20/03/2026

Friday Lent Week 4

Today the first reading is taken from the Book of Wisdom which is definitely part of the "this worldly human  philosophy" that  had been developing for more than a thousand years at various centres throughout Asia, Europe and Africa when it was written in Alexandria, but is also inspired by God.

Jesus is not the founder of a philosophic tradition. He is always "something more".

He is the Son of God who out of Love for his creation empties himself to share in our material being and demonstrate in real-time how all human beings should live knowing that we are only temporary inhabitants of this world who have to live here according to the will of the Father.

Before I read the Mass readings for today, I had checked out the news of this world on my TV. It is so easy to be overwhelmed by the things of this world and to denounce the evil spouted and done by so many of our contemporaries.

I have only recently taken into my being "My kingdom is not of this world" and truly understood that that is the only foundation on which we are able to build lives which truly reflect the Love with which we have been created and redeemed.

Jesus never fights back. He accepts all that evil men can do to him. He reproves Peter's violence in the Garden but he knows that his message will not bring peace to this world for it is we who are responsible for everything that we are involved in during our lifetimes. We all of us have to know, love and serve not to make this world a better place, that is a foreseeable but as yet unrealised consequence, but to complete our primary purpose in this life, i.e. doing the will of Our Father so that we can be welcomed into Eternity.

" Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven"

 19/03/2026

I don't suppose that many of those who have known me at various times of my life over the 85 years that I have been alive would think of me as a "man of faith". My recent prayers and personal "sermons" with which I begin my day and am still saving in "Blogger" tell the true story of how I try and have always tried to live in this world knowing that I, a sinner, am always known and still loved by our God.

The scriptures that we read in this morning's mass are about a total faith without any quibbles. Even though God speaks directly to David he is always aware that he is a sinner who cannot live without the mercy that comes from God.

St Paul has been immersed in Scripture all his life but has seen the Resurrection and taken into his being the revelation that it is not outward observances but inward intention directed by Faith that is the correct response we have to make when we open ourselves to God.

Abraham did not know "The Law" but lived by Faith and proved it on Mount Sinai.

Joseph is a name. It is the name of the husband of Mary. The only thing that we know about him is that he was the first after Mary to have the Incarnation revealed to him.

There was never any necessity to have him become "St Joseph the Worker" (God does not see us as billionaires or paupers), as we have to thank God for the wonder of this human being who had the perfect Faith to accept the "message of an Angel" and to quietly accept the role he had been assigned in the reset and completion of revelation that took place in Palestine two thousand years ago.

Joseph was the head of the original Holy Family which lived in obscurity for we do not know exactly how many years as he had died before the "Wedding Feast at Cannae". 

The New Holy Family, our Church of Love also lives in obscurity, and consists of Jesus, Mary and John and all of those souls who can with the same Faith in God displayed by Abraham, David, Mary, Joseph and Paul in today's readings  accept the invitation to be guarded and guided in this World by the Eternal Love that we have been created to share.

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

 18/03/2026

When we concentrate on Scripture we are opening our hearts and minds to the presence of God that is constantly with us.

 "Jesus answered the Jews,

‘My Father is working even now, and I am working.’"

John was coming to the end of his long life when he prepared his recollections of  "Life with Christ". After the Resurrection his recollections had become consolidated by his experiences and understanding into what has become "Theology" and he knew that Jesus was undoubtedly WORD, that was the BEGINNING and the END and ONE with IAMIAM of the scriptures with which he was familiar since childhood. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not parts  but each and together ONE IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, one God.

John has not left us with any memoir about his post-resurrection life with Mary. There had been doctrinal differences of opinion even in the Apostolic Age but the Church founded on Peter, as such was not concerning itself with "the things of this world" and was still the loose association of friends united in the belief that Jesus had not completed his mission and would soon return, that it had been in the Upper Room and Portico of Solomon.

As I opened myself to the first two readings this morning I was filled with a sense of the grace that God has bestowed on his creation and particularly on the Jews. At the same time, I was aware of the horrors of Auschwitz and Gaza and of the historical failures of Christendom. All human beings have attempted to control themselves within political structures that are all man-made and we are still failing even as I type this

Even after the sublimity of the Incarnation, our World is still not the Holy Place that we have to strive to make it to be. I cannot forget that Jesus did tell us that he would be with us until the end of time and that I have personally been blessed by the Mercy of God. 

