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January 8, 2004
January 9th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 7 Period II.The Novena Rosary Mysteries for
January 9th are Glorious.
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.
January 9, 2004Schedule for
4:00 a.m. - Mass4:37 a.m. - Choose Life
5:40 a.m. - Christmas Songs
6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary7:24 a.m. - Tell My People read by Father Carter
8:56 a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayers
9:06 a.m. - Mary's Message
9:13 a.m. - Live Rosary from December 13, 1996
10:37 a.m. - Christmas Songs
11:55 a.m. - Newsletter 1998 Issue 5 (Mother at Our Side)
1:14 p.m. - Children's Rosary December 25, 1994
1:48 p.m. - Christmas Songs
2:32 p.m. - Rosary March 21, 1995
3:19 p.m. - Songs from Jesus
4:00 p.m. - Mass
4:37 p.m. - Christmas Songs
6:20 p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary7:24 p.m. - Sidney Rosary from December 2, 2003
10:00 p.m. - Instrumental Christmas Songs
11:05 p.m. - Joyful Rosary Aves
11:36 p.m. - Songs to Mary
12:55 a.m. - Mysteries of Light from November 2, 2002
1:36 a.m. - Special Messages given by Jesus to Father Carter
and songs2:55 a.m. - Christmas Songs
4:00 a.m. - Mass
January 8, 2004
Messenger: Take Lord Receive All My Liberties
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 2546. PRAYER. In the preparatory prayer I will beg God
our Lord for grace that all my intentions, actions,
and operations may be directed purely to the
praise and service of His Divine Majesty.
I give you myself Lord.
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
Meditation 10 minutes
Dear Holy Spirit enlighten me to do Your
will.
Help me never to block your work.
I give myself to you, to do with
as you so choose.
I am your servant Lord, come
and possess my soul.
Words of Surrender of a Soul
Today Lord, (today's date), I give You my entire will-
I give You all my liberties, I want to love and serve You as You desire.
I surrender myself to You.
I ask You to run my life.
I ask You to help me act like You, Jesus, and like Your Mother Mary.
God, this day I consecrate myself to You.
I am (name) , Your beloved child, guide me on my way now as I go about my day (or if in Church) as I leave Your Eucharistic presence.
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."
Messenger:
Dear God, I want to be united to You deep
in my heart.
Let me be connected deeply to
You and know Your will for me.
Help me to dispose of myself
to You and to give my all
to the jobs You have given to
me in the ministry.
Help me not to be controlling and
block your work.
Help me to be selfless and unattached.
I surrender myself to you.
March 2, 1994
At Cathedral After CommunionJesus: I want you to love Me as I love you. If I asked you to lay down your life for Me, you would give this freely of yourself. I need this surrender from you that you put Me above all things--not some things, all things. I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any gods before Me--not your husband, your children, your life, your house. I want your total surrender! I am not asking you to give these things up. I am asking you to love Me more than any of these things, that you are willing to give them up for Me!
This is freedom. When your love is for Me and Me alone, no one has any control over you. You live for Me and I am Almighty. I love you with the most ardent love and you know all that comes from Me is from Him Who laid down His life for you.
Do you love Me? Would you lay your life down for Me? If you love, you give of yourself. Do you love each other? Do you give of yourself to one another or do you have relationships that give to you? This is not love. Love gives from the heart. Love is for the good of the other. I gave My life for you that you might live. Follow the Master. I did not die for any of My own gratifications, I died to show you how I loved you! I gave My only life for you. I love you this much!
I call you to love. Love is action from your heart. Do you love Me this way or do you just do busy work and call it love?
To learn about love you must come and be with Me. Sit and let Me teach you My ways. I sit with My red garb, covering My white tunic, you at My feet and I teach you ever so sweetly each day. You are My beloved ones. I died for you. I give you this same love today. Love gives to the other. Do you give this kind of love to Me and your brother or do you ask what others and I will give to you?
You do not know love if you do not come and you are not taught by Me. I am the author of love. I teach the mighty lessons of love. I died out of love for you.
You cannot love intimately if you hold back. To love Me, you must totally surrender, surrender all you hold on to. People do not love Me because they want to hold back. If you want intimacy with Me, you must be willing to surrender your all to Me.
