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5 th Sunday in Lent

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Now my soul is troubled.
What shall I say: Father save me from this hour.
Nothing is ever settled.
Our life is as transient as the most delicate flower.

Sometimes we think we are separated from ourself.
That our soul is looking at our body.
But what we ask is the true self.
How do we keep ourselves steady and ready.

But not being just our body.
Can give us a profound sense of peace.
Here is nothing transient , disjointed , shoddy.
The body is nothing but the soul will not cease.

If only we could become detached.
Or at least just a little more  semi detached .

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My soul is troubled
Connected to the body
It will soon be free

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See John 13 : 20-23

Saturday of the 4 th week in Lent

Surely he must be the prophet, and some said he is the Christ.
But others said would the Christ be from Galilee.
And now he would be sacrificed.

They heard but refused to to listen or see.

If there is a God.
I doubt if he or she, this God.
Worries whether he’s a Catholic or Protestant God.
Or a Muslim or Jewish God.

Above all it is a God of love.
For all humanity.
A holy dove.
Of lasting serenity.
And so we keep searching.
Perturbed yet ultimately finding.
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Is he a prophet
Yet he comes from Galilee
Still he can be one
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See John 7: 40-52

Friday of the 4 th week in Lent

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We all know where he comes from.
But when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from.
Are we struck dumb.
Do we not know from whence he will come.

I dreamt there were three things that matter.
Love , service and positivity.
We can forget all the rest of the chatter.
Or all that grinding negativity..

To love all  mankind.
To serve others.
To give and not to mind.
To break those selfish tethers.

To turn the other cheek.
And continue to seek.

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Love positively
Reject negativity
And serve all others

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See John 7

Thursday of the 4 th week in Lent

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I have come in the name of my father.
And you refuse to accept me.
Into the unknown, we always want to see further.
Far further than what we will ever be able to see.

We want proof of divinity.
But can we not be content with his good works.
He first demanded sincerity.
But doubt always lurks.

During the night.
I found peace in his good deeds.
In that alone, there was enough light.
And hopeful seeds.

We don’t need to demand much.
Just accept him as such.

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He comes from father
Do we accept him as such
Well maybe sometimes

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See John 5 : 31-47

Wednesday of the 4 th week in Lent

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He spoke of God as his own father.
And so made himself God’s equal.
And so he took our faith one step further.
Here would be our altogether unheard of sequel.

The son can do nothing by himself.
He can only do what he sees the father doing.
And he did nothing for himself.
Only thinking of countering evil doing.

But it is a great step forward in belief.
To recognise a faith healer as God.
I have always struggled with this belief.
What is , where is , is there a God.

His persecutors were not alone.
But for us and them he came to atone.

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Was God his father
He said yes he was father
Do we believe that

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See John 5 : 17-30

Tuesday of the 4 th week in Lent

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Do you want to be well again.
Get up , pick up your sleeping bag and walk.
Are we walking along the right lane
Or do we just do the talk.

Like the Bethzatha pool sick man.
Have we not been able to get into the water for thirty eight years.
Is it too narrow, our mental scan.
Are we too wedded to our own lonely tears.

Can we break with the past.
Obey the call to a heartfelt loving walk.
Embrace something that will last..
And now do more than just talk.

Jesus is walking by.
Telling us to walk and forget our own  self inflicted negativity lie.

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To be well again
We have to pick up our bag
And just walk again

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See John 5; 1-3, 5-16

Monday of the 4 th week in Lent

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Go home, said Jesus, your son will live.
The man believed what Jesus had said.
As well as taking can we too learn to give.
And then our doubts will surely be laid.

The mass was crowded.
I couldn’t see very well.
At the loss of life, I grieved.
Then through a gap I saw and all was well.

There was the icon of Joseph and family.
A saint for new life.
I understood finally.
Hope in the future is ever present, rife.

If we look around.
All yet might be sound.

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Go home your son lives
Do we believe what we’re told
Or do we still doubt

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See John 4 : 43-54

4th Sunday in Lent

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God loved the world so much.
That he gave his only son.
And even now we feel his touch.
As a distant yet warming never dimmed sun.

So that everyone who believes in him may not be lost.
But may have eternal life.
We forget this at our cost.
Yet doubt is still rife.

For God sent his son into the World.
Not to condemn the World.
But that through him he might save the world.
And we might enter the after world.

No one who believes in him will be condemned.
But whoever refuses to believe, he says  is already condemned.

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God  so loved the world
That he gave to us his son
So that we’re not lost

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See John 3 : 14-21

Saturday of the 3rd week in Lent

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I thank you God, says the Pharisee that I am not unkind.
Grasping, unjust like the rest of mankind .
We ask, are we that Pharisee or of his mind .
Not the tax collector and of his mind.

