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January 21st Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 4 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for January 21st are Sorrowful.
The Retreat for the Apostles
is in February.
January 8, 2006 Epiphany
About the Nursing Home Program
January 8, 2006
Feast of the Epiphany
Nursing Home Video #2
Messenger: Today is the Feast of the Epiphany and it's January 8, 2006. And we've done a nursing home video on all the Epiphanies, since I guess it was 2003, but we usually get a little star like it is now.
Kathleen, here it is, here. Can you see it? Do you see the star?
We get a little star here up here all through the video and it just looks so beautiful.
And so, my name is Rita Ring, and I'm just going to sing a little bit and do a little rosary, and ask you to offer up everything that you do every day, just the eating and the sleeping and whatever it is and just offering it up and saying:
And we have to thank God for the gifts that He's given to us, because He just loves us so much and He wants us with Him forever in heaven. And your offering up what you do every day might make a tremendous difference to the souls that are on this earth, like the youth or the priests, just everything you do could be a prayer if we take what we do trying to do God's will, in love, and uniting it to the Mass - that's a terrific prayer.Jesus, this is my prayer, I'm going to try to love, and even though I'm in suffering I'll still offer that all up because I know that that can help bring down a lot of grace for all the souls.
So your lives in the nursing home are really, really important right now. And so we're staying united to you in praying, and we have a card for you that we'll show you to put by your bed. And it just says you'll offer up everything you do, all day, in union with the Mass for the priests, the Church and the world.
Messenger: And so put that by your bed, and say that all through the day if you want. I was at a nursing home the other day and it was so wonderful because this priest said Mass first, and he just told them how much Jesus loved them, and they were so happy to hear that. And that's the message that I want to deliver, is you've got to think that Jesus is with you at every second and how much He just really, really, really loves you -- and how your day, just living it, united to the Mass, can be a prayer for the priests and the Church and the world. So I just hope that you stay united with us praying because we know that God is listening to those prayers. And even sometimes you get up in the morning and you don't feel too good, and you just remember how important your life is.
Messenger: And on the days when you're having joy, you offer that day up too, because your life really is important. God has us down here for a reason.
Messenger: And life is so short that we really have to try to do what He wants us to so that we can be with Him forever in heaven. That's the great thing, the reward He promises us, and there's lots of souls on the earth that are hurting very bad, and you're just offering up your eating as a prayer, because that's what God wants you doing.
Messenger: Doing God's will, in love, can be a prayer, a big prayer when we unite it to the Mass that goes on all the time around the world, and we want the Masses to keep on being celebrated by our priests, so we pray for our priests because we love the Mass. Jesus is truly present and with us this day, that's the greatest gift, the Eucharist! So we really love our priests and we want you to think about our priests and how important your life is. Just trying to live it in love as God wants, can help those priests.
Messenger: That's your prayer, that's your morning offering prayer and you do it all day.
Messenger: Just say it in the morning and then think about it: "Well I'm united to all those Shepherds of Christ people that are praying." And we pray every hour for the priests, the Church and the world, and we have 24 hour adoration in our church in China, Indiana, before the tabernacle.
Messenger: And you remember that, that we're praying and you can unite everything you do to our prayers, because we love our priests and we love our Church, it's the greatest, and we want to pray for the souls of the earth. Amen.
Jesus loves us so much, that's the message. And He loved us so much that He gave Himself to His death on the cross -
Messenger: And today I sing: A Song from Jesus.
Song: A Song from Jesus
Messenger: And we have a wonderful Mass of the nursing homes too, that a priest celebrated in our church in China - St. Anthony's - and it's just 30 minutes, 33 to be exact, but it's so beautiful, and he talks to the nursing home people, and he's really fervent when he celebrates the Mass.
Messenger: So today is the Feast of the Epiphany and then we want to meditate a lot on light, because it is such a gift that God has given to us. He is the Light of the World.
Song: We Three Kings
Messenger: And Mary really likes this song, and this is a song that our Lord would like me to sing and you should sing too if you remember it. It's called the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Song: Battle Hymn of the Republic - Sing!
Messenger: Sing this, I know you know this.
Song: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Messenger: Our founder died - he was a great Jesuit priest.
Messenger: He wrote about 18 books and he sent the newsletter to 75,000 priests. I know he's united with us while we're down here praying for the priests, the Church and the world, so we pray through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater and Father Carter.
Messenger: Dear God, outpour Your grace on this earth to the priests, and the Church and the world.
Song: Battle Hymn of the Republic - Sing!
