10/03/2026

Even in my worst moments of sinfulness, I have never considered abandoning my belief in IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and always asked for the forgiveness that I have never earned but always receive as a free gift.  

I know that I and every person who has ever lived has been created with sufficient ability to be able to choose to respond positively to the revelations made by WORD throughout history. To do that I have to exit from all that my self-regard demands for itself and truly accept the will of Our Father who always responds whenever we seek support against temptation and protection against evil.

Old and New Testament  revealed religion is about how to live in the  material world being consciously subject to  the will of God. Sometimes in the Old Testament it seems that IAMIAM  accepts the actual burnt animal sacrifices that can only be a symbolic act, showing the donor's recognition that HEISGOD and the donor is subject to HIS power. Sometimes IAMIAM supports the Jews in their wars against their neighbours and positively encourages the elimination of the people who first occupied the Holy Land.

At the Annunciation, Jesus is the "begotten not made" Incarnation and the moment when IAMIAM expands the revelation of his spiritual Being and Love, into IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. Jesus is a Jew and teaches directly to the Chosen People, but after the Resurrection we have had to come to terms with the "My kingdom is not of this world" not only openly declared at his trial but also revealed by his teaching throughout his public ministry.

Our God knows each one of us and tells us that he supports us in our individuality by his gifts of  both the Church of Peter and the Church of Spiritual Love, His New Holy Family, when we knowingly choose to follow all that he has completely revealed and sealed by the only sacrifice, acceptable to him in its worthiness, his own body and blood, crucified to save us from our sins, on Calvary.

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

Dear Lord, we are again proving to be undeserving of your care as we continue to slaughter each other in the Holy Land where you lived 2000 years ago. Forgive me for my own personal sins and teach us all how to do only your will on Earth as it is done in Heaven. Amen

 09/03/2026

Monday Week 3 of Lent

In today's Gospel we are presented  with Jesus' first formal discourse. This event had been preceded by the temptations that he had resisted during his fast in the wilderness,

In the Incarnation God has chosen to reset the relationship between HIS uncreated Eternal Freedom and and our created in time human freedom . IAMFATHERSONANDHOLYSPIRIT has no need to do this except to reveal to us that we are very special beings who live in a material creation which is limited by scientific laws that we can discover and utilize in "freedom" but in which we are "something greater" than the material which we know with our senses but which we can analyse with our sentient being, intelligence and soul.

We are "image and likeness" and so greatly cherished by "Our Father" that "Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us". Jesus is "True Man". Sinlessness places this man into a category above human understanding in which we can also find only his, Mother. the Immaculate Conception.

The congregation in the Synagogue knew the Man, Jesus, as the son of Joseph, the carpenter. They had heard rumours of miracles but they were nowhere ready for his public self-proclamation using the words  that announced  the Jubilee, the year of God's favour. Of course such blasphemy should be silenced and Conventual  Righteousness prevailed as they tried to throw him off their cliff. But "His time had not yet come", there was much more that he had to teach us, by word and deed, before his mission of Love in our natural world, was concluded  on Calvary.

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

 08/03.2026

Third Sunday of Lent

We all know that our bodies are a part of the material Universe which we know by our senses. We also know that just as with Jesus, "there is something greater here", within us. We cannot see, hear, touch or taste this greater something but our Creator teaches us through the WORD of scripture that our invisible being, our soul,  is "image and likeness" of his own. 

He has created for us a "freedom" that is limited in its power to control the material universe but completely capable of opening itself to the guidance of the Love with which he creates everything we can know and "sees that it is good." Every each one of us is fully known and recognised by Our Father to whom we are as spiritually connected as we were to our mothers, but although this spiritual cord is never cut we are completely free to accept or refuse the grace it never ceases to offer to us.

St Paul emphasises that the agony that Jesus freely accepted was to save the completely unworthy sinners that we are from the punishment that we justly deserve. God knows that I am silenced by the effort to respond to the immensity of what he reveals to us in the Scriptures and saddened by my sinful failures.

It was outside of Israel, at The Shrine of Pan that Jesus first expressed his intention to build a "Church" for the Whole World and in today's Gospel it is here in Samaria that he first directly claims to be the Messiah and confirms to the Samaritan woman, by revealing her life-story that IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows and cares for each of our individual souls.

In the real-time of today, the things of this world are still in turmoil although I am only aware of this via reports. I am also aware that such events have happened throughout history but in "these days", the time of the  living, we are aware that mankind has become capable of initiating the complete end of this world without divine intervention.

The Church which met in the Portico of Solomon was inspired by their resurrection-faith to be sure that they "would see the Lord in the land of the living". We are still certain that Jesus will return but have learnt to be patient without extinguishing Faith and Hope for we are sustained by our Church of Love, the New Holy Family founded in his dying words by Jesus the Messiah.

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

 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."