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October 10, 2014

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                October 10, 2014
 

1 John 4:7-11

My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.

 

                R. To do nothing is to do something!

                A rich man went out and concerned with
                his riches did nothing to even recognize
                his brothers who were not as fortunate
                as himself.

                    He prided himself on himself and
                neglected those God had put with him
                to work in harmony and to contribute
                in the community as a person of wealth
                and talent. When the day was ended
                he planned what he wanted for
                himself and how he liked things
                to be.

                    Another man called by the Lord,
                seeking God's will went to the Church
                and prayed to do as God wished of
                him. In the days that followed he
                sacrificed working with the community
                to bring unity and love to those God
                had called him to guide. He had to
                make many sacrifices, but he told
                himself he did it all for the glory
                of God and many men were touched
                by the sacrifices and the sufferings
                he had to endure –

                Jesus: I call you to live according to the
                Father's will and to give as I taught
                you, I lived My life –

                    The Apostles were 12 men called
                by Me to do the work of My Heavenly
                Father - to support and help Me –
                to be My disciples listening to My
                teachings and learning My ways –
                I called these men and I taught them about
                My ways, I taught them about God –
                you see in the scriptures how I talked
                to them – how they thought sometimes
                like men and I told them My ways.
                You must seek the will of God and pray
                for guidance. A man lived his whole
                life rigid and planning so he would
                never have to be surprised about
                anything. He wanted to control things
                so he could be available for his
                fancy if it arrived.

                Another man was committed to live
                the Gospel, he tried to work with
                his brothers and to give generously
                without strings – giving just for
                the glory of God, living and loving
                God's will – he did not plan his
                days – he surrendered to God's calling
                to him and his days were focused
                on service, serving God, living as
                a servant of God.

                    You see in the Gospel how Peter
                suffered when he was afraid of
                people and denied Me 3 times.
                He suffered for he was trying to
                serve Me and then fear controlled
                him and he denied Me. Fear is
                the reason many never let go as
                they should to do the will of God.
                They are afraid of those they have
                been called to trust, to have a
                relationship in harmony for the
                building of the Kingdom, so they
                can fall into a life of fear and
                control and rigidity.

                    A man who controlled and planned
                and prodded and didn't work with
                others trusting and loving is
                opposing the will of God who commands
                that you put God first – you love God –
                you seek His will and you love your
                neighbor as yourself –

                I died for you. I loved you so very much
                I gave Myself to My death on the cross.
                I took flesh and came into the world
                to teach you. I showed how I called
                the Apostles and they gave up their
                lives to follow Me and they were
                here to carry out the Church because
                they served Me and followed Me and
                sacrificed their lives for the Church.
                Do you see how many, holy priests and
                hierarchy are committed, are under
                authority, are sacrificing and dealing
                with people all day –
                serving, loving, not knowing where
                they will be sent, being available
                to the whole parish – all day – giving
                and giving and giving –
                walking in the footprints of the Apostles –
                and My disciples –

                    The Church needs religious dedicated
                to service, praying and giving their
                lives for the Church–

                    The world is focused on the self –

                Here is an excerpt from Fr. Carter.
 

Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997 p. 103

Scriptural Reflections

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

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

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

Priestly Newsletter September/October 1997

Scriptural Reflections

People are Looking at Us. "You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp to put it under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand where it shines for everyone in the house. In the same way your light must shine in the sight of men, so that, seeing your good works, they may give the praise to your Father in heaven" (Mt 5:14-16).

Jesus taught by word and action. He talked to huge crowds, to small groups, to various individuals. He talked about love and friendship, about joy and suffering, about life and death. He had a message to spread, His Father's message, and He did not miss His opportunities. It was not enough for Him merely to talk about His Father's message. He was also constantly teaching by the total event of His life, death and resurrection. Not only His words, but also His actions spoke out loud and clear. He not only talked about the love we should have for one another. He incarnated this teaching in the laying down of His own life for the salvation of all. His words spoke eloquently of brotherly love. So also did His bloody and bruised body nailed to a cross. His words sounded so convincing. The way He went about living could also pierce the hardest heart.

