07/03/2026

Time always passes. While we are alive we all of us know that we cannot "stop the clock". So it was for the Apostles and disciples of Our Lord. They were the "first fruits" Resurrection Generations. They were the generation who first endeavoured to live in this world as Jesus had himself lived.

He had owned nothing except the essential clothing that we all need to protect us from the elements. He did not have "a place to rest his head" but slept wherever he happened to be, even in the boat as he crossed the Sea of Galilee.

When he despatched his first Missionaries they were to take nothing with them but had to accept whatever was first offered by the people to whom they preached. There has been much speculation about the ownership of the "upper" room but we really have no certain knowledge about that other than the "randomness" reported only in John's Gospel.

Yesterday we read about how the fear of losing their expected inheritance prompted Joseph's brothers into their plot against him. Today the welcome given to the prodigal son provokes the resentful fury of his brother just as had God's seeming rejection of his offering had provoked Cain's murderous reaction.

The clearing of the money-changers from the Temple is often cited as an example of righteous anger and as a foundation for the Christian conception of a "Just War". All the ancient civilizations of mankind have also tried to justify war but we are not "ancient civilizations" we have been taught that the Incarnation is the total reset of God's relationship with mankind. We have been taught to turn the other cheek, to never fight back even against the most barbaric of invaders. As I type these words I know that my brothers and sisters are continuing to kill each other in Persia, and I can only pray for God to treat all the victims of each other's violence with mercy.

Those very first Christians, Apostles and Disciples who had known Jesus were totally convinced that he would return to their world just as he had done after Calvary. They pooled their resources and lived communally as recorded in the Acts. Their faith in the Parousia in their lifetime, however, did not survive the destruction of the Temple and they began again to amass the wealth of this world.

We now have two millennia of Christian history to look back on and we must face up to the fact that our world is still at odds with the will of Our Father. Was it only for the first few months in Solomon's Portico that there was a truly Holy Mother Church on this earth, an Institution that really did reject the things of this world and teach each of us to welcome the agony of a personal crucifixion?

Although there has always been corrupt prelates within the Church there have also always been examples of sincere holiness. There were many true martyrs during the first centuries and millions of silent saints. 

Jesus' "My kingdom is not of this world" tells us that the living faith  he will build on St Peter is not composed of the manmade edifices which grace all the cities that were once Christendom nor of the Imperial Bureaucracy-inspired "Roman Decretals" which have become doctrine and canon Law, but is  the Natural Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT with which he founds, His Church of Love, the New Holy Family, our source of all that he promises can be ours, in the scriptures.

We have to take all that Jesus reveals about IAMFATHERHOLYSPIRIT into our beings and contemplate his words to the extent that they become his presence in our hearts. If we can do this we will become the true Resurrection Generation and thus able to welcome the  return he promised so long ago.

Forgive us our trespasses, Maranatha, Lord, Maranatha.

 06/03/2026

The story of Joseph and his brothers has been repeated in real-time throughout the ages in many different cultures. It is very easy to feel resentment against siblings who, although younger, are perceived to have obtained a greater share of parental affection. Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son is another example the same story.

It is never easy for me to accept the literal truth that Our Father really did choose to reveal himself to only one nation, but in today's Parable of the Vineyard, Jesus confirms this to be true. I have thus often found myself in the same resentful frame of mind as were the older brothers of Joseph when thinking about the Old Testament.

Jesus in the great reset of salvation history that is the Incarnation, makes it clear that his message of universal love has to be broadcast to the whole world and that we are all able to access the forgiveness from all sins that his body crucified on calvary bleeds out throughout time and space.

There is nothing that we receive that is to become our personal possession. We have to display our faith and hope in the charity that we have for each other. No-one is to be excluded. The great and the good of this world are as loved by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT as are the least and the lowly. 

Presidents, Emperors, Kings, Popes, Ayatollahs, Rabbis, the rich, the powerful, the poor, atheists, humanists, Christians, Jews, Moslems all seem to have different stakes in this life but at the moment of our death we will all know nothing except that it is only Jesus who has the words of eternal life.

Let us thank God that he has shown us the Way, the Truth and the Life and created the security of His New Holy Family, His Church of Love to be not only our home in this world, but also the atrium to the  Eternal Life of the next.

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

 05/03/2026

Thursday Week 2 Lent 2026

As I begin to read the mass-readings of the day I am often aware that they have already become a familiar part of my being, my "amness".

