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October 15, 2006
October 16th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 1 Period II.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
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October 15, 2006
Hebrews 4: 12-13
The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts more incisively than any two–edged sword: it can seek out the place where soul is divided from spirit, or joints from marrow; it can pass judgement on secret emotions and thoughts. No created thing is hidden from him; everything is uncovered and stretched fully open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves.
Messenger:
God tells us to grow in greater
holiness.
The more we deviate from the real
truth, the truth of Jesus, the more
must be corrected to have holiness,
purity and oneness.
The Trinity is the most perfect
community. God is 3 Persons in
one God.
I believe that there will be the
great era of peace Mary promised
at Fatima.
Fr. Carter S. J. in a message from
Tell My People talks about
the Age of the Two Hearts —
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I have allowed you to experience in extraordinary fashion the riches contained in My Heart and My Mother's Heart. I desire that you tell all My people about these riches. I desire that My people consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary's Immaculate Heart. My people are living in the beginnings of the age of the Two Hearts.
"After the time of the purification is completed, this new era of the Church and the world will become firmly established. This era will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. All those who consecrate themselves to My Heart and to My Mother's Heart will help to establish this glorious new age. I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My urgent request. Within Our Hearts you will experience the love and security, the peace and the joy, which you all desire. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in My love I give them this message!"
Reflection: This is the Age of the Two Hearts! The surest road to sanctity in these our times is through consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. In making this consecration, and striving with God's grace to live it as best we can each day, we are contributing to the establishment of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and to the arrival of the reign of the Sacred Heart.
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Messenger:
What is loving?
It is doing God's will —
It is obeying the commandments —
It is not trying to lead others into temptations.
It is trying to not give into the temptations
ourselves.
The more we give into sin we can
become blinded —
numb —
cover-up.
Satan wants sins covered up — so
the person keeps doing the sin —
Messenger:
Our life is lived to grow in greater
holiness.
Through baptism we receive a special
sharing in His life —
The more we are saturated with His
life the more we know and
are one with Him.
Galatians 2: 19-20
I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. The life that I am now living, subject to the limitation of human nature, I am living in faith, faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
Messenger:
To me the mission of the Shepherds of Christ is to
help us grow in greater oneness through
a deeper life of consecration to the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
I experience greater and greater
depth of oneness with God the
more I am saturated with His
grace.
I live a more pure existence —
I live in greater harmony.
An apple with a worm will
soon be all rotten —
November 29, 1994
Love His Will
Messenger: I feel such an awareness of surrendering to Him to let Him operate me, in everything I do, to love His will for me. I surrender, He leads me. I yield to Him and He operates as I deliver these messages always yielding to Christ and letting Him operate to try to be that person the Father intended me to be. To do what He wills, to do what is in His plan for me. It is an act of my will to love His will, so I surrender to Him and be the empty vessel He uses to operate from. I am the child, He is the Father, I am the baby submissive at the breast. I trust Him like the baby, I surrender to Him, to die to my own willfulness and yield. I give Him myself. His life is within me. When I get self conscious around others sometimes I take back my control. He wants to operate when we are around others.
Messenger: I have a constant presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity
of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity. From the words of the MassMessenger: We are human, through baptism we are given a special sharing in His life. He came that we might have life and have it to the full.
Saturate me with your life.
He shared in our humanity.
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one year before Mary appeared on the building
Excerpt from the Mass Book
T
HE EARTH STOPPED AND TOUCHED HEAVEN...The word I have looked for is "oneness." I understand some of the meaning of the words "One in Him." Oneness is the word to describe this union of our humanity with His Divinity. The depth to which we could meditate on oneness with God is incomprehensible. In that moment, the earth stood still, and He, my Divine Lover, the Bridegroom of my soul, took me to Himself, and I knew the embrace of the Divine God.
Nothing on the face of this earth can describe our union with Divinity. Oh, good God, that creatures are so ungrateful regarding Your divine love. I am so sorry. Let me help make reparation to Your adorable Heart. Please unite with me now that I may more deeply love Thee.
Oh, Divine Lover of my soul, let me help make reparation to Your adorable Heart for the neglect and indifference against You.
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Messenger:
And if we have the proper love relationship
with Jesus, everything else falls into place.
Yes, as our union with Jesus grows, He
leads us to a closer union with
the Father, in the Holy Spirit with Mary at our side.
It is for love that we are searching
but nothing compares to the love of
the Divine God. If inordinate
attachments cloud the life of
the religious, then they interfere
with the deep love God desires as the
bridegroom of the religious.
God is love and in Him is no
darkness —
He loves us so much and wants
our love.
Only God can satisfy the stalking
soul.
Messenger:
In baptism our knowing and loving
capacity is elevated.
It is in this that we find greater
joy — that God "raises the bar" so to
speak teaching us always deeper
insight into the hidden mysteries —
All that is can become enormously
clear if God lifts the veil and outpours
His grace.
