January 23, 2016

                R. A man can be so good at doing things we say he
                has mastered the art. A basketball player that plays
                basketball with rhythm and harmony and knows
                how to work with others to master the game can
                have a real art about all he does.

                    Likewise there are great golfers and great musicians
                that work with such harmony and rhythm and
                expertise they just excel above others at their great
                gift and have developed the art of that discipline.

                    Doctors and teachers, homemakers and artists
                can excel with such harmony and rhythm – they
                just know how to do it the right way.

                    We can see human actions and a man knowing
                how to act prudently in what he chooses to do,
                in how he acts and in excelling in the art of
                acting the right and prudent way as God wants.

                    We have a life time to choose how we act in
                our relationships with others and bring growth
                and honor to the vocation God has called us to.
                Like Pope John Paul II who showed the gift God gave
                him to act the right way – to act to bring growth
                and peace to Poland and grow in love and
                help the other countries there and in the world.

                    One man can do so much when he is acting with
                God's might behind him – when his will is the will
                of God and his energy is positive energy in acting
                according to God's will – in God's timing – in God's way –
                in God's plan for him - with God's might.

                    Learning to act in the right way as God wants –
                takes the Might of God and God's grace, but it
                takes saying yes – year after year - yes to
                believing in God's might – yes to His will,
                yes to loving God and all men, yes to positive
                energy – yes to hoping in all our actions to
                gaining life eternal with God for ourselves and
                helping others to hope for eternal life in their actions.

                    Or we can see through the tainted eyes of envy
                and not love – of jealousy and not love –
                of anger and not the joy of knowing God and
                of pride always seeing oneself above everyone
                even God. And these ways of acting according
                to the wounded human nature are practiced
                for 30, 40, 50 years. A man can spend his life
                acting pridefully, jealous of his brothers,
                full of envy and anger and when God blesses
                him he doesn't act the right way. And the
                darkness he has chosen to oppose God's law
                of love and virtue is almost clouded by
                years and years of not working with others
                but seeking separation, isolation, pushing
                people away or even tricking them to send
                them away because of lies and deception –
                then feeling sorry for themselves when they treat
                others in unloving ways opposed to God's will.
                Like Jesus says, "It takes a lot of negative
                energy to oppose God's will."

                    A person that opposes God's will invites satan
                to come and play in their lives and satan
                is not nice.

                    Prudence helps a man to choose well
                his actions. Justice helps a man to pay his
                debts and to see that he gives to others, while he
                is alive, their due and gives to the building of
                future generations. A prudent man chooses
                a good way to do what must be done – he
                doesn't use evil to do his job. Prudence
                means a man acts according to God's order –
                in love. Prudence demands rightness
                of intention in an act. A man with
                justice can judge rightly on how to act.

                    If a man is unjust he can find it
                very difficult to judge how to be.

                    Man was created in the image and likeness
                of God. Man is to seek truth and perform
                good acts with the goal of eternal happiness
                and with right reasoning. Man is to
                grow more and more in love and virtue
                and knowledge. In baptism man's knowing
                and loving capacity is elevated. Man is
                to live virtuously – not live a life of
                pride, anger, greed, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

                    God created this marvelous world with
                order. One who opposes God's will is choosing
                disorder – is distancing themselves from God.
                Repeated actions of pride, greed, envy,
                wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth
                become vices and bad habits in which a
                man can base his actions in evil and
                thus distance himself further and further
                from God as he does not repent or tell
                himself the truth about his wrong doing.

                    God is absolute truth. The virtues
                help us to know the truth and act as
                God wants us to act. Man is to be
                good and to be loving.

                    Virtue is the Principle of Unity.
                The more one works with others in unity –
                the stronger they become in one good and
                holy work.

                    The devil is division. In order for us to be
                strong we need to work together to achieve
                a common goal. Our goal in the Shepherds of Christ
                are helping to renew the Church and the world.
                To pray united during retreats and on the 5ths
                and 13ths to bring down great grace
                for the whole world.

                8 Days of Prayer

                R. God calls us to be one body in the Church
                with Christ the head.

                Man is in the pursuit of happiness.

                His reasoning is to be according to what
                    God wants.

                His goal is ultimately –> good actions to
                    attain eternal salvation.

                When men are divided they will not
                    work in growth to bring unity
                    as God wants to the world.

                Men of independence and isolation are
                    not working in unity when they
                    insist on having their own way
                    and working alone and don't get
                    along with anyone –
                    refuse to recognize authority and
                    refuse correction –

                This is a prescription for failure.

                Virtues help men to rely on God and to
                    respect and work with each other under God.