The image of a well watered tree flourishing on a riverbank has always made me smile, and in the last half of my life, I have also been able to see this in the reality of my own garden. 

The WORD is the very essence of Old and New Testament. In the Old, IAMIAM, speaks through the prophets who are men inspired to proclaim what has always been, from the beginning of time, Good News, the Gospel, God loves us. 

All the prophets have been overcome by the Lord and persevere in their individual covenants to guide their neighbours into the state of "isness" that lives in total awe of God. Jeremiah shouts out that IAMIAM is the source and completion of his being, his heart is bursting with the joy of knowing God.

With Jesus, "there is always something greater here" and he is thus able to add to his parable of human life a warning that is for my generation being fulfilled in the negative even as I now read and listen to His words as recorded in Matthew's Gospel, and as it has always been since he became the Resurrection. We have never accepted the Truth as preached by Prophets nor even as reality in his own Life, death and Resurrection.

God has revealed himself to be not an abstraction, not a notion, not an idea, but the ever greater three-personned IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who has always fulfilled his part of his promise to Abraham only to be rejected by his own beloved "image and likeness" in both Testaments.

Today, a click of my mouse opens up scenes of destruction brought about by mankind. Nothing that I can see on this screen is happening by the will of God. Mankind has often proclaimed "Holy Wars" and today there are many who are still doing that.

How can we hope for the Return when we who have been saved and know the Resurrection are no better at doing his will than were his crucifying  contemporaries? 

Lord, have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy

"Not one iota will pass from the Law until all is completed"

 04/03/2026

I suppose that anyone who has ever worked in "this world" can relate to the "indignation" felt by the Apostles at the "machinations" of the mother of James and John, to gain a worldly advantage for her own sons.

The total reset of how we are to live in this is world is taught by word and example throughout the Gospels. There is not one of the Apostles, however, who really understood what was being unfolded before them each day that they spent with Jesus. 

They were captivated by what they were witnessing "Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached:" but were not able to escape from their Old Testament conditioned culture which expected a "Messiah" to vindicate the covenant by restoring "kingdom" to the political Israel that was then controlled by Rome.

They were all expecting that Jesus would become able to repay them in the real-time which they were sharing with him while learning "the way and the truth". 

Even Peter, James and John who had been blessed by the Transfiguration were not able to anticipate the literal meaning of "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death" and of its details "and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day".

I pray each day that I can follow with the first disciples the revelations of "the way and the truth" because I am one of those "blessed who has not seen", I am better prepared than they for the desolation of Calvary as I know that it  is the necessary prequel to the Resurrection when Way, and Truth become one with Life in the LOVE that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT'S gift of Himself to ensure our salvation within his Church of Love, His New Holy Family where we can all find even in this world the peace that comes from God. Amen

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

 03/03/2026

Sometimes when I have concluded my meditations I feel thrilled by my own thoughts which I did not know that I had until I saw them in black and white on this screen. At other times, I struggle and as I write recognise within myself  an adversary who is mocking and pointing out that no matter how much I try I am still very far from the holiness that I claim to seek.

Today before opening Universalis to read the mass-readings I looked at the current news about the war.

It is impossible for me to ignore that the same battles that were fought by the Jews in the Old Testament are still being fought, as they have been throughout my own lifetime, three thousand years later by the original "People of God".

One of the "Thoughts" of Pascal considered the continuing existence of the Jews as a race apart from the rest of mankind as a proof for the existence of God.

God knows that when I watched the news this morning, I saw the epitome of greed and stiff-necked arrogance displayed by two Jewish faces and knew that I had to counter the distaste that I felt for I am  Christian and know that the incarnate Son of God himself has that same physical characteristics.

Mary's Son, our Saviour was begotten by the Holy Spirit in the sinless womb of Theotokos, the Immaculate Conception to become the concluding event of God's revelation. The Chief Priests refuse to listen to Living Word and inveigle the Romans to execute the Son of God. By all accounts, a similar sort of behaviour is being repeated today in my own Generation.

The Jewish race was the first to receive the Blessing. Jesus atoned for their continuing refusal to live according to the Word and arose to reset IAMFATHERSON'S relationship with the whole world. At his trial Our Lord made it clear that it is not for the sake of the kingdoms, empires, democracies, national homes or anything political that he is becoming the Final Sacrifice. 

