27/03/2026

Friday Lent Week 5

In Tuesday's Gospel Jesus was confronted by men who had devoted their whole lives to doing the will of God that was revealed to them in the, at that time, incomplete Bible, the texts that recalled the experiences and words of the Patriarchs and Prophets. They were not "evil" but, although confident and sincere in their own belief, they were intrigued by the "something greater" that was the charisma that had attracted many of their contemporaries to follow Jesus.

Similarly today Jesus has to face up to sincere believers who have become so frustrated by the obvious dichotomy between the reality of his person, words and deeds and their unwillingness to accept that they were in truly in the presence of the "something greater" that was always "here" with Jesus. 

On Tuesday their frustration was so great that it seethed into anger and they picked up rocks to hurl at the "Blasphemer". Today they want to arrest him.

For more than three thousand years the people of God have been guided as to how to do God's will on earth; to cooperate with Our Father and live righteously. Our Bible, however, is filled with violence and although we are told "thou shalt not kill" there have always been thousands of us who have accepted the concept of a "Just War" and point to God's support of Israel and Judea in their Old Testament wars.

There is nothing at all about the motives of all the combatants in any of the Middle-East Wars of my lifetime, that are continuing even as I type this, that could be considered to be just. The originating act of partition by the representatives of Britain and France was the morally unjustifiable arrogance of the victors who emerged from the Great War, which itself was one of the long line of failures to  learn from the great reset of revelation that was concluded on Calvary.

Jesus died for our sins to enable us to do on earth the will of Our Father in Heaven. During his trial he declared "My kingdom is not of this world". We have never even tried to implement this and have actually often defied him by claiming that our killing of enemies was done in his name.

Can God really want us to avoid protecting our loved ones? Jesus accepted death on the cross that we might be loosed of our sins. His death is perfect Love. 

"There is no greater love than that a man die for the sake of his friends". 

It is not an easy task to think these thoughts and write them down but it is certainly much harder to be faced with a deadly attack. I have always been protected from that terrifying experience and can only thank God for never having been truly tested by anything remotely resembling combat.

Dear Lord, help me to grow in Faith and to do your will by avoiding my personal sins and placing all my trust in being able to participate in your Church of Love, the New Holy Family you created and bequeathed to all mankind as you hung, dying on the cross.

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

 26/03/2026

I have never been aware of hearing the voice of the Lord but everything that supports what is virtuous in my life is revealed WORD interpreted  in the human words which make up Scripture.

I do not understand the word play in Hebrew that is signified by the change of "Abram" into "Abraham". I have read or heard read this passage of Scripture thousands of times during my lifetime and before today in my 86th year I don't think that I have ever even looked for an explanation.

In the Gospel in its translated into English version that I read today, however, the Jews who were listening to every word that came from the lips of God heard "never taste death" and were shocked to the centre of their beings for they knew that death was as sure as the taxes they paid to Caesar.

Jesus is true man. He has experienced time just as we, the living, are still doing and so 2000 years ago he could say "I am" and mean that he is a living body and soul.

With Jesus "there is always something greater here" and so his "I am" in human time is always the WORD,  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, that is revealed by human language in the totality of Scripture.

It is God, himself who speaks in today's Gospel. 

"Before Abraham was I am."

 Within the words of scripture we find WORD, the Truth/Love of God and we all have the freedom to make the right choices and to access the guidance that was revealed and completed in Jerusalem by the inexpressible humility of the acceptance of death by our all-powerful and all-loving Saviour, Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Mary.

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

 25/03/2026

The Annunciation

Today we especially remember that Mary and Joseph were the first humans to learn by message of an angel that IAMIAM was initiating in this world the completion of the revelation of himself as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Everything that I am and know in this world has to take second place to the event in real-time assented to by the Virgin, a teenager and confirmed by her artisan husband in Galilee.

The completion of the Law is proclaimed by the historical events of the next 33 years when Infinite Power, Wisdom and Love experiences for himself the bodily life of the summit of his mammalian creation that he first ensouled as image and likeness, as Adam and Eve.