                The deadly sins, divide and make enemies of
                    each other – pride, greed, envy, wrath,
                    lust, gluttony, and sloth.

                Man is called to the vision of God –
                    we need to live the virtuous life –
                    God commands us to love God first and
                        to love others as ourselves.

                God does not deceive – nor can He be
                    deceived –
                    God knows the ways of a man's
                        heart –

                Temperance is a virtue that regulates
                    and helps men not to give into
                    the wounded human nature –

                A man needs the virtues to pursue happiness.
                    Faith, Hope and Love – These are the theological virtues.
                    Temperance, prudence, justice and
                        fortitude – These are the Cardinal Virtues.

                    Humility

                    The Cardinal Virtues help a man to
                        choose good actions according
                        to God's will –
                        with relationships to God, oneself and others.

                    The Cardinal virtues help a man in
                        the pursuit of good.

                Oh that a man would live virtuously
                    and not give into deadly habits
                    of the deadly sins.

                All 4 of the Cardinal Virtues are necessary.

                God calls man to the vision of Himself.

                In elevating man's knowing and loving
                    capacity in baptism one is capable of
                    knowing and loving supernaturally.

                Man needs the virtues to be what he is
                    supposed to be.

                God calls us to act the right way –
                    A leader is to show other men by
                        his actions to act the right way.

                    A man who is called to be a leader
                        is doing God's will in telling
                        men how to act the right way.

                    A man who is acting the right way –
                        has eternal happiness as his goal.

                This brings joy to the heart to be creature
                    in union with the Creator and
                    living in love as God intends –
                    acting the right way.

                Acting the right way sets you free.

                A leader who corrects those under
                    them acting the wrong way is
                    leading them to freedom.

                The virtuous man lives life to a
                    deep level. He has a goal, he knows
                    what God is calling him to and
                    he knows how to get there doing God's
                    will in love with right reasoning and
                    acting the right way.

                Why would God want a man to follow satan
                    and act the wrong way –
                    Satan appeals to a man's pride –
                    He tells him if he acts the right way
                        he is not free –
                    The passions need to be controlled
                        by right reasoning.

                God wants us to see the vision of God.

                God wants to lead us to the virtuous life.

                To do what God wants we have to
                    surrender and allow ourselves
                    to be led by God.

                God has given us the gifts and
                    fruits and beatitudes.

                The Holy Spirit wants to possess our soul.

                From the Prayer Manual

Holy Spirit Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.

                R. How offensive to God when He gives us
                    so much and we turn our backs to
                    Him and follow satan.

                Remember in the Garden, Adam and Eve were
                    given such gifts from God and
                    they sinned because they were
                    prideful and wanted to be equal
                    to God.

                R. Piety guides our relations with God and
                with men.

                    In fear of God we don't want to offend
                God by the slightest sin because we
                love Him so much. This helps us to not
                give into disordered impulses due to anger,
                jealousy, envy, pride etc.

                    We can never, never deceive God
                with our deception.

                    Can you realize how much energy it
                takes to oppose God through holding
                out, deception, lying, false pretense, willfulness–

                    When the Holy Spirit is one with us we know
                His Might behind us moving the bolder in
                our path as we live to do God's will.
                Doing God's will takes God's grace and His
                help.

                    When there is a void in our hearts – where
                we have in the past given into vices,
                bad habits, deadly sins – it is
                easy for the devil to tempt a man to
                stay in darkness and distance from God.

                    When the Holy Spirit possess the soul, when the
                man lives in oneness with God – God
                is at the front of his actions because
                he lives to serve his Beloved, he lives
                to please God, to love God, to be sorry
                if he offends God with the slightest sin
                and to make amends, as not to hurt
                his relationship and union with God
                and with men. Sin that men deny
                is misery and darkness for them.

                The devil works in the man with out sorrow
                    for his sin – to tempt him into deeper
                    and deeper misery and darkness
                    and the only way to even begin to come
                    out of this is to admit the truth
                    and repent of the sin.

                Why would a man who really says he
                    loves God – go deeper and deeper
                    into sin and lie to keep covering
                    up his part in deception and
                    evil done to others.

                    It was seen in the movie War Room
                how the man was tempted to do more and
                greater sins. He was given a great grace
                from God through his wife's prayers
                and love to turn back to being honest
                and confess a very deep seated crime
                which could send him to prison,
                but he wanted to come clean and be
                truthful.

                    Jesus says the truth will set you
                free.

                    The Holy Spirit can fill the hole in our
                soul with the love of God. Our being
                can be possessed more and more by
                God, but we have to quit sinning
                in habits that offend God and others
                and come clean – repent of the sin.
                God gave us the means to come clean
                of our sins. We are not to deceive
                those over us or play games for power
                games. Sin is serious business,
                but far worse, Bishop Sheen says, is the
                person that won't admit their sin and
                turn away from it.

