31/01/2025

Those who had first met in the Portico of Solomon had become spread out through their world by the time the "Letter to the Hebrews had been written".

The Palestinian Jews and "Gentile God Fearers" had suffered greatly. Firstly at the hands of the Temple and then during the war that had destroyed the Temple and greatly added to the "Dispersion", the Jews scattered throughout the Empire.

I know that it is easy to lose the focus that trying to keep IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to the forefront of my mind entails.

It was no easier then for those, some of whom had even seen Jesus, the crucifixion and Resurrection and listened to the Galilean Apostles and St Paul.

In those years of disappointment at the still unfulfilled promise of the "Second Coming", Faith Hope and Love could only be maintained by human endurance supported by each person's sincere commitment to keeping each heart open to the Holy Spirit, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to become one of those who "have faith and preserve their souls".

It is exactly the same for us today. And so is the alternative!

 30/01/2025

I have not been to mass for several years. I had always thought that nothing could keep me from the Church but here am I a lone soul trying to do God's will.

Since the day of my public humiliation by priest and by myself I have not lost touch with IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. I always try to begin each day with prayerful reflection on the mass readings for the day and I always try to understand; become clear in my own mind about them so as to align myself  with the intentions of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

God knows that I do not try to bolster my own ego or excuse my own sin in these reflections that are my witness to the revelation that is Old and New Testament. I am saddened by my personal sin but know that this time remaining to me is the gift that enables me to seek forgiveness and mercy. 

I have also been saddened by the realization that the Church founded on St Peter through which I believed  I was being shown the "way, truth and light" has always been more focused on its place in the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom of heaven.

The disagreements we read of in the Acts of the Apostles and the Apostolic Letters were the intellectual ferment out of which our "Creeds and Dogmas" were formed.

The Church Fathers who developed those "Creeds and Dogmas" were as sophisticated and well educated as any subsequent Theologians, living or dead. So were their opponents. Thus "disagreements" became well-argued "Heresies" and in the East the Empire took on the Ecclesiastical role of purging the state of heretics. To do the same in Rome the Pope took on the role of Emperor even to the extent of using his titles. 

I know that Jesus has never lied to us and he has promised to be with us until the end of time. He definitely founded a "Church" on St Peter but I have to ask where this can be found in the worldly institutions descended from those of Byzantium and of the Papal States.

I believe that, on Calvary speaking directly to Mary and John, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, Jesus,  created the New Holy Family which is our sure hope of salvation sealed by his death and witnessed by his Resurrection. This is the Mystical Body of Christ preached by St Paul but never exclusively inherent in any human institution.

Today the Letter to the Hebrews tells me that I should not keep myself to myself but I should meet with others to encourage and be encouraged; to share in the Faith of the community of believers.

I can do no more than this.

 29/01/2025

The mass-readings for today contain the complete guidance that we need to live out our lives in the holiness that God intends for us all to use our freedom to attain.

The Letter to the Hebrews confirms  that the Temple sacrifices are now useless.  Jesus' sacrifice of himself has surpassed the religion of the Scribes and Temple. He is in his death the "saving victim" who has in a truly human freedom created the means for us to access the eternal loving mercy that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. By our sins we block off ourselves from God.

We have been living for the last 2000 years in the new covenant made on the cross that has been extended beyond the previous racial limitations to encompass the whole of humanity past, present and to come.

The Gospel, however, although it presents a straightforward image of how the one "word" can be received differently by the free beings who hear it, in Jesus' own interpretation we are faced with "to you has been given the secret of the power of God. But for those outside everything is in parables, they may indeed see and not perceive, they may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven."

We are advised that we should always receive "the hard sayings" of Jesus within the complete testimony that is scripture. Jesus is here quoting from Isaiah. It is a phrase that may have become proverbial but its plain sense cannot be ignored as it can be read as putting into question  our greatest gift from God "life in freedom to choose".

