Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

January 25, 2016

January 26th Holy Spirit Novena
 Scripture selection is Day 5 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for January 26th are Glorious.

 

Pray for special intentions.
  

Pray for Dan & Melanie, Jimmy,
Fr. Joe, Mary, Blue Book 16.

Please pray for funds & grace.

    

 

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                January 25, 2016

Acts 22: 3-16

'I am a Jew', Paul said, 'and was born at Tarsus in Cilicia. I was brought up here in this city. It was under Gamaliel that I studied and was taught the exact observance of the Law of our ancestors. In fact, I was as full of duty towards God as you all are today. I even persecuted this Way to the death and sent women as well as men to prison in chains as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify. I even received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, which I took with me when I set off to bring prisoners back from there to Jerusalem for punishment. 'It happened that I was on that journey and nearly at Damascus when in the middle of the day a bright light from heaven suddenly shone round me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" I answered, "Who are you, Lord?" and he said to me, "I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting." The people with me saw the light but did not hear the voice which spoke to me. I said, "What am I to do, Lord?" The Lord answered, "Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told what you have been appointed to do." Since the light had been so dazzling that I was blind, I got to Damascus only because my companions led me by the hand. 'Someone called Ananias, a devout follower of the Law and highly thought of by all the Jews living there, came to see me; he stood beside me and said, "Brother Saul, receive your sight." Instantly my sight came back and I was able to see him. Then he said, "The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Upright One and hear his own voice speaking, because you are to be his witness before all humanity, testifying to what you have seen and heard. And now why delay? Hurry and be baptised and wash away your sins, calling on his name."

 

                Psalm Response

                Go out to all the World and spread the Good News

 

Psalm 117: 1, 2

Alleluia!
Praise Yahweh, all nations,
    extol him, all peoples,
for his faithful love is strong
    and his constancy never-ending.

 

John 15: 16

You did not choose me,
no, I chose you;
and I commissioned you
to go out and to bear fruit,
fruit that will last;
so that the Father will give you
anything you ask him in my name. 

  

Mark 16: 15-18

And he said to them, ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.’ 

 

                R. Dear Jesus,

                    Please be with me this day. Help me to do
                what You want me to do - today.

                    I was awakened by strong knocking at
                4:45AM.

                    Today is the day the Lord has made let us
                rejoice and live in the love of the two
                pure and perfect Hearts.

                    I saw from yesterday's message – once
                again that Mary was conceived without sin
                and I saw how what leads us to misery and
                darkness is giving into the deadly sins and pride
                keeps us stuck because the prideful person
                may not want to admit they have done wrong –

                Vices are bad habits –

                The more we live in the vices of pride, anger,
                jealousy, envy, lust, slothfulness and
                gluttony – the darker our vision becomes –
                more distorted of God, of ourselves, of others.
                Fr. Carter would do his examine twice a day.
                He would stop to take his spiritual pulse –
                see how he was doing – he meditated with
                closed eyes and palms up for 10 minutes –
                That way we connect in a special way in prayer
                to ask God to help us to stay up and doing His
                will - performing our actions for God's will in
                love.

                We would be driving to China and he stopped to
                do this every time.

                It seems that there are only 7 deadly sins and
                that is not too many. All of our sins can fall
                into this category of why we do them under these
                7 deadly sins.

                So, therefore, we know our motives, for acting if they
                are right actions, should come from having our
                eternal reward as a goal, with right reasoning,
                and doing the Father's will in love.

                If we do our actions in pride, anger, jealousy, envy,
                slothfulness, lustfulness or gluttony then we are
                doing wrong actions.

                We have to ask the Holy Spirit to come and possess
                our soul – to work in us. We ask God to help us
                lead a virtuous life and ask the Holy Spirit for His
                gifts to help us to be holy as God wants.

                Going to the Heart of Mary, our spiritual womb is
                so important because the Holy Spirit works there,
                forming us more and more in the image of Jesus –
                spiritual birthing –

                Dear Mary I want to dwell in your Immaculate Heart.

                Mary was conceived without sin!

                Dear Holy Spirit work in my heart to be more in the
                    image of Jesus, I love You Holy Spirit come and
                    possess my soul.

                We may not wish to surrender to God because we
                    are afraid of what He might do in our
                    lives we don't want to let go of, but the
                    Holy Spirit helps us with the uncertainties of life –
                    He can lead us in the right path if we
                    ask for His guidance – The Holy Spirit gives us
                    His gifts and that brings joy into our
                    hearts – God is love, the Holy Spirit fill us
                    with love – so where we were wounded He can
                    give us understanding to help us see things in love
                    through the eyes of God, He can help us to lead
                    others to the light with His soft and gentle
                    touch –
                    but we must surrender to Him –

                Consecration to the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
                    the Hearts of pure and perfect love –
                    must be done in seriousness –
                    we realize our human nature is wounded –
                    we realize we are sinners –
                    we want to be molded more like Jesus –
                    we know the purity of these two perfect Hearts –
 


 

                R. This Valentine's Day February 14, 2016 it is the time
                    to really make Jesus, our Valentine –
                    to give Him love –

                We can write to Jesus 10 minutes whatever is
                    on our heart and then open the Blue Book anywhere
                    and read it for 10 minutes –
                    we can meditate on what we read and be
                    lost in the Heart of Jesus.

