Thursday of Week 9 in Ordinary Time

If we have died with him.
We may be unfaithful.
But we shall live with him.
He is always faithful.If we have died with him.
Then we shall live with  him.
If we hold firm then we shall reign with him.
He will disown us if we disown him.

There is to be no wrangling about words.
All that this achieves is the destruction of those listening.
Are they really so important, words.
What matters is not talking but listening.

Do not be ashamed of your life’s work
For it is yours and no one else’s work.
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We will die with him
We will live with him, surely
That is our best hope
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See 2 Timothy 2 : 8-15

Wednesday of Week 9 in Ordinary Time

God’s gift was not a spirit of timidity.
But the spirit of power and of love.
Or for that matter of undue temerity.
I looked at my wife and felt great love.And then in my waking dream.
I dreamt that I loved the whole world.
Why does this feeling only really come in a dream.
Why is compassion in us too often furled.But we should love all.
Irrespective of who they are.
Then truly we could walk tall.
And with amazing vision see far from afar.

That time will come in life.
But maybe not now in this life.

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God’s gift is not fear
Or timidity in life
It is just true hope

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See 2 Timothy 1

Tuesday of Week 9 in Ordinary Time

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Give back to Caesar.
What belongs.
To Caesar.
Accepting any wrongs

And give back to God.
What belongs.
To God.
Who does no wrongs.

But most importantly.
Is that God is everything.
And all beginning and finality.
In , for, from and to everything.

We know to whom we must give.
And what we must sieve.

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Give back to Caesar
What belongs to the Caesar.
And to God the rest

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See Mark 12 : 13-17

St Charles Lwanga and his companions

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May you have more and more grace and peace.
As you come to know our Lord more and more .
We pray this without cease.
Unto our innermost core.

By his divine power he has given us all the things we need.
For life and for true devotion.
The blood of the martyrs is the church’s seed.
Reminding us of our true creation.

But to attain this you will have to do your utmost yourselves.
Adding goodness to the faith you have.
Self control, patience in ourselves.
Kindnesses’  salve.

And to kindness love.
The ascending spiritual dove.

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We seek just some peace
We  come to live with the Lord
With kindness and love

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See 2 Peter 1

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

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Take it, he said , this is my body.
This is my blood , the blood of the covenant.
For this gift are we alert and ready.
Our thanks and prayers lovingly sent.

At the last supper.
He gave a gift of himself.
Now our succour.
For everyone not just ourself.

Did anyone before.
Give such a gift.
Loving us to our core.
Healing every rift.

At communion .
With him we are in union.

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This is my body
And this he said is my blood
Now and for ever

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See  Mark 14

Saturday of Week 8 in Ordinary Time

You must use your most holy faith.
As your foundation.
Not view it as some sort of intangible wraith.
Or as some way of avoiding damnation.
Build on that .
Praying to the Holy Spirit.
Never falling flat.
Or being some sort of hypocrite.When there are some who have doubts.
Reassure them.
Everywhere and hereabouts.
Rather than with doubt being struck dumb.

When there are some who have doubts reassure them.
And in every way try to help them.

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Use your holy faith
As all your foundation
For you and others

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See Jude 1:17

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Of all women you are the most blessed.
And blessed is the fruit of your womb.
What future pain and joy could then be guessed.
Or what greatness would loom.Why should I be honoured.
With a visit of the mother of my lord.
And why should we be honoured.
With salvation from our Lord.

Yes blessed is she who believed.
That the promise of the Lord would be fulfilled.
And will it be said of us that we believed.
That this two thousand year old promise would be fulfilled.

We will never receive a visit from the mother of our Lord.
But we  ask for help from the mother of our Lord.

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You blessed woman
You the mother of our Lord
We ask for your help

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See Luke 1: 39-56

Thursday of Week 8 in Ordinary Time

You are new born and you should be hungry.
Which will help you grow to salvation.
Going humbly.
Whatever our condition.Now that you have tasted the goodness of the Lord.
He is the living stone rejected by men, but chosen by God.
Connecting us to heaven by a spiritual cord.
Till finally in us there is nothing flawed.

Set yourself close to him.
So that you may be living stones making a spiritual house.
Our light will not grow dim.
With our holy spouse.

You are a chosen race.
A royal priesthood , you will finish this race.

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You are then new born
You should therefore be hungry
For salvation

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See 1 Peter 2

Wednesday of Week 8 in Ordinary Time

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All flesh is grass.
And its glory like the wild flower’s.
We all will pass.
At the end of our hours.

