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R. God calls them male and female.
God called men to work together in
married love – to give and to take –
to bear fruit for the Kingdom.
God calls men and women to
work, in love, with one another
according to God's will.
Marriage is a sacrament – it demands
commitment – it is serious!
People who are married come from
two different families. People are
taught about life in their families
from infancy. Children are taught
about love, giving and taking,
resolving problems, traditions,
celebrations, birthday, Christmas, Thanksgiving,
etc. People are taught about love and
joy. They are taught about control
and games to get your way. People
in families are taught about God –
about working, about responsibility,
accountability, the commandments.
People are taught about fear and
security. People are taught about
commitment and obeying rules,
obeying authority in families.
So two people get together, male
and female to get married and they
have a whole set of ways, inside
of them developed on unity, getting
along, being in the presence of others
and being at peace –
Or they can be anxious, nervous,
afraid to trust, causing disharmony,
showing unaccountability, isolated,
selfish and wanting everything to
work their way because they believe
their way is the only way and they are
in charge.
Yesterday in a message during
retreat, Jesus said the circle around
us should be getting bigger and
bigger as we grow to be more and more
in His image and likeness.
He said a person, closing down in
wanting their own way, unaccountability
and irresponsibility, selfishness,
manipulation, forcing their dysfunctional
ways on others – usually is standing
alone.
Trust needs to be developed in
relationships to have them work.
As a small child who trusts their
mom and dad, they will give you
their hands as they cross the
street. It can be automatic they reach
out and expect that protection from
an older sibling or parent or adults.
It shows dependency, training, trust,
obedience from this small jester.
Children can work with adults –
grandma, grandpa and one can
see a peace in them, a give and
take, a love to be working with
each other.
People who have been treated
with unpredictability can learn
to be unpredictable, while others
learn to always do as they say –
communicate with others. People
learn about honest communication
in their homes from an early age –
someone spends time working with
them to teach them about this, to
learn trust, to learn obedience, to
learn about rules.
A child that is spending their
time proving they are right and
manipulating others to their way
of thinking needs some work
in learning a few things.
Life is not a battle of
wills, a fight to get the floor –
a fight to be right, a fight to be
the one in charge, to be validated
at every encounter.
Life is to be lived – to love –
to enjoy each other as a family –
to have peace and celebration –
to know consistency – to know
value of oneself and others –
A person can be like this with
others
R. Another person who lived in a home where
they learned to trust and love and live
and obey and work with each
other, to give in love, to anticipate
others' needs, to respect oneself
and the other does not have
this lack of consistency and
unpredictability, accountability,
lack of communication, fighting
attitude surrounding them –
They are living and working,
giving and taking with others
in a net-work of friendships
that help them to grow –
Response to God's Love -- Chapter 8
The true Christian is imbued with consciousness of others. That is to say, the true Christian is keenly aware that, to a great degree, God intends each of us to press on toward maturity in the spiritual life through a proper encounter with others. Indeed, the Christian imperative reminds us that we are to walk life's path, not in isolation, but hand in hand with our fellow human beings.
R. Fr. Carter further says –
Response to God's Love -- Chapter 8
Early in our discussion of the Christian's encounter with others, we should obviously say a few direct things concerning the core attitude of love, a trait that should permeate all other attitudes. It is well to begin by observing a phenomenon of our culture concerning love: Many persons who choose marriage say they do so out of a desire to be loved. Notice, they say that they marry out of a desire to be loved, not to love. In fairness to these persons, perhaps we should presume that they realize they in turn must also offer love. Yet, is it not revealing that they explicitly mention as the reason for marrying a desire to be loved? Could there be a close correlation between this phenomenon and the extraordinarily high divorce rate that prevails in our culture? If it is common that both partners enter marriage more from a need to receive love than from a desire to give it, do we have to look further for the reason to explain why so many marriages are plagued with various degrees of unhappiness?
R. The question is – can you communicate
and accomplish simple tasks
where jobs can get done?
Is there a battery of baggage that
keeps a person from the simplest task
of being comfortable being with others,
joining in with a work or something
in progress? Can you join in
something that has been going on
for days and just blend in.