Messenger: And we always say five Hail Mary's of a certain decade, so if you would like us to give you a list of the mysteries of the rosary and what they are, you could just sit there and even say a couple Hail Mary's, if you can, because the Hail Mary is such a wonderful prayer.
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1. Annunciation to Mary
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1. Agony in the Garden
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Hail MaryHail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. * Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Messenger: And then you can just like think about the birth of Jesus. It's such a wonderful gift to be able to think about the Crucifixion and how much Jesus loved us, or think about the Resurrection. Today, we did the Crucifixion already in a video and our Lord wants me to do the Resurrection, because a lot of times when we suffer, the next day we really have a good day. It's like the death - resurrection.
Death
Resurrection
Messenger: So today as we say the mysteries of the rosary, we're going to say those five Hail Mary's and think about Christ, coming forth from the tomb. Before we do that, we're going to sing Immaculate Mary.Song: Immaculate Mary - Sing!
Messenger: We love you so much Mary, and we love You so much Jesus, and we sing --
Song: Immaculate Mary
Messenger: And we want to pray for all the people of this earth that are suffering right now, that they receive this special grace that they could receive from your praying with me, that they'll find hope in their hearts and they'll know the love of Jesus. So as we pray this, we pray especially for those people out there that need a special grace right now, to pick them up and make them realize how much God loves us and that He's with us truly present today. Let's sing again.
Song: Immaculate Mary
Messenger: So we're going to say five Hail Mary's and think about the Resurrection.
1. Messenger: Jesus died on the cross and He rose on the third day. In Baptism, we receive a special sharing in His life. God wants us with Him forever in heaven. What a gift! We must love and serve God, and do what He wants us to do.
2. Messenger: There's a song I know everybody knows and I hope I have the music here. If I don't, I'm just going to sing it acapella.
Song: Come Holy Ghost
Messenger: And again, meditating on the Resurrection of Jesus coming forth from the tomb, we think of how He appeared to Mary Magdalene and to His Apostles. And in St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises, he talks about how Jesus appeared to His Mother. Think of how it would be for Mary to see Jesus after His death on the cross. Let us feel that emotion in our hearts, the Mother of Jesus, the Mother, so loving of her Son, to see Him after He rose from the dead.
3. Messenger: Mary said at Fatima that there would be a great era of peace, and that there would be this era of love. And even if there are problems in the world right now, we have great hope, that soon the people of this earth will love and serve God more and more. Let us sing to Mary, our Heavenly Queen.
Song: Hail Holy Queen
4. Messenger: And here's the big card, that the people that come to the nursing home from the Shepherds of Christ always bring for you.
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Messenger: And they can bring you a big picture of Jesus to put by your bed, and Mary, Jesus' Sacred Heart. But this card is a real short morning offering to offer up all that you do everyday, and on the back it says: "Your life is so important for souls. You can help bring down great grace."
Messenger: So now I'm going to read this prayer, and then you say it with me from your card, and then we'll say it again too. So you keep saying this, if you can do that. If you can't do that, just every day just say to God: God, I give you everything that I can for our beloved priests and the Church and the people of the earth. If you can remember that, and try to unite it to the Mass. "God, I give You my life, in union with the Mass, as an offering for the souls, the Church and the priests." Now let's say that again: "God, I give You my life, in union with the Mass, as an offering for the souls, the Church and the priests. Help us." Now we're still meditating on the Resurrection. That's such a gift that God has given to us, that He gives us this special sharing in His life through Baptism, that He elevates our human nature. We are just so gifted. As we say this Hail Mary, let our hearts be filled with joy to thank God for the gift of the priest, and the gift of the Church.
5. Messenger: There's a real pretty song, and I'm going to use this for my last Hail Mary. It's called Hail Mary, Gentle Woman. Do you know this? It's called Hail Mary, Gentle Woman.
Song: Hail Mary, Gentle Woman
Messenger: Now I'm going to play that, I think it's right here. Oh good, we can sing, all together. This is our Hail Mary.
Song: Hail Mary, Gentle Woman
Messenger: And I want to close with an old song that I know some of you might know, and if you do, then maybe you can sing it with me. It's called Our Lady of Fatima. Do you remember that song? Our Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917, and she told us that we need to have this devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and there was a beautiful song written, and yesterday was just First Saturday, and she talks about that and she said in her last apparition at Fatima, that we must pray the rosary. And here's the song.
Song: Our Lady of Fatima
Messenger: Since I'm outside, my page is being blown by the wind.