Dear Lord, you know that my prayers are always the same in that I know you in your Love for "sinful man" and strive to serve you by obedience. You know that I often have fallen short of these intentions in my past behaviours but hope that the state of my present being has become far closer to your image of what I could have been had I not succumbed to the temptations harboured in the stupidity of myself listening and acting out these sins that surround all of us during our lives on this earth. May my prayers become one with those of Mary and all the faithful souls who in their freedom have accessed the Grace that opens the gates of Infinity to those who look for, find and obey the Truth that is always available as the benefits of the bounty created for us in real human suffering and death on the cross by Jesus Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and son of Mary, the loving mother who has always been the perfection of humanity for which each of us should strive. May my soul become as are the Holy Souls confirmed in opposition to sin and aware that my punishment only comes close to what it deserves because of that final High-Priestly Sacrifice on Calvary that can also be the bloodless sacrifice of the altar.

 28/01/2025

My prayer for this day begins with the mass-readings for today, The Feast of St Thomas Aquinas. 

All of the Old Testament is a revelation made exclusively to the Jews. The Letter to the Hebrews is the summation of how scripture, New and Old, can guide all of us as we continue to live in this world.

It seems that it could have been written before the destruction of the Temple had stopped the animal sacrifices that sealed the covenants between IAMIAM and his Chosen People. It is  possible that this dating of the letter could be wrong but it is certain that it was written in the  "real-time" of the generation whose Institutions had crucified Our Lord. 

In their own sincerity those who brought about Jesus' death thought that they were doing the will of IAMIAM, "God's will" by protecting the "Law" from blasphemers.

In the reality of creation, the Incarnation, Jesus, was doing God's will by becoming the Human Sacrifice to complete the revelations of IAMIAM by revealing IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and his total love for Creation.

By becoming truly the brother of all mankind and revealing his Love that has forgiven all our sins IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT does not reject any of the mothers, brothers sisters who are doing the will of Our Father by trying to find a place for our being in the reality of His.

Today I am able to access the intellectual work of St Thomas. He and all the other dead great brains who have left a record of themselves, are, we must all pray, in the presence of God who is so much more than even they could conceive.

Nobody can think his/her way into heaven but it is there for the asking. 

The arms Jesus stretched out on the cross are still open to receive us into his New Holy Family of sincere believers who genuinely live only to do the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and reject the human self-will of the ones that crucified Our Saviour, made a Burnt-Offering of their descendants and continue to slaughter in the stiff-necked arrogance that only their father can forgive.

 27/01/2024

"The devil, the strong man, Beelzebub makes work for idle hands. There are so many ways in this world that we can feel that our hands are not idle. 

Yesterday I suffered from a broken keyboard and spent hours trying to find a solution. I did not think that I was "idle" during that time. Everyday we are all busy with the things of this world and as a result forget to bind the "strongman" who still attacks wherever and whenever he sees an opportunity.

We all live in our bodies and consequently have necessary tasks to maintain them.

Yesterday St Paul reminded us that our important life is in the being we have as members of the "Body of Christ". Today the readings help us to understand why this is so. Those who first formed the " Mystical Body" had either known, seen or heard about Christ as Jesus of Nazareth. I know that we  belong to the then future believers who receive Christ's blessing for "those who do not see ".

The Scribes and Pharisees knew themselves to have been appointed by IAMIAM as guardians of the Law of Moses to which the majority of the first century believers owed their allegiance. They were so captivated by their own unique relationship with God, so filled with their own self-importance that they had to vilify Jesus' miracles as the work of the devil.

Our Father who is also our Brother, Son of God, Son of Mary, and our resurrected evidence of the Mercy of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals in today's readings that we can all be at peace in the certainty of the Loving Kindness that is Mercy.

We do have to cooperate, however, by turning our focus away from the things of this world and recognising that we can do nothing of greater importance in this life than proclaiming that the unspeakable humiliation of a man on the cross is the humility of the source of the eternal Redeeming Covenant of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT with the mankind who continue to reject him.

It is the Holy Spirit that is always ready to enter into our hearts and minds that know the material world and our place in it will pass away but still cannot take the first step to follow Jesus into eternal Joy.

We are all closer to the "unforgiveable sin" than I fear to think about.

Dear Lord, help us to avoid all sin and to renounce the "strong-man" who even in his defeated-state is determined to take us with him into the total pain that is his self-created-self. Help me to continue to seek out your Grace to be shared with the whole world and the Holy Souls as we are all supported by the prayer that is the verry being of Mary and the forgiven saints who are now truly part of your creation, i.e. Love and Mercy. Amen

 24/01/2025

There are always two parties to any legal agreement.