Why can’t we like the tax collector just say.
God be merciful to me a sinner.
That surely is the only way to pray.
Better to be an occasional loser than a winner.

Everyone who exalts himself will  be humbled.
But the man who humbles himself will be exalted.
Better to be sometimes reviled.
Than falsely praised.

We say this , we write it.
But do we really mean it.

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If we are humbled
We surely are exalted
Or we so pretend

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See Luke 18: 9-14

Friday of the 3rd week in Lent

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You must love the Lord with all your heart.
With all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.
Again and again we must make a new start.
And go to any length.

In your dreams you see more reality.
I dreamt that we need to love the whole world.
Here dreamlike is verity.
Resentment furled.

And then we return to reality.
Where all is doubt and fear.
We are told this is verity.
And so we shed a tear.

In dreams we find truth.
But what we ask is truth .

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If we love the Lord
With all our soul and our mind
We might make progress

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See Mark 22 : 28-34

Thursday of the 3rd week in Lent

O that today you would listen to his voice.
Harden not your heart.
It is our choice.
Can we make a start.
We received Harry into the church’s sacristy.
And remembered this good man.
He, we hoped is now clothed in majesty.
His is now the greater scan.
And as we prayed around his coffin.
I seemed to know that still he is alive.
I do not know how or wherein.
But somehow beyond our comprehension he does thrive.We left the church renewed.
And somehow with him revived.…….

We felt his presence
We stood around his coffin
We knew he lives still

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See Psalm 94

Wednesday of the 3rd week in Lent

Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law or the Prophets.
I have come not to abolish but complete them.
Let’s with him have no regrets.
Let’s be happy with every crumb.Till heaven and earth disappear.
Not one little stroke shall disappear from the the law.

We can banish fear.

We will find our true score.

The man who infringes even the least of these commandments.
Will be considered the least in heaven.
So we surrender some enchantments.
And view everything as a kind of leaven.

We hope we will be the man who keeps them then.
Then we will be considered great in the kingdom of heaven.

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We keep commandments
We hope to get to heaven
And hope it exits

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See Matthew 5 : 17-19

Tuesday of the 3 rd Week of Lent

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How often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me.
Not seven but seventy seven times.
Out of resentment can we break free.
However many the others’ crimes.

Can we forgive.
Even if we will never forget.
Can we move forward and live.
Or is our mind set.

The mind never moves on.
But our actions can do.
The past though is gone.
All that really matters is what is new.

Forget , no , maybe yes.
Forgive, yes, or no and finally yes.

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How often forgive
Seventy seven times yes
So we do sometimes

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See Matthew 18 : 21-35

Monday of the 3rd week in Lent

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I tell you solemnly.
No prophet is ever accepted in his own country.
We feel ourselves appreciated rarely.
We always feel behind all and sundry.

But does it matter.
If there is just one who appreciates us.
We seem a failure but we can climb that celestial ladder.
We just have to, at its first step, focus.

Elijah appeared to the Syrian Naaman.
Others were overlooked.
We are that man.
Our ascent is booked.

Our day will come eventually.
If all too slowly.

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A prophet is accepted
But not in his own country
There is always hope

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See Luke 4 : 24-30

3rd Sunday in Lent

He was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body.
And when Jesus rose from the dead his disciples remembered.
At times our faith falls then holds steady.
Some word or action is recalled.
I wish had this faith in God’s existence.
Caring , loving.
Beyond all knowable sense.
Yet all knowing.
Jesus knew them all.
He could tell what a man had in him.
Doubting we yet are in thrall.
Without him we sink, with him we swim.Those who have complete faith are so lucky.
They don’t need to study or worry.

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Jesus knew them all
But does he know all of us
So we hope and pray

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See John 2 : 13-25

Saturday of the 2nd week in Lent

With shepherd’s crook , O Lord lead your people to pasture.
The flock that is your heritage.
Away from life’s pointless lure.
In an attempt to be sage.Help me always to not take offence,
To let harsh words flow over me.
To see in all tribulation some sort of sense.
So that I may better understand and see.

Let me remember the prodigal son.
He wandered off yet was loved all the more.
He like us are forgiven however far away we run.
And searched onto our very core.

People may be rude.
Just ignore them and take solace in the holy rood.

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What’s more important.
To love all without restraint
Or be lonely

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See Micah 7

Friday of the 2nd week in Lent

For him I have accepted the loss of everything.
And I look on everything as so much rubbish.
But thoughts still will take wing.
Giving in weakly and weekly to every wish.Someone I thought was less than generous.
Then I remembered condemn and you will be condemned.
Am I not too ungenerous.
So better than to break is to mend.

I have not won.
But I am still running.
I am not done.
And not entirely failing .