Song: Our Lady of Fatima
Messenger: Dear God, we pray, to help us to be loving, to realize how important it is that Our Lady told us, to meditate on the mysteries of the rosary, because they will help us to be more loving, to offer up our days for the priests and the Church, because it is such a gift that God has given to us. Dear God, we thank You, we love You, we honor You, we praise You, and we give You our heart. Amen.
Rita's mom died November 4, 2005
Life is so short.
Let's get these videos to the Nursing Homes.
We need their prayer power.
January 8, 2006
Nursing Home Rosary Video
Feast of the Epiphany
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January 8, 2006
A Rosary on the Feast of the Epiphany
Transcribed from the Nursing Home video tape under Mary's Image,
a tremendous gift was given, a beautiful star above Jesus' head.
Song: A Song from Jesus
Messenger: Today we're going to do a Nursing Home Rosary on the Feast of the Epiphany, and we're going to do this rosary so that you could take it to the nursing home, and in the rosary tell them how much Mary wants us to pray the rosary and how much Jesus loves them. And they'll be really glad for you to do that, and you just got to really tell them how much Jesus loves them because that's the message of this rosary, and how neat it is to pray the rosary.
This is the rosary my mom died with, it needs a little repair, but I buried her with one of our rosaries and I took this one off. So I'm going to pray my rosary today with the rosary my mom had in her hands when she died just a couple months ago. So I know my mom's up there and she's united with us today and she's praying with us all the time. And Mother Mary is praying with us all the time and everything that we do is so important for the sake of souls. And I'm Rita Ring, this is the Feast of the Epiphany, and it is January 8, 2006.
This is a song that Mary really likes and so I'm going to play this, and it's a song that you probably know, and if you can sing with me, sing with me because she really likes this song.
Song: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Messenger: So we pray for all your needs and all of your sicknesses but we pray mostly for the priests, the Church and the world, and from this video you will know more the love of God. And so we're going to pray a pretty quick rosary but you could play this anytime you want because we'll have it on a disk for you.
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Agony of Our Lord in the Garden
Messenger: We have to think in this mystery about our beloved Lord, and how much He loved us that He sweat Blood in the garden. We have to realize that God is a God of love, that He goes out of Himself giving so much love. And that the devil wants to come and he wants to get us to feel bowed down, but God is saying, "I come to you to fill you with My grace. Let your hearts be filled with joy. I am with you today and always and I want you with Me forever in heaven."
1. Hail Mary...
2. Hail Mary...
3. Messenger: See Jesus in the garden. See Him. He is in such anguish and He knows all the souls, despite His suffering, that will be lost because of their sin. His anguish was so great that He sweat Blood and it fell to the ground.
4. Hail Mary...
5. Hail Mary...
6. Hail Mary...
7. Hail Mary...
8. Hail Mary...
9. Messenger: And His Blood became as great drops of Blood on the ground. He remains with us this day truly present in the Eucharist, He loves us and He gives us Himself in the Eucharist. Dear God, thank You for the gift of the Eucharist, the gift of Yourself given to us, thank You for our priests and the Church. Please help them, dear God, help us to have more priests, help the people to realize how great it is to have these priests, and help us to be holy.
10. Hail Mary...
Song: A Song from Jesus
Jesus is Scourged at the Pillar
1. Messenger: Think of how they came at Jesus with their angry hearts and their hatred, and Jesus didn't do anything, and they took their whips and they beat Him and they tore His unblemished back, they tore His flesh and He bled for love of us. We should, in meditating on this mystery of the rosary, realize more what love is all about because God is teaching us that love is GIVING. He gave Himself to His death on the cross. Satan wants people to get bowed down. We have to take the importance of our life to heart. Somebody can come and say something and we can get bent out of shape. How many days do we want to live like that? Forgive and love, and that brings the peace and the joy. Forgive and love, pray for the grace to forgive and to love.
2. Song: Loving and Forgiving
Messenger: Inside of our minds we can end up getting our thoughts trapped. We must ask God to help us to be able to discipline our thoughts that we are thankful, that we stay rooted in God, that we look for the light on this Feast of the Epiphany, for it is an act of the will. If it depends what somebody said to us how we are going to be today, that ought to tell us that who's in control of me. God gives us a special sharing in His life in Baptism and He dwells within us in a special way when we are in the state of grace. Let us focus on our own graced soul and the gift of God's life within us.
