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November 22, 2006

November 23rd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 3 Period  I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for November 23rd are Joyful.

         

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November 22, 2006

Luke 19: 11-28

While the people were listening to this he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to show itself then and there. Accordingly he said, ‘A man of noble birth went to a distant country to be appointed king and then return. He summoned ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds, telling them, "Trade with these, until I get back." But his compatriots detested him and sent a delegation to follow him with this message, "We do not want this man to be our king."
     ‘Now it happened that on his return, having received his appointment as king, he sent for those servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what profit each had made by trading. The first came in, "Sir," he said, "your one pound has brought in ten." He replied, "Well done, my good servant! Since you have proved yourself trustworthy in a very small thing, you shall have the government of ten cities." Then came the second, "Sir," he said, "your one pound has made five." To this one also he said, "And you shall be in charge of five cities." Next came the other, "Sir," he said, "here is your pound. I put it away safely wrapped up in a cloth because I was afraid of you; for you are an exacting man: you gather in what you have not laid out and reap what you have not sown." He said to him, "You wicked servant! Out of your own mouth I condemn you. So you knew that I was an exacting man, gathering in what I have not laid out and reaping what I have not sown? Then why did you not put my money in the bank? On my return I could have drawn it out with interest." And he said to those standing by, "Take the pound from him and give it to the man who has ten pounds." And they said to him, "But, sir, he has ten pounds . . ." "I tell you, to everyone who has will be given more; but anyone who has not will be deprived even of what he has.
    "As for my enemies who did not want me for their king, bring them here and execute them in my presence." ’

When he had said this he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

 

Messenger:             We can be so self-focused, hardened
                            in heart we miss the message of Jesus.

                               The very hairs of our head are numbered.
                            God did not put us here on this earth and
                            forget about us.

                                We have only so many days to serve Him
                            and to grow more and more in His image
                            and likeness.

                                Thanksgiving is a day to celebrate the
                            Resurrection. To be so happy God has
                            created us and wants us with Him
                            forever in heaven. When you love
                            someone you like being with them

                            they don't have to be doing anything —
                            it is the presence —

                                God wants us to love Him — He created
                            us to love Him and give Him honor and glory.
                            Look how self-focused we can become —
                            when the Divine God loves us so much and
                            wants us to love Him and He loves us.

                                This is the real story of Christmas
                            and Thanksgiving
— to be Thankful for
                            all the love God has given to us, all that
                            He has given to us — to be like Christ —
                            other focused — giving love — a person
                            can focus on "me" — "me" — "me" so much and
                            they are really unhappy —

                                God calls us to spread His light in the
                            dark corners.

                                What is the story of Christmas?

                                That the Divine God — Jesus, the Son of
                                God, took on flesh and He died for
                                me out of this greatest love that
                                I would be with Him forever in
                                heaven.

                            Joy is in the Savior

 

 

November 22, 2006 message continues

Messenger:               Let the words of this "Song from Jesus"
                            go to the far ends of this earth

                                Listen

                                I come to you with greatest love

                                I am your loving Savior

                                I am your God I died for you

                                I come to you today.

                            Verse I

                                You are my precious little one,
                              


John 3: 16                       

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

                           

                            "You are my little precious one."

                            God says to us

                            Love Me

                            I long for your love so much I remain
                                in the Eucharist

                            He waits for us to come before the tabernacle
                                and love Him

                                a tender love affair
                                with the Divine God — truly present

                            "I am your God
                             I died for you."

                            God put on a little human baby body for
                                me and
                                in baptism He gives me a special
                                sharing in His life

                            Deeper Life in Him

                            Oh God
                                  I know how You love me in the Blue Skies I see
                                                                                             and I thank You.

                            Oh God
                                  I see You in the little precious baby
                                                                                and I thank You.

                            Oh God
                                  I know You as I experience deeper love
                                    with others
                                                                                and I thank You.

                            Oh God,
                                  I thank You for my hand to write to You and
                                        tell You I love You.

                            Oh God,
                                  I thank You for my eyes to see Your
                                        beauty in creation and others.

                            Oh God
                                  I thank You for my family and friends
                                        and food and loving one another.

                            Oh God
                                  How can I even thank You for all You
                                        give me

                            But Jesus,
                                    I thank You for the priest who brings
                                        us the Eucharist

                            Oh Jesus
                                    I thank You for dying for me and remaining
                                        in the Eucharist.