Are you willing to do this? This is where the power is. When you give your all, I possess your soul and I am all powerful. I want your all, not little pieces you stingily let go of. I want your all. Then you will have an intimate union with God. Then you will live in His love and be powered by His might. Then you will be free. I will operate you and you will be united to Me as one. What power, God dwelling within your breast and acting from your soul! Become selfless and unattached to anything. I am God and you shall not have any gods before Me!
Messenger:
I beg for the grace to know your will and
to do it selflessly.
Please help the disposition of my heart
to be pure --
I do not want to put myself in a
victim role.
I do not want to tell people about
the movement for my own flattery.
Help me to want God's will in all
I do as I serve You and serve
others for your honor and glory
and to help promote the Kingdom.
Sing: Come to Me Lord and Possess my soul
Dear God please help the world to live
according to Your will.
Here is the 2nd part of the discernment
of spirits as found in
St. Ignatius Spiritual Exercises.
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
328. RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
II
Further rules for understanding the different movements produced in the soul. They serve for a more accurate discernment of spirits and are more suitable for the second week
329. I. It is characteristic of God and His Angels, when they act upon the soul, to give true happiness and spiritual joy, and to banish all the sadness and disturbances which are caused by the enemy.
It is characteristic of the evil one to fight against such happiness and consolation by proposing fallacious reasonings, subtilties, and continual deceptions.330. 2. God alone can give consolation to the soul without any previous cause. It belongs solely to the Creator to come into a soul, to leave it, to act upon it, to draw it wholly to the love of His Divine Majesty. I said without previous cause, that is, without any preceding perception or knowledge of any subject by which a soul might be led to such a consolation through its own acts of intellect and will.
331. 3. If a cause precedes, both the good angel and the evil spirit can give consolation to a soul, but for a quite different purpose. The good angel consoles for the progress of the soul, that it may advance and rise to what is more perfect. The evil spirit consoles for purposes that are the contrary, and that afterwards he might draw the soul to his own perverse intentions and wickedness.
332. 4. It is a mark of the evil spirit to assume the appearance of an angel of light. He begins by suggesting thoughts that are suited to a devout soul, and ends by suggesting his own. For example, he will suggest holy and pious thoughts that are wholly in conformity with the sanctity of the soul. Afterwards, he will endeavor little by little to end by drawing the soul into his hidden snares and evil designs.
333. 5. We must carefully observe the whole course of our thoughts. If the beginning and middle and end of the course of thoughts are wholly good and directed to what is entirely right, it is a sign that they are from the good angel. But the course of thoughts suggested to us may terminate in something evil, or distracting, or less good than the soul had formerly proposed to do. Again, it may end in what weakens the soul, or disquiets it; or by destroying the peace, tranquility, and quiet which it had before, it may cause disturbance to the soul. These things are a clear sign that the thoughts are proceeding from the evil spirit, the enemy of our progress and eternal salvation.
334. 6. When the enemy of our human nature has been detected and recognized by the trail of evil marking his course and by the wicked end to which he leads us, it will be profitable for one who has been tempted to review immediately the whole course of the temptation. Let him consider the series of good thoughts, how they arose, how the evil one gradually attempted to make him step down from the state of spiritual delight and joy in which he was, till finally he drew him to his wicked designs. The purpose of this review is that once such an experience has been understood and carefully observed, we may guard ourselves for the future against the customary deceits of the enemy.
335. 7. In souls that are progressing to greater perfection, the action of the good angel is delicate, gentle, delightful. It may be compared to a drop of water penetrating a sponge.
The action of the evil spirit upon such souls is violent, noisy, and disturbing. It may be compared to a drop of water falling upon a stone.
In souls that are going from bad to worse, the action of the spirits mentioned above is just the reverse. The reason for this is to be sought in the opposition or similarity of these souls to the different kinds of spirits. When the disposition is contrary to that of the spirits, they enter with noise and commotion that are easily perceived. When the disposition is similar to that of the spirits, they enter silently, as one coming into his own house when the doors are open.336. 8. When consolation is without previous cause, as was said, there can be no deception in it, since it can proceed from God our Lord only. But a spiritual person who has received such a consolation must consider it very attentively, and must cautiously distinguish the actual time of the consolation from the period which follows it. At such a time the soul is still fervent and favored with the grace and aftereffects of the consolation which has passed. In this second period the soul frequently forms various resolutions and plans which are not granted directly by God our Lord. They may come from our own reasoning on the relations of our concepts and on the consequences of our judgments, or they may come from the good or evil spirit. Hence, they must be carefully examined before they are given full approval and put into execution.
end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 1121. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
no decision is made under the influence of any
inordinate attachment
meditate for 30 minutes after reading
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 1223. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
Messenger:
We want to let go of inordinate attachments.