3. Messenger: And we sing, even in the Sorrowful Mystery:
Song: Joy to the World
Messenger: Joy to us for Christ, Who stood at the pillar and allowed them to beat His flesh for our sins. Let us say, thank You God, and give Him our love.
4. Messenger: God is Savior, we should sing to Him and thank Him.
Song: Joy to the World
5. Messenger: And they beat Him at the pillar, they tore His flesh, the King, the King of Glory was beaten at the pillar for our sins. And He gave, and He gave, and He gave till He last gave the last drop of His Blood and the last beat of His Heart. What does God teach us about love but that it is giving, and He forgave us all.
6. Messenger: The devil wants us trapped like in a box. Let's all get in our box and just sit there and be miserable. Psst! And Jesus says:
Jesus: I give you Myself in the Eucharist, I gave Myself on the cross, I was beaten, whipped. Today, spread the good news to the people that are hurting and crying out in pain. I love you, I love you, I love you.
Messenger: The Son of God loved us so much He died on the cross for our sins. The sky is blue and the sun is out, but we may not see it if we do not look.
7. Messenger: How can we spread the good news if we feel that we have to be perfect? Adam and Eve sinned and we all sin, and when we sin we say we're sorry, but if we think we're perfect, we don't say we're sorry and we just sit around and mope.
8. Messenger: Day after day after day, and the few days that we have on this earth can all be spent the same way, and we don't even see that they're all the same. Unless we really look at ourselves and say, "Day after day after day I did this, when day after day after day after day I could have changed the patterns, and made it a day as the sun shines here on the window where the head of Mary once appeared. God gives us our breath, and Mary remains here in a special way, even though somebody knocked her head off.
9. Hail Mary...
10. Messenger: And we count the little scuffs that people say to us, the little things that are just not nice. Do we see God, the Son of God, His flesh torn, His Blood spent? And they crowned Him with a crown of thorns that pierced His Head. God suffered and He gave Himself to the end. What is the lesson that God teaches us in these mysteries of the rosary? Is it not the lesson of love that the Son of God came, He took on a human nature and He gave Himself to His death on the cross?
Jesus is Crowned with a Crown of Thorns
1. Messenger: And we can really sing --
Sing: All the ends of the earth, have seen the glory of God...
Messenger: Or we don't have to look if we don't want to, but we need to look because God is really with us. He is truly present in His divinity and His humanity and that is something to shout with joy about.
2. Hail Mary...
3. Messenger: And they crowned Him with a crown of thorns, and they poked at Him and they spit on Him, and they put a purple cloak on Him, a dirty one. How we look at our little aches and pains or something that we think somebody said to us. Do we miss the message of the mystery, this mystery, that God who is the King of heaven and earth came, was beaten, crowned and hung on a tree? That is the message of what love is all about.
4. Messenger: In an angry fit a man said, as he hollered, "I am not angry!". And yet he did not hear the words that everyone else heard. Christ heard the angry men that crowned Him and beat Him, and they were our words. And He said yes and He hung on the cross for three agonizing hours for our sins, for our angry words, for our lies to ourselves, when we should have been loving, when we should have forgiven, when we shouldn't have wasted one more day of the precious days that God the Father has given to us to bring flowers in the bouquet to Him when we die. Loving and forgiving: God has taught us this lesson. They crowned Him with a crown of thorns, they whipped His back, He bled, the Blood went down His eyes and into His ears and His mouth bled, and He said, "This is love! It is GIVING. I gave My life for YOU and your sins."
5. Song: Loving and Forgiving
Messenger: I am asked by God to sing praise to His holy name, to thank Him for the gifts that He has given to me, and the greatest commandment of all: to love God and to love one another. That is a command from God - to love, and He showed us what love is. They crowned Him with thorns, they beat Him, they gave Him a heavy cross with the weight of our sins, and He was God, He could have stopped it at any moment but He did not, He went all the way to the cross and to His death to show us the lesson that loving is giving of ourselves, GIVING, and to this day He gives Himself to us in the Eucharist through the hands of consecrated priests, and how do we treat the Eucharist? God, help us to love the Eucharist.
Song: Loving and Forgiving
Messenger: Every person that is a human person on this earth today, must struggle with the evil one who wants us to be bowed down, who wants us to give into the evil one. God, give us strength, please, to be holy and joyful, and to do Your will.