We have been shown the Way, Truth and Life and each individual being, Image and Likeness, is free to learn how to do the will of Our Father by knowing, loving and serving for we all are much more than our physical bodies. It is within our souls that we are all free to accept and return the love that he creates in his Church of Love, New Holy Family.

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

 02/03/2026

The inspiration of the Holy Spirit has never left us to be alone since the time when Adam/Eve brought sin into creation.

Today is no different than the many centuries that have passed since the real-times within which were written the mass-readings for today. They  are interpretations of  real-time history informed by both subsequent contemplation and events.

Today is no different for our world is again obviously submerged and engrossed by the evil that mankind brings into it and is not even trying to do the Will of God but engaged in a war that is the result of millennia of accumulated individual sin that feeds the pride of nations and their leaders.

Today is an ancient Jewish "high day and holiday" that is still celebrated after some two and a half millennia. We can be sure that Jesus celebrated this festival, first in his own Holy Family and then with his disciples. 

I am first struck by the huge irony of history that Purim which celebrates God's release of the Jews, the chosen people, from Persian oppression is being celebrated as the modern descendants of Hebrew and Persians are slaughtering each other at the exact moment I am tapping out these words.

The story of God's revelation of his purpose in creating humanity was completed on Calvary "It is finished" and proclaimed by the Apostles in reaction to the Glory of the Resurrection.

There has never been a generation since those times that has been devoted to doing God's will. There has never been a generation without war and the sin which is always its ultimate cause. Every century which should be "Years of Our Lord" has been marred with Crusades, Jihad and Pogroms.

Our Churches have failed even when fed by the continuing sacramental real presence of our Saviour. The Jews are as stiff-necked as ever. The Moslems are still denying the Incarnation and following their false prophet. All three are locked in yet another asinine and totally unholy struggle in the land that God gave to Abraham whom all three claim as their forefather.

All my life I have intermittently tried to find the Lord who promised to be "with us always even to the end of time" and have always realised that he has been ignored by most of us who have ever lived since those times. Our Churches have always become too  entangled with the things of this world to fulfill their mission that was built on Peter.

In these latter times of my life, however, I have begun to realise that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has never left us completely alone. He is the Word that we may find in uncontaminated Sacraments but surely can find in Scripture which leads us into the certainty that  is the Spiritual Church of Love, the New Holy Family .

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

 01/03/2026

God blessed Abraham for the purpose of being a blessing for all time in the whole world. 

I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonours you I will curse,

and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

His descendants became so enthralled in their own beings and ignored the universality of the "Blessing" they cherished, that God, who still loves mankind, the product of his own perfect freedom to love human freedom into being, reset his relationship with humanity.  Eternal Word became incarnate to share human life in order to give to the world another chance to become holy.

‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.’ 

At his trial before Pilate, Jesus declared, "My kingdom is not of this world". This does not mean that what we do in this world is of no concern to Our Father. It is in this world that we have our beings and are responsible to obey the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and thus to try to perfect the world into the holiness that was the purpose of Our Father.

I am a weak and powerless sinner who each day hopes that he is not hiding from the world when I pray the scriptural mass readings and type reactions to encourage myself and leave them open to be read on this blog by anyone.

God knows that I have mixed feelings about the attack on Iran when in order to have the honesty to God that should be my sole purpose in life I have to confess that I am not displeased to see buildings around the Gulf being destroyed . He knows that I am also deeply angered by the hypocrisy of the atheistic rulers of the secular kingdom which is my home pandering to Islam which owes its being only to the glorification of a false Prophet and denial of Christian Theology.

I also know that neither of these events would have resulted if  the individuals involved at every level had not made their personal choices to disobey the will of God at some point in time and completely ignored the Will of the Father as revealed in the Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth who made it clear that the materiality of this Universe will come to an end and that we can ensure the survival of our own beings only  by knowing, loving and serving in this world where we can be confident that we are always welcomed into his Church of Spiritual Love, the New Holy Family that he founded during the agony of his death on Calvary.

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

Dear Lord, help us all to come to the realisation that it has always been your purpose that we freely accept your guidance that we only truly do your will on earth by always "doing unto others what we would want to be done to ourselves". This was your blessing to Abraham repeated by the perfect  blessings and sealed by the Final Sacrifice of the Incarnation but more often ignored than followed by us.