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January 24, 2001 - Feast of St. Francis de Sales

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A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

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Messenger: Our Lord has asked us to pray for a special priest and three other special priests and His designated priests.

                      Please pray for the priestly newsletter and for the intentions on the prayer list at the end of the message.

Jesus speaks: Please pray for the newsletter.
Pray for grace for the priests receiving it.
Pray for funds.

Pray for the taping of the newsletter Friday.
Pray for the finished tape.

I love you, I am Jesus, Savior of the World.

(Excerpt from January 23, 2001 Daily Message)

January 24, 2001
Before the Blessed Sacrament at St. Peter in Chains

Messenger:    I see Him in such beauty adorned with 
                    the richest cloth, the beauty of flowers placed 
                    before the King.

                        The Son of God is He and my heart swells to be 
                    so one with my Divine Bridegroom.

                        The lights of heaven come to me and I see 
                    Him adorned in such splendor on His throne 
                    and I see in my heart the throne of God 
                    surrounded by the angels and saints.

                        I see grandeur, I see my God, I behold 
                    Him so alive in my heart.

                        I cry out to Him of my love for Him, thanking 
                    Him for all the love He has given to me in the 
                    people in my life. I feel connection with Him 
                    and those in heaven and here below and 
                    I am glad for love. I want to love Him and adore 
                    Him and be with Him, like this, forever, in 
                    the deepest love.

                        Oh He is so gallantly beautiful as they have 
                    adorned Him with a beautiful white brocade 
                    shiny cloth. Oh such splendor for the King 
                    truly present in the tabernacle. And I see a
                    gold aura around Him in the beautiful tabernacle.

                        Oh God, I love You so. My beautiful Bridegroom, 
                    my heart is burning for Thee. For in the busy day, 
                    the earth stands still for me and I am here in 
                    these precious moments of silence with my Divine 
                    God. My God! I love You so much. Let the 
                    moments linger for I so desire to just be here 
                    with You.

                        I await the precious moments when I will participate 
                    in the Mass and receive Him. My heart plays a 
                    symphony of joyous vibrations for no words 
                    can express the rapture of this heavenly embrace.

                        Heaven touches earth for me in these moments 
                    alone with Him. Heaven and earth are so united 
                    in my heart and I am one with my beloved 
                    God in this heavenly embrace.

                        I love Him, I thank Him for the gifts given, Himself 
                    in the Eucharist, His Church and His priests. 
                    I thank Him for giving us each other to love. What 
                    a gift to be able to share our lives with each other 
                    in holy love.

                        I write as He beckons me to do so, for you, that you 
                    too will come and enjoy the gifts of our beloved God. 
                    Jesus truly present in the Eucharist.

                        Oh I want to love God more and more and experience 
                    a greater and greater fullness of life in Him.

                        On October 16, 2000, we presented the section on 
                    Grace in the daily messages from Father Carter's book 
                    Response in Christ, this writing makes my heart sing. 
                    Our Lord has told me He gives great grace for taking 
                    us into a deeper love union with Him when we read it.

              MY PLACE (dwelling in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary)

                    I go to this place of being so one with my God. 
                    I unite to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit 
                    so deep in my heart. I go through my 
                    Mother's pure heart. I unite with Jesus 
                    in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass wherever 
                    it is being celebrated around the world.
                    I unite with all the angels and saints. 
                    I go to this place, my place within 
                    my heart and I connect to God. I feel 
                    the union with all my brothers united to me 
                    in holy love. I go to this place deep within 
                    and I pray. He is there and I am united 
                    in holy love to those I have mentioned. It is 
                    my place of great joy and peace and I take it all 
                    to Him. I go deeply into this place within, I 
                    love it there. I rest in His Heart and I am one 
                    with my God. I connect to Him in the deepest 
                    love, I bring my cares to Him. I work for 
                    Him, I give Him my problems and ask 
                    for help. I want to be loved by my God, I want to 
                    be united to all and experience deep love. I love 
                    God and I love all men. In my place I unite 
                    to God and all men. I give everything to Him, 
                    my God and my Savior.

