03/05/2026

                It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.

Some months or so prior to his Crucifixion, Jesus had responded to Martha's complaint that Mary was not doing her share of the work needed to prepare the meal for their guests by telling her that "Mary had chosen the better part".

We interpret this to mean that praying is the most important work that we can do in this life and that nothing  should interrupt our awareness of being in the presence of God.

In today's reading from the Acts, the Apostles had come to the realisation that they were not able to pray, lead worship and simultaneously take on responsibility for the physical needs of their commune which met in the Portico of Solomon and in the Upper Room.

Their solution to the problem was to ordain "deacons". Thus began the hierarchical structure of the Church within which the Holy Spirit has often been excluded by the worldly ambitions and jealousy of clergy. We are all "friends" of Jesus even though the "imposition of hands" designates "authority". 

On the night of his betrayal Jesus scandalised his Apostles by performing the action of a slave and washed their feet. The "true man" that is Jesus told us that "true prayer" has to be in the heart and unseen except by "Our Father who art in heaven" and in this world it is by our deeds that we show that we keep close to the Father in our hearts.

Dear Lord, help me know the peace that comes from your words "Let not your hearts be troubled" it is easy to trust in God and trust in you but I seem to beset by all sorts of stupidities and am greatly troubled that the perfect beginning you gave to Your Church has not been matched by subsequent events. It is incredible that 2000 years after your Resurrection such savagery still engulfs what was your home in this world and not one leader has emerged to right the wrong that has been done to the Arabs of Palestine. You know that I believe with my whole heart that all evil is the result of our disobedience and all weapons are brought into use by the will of individuals but why oh why are so many innocents in these days being slaughtered before they have the chance to "do your will on Earth?" The Apostles expected your imminent return and prayed "Maranatha" today I repeat that prayer and plead with you to return and complete the judgement ordained by FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT even though as you already do know I am not yet ready to see you face to face. Lord have Mercy and let me find rest within the household you share with John and Mary, the Church of Love, The New Holy Family. Amen!

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

 02/05/2026

Saturday Easter Week 4

 ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.’

Dear Lord, Today I pray that everything that passes through my head onto this screen is the truth as far as I am capable of knowing and repeating.

God knows that I am a very limited human being who is trying to complete my life within the guidance of  the scriptures chosen to be read at the daily public liturgies of the Roman Church.

The Mass is an event that is unique in this world for the Sacrament is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, His gift of himself that happened in real-time over the 34 years that INCARNATESON lived in Palestine.

It was Jesus himself who supervised the formation undergone by the Apostles who became the first priests of the New Dispensation and in today's Gospel St John recalls the declaration, an answer made in mild exasperation to Philip's request, that he and the FATHER are ONE. 

This is further confirmation of the being of IAMIAM made to Mary at the Annunciation in our time of the beginning of the Jesus event that has been ever present in the Infinity created/known by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The Synagogue at Perga knew that there was something happening within the Jewish community that was spread throughout the Empire and so they had asked "Saul", who was known to be a disciple of Gamaliel, to talk to them about his interpretation of these disturbances.

What they heard shocked them to their very core and they attacked Paul and Barnabas. Jesus had recommended that the 12 Apostles shake off the dust of unbelieving households during the first directed missions to the people of Galilee and Judea. Paul and Barnabas did the same here and continued to walk on to Iconium.  

Two thousand years have been lived by millions of us since "that time". The growth of the Institutional Church founded on St Peter can be followed in the built environment of this world where many Churches, Cathedral and Basilicas pay tribute to the Faith of our Fathers. Vast libraries hold collections of millions of texts produced in every generation of the Christian Centuries.

It is very easy to become distracted by the prolific records of Christianity and focus on trying to reproduce how previous generations have responded in this world to the reset of Faith that INCARNATESON preached during his 34 years in Palestine.

When I pray that everything that passes through my head onto this screen is "true", I mean to declare that I do believe "everything that comes from the mouth of God" and hope to have understood that the way to the  TRUTH that is Eternal life was completed by the Resurrection and that the one source of the Grace that leads to Eternal Life is WORD that at Jesus' trial before Pilate declared "My kingdom is not of this world" and confirmed this by the creation of a specifically spiritual Church of Love, the New Holy Family to be the ever certain source of Divine Creative Love and Safety for our souls on Earth.