Satan works in pride and jealousy
and envy and anger – all these
deadly sins at work, with
satan directing can be habits
in people's lives and if they
don't work with anybody, but
themselves personally – they don't
stop their bad habits – they can try to
use what they practiced to force
their unwanted ways on others.
It may be a simple rule from
kindergarten, but did they learn
to share.
How can people live and not
take responsibility or learning
to come when they say – communicate
and be true to their word.
Learning to work with others
helps us grow. We see ourselves
in a mirror effect in the eyes of
those we are relating to.
There is a life to live and people
need to trust one another and give
and take.
Definition of Love
The definition of love used by Father Carter is as follows.
Love is the gift of self to promote the true good of those loved. He states the reception of love is the receiving of the gift of the other, so my good will be promoted.
R. Jesus said the first night of retreat –
Do you love yourself? Do you
believe you are lovable? Can
you really believe how God loves
us so much? Have we learned
that there are certain people in
our lives we need to trust to
grow in our hearts because we are
imperfect and need to work
with others, we need to be
accountable to others, responsible
for our actions, tell the truth.
God wants us to be true in our
hearts.
Jesus keeps saying
"First to thine own self be
true"
We tell others we work with
that we don't respect their
authority over by how we
respond to authority.
Doing what you want and not
changing dysfunction may
function in life, but it
can be a bunch of hardship,
unpredictability, unpredictability,
unaccountability etc.
So God has given us this Movement
to help renew the Church and
the world. In religious orders,
sisters and brothers of the
consecrated life must be
under authority or everyone
may try to do what they want.
We need to work with each other –
God gave us communities, Church,
school, family.
Fr. Carter says we are to work
hand-in-hand
R. Jesus shows us love and care
for us. He hung on a cross on the
hill of Calvary. He had not sinned.
He gave for our sins. Jesus suffered
for our offenses – He was
brutally scourged. His body
was a bloody, open wound –
He had been derisively crowned
with thorns. He carried the heavy
cross laden with our sins
to the hill of Golgotha. He
was stripped of His garments –
and mercilessly nailed to the
cross. Jesus suffered and hung
on the cross and He died for our sins.
John 2: 19-22
Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple: are you going to raise it up again in three days?’ But he was speaking of the Temple that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what he had said.
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R. Yes the Good Shepherd died and rose for our sins. The Pascal Mystery – Death/Resurrection –
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God calls us to a vocation and
commitment and consistency.
God shows us order – to His death
on the cross He was in perfect peace –
Jesus is meek and tender in Heart –
Meek means not combattal, not
ready to fight.
Christ has structured the Christian
life by the way He lived and
died and rose from the dead –
The pattern of death - resurrection
must be at the heart of the
Church's life –
Fr. Carter says
"Individually and collectively
we continually die with Christ
so that we may continually
rise with Him. Thus we pass
over in a process of ongoing
religious transition to a greater
participation in Christ's resurrection."
We have a goal to all our actions –
pleasing God – we see the end
of our actions leading to eternal
life for ourselves and others –
We are lifted up by what we
do to being more like Jesus and
our lives are not selfish –
they lift up others –
Mary said
"My soul doth magnify the
Lord
And my spirit rejoices
in God my Savior"
Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997
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".
R. What an honor that God calls men
to be servants and handmaids
of the Good Shepherd –
Fr. Carter started each Priestly Newsletter
with this John 10: 11-15.
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.
R. Fr. Carter says
"It is true that our participation
in Christ's resurrection will reach
it's completion only in eternity.
Nevertheless, we begin the life
of resurrection here upon the earth,
in the here and now of human
life, in the midst of joy and
pain, in the experience of
success and failure, in the
sweat of our brow, in the
enjoyment of God's gifts.
As Christians, we should have
a sense of dynamic growth
concerning our here and now
life of resurrection."
