22/02/2026

First Sunday of Lent

Today the Church founded by Jesus guides us on this first Sunday of Lent by asking us to take stock of what, where and who we are.

We are not the first human beings. We are also not the first sinners.

The apex of the created material universe is the human being, Adam /Eve, who can now not only understand how he has developed from the simplest form of life but has also become capable of understanding and manipulating the matter of creation even to the extent of copying the intricacies of his own brain and produce non-living intelligent memory. We are, however, the product of the loving will of Our Father and so just, as with Jesus,  "there is something greater here".

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is the creator of all "being" but with us he has added to our "natural body" the "image and likeness", the freedom that is similar to, but impossibly to imagine smaller, than his own.

We are in the twenty-first century. We are still free.

We are part of the ninetieth generation that has lived and died since the reset of creation that was the Jesus Event, the real-time Incarnation of our God. I have for some time been unable to remain confident that the history of the Institutions that claim  to be the guardians of the sacramental presence of Jesus in this world are justified in their claim. I am not just disappointed by the failings of modern clergy but the bad deeds of historical Patriarchal Emperors in the East and Popes in the West does not convince me the Church has ever become the "kingdom that is not of this world", i.e. Jesus' own

We are followers of Jesus Christ. He has never deserted us.

Each one of us is free to become the recipient of the free gift of salvation created by the Incarnation. We are the followers of the Way, we recognise Truth and we seek Life, knowing that we can find them in the Church of Love, The New Holy Family for "if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man; much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ".

Jesus speaks to all of us from his cross and thus creates the loving familial security that we can all share.

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

 20/02/2026

Friday after Ash Wednesday

At the moment there is a lot of fuss being made in public about "fasting". Isaiah's message   in this morning's First reading warns the followers of IAMIAM that when they boast  about their devotion to following the Law of Moses i.e. "fasting", they have indeed "lost the plot".

The  relationship of our sun and moon in the material universe has brought it about that this year there is a coincidence between Ramadhan and Lent . I know that in the world there are millions of Moslems who have rejected the Resurrection and God's complete reset of our relationship with Him, by sincerely claiming that Mohammed is the final messenger of God. They are mistaken. Jesus warned us that this would happen.

The Church of Peter both in the West and the East, Rome and Byzantium became worldly organisations and took on political roles even before Constantine's Edict gave freedom to all religions in the Empire. They thus failed to honour Jesus' "My kingdom is not of this world" and generation after generation humanity continues in failing to "fast" of the things of this world and dutifully follow the way, the truth and the life that is Truth demonstrated by the  Incarnation, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT himself living the life of any man.

On his Cross the bleeding corpse of the Son of God becomes the "loser" that is so much despised by the rich and powerful of my generation. On the third day he reveals to the whole world that there is "always something greater here" for the asking. Beyond physical death there is Eternal Life. God has always said this first to Adam, then to his chosen people and finalised his message at his trial and crucifixion.

"My kingdom is not of this world"   "Father forgive them for they know not what they do". "This day you will be with me in paradise" "Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother" "It is finished".

We have not been true to the teaching of Jesus just as his forefathers failed to listen to the prophets, even to the sublimity of Isaiah which is also "WORD OF THE LORD" Amen !

Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice,  to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free

and to break every yoke?

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Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them

    and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

8 

Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you;

    the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

9 

Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am.” If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,

10 

if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.

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The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never fail.

12 

Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach,  the restorer of streets to live in.

 19/02/2026

I have always comforted myself for my lack of understanding how to achieve worldly success by Jesus' words in this morning's Gospel. 

I am not alone in this and that is why those of us who try to live according to God's will are despised as "losers" by many of our  successful contemporaries. I have sometimes thought that being "despised" by the successful in this world is a mark of God's favour "Blessed are you when men revile you".

With Jesus, however, "there is always something greater here". The warning "what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own life?" is not to be used, as I have done as a defence for my incompetent weakness and failures, but as our personal challenge to overcome all the material temptations of this life, chief of which is our sense of self, our egos. 