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

    

  

 01/05/2026

It must have been difficult for the first century Chosen People and those who had joined with them to become "God fearers", worshippers of IAMIAM, to face up to and absorb the real-time events with which IAMIAM perfected his revelations that had first been made solely to the descendants of Abraham but were now to be broadcast to all the nations of the world.

In Jerusalem and Galilee, most of the leaders, priests, lawyers and scholars although they had witnessed many "signs" were so frustrated by the incomparable wonder of this uneducated wandering rabbi, who could not be bested in argument but did not boast of his powers, that they had to kill him for his very being revealed their weaknesses.

Their excuse to justify the death sentence to their rulers, the Romans that, "He would be King" is transformed by Jesus into the warning which subsequent centuries have largely ignored 

                                                        "My kingdom is not of this world".

There was no internet in the first century but in the Empire the roads enabled reports of events in far off places to travel incredibly quickly. The Synagogue in Psidian Antioch heard the news from Jerusalem almost as quickly as did the Galileans so they were not hearing the story of the crucifixion of Our Lord, out of the blue, for the first time.

It must have been, however, exceedingly difficult for them to hear that Paul now knew Jesus to be the Son of God. and also knew that they had all been called to become  likewise "children of the Most High".

In today's Gospel reading "that time" is the "Last Supper" when John and the other Apostles became gifted by FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT with the spiritual knowledge and right intentions to become able to confect the Blessed Sacrament in the New Liturgy that would  replace Temple Worship in the era of our New Testament.

Without any trepidation, bluff St Thomas speaks directly to Jesus:

‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’ 

and Jesus answers in an equally direct manner 

 ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’

Even though institutional Churches have very often scandalised to the extent that we have to doubt the presence of Jesus within them, we know that he will be with us until the end of time for even if "The Church" fails, he, in his dying breath, assured us of his forever presence in the New Holy Family which is the "Church of Love" the safe haven for our souls during our lifetimes when we are beset by the "things of this world" .

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

 30/04/2026

The places mentioned in today's mass readings are still there although much changed in appearance. I have lived through much of the acceleration that characterizes most  of those changes in modern times

When I first visited Cyprus more than fifty years ago the site of St Paul's scourging was pretty dominant in Lower Paphos, but now it is lost within the "developments" of Jet-age" tourism.

Perga too is an Archaeological attraction site in the tourist destination that is Antalya in modern Turkiye. Psidian Antioch can still be found in the Isparta Province also in Turkiye. Jerusalem is not named but is the place where all the events of the Gospel took place. It too is much changed.

All the things of this "world" are subject to "time" which we "know" but never see. St Paul speaks to the Synagogue of Perga about the history he and all God's "Chosen People" share and all is well until he begins to proclaim the Resurrection as the visible sign of the Reset of Salvation that Jesus, God Incarnate had recently completed in Jerusalem.

I am writing this 2000 years after the events and know that I am a sinful man, certainly an executioner of Christ but also "a lost sheep" that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, the GOOD SHEPHERD, never gives up on and it is always from Scripture that I will receive "rod and staff" to guide me.

On the night before he was betrayed Jesus took bread and broke it to become a new way of being, the Sacrament of HIMSELF that would be entrusted to his friends in this world to be the guardians thereof. He founded his Church on Peter but before so doing he told us all that we should never put our own self before any other person, He lived selflessly and so must we. 

St Paul could remind his listeners that IAMIAM had directly supported his people Israel many times over many centuries. At his trial before Pilate Jesus declared "My kingdom is not of this world". 

This tells us that after the Resurrection it is only in our souls, our being that is not of this world, that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals his purpose for mankind and that there is no longer a "\This Worldly Chosen People". 

The "Things of this world," are not part of the Kingdom of God revealed by INCARNATE SON in the Roman Province of Palestine 2000 years ago.

To live according to the Will of the Father, it is each individual that has to cherish  the WORD, Jesus, who teaches us how to live a life of service and prayer by humbly "washing the feet of others" and being  open to the SPIRIT, the Love that is revealed as the New Holy Family, the Church of Love, in the mission of mutual care entrusted to Mary and John on Calvary.

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

 

 

 29/04/2026

The physical Light that we do not see but is essential for us to see is not the LIGHT that we can acknowledge as coming from God  to empower our response to the Loving Mercy within which we have our beings.