The "Letter to the Hebrews" today reminds us that the Love which our ever-faithful Father gives to the whole world is the original enlightenment that took the form of "contracts" between himself and his people, Israel.

Our God knows what he has created. In his Divinity he is beyond human understanding. There are no degrees of knowledge in the eternity that is Our Father. Everything that exists, has existed or will exist is known in its totality by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. 

God has revealed in Creation that our human being is the manifestation of his Love. He first revealed this to Israel who had to learn how to use the freedom that is essential for the  being created to become his image and likeness.

Israel, the Jews, have always become so overpowered by their wonder at their own beings that they have become for themselves IAMIAM even though some of them they still utter "Lord, Lord" from their mouths as they perpetrate on others the same evil that has so often victimized them. 

Gaza now shares the evil of Auschwitz.

The first ministers of the Church that is God's completion of his revelation are appointed in today's Gospel. It was after the Resurrection that they became truly aware of the significance of the events of which they had been a part even though only the three Marys and John remained to witness the bitter end.

They were completely human and without the physical presence of the Lord to guide them they were soon able to become victims of their own ego-dominated intelligent freedom of will and began the quarrels and divisions that are still part of the Church founded on St Peter.

There is also the never to be forgotten Church of Love, the New Holy Family created by  Jesus' words from the cross to his mother and dearest friend, John. This is the unseen Mystical Body of Christ aimed for but never attained by any of the human institutions we know as church.

Dear Lord, help me to avoid all temptations and respond to your call with sincerity of heart. Let my thoughts be guided to your Truth. I hope that I am still growing in understanding of you and not swelling my own ego as I write these prayerful thoughts. May I become obedient as was Mary but with an unuttered "How can this be?" recognise your will for me and follow it faithfully until I breathe my last breath. May my family, my world and all other sinners be open-hearted to receive your Mercy and may our souls and the Holy Souls come to the knowledge of our own faults that we have to have before we can be forgiven by your suffering human being you freely offered up for the the righting of the my sins and all the sin of the world which has so malformed the Good of creation.

 23/01/2025

I can understand why there are many scholars who are unwilling to attribute the "Letter to the Hebrews" to the Galilean fisherman John. It seems that the interpretation of Jesus he presents to the Jewish Christians is the result of educated deep reflection on the "being" and deeds of his friend Jesus.

The Gospel of St John is similarly as much theological reflection as it is a "memoir" of the days he spent with Jesus, the miracles he witnessed and the Glory that overcame him on Mount Tabor. All these events are sealed and overshadowed by the Resurrection. If this letter, the Gospel and the Apocalypse are the Spirit inspired work of one man then we have to be in awe at the depth of thought and recollection of which one human is capable.

David sings his delight in the beauty of the Lord. He knows that IAMIAM is truly worshiped by the lives of his people who do his will. The animal sacrifices of his priests are unnecessary for although the Temple is magnificent it is by listening for the Word and being obedient to it that we are able to sing with the joy that comes from knowing IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

In today's gospel, the crowds that pressed about Jesus on the beach at Capernaum have become the billions of believers who have followed them over the last 2000 years and many of those have added by thought, word and deed to what is the recorded collective response of humanity to FATHERSON HOLYSPIRIT by the awareness of being that is the soul of each of us.

In a very small way that is what these few lines are doing. My being is responding to what I have learnt, said and done in my own life always in the living presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who knows every hair on my head, my response to the temptations of devil, world and flesh and the sincerity of my acceptance of the guidance he reveals to the whole world in the Scriptures.

Dear Lord,  you know the puniness of my mind and body. There is so much knowledge in the world and so many intellects that are far greater than mine. I thank you that we are all known equally by you and that you did suffer and die to create the grace that is your free gift to us all. May my prayers be united with those of the whole world, sinners and righteous, with Mary and the Saints of Heaven and with the Holy Souls who although suffering now have complete understanding that your Mercy is far greater than any of us can deserve. Grant that I may live out my life in peace and that I never forget the evil violence that is being perpetrated throughout the world on my brothers and sisters by my brothers and sisters who regardless of their deeds can also become your forgiven. They like us have only to ask and they will be saved. We really do need for you to return Dear Lord. Come Lord, Jesus come back to us. Amen.