31/12/2025

Seventh Day within Christmas Octave.

Today's Mass Readings summarise what has been revealed about how we have to continue to live out our lives in the full knowledge of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT that had matured in the "John" who had both shared in the "time of this world" engraced by the INCARNATION as historical events and pondered their Eternal significance for all subsequent generations as he continued to live out his own long life.

The mystery of the Glory of God that is how John begins his memoir and interpretation of the "Life of Christ" has always held me captivated ever since I first heard it as "The Last Gospel" at the Liturgies I attended as a child.

God knows that the old man that I have become is still irretrievably engaged, not always happily so, when trying to "know, love and serve". It's easy for me to beat my breast and say "Forgive me Lord for I am a sinner" but in the depths of my being I am one with the first believers whom John writes to in the first reading and feel lost and possibly abandoned  in that Jesus has not returned and that even after Incarnate, life, death and Resurrection mankind has never become the coopted into the Family of God on Earth that is promised by;

"But to all who did receive him, who did believe in his name, he gave the right to become Children of God, who were born not of blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man , but of God".

The difficulty that we humans have always faced is that we are totally free to follow our own ways during our lifetimes. It is impossible  to imagine how many are the ways of man we unravel as we choose how to spend each moment of the time we experience as our lives.

If, however, we do "receive him" and hold on to that thread in the skein of reality that is also Truth and Life we will understand that we are "anointed by the Holy One" and we can "all have knowledge". The Created Universe is as it was created to be, my own being is to "know, love and serve" and "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" is the promise that Anti-Christ, Satan will not prevail and that each of us already is enfolded by the Loving Grace that we only have to choose to accept as it is freely offered to the whole world from the Cross on Calvary.

 30/12/2025

The Sixth Day of the Christmas Octave is how today is dated in the Liturgical Calendar followed by the Catholic Church.

The Eternal Event of the Incarnation is recorded as a historical event in time measured, in the Palestine, of  "those days", by at least two different Calendars. There were also many other calendars in use throughout the world which were unknown to either the Jews or Gentiles who witnessed the Life, Death and Resurrection of Our Saviour and subsequently recorded what they had witnessed.

Nothing in the History of Roman and Orthodox Christian disputes reveals the initial failure of the "Thou art Peter"  Institutions to honour Jesus' declaration at his trial "My Kingdom is not of this world" more than the arguments over the dates in worldly time, that has always been itself inaccurately measured by human calendars, of "Immanuel" our "Timeless GODWITHUS".

Do not love the world or the things of this world. 

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world

-the desires of the flesh, the desires of eyes and the pride of life-

Is not from the Father but is from the world.

And the world is passing away along with its desires.

But whoever does the will of the Father abides for ever.

Dear Lord help me to truly know my sins and be truly sorry that I have offended thee. Help me to overcome all the temptations that the many innocent wonders of this world have to captivate my heart and thus keep me from living true to your will. Save me from the emptiness of the abyss of non-being which periodically threatens to sweep over and devour my soul. Help me to know your LOVE and abide in your New Holy Family with Mary and all the saints and let your grace overcome all the obstacles that keep my family and all the other peoples of the world from also striving to be true to YOU. Amen.

 28/12/2025

The Holy Family

Over the centuries that she has been an institution the Church founded by Jesus to be His presence amongst all subsequent generations until the end of time  has had as her focal point the first Mass, the "do this in remembrance of me" ; the Last Supper. 

In the "Upper Room were present the faithful Apostles, the traitor, and the "True Man and True God" who created in the seconds of real-time it took for him to say "This is my body" the completely new form of being to which he would bear witness by Cross and Resurrection. The Eucharistic Sacrament is the continuing Real Presence and is thus our Spiritual Food.

Eighty generations after that event I am a sinner grappling with all the mish-mash of historical truths, half-understood ideas, momentarily-grasped insights but fundamentally believing human being that makes me what I am today. 

Our Father knows that it is only because of "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" the invitation into the Church of Love, which requires only an open believing heart and does not need us to ignore an Institution's  present and past sinful entanglements with the things of this world if we are to share in the Mystical Real Presence promised by "This is my Body" that I am able to know that it is true that He will be with us always even to the end of time.

Jesus lived totally anonymously as a Jew for thirty years of his life. Joseph guarded the sinless holiness of Jesus and his mother. This is the Holy Family that the Church celebrates today. 

On his cross in the utter pain of his public death he creates directly by his words the spiritual relationship between himself, his sinless mother Mary and his beloved disciple John that we can all choose to become part of for it is this New Holy Family within which "even though heaven and earth pass away "MY WORD" will stand."

 27/12/2025

God knows that I have already tried to begin this day in awareness that I have to choose to know, love and obey. He does not force himself into my being but welcomes me back from sleep into His Love that never sleeps but promises to maintain all that "is" in existence until the end of time.

Now, some time after waking-up, I am still making that "Act of will" to avoid sin by now opening my heart to the guidance of the Scriptures chosen to be part of today's liturgical re-enactment both in time and in eternity of the completion of Incarnate WORD'S life on earth.

In the first reading John addresses us as "Beloved" for he really knows that that is what he himself is. He is the "Beloved Disciple" who knows that that is the complete meaning of "and your neighbour as yourself" which is not a "Second Commandment" but rather the completed Act of Obedience to " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind and strength". 