                                                        I love You God, thank You
                                                        for life.

                    It is in Their Hearts that Jesus takes me to the Father in 
                        the Holy Spirit. I love God so. Sound the trumpet, sound the 
                        gong. This is reality – God is with us and He love us so much.

The efficacy of Christ’s sacrifice

Every priest stands at his duties every day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices which are quite incapable of taking away sins. He, on the other hand, has offered one single sacrifice for sins, and then taken his seat for ever, at the right hand of God, where he is now waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. By virtue of that one single offering, he has achieved the eternal perfection of all who are sanctified. The Holy Spirit attests this to us, for after saying: 

    No, this is the covenant 
       I will make with them, 
    when those days have come.

the Lord says: 

    In their minds I will plant my Laws 
    writing them on their hearts, 
    and I shall never more 
       call their sins to mind, 
    or their offences. 

When these have been forgiven, there can be no more sin offerings.

Psalm 110: 1, 2, 3, 4

Yahweh declared to my Lord, ‘Take your seat at my right hand, 
till I have made your enemies your footstool.’ 

Yahweh will stretch out the sceptre of your power; 
from Zion you will rule your foes all around you. 

Royal dignity has been yours from the day of your birth, 
sacred honour from the womb, from the dawn of your youth. 

Yahweh has sworn an oath he will never retract, 
you are a priest for ever of the order of Melchizedek.

We Are All Like Little Fish  (Excerpt)

February 3, 1994

Messenger: Yet, He-HE-dwells within us. He comes to us in such a humble way in Communion. He comes to our sinful bodies and He gives us such dignity and honor. He comes in our bodies and we show him indifference. Wake up to the true presence of God-made Man, coming here into your hearts, sitting as a prisoner in the tabernacle for love of you! And you swim your busy lives away, just as the fish must swim by this rock and that rock.

All that matters are His cares, His work for us. We are so blind. Wake up! This life is but a fleeting moment. We are being tried for the great reward. Come and worship. Bow down before the King. He is mighty and has all the power. We are doing useless tasks and wearing ourselves out. He is the true treasure. Only the things of God are of any account.

Alleluia. Praise Him, the Holiest, in the Heights. Alleluia, Alleluia.

Messenger: Today is the Feast of St. Francis de Sales.

Excerpt from priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Issue 3, 1999

Yes, the Good Shepherd has laid down His life for us. And He did so being aware of each of us in a most special way. Joseph Chorpenning, O.S.F., in commenting on the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales, doctor of the Church, says in one of his observations, "In human relationships one seeks to awaken in others an awareness of their divine dignity by the respect and reverence one demonstrates for their person, individuality, and liberty. In Salesian thought each person is unique and unrepeatable. For example, Francis says that when Jesus accomplished our redemption on the day of His passion and death, he 'knew all of us by name and by surname' (Treatise on the Love of God, 2 vols., Tan Books. Vol. 2, p. 280)²"

Notes:

2. Joseph Chorpenning, O.S.F.S., as in The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, Michael Donney, editor, The Liturgical Press, p. 853.

(End of Excerpt from priestly newsletter)

Excerpt from priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Issue 3, 2000

Occasionally, very deep suffering may enter our lives. It is during these times that we need special determination to preserve ourselves in a basic peace of spirit despite the very significant pain. One may wonder how a person can be at peace amidst the experience of great suffering. St. Francis de Sales in one of his writings—and I have not been able to locate the exact place—offers an analogy which I think is very helpful. He asks us to picture an ocean body of water at the time of a violent storm. The surface of the water becomes extremely turbulent. Francis asks us, as we use our imagination, to descend beneath the surface of the water into its depth. What do we find? The more deeply one descends away from the turbulent surface, the calmer the water becomes. Likewise, says the saint and doctor of the Church, should it be with us during times of profound suffering. Although the surface of the spirit may be very agitated, one can still maintain basic peace of spirit by going deep down to one’s center where God is more directly experienced. Here the person experiences a calm, a basic peace, although the suffering remains.