Jesus invites us to assist Him in the continuation of His teaching mission. The method of procedure remains the same; we, too, like Jesus before us, are to teach by both word and action. The opportunities for teaching by word are more numerous than we might expect. For it is not only bishops and priests and teachers of religious studies who teach by word. Parents, as they rear their children, have numerous opportunities to teach Jesus' message. Friends talk about all sorts of things. If one is sincerely Christian, his or her friend will eventually know.

The opportunities to teach about Jesus by the way we act are even more numerous than are the occasions for variously speaking about the message of Jesus. People are looking at us. We cannot long hide the life-vision which thrusts us forward, which motivates so much of what we do. If we live according to the pleasure principle, this becomes evident. If we live according to the money principle, this also becomes manifest. If we are close followers and friends of Jesus, this too becomes clear to people. They will know by the way we work and play, by our attitude towards life and death, by our refusing to become bitter despite even great suffering, by the way we treat others, especially those who are poor, or ridiculed, or discriminated against, or passed over as unimportant and of little worth. If we are deeply Christian, Christ's way of thinking and doing will necessarily affect our own way of thinking and doing. We are called to project Jesus and His message through our own humanities. Either we do, or we don't. Either we seize the numerous and daily opportunities for helping to preach Jesus by the way we live, or we do not. Either we respond to Jesus' invitation to be a light for the world, or we do not. This invitation goes out to all, but to priests in a special way. Jesus, through Holy Orders, has given Himself to the priest in a most special way. If the priest, realizing Jesus' precious love for him as this unique priest-companion, surrenders to Christ, this gives Him special joy. For the priest, because of his special union with Jesus, can be a light to the world in a most extraordinary way.

end of excerpt

                Jesus: I want you to send the Priestly Newsletter
                Book II with Fr. Joe's homily book as I instructed –
                I ask you to pray for this mailing. I
                am calling you to service.

                    How can a man live his life planning
                and prodding and never being under
                anyone because they try to settle in
                a nitch where they do what they planned
                and in their timing and in their way?
                You are to seek to reach the full development
                of the mystical state within you,
                always knowing more development is possible.

                That is your goal –
                To seek to be more and more in the
                    image and likeness of God.

                I taught you about the suffering servant –

                I came to this earth and I lived
                to serve –

                I am God –

                You are to develop the love - centered
                Christ-life to a state of maturity
                that the mystery of Christ is lived
                in you.

                You live spontaneously living the
                mystery of Christ – the
                Christ-life is your goal –

                A man living to seek the Christ-life
                    in his life deeply knows love,
                    suffering, endurance, trust,
                    service, harmony.

                A mystic sees things, but sees them
                    differently than those who are
                    not mystics –
                    they experience the mystery of God
                    more deeply – they see through
                    the eyes of the Father – they
                    have great faith and they are
                    faithful to their calling in life –
                    A mystic is deeply one in the
                    mystery I have taught you –
                    the mystery of Christ –

                They live deeply the Gospel message
                    in their lives and are witnesses
                    of the Gospel message in their
                    lives –

                I am the Light of the World –

                Their lives are lives in which
                    My Light is seen in everything
                    they do. They are sons and daughters
                    of the light by how they love
                    God and their neighbor and how
                    they live their vocation as God
                    has called them to be –
                    sons and daughters of the Light.

                I am the way, the truth and the life.
 

                Jesus: A mystic is one who has been transformed
                    more and more into living My life
                    in them.

                A person who controls, plans and
                    prods has lived their life in a
                    stagnant bucket –
                    caving in and making their glory
                    their bad habits and staying
                    sterile and rigid –

                Transformation is necessary to be
                    one living more deeply the
                    mystical life –

                Going out of oneself to being
                    transformed more and more
                    to live My mysteries in them.

                Filling a mold with plaster makes
                    a plaster statue – it is
                    fixed – it is poured – it
                    does not bend –
                    it is not supple –
                    it is not alive –

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993

Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.

