10/04/2026

Jesus had predicted that his disciples, when they had to face a public scrutiny  would be filled with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit and become able to articulate the truth that he had revealed to them.

This is what happens in today's first reading and as Peter responds to the same High Priests who had asked Pilate to order the crucifixion of Jesus his words become part of the wisdom  of Scriptures which are our only guide to the Eternal Life that has been prepared for us by Jesus, Son of God and Son of Mary, the Eternal WORD. 

And there is salvation in no one else,

for there is no other name under heaven given among men and women by which we must be saved

In the Gospel John recalls the events that occurred in Galilee after the women reported the message of the angels recorded by Matthew and Mark. 

It is impossible for me to attain to the same level of  awareness of the presence of IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that was experienced in real-time by the fishermen who saw the Resurrection cooking fish over a fire on the shore of Lake Tiberias.

It is fundamental to my Faith that the scene I can recreate in my imagination was as real 2000 years ago as I am now sitting  using my fingers to transfer to this machine my efforts to raise my mind and heart to God who in his love for me and the whole world, revealed during his lifetime, TRUTH that brings us to the Eternal Life that has always been his vision for us.

This morning Jesus, the Resurrection is tending a fire and barbecuing fish for his friends. A few days ago the same Jesus was breathing out his soul at the completion of his Mission and assuring for us that there is a Church of Love, a New Holy Family where he can be found until the end of time.

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

 09/04/2026

Over the last few days, I have been much troubled by the things of this world and troubled by the  absence of the "burning within my heart" experienced by the disciples on the road to Emmaus.

When I question myself about this dimming of fervour, however, I answer myself with the words of St Peter, "Lord where could I go for you have the words of Eternal Life". 

I know that I have an absolute need to continuously renew my baptismal promises in order to travel with the despondent yet open heart of the disciples who were brought back to the joy of "hearts burning with faith"  when they knew that it was the  Resurrection breaking the bread of salvation for them.

St Luke's reminiscences of the first Church in the Portico of Solomon record for us the continuity with the Old Testament that was an essential part of their Faith. Resurrection Faith was a completion not a replacement  of the revelations that had assured them that they were always supported by God.

You are the sons of the prophets

and of the covenant that God made with your fathers,

saying to Abraham,

“And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”

 God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness

Dear Lord, In these  days 2026,  you know that it is the deeds of your Chosen People who are still too self-centred to accept the revelations made to the prophets and whose stiff-necked pride is emulated by many who claim to be Christians, which absorb my thoughts. Help all rulers to know that "My kingdom is not of this world" is an unequivocal simple statement of truth as is "Thou shalt not kill" and help us all to avoid the personal sins from the consequences of which you saved all mankind. Help us all to avail ourselves of the sure source of the grace needed to avoid sin that you created during your agony on the cross by your words to Mary and John,

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

You are the sons of the prophets

and of the covenant that God made with your fathers,

saying to Abraham,

“And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”

 God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness

 

 05/04/2026

Easter Sunday

Today is the anniversary of the true enlightening event that happened in the real-time of 2000 years ago.

It is an event that had been foreshadow by similar events that had been performed by Jesus during his  time of revealing that he was the Incarnation, the completion of IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's loving purpose for mankind.

The latest of these had been the raising of Lazarus.

When Jesus was taken down from the cross and placed in the tomb there was not one person, even among his disciples who had anticipated anything like the happening recorded in this morning's Gospel. Both the son of the widow of Nain and Lazarus had been brought back to life by Jesus. 

The Apostles and disciples knew that they did not have the power of the Living Lord. Jesus was no more. They who had experienced the warmth and security  of the loving community, taught and guided by the  wonder that was Jesus became individual consciousnesses alone in the emptiness of temporal reality. There was then nowhere for them to go.

We can spend our whole lifetimes trying to understand the historical events that culminate today. 

What we have to do, however, is to gasp in wonder with Mary, "Rabunni!" and learn to articulate with Thomas "My Lord and my God" for Faith first fills our hearts and we then must seek the grace of Our Father to bear witness to it.

Dear Lord help me to be true to what you reveal to each one of us that we do your will on earth as it is done in heaven. Amen

 03/05/2026

Holy Saturday

As I have grown older I have become aware how events that were exceptional in the past in our reminisces become "I remember how we used to" when in fact they only happened once or twice.

I do, however, remember with some clarity the impression that the Holy Saturday Liturgy made upon me as a young altar-boy.

It began at six in the morning with the priest and I being the only ones there. A small congregation began to trickle in. First the nuns from their convent and nursing-home then an Irishman, an insurance agent who became a very successful bookmaker then my own dad and never grew to be bigger than a dozen or so even with the other altar boys who had also arrived in dribs and drabs.

I still have the Missal with which I used to follow the events that were celebrated and even fascinated me. The words and tones of the Exsultet really did lift my soul out of the things of this world and I loved the rhythm of the prophecies punctuated by "Flectamus genua, Levate.