Fr. Peter van Breeman, S.J., succinctly observes: "We share the death of Christ. We empty ourselves. We enter the tomb, and in this way, we join Christ in his resurrection. We know the power of his resurrection and the peace that it brings with it. We experience the fruitfulness of a new life–new strength envelops us. Our baptism means that we open ourselves to Christ so that his life may continue through us." (4)
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Bill Clarke, S.J., gives a concrete example of how joy and suffering are meant to coexist as he speaks of L'Arche, the community founded by Jean Vanier:
"L'Arche began in France in 1964 to give a permanent home to mentally handicapped adults. It seeks to unite the handicapped and those who assist them in a single community, inspired by a spirit of loving acceptance that will help all its members develop to their fullest potential as human beings...
"Almost everyone who comes to L'Arche is immediately impressed by the spirit of joy that prevails there. Yet anyone who comes to know the community more intimately cannot but be impressed, not to say overwhelmed, by the amount of suffering that is simply a part of its daily life.
"The living out in great intensity of these seemingly opposite experiences of joy and suffering, might be called the particular grace or vocation of L'Arche. Both the suffering and the joy are an integral part of the daily existence, but both have their moments of greater intensity and more external expression. There are the instances of crisis and there is death that crystallizes the suffering. The joy reaches its climax in moments of celebration. The one, however, is never entirely without the other, especially because both find their ultimate meaning in the single mystery-birth, death, and resurrection–the total mystery of life." (6)
_______________________________________ To follow Jesus entails a willingness to suffer for Him and His cause. The furthering of any worthwhile cause demands a spirit of sacrifice, a willingness to endure a variety of hardships and difficulties. We cannot expect it to be otherwise regarding the cause of Christ. To follow Jesus, to spread His message, to help further the process of ongoing redemption, all this demands a price. There is an almost endless variety of pains, sufferings, and difficulties which can arise in following Jesus and promoting His cause. At times seeing few, if any, visible results of our labors, feeling unappreciated, experiencing opposition, sometimes comprehending that we are being hated precisely by some of those whom we are striving to help, at times being laughed at and ridiculed-these are some of the ways we experience the sufferings of an apostle.
The suffering involved in contributing to the process of ongoing redemption is not, however, the complete picture. The happiness resulting from commitment to Christ and His mission far outweighs the hardships. To be aware that one is so intimately loved by Jesus, to experience the satisfaction that one is contributing to a cause that cannot fail, to play a role in helping to bring to others the peace and love of Jesus–all of this makes for a life that has no equal. The committed follower of Christ, experiencing what it means to be closely associated with Jesus, realizes why St. Peter said, "Lord,...it is wonderful for us to be here." (Mt 17:4).
_______________________________________ St. Paul strikingly portrays the living of death-resurrection: "We are in difficulties on all sides, but never cornered; we see no answer to our problems, but never despair; we have been persecuted, but never deserted; knocked down, but never killed; always, wherever we may be, we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may always be seen in our body. Indeed, while we are still alive, we are consigned to our death every day, for the sake of Jesus, so that in our mortal flesh the life of Jesus, too, may be openly shown." (2 Cor 4:8-11).
_______________________________________ St. John of the Cross wrote much about how the cross, properly encountered, always leads to greater life–to a greater share in Christ's resurrection here and hereafter. Here are some of his words regarding this fact:
"Though holy doctors have uncovered many mysteries and wonders, and devout souls have understood them in this earthly condition of ours, yet the greater part still remains to be unfolded by them, and even to be understood by them.
"We must dig deeper in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures: however deep we dig we will never find their end or their limit. Indeed, in every pocket new seams of fresh riches are discovered on all sides...
"The gate that gives entry into these riches of His wisdom is the cross; because it is a narrow gate, while many seek the joys that can be gained through it, it is given to few to desire to pass through it." (7)
_______________________________________ In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus Himself speaks to us about this paschal mystery, about the necessary connection between the cross and resurrection, between the cross and life: "Then he said to them, 'You foolish men! So slow to believe the full message of the prophets! Was it not ordained that the Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory?' Then, starting with Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages throughout the scriptures that were about himself." (Lk 24:25-27).
