21/05/2026

Thursday Week 7 Eastertide

We begin our Mass readings for today, still in Palestine with St Paul who has been accused by the same "Jews" who had instigated the execution of Jesus. As did Pilate, this Roman Tribune also knew that his "Jews" were up to something that he could not understand. 

He, however, did not wash his hands of the matter but set up a confrontation between Paul and his adversaries in an attempt to understand what it was that had caused the differences, the source of the  antagonism and riotous uproar.

Jesus did tell Pilate "My kingdom is not of this world" but this world, specifically the Roman Empire, still played  a huge role in the shaping of the institutional Church of the first centuries, both Byzantine and Roman, and thus began the break up of what John remembers in today's Gospel as Jesus' "prayer for unity."

John developed his Gospel during the fifty or so years that had passed since the Resurrection, when the first Christians had anticipated the return of Jesus to the extent that they had even given up their own private property and formed a worshipping commune, the first monastic community.

John's Gospel however is inspired to become "theology" which forms the framework in which we can learn how to live "in this world but not of it". 

We all have to live our lives learning that the SPIRIT of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is both the source and meaning of our lives. Jesus the Incarnate Son, teaches us that the temporal things  of this world are not a goal but only an opportunity for him to physically demonstrate the extent of Divine Love and for us to grasp that the real time  we are experiencing at this moment has only to be used, as did he, to fulfill the will of FATHER on earth as it is in Heaven. Mammon only has  temporal  existence even though counted in billions.

We are not left alone in this Universe to be overcome by the incomprehensible vastness of the spaces between the stars and infinitely small atomic particles, we are not confined by evolution, we are not at the mercy of time; we are known and loved by "Our Father" who created us and our spiritual home in this world, "of but not in it"; our Church of Love , God's New Holy Family.

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

 20/05/2026

Wednesday Week 7 Eastertide

Each day that I begin to read and reflect on the Scriptures, I know that Our Father is not only already aware of what I am thinking but also he allows me the freedom of trying to find my own words to express what is troubling me.

In the Gospel for today, John has remembered in his own words  what is the essential meaning of Jesus' prayer.

I have read the words after they have been innumerable times processed in at least four other languages, by thousands of scholars but I still have the unique freedom to search for their meaning. Each one of us is free to search for the meaning that we all can recognise by our own experience.

The Scriptures are WORD, and also the identifying human words that are absolute in meaning in all the languages of mankind.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is way beyond all human understanding. Many brains, intelligences have tried to break into the timeless impenetrability but only one man has been able to close his eyes to this world and immediately "know" the FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for only Jesus knows IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT as he is SON.

Jesus told us "My kingdom is not of this world". In his remembrances of the night before the crucifixion, John recalls the essence of Jesus' publicly uttered prayer of preparation of himself for the pain and terror he was to undergo for the sake of mankind. He tells us that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals by his own INCARNATION into this world that our lives must not become entangled by the temporal "now" in which we have our being..

We really do have to fight against the truly soul-destroying wonders of  this world i.e. "empirical reality" for God created us to "know love and serve" through an ongoing Spiritual conflict. Today I know that "this world" is filled with sin and the enemies of God. 

I also know that Our Father is totally aware of the "State of Our World". He has already saved the world and the Holy Spirit is our helper. Each one of us can strive after righteousness not only for ourselves but also for our families and neighbours. We can ask to continue to live in the Love that created us for SON not only founded a Church on Peter he also ensured that Divine Love is ever-present in the New Holy Family he created with Mary and John.

Dear Lord help me to pray sincerely for the forgiveness of those who are today continuing in their blasphemy. You know that "outrage" is often a camouflage for my own guilt and help me to curb this tendency that is one of my many sins. Help me to fend off all the fierce wolves to whom I open the door, allowing them to attack my soul and let these prayers join those of Mary and all the saints that your Mercy overwhelm  our sins on Earth and release the Holy Souls from the pains of the punishment they now know that your Justice demands. Amen

 19/05/2026

Tuesday Week 7 Eastertide

Our Lord Jesus Christ when he was on Earth warned us about "the Pharisees" as they were failing to put into practice what they preached. I know that that is a criticism that can easily be levelled against me. I also know that to accept that "criticism" as true does not excuse it. 

In the first reading, St Paul knows that he has come to the end of his mission to instruct both Jews and Gentiles of Roman Asia directly, and indirectly, all subsequent generations how to live in this world to ensure that their and our souls can partake of the never-ending life for which we have been created.

St Paul was a Pharisee who clung to the Living Lord and whose letters bear witness to and teach the Great Reset of salvation that is the Life / Death/ Resurrection of the Lord of Life.

In the second reading, Jesus knows that as true man he is about to experience in this world the bodly Sacrifice that creates the new Sacrament of Salvation and as True God knows from outside of time that the Divine Will to Pardon of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT can only be fulfilled by His real-time worldly human torment and private hiatus leading to the Glory and Divine Joy of Easter.

I have to treat each day as if it were my farewell to this world and thus pray for forgiveness and the grace to avoid further sinfulness. I have neither the human strength of St Paul nor the sinlessness of  Jesus but I do have the assurance of Jesus that he will never leave us to be alone and that the Holy Spirit will be our helper during our lives. Shortly after the farewell to his friends, Jesus would be deserted by them all and taken to to be tried before Pilate. As he breathed his last breath from his cross he created the New Holy Family with Mary and John who had come close to the place of execution to be the witnesses, together with the other Marys, of his death and the guardians of his corpse.

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

 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.