30/05/2022

Today there are some of our grandchildren staying with us. They know so little of God and if I were to tell them there would be havoc in our household. Thus we were told by the Lord. Those who belong to the world will resist the Word with great force. Families will be divided and there will be no peace to be found. Moslems present this recorded teaching of Jesus as  proof that the Nazranis they knew 600 years after the birth of Christ, cannot have been following God's teachings. God is Peace.

St Paul's colossal efforts in the vinyard of the Lord continue today. He walked from Corinth to Ephesus; the Peace of Rome and Roman roads made this possible. What was the Holy Spirit that results from the baptism in Jesus' name? In my prayers, I have to ask such questions for Jesus has made everything known to his disciples and we their descendants. I cannot come to an answer. What is "speaking in tongues"?

The first thought of this day; my failure to pass on the Faith to which I try to bear  witness each day stops there without any thought of a solution.

Dear Lord help me to find a solution to my weakness in not spreading your word. May our Lady and all the saints support me in providing for me a specific solution. A soluton that is true. That all may come to know Father Son and Holy Spirit and live in this world according to thy word.

 29/05/2022

Jesus' prays for unity. A unity between those who believe having been with him; those who experienced the Crucufixion; those who knew the total despair of his death; the incredulous joy of the resurrecton and us who believe what the Apostles and Evangelists taught us.

Those of us who deplore the fragmented state of believers over the centuries take these words "May they all be one" to refer to the institutionalised "churches"and vast amounts of time have been spent in finding the true teaching of Christ in the particular institution to which the believers belong.

"There is something greater than Moses here!" Jesus is talking about individual human beings who know  that  God  loved the Son before the creation of the world and mankind, in the Love that is the Holy Spirit. The unity is between Father Son and Holy Spirit. 

The unity that Jesus' implores his Father to bestow on the human race is a place for each person to become part of the Trinity and for each of us to know this in his innermost consciousness of being. There can be no sin in a world ruled with this knowledge. The crucifixion is atonement for my sin and for the sins of each member of the human race. God so loved the world that Son suffered and died to bring us not institutionally but  individually into Father Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord let my soul be open to your teaching and let the Unity of Holiness as between Father Son and Holy Spirit overcome the evil that I know, opening the gates for me and all souls to the place prepared for us, each and every one. May the leaders of our Churches come to awareness of how much their wordly institutions mask the true presence of God and begin the internal reform that will purify the Sacraments that they mock by sinfulness.

 28/05/2022

The early days of the Church were filled with hope and joy. Many converts joined with original apostles and disciples in prayer and in belief in Jesus. There is no doubt that many of the original believers were sure that they would witness the return of Jesus as the Sovereign of all mankind; first of the Jews and then of the Gentiles who were asking for baptism in ever greater numbers.

Paul's letters and Gospel texts were works in progress and there were soon circulating other works, of which fragments remain and imaginative versions of Christ which St Paul particularly warns against. As time passed upto the destruction of the Temple more and more thought and prayer had to contend with the whittling away of the first hopes and accept that the parouisia would not be upon them. They had to realise that Christ means what he says; Christ's is a spiritual Kindom.

To guard against false prophets and clarify their own Faith the believers continued to find Christ in the Old Testament and to create the New Testament that we know today. It is in these works of revelation that we find the Way, the Truth and the Life that God wishes us to follow for our souls are his image and likeness and he wishes for us to find life eternal.. Soon science will be growing "humans"in laboratories and claim this as a great advance for mankind. Those scientists will die and face the true reality that is not of this world but is the Eternal Now that is Father Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord you know how many of us strive to do your will and how many of us fail. Let us know that no matter how great are the wonders of your creation they are not You for You are "ever-greater" than any human knowledge and understanding. May Mary and all your Saints pray that the Holy Spirit enters into the minds and souls of our leaders that they may find Faith Hope and Love and that thy suffering peoples find the comfort of your Love.

 27/05/2022

St Paul is quite clear that his mission, although to all men, is not about anything but God. His words are for God to hear and as such cannot be with any falseness or deceit. These words of mine are also for God, Father Son and Holy Spirit,  to hear and I pray that my heart and mind are open to any promptings that that I might receive from the Holy Spirit. I am always aware of the danger that I can be trying to justify myself but I really do turn my being totally towards God for these few moments inspired by the Mass readings.

The great number of disciples sent by Jesus to prepare the way for him have very few instructions recorded in the Gospel. They have to reduce themselves to a state of absolute poverty and to have total trust in God.The words they are given as a message is a statement of fact. God is near. We have no reference to what the result of this misson was but when we remember the crowds who first welcomed and then condemned Jesus and the few who remained with him to the end we cannot think that it was a great success.

