Given August 11, 2007

 

                    The Spiritual life
                is the reality inside
                most like Jesus.

                To be filled with - the
                    Spirit of God - inside
                    LIFE - IN - HIM —

                INSIDE more perfected
                    as Our Heavenly Father is perfect.

                To hide our faults and
                    woundedness inside
                    from ourselves is
                    to stay stuck in
                    the muck —

                Inside reality to be —
                    living in the truth —
                    having the light of life
                    IN US —

                    not darkness

                    Now look inside of yourself.
                What makes you act, but all people
                see is the outside.

                    The eyes are the windows of the
                soul.

                    The hard-skin - tough-jaw —
                stiff mannerisms.

                    Who are we kidding?
                    God —
                    God knows the heart —
                    God knows the condition of our organs.
                    Who are we kidding?
                    If we sin or lie about our
                    imperfections —
                    our fear of someone seeing how
                        really insecure we really are —
                    Do we think we get our acceptance
                        from others —
                    We must focus on what God thinks —
                    We must focus on God who sees our heart and
                    We can never lie to God —
                    We stand naked before Him ALWAYS

                Jesus says
                    I am the way, the truth and the life.

                God knows all things
                Fame and fortune cannot give us power
                What others think does not give us power —
                Power comes from God
                Power is not gotten in being accepted
                    by others.
                Power is not gotten in wealth
                Wealthy - well accepted people get
                    cancer too

                Look inside —
                For we act from what we believe
                    what we are thinking inside
                The eyes are the windows of the
                    soul

                    It shows on the outside when
                people don't like themselves —

                    Things show about our heart by
                how we smile, how we act —

                Actors learn to be actors —
                They learn to act like another person
                    to play their role —
                They study how they are inside —
                    their actions

                We study Jesus
                    life IN Him

                Pray the rosary
                Read the Scriptures
                Jesus is the Son of God

               

 

                Love finds a way

                The Heart is the organ that pumps
                    life to the body

                Love is why I give

                I love

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                Yesterday all the power went out
                The radio did not go out there
                The waves or whatever were
                    not going out

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                A beating heart that is unloving
                    can send hate, selfishness

                Satan wants the person focused
                    on themselves
                Satan attacked Eve in the garden —
                Satan presses down
                Satan wants us to think someone
                    is not liking us
                Satan's grip is paralyzing and
                    crippling
                Satan wants us willful
                Satan wants us disobedient
                Satan presses in — Fallacious
                    reasoning —
                    self-focus

                We cannot read each other's minds —

                Satan is the father of lies
                Satan LIED to Eve in the garden

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                Love
                Love is in my heart
                Jesus allows us to be tested —
                Jesus wants faith
                Jesus wants us to hope
                Jesus wants us to love

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                Faith, hope and love the cardinal
                    virtues

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1 Corinthians 13: 1-13  

Though I command languages both human and angelic—if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all the faith necessary to move mountains—if I am without love, I am nothing. Though I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned—if I am without love, it will do me no good whatever. 

    Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances. Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth. It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. 

    Love never comes to an end. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, they will fall silent; and if knowledge, it will be done away with. For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly; but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will be done away with. When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and see things as a child does, and think like a child; but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with all childish ways. Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face. Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known. 

    As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love.

    

                The Eucharist heals

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                Attack —
                A cold
                A germ
                Call the doctor
                Help me
                Medicine

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                Devil
                Attack
                Temptation
                Darkness
                Self-focus
                Blaming
                Fallacious Reasoning

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                Temptation to Complain
                Fear of being unloved
                Fear of being unaccepted
                Tired, Hungry —————>

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                Love pumps life to the body

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                Love
                Love
                Love
                Love sends out good to the world

                Radio - dark - broken —
                    no signal - no light

                Self-focus
                Cripple
                Seeking dominance for dominance
                    sake
                Blaming others

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                See all as being wounded
                See offences against God
                See we want to help repair
                    the breech
                Say - I don't like them
                Love the unloving
                Love those who persecute you
                Jesus shows us

  

 

                Jesus:  I am love
                    I am love.

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                Healing BALM — the Eucharist
                    Medicine of Immortality
                    Fr. John's new book on the Eucharist
                    Prayers for us to pray before
                        the Eucharist —

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LIKE New Adam & New                     I love                     I forgive                     I build a bridge                     Selfless                         (die to self)                     I pray

ADAM & EVE         I do not love         I do not forgive         I knock the bridge             down         Focus on myself         I blame

                Send out signal of love
                Send out signal of light
                Send out signal of peace

                I am filled with faith
                I am an instrument of hope
                I love

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                Cain was in control of himself
                Satan tempts — I can give in
                I can control my will
                Bad habits of giving into satan

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                Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus
                    and Mary

                Hearts of Love
                Satan tempts

                Do you do your work for your
                    honor and glory?

                Do you attack others doing their
                    work for Jesus seeking
                    dominance for yourself?

                Do you manipulate others to prove
                    you are over?

                Do you give freely for the sake
                    of souls?

  

                Jesus gave freely for the sake of souls.