Reading the obituary of conjoined twins
Full of life , never complaining.
Lives for less losses more wins.
Yet our minds never stop complaining.

Stop a moment.
Think of others’ trials
Try to be content.
With our own life’s files.

Quieten the mind’s questioning
Accepting rather than fearing.

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All our flesh is grass
Our glory like wild flowers
Here now then passing

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See 1 Peter 1 : 18-25

Tuesday of Week 8 in Ordinary Time

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Free your minds then of encumbrances.
Control them, put your trust in revealed grace.
There are true and merely shallow substances.
We know what they are if we look ourselves in the face.

It’s amazing how happy you feel.
If you focus on ultimate being.
If you watch your thought for what is real.
This moment only, thus mind freeing.

The mind , the self is not king.
The vastness of spiritual being.
Is the true lord in a perfect ever lasting ring.
That is true understanding.

So let us go forward together.
Now and for ever.

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Free your minds then
And from all encumbrances
That is happiness

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See 1 Peter: 1, 10-16

St Augustine of Canterbury

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Go out to the whole world.
Proclaim the good news.
Let the banner be unfurled.
Proclaiming our views.

What profound joy it is.
To move from the selfish mind.
To realise the true us isn’t this.
That the spiritual essence, we can find.

We can be the mind’s watcher.
We can be part of something whole.
No longer just the mind’s lodger.
And reach our spiritual goal.

But first we have to do less thinking.
And more accepting.

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Go out to the world
And proclaim all the good news
It is our duty

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See Psalm 116

The Holy Trinity

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Know that I am with you always.
To the end of time.
To the end of all days.
Whether in death or in our prime.

What is God , three in one.
Or just  universal spiritual being.
But with this essence we are surely one.
We are not separate but will be all seeing.

We identify with our own mind.
But the mind is not the ultimate truth.
To ourselves and others we can be kind.
Because we are really all one being in truth.

So God is three in one .
And we are everyone in one.

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God is three in one
We are everyone in one
We’re universal

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See Matthew 28: 16-20

St Bede the Venerable

If anyone one of you is in trouble.
He should pray.
Helpings us through our mind’s rubble.
And guiding us in our path not to stray.If anyone is feeling happy.
He should sing a psalm.
In any event try not to be scrappy.
And be in some sort of calm

So I sang the psalm , let my prayer come before you.
Like insense  O Lord.
As I prayed I walked along and contentment grew.
Over the quiet hills , away from the horde.

Saying a psalm.
Always keeps us calm.

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If we’re in trouble
We should in certainty pray
And when we’re happy?

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See James 5: 13-20 and Psalm 140

Friday of Week 7 in Ordinary Time

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The lord is compassion and love.
All my being bless his holy name.
Let me just accept and not shove.
In Acceptance remain.

He redeems your life from the grave.
And crowns you with life and compassion.
We always have something precious we can save.
Remembering our Lord’s passion.

My soul give thanks to the Lord.
And never forget his blessings.
We are his ward.
Covering up
Our mental wounds with spiritual dressings.

The Lord is compassion and love.
Slow to anger , rich in merciful love.

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Compassion, love
That is surely the Lord’s way
But then is it ours

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See Psalm 102

Thursday of Week 7 in Ordinary Time. Our Lord Jesus Christ , the Eternal High Priest

This is my body.
This is my blood.
Are we ready.
To help us navigate the flood.
The blood of the covenant.
Which is poured out for many.
Without any judgment.
Giving us unbounded plenty.
He gives himself in mass.
Body and blood.
Not through a dark glass.
But in wonderful flood.
The high priest .
Our search for him will not desist.
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This my body
And he says this is my blood
But do we listen
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See Mark 14 : 22-25

Wednesday of Week 7 in Ordinary Time

The most you should ever say is.
If it is the Lord’s will we will be alive to do this or that.
Rather than ours we should talk of his.
As eventually we all just fall rather flat.I was at Frank Field’s funeral today.
A man of faith and compassion.
One line in the hymn stood out this day
Putting everything into one lesson.

Deliverance he affords to all.
Who in his promise trust.
Knowing this we can walk tall.
If in him we entrust.
We have little to fear.
If we place ourselves in his care.
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Is it the Lord’s will
To do this or that of that
That’s the question
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See James 4: 13-17

Tuesday of the 7 th week of Ordinary Time

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Grant that always pondering spiritual things.
We may carry out in word and deed what is pleasing to you.
Trying to find those elusive springs.
Bringing to fruition life anew.

Where do these wars and battles start.
Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting in your own selves.
Setting us apart.
Thinking always of ourselves.

