25/01/2026

I have become increasingly obsessed recently by the "things of this world" and have not truly listened to the WORD.

There is nothing that should overcome or obscure my one true purpose in life. 

When I was born Europe was in the turmoil of war and Christian men were totally devoted to killing perceived enemies either by attacking or defending themselves. Many of these men  were even more seemingly devoted to God than am I.

I think that I take no part in the evils that polluted the face of the Earth in those days and have continued to do so during my lifetime, but I do know that my personal sins have all added to the Power of  Evil which is continually being accessed to strengthen the resolve of those who choose to become the enemies of God.

St Paul writes to the Corinthians that they should preserve unity with each other. We all have only one true purpose in life . We have to know, love and serve with faith hope and charity. Our sole source of peace and happiness is God whom we must never forget shared all human suffering. 

Jesus was nailed. Yes, "nailed" by having slips of iron hammered through his living flesh, He was nailed to the wood of the cross by human hands that felt the sticky warmth of his precious blood and still completed their ghastly deed.

It is my sins that are assaulting the WORD, SON, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and even though I am not personally contributing to the Great Sins of the World that I can witness by simply clicking this mouse I have to ask forgiveness for the sins that I have committed and thus bolstered the power of evil in this world.

Dear Lord, you know what my wordless being is aching for please let me me scour out from my heart all the residue of the sin that hinders my being able "to live in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord, to enquire at his holy temple." Amen

 22.01/2026

I am coming to the end of my life. Jesus lived for less than half the time that I have already lived. His explicit teaching is that we should never accept our life in this world as the sole reality. 

"My Kingdom is not of this world".

He teaches us that we should learn how to make our worldly lives a prayer of thanks for life which enables us to recognise the LOVE of  "Our Father" and to live in the wonder of HIS material creation by following the pathway walked by HIMSELF and to actively seek out the guidance of the HOLYSPIRIT.

Throughout the Old Testament although informed by revelation, the Jews never maintain the "Love thy neighbour as thyself" that is essential if we are "to give to God the things that are God's".

In this morning's Gospel Jesus directly confronts "Unclean Spirits" who seem to recognise the Incarnation. He orders them to take no part in revelation. In other Gospel readings Jesus also encounters "Legion" millions of other evil spiritual beings, devils who are all unseen but active in this world.

The Crucifixion releases Sacramental Grace into this material world and Baptism is our initial source of this grace as protection against devil, world and flesh but our misuse of our freedom, image and likeness  allows evil to flourish in this world. It is not the "unclean and unseen spirits " that disfigure creation but our failure to stop their takeover of our beings and thus bring them into the world where humanity has become the place where the "non-being" that evil is can become manifest.

Dear Lord, help me to resist the assaults made by the Devil which are often disguised as activity which seems innocent but in reality captivates souls into sinful self-satisfaction. You know that I am really trying to do your will in these last days of my life. I am sorry that I have lost faith in your appointed guardians of Sacramental Grace but am grateful that the New Holy Family can never be corrupted by the things of this world and pray that my prayers be joined with those of Mary and John to defeat the snares of the Devil who still prowls like a hungry lion seeking whom he can devour. 

 21/01/2026

"Thou shalt not kill."

Obedience to this "Commandment" is one of the essential behaviours by which we confirm our belief in the "Source of Holiness".

In the Old Testament reading for today David kills Goliath to initiate a mass slaughter of the Philistines.

"This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased" 

ends the Old Testament. Jesus has been identified and remains in public view for the next three years.

In his public ministry Jesus was under intense scrutiny by scholars who had been formed by devotion to the Law which began with the revelations made to Moses.

Today his critics are focused on the Sabbath Law.

Jesus, however,  reveals  by all of his words and deeds that when we know and love God with all our heart, and mind and strength we simultaneously love our neighbour as ourselves and automatically conform to 

"A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so must you love one another."

Our Saviour accepts death for himself but never kills. How can there be such an event as a "just war"?

"My kingdom is not of this world".

 20/01/2026

God knows that my Faith, my trust in the events recorded in the New Testament is the foundation on which I try to cooperate in the construction of the "human being" that I am meant to be.

I always struggle with the Old Testament. 

As a Gentile I feel neglected by God and yet I know without a doubt that Jesus, scourged, spat upon, mocked, bleeding out as he hangs on Calvary, is the living WORD, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, accepting this humiliation so that each one of us can live, as does he, always aware of the Love in which we are created, and the Loving Mercy which he creates by suffering real pain for us to choose by our own free will to cancel the unimaginable sadness we inflict on Our Father by our sins, also revealed in the Old Testament.

The Mass Readings that are used to begin 2026 force us to be aware that Jesus is the centre of Human Reality. Nobody before him was able to become the perfect product of God's Being. On Calvary "It is finished". His guidance of mankind has been completed. The Resurrection is the seal that confirms the Truth of the Life, Death and Resurrection.

The "Kings" chosen by Samuel all failed in their missions to lead their people into righteous living. Neither did the prophets succeed. But God is determined that  human beings, the product of his loving, goodwill will by their own free decision come to return out of their own beings the Love that is Divine JOY.

Our complete guide book to righteousness begins with an announcement made not to a priest, prophet or King but to a teenaged girl in Nazareth. Mary has always been known in the Eternity of God but 2000 years ago she is made aware of her unique place in Creation and asks

"How can this be?"

