30/06/2022

Our ancestors in faith in the Old Testament are characterised by the way they were always ready to apostatize and forget their debt to the Lord. In the first century of our Living Lord, there were many who accepted death and became role models for the blossoming Church. Imagine the feelings of those in the arenas waiting for the beasts, animal or human, coming to pierce their flesh with teeth or sword. This was done before hundreds and thousands of witnesses in Rome or the provinces.

There are many who are remembered by their constancy until death, but the apostates are not recorded in any number until the third century. The victors really do write history just as we can push thoughts of past embarassments and even sins to a place at the back of our minds from which they periodically ambush us  into rembered shame and guilt. The Church is proud of the Martyrs but makes no mention of those who failed the ultimate test.

Furthermore, the Church became  the persecutor at many times in history and perpertrated injustices on those who felt that God was leading them in a way not taught by the Church. In these days in the attack directed at God by those who want to deny the meaning and purpose of being human, as a result of the corruption of sinful clerics supported by their overseers, our Church has been able to do nothing to reveal the truth of her foundation belief in Father Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord you know better than we do the unholines created by our sins and support of unholy pastors We act as do the pagans and are unguided by our baptismal promises and your direct command to love you  our God and place  no being before you. Mary we on Earth are desperately in need of the Grace won by your Son I ask you to send his Advocate that we here and now can feel the feel the warmth of the Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

 29/06/2022

Jesus'promise is in response to Peter's inspired answer, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God". Peter did not find it easy to live up to demands of that inspiration and in the face of mortal danger became a feeble human again. Following the remorse of that night and day, the resurrecton brought him to the state of faithful grace that could face the power of Herod and accept punishment in witness of that inspiration.

Paul's life is being lived as a sacrifece to the Glory of God. He is being poured away as is the blood on the altar in the Temple. He has a wonderful confidence in the power of God to forgive his earlier actions against the disciples and knows that what he has done since the Appearance on the road to Damascus has been accepted by God.

Jesus' promise to protect the Church built on the very human Peter is more important than the backsliding and failures of the Institution that has grown into the Church that we see today. "Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof". It is the promise of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, delivered by Jesus that is still the rock, the rock that cannot be shifted by the misuse of our human freedom which seemingly dominates our prelates and their clergy in these times.

Dear Lord may the Faith  which consumed the first believers in love return to become the most obvious part of your Church on Earth. May we all avoid sin this day and offer a gift of hope and love for the redemption of the whole world. May Mary continue to offer the support she gave to the first friends of her son to all who suffer and believe in this world and in Purgatory.

 27/06/2022

Matthew  repeats the teaching of Luke which we read yesterday; Amos presents God at his most devastating O.T. self. The psalm is a dire warning that there is only evil for those who never consider God. Today newpapers are full of blasphemies against Father, Son and Holy Spirit; people with musical talent presume to atack the teaching of God.

The arrogance of mankind is now reaching a point where we seem to be asking God to destroy us. Our priests and prelates need to think deeply about how much the first stanza of the psalm applies to them. Jesus brought the Good News and is a living interpretatioin of the Sign of Jonah but we still throw in our lot with thieves and fornicators Property has always been theft but wealth is the main criterion for worldly judgements. The halls of Mamon are filled by souls who every day congratulate themselves on the astuteness of their financial judgements.

I receive my pension without thinking of the origin of the money that comes to me. "It's my right, I earned it" is the self-congratulatory mode of millions of us. Amos' God delivers judgement on us all; Churches, Charities, drug dealers will all be crushed and as each one of dies we will know that we each one of us could have used our freedom  to be with God but at that moment it will be too late. Now is the time to reject the blasphemies of etertainers, the arrogance of intelectuals, the pride of presidents and the deceits of sinful clergy.

Dear Lord you know that I am upset by the picture of you painted by many of the Old Testament prophets. You who are perfect Love are also perfectly Just and are ready to accept with joy the truly penitent sinner. You who are the "Good Shepherd" lead us on the paths of righteousness. Guard us I pray from the total contamination that is the teaching of the world. May Mary pray that we can all come to realise that with our deaths will come judgement of our lives and help us all to face the tribulations that come to us in our innocence., knowing that the judgement we will receive will be just but tempered by mercy.

 26/06/2022

I wonder what twelve yoke of oxen is. Elisha does not immediately follow God's call to prophetical holiness delivered by Elisha. He wants to perform his filial duties but Elisha's mysterious rebuke, "What did I do to you?" is enough for him to immediately accept and abandon his worldly goods and source of wealth. He sacrifices a pair of oxen and uses the wooden plough as a fire to roast them, sharing the meat with his men. Slaughtering the oxen and calling his men must have taken some time but finally he gets up to become Elisha's servant thus devoting his life to God.

St Paul knows that we all know the needs of ourselves before anything. We are first guided by our selfish needs. As babies we all cried for food and attention. Our first glimpse of love comes from the way our mothers' ministered to our needs. We all have to struggle against our infantile selfishness and learn that Jesus has shown us that to be truly Human we must put Father, Son and Holy Spirit first in everything and then treat our neighbour and our enemy with the same, if not more, care than we treat ourselves.

