15/05/2026

Friday Week 6 Easter 

"So also you have sorrow now," 

These words written by John had been "pondered in his heart" for 50/60 years of unfulfilled expectation before he recorded them and by 20/30 generations of believers during the twenty centuries of time that have past since "those days".

Today "my heart is heavy" when I read that ,"the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal, " and think "here we go again". 

Mary Peter James and John can be thought of as  "twice-chosen ones" and beloved instruments of  FATHER. The humanity of SON is Jewish. "Whoever does the will of My Father in heaven are my mother and brothers" is a rebuke made to those who once interrupted  his discourse.

"My heart is heavy" because I have to face  up to worldly reality. 

We all have to live according to the "will of My Father" in order to become part of the The Spiritual Body of  Christ, the Church of Love, the New Holy Family. We know that those who delivered up Jesus for execution were forgiven by him and we too must never bear resentment in our hearts against any friend or enemy.

The hatred for Jews that culminated in the European Industrialised Death Event we call the Holocaust  began in other Jews on the day of the Crucifixion and was compounded by other Jews who drove the followers of Christ out of their synagogues.

The worldly reality up to which I have to face is the Zionism that is the true Abomination of Desolation that desecrates both the site of the Temple and of the Resurrection,  the testaments with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals his WILL for all mankind.

 but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. In that day you will ask nothing of me."

Dear Lord help me to be true to you in my thoughts, words and deeds.  You know how easy it is for me to sin against your law of love and place my own wishes before those of others. May Holy Spirit break through the calluses of ancient hatred that prevent so many of us from doing your will on earth as it is done in heaven. May my sins and those of the Holy Souls be washed clean by the flood  of Mercy you poured out with your blood on Calvary.

 14/05/2026

Thursday     The Ascension of the Risen Lord

St Luke begins his personal testimony "Acts of the Apostles" with what is the completion of his Gospel. He did not witness the Ascension himself but accepted the accounts of the eye-witnesses. 

Two thousand years later, I am in silence waiting for the words with which to declare my belief and awareness that the events recorded in the New Testament are fundamental to my becoming by acceptance of what IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT intends for all human beings.

I have learned that God is a Trinity of persons and a oneness of being. I display this belief as the "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" for the word "Trinity" is more of an intellectual concept than the persons, although vast beyond all conception, have by the birth, life and death of  Incarnate Son, revealed  to us how we should live our lives on earth.

I know that I am a sinner and that "this world" has also never lived up to the revelation of how to achieve the holiness that comes of obeying the rules for living revealed first to the Jews and then completed by the reset of Salvation made by the Incarnation.

Today, even in the presence of the Resurrection, some of the Apostles are still expecting  the "Kingdom of Israel" to be re-established. The manifest historical failures of Christianity, the institutional churches of Asia, Africa and Europe have all come about because we have not taken "My kingdom is not of this world" at its face-value" and thus misinterpreted "all authority on heaven and earth" to include Political Power.

The click of a mouse reveals the nonsense that this is in all the kingdoms of this world but especially in the Middle-East where the slaughter of human beings has become second nature to all participants and the familial human unity of 

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

is completely ignored.

Dear Lord, help me to keep my heart and mind raised in prayer and ever conscious that you are with us always and that the Church of Love, your New Holy Family is your guaranteed presence until the end of time. Amen. Maranatha, Come Lord, Jesus come. 

 13/05/2026

Wednesday Easter Week 6

In today's Gospel John continues to recall what has become known the "Farewell discourse" as it is Jesus' last recorded oral teaching before He is betrayed and completes the revelation of the Incarnation by deed and reaction to the deeds of "this world".

John remembers that their beloved Rabbi revealed that  they, and we, are not strong enough to live in the light of truth but we will never be alone when we search out for TRUTH. He and the Father are one and together HOLYSPIRIT. We will be supported in our worship and our longing for God by the Holy Spirit.

I suppose that John has internalised what he remembers and the discourse is his reproduction of the meaning that he has assimilated during the years he has witnessed the growth of faith in this world, discussions with the Apostles and Mary and responses to the Jews and Pagans who were his adversaries during his lifetime.

The Athens in which Paul teaches the "Unknown God" is unique in World History. At that moment it was still the centre of the cultural and intellectual life of the Roman Empire although devoid of political power.

It seems that the "Old Testament" history of salvation was somewhat acceptable but the "Resurrection" was beyond belief.

The "men of Athens" were thus less than enthusiastic about the "New Philosophy" but the people of Corinth, Paul's next destination, were to form a nucleus of the Early Church.

I am nothing without the "Resurrection". There is nothing in this world that leads me to the Way, Truth Life, to the door of the sheepfold, and into the arms of the Good Shepherd without the Resurrection.

Peter asked, "Where should we go? You Lord have the words of eternal life" and I too pray to overcome the things of this world and look for the guidance of IAMFSTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for such is the being of God, my creator guide and protector when I use my freedom to search after personal righteousness which is the only gift that I can return for this is my sole reason for being. 

Let my prayers join those of Our Lady for whom today is a remembrance of her short return to "this world" at Fatima in Portugal. May my sins be forgiven and may the holy souls too seek the pardon which is never refused to sincere penitents. I make this prayer from the shelter from the things of this world that is the Church of Love, the New Holy Family which you created in the agony of Calvary.