 

                            Oh Jesus
                                  You are the summit of all sweetness —
                                  my constant companion
                                  Always with me —
                                  I am NEVER alone.

                            How can I thank You God for this special
                                  sharing in Your life at Baptism.

                            Or elevating my human nature to greater
                                  heights in Thee in knowing and loving
                                  more likened to Thee.

                            Oh Jesus, I cannot verbalize how I love
                                  Your presence and the presence of
                                   the Father and Holy Spirit in my
                                   graced soul

                            Oh Spirit of Light fill my heart with fire
                                   for love of God and all others

                            Oh God I thank You — for You are love and
                                    to be likened to You is to love —

                            God consume my heart and soul with
                                    love and focus on the "other" to do
                                    Your work

                            Where the devil tries to cripple and get us
                                    self-focused

                            Open our eyes to the wide vision

                            Help our hearts to be filled with Your
                                    rhythm in us
— that the beat of
                                    our heart — beats for love of
                                    Thee and to serve God by living
                                    by the Father's will in love.

                            Hold me Jesus in the deepest recesses of
                                    Your precious burning Heart

                                    that I will love Thee more likened
                                    to the sinless Heart of Mary.

 

      

                          

November 22, 2006 message continues

Messenger:           Oh God I love Thee

                            Oh God I worship Thee

                            Oh God I thank Thee.

                            Father — I am Your little child —

                                Help me to be good as You desire

                            Not to be self promoting, but doing all
                                things for the honor and glory of God

                            Letting go of inordinate attachments —

                            The night was still and
                            the sky looked black

                            little stars danced in the great black abyss
                            and a silver moon shined high and
                                  gave some light —

                            In the distance one could see a couple
                                hand-in-hand and their little children
                                skipping down the pavement
—   

                            Soon they would sleep for the night

                            And when the sun would come up — so would
                                  the little children — crawling into
                                  mommy and daddy's bed for hugs and
                                  snuggling and love —

                            Little children want to sit next to you on the
                                 couch and touch you because they want
                                 the warmth and security of that love of
                                 their parents

                            God has given us a life-time to know a deeper
                                  spiritual love with Him, we are just
                                  the little "kids" we were grown up

                            We have a heavenly Father that loved us so
                                  much He sent Jesus to be truly present
                                  with us in the consecrated host through
                                  the hands of our blessed priests.

                            Little children steal a hug from mom and dad
                                  a kiss on the cheek — but there are
                                  so many empty hearts of little kids
                                  turned big — longing and thirsting to
                                  know Jesus truly present in the Eucharist
                                  and Jesus longs and thirsts for us to come and
                                  be with Him, "to sit a while" to
                                  enjoy the Divine God, Jesus, truly present
                                  in the Eucharist in His Divinity
                                  and humanity.

                                  This is the message of the Blue Books,
                            of Shepherds of Christ, of the
                            Mass Book
— the Rosary meditations —

                            Jesus says to us, but we may not hear
                                "I love you, I love you, I love you

                                I am truly present in My Divinity and
                                humanity in the Eucharist
— come and
                                be with Me and I will shower you with
                                My grace."

                                Little children want love

                            The Sun came up and they ran for some love.
                            Little kids grow up to be big kids

                            God is not saying
                                Love is for little children only —

                            God is not saying
                                that love must be sex only

                            God is telling us about the eternal banquet
                                of His love in heaven
— to be
                                embraced by Father, Son and Holy Spirit for
                                all eternity.

                            God is telling us to be lovers

                            To come to Him like little "kids" to
                                be filled with love and be "other"
                                focused

                                not like starving
                                            whimpering babies.

                            There was a little girl in a dark night that stood
                                by a big tree in the rain and cried

                                not too far was a lighted house,
                                but she stayed in the rain and cried.

 

 

                                                       

 November 22, 2006 message continues

Messenger:                 This is Jesus' Movement to pray for our
                            beloved priests who bring us the Eucharist

                            the sacraments in the Church —

                            God wants us to be big "kids"

                                   Loving Him like a little child — so
                                        in love with mom and dad.

                                   Every moment living to please
                                        Our Heavenly Father

                                   Longing and thirsting for Jesus
                                         going to the Eucharist.

                                   and Knowing the Holy Spirit alive in our
                                   soul brings us peace and joy

                            God thank You for loving us

                            God thank You for Your gifts

                            God thank You for each other

                            God thank You for our families

                            God thank You for the sacraments — baptism,
                                    the Eucharist, confession ...

