Daily Writing
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January 23, 2008
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January 24th Holy
Spirit Novena |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries |
Rita will be in Florida on
January 26 and January 27 at the
6:20 PM prayer servicesMary appeared to her on
December 17, 2007 and January 5, 2008
Given January 25, 2002
Messenger: Our Lord has asked me to
put on the
Mass Book II. He wants one entry
each day. This will be the third
entry today. Pray for Grace to love
God more and read each entry every
day. See if it helps you grow closer
to God—Father Son and Holy Spirit.
See how your relationship progresses
with God over this period of time.
January 25, 2002 message continues
Messenger: Here is today's entry:
~ March 10, 1999 ~
Consumed by the Fire of His Love in the Mass
I adore You, I worship You my beauteous God. I loved Him so intently in this Mass, wanting only to worship and adore Him. My focus was worshipping my beauteous Father. My soul was filled with the presence of God’s love in the Spirit. I had intense oneness with my beloved Spouse Jesus Christ, offering sacrifice to God. I wanted to exist in the depth of union IN HIM, knowing all I know and the struggles, but experiencing all this intently in Him. I want to exist dwelling so deeply
in Him. The self unites so deeply with the Almighty God and in that point the self is so completely immersed in the Divine God. My soul was filled with awe for God. He possessed my soul in the Mass and all I crave is deeper union with Him, being existent IN HIM IN SUCH A HEIGHTENED DEGREE. This is joy, to be filled by the Almighty God and living existent in Him in this elevated state in the Mass. Come to me Lord and POSSESS MY SOUL.
Take me away from this place. I want to be where all I know is myself existent in You. The walls around me drop off and my state is that of an elevated union with my Divine God. He gives Himself to me. I am in awe, I adore and love Him. I want to bend low and worship Him. He is truly all-holy, worthy of all honor and praise. I was consumed with awe for love of Him, wishing only to worship Him and to bend low, filled with awe and thanksgiving for this awesome gift of Himself. God gives us the greatest gift of the Mass. With Christ we offer this most Holy Sacrifice to the Father, wanting only to please Him, worship Him and praise Him. We bend and bow low to our most beauteous God, Lord of heaven and earth. Fill me with Your grace that I will be in awe of You and bend low to Your great wonders in the Mass. My God, I adore You, I worship You, I love You.
end of March 10, 1999 writing
Given January 21, 2008
God is all good.
I know the rapture of His embrace.
I know more the goodness of God.
It is for this we imperfect creatures are to
seek the
perfection of God —
We are to seek His truth
To know more the generosity of God —
His gift of His love —
God is love
The more we seek God — the more our actions are
rooted in love.
God is merciful to us sinful creatures who give
into
pride, anger, selfishness, envy, lust.
When we ask for forgiveness — He hears us
He gives us His mercy
We are to make reparation to God for our
sins
and the sin of men — for we offend God
If God reveals Himself to us deeply in His
magnificent
love our heart burns with its warmth —
God loves us so much it is like a torch burning
in intensity for us His creatures.
The devil wants us not to realize how much God
loves us.
The devil wants us to focus on how we are not loved
how we are rejected how our friends
even don't love us. The devil wants us to
feel unloved, hated, rejected.
The devil wants us to play tapes in our head
how others hate us, have betrayed us,
rejected us, talked about us —
God has given us His Blue Book letters
of love — so we will know how much
He loves us. The man who really knows more God's
love will have greater courage and will be strengthened.
The more we are filled with His love the
stronger we are. God is attentive to our needs —
God created us to love — God commands us to
love Him and others — That means we are not
to hate others — God commands us to love
others.
God has given to us a sharing in His life
in baptism. We are able to be filled
more and more with His life. Life is in Him —
In heaven we will have the fullness of life —
but not until then, but the more we go
to the Eucharist and the sacraments we
can be more and more abundantly
filled with His life.
God fills us with His love and His life and
God is light — We are children of the light
the more God is in us — We can fly on
eagles wings, the scripture says, if we
know God and His deep love for us.
If we really focus on God and the
perfection of God then we see why
it is so important we realize and
meditate on the lives of Jesus — the all
perfect God and Mary the sinless,
untainted human creature.
