30/11/2024

Today St Paul assures us that we have to believe  in the Resurrection; to believe that the one who was crucified, who gave up his life, who poured out his blood on the way from his trial to calvary until  the spear pierced his side and removed the very last drops of his life; we have to believe that he who was shut up in the tomb was the one who warned Mary Magdelena not to touch him on the third day.

Jesus was not born into complete obscurity. The Magi had travelled from their home lands to welcome a "king". They were shocked to find "the king" in an animal shelter. He was known to some of the families of Nazareth as the one who had gone missing in Jerusalem and had been found amongst the scribes who were  amazed at his knowledge. The first of his public signs amazed the steward at the wedding feast at Cana and before that he had  shocked some fishermen into literally following him.

Today we are surrounded by wonders which have been created out of physical matter by the genius of mankind. It is hard for us to be shocked by anything. We are not only being told to control our birthrate but now "they" have assured us that it is also a "good" to terminate our lives when we can bear no more of life's pain.

When we believe "the Resurrection" we have to also find out how we can witness this belief by our own lives. I am always worried that whoever reads what I write will only mock my lack of literary skill. I am who I am, image and likeness, and I can do no more than that of which I am capable. 

The Resurrection has guided human life for two thousand years and has affected millions of souls. We all have to die. Many early Christians even sought after Martrydom and thus show that they had misunderstand what it is to live in the grace of the Resurrection which completes Jesus' Way, Truth and Life, the only way for us to complete God's will for us and be with him at the final resurrection which his love has intended for All.

We all have an opportunity during our lifetimes to live following the revelations of  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT  in the Life lived by Son. He shocked the learned and clever of his own time but gave us who can cast aside the selfish wonder at our own being the free gift of knowing that his love for creation will surpass even the end of time. Even self-chosen death is not the end for each of our souls.

Dear Lord, help the people of my generation to learn again what you taught the little ones throughout Palestine during your lifetime. The truth that is your Preaching will never fail. The Life of Mammon that is controlled by democrats or autocrats in this world will inevitably become the wonder of the basic material you have created to be the "time" the location for human souls to, by following your will, become the human love that is our ultimate response to your divine Love and being. We will all become dust but our souls will never die. May Mary and all the Spiritual Beings of heaven continue to plead for all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory and help me to know that I am able to stay in your grace by welcoming the glimpses of your Truth that I find in the Gospels, Letters of the Scriptures and in the history of the Fathers and sometimes even in my own words. Amen.

 28/11/2024

Most people who have ever lived have never had the personal experience of IAMIAM given to OT prophets during their lifetimes on Earth. We are all dependant on the words which have recorded the events, spoken words and thoughts of others to enable us to have some understanding of our awareness of the needs of the  little "iams" that we all think that we know.

The Presbyter who records his "Vision" of Eternity in the first reading was coming to the end of a long life during which he had been part of the overwhelmingly most significant events since time began. He had been a close friend of Jesus. He had expected Jesus to overcome the worldly rulers of Palestine and had also expected a "human role" in the New Order.

His expectations had been met but not as he had anticipated. His role had been to care for Mary as if she had been his own mother during his remaining time on Earth. Mary is the first human to whom it was directly revealed that the one IAMIAM is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and she and John had been entrusted to become a New Holy Family, the Church of Love.

I live 2000 years after Calvary. I cannot believe that the Body of Christ is and has been the worldly institution that still tells us that Sacramental Holiness is "doing the actions" without any need for holiness or belief on the part of the celebrant at the Liturgy.

Many others than I have also had the same doubts about "clergy" . Some "lapsed" during the first persecutions of the early days. Many others were corrupted by physical pleasure and wealth. No matter how great the offences, however, we were not left alone and even during the "Pornocracy" souls were still able to achieve salvation in spite of the sinful Church.

I have not had a direct experience of God but I have always known that I am in need of the grace created on Calvary and promised from the Cross to those who care for each other as do John and Mary. I see this as the Spiritual Body of Christ that is not of this world but the image and likeness of Our Father. The creator still has Faith in us to do His Will on Earth but has also made His Last Revelation.

"I am with you till the end of time".

Dear Lord, help me to see your truth and live accordingly. You know my faults, my sins, help me to choose the right paths to avoid them. May the human failures that are evidenced in all institutional Churches be overcome by souls who appeal directly to you and to Mary and all the Saints. As always it could be the last time that I and my generation have the opportunity to become holy in your sight. May these petitions join those of Mary and all the saints that all sinners seek out the forgiveness that you died to give us all on Earth and in Purgatory. Maranatha, Lord Jesus Come soon. Amen

 27/11/2024

I have always felt uncomfortable whenever my human attributes are used to interpret what happens in this reality that I know because I am alive. 