                            God how can I even say more

                                    I can show You my heartfelt
                                        thanks by loving You
                                        loving others and doing Your will

 


                                   
                           

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer for Union with Jesus

    Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

 

 

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb,
the Bridegroom of the Soul

     Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

                                                                                                                                                                

 

                  From Blue Book 6                                    

                                     

January 14, 1995  Holy Spirit Chapel  6:30 a.m.

Rays from the Tabernacle

R.  Jesus is in the tabernacle. I saw rays coming at me. They were pointed at me. There was a light over the tabernacle which pulsated. The candle, the Sanctuary light pulsated.

Jesus said:  This is how My Heart is beating for you. Every second My Heart beating and beating, My Most Sacred Heart on fire, beating for you.

R.  I saw rays off all the candles once in the front of this chapel, all directed at me. This was last summer.

    I had such a presence of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I could feel the presence of Jesus and Mary all the way down, so overwhelmed with Their presence, I was crying. Someone came in, it was as if I was slapped back into this world. It was the coldest reality, I want it back so much.

    Penetrate My Soul: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I know the love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit so deep.
  

Excerpt from Response to God's Love, by Father Edward Carter, S.J.

   ...In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).
    

R.  I know the love of the Holy Spirit. I know this immense love of Father and Son — Fire burning, shooting forth with fire and force, as the Spirit that moves, driven by immense power — transcending power (love power) pouring forth and moving in my being.

    Spirit of love, pour into me.

        Fill me with your fire and your presence.

        Fire in my heart, that burns with Divine love.

    Love from the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

    LIFE abundant life, pouring forth and moving with the power of eternal love.

    UNENDING, UNBOUNDED, FORCEFUL AND FULL OF MIGHT — the MIGHT of the LOVE of GOD.

    The fire of this love that filled the Virgin and the WORD was made FLESH

    LOVE of GOD from the Father to the Son from the Son to the Father and I believe in the Holy Spirit who proceedeth from the Father and the Son (from the Creed)

so immense is this love of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

    SPIRIT of ETERNAL LOVE
                     ETERNAL LIFE.

    SPIRIT of the LIVING GOD
    MOVING

    The love between the Father and the Son and the Son and the Father, and I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life: who proceedeth from the Father and the Son. (from the Creed)

    It is this Spirit, the Spirit of Eternal Love, on Fire, that filled Mary and the WORD was made Flesh, Jesus Christ the Son of God.

    It is this Power from the Holy Spirit, this Might that filled the apostles, that transformed them from fear to fearlessness.

    This Spirit is life, it is Love of the Father for the Son and the Son for the Father, brimming over on fire and alive.

    The Living GOD, the Son was born into this world. God the Father sent His only Son into this world through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us.

    Jesus, the Son of God, is truly present in His Divinity and humanity, this day in the Eucharist — God is with us in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, with us, the same as the day He walked this earth. And He dwelt among us and remains with us in His Body and Blood this day.

    Oh Holy GOD, who are we that You love us so much. But You oh God are love, You created man in an act of love. We are creatures of Your love, but sin entered the world and we were tainted by this sin of Adam. Our human natures created out of Your love is damaged by the sin of Adam.

    It is in baptism we become children of God and heirs of heaven and receive a special sharing in Your life.

    Oh Divine Life, oh Holy Life,

        Oh God fill us with Your Love.

        Oh Your LOVE poured forth into us.

    To be wrapped in the arms of love.

    It is the Spirit that transforms us more and more into the image of Jesus, as we grow in greater union with Mary our model, the Spirit transforms us more and more into Jesus' Image.

    Jesus in turn leads us to our beloved Father.

    It is through Jesus we are led to the Father.

    Spirit of GOD move in my being, fill me with Your life, fill me with Your love, so I can more and more become like Jesus.

    Oh Jesus lead me to the Father.

    Mary is a human person, she is sinless, she is untainted by original sin. I can model myself after her, she is most like me, except she does not have original sin.

    My human nature has been tainted or damaged.

    Baptism frees us from original sin, but we have weaknesses from original sin.

    To model myself more and more after my Mother, untainted by original sin and to lead me more and more into the image of Jesus.

    Jesus takes us to the Father. Jesus came to show us the way. He is GOD! He took the nature of a man. We can relate to GOD through the Person, Jesus Christ.