(End of Excerpt from priestly newsletter)

Jesus and his mother

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

Fr. Carter's Homily - February 12, 2000

         In today's Gospel we have presented to us that beautiful scene where Jesus gives Mary to us as our spiritual Mother, and notice He does it in such a very personal way in the sense that He uses a single individual, John, the beloved disciple, to stand in the place of all of us, so that He says, "Woman, this is your son." (John 19:26) He does not say, "Mary, I am making you spiritual Mother of the whole human race," which in fact He is doing, but He makes it very, very, very personalized and individualistic in the sense He wants us to realize that Mary is uniquely the Mother of each of us. He uses the singular, "Woman, this is your son." (John 19:26) and to the disciple, "This is your mother." (John 19:27) The Holy Father, in His very inspiring encyclical on the Mother of the Redeemer, brings all this out to us in these, as I say, very inspiring words. He says,

         "Of the essence of motherhood is the fact that it concerns the person. Motherhood always establishes a unique and unrepeatable relationship between two people: between mother and child and between child and mother. Even when the same woman is the mother of many children, her personal relationship with each one of them is of the very essence of motherhood. For each child is generated in a unique and unrepeatable way, and this is true both for the mother and for the child." ¹

         And then He goes on to say,

         "It can be said that motherhood 'in the order of grace' preserves the analogy with what 'in the order of nature' characterizes the union between mother and child. In the light of this fact it becomes easier to understand why in Christ's testament on Golgotha His Mother's new motherhood is expressed in the singular, in reference to one man: 'Behold your son.' " ²

         And so we should take great, great, great comfort in these words of the Holy Father working off the words of Scripture themselves. Yes, how comforting it is to know that Mary is so preciously the Mother of each of us in a very unique fashion. She loves you much, much, much, much more than the most perfect natural mother here below could love a child. And so let us draw upon this truth and live it each day, going to her loving, tender, motherly Heart in all our needs, in all our joys, all our sorrows, all our failures, all our successes. And let us draw upon that idea of uniqueness which we've been talking about. Let us realize that she knows much, much better than we do that God in Christ has given each of us a very, very unique, special mission, special role to fulfill upon this earth. And the more we fulfill that with her intercession, and through Jesus in the Holy Spirit as we serve the Father, the more we fulfill that special mission, the more pleasing we are to her. All good children take delight in pleasing their mothers. Should we be any different in reference to Mary, our spiritual Mother? Let us then draw upon the great consolation each day relative to Mary's spiritual motherhood towards each of us. And let us realize that special mission which we have been talking about, how much that means to Mary, to Jesus, to the Father, to the Holy Spirit, to the whole world. No one else can fulfill the unique mission given to you. What a precious opportunity. What an awesome responsibility. And I suggest, if not using the words themselves, we often recall to us these ideas of St. Bernard in reference to Mary—Bernard, not only saint, but doctor of the Church, which means he possessed great spiritual wisdom. He has left us these beautiful words about Mary. He says,

         "If you will not be submerged by tempests, do not turn away your eyes from the splendor of this star. If the storms of temptation arise, if you crash against the rocks of tribulation, look to the star, call upon Mary. If you are tossed about on the waves of pride, of ambition, of slander, of hostility, look to the star, call upon Mary. If wrath or avarice or the enticements of the flesh upset the boat of your mind, look to Mary. If you are disturbed by the immensity of your crimes...If you begin to be swallowed up by the abyss of depression and despair, think of Mary! In danger, in anxieties, in doubt, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let her name not leave your lips, nor your heart, and that you may receive the help of her prayer, do not cease to follow the example of her conduct...If she holds you, you will not fall, if she protects you, you need not fear." ³

Notes:

1. Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter, The Mother of the Redeemer, United States Catholic Conference, No. 45.

2. Ibid., No. 45.

3. St. Bernard, as in Hilda Graef, Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion, Christian Classics, Vol. I, p. 237.

(End of Mary's Message)

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Last revised January 19, 2001