Perfection and studying what that
means, meditating on God's goodness,
His power, His gifts, helps us to
see the light rather than give into
the temptations of satan trying
to tempt us to give into
our imperfections.
God is perfect —
We are to live to be more perfected.
as Our Heavenly Father —
In studying the hungry world — to which
Jesus referred when He gave me the
Blue Books — He gave to us the bread
of Life — the Holy Scripture — His Word
to feed us and the Eucharist — the
Body and Blood of Jesus to eat.
The hungry souls of this earth
thirst after the message God is delivering
to us in the Shepherds of Christ —
When we hear the scripture when
John the Baptist — Baptized Jesus — that the
heavens were opened and above
Jesus' head was a dove —
We hear the voice of the Father speak —
"This is My beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased, listen to Him."
So it is the modeling that the Father
teaches us here and in the transfiguration
and in meditating on the Mysteries of
Light — we see how we will be
children of light, modeling ourselves
after Jesus, the Son, who was
sent by the Father and the Father
tells us.
"This is My beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased, listen to Him."
In realizing why we
are here we see in St. Ignatius Spiritual
Exercises that the
First Principle and Foundation is
that
all things are done for the honor and
glory of God —
This means our life is to be lived,
to be more like Jesus, Jesus who
selflessly gave Himself for His
beloved souls.
We meditate on the Mysteries of Light.
We see Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount —
Jesus ascends the mountain.
We are around the altar of Sacrifice —
The sacrifice is the sacrifice of Calvary
sacramentally made present in the
Mass —
I love to look at the altar — I envision
the steps — the mountain — the grace
flowing —
We see the death of Jesus the
hill of Calvary — the pierced Heart
of Jesus, the water and blood
flowing from His heart —
To us is given the gift — the sacrifice
of Calvary — sacramentally made
present in the Mass — the grace
flows to the world — sinful men and we
cry
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
Oh man is so pompous to try
to build his own little Kingdom
and we miss what our souls
are thirsting for and God so richly outpours
in the Word and the sacraments —
grace outpoured in the Church —
I loved to hear the creeks flow in
China as Fr. Carter ascended the altar
of sacrifice and we had no air conditioning —
the mural of the crucifixion scene
above him and he looked with such
love at the consecrated host and
the Blood of Jesus —
The creeks at sometime with the open door
in front of the Church
doors — roaring with water and
Fr. Carter celebrated the Mass and I
prayed so deeply — Jesus gave me
messages then after communion
such a gift and we were given
from God —
It is only the devil that wants to silence
what we have done for 14 years.
So many, many lives touched through
one million Blue Books and
5,800,000 Priestly Newsletters in
14 years sent all over the face of
the earth centered in consecration,
building the Kingdom of God —
leading men to the love of God —
the love of Jesus and Mary —
The devil is noisy and when Mary appeared
at the Holy Spirit Center, people tried to
get me to stop, saying "no one believes
Mary is appearing to you." That
was 14 and 13 years ago and all this followed.
All the daily writings — 9 years worth and
5,800,000 Priestly Newsletters, billion
of prayer manuals in different
languages. God called us
to build the Kingdom — He went to the
Mount of Olives and the Apostles slept —
He went to Mt. Tabor for the Transfiguration
and Peter wanted to be busy building
tents rather than letting God do His
agenda.
In man's limited mind — he has the
wounded human nature which he tends
to and in it — in the darkness as satan
tempts — man's little lie can open a door
to an avalanche while satan then
tries to move in with fallacious reasoning,
pride, anger, envy, jealousy, lust and
the man becomes more and more blinded
as the devil counsels him and tries to
lead him down the wrong path that
leads to unhappiness, darkness,
hatred, isolation, anger,
pride, misery is the word for seeking
dominance above God —
Do we see that God is a just
God and He punishes sin —
The whole human race has suffered
a tainted human nature (except
Mary) for the sin of Adam and Eve.
