Religious are wed to Jesus —

                Jesus loves them —

                Jesus is the Spouse of the Priest

                Jesus wants us helping the souls
                        He died for —

                Religious, Servants and Handmaids
                    can almost ignore Jesus —
                    Jesus is the Spouse they
                        married
                    We must focus on the love
                        Jesus has for us

                When you want somebody to love
                    you — you put on your
                    best beauty — goodness — love —
                    kindness — forgiveness, compassion

                Jesus is the greatest Spouse

                Human creatures are limited
                    in the ways they love —
                    ever growing

                Who can compare to God who
                    is love —

                Once we realize how much God
                    loves us — we act loving

                Satan can tempt religious to
                    not recognize this tremendous
                    calling to be the Spouse of Jesus.

                Jesus says:

                    I am the way, the truth and
                            the life

                What is life —

                Life rooted in Jesus —

                When Jesus wants to be so one with
                    us
                    we can say
                    wait a minute Jesus — I am
                        angry, I will provoke
                        someone

                What a way to be married
                    to Jesus —

                Jesus does not get close to an angry Spouse
                    He is pure.

                Jesus is love

                When Jesus is our groom how
                    should we act

                Communication is love

                Problem solving in love so
                    we can do the work
                    God intends —

                When I get Vitamin C it is
                    ascorbic acid and some
                    vitamins has filler —

                When satan talks in somebody's
                    head telling them lies —
                    fallacious reasoning and work
                    needs to be done —

                The person being pressed on by satan —
                    wants control —
                    they fight to be right —
                    they can filter out what
                    satan tells them usually
                    something like this —

                    "They are wanting to tell me what to do —
                    I'm not going to — they have tried to hurt
                    me — I will not help. I will get even,
                    I will bring them to their knees."

                An old button is pressed by something
                    done —

                The person can respond to
                    seeing innocent others working
                    together, the person becomes jealous
                    and begins to act impurely — nothing
                    even happened — it was all in the person's head!

                    Say Marian hears Peggy is going out
                with Sue and she is jealous —

                    Marian has a job to do in the
                same office where they all work —
                Marian is jealous so she blocks
                important work that needs to get done —
                besides that from habitually reacting
                in jealousy — her actions are almost
                automatic

                    When she gets jealous — she stops
                important work and plays a hard game
                that is passive-aggressive —

                    When one realizes that these impure
                actions, jealousy, envy, possessiveness,
                seeking dominance for dominance sake —
                open a door to satan and keep us
                from loving and being close to Jesus —

                    Jesus wants love
                    Jesus unites to pure hearts
                        so deeply —

                We must try to be pure — not
                    rebellious —

                Mary Ann is a religious — she wears
                    a ring — she needs to realize
                    how much Jesus loves her to call her
                    and love trying to spread love and help
                    souls to get to heaven —

                    but she is angry a lot feeling she
                has no biological children and she doesn't see
                how pleased Jesus is for
                her life of celibacy —

                    So she gives her gift and is
                angry, resentful and Jesus
                says — you have all the children
                of the Church to help — the souls
                I shed My Blood for — I called
                you to help them

                Mary Ann saw a man at Church and
                    he was not happily married — so
                    Mary Ann liked talking to him —
                    having his affectionate glance that
                    was romantic — then they began
                    becoming closer and closer

                Mary Ann is a Sister —

                She is married to Jesus —

                She spent half her religious life
                    being angry she couldn't
                    have a husband and children
                    and now she has justified this
                    relationship

                    What Mary Ann doesn't see — is that
                Jesus is her Spouse — no human creature
                can be like Jesus — God lives in the baptized
                graced soul —

                    Mary Ann thinks she can be unfaithful to
                Jesus — like its okay and He doesn't
                know —

                    Jesus is truly present in the
                tabernacle and He wants our love

                    George wants to be right and he
                works with Martha in the business
                office — George divorced 10 years ago
                and he had trouble solving problems
                smoothly — so he wants it his way and
                is still angry about the money in
                the divorce — He acts out his anger
                over simple problems —

                    Martha is passive-aggressive and
                she provokes until the person
                gets frustrated and mad —

                    Martha will never deliver anything
                without a game of power —

                    How do you think the business
                office will work — Both Martha and
                George are ready to fight to prove
                they are right — the fight is a
                cold war — for periods of weeks
                this energy needed for all those in
                the whole business is stymied
                because they won't handle the
                simplest thing in peace and love
                like team players —

                    Yesterday Fr. Pasquini talked about the
                many religious — Men wanted it
                their way and didn't obey the Catholic
                Faith

                The Chair of Peter is a rock —

                The popes can be traced back to
                    Peter —

                    People in all walks of life
                want to win — want to prove they
                are right because of pride when in
                fact they are wrong many times —

                    What about love
                    What about peace

                Religious — I give you this message —
                    Jesus chose you
                    Jesus is on fire for love of
                        you

                Jesus wants you to love for Him in
                    the world —
                    love for the souls He
                    died for

                Co-dependent relationships keeps
                    us stuck —

                An alcoholic can try to get his
                    spouse to follow him
                    around — making the
                    whole family sick

                When one ceases to recognize
                    addictions — control —
                    trying to be right always, always
                    perfect — one can try to make
                    others dependent on them

                Passive-aggressive people
                    stall — don't deliver and
                    use work and other things as
                    power over others to
                    manipulate and control to
                    get others in these
                Slavishly - dependent relationships

                God is love —
                    He wants us to   

                Be empowered to love and
                    love the souls He died for
                    by being a light
                    by loving
                    by being likened to Him

                Not dysfunctional and hurting
                    everyone else in the
                    process —
                    pray as never before

                Pray for people who divorce —
                    how lives are torn apart —
                    proving right —
                    pray to be as God wants
                    not like 2 walls  

                Married people are to be chaste
                    in their vocation and
                    pure for Jesus

                Religious are married to God

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

                Holding out to get control
                    is not love

                Jesus wants love

                Jesus wants team players in
                    structures