28/02/2025

As with all human written recorded history so it is with the Scriptures. No matter what is written the reader is always interpreting as he reads. 

During the reading from Sirach/Ecclesiasticus I was applying his words to my experience and acknowledged that my only friend is my wife. I have at various times been part of friendship groups when to alleviate the loneliness of separation from our families I have shared in common activities with other temporary "bachelors".

The "friends" from those years are either dead or dispersed throughout the world.

In these latter years of my life I have been striving to become a "friend of God". I have tried to live each day in accordance with his will and with my mind and will focused on my understanding of the guidance that is recorded in the Old and New Testaments. 

I like to think that "my understanding" is more than some human thinking just as the Bible is more than a book and that I can make the psalmist's words "Grant me the insight that I may keep your law and observe it wholeheartedly, guide me in the path of your commands, for in them is my delight." truly mine.

Dear Lord, let me thank you for the steadfast care my wife has had for me and my family. Help me to atone for my sins and inspire her with grace to once more know the "loving kindness" that we all can know as we turn back our hearts to thee. Amen

 

 27/02/2025

I have read the Mass readings for today and hope to be able to respond in the way that Jesus teaches us to know him in this life. 

During the whole of my life I know that I am not alone in wondering  how it is that God allows the world to so obviously exist in a way so contrary to his revealed will.

The horror being perpetrated on the Jewish People is an event that seemingly has had no retribution on its instigators, was a reality for millions of souls during my first 4 years of life.

Since then millions of people have lived and died in Palestine as a reactions to  the evil created at that time but the families and descendants of the perpetrators have gone from strength to strength in their prosperity.

Each one of the human beings who were and still are involved in trying to resolve this particular evil that we have created in this world by our disobedience to God could have followed the way, the truth and the life revealed by Jesus, IAMSONFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and in so doing would be now living in a very different reality.

The moral teaching contained in Ecclesiasticus is not so different from that of Jesus. God, however, was still aware that his "image and likeness" was not following His way of truth. He knew that His chosen ones were diverting themselves into self-centred being that another Jesus son of Sirach, amongst others had warned them about. The very Being of Our Father demanded a complete atonement and renewal of His created ones.

The incarnate Son not only continues the direct teaching of the inspired prophets he also "crosses" the existential chasm between human time and eternity and by his Resurrection he enables every human soul to become what our Father seeks from us.

Jewish pious theology could produce the aesthetic wonders of the psalms and the philosophy of Sirach but there was something missing from the Faith of the Temple that could only be corrected by the grace of the Incarnate Son.

In this age, as our Pope comes to the end of his long life I hope that he can clear his conscience and meet his maker without fear. 

Here on Earth, however, I continue to wonder how the long line of heirs to St Peter could have worn their triple crowns without ever even attempting to divest "the Church" of its roles in this world and its accumulated wealth. 

Our only reason for living is to do the will of Our Father. It is has never been possible to do this following the guidance of the Church that has never been able to live up to "My kingdom is not of this world" and actually, was, for centuries a temporal ruler of thousands of "little ones".

 25/02/2025

Tuesday Week 7 Ordinary Time

At the moment I am sitting down to write my response to the Word of God that is part of today's liturgical celebration and as I do so I am aware that the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church is hovering between life and death. In my prayer for him, I pray that I too may in the moment of my death be aware of how my life has been sinful and how I still require the grace of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to bring my soul into the previously unseen Glory that God has prepared for us.

All the disciples were men such as we are. Even more so than we are for they were all Jews who had been immersed in the revelations made only to the descendants of Abraham. Jews' acceptance of their exclusive relationship with IAMIAM had been way beyond their self awareness and they had become incapable of accepting the reality of God but had created and lost themselves in a "Law" that filled them with a human pride that they mistook for true worship of God.

Today, Jesus is walking with Apostles and disciples. They still do not fully comprehend the Jesus who teaches them not from the  commentaries of  Scribes and Pharisees but directly from the scriptures and  from his own being. They cannot understand what "rise from the dead" can possibly mean but the miracles that they have witnessed confirm in their minds that they are following the Messiah who will bring earthly power and glory to their nation.

They are human; "what's in it for me?" is a normal reaction to any new event. Jesus knows that none of his followers have yet been prepared for the ultimate truth he will reveal during the most important three days that have ever taken place in human time.

He tells them then and all who have lived since then that leadership in the church  he is to found on St Peter is a matter of service to other people not as it is in all other human institutions of the power wielded over them.

"My kingdom is not of this world".

May God have mercy on the soul of the Pope and inspire those in conclave to seek out ways in which they can demonstrate to our world that Church is not just another human institution but can become the Spiritual Body of Christ who shows by his life, death and Resurrection that he is Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. He is our only "way, truth and life".

 24/02/2025

Monday Week 8 Ordinary Time

In the mass readings for today, Our Father reveals to us his being that has never known a beginning.

The "iam" that is my "being" seems to begin each day that I wake up and know myself to be still alive.

Each day is different for me but "iam" always "miniminiscule" in this Universe.

It is impossible for me to "think" about God but I can respond to revelation.

This morning's first reading "reveals" that he is of one being with the wisdom that knows himself and that there is within creation a rationality which we have to "fear" for we are all, as am I, tiny of the tiniest  in the presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The psalmist gives voice to the response we all have to have when we try to ponder all that God has revealed of himself.