The whole of Jesus' teaching is that every human life has to  accept that Our Father has not created us in the image and likeness of other men, our this worldly fathers, but as completely free souls, image and likeness which has the sole purpose of overcoming whatever circumstances, our personal crosses, into which we are born to prepare ourselves for His assessment of how we have known, loved, and served.

Sometimes holiness seems to be beyond my reach but I am sure that Jesus Son of God and son of Mary has shown us the way and not only instituted the Church founded on Peter to be the Guardian of his Body and Blood but also created as he died on his cross, his New Holy Family that is the purely  spiritual Church of Love and totally beyond human corruption.

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

 18/02/2026

Ash Wednesday.

Our Father has never left us alone in the reality of material creation in which his will to love and also have completely free creatures choose to aspire to knowing, loving and serving the non-material reality that he reveals himself to be, can flourish.

We all should know that we are not God. Each bodily human life will end. The wonders that we have achieved  in our World have not been created out of nothing. Each generation is born into an already existing world. Each human idea and insight is based on what was previously known by another human being.

Even though our first parents misused the loving freedom that was their created being, i.e. "image and likeness", and became the first link of the chain of sin, to which I know that I have also contributed, and which now fills the world, the Love that is Our Father did not "cancel"  humanity but offers to each succeeding generation and individual the freedom to aspire to the holiness that the Bible reveals to be the will of God.

The first guide book to holiness is the Old Testament. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed himself as the one True God to the Jews and supported their righteous efforts to become an example to the nations. Mankind including the Jews, however, followed the way of Adam and continued to misuse the freedom that had been created to choose the ways of God.

The Eternal Being that is God is timeless and is totally aware of everything. I look back to 2000 years ago and become aware that an "Angel of the Lord appeared unto Mary and she conceived by the Holy Ghost". During our lifetimes, as we try to search for God's will our freedom is limited by time and thus understand the Eternal INCARNATION to be a reset of Creation, a change in God's plan and forget "In the Beginning was the Word."

I know that I am living in a world that OURFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows rejects him. The immensity of his Love, however, is so great that he reaches out from eternity to each one of us and with Love assures us that total forgiveness can be ours when we make the effort to access the timeless Mercy poured out in bitter pain by Jesus, True God and True man when Eternity was present in time on Calvary.

Dear Lord, help me to truly atone for my sins and let this Lent become a time of renewal for the whole world and for my loved ones.

 17/02/2026

According to some scholars, St James may have known Jesus from childhood but we can be sure that he has taken in what Jesus, his Rabbi for three years had taught him. 

God, Our Father does not tempt us into sin. We comfort ourselves with excuses but even when overcome by temptation we are aware in the centre of our beings that we are losing control and are choosing to do what  is displeasing to God.

In this morning's Gospel Jesus is still annoyed that his chosen disciples are not able to just be at peace in his presence and untroubled by their worldly needs. It is not as if they had not gone through this "breadless" situation before. Jesus reminds them of how he had been able on two previous occasions to provide for the bodily needs of thousands who had been without bread.

Jesus is true man and has already allowed himself to experience in solitude all the levels of temptation that we can undergo. He never loses control and never reacts in human anger. When he drives out the money changers and cattle dealers from the Temple courtyard he is still just and is righting a wrong. He never loses his temper.

Today he chastises the Apostles for he is Son of God and even though they have witnessed His miracles and He has interpretated his parables for them, a little bit of hunger occupies their minds to the extent that they are no longer focussed on Him.

Today I will try to continue throughout the day to remember that there is nothing more important for me to do than commit myself to the way of life taught in first century Palestine by the Incarnate Son of God, Jesus of Nazareth by his life, death and Resurrection and recorded in the Holy Spirit inspired words of the New Testament.

Dear God, help me to be truly sorry for my sins let my prayers be joined to those of Mary and all of us still living in Your New Holy Family and let me prepare this Lent in holiness to witness your resurrection. Please accept this  Act of Contrition and in Thy mercy pardon my sins. Amen

 16/02/2026

The collection of the first/second century texts that we know as the New Testament was not finalised until the fourth century after the Resurrection.

Scholars are still able to study actual texts, fragments of texts and references made by other writers to try to understand what our forefathers in Faith had received as "Good News" from the Apostles, the friends of Jesus.