    Oh Sweet Jesus, that You came to save us from our sins.

    It is through You we are restored to new life. Through baptism we are made children of God and heirs of heaven.

    Oh Mighty Lord, our dear Father, that You care for us, that You loved us so much that You created us in Your own image and likeness.

    We are made Your heirs to the heavenly kingdom if we love and serve You as You want through Your Son Jesus Christ, conceived in the womb of Mary through the Holy Spirit.

    Oh God that You gave to us Your Son Jesus Christ, incarnate in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Hebrews 1: 1-2  

At many moments in the past and by many means, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but in our time, the final days, he has spoken to us in the person of his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things and through whom he made the ages.

    Oh God that You gave to us a spotless virgin, our Mother, Mary sinless, Our Mother so we can model our lives after her.

    Oh God that You created us out of love, but all You create is out of love, since You are love and all You do is an act of love.

    NOTE:  Is it not fitting children should be conceived out of love of their mom and dad in marriage.

Jesus:  Love to you My Beloved child, love that I impart to you My grace to share more fully in My life. My grace I give to you in abundance. Tape this lesson and listen over and over, remember the moments when I infuse into you special gifts which  help you understand with clarity insight into My Divine Mysteries — insight about sharing in My life.

    I am Jesus, your beloved, yet you comprehend so little My immense love for you. I give you this knowledge with greatest love, My beloved little child, you will grow in wisdom and love of God more and more.

    Keep your heart forever pure and focused on My immense love for you. Live in My Heart totally resting there, go to My Mother as her little child and be held close to her breast. She will lead you closer and closer to Me.

    Oh little loved child, sing and play for this world, My great songs of love.

    It is in your music and your speech you will touch so many of My beloved hearts, I love so dearly.

    I love, I love, I love, I am love. Do you hear Me My child. Do you feel My immense love and gifts I pour out to you. I am talking to you, but you must deliver this message of My love to this world.

    I talk to you because I love you so, but as I love you, I love each and every soul. I am depending on you to tell them how My Heart is an endless furnace of burning love, beating with deepest love for them. I love you this way, as you experience and know this Divine Love I have for you, I want you to tell this world I love them. I love each soul this tenderly. The poorest beggar I love with the tenderest love.

    Oh my child, do not be distracted by this. I leave you not dear one. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God and it is in realizing My presence you will spread My love to this world.

 

January 10, 1995

Dorothy and Ed

R.  This is the day of Dorothy's funeral. When Dorothy was in Church being prayed over by the priest and the people and the exposed Eucharist was there. Jesus gave me a message that said:

    She (Dorothy) was His precious daughter and He wanted her all to Himself. I did not intend to go to St. Gertrude's that day, but it was as if I was led there.

    Today I awake and wanted to make Ed a card. I tried to find the pictures I wanted. After a long search, Jesus led me to two specific pictures which I copied as I was prompted to do.

    After Communion in front of the exposed Eucharist, Jesus gave me the message of January 8, 1995 and told me to give it to Ed and tell Ed (Ed is Dorothy's husband) to pray the rosary of January 4, 1995 (which was on yesterday's daily message). God is so good to us. He is so present in the smallest details of our life. We are so blind, we do not see how He leads us in so many directions which lead us closer to Him. We think we are in charge and He is forever by our side.

    The Spirit wants to permeate our being with the love of God. Let Him flow through you, work in you, lead you as water flows. Let the force of the Spirit move you, as you be entirely open and ready to be led.

    He is here this day, in the tiniest details of our day, our lives, closer than our next breath, more present than the beating of our heart. His love He outpours to us, we must be open to His promptings in our Hearts.

    Pray to the Spirit, Sing the Song, Shout from the roof tops songs of praise to the Almighty God. Beg for the Spirit to come and transform your hearts through Mary's Immaculate Heart.

Sing:  We are blind — we need your grace, Come open up our hearts to you.

Song:  See the eyes that look at Mary —

    SEE   SEE

    He constantly says to see — not with our eyes, with our hearts, let the Spirit of God move you from blindness to VISION OF GOD — See the BIG PICTURE.

    Where you were blind, you now see, pray for grace.

    I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving savior, I am your God I died for you, I come to you this DAY.

    Every detail He tends to. Pray the prayer for Union with Him.