– and Resurrection!Antiphon:
Have mercy, O Lord, have mercy on us!O Lord Jesus Christ,
At prayer in the Garden of Olives,
Weeping with sadness and fear,
Comforted by an angel.Antiphon
O Lord Jesus Christ,
Betrayed by the kiss of Judas,
Abandoned by your apostles,
Delivered over to sinners.Antiphon
O Lord Jesus Christ,
Buffeted, covered with spittle,
Bruised by the blows of soldiers,
Condemned to die on the cross.Antiphon
O Lord Jesus Christ,
Scourged and crowned with thorns,
Clothed in a robe of purple,
Covered with scorn and shame.Antiphon
O Lord Jesus Christ,
Burdened with your cross,
Mounting even to Calvary,
Bearing the weight of our sins,Antiphon
O Lord Jesus Christ
Stripped of your garments,
Given gall in your thirst,
Crucified with thieves,Antiphon
O Lord Jesus Christ
Forgiving your executioners,
Confiding your holy Mother
To your beloved discipleAntiphon
O Lord Jesus Christ
Breathing forth your spirit
Into the hands of your Father,
Dying for all sinners. (8)Antiphon
The day of resurrection!
Earth spread the news abroad;
The Paschal feast of gladness,
The Paschal feast of God.
From death to life eternal,
From earth to heaven's height
Our Saviour Christ has brought us,
The glorious Lord of Light.
Our hearts be free from evil
That we may see aright
The Savior resurrected
In his eternal light;
And hear his message plainly,
Delivered calm and clear:
"Rejoice with me in triumph,
Be glad and do not fear."
Now let the heav'ns be joyful,
And with her song begin,
The whole world keep high triumph
And all that is therein,
Let all things in creation
Their notes of gladness blend,
For Christ the Lord has risen,
Our joy that has no end. (9)
The Eucharist is the chief source of growth in the spiritual life. We priests, called to have a special kind of union with Christ, should have a unique desire to grow in appreciation of the Eucharist. It is in the Eucharist that we unite with Jesus' paschal mystery in a special way. Here are some reflections on the Eucharist, Jesus' great gift of love to us:
_______________________________________ Pope John Paul II tells us: "The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic adoration. Jesus waits for us in the sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet him in adoration and contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease." (10)
_______________________________________ Archbishop Luis M. Martinez offers us these inspiring words: "If we could dispose ourselves at least to think about what He suffered for each one of us! Our souls are enveloped in His tenderness and in His pain. We are the fruit of His love and His martyrdom. We increasingly receive His gifts of all kinds. We receive them tranquilly, at times joyfully. But those gifts are marked with the blood of Jesus, the blood from His veins and from his Heart. In order that we might taste the least of His heavenly consolations, Jesus had to taste the gall and vinegar of interior desolation...
"Each communion we receive cost Jesus the sacrifice of Calvary...Holy Communion is a banquet from heaven prepared with the blood of Jesus and the bitterness of His Heart." (11)
The Priestly Call to HolinessThe priest is called to participate in Jesus' death-resurrection in a most special way. Vatican II speaks to us about the priestly life of holiness.
"By the sacrament of orders, priests are configured to Christ the Priest so that as ministers of the Head and coworkers of the episcopal order they can build up and establish His whole Body which is the Church. Already, indeed in the consecration of baptism, like all Christians, they received the sign and the gift of so lofty a vocation and a grace that even despite human weakness they can and must pursue according to the Lord's words: 'You therefore are to be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.' (Mt 5:48).
"To the acquisition of this perfection, priests are bound by a special claim, since they have been consecrated to God in a new way by the reception of orders. They have become living instruments of Christ the eternal priest so that through the ages they can accomplish His wonderful work of reuniting the whole society of men with heavenly power. Therefore, since every priest in his own way represents Christ Himself, he is enriched with special grace.
"Priestly holiness itself contributes very greatly to a fruitful fulfillment of the priestly ministry. True, the grace of God can complete the work of salvation even through unworthy ministers. Yet ordinarily God desires to manifest His works through those whom we have been made particularly docile to the impulse and guidance of the Holy Spirit. Because of their intimate union with Christ and their holiness of life, these men can say with the apostle: 'It is now no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me' (Gal. 2:20)." (12)
The Christian and the WorldVatican II reminds us that Christ in His paschal mystery has entered into the world's history, has taken this history to Himself, and has summarized it:
"For God's Word, through whom all things were made, was Himself made flesh and dwelt on the earth of men. Thus He entered the world's history as a perfect man, taking that history up into Himself and summarizing it. He Himself revealed to us that 'God is love' (1 Jn 4:8). At the same time he taught us that the new command of love was the basic law of human perfection and hence of the world's transformation.