We want to do God's will.
All day we are making decisions about
our will.
The purity of the disposition of our actions
will help us serve God more.
We act for His honor and glory.
Our decisions for acting are not tainted
with pride and jealousy if we
are acting as God wants.
We want people to do God's will, we
don't try to stop them to get
their attention or to try to get
ahead or because of jealousy.
We want God's will.
God's directions given to us for the purpose
of the building and our Movement is
clear.
People make decisions about their will
all day.
How do we serve -- whole-heartily?
with malice?
with jealousy?
with envy?
with love?
Do we want to promote God's Kingdom?
Do we do it for vain glory?
Do we act with any impurities in our
heart to block God's plan --
slothfully, pridefully, jealousy,
envy, selfishness, anger,
competition?
Jesus speaks: I
have given you the purpose of the Shepherds of Christ.
I want the pictures of My Heart and Mary's
Immaculate Heart circulated.
I want the individual consecrations spread.
I want homes consecrated to My Heart.
I want My Blue Book Messages to reach
the priests and the people.
I want My Rosary Meditations to reach
the children in the schools, the
little children at home and the
people.
Messenger:
Oh Jesus, I want to sit at your feet and be
taught by You --
Messenger:
Oh Jesus, I want you to help me to
do Your will.
Oh Jesus, you are My Savior.
January 8, 2004
Jesus speaks:
In the Reign of My Sacred Heart men
will act like pure little docile children
of My Father.
Mary lived to do the will of the Father.
Some will try to manipulate events to
be as they desire, they are willful and
have a world of their own in their
heads.
They can be so self-willed they can
block out community gatherings and
meetings while they willfully block
superiors out and pray inside themselves
to themselves ignoring everything around
them. They have given themselves an agenda
of prayers prayed daily and they really
fail to be part of the community or obey
the rules, they justify what they do by telling
themselves they don't have to listen to superiors,
but need to pray four rosaries. They completely
run their own program and want things
their way.
Grace is granted to those who follow
their superiors, ones who as the song says
can bend, though straight and tall.
I taught you about obedience.
I died on the cross.
I sweat Blood.
I did the will of My Father.
Messenger:
All day we make decisions about what we
will do.
Someone may direct us or help to direct us,
but our will is ours.
The purity of intention is in every
action we perform.
St. Ignatius talks about the 3 classes
of men.
I saw a person in a store ringing out
groceries. They were very present to the whole
situation — loving, kind and doing their
job whole-heartedly — serving the shopper.
Another checker in the grocery acted angrily
at the shopper, throwing the items being bought
around and never having eye contact with
the shopper.
How would Jesus and Mary serve if God
asked them to have this interaction with
the shopper? How would Mary serve to
do anything if she knew it was God's will.
I have seen some people pray when
we were having an important meeting and
later hurting things because they weren't
listening when the meeting took place.
A young novice must learn to listen and
follow directions. She doesn't ignore the
superior and pray the rosary when
directions are given to her.
Christ obeyed the Father.
He shows us about obedience.
Christ, the Son of God, washed the feet
of His servants.
What an awesome thought that God —
the Son of God washes men's feet. St. Peter
said something like wash me all over —
why didn't St. Peter just obey what
Jesus said first.
Some people have to have control.
Some use the opportunity of trying to
ask a question when someone is doing
something else surrounded with people.
It reminds me of children asking
their mom a question while she
is on the phone talking to someone
else.
The devil works in willfulness.
The devil wants a person to disobey their
superiors, argue with them, manipulate
things to get their own way.
One thing I have learned through the
messages, God tells me what to do and
I do it then as He has told me.
Another person may try to demand a
schedule which can block the messages
God gives me.
I am a messenger, I am available for
the message. I do not tell God when to
act on my soul and what to give me. He
is the initiator, I am the soul waiting His
favor.
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.
Please remember us in your will.
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