6. Messenger: My son is 21 years old and he told me yesterday, called me up and he says, "Oh Mom, I'm going to a funeral at 12:00," and I said, "Oh you are?", because he's had other friends that have died of cancer at their young ages, which I can't believe. But Fr. Mike who was a chaplain at Children's Hospital can tell you of all the different children that died, and he says, "Oh yeah, do you remember..." and he tells me his name, and I remember him at the first grade birthday party in our house, and he went all the way with him through high school. And he said, "Yeah Mom," he said, "He got cancer about 5 months ago," and he said, "There was just nothing they could do about it and his funeral is today at 12:00."
Life is not promised to any of us. We don't know the hour or the day, but we do know this, that today is the day that God has given to us right now. And we can make the decision to live it, to praise Him, to honor Him, to be joyful, to love and to forgive, or we can take that day and give it away because it won't be back tomorrow.
7. Messenger: We can never live the moments of this day again. This moment, as soon as it is over, is gone. How did we form that bouquet for God the Father when He gave us the Body and Blood of His Son, for love of us, to teach us about giving? How did we give to the souls when He called us - to smile. Is that much? To smile? Who is in charge of me? Who is in charge of my thoughts? Who do I want to be in charge of me, and why do I not choose joy when it is my option?
8. Hail Mary...
9. Messenger: God loved us so much, He died for us.
10. Hail Mary...
Jesus Carries His Cross
1. Messenger: And He gave us these little trials. But if we look at Jesus and we see Him carrying the cross, the Son of God, the All Perfect, All Loving, Pure God - laden with our sins, and when He fell under it the Son of God got back up and carried it again. This is love. The Son of God loves us so much He carried our sins. God the Father loved us so much He gave us our beloved Jesus to come to this earth and to die for us, and to arise on the third day. God loves us so much today that He gives to us Himself in the Eucharist. How can we not be happy when we have been given the gift of the Eucharist?
2. Messenger: "I give you Myself," He says, "I give you Myself, one more day - this is the day I have given to you."
3. Song: This is the Day
4. Messenger: I thought of this. I opened up that Blue Book V and then it said, "This will be the best day of your life," and I had a whole lot of testing that day, and then I read the second sentence, and the second sentence says, from Jesus, "I will draw you into a closer love union with Me." And any day that Jesus takes us into a deeper love union with Him, it is a better day of our life.
5. Song: This is the Day
6. Hail Mary...
7. Messenger: And He fell under the cross, and His chin went into the ground. And the cross fell on top of Him, and they poked at Him as He was under the cross and said, "Get up! Get up! Move it!". This is giving.
8. Messenger: And we are so prideful and we think, "Oh, I have to look so perfect," and yet we know our own lives. And sometimes we don't even see it, that's why I love the fifth Blue Book, I'm seeing more and more and more the ways of love, and how God is, and I want to be like that, and I see that I have lots of work to do and that book needs to get out to the people, that they can see more and more how it is to love as God wants us to, love Him and love each other.
9. Messenger: And the divine God left them poke at Him under the cross and they beat Him, and they crowned Him with thorns and He took it all and then they said to Him, "Get up! Get up! Move it!", and He was the divine Almighty God, and we think that we should not be treated in any way, except as a king ourselves sometimes.
10. Messenger: We pray for the fruit of obedience in this mystery, that we will learn from this mystery the Crucifixion, how God gave Himself on the cross in obedience to the Father's will. We pray that we will learn how to love more and that love is giving, that we will share with one another, that we will tell the truth, when it is important that we do not lie to ourselves and others, that we will live a life of peace and joy as God desires us to.
Jesus Dies on the Cross
1. Hail Mary...
2. Messenger: I don't know if Kathleen can get this, but the sun is just like spinning right in front of me in the top corner of the Face of Jesus window, and it's like so awesome because it just keeps going around but it isn't hurting my eyes. On this Feast of the Epiphany we ask God to help us to see with a greater light, to be lights ourselves that when we have been in a room, and when we have been around others, they remember the light of Christ as it shines out of me, the light of God alive in me, the sweetness and the kindness of Jesus, the giving that God teaches us in the mysteries of the rosary. And He hung on the cross for three agonizing hours, He shed all His Blood, and He hung there for three hours till He died. This is the gift that God teaches us, that love is GIVING, and satan comes and he wants us to think about ourselves and not be joyful, and Jesus is saying, "How can you not be joyful? I have given you this promise that if you love and serve Me, I'll take you to heaven with Me for all eternity, so while you're down here just do My work and quit whining."
3. Messenger: And the devil is the accuser. He comes and he just wants us to feel miserable. Who gives us our directions anyway? Are we going to sit and listen to those negative thoughts all day so we can have another bad day? How many days do we have left? Tomorrow is promised to no man, today may be the last day of your life, and you cannot relive the moment that you just threw away if you chose to be miserable now.