 

 

January 14, 1995

Mary appeared in the whitest light — her face came so alive in the statue
as I received the meditations. Also Jesus appeared.

Glorious Mysteries

Resurrection

1.  R.  These are the Glorious Mysteries. Christ, who was locked up in a tomb for three days, a lifeless body, rose on the third day to bring us new life.

2.  R.  In Baptism, we become children of God and heirs of Heaven. He gave to the Apostles before He ascended into Heaven, the power to baptize so that we may have a special sharing in His life.

3. 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love, by Father Edward Carter, S.J.

   ...In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

4.  R.  God, in His Goodness, created man out of love. God is love. We were created out of love.

5.  R.  But sin entered the world through Adam and so Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to the earth to save man from sin. Baptism frees us from original sin, but we still have weaknesses to sin.

6.  R.  Jesus rose on the third day and He appeared to His Mother St. Ignatius says. Think of the joy in her heart for her to see the glorified body of her Son after she had held His lifeless body taken down from the cross only three days before.

7.  R.  This is the glory of this mystery: that Jesus Christ, once dead, has risen.

8.  R.  Jesus came that we might have life and have it abundantly. Now He remains with us this very day in the Eucharist.

9.  R.  Jesus gives us a special sharing in His life through baptism.

Song: I am the Bread of Life

10.  R.  Jesus gave to the Apostles the power to forgive sins; a priest can forgive our sins. A person dead in sin can be saved from eternal damnation!  

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit

  

The Ascension of Jesus into Heaven

1.  John baptised with water but, not many days from now, you are going to be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’  Acts 1: 5

2.  Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.  John 14: 27

3.  Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven.  Luke 24: 50-51

4.  R.  And the Apostles were awestruck in the field below as they saw their Beloved Jesus leave. And they were filled with fear and sorrow to see Him go.

5.  R.  God the Father sent His only Son into the world so that we could be saved.

Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?’ The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God.  Luke 1: 31-35

R.  Jesus is no less present in the Eucharist, today, then He was the day that Mary carried Him in her womb. Jesus is no less present this day in the Eucharist than He was the day He hung on the cross. Jesus remains with us with the greatest love in His Divinity and humanity in the Eucharist.

6.  R.  Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to descend upon them.

The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God.  Luke 1: 31-32

R.  Mary shouted out in a loud voice the Magnificat. The Holy Spirit would descend upon these apostles who had locked themselves in the upper room out of such fear because their Beloved Jesus had gone.

7.  R.  Before Jesus ascended into Heaven, in Emmaus, He sat with the Apostles and He broke bread.

8.  R.  There is such love between the Father and the Son and the Son and the Father. I believe in the Holy Spirit who proceedeth from the Father and the Son (from the Creed). It is the fire of this Love of God that comes forth. The Holy Spirit fills us. Dear Holy Spirit, fill us with the fire of Your Love so we may more and more realize the immense love between the Father and the Son.

9.  R.  God dwells within us in a special way if we have been baptized and remain in the state of grace. The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit dwell within us.

10.  R.  As our heart beats and as we breathe, God is so close to us with His immense burning love, always in love, in deepest love with us.

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit

  

The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles

1.  R.  The Apostles had locked themselves in the upper room and there was a gigantic-like wind, and there appeared over their heads, parted tongues of fire.

2.  R.  And they were transformed from fear to fearlessness.

3.  R.  And they went out to speak and all understood.

4.  R.  Holy Spirit, fill us with the fire of the Love of God and fearlessness to preach the good news of Jesus. Fill us so that we have the courage to spread this love of God to this world this day.

5.  R.  Holy Spirit fill us with fire. We beg You to fill us with Your light and Your fire so that we can radiate to this world and tell the world about the love of God.

6.  Song:  Come Holy Spirit

7.  R.  Dear Holy Spirit, transform our heart more and more into the image of Jesus and lead us ever closer to the Father.

8.  R.  Mary help us to join so tenderly with your heart so that the Holy Spirit can transform us more and more into the image of Jesus, your Beloved Son.

9.  Song:  Come Holy Ghost

10.  Sing:  Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit

   

The Assumption of Mary into Heaven

1.  R.  Mary remained on the earth many years after Jesus ascended into Heaven.

2.  R.  Think of the immense joy of Mary to be reunited with Her Most Precious Son.

3.  R.  Mary is the singular vessel.

4.  R.  We are here to unite with God. It is through Mary that we unite ever closer to the Trinity.

5.  R.  Mary is our model. She was a human person. She was created without sin to be the Mother of Jesus. We can more closely imitate Jesus by watching Mary and how she lived her life.