It is useless for me to add to the billions of words that already try to do justice to the immensity of this Saving Event that resets our relationship with Our Father. 

Each generation since those days has had "to go out and teach all nations" but before we can do that we have to try to become like Mary and Joseph and accept the message of WORD in scripture and learn how to live out " Be it done unto me according to thy word". 

We must never forget that by his conception Jesus created a Holy Family and that to enable us to do the will of Our Father in this world he created at his death the New Holy Family, his Church of Love which is our guarantee that there can be Faith, Hope and Love in this world as we strive after the righteousness that was his gift to us in Mary, Theotokos.

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

 24/03/2026

Tuesday Lent Week 5

In today's reading from St John we are presented with John's recollection of how the leaders of Temple Religion responded to the mysterious yet simple words of the Jesus of Nazareth who was stirring  their complacency within the Law.

Those of us who read the Gospel passage to be read at today's mass are likely to be able to paraphrase and relate it in our understanding to the completed life of Jesus for we have been raised in a Christian culture that has had two thousand years to consolidate the teachings of Christ in our liturgies and private devotions.

In Jerusalem 2000 years ago 

                                  "I am going away, and you will seek me,

                                    and you will die in your sin.

                                    Where I am going, you cannot come".

was spoken for the first time by an uneducated "layman" who had appeared out of Galilee and caused disturbances in the towns and their synagogues of Israel because of his words and more dramatically, his  signs, "the blind see, the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear; the dead rise and the poor have the Good News preached to them."

Jesus did not seek to confuse his listeners. His words are always TRUTH and meant to enlighten those who saw and heard him during his lifetime and to be preserved so that all subsequent generations would be able to access the "Teshuvah" that is the essence of the reset of revelations that is the  Incarnate WORD.

The Pharisees began murmuring their responses among themselves and some forecast that Jesus was going to die by his own hand. They cannot agree and are forced to open a direct interrogation.

Who are you?

In his conclusion to Jesus' comprehensive reply, John tells us that 

  "As he was saying these things, many believed in him."

They did this even before understanding what he could possibly mean by;

‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he,

I have known for all my conscious life that Jesus is crucified that I may be loosed from my sins and in the depths of my being I know that I have really failed to live up to the mystery of redemption with which I try to guide my life.

For some reason the Jews of Temple Religion had not fulfilled the will of IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but some have never lost the WORD that is in the Psalms which were  part of Jesus' daily prayer, part of the Way, Truth and Life that he taught and confirmed by the Resurrection that was proclaimed after the Saving Agony on Calvary. 

Today all mankind needs to unite in seeking the "Teshuva" that is pleaded for in today's Psalm "Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you." and can be truly found in the Church of Love, the New Holy Family, Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus Come !

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

 23/03/2026

The events that occur in the New Testament are all historical. They have all been witnessed by either the compilers themselves or by their sources. 

The Gospel of St John has within it themes/concepts that are the result of  his "pondering in his heart" during the forty or so years after he had witnessed them, the events that had culminated on Calvary and concluded with the "Return" of the Incarnate Son to his Father.

I have written the above because the story of Susanna from the Old Testament, today's first reading, is more akin to the parables of Jesus than it is to the historical reality of the New Testament. 

Both stories in the first and second readings are about accusations of adultery.

In the Old Testament "parable" the accusation is false but the heavenly inspired wisdom of the Righteous Man, Daniel exposes the lie. 

In the Historical event witnessed by John the accusation is true but the Incarnate Son again bears witness to the seemingly impossible levels of moral responsibility we have to aspire to do the will of the Father during our lifetimes.

Not only do we have "to turn the other cheek" when attacked but only the personally sinless can accuse others of sin. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone".

Knowing that our first duty is to avoid personal sin, however, does not mean that we should ignore the denunciation of the sin that dominates our world. The Incarnation/Crucifixion/Resurrection has happened by the will of God and has reset our relationship with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

We cannot understand why Jesus chooses to become the Saving Victim because as mere humans we cannot appreciate how the ever Greater Power of God can be damaged by the infinitely weaker image and likeness that we are and needs the INCARNATION to experience human death to make sufficient atonement for all the sins that each one of us commits.