The New Testament is the completed answer by which we have to live out our lives on Earth.

 17/01/2026

God knows that I am never fully convinced by my own efforts to explain how it came about that there were so many human civilizations in the "Those days" of the Old Testament" and yet He revealed himself only to the Jews.

I know that I can thank God for revealing the Way, Truth and Life to those who know, love and serve, Him but I wish that some of us before the Incarnation had not been left alone to live in sinful ignorance. Many of these pagans were not bad people and I pray for them too to benefit from the reset of creation brought about by the Resurrection.

We have not been created automatons, mindless clones but as Image and Likeness we have been created to be able to recognise in our own beings the limitless freedom that is our CreatorGod revealed to be IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

We have to choose to worship. We have to struggle to obey. We have to understand to Love. We are free to become the Children of God. 

Two Thousand years ago another Saul, not a king, nor an epitome of masculine beauty as was the first anointed King of the Jews, became Paul and tirelessly worked to bring the Good News to the Jews and Pagans of the Roman Empire.

His legacy and that of the other Apostles has been made known far beyond the realm of Rome. It has never been accepted by all, however, and is now diminishing even within the very civilization it encouraged to spread it throughout the whole world.

The difference between now and the days of Samuel is that our enlightened, progressives choose to deny IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who has been revealed to all and choose to mock believers and their crucified Saviour with deliberate malice and hatred for God, they are not ignorant pagans.

Dear Lord, Help me to pray for the souls of all sinners and also to avoid the annoyance that they create in my heart. I pray that you inspire them to open their spiritual senses to your guidance and to the obvious fact of their limited existence that they are wasting by devoting themselves to the devil world and flesh. May my prayers join with those of Mary and that the Church of Love continue to be our place of safety from sin in this world as we do your will to prepare for the Life of the World to Come. Amen

 16/01/2026

The Jews of the Old Testament were very much engaged by "This World". They were one of the many civilizations burgeoning in the heartland of the planet but with them "there was something greater here".

I can call the middle-east "heartland" of the planet because with Jews there has always been something more than with Greeks, Persians, Indians, South-east Asians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Incas, Mayans and Aztecs.

The creator of the Universe revealed himself as total being. IAIAM, to the descendants of Adam and Eve who were living on the fringes of the Fertile Crescent in the human ignorance that was creating societies and myths to bolster them in many other places throughout the globe.

I am sure that the Judaeo Christian texts of the Bible are the only Truth that shows us the way to defeat Sin, but at same time I also know that my God is not at war with those who have not been exposed to his self-revelation.

There is nothing to be said to justify the behaviour of those who have been slaughtering Palestinians for the whole of my lifetime, but throughout the Old Testament the emphasis was always on an earthly Kingdom to be ruled by Jews. 

Today Samuel sets out the problems that will best them if he proceeds with their request to create a kingdom. He points out all the difficulties that will accrue in this world if they insist on an Earthly Kingdom and God then lets them exercise their freedom to rule and be ruled, to fail and succeed in wars, to acquire and forfeit, waxing or waning until he says "enough!" 

In reality the WORD always speaks in deeds, he sends an Angel to a Jewish teenager who unknown to herself has been prepared as the only sinless source of the Humanity that is the Incarnation. The eternal process that is the reset of Creation has begun in the body of an insignificant slip of a girl in Nazareth an insignificant town, in an insignificant district of Galilee; in the insignificant province of Palestina Romana.

Jesus is true man and true God and when we witness his miracles the "earthly event" always bears witness to his "heavenly being". That is what he tells us today as he stands surrounded by the dirt and palm leaves of the destroyed roof, maybe even with some of those debris tangled in his hair, 

"The SON of MAN has the power to forgive sins. Look how easy it is for for me to cure the diseases of this world".

 14/01/2026

My lack of "normal" sleep has recently become "too much" for me to bear. Yesterday I was unable to begin my morning with my usual reflections that have become my "raising of mind and heart to God" as I had decided to speak to my doctor about my lack of sleep.

Samuel does not hear the "Lord" in the voice calling him "in the night" until he is guided by Eli for the "WORD of the Lord was rare in those days" but when he answers "Speak Lord for your servant  hears" Samuel begins to grow and becomes known as a prophet throughout all Israel.

This is one of the few "Bible Stories" that impressed itself on my imagination as a child and I often in my childishness waited in vain to hear "the Voice of the Lord". I can also remember that I accepted this lack of response as the reality in which I and my contemporaries, Mum and Dad, baby sister, Aunty Florry, neighbours, Father Merrigan, Churchill and Hitler were living.

Even for that child there were many levels of consciousness and the present moment  was a confusion of past memories, thoughts, imaginative manipulations and actualities in which he had his awareness of being.

The observation "The Word of the Lord was rare in those day" is a great sadness for how can his People live without knowing IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT? and How can we know him if he is "rare"?

The reality of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPRIT, however, is not that he is rare but that it is we who cover our souls with a carapace of sin, this worldlines and downright stupid arrogance that we construct from misguiding our human senses to only recognise the things of this world and cower away from the Lord.

Although I am thankful for the sleep I enjoyed last night, I also have to ask myself whether or not the better part for me would have been to accept ongoing "sleeplessness" as a penance for the sins with which I have disfigured my life. 

God Help me to avoid the Pharisaical over scrupulosity you condemn as "whited sepulchres". Amen