                    The Holy Spirit can give us His gifts so
                we love God 24/7 – God is the center
                of our lives. God is our beloved.

                    The man who is performing his actions
                according to God's will is seeing his
                actions as a goal to his eternal
                salvation. His life is living virtuously
                hoping and loving. His will is
                focused on God's will.

                When we do God's will we don't measure
                    whether the thing God calls us to is
                    difficult or easy. We just do
                    what God wants us to do.

                We don't base our actions on the deadly
                    sins of jealousy, envy, pride
                    and anger –

                Our actions are based on doing God's
                    will – not on how hard they are,
                    not on what other people think –

                To oppose God's will, Jesus says, takes
                    a lot of energy and to hold out –
                    satan can keep a person down
                    by their own choice to serve
                    satan and oppose God's will.

                The Holy Spirit wants to possess our
                    soul and give us His gifts.
                    The Holy Spirit gives us the gift of fortitude
                    to be strong against temptation.

                    If we really live the Christ-life we
                are living with the constant desire
                of hope for eternal salvation and
                being fired up to lead other men
                to their eternal salvation.

                    God lives in the graced baptized
                soul – Our soul is a temple of the Holy Spirit.
                We possess God most intimately
                in our being.

                    We trust to God's promise to us for
                those who love and serve the Lord as
                God desires.

                    God gives us His Word. God feeds
                the life we receive in baptism with
                the bread of life – the Eucharist
                and the Word. This is joy to know
                this intimacy with God.

                    The further we are from God, the
                more we let jealousy and envy and
                anger and pride rule our actions –
                the more we walk in darkness and
                the misery of unrepented sin. This
                distancing ourselves from God makes
                us darker and darker and more and
                more angry inside.

                    God is so awesome. God loves us
                so much. God has called us to be
                holy, likened to Him. Jesus paid
                a precious price for us. Jesus is
                Our Savior.

                    Unrepented sin makes a person
                miserable, lying and deception, secrets
                is the game of satan.

                    God is light – God is real –
                Our eternal salvation forever
                depends on our life and how
                we choose to love God and love
                our neighbor as ourselves.

                    We see in our forefather's their
                faith and how their holy lives contributed
                to the lives of so many centuries
                later.

                    Only love can help us be close to God.
                God is love! We are to imitate Christ
                in our actions. Christ did the Father's
                will to His death on the cross.

                    Baptism means we are marked for
                Christ. God wants us to live holy lives.
                We are God's child. Jesus is our Savior.
                No person can save us – Jesus is our Savior.

                Thank You God we can be united and
                    join together in love –

                Dear God outpour Your love and
                    grace to us –

                Dear God touch us with Your love.

                Dear God help us to live in the way
                    You want us to live.

                Dear God - You want us holy – You
                    are the God of all creation –
                    help us to live as children of
                    our heavenly Father.

                We offer our lives as a sacrifice to God –
                    living as God's children – in obedience
                    to the Father's will –

                Lifting up our hearts and being an example
                    of love before God and man.

                God is light. God is love – We were
                    created in the image and likeness
                    of God –

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.

                Mary said:

                    My soul proclaims the greatness
                of the Lord and my spirit rejoices
                in God my Savior.

                R. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary,
                sacramentally made present. God gives
                us the Mass, the sacraments, the font of
                His life, Jesus gives us His Body and Blood
                to feed this life.

                    Oh God let us adore You –
   

                R. Jesus takes away the sins of the world.

                We are not worthy to receive Jesus.

                Dear God cloth us in light –
                    lead us from the darkness –
                    Bath us in Your marvelous light –

                    God Your love is constant –
                    You are love –

                    We want to be children of the light –
                    God give us Your gifts for
                        all our needs.

                Holy Spirit come and dwell in us –

                Bathe us in Your light, God –

                Holy Spirit give us the vision of the Heavenly Father –

                Open the font of Your grace –

                God we pray – fill us with light!
                God give us what we need to be as
                    You desire us to be and to do
                    Your will –

                God we want to operate in Your Might.

                We are the salt of the earth –
   

                R. Dear God help us to be compassionate and
                    loving and merciful –
                    help us to be just.

                Justice and peace will kiss.

                Dear God help me to know Your presence
                    within me – in my every breath –
                    in all my actions –

                Help me never to live a life of deception
                    or playing a game where You
                    want me to be a witness to You.

                Oh God Your presence is so good
                    I long for Thee – God.