                We need God's grace to be holy.

                We need the gifts of the Holy Spirit to be able to be
                    where God wants us to be.

                The Holy Spirit helps us with the uncertainties of
                    our lives. We need the light of the Holy Spirit
                    to see what we need to see to change.

                The Holy Spirit helps us to see what is right actions –

                The Holy Spirit gives us courage to do the right actions –

                The Holy Spirit guides us in the unknown and helps
                    us to be in the right place at the right time.

                The Holy Spirit wants to possess our souls.

                We are lovable – God loves us so very much.
                God created us in His image and likeness –

                Come to me Lord and possess my soul.

                God wants to dwell in us –

                Mary said:

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

                R. Dear Holy Spirit fill me with Your grace.

                The scripture says there is a time for speaking
                    and a time for being still.

                There is a time for everything –

                God put us here to do something special
                    and He has a plan for us.

                The Holy Spirit helps us with uncertainties –

                Dear Holy Spirit use Your hand to guide me,
                    please.

                God calls us to the truth –
                to know the truth about ourselves –

                Yesterday I opened Blue Book 3 and it said be not
                    attached to the persecution or the glory –
                    when we act are we doing it out of love –
                    or is it really what God wants us to do
                    for the good of the other.

                Freedom is found in letting go of enslavement
                    to satan.
                    When satan is telling a person to act because
                        of anger and pride and jealousy and
                        envy –
                    When satan is telling a person to act
                        for attention that takes the emphasis
                        away from what God deserves in prayer,
                        in love.

                    When satan gets in tempting a person to stir up
                        the pot for their own drama of raising
                        themselves up to take the floor –

                    Satan is working –

                In Alcoholics Anonymous a pamphlet was
                    given out
                    A Merry-Go-Round called Denial –
                    and on the front it had a Merry-Go-Round

                That is what vices and bad habits do –

                They can be passed on from childhood,
                    from trauma – where a person
                    feels invalidated so they begin
                    working in darkness to try to get attention away in
                    the family, community where God is working in
                    order and peace.

                Satan can use this so he can stop the focus
                    at meal times when people are uniting,
                    at prayer in the family, community,
                    where the person tries to force discord,
                    disharmony, chaos because they want
                    attention and drama –

                Did you ever notice how you can be looking
                    forward to a meal and bonding and
                    then there is chaos and disharmony
                    by an attack from one who is
                    attuned to stirring a pot and taking down
                    the house with this discord.

                That is what happened in the Garden of Eden – It
                    looked like Eve was sort of bored and then
                    the devil came and began to lure her and
                    because of her pride she disobeyed God
                    because she wanted to be equal to God.

                How offended God must be when we are given
                    so many gifts and because of bad habits
                    and low self-esteem a person rises
                    to this disorder of trying to get the
                    attention and seek drama –
                    a play in progress –
                    an actor on the stage –
                    an invalidator of the great gifts God has
                    given – to turn to darkness and
                    selfishness, pride and jealousies –

                The Holy Spirit helps us to understand and to see ourselves
                    in our relationships so we don't give into
                    such debauchery, life-long – like the
                    Merry-Go-Round called Denial and
                    live our lives in the darkness. But we
                    must want to be changed – not cling
                    to these vices, to be jealous and envious,
                    hidden anger and start things for the
                    fun of raising ourselves up over
                    what God is calling us to do.

                When a man is in darkness and he may have
                    felt invalidated his life long, low
                    self-esteem he can succumb to
                    force tactics to invalidate others to
                    raise himself up.

                He needs to see how God has raised us up –

                He needs to see through the eyes of God –
                    the ideal self as God wants him to be –

                He needs to want to be more and more like
                    Jesus and pray for this grace –
                    pray to the Holy Spirit to help him – where he
                        was blinded by vices, dulled by
                        the deadly sins –
                        to beg for the light to shine in
                            the depressed spirit inside
                            and fill him with his gifts
                            and God's love –

                Bishop Sheen says – the worse is to sin and
                    then not admit it, to stay stuck
                   
                Our Lady of Fatima called us almost 100 years
                    ago to conversion –

                The Pascal Mystery is death/resurrection.

                Sin is disorder.

                In the Holy Spirit Novena Jesus told me to put this
                    scripture second –
 

Romans 8: 5-9

Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

 

                R. God created an orderly, harmonious world
                    and Adam and Eve sinned, but God loved
                    them so much He promised a Redeemer.

                We are living in the time of great gifts.
                    We have the priests, the Church, all
                    the sacraments.

                This is the Good News –

                This is joy to realize how blessed we are –

                Jesus is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament.

                We can go to Mass every day and receive Jesus,
                    truly present and receive such
                    grace from God –

                When we ask God to help us live a virtuous
                    life, we see that the virtues working
                    in our lives help us in the pursuit
                    of good that God wants –

                When man has the virtues of prudence and justice
                    and temperance and fortitude, man is
                    not at odds with himself.

