My conscience bears me witness.
In my Holy Spirit.
We will seek spiritual fitness.
But only with the help of the spirit.

I have great sorrow and anguish unceasing.
In my heart.
Doubt increasing.
Where does all this finish , indeed where did it start.

Paul feared estrangement from his community.
I fear a lack of true faith abiding.
We all have our demons in our deepest entity.
A sense of losing our belonging.

But we are never cut off from Christ
Because he waits patiently for us , our Christ.

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Sorrow and anguish
Often abide in our soul
But we will win through

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See Romans 9 : 1-5

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God is for us.
He did not spare his own son.
Who then can be against us.
All things shall be given graciously by his son.

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect.
It is God who justifies.
Who is to condemn God’s elect.
He is love embracing us in spiritual ties.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ.
Shall tribulation or distress or persecution.
Separate us from the mercy of Christ.
We need suffer no fear or depression.

As we take communion.
We know it is no mere symbol , he is in the communion.

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If God is for us
Who then can be against us
We need have no fear

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See Romans 8 : 31-39

The spirit helps us.
In our weakness.
It sustains us.
Helps us with meekness .

We do not know what to pray for.
But the spirit intercedes with us with groanings.
In our heart we know what to pray for.
If only we could forget our moanings.

Today I think of the Blessed Richard Leigh.
His service and sacrifice.
He has received his heavenly fee.
For he had paid the price.

They died for the universal church and the Eucharist.
And we now remember them in the Eucharist.

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Faith is not wanting
Courage neither not wanting
They have paid the price

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See Romans 8 : 26-30

Jesus went out to the mountain to pray.
And all night he continued in prayer.
It’s just enough to pray.
What really matters is prayer.

It can be short.
Or long .
It’s God we court.
In spiritual song.

By day.
Or during the night.
What does it matter what we say.
We just seek the light.

In words we pray.
Or without words we pray.

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So all through the night
Jesus knelt in quiet prayer.
Can we do the same

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See Luke 6 : 12-19

God be merciful to me.
A sinner.
Let me understand and see.
Hopeful , though a sinner.

People agonise whether God exists.
Why worry , we know the truth.
Our spirit exits .
We feel it , sense it, in truth.

We can feel it in a quiet moment.
The world seems to stop.
We are neither locked in the past, fearful of the future, we are in this moment.

Like Paul , we say , I have fought the good fight.
I have finished the race, I have kept the faith, I will see the light.

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I’ve fought the good fight
And I have finished the race
I have kept the faith

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See Luke 18 : 9-14 and 2 Timothy

To set the mind on the flesh is death.
To set the mind on the sprit is life.
The body encounters death.
The soul meets life.

What does it matter if you leave ten pounds or ten million.
It’s useless to the body in the coffin.
Irrelevant to the soul, even if a penny or a billion.
Yet why do we worry so often.

To set the mind on the spirit.
Is life  and peace.
Everlasting spirit.
Eternal peace.

You are in the spirit.
God dwells in your spirit.

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The flesh will just die
The spirit will just live on
So do not worry

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See Romans 8 : 1-11

I know that nothing good dwells in me.
That is in my flesh.
What is wrong with me.
Why be imprisoned in this flesh.

I have the desire to do what is right.
But not the ability to carry it out.
Give me strength I pray to seek the light.
To put doubts and fear to rout.

I do not do the good I want.
But the evil I do not want, I keep doing.
I am in spiritual want.
Doubts , depression festering.

But there is hope.
All that matters is hope.

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The good that I want
Is just not what I can do
So I keep trying

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See Romans 7: 18-25

For when you were slaves of sin,
You were free in regard to righteousness.
Where we wonder is sin.
It can only be defeated in consciousness.

But now that you have been set free from sin.
The fruit you get leads to righteousness
The choice is ours salvation or sin.
Again it’s down to consciousness.

Jesus said , do you think I have come to bring peace.
But rather division.
Because we must accept or reject his peace.
That is the division.

Father against son.
Son against father though his son.

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We are given choice
Are we for or against him
We just must decide

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Pope and King in Rome
Praying together today
Reconciliation

See Romans 6 :19-23 and Luke 22: 49-53

One’s life does not consist.
In the abundance of one’s possessions.
All that matters is the spiritual list.
Not the list of possessions.

The rich man said to himself you have ample goods.
Relax , drink and be merry.
But they were not for him these goods
Others would enjoy them and be merry.

This night God said .
Your soul is required of you.
His fate was laid.
And this is our fate, me and you.

We might die this very night.
Yet still encounter new light.

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Yes this very night
Our own  soul may be required
So assume nothing

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See Luke 12: 13-21

The harvest is plentiful.
But the labourers are few.
Our life is full.
And life is new.

Pray to the lord of the harvest.
To send out Labourers.
To his harvest.
At all hours.

I am sending you out.
As lambs in the midst of wolves.
Let us shout.
Now to spiritual peaceful arms.

Carry no money bag, no knapsack on the road.
And greet no one on the road.

