The Agony of the Garden
1. My dear Father, I offer
You this day all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with
Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Holy Spirit.
2. Jesus took Peter, James
and John into the Garden with Him.
3. If we really loved God
we would not let ourselves fall into habitual sins that lead us further
and further from Him.
4. Jesus wants a personal
relationship with us to help us grow in greater oneness with Him.
5. Our relationship with
God includes how we grow in our relationship with others.
6. Jesus suffered so much
in the Garden seeing all those who would reject Him and
how people would fail to be loving to others.
7. God is love. When we
wall ourselves in and treat others in unloving ways - remember how Jesus
sweat blood for cold hard hearts.
8. Hearts are hard when
they shut themselves down and refuse to open up to trust others and God.
Jesus sweat blood!!
9. The apostles slept.
Jesus asked them to stay awake and pray.
Jesus suffered in the Garden.
10. Jesus' suffering was
the greatest to His Sacred Heart.
The Scourging at the
Pillar
1. They tied Jesus to a
pillar and men used whips that tore His flesh and wounded His beautiful
body.
2. John 19: 26-27
Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her,
Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the
disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the
disciple took her into his home.
3. Christ’ body was
whipped.
4. We are members of the
body of Christ in the Church - look at the suffering.
5. Fr. Carter always said
"it is not that there is so much suffering in the world, but so much is
wasted."
6. Philippians 2:1-5
So if in Christ there
is anything that will move you, any incentive in love, any
fellowship in the Spirit, any warmth or sympathy—I appeal to you,
make my joy complete by being of a single mind, one in love, one in
heart and one in mind. Nothing is to be done out of jealousy or
vanity; instead, out of humility of mind everyone should give
preference to others, everyone pursuing not selfish interests but
those of others. Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:
7. The Church is the
Spouse of Christ.
Jesus gives us Himself, truly present in His Divinity and
humanity in the Eucharist.
8. Christ is the Head of
the Church as Savior of His Body, the Church.
9. 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.
10. Song: God's Love
The Crowning with
Thorns
1. Christ was derisively
crowned with thorns.
2. We can become so caught
up in ourselves, that all we use God’s gifts for, is to feel sorry for
ourselves.
3. God wants our hearts to
grow in love and compassion, not let our hearts shrink in the
selfishness of caving in.
4. Our calling is to help
bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and Triumph of Mary's
Immaculate Heart.
5. Jesus is the Son of
God, why would a person spend their energies trying to discredit God's
power.
6. Fighting God to try to make
what is dark look like a victory. Darkness will not win.
7. How do we respond to
suffering - do we use it as a source of new life or harden our heart to
it?
8. Jesus gladly received
the cross.
He was whipped, crowned with thorns, spit on, He went through
all this...like an innocent lamb, led to the slaughter.
9. Christ embraced the
cross
10. To follow Jesus we
must meditate on His life.
Read
the scriptures, meditate on the rosary...
The Carrying of the
Cross
1. The cross was laden
with our sins, it was so heavy He fell under the cross.
2. When I prayed at Holy
Cross-Immaculata, I would do the stations and look at those where Jesus'
head fell to the ground under the cross.
3. It made my heart hurt
to see how He suffered for us, He carried the weight of our sins.
Sin offends God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
4. We cannot maintain the
life of resurrection without a willingness to suffer.
Courage, enduring as we meditate on how Christ suffered for
our sins.
He is our Savior.
5. Suffering can be
ordinary hardships we endure every day or it can be hard suffering in
sickness, in family, etc.
Whatever the suffering we must go through in our life, we
endure this as we identify with Jesus, our Savior.
6. The more we live the
life of resurrection, the more we can lift others up.
7. When we share in
Christ's suffering we have before our eyes the pascal mystery of death /
resurrection.
8. Jesus died on the
cross, but He was lifted high on the cross in such a suffering.
9. Jesus emptied Himself
so He could die and bring us new life.
10. The Mass is the
sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present.
The Crucifixion
1. From Fr. Carter
"He hung upon a cross on a
hill called Calvary. Death was near. How much Jesus had already
suffered! He was derisively crowned with thorns. In a terribly weakened
condition, He carried the heavy cross to the hill of Golgotha. There He
was stripped of His garments and mercilessly nailed to the cross. After
all this brutal and agonizing suffering, Jesus finally died.