Jesus calls but we can all find justifiable reasons to resist. Honouring father and mother is a duty given to us by God. The totally perfect example of sonship tells us to let "our dead bury the dead". The one who claimed this dutiful reason for not following did not have a decaying corpse to deal with but a duty that had to be performed in due time. Jesus calls me now; he calls us all now. Is this thought and  prayer the best I can offer up to him?

Dear Lord you know the limits of my humanity; you know the weakness of my spirit; you know the misuse of the freedom given to me. Am I sincerely looking towards your eternity or becoming self absored and self-satsified? Help me with your grace. May Mary who first loved Jesus with the maternal warmth experienced only by all mothers share her love and the love of all the saints with the sinful and suffering people of this world.

 25/06/2022

We have passed the midpoint of our year and with the celebration of the birth of John the Baptist know that we are now on the countdown to the Nativity of Our Lord. The outline of God's plan to offer to sinful mankind the opportunity for salvation and life eternally in his presence is revealed through Isaiah and it is clear that all of humanity shares in the same Love that had previously been for Israel alone.

The psalm thanks God for his creation of our Universe and for knowing each of us as an individual with the potential to be forever with Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We  know in human time and are known eternally by the fullness of God's Love. I am in the body now but what I can become is totally from God. My freedom has to choose and I must honour God by refusing to be overcome by the devil the world and the flesh. 

I must know and act according to the ways of my spiritual life. My soul is mine to preserve by the graces freely distributed to us all by the unimaginable sacrifice of Jesus whose cousin announced his coming and in humility proclaimed himself unworthy even to buckle on his shoe.

Dear Lord I thank you for my life which you know in your eternity. You are totally beyond my scope of knowing but I believe that you are pleased with my puny efforts at worship and understanding. Let my soul grow in love and hope to reach eventually the perfection you have prepared for all mankind. May Mary who rejoiced at the birth of Elizabeth's son remember in Heaven the earthly joys she felt as she continued to carry our as yet unborn God and beseech that Son to return our sinful Church to the only path that leads to heaven.

 24/06/2022

Today's Gospel is really Good News for all mankind. Sinners who repent will be welcomed with rejoicing into the Kingdom. The merciful heart of Jesus, pierced by the soldier's spear, is overflowing with the Love and Mercy of God. 

Our Bishops of late have attempted to emphasise the Mercy of God by conducting annual masses for what they, following wordly practice, call the "Gay Communitity". God has not created such categories of humanity. We all share the common humanity into which Jesus, although sinless himself, was "begotten not made"and we all can share in the joy that comes with repentence. 

Mercy does not just "fall like the gentle rain from heaven". We have to actively seek it out by recognising our sins and seeking the forgiveness that is always available. Anyone who preaches a Mercy without Justice does a huge diservice to mankind and again twists the lance into the heart of our Lord and Saviour.

Today's letter from St Paul is one of the oldest texts confirming that even the earliest Christians had begun to know God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is still the Evergreater One and Trinity totally beyond our human intellects. The millions of words written and thoughts thought but not preserved  since the life, death and resurrection add nothing to our knowledge of  Creator God whose filial Sacred Heart and Holy Spirit continue to seek out all sinners in readiness to accept the repentant into the eternal joy prepared for us.

Dear Lord I am trembling with thoughts of you and your magnificance. You know that it was with sincerity that my fingertips wrote the words above and that I truly believe that they may be acceptable to you. My self is a poor image and likeness but was perfectly human (marred by original sin)at conception. Let me become totally aware of the harm done during my sinful life and let me seek out the sacramental forgiveness won for us on Calvary. May Mary who knows of God more than any other human lead the saints in their praise and petitions to God that the suffering here on Earth and in Purgatory may be freed from their sins to be welcomed into Eternal Joy.

 23/06/2022

Jerusalem was depopulated and robbed of its wealth. All the men who could bear arms were taken to Babylon, all those of useful skills were taken. The poor, the wretched were left behind. Similar events have continued up to this day. Syria has been devasted and its people become refugees, strangers in foreign lands. At the end of Hitler's war part of the victors' spoils were the skilled scientists who were welcomed with open arms. Today the native peoples of Brazil are being deprived of the habitat in which they lived their natural lives. Russia is again ruled by a meglomaniac and for its neighbours it is as if the last 30 years have never happened.

Such is the life of this world, without meaning unless we completely follow the authority of Jesus. There is no sense in trying to achieve human power and wealth for no matter how we try we will lose them at death. Jesus warns us that doing the will of the eternal Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the only way to Heaven. Speaking in Tongues, miracles, exorcisms can be done by invoking Jesus' name but are no guarantee of the holiness that is beyond the lip service that I am desperate to avoid.

Dear Lord your message recorded by Matthew is difficult for me to grasp for we have been told that "by their fruit you will know them" and you support those speaking in your name in that the signs have been performed but somehow the "Will of the Father" is missing. Is this a warning for backsliding priests and prelates and for us all to aim for perfect sincerity which is available for the mankind you have created to be free. Mary only you of humankind have been created without sin and so have the perfect understanding of the will of God pray that all thy children can know love and obey with the sincerity that can bring us to heaven.