24/05/2026

Whit Sunday

        Wisdom    Understanding    Counsel    Fortitude    Knowledge    Piety    Fear of the Lord 

The promised "helper" has arrived today and the "formation" of the first "Bishops" of the Church is complete. 

I was able to list the "Seven Gifts" not because I remember them but because the "click of a mouse" is not only the door to distraction but it can also be very helpful to those such as I who are aware that there is much that they should have remembered.

 At the moment I am avoiding facing the challenge that is posed by "tongues of fire" and "sound like a rushing wind".

Jesus is "true man and true God" and so "The resurrection" can show his wounds to his Apostles but he "breathes" onto them their spiritual authority to forgive sin. He does not hand over anything that is tangible.

The seventy-two were told that "if their peace were not accepted" they were to take it back. Simon Magus was ready to pay money to obtain "the Holy Spirit". Both incidents sound as if there were something tangible about "peace" and "Holy Spirit".

I know that I can raise my heart and mind towards God only with the unseen help that is Holy Spirit from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and that we can only "know" God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but never understand him even when we accept and truly make use of the gifts with which we begin and also conclude these reflections which are my prayer for this Whit Sunday, the celebration of the Holy Spirit, our Advocate and Helper. Amen

        Wisdom    Understanding    Counsel    Fortitude    Knowledge    Piety    Fear of the Lord 

 23/05/2026

7th Saturday in Eastertide

Many scholars have made their livings out of delving into the authorship of our scriptures.

The writer of the "Gospel According to St John" tells us that he is "The disciple whom Jesus loved".

Ever since I learnt the Penny Catechism I have tried to guide my life from childhood to "octogenarianhood" by "God made me to know, love and serve him in this world" and have had a waxing and waning interest in liturgy, scripture and theology. 

I have no illusions about the depth of my knowledge. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing". I do, however, find comfort in "No-one knows the Father except the Son and he  to whom the Son chooses to reveal him". 

In fact it is more than comfort that I find in those words of SON for Jesus thus assures us that when we  escape from the clutches of selfhood, this world, the flesh and the illusory non-being, evil that they create to deceive us, we become open to accept and return the Love of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and thus prepare our souls in this world for the ALLINALL, the timeless and thus never ending perfection of ultimate worship.

All Scripture, Old and New Testaments are "texts", that over the centuries have been written by hand on scrolls and in books, printed by hand and rolling press and can now be brought to our screens by a click of a mouse. But just as with Jesus with the scriptures "there is always something greater here".

We have not been left alone in this vast but to us decipherable, that is why mankind becomes insufferably proud,  Universe. Those who wrote the scriptures lived in this world millennia ago but they are still beings and unequivocally know that it is the Spirit of Truth who guided their consciousnesses in this world and that we the living can still be guided by the work of their brains and hands into the way, truth and life. 

They who wrote the scriptures know that their personal identity is unimportant as the certain author of all Scripture is the WORD.

Our "Gospel" Mass Reading today concludes John's remembrances of the real time events in which he shared, that enable us to become the ones to whom Jesus chooses to reveal "IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" to enable us to live our lives to the full.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

 22/05/2026

Friday Week 7 Easter

In this morning's Gospel, true man and true God, the Resurrection, has given his Apostles breakfast on the shore of Lake Galilee. 

True God, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows in his timelessness how these chosen beloved friends will extend his mission into the future that is created by mankind and how we all will live up to the revelations made through them.

True Man, Jesus of Nazareth, the Resurrection, knows that they are all hungry so feeds their bodies first before reinforcing their souls.

I am sure that in the real-time of that historical event, Peter, whose authority is thus reconfirmed by being singled out to reaffirm his faith, was much more than "grieved" to be so questioned. In his consciousness  he must have been in turmoil for he knew that it was only a month previously that he had three times, very publicly, denied all knowledge of Jesus.

Three denials are cancelled by the three affirmations of love that are now made.

In the first reading Festus the Roman Tribune explains to Agrippa the legalities which had prompted him to keep Paul in Caesarea before sending him to fulfil the  appeal to Nero that had already been made. I have always been amazed how it was that Paul's "appeal to Caesar" was so honoured.

The  historical "this worldly troubles" in the Holy Land that resulted in the destruction of the Temple are about to begin and the martyrdom of both Peter and Paul in Rome and the efficiency of its communications, "all roads lead to Rome." begin the entanglement with the "things of this world" that continue to mar the "Cure of Souls" that was entrusted to St Peter and the other first friends of Jesus.

St John remembers that the Church founded on Peter has to be fuelled only by Love. He also knows by experience that "Church Love" is also the totally spiritual New Holy Family that he and Mary formed in obedience to "Woman behold your Son. Son behold your mother", the last words spoken to them before "It is finished" was witnessed on Calvary.

Dear Lord, you know how your disciples became separated from the unity that they had as the offspring of Abraham. We have continued to grow further apart from "The Jews". I know that all the evils that exist in this world are created by mankind and that at the world's end they will be nothing. Help me and all peoples of the world know that we have been created by Love, to Love one another in order that united in Love we can do your Will on earth as it is in Heaven. Come Lord, Jesus Come! Maranatha! Amen!

 

 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.