                God is light

                God is love –

                In God there is no darkness at all –

                Given January 8, 2016

                Jesus: My way is the way of light, of unity, of forgiveness,
                of being responsible for wrongs done to others
                in unloving ways.

                    I call people to commitment in their vocation
                and those being called to a vocation put their
                hands in the hands of others. So the person
                who is a leader is to be growing in holiness
                to give a good example to those under them.
                They have a responsibility to God to be growing
                more and more in My image and likeness. I
                paid the price with My life to teach you
                about holiness. My Mother, the perfect handmaid
                of the Lord, showed you in love and perfection
                how to be. She loved, she gave, she loved the
                Father's will – she was sinless.

                    When you consecrate your hearts to Jesus
                and Mary – you give yourselves to Our Hearts,
                to be led, to walk in holiness, to live in love,
                to live in love according to the Father's will –
                to build for the souls, I died for,
                I laid down My life for the souls. I
                gave My all for the souls, I give Myself
                now to you in love in the Eucharist.
                I am the Good Shepherd, I laid down My
                life for the flock. Yes the man who is selfish
                doesn't give in love for the souls, he
                lives in anger, and darkness, jealousy,
                envy and pride and he gives less
                and less from his heart. He is of such
                a disposition he doesn't want to – give
                and take – with anybody. He can live his
                life building walls to be alone and
                the more he gives into jealousy, the more
                he begins to hate his brothers. A way of life
                can be a way in which a person lives
                in jealousy and envy and anger and
                pride – expecting others to make them happy –
                so they try to force others in relationships
                that are slavishly dependent and dark.
                They can be a person who does not give, but
                hurts others and expects others to go down
                to their darkness by unloving acts, but
                they use things as force to make others
                go to their way – they take what is dear
                to them, what they need to do God's will, survival
                things and then try to control what they need
                to force their ways –

                    holding out – a child can hold their
                breath at such an early age so parents
                don't put them to bed, to get their way
                they pout, when they become adults they
                can be very isolated – looking for a
                place to not change and continue their
                dark, childish ways.

                    I call leaders to lead in holy ways,
                a person has a responsibility with leadership
                to grow more and more as I showed them –
                to grow in love – to maintain order and
                structure – to love means to give for the
                good of the other – so they can grow to be
                holy – so the men together can work for
                the building of the Kingdom of God

                Trust is a big thing among dysfunction –
                the devil tempts the person to not work
                by trusting anyone and fear of
                abandonment keeps them trying to
                keep someone in a relationship that is
                dysfunctional and slavishly dependent.

                    I have called you to the light – Only in
                living in love with others are you raised
                up. A person that trusts and loves no
                one life long – has all kinds of ways
                they use to keep themselves that way.

                    They are not a leader to show
                people love. Who wants to come and
                be wrapped in a web of unloving
                ways from darkness.

                    Hell is total darkness, total isolation –
                you were created to be lifted up – to have
                new life – to learn to lay down your lives
                in the building of My Kingdom.

                    To lead others to the light – to work
                in unity and love in Our Two Hearts
                of Pure and Perfect Love.

                    A person who wears a title, a
                person who wears a habit and tells
                the world they are a person of Christ, the
                Spouse of Christ is to be a person
                living to be more and more like Me –
                Giving is where I laid down My life
                I love for the souls –

                I gave My all –

                I loved the souls to My death –
 

John 10: 11-15

I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
   for his sheep.
The hired man,
   since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
   and runs away,
and then the wolf attacks
   and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
   because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.

                Jesus: So when you die and stand before God –
                you are prepared in love, love of God,
                love of oneself, love of others to enter
                the Kingdom of Perfect love –

                Jesus taught you to pray:
                "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"

                Do you know a leader has a bigger and
                bigger responsibility to teach love and
                advance in My image and likeness?

                Being in the dark is like a blind man –
                    he is in the dark and can't see –
                day long – he can't see – and he has to
                make do in the darkness –

                    No man can call himself a Christian,
                Christ-like and live in the darkness
                of self-enclosure, bitterness, unforgiveness,
                envy, jealousy, remorse, despair,
                anger, pride, slothfulness.

                    Your role in life is to live to be
                Christ-like. Religious were called
                by Me to be My Spouse – that isn't
                a "Me and them" relationship – they become
                more selfish and call themselves leaders,
                wear a habit and fight with authority
                and disobey.

                    I called religious to be examples –
                live in holiness, be willing to die for
                the souls – love their brothers.