    You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.

    When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.

    I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.

    I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.

end of May 13, 1993

                Jesus: The process of growing in the
                    mystical life is a process –
                    In this process one experiences the
                    ordinary things, the sufferings
                    of ordinary life, the encounters
                    one must endure to further the
                    Kingdom of God – even though
                    there may be special experiences
                    with God, the transformation is
                    living deeply the ordinary experiences
                    deeply in the mystery of God and is
                    proceeding more deeply into
                    commitment in their lives given
                    to serve God as I showed you
                    with My life on earth –

                Living and loving the will of My
                   Father in heaven.

                It is important to meditate on the
                mysteries of the rosary, to focus
                on the Gospel message as a
                blue-print for how you live
                out My mystery in your lives.
                A mystic is one who puts on
                Christ – that is, you live the mystery
                of My love in your life - deeply
                and growing in your love union
                with God – intimate union with
                God and your life is a witness
                before others –
                your life is a life of loving your
                fellow men, of the faith-vision
                you have, seeing through the
                eyes of the Father and living
                in unity, in oneness, trusting
                God and working in harmony
                with others for the building of
                My Kingdom.

                    Here is a prayer I gave you –
 

November 4, 2013

                Jesus: Here are prayers I gave you in the
                    Holy Spirit Novena.
 

                end of excerpt

                Jesus: Love is a mystery!

                Love can be strong –

                Love can be gentle –

                I gave Myself on the cross –

                I died that you could live –

                Death/Resurrection –

                Dying to the ways not likened to Me
                    to live a new life of love
                    in Me –

                One must die to be reborn –

                Sing: Unless a Grain of Wheat

                Sing: God's Love

                Jesus: When love has reached a greater and
                    greater perfection in God –
                    there is harmony –
                    there is oneness –

                It is presence – knowing the
                    presence you receive of God:
                    Father, Son and Holy Spirit
                    within your graced baptized soul –

                Your heart is like Mary –

                Mary gave herself for God –

                Like the sunflower that turns
                    to the sun –
   

                R. Fr. Carter says

                    "Mary did not belong to herself –
                    Mary belonged to God."

                Mary was not closed in upon herself –
                Mary was completely open to God.
                When God spoke, Mary listened!
                When God pointed the way,
                    Mary followed!

                Fr. Carter says:
 

Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997 p. 103

Scriptural Reflections (excerpt)

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. If we want the Holy Spirit to dwell in us
                    we must pray to love – ask God
                    to fill us with the fire of love –

                The heart is the center of love –
                    One cannot be closed down,
                    rigid and in control and have
                    a heart open to the Holy Spirit –

                We must seek the presence of the Holy Spirit
                    within our hearts –
                    We must pray that God fills our
                        hearts with love and be
                        willing to open up our
                        hearts and love God and
                        our neighbors as ourselves –

                Love is open – not closed –
                Love is asking God to fill us –
                Love is belonging to God –

                God is love –
                God is the author of love –
                Love is not closed in on oneself –

                What have we lived for in our lives
                    if we control our lives to be
                    more of ourselves –
                    closed down –
                    We count on ourselves.

                God is the ultimate mystery –

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.

                R. Where is your heart?

                Is it open?

                Is God the ever present guest of
                    the heart – all day –
                    every day –

                What affection do you hold onto
                    in your life?

                R. When we pray the Prayer for Union
                    we ask God to
                    possess our soul

                Happy we will be when we empty
                    ourselves of ourselves and
                    inordinate affections and
                    instead of addictive obsessions
                        let God be the Divine obsession
                        of our soul –

                God wants intimate union with us –

                Knowing the Presence of God in
                    our hearts - all day –

                Dear God increase in us the
                    theological virtues
                    of faith, hope and love –   

                R. We are to want to live in God –

                It is our duty to know, love and
                    serve God and love our
                    neighbor as ourselves.
                    Love from the heart –
                    Eyes open to God and others –

                Sing: Seek Ye First

                Beg for an increase in the
                    theological virtues
                    of Faith, Hope and Love

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