Don’t you realise that making the world your friend.
Is making God your enemy.
Are we prepared not to take but to lend.
And accept everything restfully.

We just have to wait patiently.
Deservedly , reservedly.

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Ponder spiritual
Carry out in word and deed
What is God’s pleasure

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See James 4 : 1-10

Mary , Mother of the Church

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After Jesus had taken the vinegar.
He said,it is accomplished.
How much more do we have to travel, how far.
Have we failed , have we managed.

I was feeling unhappy about something affecting me.
But the route to happiness is to think of others.
So obvious but somethings we rarely see.
But the best way to break our tethers.

He knew he to die to succeed.
Because we all have to die.
And thus he accepted the cruel deed.
And every thing thrown at him that was a lie.

But he still thought at the end of his mother’s welfare.
And now he looks after our welfare.

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It is accomplished
For all was necessary
He had done it all

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See John 19 : 25-34

Pentecost

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They had all met in one room.
When they heard what sounded like a powerful wind.
What they heard would for all time free us from the tomb.
Fear and doubt now and for ever pinned.
Something appeared that seemed like tongues of fire.
These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them.
Thus fortelling the building of many a quire.
Their witness no longer would be dumb.
My mind depressed , I thought on Cardinal Mercier’s prayer.
Ponder your soul , the temple  of the Holy Spirit.
Thus we are comforted , layered by layer upon layer.
Enveloped , not alone, sustained by this spirit.
Enlighten me , guide me.
Strengthen me, console me
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Guide, enlighten me
Strengthen , console me
In Holy Spirit
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See Acts 2: 1-11

Saturday of the 7 th week of Easter

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Jesus had not said to Peter, he will not die.
But if I want Him to stay behind till I come.
When and how will we die , we ask , we sigh.
Yet always we hear death’s distant insistent drum.

Yet as I am writing this at midnight.
The readings for Pentecost arrive on the Universalis app.
A new day , new hope and new spiritual sight.
As I think of a new race , a new life lap.

Thus as the readings for Easter end.
So the Apostles waited for a new beginning.
And indeed God did decide the spirit to send.

There is no permanent end only a new sending.

And thus does a new day arrive.
And they and we survive.

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Easter is finished
And now Pentecost arrives
A new beginning

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See John 21 : 20-25

Friday of the 7 th week of Easter

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Simon , do you love me more than these others do.
Lord, you know I love you.
Do we love him too.
Like hopefully the many and not the few.

We love our family so much.
But should we not love everyone else too.
Hold fast all in gentle touch.
Seeing everything as fresh, created new.

A second time he said , Simon , do you love me.
Look after my sheep.
Are we prepared to be really free.
And stare for truth in the very deep.

It is only our choice.
We need however to find our voice.

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Do you love me more
Than all of the others do
Lord, you know I do

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See John 21: 15-19

Thursday of the 7 th week of Easter

You have born witness in Rome.
Now you must do the same in Jerusalem.
I was meditating on St Peter’s dome.
A new Jerusalem.We went to mass  in the English college.
We prayed for the martyrs.
Men of great courage.
Some simple men , others men of letters.

Like them we traveled.
In faith we journeyed.
At our destination we safely arrived.
At theirs they died.

We made a spiritual journey.
Theirs was more a final journey.

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Bear witness in Rome
We do so in the spirit
They did so much more

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See Acts 22 and 23

Wednesday of the 7 th Week of Easter

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Be on your guard for yourselves.
And for the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseeers.
The burden of care for the vulnerable  is on ourselves.
We are not merely curators.

I just happened to talk to the Pope today.
I asked him to pray for the unborn in our debate.
I will , is what he had to say.
That’s the sort of powerful endorsement I rate.

Is there any more vulnerable than the unborn.
To whom do we owe more care.
To this we are sworn.
But total support is all too rare.

All the world is the flock of the shepherd.
We are that shepherd.

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On guard for ourselves
Is not always just enough
Care for vulnerable

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See Acts 20 :  28-38

Tuesday of the 7 th week of Easter

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Let his camp be reduced to ruin.
Let there be no one to live in it.
In terms of salvation none of us is a shoe in.
But we can ensure a lamp is lit.

I was learning today of the work of Caritas.
And their extraordinary good deeds.
Worth almost as much as any mass..
Sowing hope filled seeds.

How do we rid the world of poverty .
And bring justice to all.
Ridding the world of enmity.
So that all might walk tall.

That I do not for certain know.
We can only seek to sow.

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End all poverty
We can work and we can pray
But it is still there

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See Acts 1