6. 

John 3: 16

For this is how God loved the world: 
          he gave his only Son, 
          so that everyone who believes in him 
             may not perish 
          but may have eternal life.  

The Holy Spirit

Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"

Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.  from Tell My People

7.  R.  Mary, we intercede to you to help us to grow in greater union with the Holy Spirit. We want to be transformed more and more into the image and likeness of Your Precious Son.

8.  R.  Mary is our Mother, Mary is the Mother of the Church. Mary, who mothered Jesus with such love, mothers us with this love this day.

9.  R.  Mary's heart is sinless. Mary loves us so much. If we follow Mary, if we study her life, we will be led more and more into what God wants us to be.

10.  Song:  Immaculate Mary

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit

    

The Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth

1.  Song:  O Holy Mary

2.  R.  Mary, the Mother of God conceived the child Jesus within her womb through the power of the Holy Spirit. Mary raised Jesus as a child. Mary walked with Him through His Passion and watched Him die on the cross. Mary saw Him after the Resurrection and saw Him ascend into Heaven. Now she is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth.

3.  Revelation 12: 1

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

4.  R.  Mary is Queen in Heaven with her Beloved Son and the Father and the Holy Spirit, with the angels and saints.

5.  R.  Mary is Mother of the Church.

6.  Philippians 2: 6-11

   Who, being in the form of God,
   did not count equality with God
   something to be grasped.

   But he emptied himself,
   taking the form of a slave,
   becoming as human beings are;
   and being in every way
      like a human being,
   he was humbler yet,
   even to accepting death,
      death on a cross.

   And for this God raised him high,
   and gave him the name
   which is above all other names;

    so that all beings
    in the heavens, on earth
       and in the underworld,
   should bend the knee at the name of Jesus
    and that every tongue should acknowledge
    Jesus Christ as Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

7.  Song:  Eye Has Not Seen

8.  Song:  May the Angels lead you into Paradise, may the martyrs greet you on your way, may you see the face of the Lord this day. Alleluia, alleluia.

9.  R.  Our soul craves union with God. The little we know here is little compared to what we will know in Heaven.

10.  Song:  Hail Holy Queen

Song after last decade:  Come Holy Spirit

  

The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

1.  The Prophecy of Simeon.    See Mary and Joseph as they take the child Jesus to the temple. And Simeon greets them and so thrilled to see the child Jesus, but prophesies the sufferings of Jesus and Mary. From that point on, every time Mary beheld her Beloved Son, she had before her the prophecy of Simeon. She knew when she looked at her child that He would suffer. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

2.  The Flight into Egypt.   Joseph and Mary were awakened in the night to flee with the child Jesus. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

3.  The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple.   Joseph and Mary: their hearts were in such sorrowing to lose the child Jesus in the Temple in Jerusalem. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

4.  Jesus and Mary meet on the Way to the Cross.   And Their eyes peered into one another's on Calvary. In that peering look is the summation of Their lives from the time that Mary conceived Jesus in her womb to the look when They beheld each other on the way to Calvary. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

5.  Jesus Dies on the Cross.   See Mary as she stands under the cross; her Beloved Son hangs against the darkened sky. His body is withered. There is not a breath left to His body; there is not any blood left in His veins and she watches for three agonizing hours as He slowly dies. She calls out to us today to spread the love of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who gave His life that all men might know His love and that they can live eternally in Heaven. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

6.  Mary holds Jesus' lifeless Body under the Cross.   He was dead in body, but He rose on the third day. She held her Beloved Son as she held Him as a child. She now holds His battered, bruised, bloodied body in her arms; her heart torn in her chest. This is Our Beloved Mother that Jesus gave to us on the cross. Think of holding your own child lifeless in your arms. She watched Him die and now she holds Him so close to her. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

7.  Jesus is Placed in the Tomb.   And they laid Him in a tomb and she saw where they laid Him. And then they pushed the stone up against the tomb. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

Song:  A Song from Jesus

Song:  To Jesus Heart All Burning

Song:  I Love You Jesus

    

Mary appeared in the whitest light — her face came so alive in the statue as I received the meditations. Also Jesus appeared. Rita, Cathy, Marty were present at the rosary.

 

 

 

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