"To those, therefore, who believe in divine love, He gives assurance that the way of love lies open to all men and that the effort to establish a universal brotherhood is not a hopeless one. He cautions them at the same time that this love is not something to be reserved for important matters, but must be pursued chiefly in the ordinary circumstances of life.
"Undergoing death itself for all of us sinners, He taught us by example that we too must shoulder that cross which the world and the flesh inflict upon those who search after peace and justice. Appointed Lord by His resurrection and given plenary power in heaven and on earth, Christ is now at work in the hearts of men through the energy of His Spirit. He arouses not only a desire for the age to come, but, by that very fact, he animates, purifies, and strengthens those noble longings too by which the human family strives to make its life more human and to render the whole earth submissive to the goal.
"Now, the gifts of the Spirit are diverse. He calls some to give clear witness to the desire for a heavenly home and to keep that desire green among the human family. He summons others to dedicate themselves to the earthly service of men and to make ready the material of the celestial realm by this ministry of theirs. Yet He frees all of them so that by putting aside love of self and bringing all earthly resources into the service of human life they can devote themselves to that future when humanity itself will become an offering accepted by God.
"The Lord left behind a pledge of this hope and strength for life's journey in that sacrament of faith where natural elements refined by man are changed into His glorified Body and Blood, providing a meal of brotherly solidarity and a foretaste of the heavenly banquet." (13)
Serving OthersOur participation in Jesus' death-resurrection includes our service of love to others.
In rarer moments of heroic reflection, we perhaps have dreamed of sensational ways through which we may be called to lay down our lives for our neighbor. For most of us, however, such opportunities will probably never occur, and this is just as well. Our courage could well be far less in a real situation than it is in the inflated proportions of dreamlike musings. Most people perform much better in the less heroic atmosphere of everyday sameness. Yet each day, so ordinarily similar to both the one which has preceded and the one which will follow, offers constant opportunities for the laying down of one's life for others. If these daily opportunities are less sensational than the more heroic occasions, they are much more numerous and therefore much more consistently present as possibilities for serving others.
Dying daily for others means many things. It means curbing those persistent, selfish tendencies which, if left unchecked, gradually narrow our vision so that we hardly think of anyone but ourselves. Dying daily for others means working at being kind and patient-seemingly little things, but immensely important in maintaining a spirit of harmony in the course of human affairs. Dying daily for others means fidelity to our work, even though this fidelity must be expressed amid temptations such as discouragement, laziness, and disinterest. Dying daily for our neighbor means these and many other things, some of which we all share in common, some of which are peculiar to each person's uniqueness. One of these common elements is this: dying for others in daily and varied fashion is an expression of our present concern while at the same time it increases our capacity for future love.
Jesus, of course, is our great exemplar regarding the service of others:
"You know that among the pagans the rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt. This is not to happen among you. No; anyone who wants to be great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be your slave, just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Mt 20:25-28).
Pope John Paul II Speaks
About Children and All of UsThe children of the world are among our most precious treasures. The Holy Father speaks insightfully about children and all of us.
"Little children very soon learn about life. They watch and imitate the behavior of adults. They rapidly learn love and respect for others, but they also quickly absorb the poison of violence and hatred. Family experiences strongly condition the attitudes which children will assume as adults. Consequently, if the family is the place where children first encounter the world, the family must be for children the first school of peace.
"Parents have an extraordinary opportunity to help their sons and daughters to become aware of this great treasure: the witness of their mutual love. It is by loving each other that they enable the child, from the very first moment of its existence, to grow up in peaceful surroundings, imbued with the positive values which make up the family's true heritage: mutual respect and acceptance, listening, sharing, generosity, forgiveness. Thanks to the sense of working together which these values foster, they provide a true education for peace and make the child, from its earliest years, an active builder of peace.
"Children share with their parents and brothers and sisters the experience of life and hope. They see how life's inevitable trials are met with humility and courage, and they grow up in an atmosphere of esteem for others and respect for opinions different from their own.