God, IAMIAM, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is totally beyond any of our human capabilities except loving obedience and acceptance of what he has revealed to his image and likeness, our souls.

I am able to become comfortable in my spiritual being when I remember that Jesus thanks God for revealing the Truth not to "the learned and the clever" but to "the little ones" who can also tune our wills into absorbing the Love with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT still engraces those who accept his Will completely and try to abandon themselves to the path chosen, followed and taught by the Incarnate Son.

Persecution and vile punishment were not the only experience of the first Christians. There were long periods of time when the "Church" thought about itself and the meaning that could be found in the Life of the Incarnate One and the preserved teaching of "his friends".

The longed for "return" did not materialise and  there were long drawn out intellectual battles between "the learned and the clever" which were also supported by the little ones. "I am for Apollos, "I am for Paul" were the slogans used by Corinthians and  condemned by Paul.

The Apocalypse that is the first reading for today was composed after the first wave of persecution had martyred Peter and Paul, Stephen and James had already been killed in Jerusalem. It is John's mystical response to the events that were terrifying all "Christians" for the attitude of the state was that if you called yourself a "Christian" you had to die whether you had committed a crime our not.

The psalmist sings praise of Almighty God "he will come to rule the world in justice, in fairness he will rule the people". For this to happen we have to willingly become completely at the disposal of Our Father. All peoples, the Great and the Good, rich and poor, young and old truly accept the truth of every word that comes from the mouth of God.

The human Jesus did that and Our Father expects it of us too for he creates in order to have us accept his Love.

 26/11/2024

The freedom that God has given us is real. When, as a child, I disobeyed my mother or father there was nothing in that disobedience other than that I freely preferred my own will to that of theirs.

In the first centuries of "Resurrection Faith" it seems that that the first task for the Apostles was to keep themselves devoted to the revelations of IAMIAM for "With Justice he will rule the world, he will judge the peoples with his truth" and simultaneously ponder the events that they had witnessed in the physical presence of the Son of God and inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

The Acts and Letters of the Apostles record the results of the arguments between those who demanded that we all follow Moses as did the first "People of God" into the "promised land". The expectations of Jews and Gentiles were not too different in that they were centered on this world.

"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but suffer the loss of his own soul?" This is a direct warning from SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, and is fundamental to "knowing, loving and serving."

Jesus is totally a human being as are we all except that he is sinless. It is no wonder that Mary brought him up always pondering him in her heart; caring for his bodily needs as she herself received spiritual nourishment from him.

Our Church, as she grew out of the meetings in the Upper Room and in the Portico of Solomon also pondered what she too had been taught and struggled to live on in the world which had not then or now experienced "the return" . "Where were the mansions that Jesus had promised?"

We cannot look at today's Gaza and just accept that it is the "Will of God". That Roman persecutions of Christians were God chastising his people for the institutional faults that had already arisen in the short history of the Petrine Church. It is not the "Will of God" that His Church should own so much "dust" of this world. It is not God's will that I have sinned as an innocent child and not so innocent adult too. 

It is God's will that each individual should live the wonderful life of a human being in the beauty of creation and never prefer ourselves to Him or our Neighbour. When so many of us have failed in this commandment over centuries we have created evil were there was only good and waste our time when we do not acknowledge the True End-of-Life Justice that each "I" has to face as an individual, for the Ever-greater is also a parent who knows each one of us with Love.

Dear Lord, you know that I am a weak creature but that I am not abjectly grovelling out of fear and superficiality. To try to bring my mind to face the power that is you is not an easy task although Jesus has taught us how to do so. All my being is aware that I can avail myself of the grace that you expect us to welcome into our souls so that we can prepare for the great adventure that is the identical end for each of us. Mary and the Angels and Saints all are your creatures and I hope to join with them today in the prayer that brings holy life to our beings, hope for our futures faith in your Love Almighty Father and forgiveness to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen 

 25/11/2024

I was expecting Advent to begin today but, of course, our weeks begin on Sunday, the Lord's day. 

Jesus humbled himself to become "as we are" and thus had personal experience of time not as a spectacle viewed from without but as we do he knew the passing of all the measurements used by us to record  intangible "time", a currency that I have often wasted.

St John's vision can only be possible for him. or us, to see and contemplate if it is outside the realities of time. 

Jesus in today's Gospel is definitely within time for he "happens to notice" the anonymous widow who gives of her all. John certainly didn't "happen to have" that vision of ..........? I cannot say "Of eternal reality" because I know that Our God is far greater than anything that can be seen. However, I cannot refuse the "Word of God" and thus think  that the cultures of the times in which Jesus taught his Apostles were different than our own so their "Visions of the All Powerful" are beyond the limits of the receivers to share in anything other than in  their own vocabulary which we can interpret, but not truly visualise.