Do not judge.
And they will not you, judge.

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If you accept loss
And accept it as rubbish
Then you may yet win

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See Philippians 3 : 8-14

Thursday of the 2nd week in Lent


A curse on the man who puts his trust in man.
He is like dry scrubs in the wastelands.
And we , do we have a spiritual plan.
Are we to be swept away by time’s shifting sands.
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A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the Lord.
He is like a tree by the waterside.
He will reap the ever flowing heavenly hoard.
And always will have a true and loyal guide.

The words of Jeremiah made a profound impression.
Here was a simple choice we all have.
Focusing on the spiritual brings an end to tension.
All that is material will never be a lasting salve.

It’s more devious than any other thing, the heart.
And the Lord searches the heart.

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Put not trust in man
But put your trust  in the Lord
That is the best way

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See Jeremiah 17: 5-10

Wednesday of the 2nd week in Lent

Anyone who wants to be great among you.
Must  be your servant.
In our spiritual life we wonder how we can break through.
And become more fervent.
I dreamt that I was hearing an intimate mass.
Suddenly I knew I had to be less self centred.
In a dream commands seem to have more force and mass.
Some sort of truth place is entered.And in a dream we seem born anew.
Believing all we are told.
It’s as if we always knew.
Of profound truths as yet revealed or untold.

As we know the son of man came to serve
Not to be served and thus it comes about that him we serve.

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Man’s son came to serve
And not we know to be served
Can we do the same

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See Matthew 20 : 17-28

Tuesday of the 2 nd week of Lent

Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
Just marvel.
And survey the Holy Rood.
Search for justice.
Help the oppressed.
With nobody missed.
Or repressed.Be just to the orphan.
Plead for the widow.
Indeed for every woman and man.
High and low.If you are willing to obey.
You will eat of the good things of the earth and here to stay.

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Cease to do evil
And learn always to do good
Plead for the widow

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See Isaiah 10, 16-20

Monday of the 2 nd week in Lent

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Be compassionate.
As your father is compassionate.
Is our response adequate.
Or in our actions are we always late.

Do not judge.
And you will not be judged.
Or bear a grudge.
Especially if Il- judged.

Do not condemn.
And you will not be condemned.
See in everyone a gem.
And a friend.

What you measure out as an amount
Is what you will be given back as an amount.

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Be compassionate
Father is compassionate
Judge not or be judged

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See Luke 6 : 36-38

2nd Sunday in Lent

I trusted.
Even when I said I am sorely afflicted.
We are tested.
Yet pardoned.We sang the hymn , Breathe on me breath of God.
Fill me with life anew.
That I may love as I am loved by God
And do what you would do.

The lyrics and tune make a profound impression.
They seem in short verses to sum it up.

They start to answer every question.
From the Lord’s very cup we seem to sup.Breathe on me breath of God.
To do and to endure , dear God.

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Breathe on me God’s breath
And fill me with life anew
To do and endure

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See Psalm 115

Saturday of the 1st Week of Lent

I say this to you love your enemies.
And pray for those who persecute you.
Not easy to do but the sentiment puts the mind at ease.
We should not  expect always what is our due.In this way you will be sons of your father in heaven.
Because he causes his sun to rise on bad men aswell as good.
We don’t need to get even.
It’s a question of not insisting on the should.

If you love those who love you.
What right have you to claim any credit.
We can sometimes accept we don’t have to sue.
Rather than transmit we can occasionally submit.

He tells you you must be perfect.
As your Heavenly Father is perfect.

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Love your enemies
Pray for your persecutors
All quite difficult

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See Matthew 5 : 42-48

Friday of the 1st week of Lent

He shall live.
Because of the integrity he has practiced.
We pass through life’s unrelenting sieve.
Held to account and analysed.But if the upright man renounces his integrity.
Is he to live.
It’s about our honesty.
Do we always take or are we prepared sometimes to give.

But you object.
What the Lord does is unjust.
Perhaps we need a reset.
If we are to claim we are just.

We just, to the end, have to keep going.
Until we come up against the final reckoning.

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We do have a choice
Whether to live or to die
We just have to think

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See Ezekiel 18: 21-28

St Peter’s Chair

But you , he said.
Who do you say I am.
Are our doubts laid.
Or held up by some rational dam.Then Simon Peter spoke up.
You are the Christ , son of the living God.
But can we taste faith’s overflowing cup.
Are we like Peter convinced and awed.

You are Peter.
And on this rock I will build my church.
But we of course do not have the faith of Peter.
We will never build any church.

But at Mass today, these words, I believed.

And felt strangely inspired and relieved.

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He said you are Christ
And son of the living God
Do we say the same

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See Matthew 16: 13-19