The pattern I have fought as a messenger
of God — is that others want to stop
me — quit paying attention to Mary's
visits, take the Blue Books off etc. —
Fr. Carter's message from Jesus was this —
Never have separate websites for
his writings and mine — The Blue Books
were as much his as mine he told
me —
Jesus told him anyone not going to the
13ths, living by the Blue Books,
doing a daily hour of adoration,
doing a daily Mass —
saying the Shepherds of Christ Prayers
could not be leaders in
the Movement and he sent
them packing —
Fr. Carter defended me
Fr. Carter never once talked about his
superior
Fr. Carter set up the 7 levels of
commitment —
He told me about the servants and
handmaids and apostles June, 1994
when he said Jesus wanted an
order
They just showed up —
the China Church was basically given by the
Archdiocese for this purpose after Fr. Carter
received a message to go to Indiana to look
for a center — We left the Jesuit residence
drove to China, Indiana and turned around
lost in the parking lot laughing
China, ha ha, China, ha ha —
actually we were found —
We were told one week later it was available
by some person — without ever even thinking
of the Church —
When I first went in I had a vision
of the Eucharist exposed and
the Church full of people —
Jesus in China one day after communion
and the creeks flowing said —
"I want my rug red for My Heart
I want the ceiling blue for Mary —
I want all walls and window wells
white"
Building the Kingdom —
After Mary appeared at Our Lady of the
Holy
Spirit Center and the
corner fell off March 22, 1994 —
Lucia's birthday
And we were kicked out 3 times —
when the Red Rosary book with
rainbow left the printer December 17, 1996,
Mary appeared in Clearwater in
rainbow color.
Do you believe, I had a vision of Jesus'
Heart 5 years before — on the
front of the second Blue Book
December 17, 1991
December 17, 1991
His Burning Heart
Messenger: I was alone in All Saints Church after Mass and Communion, in front of the tabernacle, when I saw the Sacred Heart. It was red around the outside, then a layer of yellow and then the brightest light in the center. I felt heat and it looked like an open furnace.
I thought about it all day and it instantly gave me peace and warmth in my heart. This is the purpose of these letters—to draw hearts to the ardent on-fire love of Jesus. I received the following message that day:
"Open your heart to the fire of God's love. He is ablaze in your heart. He wants to dwell in you and love you and others through you. Love God, yourself and one another and experience the fire set aglow in your heart and experience the warmth of His love."end of writing about December 17, 1991
Building the Kingdom —
Hiding my notebooks
November 8, 1991 - 4:00 a.m.
Jesus: From this day forward, you will have love, peace and joy.
You are drawn to Me like a magnet - come home to Me and feel the inner joy in your heart.
I am with you always to the ends of the earth.
I am your God and you shall not have other gods besides Me.
I will be with you - that is My promise. I will be with you forever more. Cling to Me for I am strong.
Do not be afraid, for I will gently show you the way of the Lord.
Matthew 11: 28-30
R. Jesus, save me from the snare of the devil, from his seed. Plant me on solid ground so I can prosper and be full and follow the ways of the Lord.‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’
For You have gently touched my heart and I am warm and cuddly inside.
Your wish is my command. I must follow the ways of the Lord in all things and follow His path, doing His will.
You will show me this path, if I am open to You. All I need do is ask, and I will be answered.
Open my heart and my will to Your direction, Lord Jesus. You are with me in the night, in the rising of the sun and during the day. In all my trials, You are there. Open up my heart to Your word.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Give me Your direction so I might know what path You want me to take.
If I open my heart and listen, all will be revealed to me in His time. For the honor and glory of You Jesus Christ I ask these things in Your name and open my heart to Your direction.
Please help me to put aside the ways of the flesh and follow Your direction, Lord Jesus, this day and always to dwell in the house of the Lord.
Song: All My Days
R. Today is one of those days. Sing praise to God our Father, Jesus, His Son, and the Holy Spirit. Honor and glory to You, GOD.
Thanks for this letter, You wake me from my sleep. I thought I heard a noise, but it was You waking me to talk to me.
Your word is the word of God, and all honor be Yours for Your direction. It came from God and I must heed these words.
God speaks: Put your anger aside, and make room in your heart for Jesus' love I pour into you right now. Replenish yourself with My love and My grace and be still, for I am with you this day. I will watch over you, and comfort you, and bring you into the land flowing with milk and honey. Listen to My word and be glad so that all might see your good works and praise your Father Who is in heaven.
I bless you and keep you ever in My Heart. Be ready to do My will and be blessed by Me. Listen and be glad, for I am with you until the consummation of the world.