2.
From Fr. Carter
Truly the Good Shepherd
had laid down His life for His sheep. That magnificent Heart,
overflowing with love for His Father and all of us, had beat its last."
3. 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.
4. From Fr. Carter
When we are baptized
we are incorporated into Christ’s pascal mystery of death and
resurrection. St Paul speaks of this marvelous union with Jesus.
Romans 6:3-4
You cannot have
forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus,
were baptised into his death. So by our baptism into his death we
were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by
the Father’s glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.
5. Christ has structured
the Christian life by the way He lived, died, and rose from the dead.
6. Death-Resurrection must
be at the heart of the Church’s life.
7. We continually die in
Christ so that we can continually rise in Him.
8. So we pass-over to a
greater life of resurrection in our lives here below.
9. This participation in
Christ’s resurrection reaches its greatest in heaven if we have eternal
life there.
10. We live the life of
resurrection here and now on earth in the pain and joy, in success and
failure, in sweat and brow, in the enjoyment of Christ’s gifts.
October 8, 2021 -
9:38pm
R. My days, my
heart belongs to Jesus.
He is the bridegroom of my soul.
He knows all things.
Nothing is hidden.
Nothing is beyond His sight.
He is worthy of the most devoted love by those He has given His all.
When He has given so much
to us in love, why wouldn't one return precious love to Him?
Jesus: A stone is
dead.
A man who gives His heart to Me is so richly blessed – he is blessed in
love and friendship beyond our comprehension.
A man with a hard-stone
heart has nothing.
As he gives more and more to himself he closes in upon his narrowness.
How much breath is there
in a little locked space?
A person rooted in Me is a
breath of fresh-air.
When the air is fresh it blows on the skin, almost caressing the heart
and soul.
A man can spend his life
devoted to himself and misery find him all the days of his life.
I command you to
love God with all your heart and all your soul.
I command you to love your neighbor as yourself.
A person devoted to oneself is not in touch with God's will.
October 8, 2021 -
10:21pm
Jesus: Suffering is
redemptive.
The fool lies to himself about his sins, he has no sorrow for his
disobedience to the commandments of love.
Satan is hate. He lies to the sinner how they are justified in their
sins.
The world of sin is a world of darkness and misery.
My world is light and love. My world is peace and justice.
The love of your heavenly Mother is tender and kind and like a Mother
would guide and embrace her little one to lead you to My Heart of love.
Come to My Heart and I
will give you rest.
Your little heaven on earth dwelling in Our Hearts of love.
Love is kind, love is sacrifice, like My death on the cross for you.
Peace is found in personal intimate relationship with Me, your Divine
Bridegroom.
Satan comes to destroy,
tear apart, hate, raise in pride above all others and God.
Satan is real. Satan comes
in arguments, lies, restlessness, to take a man's soul as they give him
control of themselves.
A person devoted to Satan
is out of control, out of order.
God is first, a person devoted to Satan and themselves has surrendered
themselves through selfish pride – they become victims of slavery under
Satan while they "puff" themselves up in greater and greater selfish
pride.
Who rules? Satan has one
focus – to crush Mary's head, Satan hates the Mother of God, hates!!!!
Satan hates love and
unity.
Satan hates group prayer. Satan hates devotion to My Sacred Heart
of love.
Satan wants to bring
darkness wherever there is peace and harmony so he can rule in
destruction, chaos, and slip out laughing at his success to bring down
the house.
You can't ignore the commandments.
What is the goal of one who lives the deadly sins, but refuses the
heart-felt love God created them for?
Hearts of stone are dead!
Suffering is redemptive.
Being willing to suffer identifying your suffering with My suffering.
God is above and man is
under God.
Anything else is disorder.
The more you love God, the
more you can love others.
Life is in Me.
October 9, 2021 -
12:51am
Mary: I am Mary
your Mother, Mother of God.
Jesus: My Father wants you to honor and obey your heavenly Mother.