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

 12/05/2026

Tuesday Week 6 Easter

 I was once entangled, when diving, in an abandoned fishing net well below the surface and completely out of air. I was terrified but at the same time resigned to my own death.

My memory cannot reproduce the emotions of that moment but I can remember the real-time of the event itself and both the certainty and acceptance that I had met my end.

The events experienced by Paul and Silas in the first reading are treated as an intervention into this world by God, a miracle. I do not know how I was saved from what I had accepted as certain death in the Red Sea but if it was an intervention by God, a miracle, it was not revealed as such.

I know that I was praying and I remember a fleeting mind picture of myself as Jesus on the cross suspended between the light of the surface and the entanglements of the depths.

In the Gospels Jesus is always speaking to our souls. Today he tells us that "he has to" complete the will of the Father. The "Incarnation" leaves this world but "Holy Spirit" takes his place and thus God remains with us but does not limit our freedom other than by the laws of physical nature which we are still free to understand and manipulate.

The Holy Spirit condemns the denial of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that governs the sinful norms of this world, the unrighteousness that devalues prayer, and convicts all who put the things of this world before those of heaven, of refusing the free gift of salvation revealed in the Resurrection of SON, who died hanging between heaven and earth to create the free gift of Sacramental Salvation in the Church founded on St Peter and our place of spiritual safety in the Church of Love, the New Holy Family which is truly "not of this world".

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

 11/05/2026

I am certain that the spiritual announcement made to the teenager Mary marks the moment in human time when her "Fiat" enabled WORD that has always been "God with God" to take on her created human flesh to begin his presence in the evolutionary top-level mammalian animal real-time as do all of us who become "true-men" as God creates our souls.

We have to recognise this initiating moment of the Incarnation and as did Mary never lose sight of it as we too "ponder within our hearts" "what this could mean as she was a virgin".

In today's Gospel John remembers that Jesus had warned the Disciples that when they came to pass on what they would come to learn about him they would be driven out of the Synagogue and thus unable to keep the Sabbath holy with their fellow Jews.

But by the time John came to write his memoirs, however,  his experiences had revealed that he and all his friends and converts had become "Christians" and that he and his generation had been blessed by the presence of Jesus, true God and True Man.

The very sayings of Jesus in the Gospels and the response of the Apostles and Evangelists to them are for all generations the record of how we are to respond to the ever-changing reality of life in this world. Old Testament Jewish Law has been reset and The Father has spoken, The Son has shown and The Helper continues to be and help us do the work of both.

We are in the eyes of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, much more capable than I feel myself to be. for he trusted a teenager to make the right response when "the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Mary and she conceived by the Holy Ghost".

‘I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.’

 

 

 10/05/2026

Week 5 Eastertide

Opponents of Christianity always complain that there is too much emphasis on sexual morality and not enough on preventing violence. 

Our age is still full of both sexual immorality and war,

The "this world" which has become the reality that it is in 2026 cannot become "the Kingdom" for it has never accepted that the Ten Commandments revealed to Moses are absolute and  cannot be avoided by human casuistry.

"Thou shalt not kill" is only reinforced by Jesus to become "Turn the other cheek" and finalised on Calvary by "Father forgive them, they know not what they do". 

It is only well-intentioned men who can create the "this worldly" concept of a "Just War" which has not only allowed us to defend ourselves against aggression but also justified our aggression by the concept of "self-defence" informed by "the best form of defence is attack".

At the present moment we are witnessing how much the ingenuity of mankind is being wasted in warfare and how there is no war without hatred of our neighbour.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

I know that it is easy for me to sit here and type what many would call platitudes, but it is a fact that God conceived SON in the womb of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit thus saying "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" and that JESUSSON revealed that he is the "First fruits of  a new creation" and that he  founded both the Church on St Peter and a New Holy Family with Mary and John to confirm that the Holy Spirit would never leave us alone even though I would say that the historical facts of the post-Apostolic ages  prove that his revelations have been more ignored than put into practice.

There are many Christian nationalists but is it even possible for there to be Christian Nation?

 09/05/2026

Saturday Week 5 Easter.

In today's first reading we continue on their mission with Paul and Barnabas and also learn that St Luke is an eye-witness of some these "deeds" that he records.

The preaching that I have heard and read in my lifetime has had Scripture as either its subject or its support.

Jesus had ordered the first missionaries, both "the 12" and "the 72", to proclaim that "the kingdom of God was at hand" and when they did so their sincerity was supported to the extent that they themselves were amazed and exultant by the spiritual gifts that they displayed.

By the time Paul and Barnabas were ready to begin their mission into  Europe, however, Christian preaching had expanded to include not only the  "Good News" but also the deliberations and decisions that the Apostles and elders had arrived at by pondering in their hearts the events that they were experiencing. 

Today, 09/05/2026 it seems to me that in order to be taken out of this world as was the first Church I need to pray that I can become able to "Cry out with joy to the Lord. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing for joy" and thus truly experience  the nearness of  "The Kingdom of God is nigh" rather than "know" about God in the cold light of soulless brainpower as would the manmade artifact, Artificial Intelligence or any other media storage system.