Go now and live My word, My child. I love you.
Jesus: In the midst of confusion, be the light shining in the darkness, be life to those who are down-hearted. I have the power to do all things and I am within you, so you have the power to be My light to the world.
You are plugged into an undying source. I am there. I want to love, I want to give, I want to comfort and strengthen. I will do these things to My brethren through you, if you let Me.
Love your family, I have given them as gifts to you, to love and care for.
End of November 8, 1991
I Love You
April 13, 1994
Words of Jesus. Read before the Tabernacle.
Jesus: How, child, do I, Jesus, tell you I love you? You hold on to silly things when God is in your midst and is ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same Jesus Who died a brutal death on the Cross.
Do you know I am truly present there? Do you know that God waits every day for you in the tabernacle? Do you comprehend even a minute amount of My love? You will never know of how I love you on earth.
I, Jesus, truly the Son of God, came to earth a man and suffered a brutal death for love of you. I love you so much! I remain with you this day. I long for your love. I want you to come and be with Me in front of the tabernacle. I wait, I yearn for you to come and whisper your love to Me. I am a person and I love you this day, with such an ardent on-fire love! No human could ever compare a speck to My love for you.
I wait, little ones, in the tabernacle. I wait for you to come and receive Me in Communion. I want you to want Me so much you cannot wait to come and receive Me. I want to be the love, the center of your life!
I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am writing to you this day. I want to possess your very soul and live in you. I have all you need, sweet ones. Oh, you are so blind! I long for your union with Me. I wrote the book of love. I instituted it, yet you go to the world for your love and do not even come to Me! Oh, I love you, little ones. Little ones, beloved of the Father, loved by the Holy Spirit, mothered by My very own mother! What more can I say? The rest is up to you!
I give you your will with such love and I want your love freely given. I am God. What do you think you could ever need that I do not give you? I am the Savior of this world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. I am waiting for you. I am longing for you. I am yearning for you. I am God. I have all you ever will need!
Surrender this life to Me. Pray My Prayer for Union with Me. I want to possess your soul and operate from your very being. I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am Who am. I died and rose on the third day.
Harken to My call, harken to My pleading. Spend your days in love with Me. Nothing matters unless it is rooted in Me and rooted in My love. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I love you with the tenderest love. I am waiting this day for just you, My beloved one. Come to Me for I am the tenderest of all hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- God's Blue Book,
Volume 2 April 13, 1994
Building the Kingdom
John 18: 36
Jesus replied, ‘Mine is not a kingdom of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my men would have fought to prevent my being surrendered to the Jews. As it is, my kingdom does not belong here.’
One of Fr. Carter's favorite scriptures
Matthew 7:21
'It is not anyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," who will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Given January 22, 2008
God is the ultimate mystery
Other and transcendent
unless He chooses to reveal Himself to us.
The mystery of God is
the gift of knowing
Him more intimately in our soul —
It is the need to let go and let God as
He reveals to me His truths —
knowledge of Himself
I am not sterile,
dry, and inactive —
I am acted on by God —
I am a vessel
waiting His favor —
I am not controlling Him —
It is God who leads the dance
It is God who is the initiator
It is God who is the bridegroom
of my soul
Oh God You are the initiator
I am the soul waiting your
favors —
I am the empty vessel
I have
focused on perfection
not given into imperfections
as jealousy, pride, anger,
envy, seeking dominance for
dominance sake
Where satan presses
on in discord —
I am embraced in the pure and
holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Why with dark shadows
around me — do I choose
light
because it is light
and love that
makes me happy —
It is for love I was created
It is in heaven we love
In heaven — we are full of grace
A snow came over
night and the roads
were blocked — so thick was
the white snow - that the
road was impassible
Mary Lou looked out
and she saw so
early — she could not move on
the road
At 7:00 a snow plow
came and
cleared the street —
No matter how Mary
Lou may have
attempted to leave — the snow
was impassible and she couldn't
go on the road.