Dying on the cross I gave you, Mary, your Mother to guide and love you
with Motherly love.
The devil hates Mary.
You are called by God the Father to respect Mary, conceived without sin,
My Mother.
God the Father:
Mary was chosen by Me to carry My Son, Jesus.
Mary is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit.
Mary is the perfect
handmaid of Jesus.
Mary is the most perfect disciple.
Mary is Mother, Immaculate, conceived without sin, Mother of all the
precious souls I created.
You were created in the image and likeness of God.
You were created for more.
You were created so you could live and be transformed to go to heaven
with Me eternally.
The 1st commandment demands you put God first.
Those living a life of pride put themselves before God.
The devil lies about your sins, he does not want his seductive way he
seduces souls, out in the open.
You have one life to live.
When today is gone, it's gone.
How did you love and serve the Lord?
Mary: I am Mary
your heavenly Mother.
Mother of the 13ths.
Mother of Clearwater.
Mary: I am Mary
Immaculate.
Conceived without sin.
Perfect Handmaid of Jesus.
Many of my children will
die this night.
Some will lose their souls eternally.
I cry blood!!
Who do you serve?
Matthew 6: 24
God and money
‘No one can be the
slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the
second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You
cannot be the slave both of God and of money.
Mary:
God is the keeper to the
door for souls into heaven, why would a soul cross God, dishonor me and
expect no consequences.
You can't have two Masters.
People devoted to themselves have a life of misery.
Mary: I am the
Queen of Peace.
Turmoil, chaos, division,
destruction is from satan.
October 9, 2021 -
10:25am
R. Living in the
moment.
Jesus: I give you
your breath in this moment to live.
Use it wisely.
You can't live in the
past.
You can't live in the future!!
I take care of all the
creatures of the sea, the birds of the air.
You are far more precious
to Me.
There is balance of life
in the ocean and seas, rivers and streams.
There is food, water, air on earth for you to live.
There is the sun and day and night.
I created all this on earth.
I am God, Almighty, I care for you, I give you gifts, I give you love
and each other.
I created children and pets for you.
I created you in My image
and likeness.
I am God Almighty.
October 9, 2021 -
9:12am
Jesus: I gave the
Prayer for Union. (January 17, 1994)
Come to me Lord and
possess my soul,
Heaven is: being possessed by God.
In dying to yourselves,
you live the life of resurrection in Me.
Come to me Lord and possess my soul.
Your transition, here below, in the here
and now, is to Pass-over, to the life of resurrection in your daily
lives.
You surrender yourselves
to God to possess your soul.
You die to yourselves.
The Good Shepherd lays
down His life for the flock.
The hired man runs away.
When the wolf comes, he is only a hired man,
He doesn't care for the sheep.
In the message May 13,
1993, 28 years ago, I said
"I want to be one in you
and you one in Me. The evil one's grip is paralyzing and crippling."
By saying the Prayer for
Union you give Me yourselves and Satan has no power over Me.
I laid down My life for
you. Who can you trust if you can't trust Me?
The devil tempts you with pride to be in control, then he tries to
control you as you give in, fooling yourself you are in control,
trusting no one.
The devil lies about your
sins, he deceived, he tempts people to sin – saying wrong is right and
right is wrong.
Twisting the truth.
The first commandment
commands, God must be first, but a person possessed by pride, puts
themselves first and thus Satan can use this pride to manipulate,
deceive, get in, trying to take a soul deeper and deeper into
themselves, denying any one in authority, truth above them, correction
etc. They think they are all-in-all, being isolated more and more and
their world narrows.
They see themselves as truth, not God as the ultimate truth.
The Prayer for Union Fr.
Carter kept in his pocket, next to his heart. He said it all through the
day, at least 4 times he said.
Dan Noe, a month or so
before his death showed me how he had it on his phone next to him.
2 great men preparing in
life for eternal happiness forever in heaven.
Jesus: When you
throw out the first commandment and live to be the boss in pride, the
devil has an open door.
Come to me Lord and
possess my soul.
Come into my heart and permeate my Soul.
Philippians 4: 13
There is nothing I cannot do in the One who strengthens me.
Prayer for Union
with Jesus
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.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
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