14/02/2026

Everything that is real in life, everything that never changes was present in the  real-time of 2000 years ago.

The Lord, Paul and Barnabas whom we read or hear about in today's liturgy were flesh and blood, living beings. With Jesus there is always "something greater here" but Paul and Barnabas were exactly the same as we are today. We know that in "those days" there was an ongoing  great re-set of the relationship between mankind and God, but they were men as we are actually living the change that we can only, as did Mary, ponder in our hearts.

The City where they were teaching was already an ancient settlement when they arrived there. It had been occupied by many cultures all of which had left physical traces of their presence that can still be seen and excavated. 

It is still a real place in the reality of this world as it is in the present day and has experienced all the changes that have been accomplished by the 80/100 generations that have lived there since the Good News was brought to them by Paul and Barnabas.

We all are real in the time of this world and the reality of the roads walked by Jesus and his disciples, the buildings in which they lived are still real but they have the reality of ruins, they are the "dust", as we will become, from which they were made.

Together with Paul and Barnabas, we have been taught by Jesus that the physical reality we know as life in "this world" is not the only gift we receive from Our Father nor is it the most important one.

We all of us have in our being the unseen reality that is our soul, unseen image and likeness created by the Eternal Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT which we are able to preserve in holiness for in his Mercy Jesus has not only created his Priestly Church to distribute Sacramental Grace but also enabled us to join Him in His New Holy Family with Mary, John and all the saints, His Mystical Body, Church of Love, into the protection of which we have all been individually invited by our Saviour who knows each one of us better than we know ourselves.

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

 13/02/2026

During the first years after the Resurrection those Jews who had known Jesus, witnessed miracles of healing and been captivated by his person and his teaching had increasingly had to face up to the fact that they his own people had participated in the crucifixion of Jesus.

Apostles had had to face up to the fact that they had abandoned him after his arrest in the garden. St Peter had got to accept that he had actually denied any knowledge of the Son of God. St Paul could never forget that he had participated in the first persecution of the infant Church.

In those first years they must have been vessels filled  with the Holy Spirit for the only thing that they did was pray and preach and wait for the return. 

They were, however, very concerned about how to welcome "the whole world" to whom they had been ordered to proclaim the Good News. The religion of the Old Testament was very much about exclusivity. It was racist and the Jews who stoned Stephen in Jerusalem really did feel that they were doing God's will. That is why Saul could stand by while Stephen was brutally killed.  

Jesus forgave his executioners as did Stephen. But both deaths occurred at the hands of their brothers.

The Faith that was growing during the time the Gospels, Acts and Letters were being written had to reconcile itself to the disappointment that Jesus had not returned and also had to explain to Jews and Gentiles how they could live as free beings within a creation that had been visited and lived in by True God and True Man who had offered and allowed himself to become a sacrificial victim to atone for sin and yet they knew, even after the Resurrection, themselves still to be sinful.

God knows that I am trying each day to respond after two millennia to the same situation that the Apostles faced after the Ascension of the Lord. 

• They had unequivocal proof that there was life after death. 

 12/02/2026

Until the Incarnation it is true that God revealed himself only to the Jews.

They did not fulfill their side of the Covenant.

God inspired many prophets who had very limited success in turning his beloved back to him.

The Gentiles developed many civilizations and cultures that did not know God. 

Jesus first preached to the "children" of His Father.

We who try to live a Christian Life in the Post-Christian Culture that dominates the whole world even those parts that have never been Christian are shocked by any form of racial or cultural arrogance when we encounter it. 

Nazi Germany's efforts to completely destroy the Jews are so impossibly evil to accept as done by humans that excuses are clutched at by those who cannot accept that all Worldly Evil has been created by mankind.

The descendants of freed African Slaves in the USA are still suffering from the residue of the disgusting segregation that was the "norm" in the "Land of the Free" until only 50 years ago.

Moslem colleagues have never been abashed to look into my face and say "You'll go to Hell, John".

I am upset by Jesus' words to the Sidonian woman just as I am upset by thoughts of the millions of people who have not been guided by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

I remember how upset was St Paul at the thought of his own race's refusal of to accept the love of God. He offered to become "damned" in their place if this would atone for their sin.

I have to thank God for his saving grace and pray that my faith in the New Holy Family can be shared by the whole world of humanity and am sure that if I can be obedient to the revealed loving will of Our Father so can all peoples of the world.

"Blessed are they who observe what is just

Who at all times do what is right."

 11/02/2026

Solomon and Jesus both have God's favour. Jesus, of course, is by far the greater but until the actuality of his Resurrection only Mary, Theotokos, mother whom he shared with John and us from the cross, knew the holy mystery of the Incarnation. 

"Immaculate Conception" was heard by the shepherd girl at Lourdes, spoken by "Our Lady". This was one of the ways that the appearance of "Our Lady of Lourdes" was verified by the Church for how could St Bernadette who was basically illiterate at the time of the apparitions have heard of the theological dogma that had not been defined until 4 years prior to her meeting with Our Lady. 

This  non-scriptural  doctrine that Mary was prepared from her very conception as the sinless source of the humanity of the Incarnation and is thus the  the only other than Jesus still human bodied (and thus able to enter our earthly reality) soul present with the souls of all the Saints in the never changing Joy of being with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Nothing is impossible to God and so it is possible for the Church to confirm that what are decried by many as mindless superstitions are in fact real events. I cannot deny, however, that over the last two millennia there has been much manipulation of the humble people of God by false prophets and evil prelates.

I am still trying to become one of the humble people of God. I try to read and contemplate the significance of the Mass Readings for each day. God and I know how it is still so very easy for me to sin and lose sight of my primary purpose to know, love and serve Him, but I am always renewed in my struggle when I remember the words spoken by her barely living Son to Mary and John as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT died in human agony on Calvary.

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

 09/02/2026

Dear Lord, you know what it is that  I want to ask you. 

My words cannot come close to the disappointment that I feel knowing that the intense joyful Faith of the people of Solomon in this morning's first reading fades and has to go through many generations of failure and renewal before your INCARNATION resets our relationship with you.

Even in the first year of his public life Jesus becomes a figure that is recognised by "multitudes" who seek him out for his power to cure the sick. Many more multitudes have sought him out over the centuries that have passed since those days and yet we still live in this world as if we have never known your guidance.

We have somehow  missed the meaning of the message of the angel accepted by Mary for the world in which I live  is far from what you revealed to be possible by your real presence in creation. 

Help me to overcome the gloom created by worldly events which overshadows even the hope that I have in your words to Mary and John.

I know that I am responsible for my own soul but you Lord died so that we all might live. My prayer is thus first for me but the "me" who implores your mercy is part of a family, a Church, a nation and a World and one of the billions of "Holy Souls", living in this world and also in Purgatory who  completely recognise that they are sinners and completely dependent on you. Lord have Mercy.

 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."