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Harvest’s plentiful
But the labourers are few
But we too are they

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See Luke 10:1-9

Are not five sparrows sold.
For two pennies.
Our faith should never be cold.
As we walk our life journeys.

And not one of these sparrows.
Is forgotten before God.
He is there for us in our highs and lows.
Given mercy even if flawed.

Why even the hairs of your head.
Are numbered.
When all is said.
We are never forgotten , always remembered.

We need not fear, despite our sorrows.
We are of more value than many sparrows.

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The hairs of our head
Are numbered by our true God
We’re not forgotten

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See Luke 12 : 1-7

We hold that one is justified by faith.
Apart from the works of the law.
But what is faith.
Is it separate from the law.

Is God the God of Jews only.
Is he not the God of gentiles also,
With him at our side we are never lonely.
He is for us also.

Yes, of Gentiles also.
Since God is one.
A wonderful including word , also.
Yes the only truth, God is one.

Are we defined by law or just faith.
No we are defined by law and faith.

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Justified by faith
Or are we held by the law
In truth it is both

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See Romans 3 : 21-31

But woe to you Pharisee.
For you tithe the mint and rue every herb and neglected justice.
Cannot you not see .
Cannot You understand that compassion is the root of justice.

Why did Jesus question the Pharisees.
It was because of their lack of compassion.
Nothing to do with personalities.
Or even his coming passion.

Woe to you, he said, you are like unmarked graves.
And people walk over them without knowing.
To convention they were slaves.
Not seeking or questioning.

Compassion is everything.
That is what matters, the thing.

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It is compassion
That is what matters to all
We just must show it

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See Luke 11 : 42-46

This generation seeks for s sign.
But no sign will be given save that of Jonah.
We  need not worry overmuch about a sign,
But we need to open our eyes, look far.

As Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh.
So will the Son of man be a sign to this generation.
Our doubts we can lay.
In spiritual expectation.

The people of Nineveh repented at Jonah’s preaching.
And behold something greater than Jonah is here.
We just have to keep searching.
We need not fear.

Jonah managed to survive.
We too will survive.

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A sign is given
It is the sign of Jonah
And it is for us

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See Luke 11 : 29-32

Was no one found to return.
And give praise except this foreigner.
Now it’s our own turn.
Do we turn back like the Samaritan foreigner.

Yet how often do we say thank you.
Or show any real gratitude.
We never criticise ourselves only him , her and you.
Is our own faith really pursued.

Who made the universe.
Who was the first mover.
Do we praise him in prose and verse.
Do we thank this necessary eternal mover.

Without him there would be nothing.
We would be nothing.

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Who’s the first mover
Is it no one just nothing
But how would that work

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See Luke 17 : 11-19

A woman said, Blessed is the womb that bore you.
And the breasts at which you nursed.
Every day we learn anew.
For faith we must thirst.

But he said, Blessed rather are those who hear the word.
Of God and keep it.
Have we listened and heard.
Is our heart’s fire lit.

We may hear.
We may listen,
But do we keep the word that we hear.
Do we follow the word as we listen.

The word is clear.
We have no need to fear.

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We may hear the word
But do we then act on it
Or just carry on

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See Luke 11 : 27-28

Every kingdom divided against itself.
Is laid waste.
We must not fight our own self.
We need not feel ourselves abased.

A divided household.
Falls.
But on nature we can take hold.
The countryside calls.

The crops are safely harvested.
And celebrated.
The land now bared.
The wheat grinded and sifted.

The autumn sun still shining.
The gentle breeze warming.

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Kingdoms divided
And all households divided
Will at some point fall

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See Luke 11 : 15-26

I chose you.
That you should go and bear fruit.
And I appointed you.
That you should abide in your fruit.

What did Newman think was vital.
It was the power of the daily Eucharist.
This, the supreme gift offered to us is vital.
In the 400000 thousand masses said every day for the Eucharist.

I felt this so strongly today at Mass.
The heart moves at this point.
This is the divine presence in the mass.
This, not music or sermons or reading is the point.

A very great gift.
And more and more young are seizing this gift.

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The point of the mass
Is the just the divine presence
And it’s nothing else

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See John 25 : 9-17

When you pray.
Say Father hallowed be your name.
What else do we need say.
Who need worry about power , money or fame.

Your kingdom come.
Give us each day your daily bread.
We worship the one , not any some.
That’s all that need to be said.

Forgive us our sins.
For we forgive all those indebted to us.
We don’t need to worry about wins.
Only to worry about everyone else not us.

And lead us not, let’s mention.
Into temptation.

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Forgive us our sins
And those indebted to us
As we forgive them

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See Luke 11: 1-4

Martha , you are anxious and troubled,
But one thing is necessary.
This truth is not fabled.
We need not be wary.

Which is the true way.
Is it Martha’s work.
Or Mary’s prayer way.
Calm spiritual work.

Mary has chosen the good portion.
That shall not be taken from her.
True conversion.
The holy fleur.

As we keep working.
We need not to stop praying.

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Is it Mary’s way
Or is Martha’s the true way
I think that we know

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See Luke 10: 38-42