4. Messenger: And He enjoyed, the suffering, He gave us His life. In perfect peace He gave the last drop of His Blood and the last beat of His Heart, in perfect peace. Have you ever had anybody run into you just a little bit in the parking lot? Or a grocery cart go down there, man, and it just barely touched the car, and they're jumping up and down, "Aaah! This is a new car!...aiaiai!...hmmph!!!". And here's this little girl standing there that was right by the cart, that's just taking it all in and then she says to her mommy, "Mommy, why was that person so angry? They were scaaary!".
Song: This is the Day
Messenger: And He hung on the cross for three agonizing hours to teach us about love and giving, and what He did, and He was the Son of God and He could have come down and stopped it all. And He gives us Himself this day in the Eucharist, and He is truly present and look at the way that HE is treated. Look at how the gift of the priest is treated. And He still keeps giving, He gives, and He gives, and He gives, and Mary appeared here and Jesus appears here. Don't you think we should say thanks to God for this gift here?
Song: This is the Day
Messenger: And we take, and we take, and we take, and we take - and complain. And God keeps giving and giving and giving, and then we walk around and say, "We're loving! We're loving! ...riririragh!.... We're loving! ...riririrgh!..pppppt!!!..We're loving!". And we go to church and we pray. Now what do you think is going to happen when we go up to be judged? He's going to say to you:
"How loving were you? Did you forgive others? Did you carry things forever and ever? Did you show the world the light that I gave to you? Or did you show them the dark countenance of the black night, when I shone before you in glorious light like the star here, and to you the universe and its beauty was not even enough to know how close I am that I give you such gifts, how close I am that I give you Myself in the Eucharist, how I guard you and watch you and hold you close to My Heart, and I ask you to smile My smiles to My beloved ones, and you say '...aiaiaiai!...'. As you look at Me as I hung on the cross, I want you to learn the lesson that love, is giving, and from this day forward to smile to others and to give My love through your gentleness and care. For what is it if you live your whole life and never learn to love? The days are short, they will be ended, like the batting of an eye and the dropping of a pin, and this day was the day that you just could not give."
5. Messenger: And when one came and said the sky is blue and the sun is out, did you see it? You said, "Don't tell me nothing!" It's like going down the hole every day, the same hole, and just jumping on in. After awhile why fall in the hole, you know right where you're going to go! You might as well start running because you're going to end up in that same old hole. Get up, jump out the window, run down the street, don't bother falling in the hole, just get right on in there yourself!
6. Messenger: That's what the fifth Blue Book has done. It has this beautiful pure love that God wants to give us, as He describes it to us in the way He wants us to love each other. And He's empowering us by telling us how much He loves us in such words that really do penetrate our heart, and then that helps us to want to be the way God wants. For what is our lives lived for if it is not to love? God is love, and if we are likened to Him we must love.
7. Hail Mary...
8. Hail Mary...
9. Hail Mary...
10. Hail Mary...
Messenger: Sing: "God is love, God is love." And there's that song and it's called The Wedding Song, because in our old age we really realize that God is with us every moment. We're never alone, He's our Spouse! And the Blessed Mother is by our side, and we sing:
Song: The Wedding Song
Messenger: And we're not all going to have it together, so we'd better be ready with our pockets full of little cards that we pull out and say, "I'm sorry!". And then the other guy better be ready to pull his pocket and say, "That's okay!", and then we say, "I love you!"
Sing: "God is love."
Messenger: Or we can mope around all day and say, "I'm never gonna forgive nobody!". And our hearts are tight and we're upset.
Do we want peace and joy? Then we have to build the mountain. And if they don't look like they like it, that's their problem. We have to pray for them and say we love you and forgive them and know that they need our prayers. That is the peace that God gives to us, when we act like Him. When we pray, God gives us a NEW solution, not the selfish one that we may have pulled out of our back pocket that says, "Give it to 'em, peeow!", but the one out of the front pocket that says, "I'm sorry!".
Sing: God is love...
Messenger: How many years do we have left here? I can never live the moments of this day again. How do you want to do it?
We got two things here. We can bring out an old black garbage can and stick our day in there, ppppt! Or we can bring out a nice white cloud, and let the sun of this afternoon on the Epiphany show the light of Christ that dwells within us. And it's not like as easy as it sounds you say, Rita. No it is not. It's like even though we may say the loving thing, inside we may wish we didn't have to. But we do it anyway and then we keep going, if we can, to the Eucharist, and to Mass and praying for grace wherever we are if we can't go to the Mass and the Eucharist, because God will give us that grace to be loving. We only have a few years left here, and every day is a day that we have to learn to love, because God is love. Amen.