                    What a paradox – to live in
                darkness and call oneself a leader
                for Christ –

                I am the Good Shepherd –

                I died for My flock –

                I laid down My life for the souls –

 

Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997

Scriptural Reflections

In all this Mary offers an example. Selfishness was totally foreign to her. She did not belong to herself. She belonged to God. She was not closed in upon herself. She was completely open to God. When God spoke, she listened. When God pointed the way, she followed. She realized that life is not a process a person masters by carefully mapping out one's own self-conceived plans of conquest, but a mystery to be gradually experienced by being open to God's personal and loving guidance.

Selfishness, then, did not close Mary off from God's call. Neither did fear. God asked her to assume a tremendous responsibility. He asked her to be the Mother of Jesus. Mary did not engage in a process of false humility and say that such a great role was above her. She did not say that she did not have the proper qualifications for this awesome mission. Briefly, she did not waste time looking at herself, making pleas that she was not worthy, telling the angel he had better go look for someone else. No, Mary did not look at herself. Her gaze was absorbed in God. She fully realized that whatever God asked of her, His grace would accomplish. She fully realized that although she herself had to cooperate, this work was much more God's than hers.

Mary's words, then, truly sum up what is the authentic Christian response at any point of life, in any kind of situation: "I am the handmaid of the Lord," said Mary, "let what you have said be done to me".

                Jesus: Living 50 years perfecting darkness is
                not being likened to Christ.

               The Church, the world and the individual
                    Christian are to live in the light –
                    to live to be witnesses to the light
                    themselves –

                    A person that has made relationships
                slavishly dependent by force is
                walking in darkness –

                    To grow in virtue one must ask the
                Holy Spirit to possess their hearts and souls –
                They are men of love – so the Holy Spirit can
                come and work in them – work in the
                gifts – bring light to their soul –

                    A man closed down in envy and jealousy
                pride and anger is walking in darkness –
                is usually unaccountable for their
                deeds done to others and in pride listens
                to satan telling them they are above –
                others are down.

                    When I give a grace to a soul, how
                do you reach a soul that chooses
                envy, jealousy, darkness, pride
                life long. Satan is at work in the
                hearts of darkness – A man of pride
                doesn't tell himself the truth about
                his pride –

                It is the Garden again –

                The Shepherds of Christ was given by God the Father –
                where men are to consecrate their hearts
                and lives to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart
                to dwell in the pure and holy Hearts of
                Mary and My Heart and to live
                a life of love.

                Be witnesses to the Word of God
                Be witnesses to the Christ-life within them –

                It is to be built in structure and order –
                where the might behind the women and
                men is to be the Might of God –
                the Holy Spirit moving in light in the hearts –
                renewing the face of the earth –

                It is to be exemplary of the holiness
                    of Mary so I called Servants and
                    Handmaids of the Good Shepherd –
                    Where the love for My Movement
                    was to be where men – laid
                    down their lives in love – teaching love
                    and My way to others – bringing
                    new and vibrant life and light to
                    others.

                    I am the Good Shepherd, I laid
                down My life for My flock. The
                Holy Spirit brings the fire of God's love –
                operating in the gifts of wisdom,
                counsel, fear of the Lord, understanding
                bring unity and love to all men –

                    When you are called to leadership you
                are responsible for bad example and
                trying to force darkness on others –

                    To those much has been given,
                much will be expected – hurting
                others in unloving ways is from
                satan – using My gifts for darkness
                will be seen in how My souls I
                died for suffered –

                I am the Light of the World –

                    A man walking for Christ – walks
                in the light and he is not living
                in darkness, control, anger,
                jealousy, envy, pride –

                    How dark is your dark when
                you have used 365 days to live
                the deadly sins over years and
                years and years.

                    Hell is total isolation and
                darkness –

                What is a worse shame is a man
                sins and then denies it –

                I am a God of Mercy –

                I have called you to be holy –
                to confess your sins with a firm
                purpose of amendment, to turn
                away from those sins and to
                make reparation for your sins –

                This is My rule – The man of darkness
                that gives the example to others, before
                others and calls themselves a leader
                for Christ is hurting the souls –
                I laid down My life for –

                I came
                I gave
                I built –
                I was bloodied
                I died for My precious souls –

                You will be sorry when you continue
                    to call yourself a Christian leader
                    and lead men in your dark ways –

                I am Jesus –

                I have called you to obedience to My
                    way, the will of My Heavenly
                    Father and to love –

                I have called you to make Me
                    the King and Center of your
                    hearts in Consecration –

                Don't be a hypocrite and
                    use Christianity for your
                    pompous pride before men –

                My way is purity –

                So shall you sow – so shall you reap

                Consecration to Our Two Hearts means
                    a life of purity –
                    of dying to your ways unlike
                    Christ and rising to new life
                    in Me –

Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

"Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!

"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."