We are all "Beloved". The babe in the manger hearing the breathing of ox, ass and sheep, feeling their touch and smelling their dung, scratched by straw and hungry for his mother's milk, this total human weakness that is every baby has chosen to become thus out of ETERNAL LOVE that knows each individual human being that has, is and will ever be created. His Love is available to bring us all to salvation.

I know that human words can never express the immensity that is God. 

Incarnation, Nativity, Crucifixion, Resurrection are four words that have generated billions of others but they are much more than words for they are the temporal acts of ETERNAL LOVE of  which  John is a witness to TRUTH when he addresses us as "Beloved" for that is what each of is to "Our Father, Abba" as he "forgives us our trespasses" in the pain of Calvary. Amen

 26/12/2025

"In those days" was for us,  yesterday,  the recollection of that very brief moment in the time of this world when the Eternal Word of Our Father began the manifestation that is our forever guide and rule for living out our own lives on Earth. 

Jesus warns us that he did not come to bring peace on Earth, but for many of us the celebration of "Christmas Day" is always a brief reminder of what might have been if he had.

"In those days" for today takes us back to the first events experienced by the founders of the Church built on Peter in the True Enlightenment created and bequeathed by Jesus during the time leading to His concluding Death and Resurrection.

Millions of us have since "those days" "pondered in our hearts" the words of these events and striven to enfold our being within them to ensure the personal purity of holiness that is the only way of life that completes the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

We all can only truly live by every word that comes from the mouth of God. We can only find the WORD in the many words and deeds of Scripture. 

The martyrdom of John the Baptist is the heroic human concluding event of the Old Testament. The martyrdom of Stephen is the first heroic human response to Jesus' life, death and Resurrection but the Church that was already growing "in those days" although watered by the "blood of martyrs" was soon to lose sight of Jesus' words declared to Pilate "My kingdom is not of this world".

Dear Lord, Please remember your promise and return soon. We have not done as well as we should have done after being engraced by your Life, Death and Resurrection. Please return to save us yet again from ourselves. 

 25/12/2025

God knows that the words of this morning's liturgy although composed by man have the beauty and power that is the pure, loving truth with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows his own being thus loving us also into being and forgiving us for all our sins.

He knows that every "iam" is totally miniscule but has created each of his human beings to be "IMAGEANDLIKENESS", as another person to respond in created time to his WORD which is recorded in the Old Testament and today is celebrated as the beginning of the New and Final Revelation that enables us to do his will on Earth, in our time, as it is done in His timeless, Eternity.

The writer of today's second reading has had some time in which to "ponder within his heart" the events that his generation has witnessed and knows that Moses and the prophets had received and proclaimed the WORD but he and his generation had been engraced by the living presence of the same WORD, Incarnate Son and that many of them had witnessed  real-time events that have been the historical reality of "True man and True God" on Earth.

When John came to write his personal memories that are still with him at the the conclusion of his long life he has to begin at the source of Reality and then recalls the real-time teaching of the WORD leading up to the Saving Event on Calvary.

Mary was the only other one present at both the temporal beginning and end of Jesus' life. John had accepted Jesus' commission and had taken her into his home but he does not elaborate on this. We 2,000 years later, do, however, have more than enough information about the sinful failures of the Institutional Church based on Peter but also know that Jesus promises to be with us even to the end of time we thus have to reconcile the perceived failures of history with the reality promised by the WORD.

Everyday that I raise my heart and mind to God I am aware of Calvary and of the words spoken by Jesus to Mary and John and accept these as the foundation of the  Church of Love that is the presence of Christ that can be found  even in the midst of the worldly entanglements that have confused rather than enlightened so many of the faithful who have been scandalised by  the Institutional Church.

More than ever, however, today is the day when we should remember  persons loved by God rather than try to interpret events created by human failure. The very nature of a baby is to inspire tenderness. Mary is such a young girl to bear  responsibility for a new life and Joseph is kindness and humility personified. The stable is filled with the sight, sound and smells of creation and we with the shepherds can only bow our heads and worship in awed silence for "unto us a CHILD is born" Amen

 24/12/2025

Wednesday Advent Week 4 Christmas Eve

Today we complete the preparations that we make to welcome into this world the Incarnate Son of God.

There are millions of us throughout the world who are today engaged in a frenzy of human activity. Some of us will also raise our minds and hearts to God but it seems that for most of us "Jesus" is only a name from the past.

At the time of the Incarnation, 9 months prior to today, 2025 years ago, Mary asked "How can this be?" and I too have repeated that question many times during my lifetime as I witness the remorseless rise of Mammon and decline of Christ which has characterised my time on Earth.

God knows that this losing sight of His purpose in creation is not something that I observe only in others for I too sometimes have a struggle to complete the words of the Lord's Prayer, his "roadmap" to Holiness.

Very few people knew what was happening that night in Bethlehem and yet it was the beginning of the most important 33 years of human history.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed his will to Mary through the message of an angel and to us through his birth, life, death and resurrection. Since those days he has never left us alone, but it is we who have to welcome him into our hearts and actively seek out and embrace his will for us.

Why would we refuse the Loving Fatherhood of God, a place in the New Holy Family as an adopted sibling of the Son of the Most High? 

Jesus dying words to Mary and John "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" complete his mission of salvation in this world the beginning of which we celebrate on this 

"Silent and Holy Night"

Dear Lord, help me to know love and serve as a created being by avoiding anything that is incompatible with your loving perfection and thus becoming the person you created me to be. Amen