Throughout the centuries that have passed since the Resurrection there have been many of us who have truly abandoned the things of this world in their efforts to live life as did Jesus and the Apostolic Church. They have been supported in this world by Sacraments and Church Structures, but the one sure source of holiness in this world is the spiritual commitment we make in our hearts to cancel our self-will and do only the will of "Our Father who art in Heaven". Our individual sins all contribute to the Evil which dominates our World today and for the defeat of which Our Lord allowed himself to become the Final Sacrifice by the merits of which we can all become "Children of God".

Jesus John and Mary are the Spiritual New Holy Family in which we can find safety from the  temptation that entanglement with the things of this world brings to us all but only when we match our deeds to the words with which we pray

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, 

Now and at the hour off our death. Amen

 17/03/2026

In these my "last times" on Earth I have become more and more aware that I am a created being and that I have to work hard to scrape off the accumulations of human culture that I have acquired because of the circumstances of my place and time of birth. There is not one of us who has chosen his own mother and father. 

Today is St Patrick's Day and is a dearly loved occasion for celebration for people of Irish descent. When I think of the Ireland from which my great-grand parents brought the religion and genes which I have inherited, I am appalled by the wickedness which has been perpetrated throughout history, and my own lifetime, supposedly in defence of that religion and genes.

I am still trying to find my way back to the soul that is known only by God. All the prophets of Israel knew that it was from God that they had their being and it was for God that they lived their lives. 

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations

Our Father still speaks to us all with the same clarity as He revealed to the prophets, The Incarnation is the WAY, TRUTH AND LIFE that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT offers to us to enable us to become the pure being he knew to be GOOD at the moment of our creation.

In today's Gospel Jesus tells that if we are to do the will of His Father, we have to embrace nothing in this world, we have to welcome poverty, we have to throw off the lies that our cultures tell us about ourselves, we have to examine everything that we say and do and with his help discard all that does not add to the Greater Glory of God.

Even the most sublime of symphonies, spectacular Cathedrals, beautiful gardens  are the "things of this world" in which Jesus told us we cannot find his kingdom. To do the will of God on Earth as it is done in Heaven we have to follow our Lord by completely fragmenting the carapace of culture and sin within which we hide from Truth which is WORD we can find in scripture and in the unseen security of Grace in the Church of Love the NEW HOLY FAMILY.

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

 16/03/2026

Monday Lent Week 4.

As I am sitting here in front of this screen waiting for the words with which I will lift my mind and heart to God in these times, I know that Our Father knows that I, a sinner, am sincerely hoping to respond to not only the words of Scripture, but also to the unseen presence of His Love.

At this same moment I am also aware that he also knows all the other millions of sinners who are also souls alive at this moment and whom he knows with His perfect Love that must also be tinged with the sorrow that our failures reveal to Him. There is no way for me to think about IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for I am enclosed within "time" which does not exist for him. That is why there are so many "alsos" when we try to "know" God.

This morning Jesus is ever so slightly annoyed "unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe". The official, who is so worried about his child that the rebuke does not register with him, urgently repeats his request "Sir come down before my child dies".

Our world at this moment is full of millions of parents who are desperately seeking the same relief from pain and suffering. Millions of us are responding to the needs of our bodies to the extent of sinfully disobeying the commandments of our God. Some have made Mammon their God and feel absolutely justified in anything they do to increase or protect their wealth

The hills and valleys where the Incarnation lived out his human life are again being devasted by the human pride that chooses to do what it wishes rather than to obey the revelations that were sealed by Jesus' sacrifice on Calvary. 

That hill is again witnessing humanity's self-destruction, the result of the sinful conflicts that always occur as the snowball effect of the evil we create by failing, even in the smallest way, to do "thy will on Earth as it is in Heaven" grows into that monstrously humanly created evil we cannot ignore, War.