                Prayer is love —
                Prayer is pleading in love —
                Prayer is focused on God —

                Focus on Jesus
                Do not focus on what others think —

                My mind is strong
                My heart is loving

                I do not give into the fallacious
                    reasoning of satan —

                God gives us children to love —
                Little ones are learning love —
                They can be jealous
                They want what they want
                They have to learn who they are —
                They all have a wounded human
                    nature —

                Every child is learning —
                Say - Do this —
                They say "no"
                You say hey do this
                At 2 they say "no"

                Two children fight after the same
                    toy —

                One may hit a sibling for dominance
                The other cries they want somebody
                    else to pay for how they feel —

                Mom — "he hit me"
                Go sit on a chair
                "Be good" Mary says —
                But you say "Be good to
                    follow God's will — His
                    order

                Children look at the world —
                    wondering

                Parents may be willful, disobedient
                    to God — use the fallacious
                    reasoning of satan

                We all can be very selfish, sinful
                    at times —
                    we are imperfect parents

                Love finds a way
                The self-lessness of Jesus
                Always doing God's will

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                A person can call the doctor always
                    focusing on themselves - wanting
                    the doctor to fix them —

                We have to call on God
                    We have to admit our imperfection
                        to be healed

                    We have all been raised by
                        imperfect parents — hopefully
                        ones who loved us, but
                        had imperfect ways —
                        focused on self —
                        maybe blamed us —
                        needed spiritual healing —
                        needed the Word of God —
                        needed to know God's love themselves —

                Pride can keep us stuck
                We need to be docile
                We need to be loving
                We need to be giving in prayer

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                 We are learning about love from
                    the first moments we are on
                    earth —

                We may say
                    "Why am I here?"

                Look at wounds we all have
                    suffered

                Jesus died on the cross
                    covered with wounds

                Jesus gives us the sacraments —
                Jesus gives us a sharing in His life
                    in baptism

                The Eucharist is Jesus
                The Eucharist heals our wounds

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                Jesus was all white - glistening —
                    full of Light

                The Father says: "This is My beloved
                    Son in whom I am well pleased."

                Jesus gives us the Mass —

                The sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally
                    made present

                We unite to the Mass — to the
                    sacrifice of Calvary so
                    our lives (a tainted offering,
                    every moment, every day)
                    is a most pleasing sacrifice
                    to the Father —

                United to Jesus' sacrifice in
                    the Holy Spirit with all the angels and
                    saints

                Jesus teaches us tainted sons of God
                    to be more like Him —
                    the "Son of God"

                We are tainted
                He gives us a sharing in His life —
                    He heals our wounds —

                WE ARE WOUNDED —

                Our human nature is wounded —
                We must struggle with
                    Dominance
                    Blaming
                    Imperfect vision of others
                    Pride
                    Envy
                    Lust
                    Lethargy
                    Imperfect, selfish vision
                        of our brothers

                We act taintedly
                Children have to learn about
                    sin, obedience, jealousy
                    love from imperfect parents

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                The Eucharist help us when we
                    go to Jesus —

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                The Blue Books lead us to the
                    Eucharist

                The Blue Books are the Mighty
                    Medicine

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                All of us have a face

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                All of us have wounds

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                Jesus is the way, the truth and the life

                Look at the eyes
                They tell the story —
                We must FIGHT TEMPTATION
                Grace helps us
                Grace is His life in us
                We can seek to be more saturated
                    with His grace
                God has all the power

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                Babies learn from imperfect
                    parents

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                God the Father sent His Son to teach
                    us to be likened to Him
                    more perfected

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                God works in families

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                God gives children through an
                    act of love of imperfect
                    parents

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                God wants us to love

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                God is love

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                Fathers and Mothers teach children
                    about love

                Fathers and Mothers teach imperfect
                    ways

                Parents are to pray for their children

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                Priests are called Father

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                We need to learn love at Church —
                    love found in the sacraments —
                    love found in Jesus
                    love given in the Mass — the
                        sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally
                        made present

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                Children want love —
                Children want to be held
                Children want to be secure

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                As parents we never stop praying
                    for our children —

                God wants "sisters" and "brothers"
                    priests - praying for the
                    children of the Church to know
                    God's love —

                Look at how important docile, loving
                    "sisters" and "brothers" are to
                    God's family in the Church —
                    God doesn't want more selfish
                        people in the religious life
                        they give their lives for the
                        children of the Church.