Mary Lou had to wait
on the snow
plow
The Holy Spirit can
come and
move the debris if we let Him —
If we are full of bad, hidden habits —
anger, bitterness, envy, lust,
jealousy, pride, seeking
dominance for dominance
sake and
We try to think our way out of it —
It may very well be
like the cogged
street — impassible —
God gives us grace to love Him —
God gives us grace to forgive
God gives us grace to run on
the slipperiest slope and
not break a leg —
Controlling and trying to
force others to change around
us - when we are the ones who need to
change and be healed by God's grace
may be the only way to work
with others if we are the problem
Invention — after
World War II man
began more and more to see himself
as his own Master — secularism —
I can control anything — the mind
is my god — some very strongly
thought
Where men early in
the century lived
focused on the Sacred Heart of Jesus —
displaying pictures of the Two Hearts —
more and more the pictures were
removed from many walls —
out of reach —
out of mind —
Had God become more
distant —
God does not change
Man had — many men
focused on
themselves as god — called
secularism —
I believe this is a
chastisement since
we did not follow more
Mary's request of Fatima —
The bridegroom comes
—
the guests are focused on sports and
inventions
The bridegroom is
focused on the Plan
of the Father —
The Marriage at Cana
The gift of the
Eucharist —
The bridegroom focuses on - love —
Love of God
Love of each other —
This is the greatest
commandment —
God tells us to love with our whole
heart —
our whole soul —
our whole being and
love our neighbor as ourselves
It is unacceptable in
some circles to
talk about God —
How could sinful man
leave out God —
Without God in their minds — they
can do it their way —
they may reason
"Who is God anyway telling
me what to do — my parents
tried to do that — I fought
them until I moved out"
"Nobody tells
me what to do —
even God"
When others were
living life in one
accord with God's rule — those with
an attitude as above (the quote above)
were being counseled by the
devil to disobey God's rule and
be very rebellious —
I learned through 16
years of messages
how Powerful God is and when he
leads the dance — I can dance
the night away —
A cookie jar, can be
like the fruit
tree in the garden — if mom says —
Joie stay out of the cookie
jar —
How many stories
about Adam and
Eve do we need — if we realize
the justice of God and how the
whole human race suffered
for the sin of Adam and Eve —
I suffer today —
I have a tainted
human nature
Never will I be happy
giving into
anger and envy and pride — discord —
Some say "Don't tell
me nothing
God — I am autonomous — I don't
need directions from God — I am
an adult —"
Leave me alone God —
I don't need your way"
When Jesus
appeared to me in the mural
over the altar in China — light was on
Him — like a bolt of lightening coming
down
First I saw this
light as if it came
upon Him, His whole body shown
lighted — so brightly, but it was
as if a light came as a beam from
the direction shown — from
above
LIGHT, LIGHT, LIGHT
Jesus spoke through me then —
Then the blackest,
black around
the left arch particularly the
left side
In the moments of
seeing the intensity
of the vision —
the message written on my soul
at that point
"This is my beloved
Son, in whom
I am well pleased, listen
to Him"
When Jesus appeared
December 5, 1996 on
the cross — the message
"I have been ignored"
"No one is listening"
Jesus' mouth was moving at the point of death —
God puts people in
our lives today —
this time, this minute, this hour —
to help —
He died for them
He gave His life
He shed His Blood —
Now its our turn to
be His instruments
January 22, 2008 and
we say
"Yes, Lord, I come to do your will"
OR
"No Lord I am angry —
I have been wronged
I want to be in that black part —
I will be the block to the troubled
world
When you taught me —
I didn't
listen — I focused on myself —
I pressed on others for the devil
to see how I could block
their light
I had my own agenda
in the Church
you gave for this message — to press
down and hurt the ones praying —
God I am angry
I am selfish and
I am dark"
And Jesus says —
How dark is hell?
How black?
Perpetual anger —
you never
knew perpetual disharmony,
perpetual darkness —
fighting —
hatred —
never love
Absence of any love
Absence of goodness
Absence of mercy
FIRE of hell
Jesus: Oh I am
a just God —
I call for obedience
I command love
I give these retreats to empower
others to carry out My
work —
You fight Me
R. So I know
now the embrace of the
Two Hearts — the fire of Jesus' love —
the great love of the Sacred Heart and
Immaculate Heart united
Love to set the
whole world
ablaze
Love to bring
peace
Not the fallacious reasoning
satan uses
The truth in our
hearts from
the Holy Spirit impelling us to love.