This morning's Gospel let's us know that Jesus, Son of God,  is also "True Man". He is as human as are we all and can be irritated, but never sinfully so, by our persistently misunderstanding that to believe is to trust and that if we trust, we have to pray; ask for God's help to be sinless in all our doings.

We are all "free beings" and so can all choose how to live out each day as we come into it. The prayer that we all have to make is to know that God has already shown the loving trust he has in us. We respond by conforming our freedom to his will and thus confound the evil that we individual human beings continually create by our willful disobedience.

Dear Lord, help me truthfully  to repent for my sins and to know that I have not done your will throughout my life with the faithfulness that your Love of me requires. You know that I am full of love for your creatures on Earth but do not really know what it is to return your Love for me. You know that each day my being, my wisdom continually fluctuates and I am never consistently at peace as I am now at this moment. Even now there is a nagging from my inmost being that I have to deliberately silence but do so willingly. May my prayer become one with the prayers of Mary and all the saints as we  seek their help in overcoming  evil in this world and imploring the forgiveness that Jesus bestows on all the penitent both living sinners and Holy Souls in Purgatory. Amen.

 23/02/2025

Sunday Week 8 Ordinary Time

I know that  my preoccupation with a family event is not going to help this, my morning's response to the the mass readings for today. 

All today's readings stress that God is "Compassion and Love".

This does not mean that we can preempt forgiveness and continue in our sin.

The First Commandment tells us that we should love our God with total commitment and by so doing we become part of the family of mankind that links all of the souls that accept the Loving Mercy that Jesus' blood pours out to become the Mystical Body of Christ; the New Holy Family founded by Christ in his words from the Cross to Mary and John.

Jesus always put  conforming to his FATHER of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's will as his first priority while living in human time. That is the target of which we too should never lose sight and thus become able to fulfill the words of St Paul by becoming "the man of Heaven" even as we live out our lives on Earth.

 22/02/2025

St. Peter's Chair in Rome

In the Liturgical Calendar that was in use during the first years of my life this feast was celebrated on my birthday so it was always of interest to me. In those days today was the feast of St Peter's Chair in Antioch.

The Liturgy is not the only change in Jesus' foundation on the faith of Simon bar-Jonah that I have witnessed during my Lifetime.

I often wonder why the Incarnation happened at the time it did.

I am sure that the many failures of the Chosen People to maintain their relationship with IAMAIAM in this world came about because of the sins of each individual Jew. The righteousness of some was not enough to overcome the evil created by the sins of the many. 

Mankind has been created with the freedom able to achieve the Holiness that is the reflection of the creative Love that bursts forth from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and can be recognised by each soul that is created to become image and likeness.

Our God knows each one of us. 

We have created for ourselves communal units of being that share their human love. God responded to the collective Jews by revealing to the Prophets how each individual unit of being had to become holy.

No man can know God.

God knows that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is impossible for us to know and before time began, in the beginning Son is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Jesus is true "Light from light", "True God from True God" "Begotten not made" He is the Being through whom all of creation comes into existence. He is also Son of Mary for the holiness that is the purpose of creation is not thrust upon us for us to discover as are the laws of material science. The complete revelation about mankind's place in creation is made by the only "true man".

Two thousand years ago in Palestine, Jesus walked, talked and completed the wonder of God's revelation.

He inaugurated a community of believers who were to maintain the visible signs of God's love for creation, the blood that flowed during the passion of Our Lord becomes the grace of the Sacraments.

Of course, I still do not know why Jesus came when he did. 

Yesterday Jesus referred to the people of his time on Earth and to us also, for we still have the Lord present among us, as "an adulterous and sinful generation". I now should ask of "Our Father" whether there has ever been a time in the history of the world when any of one of mankind's, with the exception of the Holy Family, families, churches, nations been without sin.

If we keep ourselves free from sin each of us can be part of the Mystical Body which can join each individual human being, through Mary and John, to the Crucified Lord whose human pain becomes the Glory of the Resurrection, The Saviour of the World.

We can only do this for ourselves for, although Church can help us, Jesus is the only Eternal Word and Temple through which we all came into being and can also return to God. 

As individual's we came and it as individuals we shall all return.

 21/02/2025

Friday week 6 Ordinary Time

In the Old Testament the Jews are inspired to keep a record of their response to God's revelation of himself. The Old Testament is the only record on which we can follow the development of our ensouled bodies that comprise humanity. 

In it we can find the words of those, who, just as I am trying to do at this moment, tried to have a rational response to the Being who is still the Creator of the wonders of the objective reality in which they became subjectively self-aware.

Adam, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David are some of the names, inspired by IAMIAM, of those who strove to keep humanity aware that we are all more than the DNA which we share with material creation, for the "I" which is intimately known by each individual one of us is also known by God.

The Chosen People were surrounded on Earth by powerful empires, advanced philosophies, dynamic cultures but only they were chosen to remain conscious that ONEGOD loved and guided them.

Throughout the Old Testament prophets were the messengers who reminded them that the Law of Moses was the not some human thinking. God commands us to live with each other and that each one of us has to obey the ten Commandments revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai.

In the announcement of the Incarnation to Mary, God finalizes his support for the Jews and in so doing reveals that IAMIAM is in reality IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

The Tower of Babel symbolises the break up of Adam's family on earth. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the unifying Son, true man and true God who enables us to follow the Law of Moses and use the freedom "image and likeness" of our being to choose to be part of this "adulterous and sinful generation" or follow the way, the truth and the life to remain standing with Mary, and all the angels and saints dead in body but living in the light that is the life of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.