We are not compelled by any inbuilt restraint to react to the the presence of God. Our being, "our very souls" are not encoded as are our bodies but the Love that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has shared with us some of the freedom that is part of his limitless Loving Being in the Paternal Joy that becomes the Wonder to which each one of us ,"image and likeness", can respond  but not replicate during our time in  "this world".

The bodily animal, Mankind, has never  been able to overcome the Sin with which he first contaminated creation by the misuse of the Divine Gift of freedom but there have always been individuals who thanks to the willingness with which they have accepted in their Souls the loving embrace Our Father proffers to us all, have managed to live in the LIGHT throughout their lives in this world.

Today we honour the memory of such a one. Those who lived in her generation were subject to a scandalously divided Institutional Church that had for generations been ignoring "My kingdom is not of this world" but  the ever undivided Church of Love, New Holy Family ensures that  the LIGHT and LOVE of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is always available to those who pray  to join St Catherine to be forever at home in the never-ending peace of HE who is "lowly and gentle of heart".

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

 28/04/2026

In today's reading from St John's Gospel, Jesus is teaching/disputing with "the Jews". 

In the Gospel of St John "the Jews" does not mean the same as "multitude", ordinary people of Palestine, but is used by St John to denote the learned and the clever, priests, lawyers and pharisees.

He is writing about an event that took place at least 20 years before the dispersal/growth of the Apostolic Church recorded in the first of today's mass readings.

I am reading about them more than 2000 years after both events. I am not reading a newspaper, novel or history book because with the Scriptures "there something more that  is here" and I am trying to respond to the "more" that is  WORD as did St Peter, "Where should I go, you Lord have the words of eternal life?"

There is nothing more important that any human being can do today and any day than raise his mind and heart to God.

Jesus is not capable of telling us anything but TRUTH. Today he is not an ethicist teaching in the Athenian Stoa or Rabbi in a synagogue but the Son of God  answering direct question posed by Hebrew Professors. He is the pure unrefractable "Light of the World" infusing with grace all who seek him with their whole mind, heart and soul.

‘I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.’

God knows who I am and forgives all of his children but we have to do more than just "listen" to his words. Our true being is witnessed only by our deeds and I know that I often fail "to know, love and serve in this world". I can never lose hope for "eternal life", however, for the Mercy of Our Father is boundless and I know even in my sinfulness that I am the receiver of unfathomable grace in the Church of Love, the Mystical Body of Christ, the New Holy Family,  a final promise of Our Lord sealed in the horror of his death on Calvary.

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

 

 27/04/2026

Monday Easter Week 4

We are still in the process that began in the Portico of Solomon and the Upper Room. 

Two thousand years later, each one of is having to come to terms of how to live in this world and simultaneously be true to our belief in our mystical awareness of Jesus as Son of God.

Today's version of the Church founded on St Peter and the New Holy Family consists only of we who are the blessed "who have not seen" whereas the Church of Peter John and Mary had known Jesus as friend and human son and their testimony was that of the blessed who had believed what their interpretation of their personal experiences had revealed to them.

We have also accrued generation after generation much that keeps us from the Living Fire that "brought a sword from heaven". 

In today's first reading Peter has to defeat "anti-gentilism" which is the attitude to non-Jews that Jews acquired at birth and reinforced on a daily basis by their use of Scripture. He was not completely successful.

God knows that the Jewish people have often suffered as many Christians have blamed them for the way IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has brought about in the life, death and resurrection of the Jesus, the Incarnation, the reset of salvation that is  repentance that leads to life. 

Our Father has only ever forgiven his executioners and makes it quite clear in today's Gospel that it is only by HE, HIMSELF fulfilling the will of his own BEING, FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that our human sinfulness can be brought back to the purity created in the garden.

It is through the grace of God that Peter was able to obtain the acceptance by the Jews for his Gentile converts. At that time that seemed like an impossibility, 

Today, (2026) in another completely impossible this worldly situation we have to pray that the original "Chosen People" can come to the self awareness that enables them to understand that they who slaughter are not the victims even in this world and that the purported quote from one of the first defenders of Zionist Israel, "We can never forgive the Palestinians for making us kill their children" spits into the face of He who is truly God.