The sweetness of love
—
The kindness of love —
Obeying the commandment to love —
Being where God wants us
NOW — being instruments
of love — not darkness —
instruments for God
LOVE — LOVE — LOVE
Jesus:
My Movement exists to spread LOVE
I AM LOVE
think of the early plagues —
They wanted power for themselves
The desert can bring forth fruit —
You must believe
January 23, 2008
God created the world
All things, all people are under God.
Man, because of Adam and Eve, seek
dominance, because of their wounded
human nature.
Man has tendencies for rebelliousness
as opposed to holiness.
Now we see —
Our Lady appeared at Fatima
The Queen of Peace
There must be order
To have peace
Man must be under God, the Creator.
God makes the light and darkness
God has the world turn
God has water for vegetation for man's life
to live
Disharmony has occurred because of the
sin of Adam and Eve
Disharmony in animals
Disharmony in the weather
Our Lady of Fatima
Queen of Peace
Says — One Mind, One Heart
God is Our Father
Jesus remains in the Eucharist
She appears at Fatima and Clearwater
God has given rules — the 10 commandments
When Moses got them — they were worshipping the
molten calf — Moses so frustrated threw
the tablets down —
Today many men ignore the 10 commandments and
worship the molten calf
When Mary appeared at Clearwater in
Rainbow color
December 19, 1996
Mary: My dear children, I give to you, my Son, Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem on Christmas morn. He is the Almighty God, the Light of the World.
I appear to you, my children, on a (former) bank in Florida. You have made money your god! Do you know how cold are your hearts? You turn away from my Son, Jesus, for your money. Your money is your god.
I am Mary, your Mother. I do not appear as I once appeared to you. I am asking you today to circulate my message given on a tape on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. Please circulate this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother. Please circulate my Rosary Book.
end of December 19, 1996 message
Jesus told me —
A house divided against itself will not
stand
In salvation history men have become corrupt.
God flooded the earth at the time of Noah
because men had become so
corrupt — it was unloving to
allow it to continue
The Shepherds of Christ circulated a Newsletter to help
bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and
the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.
When Mary appeared to me at the Lady of
the Holy Spirit Center — no one listened and today
basically no one is there.
Finally Jesus appeared to me at the point
of death December 5, 1996 and then Mary appeared
in Clearwater in rainbow color December 17, 1996
12 days later —
Her message — the Rosary Books, Mass Book
Blue Books — Priestly Newsletter
needed to circulate spreading the letters of
love to the hungry earth and the consecration
to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary —
So we spread 5,800,000 Priestly Newsletters
to tell about how the Sacred Heart
of Jesus is to Reign in our world,
our homes, our hearts —
but individuals want to sit in
the Sacred Heart's chair —
In the Churches — in the tabernacle and
where Jesus is exposed — we
can have men not even realizing the
gift Jesus is truly present in His
Divinity and humanity
Some men use everything for their purpose
including God.
Not the other way around where they live
to serve God
be under God
Man exists to serve God
God is His Master
God has a Plan
God created man
He gives man the talents to do His work
(October 3, 1993)
Obedience
Structure
Order
Order has fallen out in this world in
many places worse than ever,
Lack of religious orders — serving
the Church — in love — in one
mind and one heart for the
purpose of giving honor and glory
to God
In the world
God is not recognized by all as King and
Master
In the family
God is not recognized many times
Wherever there is not structure —
disorder there is pandemonium
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J.
Puhl, S.J.
136. THE FOURTH DAY
A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS
The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human naturePRAYER. The usual preparatory prayer.
window at a former Jesuit Seminary
137. FIRST PRELUDE. This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.
138. SECOND PRELUDE. This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.
139. THIRD PRELUDE. This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
FIRST PART
THE STANDARD OF SATAN
140. FIRST POINT. Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.
141. SECOND POINT. Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.
142. THIRD POINT. Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.
The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
SECOND PART
THE STANDARD OF CHRIST
143. In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.
144. FIRST POINT. Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.
145. SECOND POINT. Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.
146. THIRD POINT. . . .
end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 11
21. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
no decision is made under the influence of any
inordinate attachment
p. 12
23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
DISORDER
comes from
DISOBEDIENCE TO
God
Fighting Satan
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