a carpenter and studies the Scriptures but today in the Jordan his Infinite identity has  been made known to all generations and we all have to bow before him as we proclaim;

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit 

as it was in the beginning, is now and  always will be.

Amen

 10/01/2026

St John is a human being who has never resisted the Love that only wants others to be as secure in his happiness and trust in God as he is himself. 

His happiness is that he knows and is secure in this knowledge that he has been created by Infinite Love, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, and all that he has witnessed in this world during his time with Jesus and Mary is the result of Our Father's revelation that we are all able to abide in Love by following, the way, truth and life that defeats sin.

This our Resurrection Faith taught by the Incarnation.

It does not just happen, however, for when receiving the message of the angel, even Sinless Mary asked "How can this be? Human freedom has to choose to cooperate with the will of the Father and thus respond to Infinite Love by choosing to obey the rules of Love given to Moses.

There are many sources of the Love that arises in my human heart. Unfortunately, not all parents welcome their children into this world, so von Balthasar's concept of the mother's smile being the first sign of Love known by an infant is not necessarily correct. Most of us, however, do grow into adults learning how to receive parental approval which is the "Love" that we return to our own children.

All of us live out our lives in this world and have to be aware that any "Love" that is not centered on Our Father by doing his will on earth is not in fact Love but the totally valueless sham that corrupts us into refusing the LOVE poured out on Calvary, into the New Holy Family, Christ's Church of Love to be received on our behalf by Mary and John.

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

This is where we can also experience and share in the Love of God who only wants his creatures to be as secure in the happiness of created "image and likeness" as he is in his own Infinite Being.

 09/01/2026

I have always been aware, even as a child, that I was capable of sin, but I have largely lived my life as if covering up for it were the sole aim of my existence. 

I am coming to realise that I am not alone in this and that "My kingdom is not of this world" precisely because life lived  solely in "this world" is  a lie and that the billions of "iams" who deny the revelations of the meaning of life contained in the Bible are also as stupid as those Political leaders who deny the visual evidence that Renee Nicole Good was murdered yesterday by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

Today St John writes about Love because he knows that his friend, the son of his adoptive mother, concluded his life by death on a cross because the Resurrection of Love only happens when Eternal Being negates himself to become the Saving Victim that "takes away the sins of the world" and does this once but for all of us.

Jesus pours out his blood hanging on the wood of the cross in his created reality precisely because we create sin in this world, the domain of devil and the flesh, that can only be defeated by each living soul accepting his rule to Love our neighbour as our selves by non-retaliation  and acceptance that we are forgiven in proportion to our own forgiveness of the sins  we observe in and experience from others.

In our lifetimes we can always make "excuses in sin" but in IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT the reality is LOVE so it is no exaggeration for me to condemn my childish sins with the same fervour that condemns the sin that was the contemporaneously perpetrated Jewish Holocaust.

Dear Lord, I know that as today unfolds each moment will reveal the creation of even more sins. This screen will reveal  more of the wickedness of the rich and powerful that will be trumpeted around the world. The human spirit will be celebrated in stories of individual attainments and I will be stirred to sorrow or to anger by what I read, see and hear. Help me to remember that  I am only responsible for my own being and that you totally rejected the things of this world and bore witness to this rejection in the abject, naked humility of death on a cross, before filling creation with the unseen Glory of your Resurrection which has brought back LOVE into our reach. Your own acceptance of  unspeakable death at the hands of men confirms that "Turn the other cheek" is much more than a pious platitude but is indeed a target and also, although seemingly out of our reach, a guide to becoming the human image and likeness you created us to be. May my prayers become one with the prayers of all your saints and together with those of Mary bring your LOVE to bear on the beings of all who are your enemies on Earth and to strengthen the resolve of those who try to do your will and help me to become one of them. Amen

 08/01/2026

Everything that John writes in his letters and Gospel is the result of his lifetime experience. 

He is "The Theologian" not because of study and applied intelligence but because he was chosen by Jesus to spend three years of his life with "Incarnate Son". 

I cannot begin to grasp the wonder it was for all those who "followed" the Lord as he made his way around Palestine. We know so little about the passage of that time when this planet was filled with the glory of eternity. Mary and Joseph were the first humans to know God. 

At first, he was for them the helpless human "babe in the manger" whom they had to protect with their human love. Mary and Joseph had known from the moment of the "Annunciation" that even with the embryonic Jesus there was "something greater here" and the awe with which thy must have witnessed his "normal" childhood development and the love with which he overwhelmed them as "Mum and Dad" is comprehensible only by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who himself is LOVE.

We can be sure that John spent only three years of his life being formed in the "way of Love" but for his final maybe fifty years he cared for Our Lady as he grew in understanding faith and learned that his living/dying/ resurrected friend can only be followed by Love.

With John, however, there is also "something greater here" we know him as a Galilean fisherman, a follower of the Lord, the guardian of the widowed and childless Mary, the Evangelist and teacher, the Elder of  Ephesus but he is also the Visionary of the Apocalypse and thus somehow belongs directly to God and beyond all human understanding.

 07/01/2026

Jesus during his life on earth repeatedly told us that he had come to complete the Law, not to abolish it. 

He is indeed the living law, WORD who is revealed throughout the Old Testament and is today the Resurrection, the Holy Spirit, Our Father, the Creator and Destiny of each one of us who can be known only by opening our hearts to His guidance recorded in Scripture and free from the worldly entanglements presented to us by the Institutions that have misled the People of God just as had the scribes and pharisees whom were the only ones that Jesus ever condemned even though he told us to listen to their words for it is in deeds that we "Test Spirits" including our own.

I know that I often fall short of the "know, love and serve" which is how  my "willing spirit" would have me live my life and in these "later times" have tried to discipline my unruly being, spirit and flesh, into focusing on "Our Father" in imitation of Christ and his Apostles by trying to spend some of each day in prayer.

I hope that I have no illusions about the Institutional Church, Eastern, Western or Protestant and know that the Holy Spirit confirms that it began in TRUTH at the headwaters of the Jordan when Jesus responded to Peter's unequivocal declaration of Faith with his foundational promise and that TRUTH has never left it even though it has been almost totally obscured by some 80 generations of "this worldliness".

It is for this reason that I try to begin each day with the mass readings from the Roman Lectionary for I know that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is the INFALLIBLE WORD which is found only in Scripture and also know that "the gates of hell will not prevail" against the Church of Love our New Holy Family even though all the Institutions crumble as do all the other things of this world.

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

 06/01/2026

The Epiphany

In the first reading Isaiah exults in the Glory of the Lord made manifest both in creation and the revelations made to the descendants of Abraham.

During the first fifty years during and after the Life, Death and Resurrection those who had witnessed these events had come to realise that Jesus had told them that he is God made manifest in human being, flesh, and that his grace was not the exclusive property of those to whom he had made the first revelations recorded in the Old Testament.

Paul, who loved his own race to the point of seriously offering to accept personal damnation if that could atone for the sins of the Jews, knew that the Resurrection had heralded the complete reset of the relationship IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT offered to each individual human being regardless of our DNA. 

The souls which we have to nurture during our lifetimes are each a new creation at the moment of our physical conception and although free, belong to God as his created image and likeness. Jesus has revealed that IAMIAM is FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT,  infinite Loving Mercy focussed on each of the "iams" we know ourselves to be.

Our lives are lived in this world but just as there was with Jesus there is always "something more here" which is vastly more important. I have to know and love God and value each other person as much as I value my ownself for at the end of my life there is to come my personal Epiphany which Our Father wants to be my Eternal Joy but which also requires my unequivocal cooperation with all that is revealed in Scripture.