I also think that God's completion of  revelation of himself in the Resurrection is the reality that is far greater than any visions. 

We are all human and have to think about why it is that we try to pray everyday as did the Son of God. We have to know as much as we can about God. We are able to open our being to the communion that is the Spiritual Network ( St John's readers would be unable to instantly grasp what their humble fishing tools have become in the language of today) between "Our Father" and all living souls Joyfully completed in heaven, striving on earth with the aid of  Holy Spirit, Angels, Mary and all the Saints  and with humble, gratitude, penitent in the pains of Purgatory.

Dear Lord, help me to let go of pride. You always show me the way, truth and life that I must follow in atonement for my sins which willingly blocked out your grace and chose to do what is evil. You know all my sins help me to understand the pain that they inflicted on your human body and become much more than human "sorry" for all the harm that I have caused for others, to You, and to myself and loved ones. May Mary, Angels and all the saints join my prayers with theirs to plead for Your Mercy for all souls on earth and relief for those in Purgatory. Help me to know myself with faith in the hope that is your love. Come Lord Jesus Come.

 24/11/2024

We all have in this life an opportunity to listen to the voice of Jesus, Son of the Father and proclaimer of the Truth. 

The Truth he proclaims is that if we witness by our personal deeds and believe with the whole of our persons that the reality of matter, the Universe and all it contains, is the creation of the Almighty IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT for us, His Image and Likeness, to be able to show that  we can choose to become coheirs with Christ in the Holy Spirit that is God's own delight, in his own being. 

In his final public address to the souls of the People of God, the Jews, and to us their spiritual descendants Jesus makes it clear that he is not completing the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT in support of any form of human race, culture or institution.

He  lives, teaches and  guides in the same this worldly reality, that we all know. In today's reading he is about to become the final and eternal sacrifice for us to be able to complete the will of God on this Earth. He accepts the role of human sacrifice as the cost of allowing us all to be able to become the sinless ones that is the role that Our Father has assigned to each of our souls.

Today we praise him as King only because we can find no human role that comes near to the Glory, Majesty, perfection of "one like a son of man coming on the clouds of heaven".

Dear Lord, You know me completely so the reality is that there is nothing to say except to make the effort to raise, my mind and soul to you. You are still unknowable and but I think that I have got some sort of control over my bodily and mental life and can direct my thoughts and prayers to how it is that your churches are not bursting at the seems instead of crumbling for want of use. Help me to always remember the needs of all sinners who have got to accept your gift of Mercy. May the Church of Souls that connects Mary with You, Angels and Saints never fade as do our earthly equivalents and may purgatory complete your revelation to penitent sinners who have to pay the price that is your Justice. Amen.

 22/11/2024

It is definitely the "learned and the clever" who try to trap Jesus by this morning's craftily contrived moral dilemma. The "learned and clever" of Jesus' time and place were those who had devoted their lives to studying Scripture and to serving the needs of the Temple. 

They were Sadducees, who had become the heredity priests and High priests, who differed from the Pharisees in that they did not believe in the soul's continuing life after death. Both "churches" offered different emphasis in their interpretation of the Scriptures which they preserved but were united in their enmity of the Essenes and any independent voices such as John the Baptist's who had become overwhelmed by the "wonder of being" and every word that comes to us from the mouth of God.

We know them as the enemies of Jesus but in reality they were, as are we all, a mixed bunch who were trying to live their lives following the Law as servants and chosen ones of IAMIAM. Their Scriptures were their record of the contract that they had made with IAMIAM who had rescued them from slavery in Egypt. Some of them also became the "little ones" who accepted Jesus as SON of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT but not without arguing with the Apostles and especially with St Paul, one of their own.

A big question, maybe the biggest question, that I always have before me is why it was that Jesus came to us at the time he did. I feel there has to be a rational reason that a human can understand. 

God knows that I am not challenging his ways on this concluding weekend of the Liturgical Year, but cannot help wondering why he has allowed over the centuries and is still allowing sinfully hypocritical "Churches",  to damage the "Faith" of the "little ones" whom Jesus has taught to call "Our Father", even "Daddy" and placed in their care.

Dear Lord, I know that it is always myself that allows me to sin. The 33 years you spent in human time had only one goal to straighten out the people whom you had nurtured for a thousand plus years. We are today the end results and I pray that we can become humans who can successfully live as "image and likeness". May Mary, Angels and all the Saints continue in their prayers for us as we too ask for your mercy to be poured not only over us but also over the Holy Souls. May St Clement remember in his worship his namesake my father on earth and all my family and friends who also have need of forgiveness . I make this morning's offering from my heart and soul through the immaculate heart of Mary and Son, praying in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.