The world is, at this moment (GMT 08:59 16/03/2026), is filled with the arrogance of self deceit. The spiritual image and likeness with which we all have been blessed has been concealed by our own avaricious arrogance and even now as many of us search within ourselves to find again Our Father, for we cannot continue to avoid the inner-voice of conscience, we find only the self-image that we most admire which still refuses to beat its breast, saying “God, be merciful to me, a sinner".

IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has given us the world in which to live in holiness by doing his will. Once the Institutional Church founded on St Peter became entangled in the things of this world, wealth and political power, she began the failure that increasingly revealed itself in worldly power struggles and faithless clergy.

Jesus, however, promised to be with us until the "end of time" which he would personally declare to us when he returned. I know that I cannot be the only person alive who remembers "Maranatha" and sincerely join my prayers with theirs in the security that the Church of Love, the New Holy Family provides when we remember the words uttered by the Lord as his Precious Blood drained from his Body in His Agony that was far greater even than that  we are now perpetrating on each other in his Homeland.

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

 

 15/03/2026

Today in the first reading David is anointed to become King of Israel. In the Gospel Jesus "anoints" the eyes of the "Man Born Blind" with a paste made from his spittle mixed with dust.

David the Psalmist praises the Lord as the "Good Shepherd" and has utter confidence that  no evil will befall him as he follows, even through the valley of the shadow of death.

Jesus questions the man to whom he has given sight. 

Jesus heard that they had cast him out,

and having found him he said,

‘Do you believe in the Son of Man?’

 He answered,

‘And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?’

 Jesus said to him,

‘You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.’

 He said, ‘Lord, I believe’,

and he worshipped him

The religious authorities who at the end of the three years that Jesus had walked, taught and revealed his power by the miracles he performed were hyper-watchful and were not ready to miss an opportunity to attack either Jesus the man or his teaching. Religious Jews even today love the Sabbath during which they share in the joyful "rest" that IAMIAM took at the end of creation.

All outward signs in this world of any Religious belief, are open to accusations of hypocrisy. God knows how hard I try to avoid recording here, where I open my soul, anything that I do not not truly believe.

So, I also take to heart Jesus' final words to the Pharisees, although they are somewhat enigmatic, in that "guilt remains" even though we have been shown in scripture and can see the whole purpose of  creation within the protection of both "The Church of Peter" and the "New Holy Family" how to accept this teaching of St Paul.

But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,

 for anything that becomes visible is light.

Therefore it says,

‘Awake, O sleeper,

and arise from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you.’

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

 

 13/03/2026

Friday Week 3 of Lent

In today's Gospel Reading St. Mark records an interaction between Jesus and one of the learned and clever, a scribe. I always try to remember that Jesus, himself, only ever had love for all the people he encountered during his time on Earth.

In the first reading, IAMIAM too is displaying love for the sinners who have displeased him. It is the nature of Our Father to only love us even when we are sinners and to add to that love when we repent of our sins and in holiness recognise and return to him in our personal, human love.

The Scribe who "tests" Jesus has a well-thought out belief in what the Scrolls of the Old Testament reveal. He also seems to have an honest heart and is happy to receive Jesus' answer to his question. We too can be happy in this world when we truly listen to the WORD which we can find in the Old Testament but is Jesus, Son of God and Son of Mary, the INCARNATION i.e. "made flesh and dwells amongst us" in the events and teachings of the New.

My generation and myself, are still imprisoned by the entanglements that human beings have created over the centuries during which we have never truly responded to the final revelation that is the Great Reset of Revelation made 2000 years ago in Jerusalem.

On Easter Sunday we will celebrate the bursting forth from the fear of the unknown that is the unconfined joy of the Resurrection. All the teachings of Old and New Testaments lead us to this witness to the Power and Glory of Our God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. I know that I cannot relax in my preparations and pray that Our Father for whom nothing is impossible can break through the carapace of human pride that blocks his Love from entering into the hearts, minds and souls of the millions of us who have misused our human freedom to turn the clay of  humanity into self-worshipping idols.

                                                           O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?

                                                          It is I who answer and look after you.

                                                           I am like an evergreen cypress;

                                                           from me comes your fruit.