"It is above all in the home that, before even a word is spoken, children should experience God's love in the love which surrounds them. In the family they learn that God wants peace and mutual understanding among all human beings, who are called to be one great family.
"Children are not a burden of society; they are not a means of profit or people without rights. Children are precious members of the human family, for they embody its hopes, its expectations and its potential.
"Peace is a gift of God; but man and woman must first accept this gift in order to build a peaceful world. People can do this only if they have a childlike simplicity of heart. This is one of the most profound and paradoxical aspects of the Christian message: to become childlike is more than just a moral requirement but a dimension of the mystery of the Incarnation itself.
"The Son of God did not come in power and glory, as he will at the end of the world, but as a child, needy and poor. Fully sharing our human condition in all things but sin (cf. Heb 4:15), he also took on the frailty and hope for the future which are part of being a child. After that decisive moment for the history of humanity, to despise childhood means to despise the One who showed the greatness of his love by humbling himself and forsaking all glory in order to redeem mankind...
"Jesus asked the disciples to become 'children' again (Mk 10:14-15). Jesus thus turned around our way of thinking. Adults need to learn from children the ways of God: seeing children's capacity for complete trust, adults can learn to cry out with true confidence, 'Abba, Father!'
"To become like a little child–with a complete trust in the Father and with the meekness taught by the Gospel–is not only an ethical imperative: it is a reason for hope. Even where the difficulties are so great as to lead to discouragement and the power of evil so overwhelming as to dishearten, those who can rediscover the simplicity of a child can begin to hope anew. This is possible above all for those who know they can trust in a God who desires harmony among all persons in the peaceful communion of his kingdom. It is also possible for those who, though not sharing the gift of faith, believe in the values of forgiveness and solidarity and see in them–not without the hidden action of the Spirit–the possibility of renewing the face of the earth.
"It is therefore to men and women of good will that I address this confident appeal. Let us all unite to fight every kind of violence and to conquer war! Let us create the conditions which will ensure that children can receive as the legacy of our generation a more united and fraternal world!" (14)
Fr. Peter van Breeman, S.J., As Bread That is Broken, Dimension, p. 95.
Caryll Houselander, The Way of the Cross, Sheed and Ward, p. 21.
Bill Clarke, S.J., Enough Room for Joy, Paulist Press, pp 13 and 71.
St. John of the Cross, as in The Liturgy of the Hours, Catholic Book Publishing Co., Vol I, pp. 1246-1247.
The Liturgy of the Hours, op. cit., Vol II, p. 403.
Ibid., p. 543.
Pope John Paul II, "On the Mystery of and Worship of the Holy Eucharist", April 1980, as in Apostles of the Holy Spirit Bulletin, Winter 1995.
Archbishop Luis Martinez, Only Jesus, B. Herder Book Co., pp. 212-213.
The Documents of Vatican II, "Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests," American Press Edition, Ch 3, No. 12.
Ibid., "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World," No. 38.
Pope John Paul II, "Let us Give Children a Future of Peace," Dec. 8, 1995, as in Inside the Vatican, February, 1996.
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to bring down great grace for the world
because of your being so
one with Jesus.
Guiding Light Homily Book Series
Fr. Joe’s Books
Cycle A –
Steadfast to the Son
Cycle B –
Focusing on the Word
Cycle C –
Feed My Soul
Cycle A –
Inspired to be Genuine4 for $20 plus postage of $5.95
These books can be given to:
1) All Priests
2) Good for Music Ministers
3) Good for DRE's
4) Good for Deacons
5) Good for Principals of Schools
6) Good for Teachers
7) Good for Mom and Dads
Given March 21, 2014
R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
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.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 16 and cover and all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
The Wedding Rosary
Crystal Image Rosary
$40 plus shipping
Original Image Rosary
8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box$40 plus shipping
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Give to your priests Fr. Carter's Books plus postage.
Tell My People $5.00
Response to God's Love $8.00
Response in Christ $8.00
Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur
$2.00 plus postage
New Mass Book with Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage
New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage
Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage
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Give to your priest.
Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage
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with a sliver of glass and a little
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The glass will be fixed behind the
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