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                Shepherds of Christ — help to nurture the
                    children of the Church

                Jesus wants to renew religious life

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                Religious orders are based on
                        obedience
                        celibacy
                        love for the people of the Church
                        love for Jesus
                        Jesus is the spouse of the religious
                        The vocation is married to Jesus
                        The children - children of the Church
                        members of the body of Christ

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                Satan tries to get people focused on themselves

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                Read the Blue Books

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                Beautiful world God gives us —
                    Jesus wants us to be loving —

                Jesus wants us to help people
                    heal — by knowing His love —
                    By going to the sacraments

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                Jesus wants us other focused
                Jesus wants families of love

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                Satan has attacked the family
                    drugs
                    divorce

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                Satan wants wounded, weak
                    people

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                People that are wounded hurt
                    others — they act more and more
                    imperfectly unless they seek
                    to be healed by Jesus

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                Love and forgiveness helps others heal

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                Single, religious cannot be selfish

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                Look at a mother, father of children —
                    they get up, sacrifice

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                Religious in the Church cannot be
                    limited by their own world —
                    they must see their vocation
                    is to love the family of God —
                    the children of the Church

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                Religious must seek to be other focused

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                Living in communities help them grow
                    out of imperfections of relating to help
                    lead the body of Christ to greater
                    oneness

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                Selfishness is not like Jesus

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                Religious are to be focused on others

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                A Religious vocation is not being a
                    spinster — seeking your
                    own way

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                A Religious vocation is to give to
                    the Church our lives for
                    the children of the Church

                God wants these religious vocations
                    in the Church

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                In sunny weather — hot and humid —
                    we love God
                    Jesus is our focus

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                In cold weather we love Jesus

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                We don't change like a weather-
                    vane — we are solid

                    ROOTED IN GOD

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                Sing:  Dwelling Place

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                Life is learning to love God
                Life is learning to love one another
                Learning to love —
                Showing faces of love —
                Relationships —

                God wants our faces reflecting
                    love inside —
                    a smiling heart —
                    eyes of joy for knowing
                    His love

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                Wounded people — very wounded
                    can be VERY CLOSED
                                VERY SELF-FOCUSED

                                Blame others for what is
                                    going on inside of them

                Little children test the icy surface
                    of the earth — they learn to
                    love — they learn obedience —
                    they learn trust and hope
                    and joy

                We are wounded in relationships —
                We have cousins, sisters and brothers
                    in real life, in the members
                    of the body of Christ —
                    in our families,
                    Religious are to help unite
                        the members in the Church
                        through their love

                Little children are learning
                The world, the television is teaching
                    them many times

                    "being out for one-self"
                    "competition"
                    "divorce"
                    "lust"
                    "luring clothing"
                    "focus on the body"
                    "selfishness"

                Children are confused

                Priests are dwindling
                We need a strong Church —
                Spreading the Priestly Newsletter —
                    the voice of the Good Shepherd

                Love — not fear

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                The Blue Books are the Mighty -
                    Medicine

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                God gives us the beauty of the
                    earth —
                    we walk as wanderers until
                        we know Him

                Jesus is the perfect Son of God
                The Sacred Heart is perfect

                Mary has the Immaculate Heart
                    for the poor banished
                    children of Adam and Eve

                We may smile outside and cry
                    inside

                Mary appeared to me crying out
                    about her children

   

  

 

                A wounded, prideful person keeps
                    wounding others

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Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.'

God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.

 

Genesis Chapter 3

Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.

The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'

Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you
    of all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.'

    To the woman he said:

    I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
    you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
    Your yearning will be for your husband,
    and he will dominate you.

To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

    Accursed be the soil because of you!
    Painfully will you get your food from it
    as long as you live.
    It will yield you brambles and thistles,
    as you eat the produce of the land.
    By the sweat of your face
    will you earn you food,
    until you return to the ground,
    as you were taken from it.
    For dust you are
    and to dust you shall return.

The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

      

Revelation Chapter 12

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. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron scepter, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.

    And now war broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had led all the world astray, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him. Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, 'Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word to which they bore witness, because even in the face of death they did not cling to life. So let the heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, disaster is coming-- because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that he has little time left.'

    As soon as the dragon found himself hurled down to the earth, he sprang in pursuit of the woman, the mother of the male child, but she was given a pair of the great eagle's wings to fly away from the serpent into the desert, to the place where she was to be looked after for a time, two times and half a time. So the serpent vomited water from his mouth, like a river, after the woman, to sweep her away in the current, but the earth came to her rescue; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river spewed from the dragon's mouth. Then the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, who obey God's commandments and have in themselves the witness of Jesus.

 

Revelation 19: 1-10

After this I heard what seemed to be the great sound of a huge crowd in heaven, singing, ‘Alleluia! Salvation and glory and power to our God! He judges fairly, he punishes justly, and he has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her prostitution; he has avenged the blood of his servants which she shed.’ And again they sang, ‘Alleluia! The smoke of her will rise for ever and ever.’ Then the twenty–four elders and the four living creatures threw themselves down and worshipped God seated on his throne, and they cried, ‘Amen, Alleluia.’ 

    Then a voice came from the throne; it said, ‘Praise our God, you servants of his and those who fear him, small and great alike.’ And I heard what seemed to be the voices of a huge crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder, answering, ‘Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun; let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the time for the marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds of the saints.’ The angel said, ‘Write this, "Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb," ’ and he added, ‘These words of God are true.’ Then I knelt at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, ‘Never do that: I am your fellow–servant and the fellow–servant of all your brothers who have in themselves the witness of Jesus. God alone you must worship.’ The witness of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
 

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