The physical agony of the Crucifixion reveals the immensity it is not to follow the will of God.

The first Christians were persecuted by their fellow Jews and then by the Roman Empire, but since those first years Christianity has been marred by the hatred of the specific race which had been the worldly vehicle which revealed the resetting of the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

"Father forgive them for they know not what they do" should have been enough to prevent any of the anti-Jewish atrocities that have occurred throughout European History.

I am not a Jew, but my Faith is totally Jewish for the first revelations were made to the Israelites. The flesh of Jesus is Jewish but he taught us that "those who do the will of My Father are my brothers and sisters" and he did not leave us alone to do that.

Not only have we never put "My kingdom is not of this world into practice" but we have never even tried to truly accept that all men are brothers. Many of us still proclaim "Lord, Lord!" but ignore the complete revelations made by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT when he walked through the Holy Land which has been so much defaced throughout History.

We are all born with the potential to become as was St John, i.e. the beloved, and we have not been left alone in the wilderness that is "This world" to find our own way to righteousness. Yet again a click of the mouse reveals (BBC 23/03/2026) yet another anti-Semitic incident in London. 

How can there be such unthinking hatred of Jesus, Mary and John, three Jews who are the nucleus of the New Holy Family, the Church of Love within which we can all find the peace that only comes from God? How can Zionists even think for a moment that they do not have to accept the "Law" which was first revealed to their forefathers and completed by their divine compatriot, Jesus of Nazareth.

Dear Lord please return to save our children from the lying world which we are in the process of bequeathing to them. Maranatha, Lord Jesus Come!

 22/03/2026

Lent Sunday 5

We are coming to the end of Lent and in the readings designated for the mass this Sunday we are given a summary of the meaning of God's revelation that has been preserved by the Church founded on Peter.

Everything that has been taught by the Prophets and finalised by the Resurrection is about the unseen force that is the Spiritual Life of Love in whose image and likeness we all exist in this world.

God's WORD was first recognised and recorded by Old Testament prophets who are the first "voices crying in the wilderness". Today Ezekiel is able to proclaim:

 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves,

and raise you from your graves, O my people.

 And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land.

The Psalm, "de Profundis" is the total pain of the lifeless loneliness it is for our souls to be cut off from Our Father. 

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord;

 Lord, hear my voice!

St Paul explains all that he has learned since his experience of the Resurrection and preaches the WORD of the Lord for all generations to hear, ponder and accept the grace that it brings. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you:

He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead

will also give life to your mortal bodies

through his Spirit who dwells in you.

In the Gospel,  St John gives us not only an eye-witness account of the events that preceded Jesus' triumphal return to Jerusalem but also his observations about the significance they had for his God and friend Jesus.

The Church after Christ's resurrection contained within it an, at first, deep division between Jew .and Gentile. In St John's Gospel the word "The Jews" is used about the enemies of Christ. In fact he uses it to refer to the Temple Authorities who had claimed for themselves privileges to judge others and had themselves been condemned as "whited-sepulchres" but forgiven with the encompassing "Rehamin" that comes only from from God.

     "Father forgive them for they know not what they do".

Today the peace of the world is again being shattered by war that, as always, results from millions of people not seeking to do only the will of God. Millions of us are filled with selfish hatred for our brothers and sisters. Jesus has revealed that each one of us has to know that the wonders of creation will pass away, that he does not have an agenda for Kingship in this world but that we all should know that we can align our beings with something that is far greater than any Empire, Kingdom or anything created by man.

We really do have souls and he has created for them a home in this world in which we can find security now and in the future the perfection that is the timeless moment we see Eternal Love. Jesus lived, died and was reborn to show us the Way, Truth and Life and everything he said or did was to warn us that this world and our present consciousness of it are not the reason Our Father, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, created each individual image and likeness out of nothing but as a response to the spontaneous Love that is not Supernatural but the very NATURE of God.

 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"