                The man stirring the pot, provoking, is in
                    disharmony. The man opposing the will
                    of God by blaming others for his deep-
                    seated anger and darkness is distancing
                    himself from God, who is true happiness,
                    and the man in darkness, if he fails
                    to admit his sin, goes further and further
                    from giving love and knowing real
                    happiness – his anger increases as
                    he gives into the deadly sins, his
                    blindness in the darkness distorts his
                    vision and he is at odds with himself
                    when he is at odds with the will of God.

                    His right reasoning is now wrong reasoning
                    and he can continue to operate
                    in this out of kilter fashion – staying
                    in deeper and deeper darkness at
                    his own choosing to oppose God's will
                    of loving Him first and loving His
                    neighbor as himself.

                When a man has the Cardinal virtues of
                    prudence, justice, fortitude and
                    temperance he is at peace with
                    himself – these virtues must work
                    as a unit.

                Man must see his unity is in harmony with
                    God, others and himself.

                    If a man is unjust in his actions it
                        throws him out of kilter –
                    If he is not prudent in his actions it
                        throws his life out of kilter –
                    If a man is not temperant in how he
                        acts his life is out of kilter.

                God gives to us the theological virtues of faith, hope
                    and love in baptism which helps us to see
                    the vision of God and have the will
                    to operate in love, as we hope for
                    eternal salvation as our goal.

                These theological virtues must be gifts
                    infused in us from God and they direct us
                    to God.

                In baptism our knowing and loving
                    capacity is elevated so we can
                    perform supernatural acts of loving
                    and knowing.

                We seek the vision of God as we
                    hope in our eternal salvation.
                    Our actions have as their goal
                        this eternal salvation –

                God gifts us abundantly – it is such
                    a gift given to us in baptism –
                    Why would a man scorn the gifts God
                        gives and give into the
                        deadly sins of pride, greed, envy,
                        wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth

                The more we see the vision of God – the more
                    we live the virtuous life we are
                    set free from the enslavement of
                    satan.

                The purpose of our existence is to be
                    with God in heaven eternally!

                The purpose is to have the beatific vision
                    in heaven.

                The virtues help to make man what
                    he ought to be –

                Man needs right reason in his actions.

                The Cardinal virtues help a man to have
                    right reason.

                We are to do our actions because it
                    is the right way to be –

                The Theological virtues help man in
                    seeing the vision of God, of wanting
                    to do the will of God in loving as
                    He calls us to and in hoping for eternal
                    salvation.

                When man sins he is out of order that
                    God wants –
                    the deadly sins are man out of order!
                    Man is not in the right place when
                    he performs the deadly sins of pride,
                    greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

                When man is living virtuously he is
                    living in the right order so
                    he is seeking the beatific vision.

                A man of virtue is acting strongly in the
                    world.

                A man of virtue is acting with right
                    reason following God's plan.

                A man of virtue is growing more and
                    more in the image of God.

                 

                   

               January 14, 2016

Dear Friends,

I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.

If you read Fr. Joe's book like I did on the 13th you can see how awesome it is.
 

It helps me understand what is happening in the writings during the liturgical year.

It is so very good, it makes me so eager to live the liturgy in my life,
live in the liturgical year.

Well we have sent over 13,000 of Fr. Joe's new cycle books since the beginning of November to priests and hierarchy
all over the world.

It can enrich so many lives with the weekly sermon rooted in the Word, the Eucharist,
the liturgy,
the Mass,

Baptism, love and unity.

When a priest uses the book weekly he focuses on the Bread of Life to feed the people.

Say a priest says 4 or 5 Masses weekly
Think of how many souls could be reached with the people attending Mass.

Fr. Joe speaks of love and being a member of the body of Christ, living in relationships
all in the context of the scripture.

We see salvation history and its ups and downs -
we see our calling from God
and we see our part in salvation history.

God calls - we respond.

The body of Christ can help the world to raise up to greater perfection.

What are you doing to help this coming election in the United States.

This book of Fr. Joe's can help so many people every week.

We have sent over 13,000 books out to priests and hierarchy to every priest in your state.

We have sent the books to so many priests in the United States and all Bishops.

Can't you help us.

We also send a Prayer Brochure with the Shepherds of Christ prayers praying for the priests, the Church and the world.

We pray in adoration 8 days a month with usually 6 Masses for you, your family and the priests the Church and the world.

We pray in 24 hour adoration before the Exposed Blessed Eucharist in China for all this and for you.

The China mortgage is due tomorrow

and we are struggling because of giving so much money to the Ministries.

Can anyone help us with a donation.

Also we are printing another 20,000 of Fr. Joe's books
going to all the priests in the United States.

This can enormously help for this coming election.

A weekly Priestly Newsletter used about the scriptures and everything at Sunday Mass.

Please we need your help.

If you want to know what to do to help the world and especially all active priests in the United States please help us with a donation.

We need your help today.
Thanks for your prayers and help in advance.

God Bless you and love you.

Rita Robinson Ring

 

 

 

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                R. Pray for These Things

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                2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
                    Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
                3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
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               11) Blue Book 16 and cover and all involved.
                    For our Publisher and all involved
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               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
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               17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
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               27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.

 

 

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