07/02/2026

Yet again I feel inspired by today's readings to pay more attention to reading the Bible not only for what it contains as selected by the compilers of the Liturgy but also to try to understand  how the first 2/3 generations of Gentile Christians came to base their whole beings on what is throughout the Old Testament a celebration of one race of Human Beings and a repudiation of all the rest.

What has struck me today is that the Psalm for today's mass is a wonderful prayer from the heart which expresses my own feelings and desires to live according to the will of God far better than I can myself. I have always prayed for the "Lord to teach me his statutes" and even in my sins, thank God, have not lost sight of the Mercy that is his, but this psalm seems to have been edited and later today I will use the wonder that is this machine to find out more about that,

The Apostles return from their first missionary journey exhausted and absolutely thrilled by what they have experienced. There are hordes of people milling around and Jesus knows that they need to rest. He takes them across the lake but the multitude  anticipates this manoeuvre and even on foot arrive there before them.

In the 2000 years since that moment, mankind has continued to act as sheep without a shepherd, We have had many kings and leaders most of whom have been as wise and even wiser than Solomon. We are all milling around either literally or figuratively seeking to to be secure in our own selves. We should all quieten down and even in the prime of life centre our lives on IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT even as this morning's multitude sought out Jesus.

There is nothing that anyone of us can do with our lives that is more important than  turning to Our Father and praying that we take the teaching of the Old and New Testaments into our hearts and live our lives accordingly.

It is only when each soul on earth lives righteously that our world can truly give thanks to the Loving Mercy which enables us to cooperate in the reset of creation that is the INCARNATION.

For God nothing is impossible and so I pray that nothing can separate me from the Love of God that is the very being of the Church of Love, the New Holy Family, founded from the cross by the dying words "Woman behold your son, son behold your mother" and sealed by 

"It is finished".

 

 06/02/2026

There are some of us who are now living completely in this world without a giving a thought to Our Father except in an abbreviated exclamation which is of course not a thought or a prayer.

I have never felt really comfortable in my life except when looking after my children and grandchildren. Even then I always had at the back of my mind the thought I was not presenting to them an example of holiness  in this world that they could want to emulate.

I am still too close to sin and even now am not sure that I am truly turning to God as I try to wake up in this world remembering that Jesus basically told us  to ignore our physical reality and follow him.

Of course, I am not right in interpreting "My Kingdom is not of this world" as a new commandment to "ignore physical reality" as he also assured us that our good deeds made during our lifetimes were not ignored by Our Father in Heaven and in the Incarnation he actually shared our flesh and himself resisted all the temptations that we face.

We all live in this world as a preparation to enter the Kingdom of Heaven which is a state of being beyond our understanding, beyond our Universe where we can all be forgiven our trespasses to the same extent as we have lived lives of righteousness in this world, by repudiating all aspects of sin.

It must be very difficult for the Great and the Good, the rich and powerful, the Davids, Solomons, and Herods of this world to become as the publican in the Temple humbling beating his breast in search of forgiveness for his sins. It is not easy even for me who am lower in the world even than the publican to maintain the innocence to which our Incarnate God, Jesus of Nazareth showed us the way.

I have to remember "Your Father in heaven knows the hairs of your head" and has created for all his people the Church of Love, His Mystical Body the New Holy Family into which place of love and safety he welcomes us with arms outstretched on the cross:

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

 05/02/2026

We all of us live in "interesting times". 

The events that any of us witness as we come to know the reality of our own being and whatever we witness around us are the confirmation that "iam" and that I need to know that we all need to be as aware as is David that we are neither self-created nor self-sufficient. 

We are all creatures and subjects of "The Lord " who has revealed himself to be the all powerful IAMIAM in whose invisible "image and likeness" we have all been created.

Jesus warns all nations that we should beware of the "interesting times" of this world for at his trial before the representatives of this world both secular i.e. Pilate and Religious i.e. High Priests he makes the categorical statement "My kingdom is not of this world".

I know that "this world" of "those times" i.e. the living culture of Jews and Gentiles, Temple and Empire were both unacceptable as satisfactory modes of human life by our Father who had required his people whom he had led out of Egypt to follow ten rules while living in this world as a preparation for his "End of Time".

God alone knows why he chose that particular time and place for his Incarnation.