Not only the identification of the writer of this morning's first reading, James as "Brother of the Lord, but also the text itself has always been controversial. Over the centuries many scholars have supported their lives in this world by engaging in the discussions about "James" himself and his teaching. 

Jesus was the Rabbi of the 12 and they in turn with Paul, who was uniquely selected by Jesus to convert the Gentiles, have become the teachers who confirm that the Law has been completed by the events, Incarnate Life, Death and Resurrection that they themselves have witnessed and that these events are the reality that is itself the long-awaited  Messianic Promise.

When confronted by the Pharisees, Jesus sighs in exasperation. Theologians teach that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is impassable, totally beyond anything like our human emotions but he has revealed by his Incarnation that his Chosen People needed to be redirected as they had substituted their own ways for those revealed through Moses and the Prophets. Jesus' sigh reveals the loving exasperation that our sins create for Our Father.

We have been blessed beyond all imaginings by the Resurrection but just as the Jews distorted the Law of the Old Covenant, we and our Churches have mostly failed to avoid entanglement in the material complications of this world. 

Not all of Jesus contempories were able to break free from the conditioning of their History and created many justifications to refuse to believe even when they witnessed or heard about his "signs". Even the destruction of the Temple and their national home was not enough to convince their children that there had been a reset by God of his Covenant with them. Nor should these purely worldly events have had more influence than the Pure Word, Jesus of Nazareth Himself who lived, died and was resurrected to save not only Israel but also the whole world.

The immensity of God is totally beyond our comprehension but we all live because we are known and loved by him. As with Jesus, even with us, however "there is something greater here" since we are all completely as free in the limits of our humanity as is IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Our life, our soul is "image and likeness".

God is not responsible for the misery that living in this world is for millions of us. We are each one of us created to live according to the revealed will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and thus avoid creating evil during our lives. Our Father knows everything even to the extent of knowing how every sin has grown from and is thus linked to  Adam's. He knows every possible answer to the "What if I had ?" questions we all can ask about our past and how we choose potential deeds to become real-time events, sinful or otherwise.

Only God knows whether or not he will have to have another "reset" to improve how we know, love and serve Him in this world. We can be sure, however, that there will be an end of time when God will become ALL in ALL but until that happens even though we are surrounded by the triumph of evil in this world we can be sure that the New Holy Family he created on Calvary is always the  place of safety for our souls as we prepare them for either personal death or the return of Our Lord. Deo gratias! Amen

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

 15/02/2026

"In those days", i.e. less than 25 years after the Resurrection.

St Paul together with all the Apostles and first disciples has become aware that the Resurrection is the final revelation of how we can access God's free gifts to live lives in conformity to his will.

Today we read from his first letter to the Corinthians and note that he is repeating Jesus' declaration before Pilate. "My kingdom is not of this world" when he tells them "Among the mature we do impart wisdom though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away".

Up until Jesus stopped him on the road to Damascus; stopped and blinded him with the light of the same glory that had also been revealed to Moses, Paul had been a prayerful Pharisee who was devoted to the Law. 

He had delighted in the matchless intellectual purity  that was worshipped with unquestioning trust in IAMIAM, absolutely undivided, source of all being and ruler of heaven and earth. Heaven could be seen in the sun and stars that always followed the same orbits and on earth a Jew could be rewarded  to the extent he followed the Law that had been revealed to Moses. God loved the Jews and they loved him.

After his Christophany, the matchless way in which St Paul lived out his missionary life and the teaching we still revere in his letters show us that he recognised that in the human life of Jesus Christ, IAMIAM had revealed himself to be IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and he, Paul, himself opened his heart to become a truly  sinless vessel, a living temple for the Holy Spirit.

All human wisdom which does not include the sincere belief that Jesus is the Son of God is bound to pass away and achieve nothing. The Incarnation has to be welcomed by all mankind. It is the perfect foundation on which each one of us can construct the lifetime of righteousness that can become the living prayer of a soul sincerely devoted to Our Father and thus ready to be welcomed into the Eternal Moment when we become part of :

What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,

nor the heart of man imagined, 

what things God has prepared for those who love him.