Song: All I Ask of You
Messenger: Now look at the crucifix and think of those words as Jesus hangs there, giving us Himself to His death on the cross. We can never say that we are not loved, for we are loved far more than we'll ever know. And Jesus says:
Song: All I Ask of You
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December 28, 1994 - Wednesday
Feast of the Holy InnocentsBefore the tabernacle in Church
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Agony in the Garden
1. Jesus suffered such agonies to His Most Sacred Heart in the Garden.
2. Jesus, the Son of God, is truly present in this room at this very moment.
3. As present as He was in the Garden that night as He felt all the agonies to His Most Sacred Heart. He is with us this very moment, God, in the Tabernacle.
4. He saw before Him all the sins of all men for all time, and He felt anguish to His Heart to see men commit such vile deeds.
5. Such anguish to His Heart to love each and every person so dearly and to see them chose evil and hatred in their way of life.
6. He saw before Him all His sufferings, His entire Passion, every blow, every kick, the nails in His hands, and He saw at the same time all those souls that would be condemned to death to final damnation despite His suffering.
7. He loves us so much that He remains with us this day in His Divinity and His humanity, no less present than the day Mary held Him in her arms and the day that He walked on Calvary with a cross on His back. No less present was He there than He is in this room at this time with us.
8. See Jesus in the darkened night, and see Him and His infinite love that He has for each one of us, in such anguish that His sweat became as great drops of blood upon the ground.
9. He cries out to us as He did to the apostles ... Can you not wait one hour with me?
10. He suffered such anguish to His Heart for all the souls that would receive Him in communion and not even talk to Him or realize that they were truly receiving the Son of God with His Heart on fire for love of them.
The Scourging at the Pillar
1. Hear the jeers and the angry sounds of the men as they seize Jesus and tie Him with such hatred to the pillar.
2. They whipped Jesus so harshly to their own exhaustion. They whipped Him and whipped Him.
3. Hear the blows as they give the blows to Jesus, the hard blows, and listen to the sounds and hear Jesus as He so softly makes silent cries.
4. His once unblemished back is now covered with wounds.
5. Jesus' Heart is open and is on fire and is all pure and is totally a Heart of pure love, and men and their hearts can be filled with such hatred and anger for one another. He calls us to love Him and to love each other.
6. What of the hearts of these men who beat Jesus so harshly? Such anger such hatred, to beat Jesus until He bled.
7. The heart is whereby we connect with Jesus. Pray to the Holy Spirit to help us be more deeply united to Jesus.
8. He asks us to make our hearts pure, to pray for the grace to help us to let go of the things that are unloving so that love can penetrate our hearts and His love can flow through us to our brothers.
9. He longs and thirsts and waits for our love. He loves us so much. He waits here, Jesus the Son of God, waiting for us to come and tell Him how we truly love Him.
10. Jesus: I love you, my dearly beloved ones, with a Heart that is open and filled with fire for love of you.
The Crowning of Thorns
1. They pounded into Jesus' most precious head a sharp crown of piercing thorns.
2. They clothed Him in a dirty purple robe and they mocked Him and gave Him a scepter and they said that He was a King.
3. The blood ran from His thorns down the side of His face and into His eyes.
4. His vision was blurred. He ached from His head to His feet with such pain from the deep wounds that they had inflicted on Him. But His greatest suffering was that to His Heart for He loved those men that treated Him so cruelly. He loved each and every one of those men as they beat Him and they mocked Him and they spit on Him. The agonies to His most precious Heart were what He suffered the greatest.
5. As He suffered so for the sins of men, He was comforted by the love that we give to Him this day. He suffered for our indifferences, for our neglect, for our hot and cold hearts. But He was comforted by the great acts of love, by the time that we spend with Him, by the time that we spend after communion with Him. These were the sweet tastes to His mouth when He suffered this bitterness all through His Passion.
6. The blood ran from His mouth because of the blows they gave to His most precious head.
7. Song: Only this I want
8. This is the reality: that God runs this world, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, truly came to this earth and suffered and gave His life and rose on the third day because He loves us so very much.
9. Our every breath is dependent on God.
10. Help me to see, dear Jesus, through the eyes of God all that You want me to see where I am blind, so that I may see more and more the love that You outpour to me here and the love that You have to give so that I can love more my brothers.
