18/05/2026

Monday Easter Week 7

When Jesus declared before Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, he was not just making a "political" statement about the separation of Church and State. He was speaking to the economic/business community whose tentacles still hold even the poorest of the citizens of this world in its grasp.

All the Temples of the Middle East of his day functioned not only as places where sacrifices could be made to the Titular Deity but they were also the commercial and financial centres which guaranteed the value of currency and commercial contracts. Central Banks.

We know that Jesus "drove out the money changers (bankers) from the Temple" in Jerusalem and we too are thus told to drive ourselves out of the clutches of the Mammon into which we are all born. We have to be always aware that "the tribulations" (economies) of this world have no lasting hold on us even though they cling to us mercilessly. Mammon has been defeated on Calvary.

In Athens, Paul was preaching to the Top Universities of our day and today, in Ephesus he is undermining the foundations on which Wall Street is built.

Today in the Gospel the disciples take heart that they can understand the plain speech that Jesus is using. Jesus, however, knows that even his "plain speaking" carries a depth and weight that is far greater than its straight forward meaning which can only be learnt truly by imitating  his deeds. 

We know what is about  to happen in this drama but they are going to face a totally unanticipated  shock in the real-time of that what became the first generation of Christians.

17/05/2026

Sunday 7th Week of Easter

In today's Gospel John reveals how Jesus prayed to prepare himself and his friends for the pain and torment of the very last Acceptable Sacrifice of a living being that would ever be made in this created universe.

All the reality in which we live explodes out of the "Glorious Love" that is the BEING, WILL and FREEDOM of  "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT".

Our Father who art in heaven knows that I am not capable of capturing the certainty that I have of his righteousness, in words.  And this matters not one iota to "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT", for "know" is not the same as "understand" and it is my pride that is prompting me to face up to impossibility of "knowing" more than St John reveals when he begins his Gospel.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

When I pray I have always to first of all seek forgiveness, sinning is more than second nature to me. The True Man that is Jesus does not have this problem but raising his eyes he is one with God,

 Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

With these words, the author of life, the being that creates all that is not himself is preparing himself to accept true pain of death and the emptiness of non-being because he trusts the miniscule entity that I am to learn to pray both to and with him. He has the power to make me do this but LOVE never uses force.

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

Lord help me to continue to reach out and respond to your Life on Earth as recorded in the scriptures. Help me to learn how to be true to what I can learn from Old and New testaments. Let my prayers join those of Mary and all the saints with whom I implore your mercy for all the my fellow sinners on Earth and for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen.

 16/05/2026

Saturday Week 6 Eastertide

The FATHER announced the complete reset of Salvation to Mary and she "conceived the SON by the HOLYSPIRIT".

In today's first reading, Apollos is still a Jew. 

He was convinced that Jesus was the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. We are not told directly what it was in his preaching that Priscilla and Aquila corrected but there is a clue. We are told that he knew only the Baptism of John.

Jesus commissioned his followers to baptise in the name of "Father, Son and Holy Spirit". There are many of us, men and women of good intentions, who assert that "it is not important what you believe as long as act with Good Will".

The New Testament, however, teaches us not only how to live in this world but also reveals the Truth of which we have to come to an understanding and acceptance for we are not "artificial intelligences", for ever contained within our "coding algorithms", but "image and likeness" of our creator and thus each one of us is free to choose to know/ understand why we have been brought into being.

The priests, lawyers and scholars who led the Jewish community and who demanded the death penalty for Jesus did so because to deny the unity of IAMIAM was the "sin that could not be forgiven".

The INCARNATON is a demonstration of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRT and it is for this revelation of the being of IAMFATHER that SON willed and accepted for himself the Sacrifice of Calvary perpetuated through HOLY SPIRIT in the mass.

It is vital for our eternal life that we can choose for ourselves to know and believe every word that comes from the mouth of God. 

At the shrine of Pan,  Jesus announced "Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church" and in his dying breath on Calvary created the "New Holy Family", the "Church of Love" where we can find spiritual security with Himself, Mary and John.

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

 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."