God has created us with a freedom that is unrestricted and with his revelation of himself. He does not twist our arms but wills  that we should use our freedom to make right choices to live in holiness close to the "Kingdom of God" in this world and in the Eternal Life that he brings within our reach.

Dear Lord may the readings today for the feast of St Augustine inspire your priests with a fervour to do your work on earth and encourage your people to maintain their lives in the holiness of faith Hope and Charity. May Mary and all the Saints never cease to pray for the Holy Souls and for us the people of God on Earth. All the victims of war, famine and disease cry out for help let them know that they are not alone.

 26/05/2022

Even after the events of Eastertide the disciples seem to be confused about Jesus. They ask him at table if the Kingdom is to be restored in Israel. They are still thinking in a worldly, political way that Jesus, who has repeatedly told them that his Kingdom is not of this world, is going to lead them out of the power of Rome.

We read these passages in commemoration of Jesus' return to the Father. He has borne witness within and part of creation to the Creator of all our world past, present and future. He has laid the foundation of his Body on Earth. He has by his suffering caused all our sins to become capable of forgivenes. He has revealed the Kingdom of God which is for our souls to accept in Faith, Hope and Love and for our Church to preserve in all holiness until he returns.

The life we have been given is not of this world. We are as was Jesus son of Mary, part of this world. We and all God's people have to strive to be uncontaminated by the works of the devil the world and the flesh. Jesus gives us the grace to be able to live without sin and we must not talk ourselves into believing our self-made excuses. The life that has been given by the Freedom of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the Eternal Glory which is beyond our understanding but is to come as "sure as eggs is eggs".

Dear Lord I cannot say "Lord Lord" as you have warned us about the shallowness of humean praise. I need your grace to even spend only twenty minutes with thoughts of you. Let me ask to spend this day working within your grace and with the avoidance of sin that you have promised. May Mary and all saints continue in their worship and prayers for the sick and troubled of this world and touch our time with the Grace of Eternity.

 25/05/2022

The stark contrast between the words of Jesus in yesterday's Gospel and the reality in which I am living left me speechless and close to despair. Jesus promised us life according to the Word. Life in which the Holy Spirit would show us the way and a Church which would be the guardian of our way through life. What do we do now that our Church has lost its way in the quagmire of sex, power and  money? 

There is only one Truth one righteous way for us to live and worship. Jesus taught it to us and created the Church to be of service to mankind in that it would be a home for us where we could be sure of his presence throughout time.

Priests do knowingly sin by unworthy celebrations of the Eucharist. How can we be part of an unholy congregation? We are all sinners and we should know that when we are in a state of Mortal Sin then it is bread and wine we receive and not the Body and Blood of Christ. What good is done to the sinner or  to any of us by priests/bishops who knowingly distribute Holy Communion to those in a states of Mortal Sin.

Some Athenians scoffed at St Paul's assertion that Jesus rose from the dead. We do more than scoff when we do not honour the sacredness of the Blessed Sacrament. I cannot despair for Jesus, Father, Son and Holy Spirit has promised to be with us to the end of time but God knows how difficult it is for sinners to turn back to him living in the attractiveness of a sinful world and faced with the corruption of a sinful Church.

Dear Lord my soul has got to be saved. Only you can bring me to heaven. I have to truly accept your will and knowing that your are the supreme good search for the grace that you give to all souls who do your will on earth. May Mary, our mother and leader of the saints in heaven continue to pray for us all that we can be true to her Son, Father Son and Holy Spirit.

 24/05/2022

The people who had listened and condemned Paul and Silas were shocked into belief by the shaking of the earth; the breaking of the captives chains; by the collapse of the retaining walls; but most of all by the refusal to escape. The whole family was joyous at its conversion into belief in God. I was born into a believing family; into a believing Church; into a beliving nation where "Abide with me" was sung at the final event of our Football season.

Some 80 years later I am alone in believe in my immediate family. Thanks be to God, one sibling has stayed true to the Faith but not one of my nearest and dearest has the faith that brought joy to the gaoler's family and has been my mainstay in life. The Church that I entered some 10 days after birth has been weakened by quarrels, changes in liturgy, but most of all by the personal sins of its adherents and pastors. The nation's Christianity is no longer here, not even with the lip-service it has had for most of my life.

Jesus "proofs" of the Advocate seem to have passed us by for the World has taken on the role of arbiter of sin that Jesus promises the "Holy Spirit" will be. The "world" tells us how to behave and we present a futile facade of protest.