Jesus Carries His Cross
1. Jesus truly carried His cross. See Him with a cross on His back and at that point see all the sins of all men for all time, the heaviness of the cross, the wounds on His body, the wounds on His most precious head, and to His most precious Heart to see all the sin and the hatred and the anger. How it broke His heart to see the souls that He had so much love for reject His love and choose this hate and this anger.
2. He walked the walk; His mother by his side always on Calvary, walking and hearing the sounds of the crowd that poked and laughed. And she stood by helplessly, the mother in her heart not able to raise her hand and help Him, and watched this persecution of her beloved child.
3. And in His Heart, this heart of love, the suffering that He went through to His heart was so immense that we have no idea.
4. The Son of God came to earth as a little baby and He took on a human body out of greatest love for us..
5. The pressure from the cross was so hard on His shoulder, His shoulder ached so badly He felt as if it would break.
6. Look at His arms that held the cross as He walked and see these beautiful arms of Jesus, battered, splintered, and so tired from carrying this heavy cross.
7. See the wounds to Jesus' body: His back badly wounded, His shoulder, His head crowned with piercing thorns. Wounds all over tore His flesh and He carries this heavy cross with love for all those who stand by and jeer at Him.
8. He asks us to carry our cross with love for one another. He says that The Way is not always the easy way. The Way to Him is to pick up your cross and to follow Him.
9. Song: Lord, let me walk that lonesome road with You, under the weight of the wood. Lord, let me walk that last mile in Your shoes, under the weight of the wood.
10. Hail Mary
Jesus is Crucified and Dies on the Cross
1. Such intimacy between Jesus and Mary. She held Him as an infant, she was with Him all through His life. Now she walked the Passion and she stood under the cross. Her once baby, little hands and feet ... now His hands and feet were pounded into the cross with big nails.
2. Mary stood under the cross without a scar on her body, but her heart was in such anguish as she watched and she suffered. She withstood it all. She didn't leave. She stayed there, as she stays by our side, forever by our side in all of our sufferings. Mary is with us. She is present to us and she mothers us as she mothered her child Jesus all through His life. She was always there. And Jesus' last thoughts were of us to give us His beloved Mother as our mother to be forever by our side.
3. Jesus gave His all. He gave all of His blood to the last beat of His Heart. He said yes to the Father's Will to give Himself for love of us.
4. Be there and stand with Mary and hear the sounds. Hear the wind blow and see it dark as night as Jesus hangs. He doesn't hang straight as we see Him on some of the crosses, but He is hanging on a cross, holding on so close to death. Jesus loved us so much He died for us.
5. He calls out to us from the Tabernacle. He says "I gave myself for love of you." For love of us, He gives Himself to us this day and remains with us. Just as present as the day He hung on the cross, He is with us in this room with the greatest love and He wants us to know how He thirsts and how He longs and waits for us to come so He can shower this love upon us. And He waits for us to tell Him how we truly love Him.
6. Song: A Song From Jesus
7. The heart of Mary knows the Heart of Jesus. Mary knew Jesus as a child. Mary knew Jesus in her womb. Mary knew Jesus so well in her heart, and it is through her loving heart and her love for Jesus that we will be in such union with Him.
8. Mary, as you held Jesus so closely to your chest, hold us so tightly close to your chest and lead us to the deepest recesses of Jesus' Heart where He wants to love us so intently.
9. Mary held Him in her arms when He took His first breath in this world and she held Him in her arms when He died, when He after His death lay under the cross. In between are the lives of Jesus and Mary, this closeness between Their two Hearts. Mary and Jesus so one. Mary and Jesus love us in such love. And it is in this love that we will be led to the closest union with God through the Spirit.
10. Mary, help us to know and to love Jesus as you loved Jesus. Help us to be saturated with His grace and be loving. Nothing here can compare to love that God has for us. He wants to give to us His love. He outpours this love in front of the tabernacle.
Sing: I Love You Jesus.
Seven Sorrows of Mary
1. The Prophecy of Simeon. Simeon prophesied how Mary would suffer. And a sword, too, would pierce her heart. And from that point on whenever she beheld her child, she had in her heart the sufferings that Simeon prophesied.
2. The Flight Into Egypt. Joseph and Mary went with the child to Egypt.
3. The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple.
4. Jesus and Mary Meet on the Way to the Cross.
5. Jesus Dies on the Cross.
6. Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross and laid in Mary's arms.
7. The Burial of Jesus.
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