Stubborn children of Eve we are
holding on to our dysfunctions like
little trophies, sometimes lying to
have an enormous cover-up.
It is not loving to cover-up for
one addicted with something — using that
thing to cover up hidden deep pain.
Addictions can be to alcohol, drugs,
food, people, sex, work, health:
addictions come in many shapes and
sizes but usually
there is an addicted party —
one who enables, covering up —
there is a co-dependence that
exists there between the people —
A person addicted to germs may be
afraid to live —
A person who is attached to an alcoholic
spouse gets in the rescuer role —
Abuse with food, manipulation,
can be severe, a sickness, trying
to control the other
like the enabler following the
alcoholic around so he doesn't
fall when intoxicated and hurt
himself and if the male spouse is
the alcoholic
the female spouse enables —
covering up the truth — living in
denial — both of them — keeping
the dance in motion —
the "elephant is in the living room"
there is an alcoholic and one which
enables
All of our relationships should
be ones in love that empower one
another to be as God desires —
With addictions — sicknesses
can be deep seated —
A mother running after a drug
addicted child can tell someone —
horror stories and yet the enabling
stops the healing process —
Stops the person being what God
desires in relationship in love.
A person addicted to something
can easily get another into the
rescuing role and it hurts all in
a family.
Basic needs may not be met —
The enabler can run day and night
after the unpredictable alcoholic
who can control the other by the
unpredictable behavior.
Rescuing another with bizarre
behavior can turn into great
sickness for anyone involved.
God's will is doing what God
wants — not too much, not too little.
The devil works in food, relationships —
the relationship can be divided — or
too much the other way.
Our relationships are to be
as God desires. God desires us
to work as one in pure love —
not dysfunction — helping each
to grow in greater union with
God.
In communities — there is a head
and the people in religious communities
work as one — they are not expected to
couple off if taking a vow of
chastity and obedience.
What is important always is
pure love according to God's will.
God being #1 in our lives — all
relationships as God desires for
that vocation.
We are always fine tuning ourselves
to be as God desires.
Before the orchestra one can hear
each person tune up so they can
play beautiful music.
Each person has to tune their
instrument. Some are more out
of tune than others, some off one way —
some off another way, some tuned
this way, others that way. Oh, but
the music is harmonious and beautiful —
full and pleasing to the ear and the heart.
Let our lives be played in harmony
tuning ourselves in the way we need
to so there will not be discord and
all be one — obeying the commandment
"I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me."
Did you ever stuff a pillow
case to carry toys or what have
you. It can be useful, but it
is not meant for that. The pillow
fits just right.
Pressing on one end of a teeter-totter
makes the other end go up —
a little child may cry and fall off
if they were unexpectantly thrown
in the air, an older child might
shout with joy.
When I taught math, I understood
my books and problems, if I went into
a history class in college, I could not
teach it.
God the Father is our conductor and
He has a plan. He watches us do our
own wills and rationalize why
we should do it our way and not His
way many times.
I watched a baby and when I changed
her diaper she made me chase her as
she ran away without her diaper, smiling,
looking backward, giggling as I
ran with the diaper in hand.
Do we run from God like that? It's
His will we do something and we know
it and we run bare away — looking
back giggling at God while we
do our own will and He pursues
us like the "hound of heaven" —
eventually we may have a little
test of our own.
When we move further from God
we can fall fast —
We need His grace to hold us up.
Sin to me can be like this —
Could I swallow a big bomb
and say, I will watch it by
walking like carrying an egg and
it won't explode.
God says
"and lead us not into temptation"
Why swallow a big bomb?
Why open a door through little
sins to satan?
Little sins turn into bigger
sins if we keep giving in.
What is right is right —
What is wrong is wrong.
God gave us the commandments —
We must follow rules —
Some may have been taught to tell
little lies or have developed
these habits —
To grow close to God we have to
not tell lies and do the
right thing —
live in the truth
But satan is the father of lies and he
doesn't want evil to be exposed and
stopped. He can come down hard when
one opens up a secret that is
concealing a sin.
Satan works in secrets.
Jesus came into the world bare —
He died His arms spread and His
body spread on the cross —
without covering —
The New Adam hung on the tree —
spread wide open —
God has given us a life time to look
at our bad habits and try
to change them.
Many things are past down — we
learn from our parents — If
parents do sins, the children are
taught these things —
If we have people loving
the Mother of God and Jesus
deeply in the Church — the
children of the Church are taught
love for Mary as Mother of God,
love for Jesus.
If there is devotion to the
Sacred Heart taught, reparation
for offences against God, love for the
Church, love for the priest,
love for the Eucharist. If love for the
sacraments is taught — the
children of the Church will
love the sacraments.
We are the imperfect children
of Adam and Eve — The Church
must be our teacher, but the
Church must forever grow
in greater holiness.
The Church, the individual
Christian and the world are in the state
of becoming
Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
"Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!
"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."
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