That was then but this is now and I know that even during those three or four paschal seasons that stick in my memory like melted incense on my cassock,  the boy that then I was was always capable of all the sins that have since then far too often marred my dutiful relationship with Our Father.

Today I am hoping to remain aware that I am in the presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSSPIRIT who knows me in the deepest part of my being where there is His Image and Likeness . He does not need me to confess my sins but I have to for it is only when my heart is purged of the things of this world that block out his forgiveness that I can make an acceptable offering and raise my eyes in true prayer to Our Father who art in heaven. 

 03/04/2026

Good Friday

It is finished!

Two thousand years ago, IAMFATHERSONHLYSPIRIT, the Creator, completed in Jerusalem the reset of his relationship with his highest creation that would enable his beloved children to return to the holiness that was the image and likeness he had created in Adam and Eve.

He did this by experiencing for himself, within time, once and for all, the same full lifespan from conception to death that is the bodily life of the immortal soul, image and likeness, of each person, the billions of us, who are still living or have ever lived.

The immeasurable greatness that is Our Father, in respect for our freedom, allows us to choose for ourselves to do his will on Earth. 

All the prophets were inspired by WORD, recognised the wonder of creation, sang of the mystery of their own being and bowed down to worship the Glory of the Lord but seldom were able to completely avoid the distractions of this world to fulfill the first Commandment.

On Calvary the corpse hanging on the wood of a tree tells that us there is nothing in this world  that we can cling onto that is greater than  this  perfect love that has suffered so that  all mankind can be saved.

Now, we are not Jew or Gentile but "All nations" who have been informed by Word speaking through eyewitnesses that IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has himself become the way, truth and life that we can follow to truly Love the Lord our God with all our heart and all our soul and our neighbour as ourself. 

This is why Jesus was born and came into the world.

 02/04/2026

Maundy Thursday

The readings that are prepared for this evening's mass draw us into remembrance of the whole history of the salvation of humanity prepared from the very beginning in the eternal omnipotence of our creator IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT whose being is the Love that has created all that can be known which is also the reason that each one of us has an immortal awareness of being, our soul.

In the first reading, we join the children of Abraham as they are saved from their slavery in Egypt. The lamb is slain and its blood used to warn the destroying angel to spare these people who are protected by the Grace, free gift, of God.  Even though we don't understand, we do know that the will of God is always Righteous and as such has to be obeyed.

St Paul, a Pharisee of sincere and strict observance, who has overcome his total distaste, even hatred, for the Gentiles to fulfill the mission to preach to the Gentiles given to him by the Resurrection is thus more than a teacher but in his own being a witness to the finalization of revelation that was completed by the new "Passover" that we begin to celebrate today. In the second reading for tonight he teaches us the basic facts that all our liturgies have been built upon and recalls the creation of the Mystery that is Sacramental Life, the New Reality that is the Body and Blood of Christ.

The wisdom of the Church has chosen to show in tonight's Gospel reading from St John how deep is the intention of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to totally empty himself of his own all encompassing divinity to experience human life and death. The word "humility" is totally inadequate to express what has happened in the Incarnation. 

In the passage from St John, Jesus tells all of us that we all can be saved into Eternal Life by recognising the immensity, accepting in belief and imitating during our lives what he the Incarnation himself is then in the process of revealing.

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.

 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet,

you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

 For I have given you an example,

that you also should do just as I have done to you.

 

 01/04/2026

Wednesday Holy Week

Every day of my life and especially during Holy Week I need to remember and thank IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for the completion of His revelation that were the real-time events which occurred in Jerusalem two thousand years ago.

Nearly one hundred generations of us have lived since Our Father completed his revelation to us of how we are to live during our lifetimes in the impermanent bodies and temporal reality that is this world by emptying himself to live and die just as does each one of us.

The first lesson that we can learn from the Incarnation is that matter which we know by our senses is not inherently sinful and that it is something which is necessary for us to be "True Man as is Jesus. We have been begotten not made just as was Jesus, but we are not gods.

In the "Beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with God and the WORD was God" and thus out of nothing, the FATHER'S JOYFUL LOVE for the WORD, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT creates the wonder that is the physical universe with its rules for being that mankind has discovered and is the empirical knowledge that we call science.

With Jesus there is always "something greater here" and also within the whole of material being the "image and likeness" that is human being is greater than the whole of the Universe for each one of has been born not only of the flesh but with the immortal spiritual being, our unseen soul that is known loved and created by Our Father to accept and return His LOVE by doing his will that he has revealed through the Prophets and in these latter days by the life, death and resurrection of his Only Son Our Lord Jesus Christ.

At his trial on Friday Jesus will declare in the face of all our worldly rulers personified in Pilate "My kingdom is not of this world" today I pray that the Risen Lord blasts his way into their consciences as he did into Saul's but I do know that all sin is our own fault as each one of us responsible for how we use God's gift of freedom and life.

"God forgive them for they know not what they do"