St Paul tells us that we have never been left alone on this planet and that the Resurrection has finalised  the teaching of Moses and become the focus that supersedes all "Interesting Times".

In this morning's Gospel. The first missionaries are to go into Galilee without any possessions. They are literally to present themselves at a stranger's door and offer a blessing and without any manipulation on their part accept the outcome.

God knows that I am already explaining to myself how this could be by attributing the blind obedience of the Disciples to the only really "Interesting Times" the world has ever known; that was His presence in Time in this World, 2000 years ago.

He also knows that I am also preoccupied by the way Jews are still so prominent in the things of this world as the Institutional Churches that he founded on St Peter fade into irrelevance.

"Irrelevance", however, is in the mind of the observer. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows and loves us all and we must never forget that the "things of this world" are temporal distractions which we have to ignore if we are to live according to His Will by obeying His commandments.

According to Chinese proverbial wisdom "May you live in interesting times" is a curse and time in this world truly is so even in words of Jesus.

"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but suffer the loss of his own soul?".

 04/02/2026

Our Lord, Jesus of Nazareth, True God and true man, Son of God, Son of Mary, is seen this morning alive  and teaching in the synagogue of his home town which he then leaves to continue his mission throughout Galilee.

His friends and neighbours are amazed at his erudition when he preaches but at the same time affronted that such wisdom could come out of the mouth of one of their own whose family was also well-known to them, and that this wisdom could be also supported by "mighty works".

Jesus was not the first Prophet in Israel nor was he the first human being to be esteemed for "Wisdom" in the centuries that had passed before God's Revelation was finalised by the Resurrection. The basic idea condensed into " A Prophet is not without honour except in his own country" had become proverbial not only in the culture of the Middle East but wherever mankind had begun to think about our own being, our existence.

With Jesus there is always "something greater here". With God there is always "something greater than  that can be thought". For mankind there is nothing greater that can be learnt than the completed revelation made by the Resurrection that death is not the end of life. 

We share our spiritual being, our unseen life/soul, image and likeness, with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and can by aligning ourselves, "Thy will be done on earth " with the teachings, of the New Testament prepare ourselves to share the eternal JOY of being present in the Eternal Sinlessness that is Heaven.

For my own part, I pray never to separate myself from the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of Love, the New Holy Family always aware that the free gift of Salvation for All has had to be created in the same reality in which I am now living. "True God and true man" suffers real pain truly dies on Calvary in order that his final words create "The New Holy Family" our one place of safety in this world.

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

03/02/2026

The only thing that is anything like permanent in my being is my own perception of it. I have never had an awareness of God that has not been filtered by my conscious effort to respond to Biblical revelation or interpretation of it.

No matter how hard I try to bring myself into line with the will of God and strive to become part of his Mystical Body, the Church of Love, his New Holy Family my fundamental weakness always breaks through my defences and I still keep on sinning and simultaneously regret it.

It has always been the same for me. I have always hoped for heaven. As a child and younger man,  I was always looking for or accepting opportunities to sin but simultaneously terrified by the thought of dying an unprepared for death.

I am the epitome of the anti-God intellectuals, despised pathetic weakness that it is to be a "God-fearing" man.

I share their opinion in that I too know that I  am weak and in many ways to be despised but I also know that the history of human life proves that the Universe and all that is in it is not an unreal random event. 

Our consciousnesses of being are outside of our brains and this has been proven by the direct revelation made to "The whole world" 2000 years ago. Jesus is the Resurrection. The Incarnation is True God and True Man. Jesus brought New Life into the world. 

Those who met with the Resurrected Christ all expected to see him again in their lifetimes and the hope of all Christians has always been that they will experience this meeting even though the continuation of Sin means that we all have to suffer death before this can happen.

The creator of all that it is possible to know in our own beings was born, lived with Mary and Joseph, was recognised by The Baptizer, walked, talked with and taught the Apostles, died in total weakness and became the Resurrection in order to give us incontrovertible proof that IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT loves us and knowing our sins he continues to pour out the Mercy that even as I sin is mine for the asking.

We must never despair of forgiveness. Even though guilt is an instant presence along with my sin. I remember that it took many centuries for the Resurrection to conclude IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S revelations to his "image and likeness" and that he spent only 10% of his time on earth in direct teaching by "word and deed".

We all have to thank God for not destroying us the moment that we rebel and even though I know myself to be totally worthless, I am still beloved and incredibly the recipient of the Mercy that was created in response to the bitter pain that my personal sin inflicts on Our Saviour God.

Dear Lord, help me to remember that I need to suffer personally, body and soul, as penance for this and all my sins. Your cross is the reality that we have made by our misuse of Your Love the source of our beings. Amen

 02/02/2026

The Presentation of Jesus aka The Purification of Mary aka Candlemas

The three possible names for this feast that has been celebrated by the Roman Church for 1500 or so years in Europe are a reminder that the Institutional Churches that exist today are man-made constructs in this world. Even the date of Easter has been disputed by East and West and thus exist the differences in Ecclesiastical Calendars that are a feature of the Christian Disunity that still exists.

We can call the feast "the Purification" as for more than 2000 years after the Resurrection, the Law of Moses' concepts of ritual purity were still part of the "Church's" understanding of the the relationship between man and God. 

For centuries "Churching" was a liturgical ritual for all Catholic mothers forty days after giving birth. I can remember attending this ceremony with my own mother and father after the birth of my six years younger than I sister. The Incarnation, Nativity and Death of Jesus have banished all notions of the necessity for ritual bodily purity.  The  name "Candlemas" reminds us that candles were traditionally blessed today as Christ is the light of the world and that the Church was the throbbing  heart of European Culture and all of her festivals "celebrated" as much as Christmas still is.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT became man. The INCARNATION is a complete reset of creation. God is totally beyond comprehension but it has been revealed to us that 2000 years ago he chose to actually become a human being in the same flesh as the apex of his created material being, self-conscious, image and likeness "true man and true God"..

If I choose to click my mouse I can become aware of the vast array of Evil that mankind has always chosen to bring into the world. I am dumbfounded by the joy with which SIN has and is still welcomed and celebrated by so many billions of peoples and scream out to Our Father, "Why?". 

Although taught otherwise, I believe that Sin /Evil has a far greater power than we can imagine and that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is deeply hurt by each individual and  generation of mankind that still mocks him for allowing himself to be crucified. The utter pain of the Crucifixion still exists in the Resurrected heart of Jesus and thus Our Father still bears an ever-greater anguish.

The specific revelations made to Adam,  Noah, Abraham, Moses and David were known but not maintained even by Chosen People. God could have created us  as mere automatons absolutely incapable of sinning but because we are "image and likeness" he wants us to live by freely choosing "the way, the truth and the life" by returning the LOVE that is "IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT".

We are all still the potential "People of God" even though we are much more technically advanced than were Jesus and his Apostles. The souls that are our true conscious beings and that differentiate us  from the animal bodies out of which we evolved following God's plan, are still completely free to rule "the world" but whatever it is that we choose to do with our lives there is still only one God and Saviour.

Jesus in his dying words creates "the not of this world" Church of Love, comprised of Creator, Saviour and Love i.e. Jesus, Mary our adopting sinless mother, and John, the Beloved Disciple, the New Holy Family which welcomes all who know that there is nothing that this world can offer that is able to compete with the peaceful security that we can now choose to be ours even as we aspire to live out sinless lives in this world  ever mindful that the "Ever-Greater" knows, loves and supports us on our way as much as, for our part, we know, love and serve Him.

"Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother"    

 

01/02/2026

The fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Every time I miss making a response to the Mass Readings, I come to realise why it is necessary for me to try to discipline myself in this way.

St  Benedict and St Basil both knew from their own experience that devoting one's life to Our Father means that our human consciousness which can very easily be distracted even from/by  our very best intentions requires a "rule" which  can be upheld and supported within  a community of brothers or sisters.

St Paul is writing to the  "humble and lowly people", one of the first communities of believers, "who seek refuge in the name of the Lord", They are still "in the world" and they were  not wise according to worldly standards. Neither were they powerful or of noble birth.

God chose what is weak and despised in this world to deter the "Great and the Good" from being overcome by pride in their own beings.

Our Saviour, the Creator of all that we are aware  chose to be born in an animal shelter and allowed himself to be tortured and displayed naked as he "bled out" in public view. He really did "practise what he preached".

In this morning's Gospel Jesus teaches us all that we need to hold in our minds as we live out lives governed by Holy discipline. There is nothing about my world in 2026 that can/should  distract me from the  response that each human being has to make to the WORD .

                    "Listen People of God, this is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased"