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October 11, 2014

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                October 11, 2014
 

                R. Come to Me Lord and Possess My Soul.

                For all eternity we will be possessed
                    by God.

                What we want is to be possessed
                    by God.

                To know the presence of God:
                    Father, Son and Holy Spirit
                    all the day, in everything
                    we do –
                    to hold that in our hearts –
                    PRESENCE of God
                    in our graced baptized soul.

                We belong to God –

                Mary was not focused on herself –
                Mary belonged to God –
                Mary loved God's will –

                We are God's and
                We love Him and He tells
                    us in the Blue Book –
                    He loves us - over and
                    over again –

                Such dignity God gives to
                    us –

                He loves us so very much.

                To allow ourselves to be
                    possessed by God –
                    That is the prayer in
                    the Prayer for Union –

                We give ourselves to God –
                    We don't hold onto our
                        will –
                    We surrender to His will –

                Come to me Lord and possess
                    my soul –

                God wants us to give ourselves
                    as Mary shows us she
                    gave herself completely
                    to God and she loved
                    God's will even in suffering –

                That is being a handmaid
                    of the Lord –

                Giving ourselves to God, because
                    we belong to Him –
                    we say

                Come to me Lord and Possess
                    My soul –

                Complete happiness –

                Joy in giving ourselves, the
                    creature to the Creator –

                We surrender to allow ourselves
                    to be possessed by the
                    fire of God's love –

                God pours forth His love in
                    our hearts –
                    OPEN and SURRENDERING
                    to His will –

                Come into My Heart and permeate my soul –

                God –
                    I am open –
                    I am surrendering –
                    I am empty of my will, my
                        control,
                    In my emptiness I say
                        to you –

                Come and Possess My Soul –                 

21 Years Ago

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

                R. This is love.
 

Excerpt of 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."

 

        Excerpt of June 17, 1993

        "Oh My child, I am with you,
        Drink in My presence.
        Know I never leave you –
        . . .
        I am here with you –
        . . .
        I am here always –
 

       

 

 

 

 

 

        "My rod and staff are upon
            you –
        . .  .
        Stay close to Me and feel
            My presence
        . . .
        I am the Good Shepherd
        I know Mine and Mine know Me.
        . . .
        You are so dear and precious
            to Me."

                        Excerpt of August 23, 1993

Jesus: I am your God and you shall have no gods before Me, not money or power or man. You must make Me the center of your life. Whenever you are filled with anxiety you have made something else your God. You must hold fast to My presence by your side and know I am there and nothing can harm you. . . .

 

Come To My Tabernacle - August 28, 1993 (excerpt)

Jesus: My precious child, I long to be with you. I am here. You must find a way to be with Me every day in front of the tabernacle. If others distract you, you must find a way.

 

                R. We surrender to Him –

                I am Yours to possess.
                I am Yours to use –

                Help me 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 –
   

Romans 5: 5

                R. Life in the Holy Spirit

                To put on Christ –

                Living the Christ-life –

                Life IN CHRIST –

                Living in the Father's will –

                From Blue Book 9 and the Mass Book

December 18, 1995

                R. The place Jesus took me was
                    the red room.

November 4, 2013
 

                end of excerpt

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. Loving is a virtue –

                Loving is a habit –

                Like anger, jealousy, envy,
                    seeking dominance for
                    dominance sake, slothfulness are
                    BAD HABITS –

                Jesus: Gluttony also includes – a
                    person – so possessed
                    by food – they starve
                    themselves and make
                    others suffer because
                    of their decision to
                    disobey My Father's
                    will for them –

                Eating is for life –

                Eating is to help one live
                    to promote the Kingdom of God –

                Eating is not to possess a
                    man, so he starves himself
                    to look good –

                We are to grow to perform
                    acts of love – we partake
                    in God's loving activity
                    because of baptism –

                It is an act of the will to
                    give one's heart to God –
                    to allow God to be in
                    control of our lives,
                    our will –

                A person addicted to power
                    for themselves, being
                    over everybody, in
                    control is putting
                    power as their God –
                    power – like Eve in the
                    garden wanted to be
                    equal to God

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

                Song: Your Presence Pervades My Soul

                Sing: God's Love

                Song: I Love You Jesus

                R. Mystics are living in ordinary
                    circumstances the
                    mystery of Christ –
                    Death / Resurrection –

                Mystics have as their goal
                    full Christian maturity –
                    and there is always
                    room to go deeper into
                    the Mystery of God's Love –

                When you think you have
                    arrived you are
                    going backwards –

                Growing more deeply in
                    the Mystery of Christ
                    is an on going thing –

                God is first in the person's life –

                Relationship means –
                    they have given their
                    heart to God –
                    asked God to use their
                        heart and dwell in
                        their heart

                Song: Give Me Your Heart Oh Jesus –

                R. Presence of God –
                    always in our acts of love
                    presence of God – not
                    faintly recognized –

                God lives and dwells in us –
 

                R. And Mary will intercede for our holiness –

                Excerpt from October 5, 2014

                R. Dear Heavenly Mother help us to have
                    peace and unity on this earth.

                Mary: I am the Queen of Peace.

                Unity is to be found where people live the
                    Gospel as Jesus has given to you.

                Unity is to be found as men desire unity
                    and not selfishness in their hearts.

                A man is given his life from God, the
                    Creator, to do good, to love God first
                    and to love his neighbor as himself.

                Love is the answer, being like Jesus,
                    who loved you so much, Jesus died
                    for your sins.

                Love is giving.

                Love is focusing on the building of the
                    Kingdom of God.

                A man can spend his whole life thinking
                    he is not good enough and not
                    seeing the gift God has given to him
                    in creating him and his responsibility
                    before God of furthering God's Kingdom.

                Song: Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God

                A man is a gift God gives.

                He is to live to further the Kingdom of God –

                He is to live to spend his life growing in
                    the image and likeness of God.

                Jesus, so loved you, He came and He lived
                    on the earth to teach you how to
                    be likened to Him –

                You are to follow Jesus' footsteps –

                You are to walk as Jesus taught you –

                You are to live to serve God, to love
                    God, to know God –

                You are called to be servants of God.

                You are to seek unity among your brothers
                    and to have commitment to your
                    vocation in life.

                I loved the Father's will –

                I lived the Father's will –

                I loved God in my life as a little
                    child of my Father, the Mother of
                    Jesus and the Spouse of the Holy Spirit –

                I am the singular vessel –

                I show you my Immaculate Heart –

                You, as handmaids of Jesus, are to live
                    your life to be pure in heart –

                I am Mary, the Immaculate Heart –

                I give you my heart to come and dwell
                    in my heart, your spiritual womb –
                    I am your spiritual Mother –

                You are not alone –

                I want you to be united to me –

                I give you my love as your spiritual Mother,
                    I want you to pray through my powerful
                    intercession.

                I appeared to you October 2, 2014 to teach you
                    about intercession through My Immaculate
                    Heart.

                R. Mary appeared to me October 2, 2014 in
                    magnificent light and her beauty was
                    unmeasured in her faces she showed
                    me. There was a silence as I watched the vision –
                    a silence, so still in the vision, but the
                    handmaids and another person prayed the rosary
                    outside the apparition room in one voice –
                    it sounded very unified and strong
                    and sincere, but in her vision I
                    know a profound stillness as I
                    watched Mary in such enormous
                    light, pray, her mouth moving so
                    distinctly, so pronounced with them as
                    they prayed. I continued to watch this
                    for the first two decades of the rosary,
                    for apparitions seem to leave me
                    weak sometimes and then I am
                    wrapped in that peace of having
                    seen her and left listless or tired.
                    She prayed pronounced with them and
                    it looked as if in great unity with
                    them. Unity is the word I knew –
                    Unity and sincerity in their prayers
                    and unity of the Mother of God appearing
                    before me in such beauty and light –
                    praying in unity with them, but there
                    was only stillness in the apparition –
                    no noise.

                        I have an apostle rosary I place on
                    the Mary statue in the apparition
                    room and when I pray the rosary
                    or lead the rosary in the room
                    I hold that rosary many times – I lead
                    the beginning of every bead only with
                    Hail Mary and they say all the rest of
                    the prayer. It is a profound unity in
                    one voice I hear when they are
                    out there many times, sometimes I
                    feel the sound is the sound of unity
                    I hear that is joined by what God
                    is allowing me to hear, the songs I
                    lead are very united in perfect
                    voice and very angelic. The voices
                    perfectly synchronized and heavenly
                    sounding and there is absolute
                    stillness in the vision.

                        On October 2nd as they prayed and I
                    heard this unity from those outside the
                    apparition room – I saw the same
                    way visions of Mary change for the
                    20 years she has appeared to me –
                    Stillness and her beautiful face changes
                    from different faces without a noise,
                    so smooth as when the Monstrance
                    in China has changed positions –
                    it turns without a noise, without
                    any seeing it turn, it is in motion
                    without detectable motion of it
                    turning.

                        Mary was like this in the vision –
                    surrounded in light and the faces
                    of the Virgin different as her faces
                    changed, one more beautiful and
                    different than the other – so beautiful
                    and a profound response of her
                    answering or praying with the
                    prayers united outside the room –
                    in stillness of her response inside –
                    I have never seen this before – it was
                    at a certain point and made clear
                    to me – she held an invisible rosary
                    and her fingers were going from bead to bead
                    as she prayed with them.

                        I watched this vision for as long as I
                    could, then I was left weak and
                    sort of limp, hearing the praying outside
                    and continuing to just bath in a
                    quiet presence.

                        I was not focused on Jesus, but to
                    the left I saw light and knew His
                    presence in there likewise, Mary's
                    apparition was the focus and she was
                    giving this gift to us in the first day of
                    retreat. Many times I receive an
                    apparition of Mary on the 2nd
                    of the month and sometimes the 3rd
                    too, many times the 5th. It is not unusual
                    for me to see Mary on the 2nd.
                    This date to me, reminds me of the Two Hearts,
                    of Jesus and Mary and the calling
                    I receive to come do the retreat
                    the 2nd to the 5th in the Clearwater
                    building.

                        As I watched Mary pray more profoundly
                    than I ever saw with those outside and
                    heard such profound unity in their
                    prayers, although Mary looked in
                    complete unity with them, I wondered
                    if she would say

                        Hail Mary – to herself
                        Holy Mary – praying this –

                    I have wondered this before –

                    The next day I was told of Mary's powerful
                    intercession, when we pray and ask her
                    to intercede for us to God –

                        Mary, the Mother of God –
                        Mary, the pure and Immaculate Heart –
                        Mary, our Mother,

                    Intercedes to God, Our Heavenly Father,
                        Jesus, the Son of God and her
                        Spouse the Holy Spirit.

                    In this place heaven showed me –
                        how powerfully Mary prays as
                        an intercessor –
                        the perfect prayer –
                        the pure prayer –
                        a heavenly prayer of intercession
                            to her Son Jesus as we
                            know and were shown the
                            prayer of Mary to her Son at
                            the Marriage of Cana –

                To you, as a messenger, I account this
                experience - for never will I have such
                an understanding of Mary's powerful
                intercession as I have now from
                this vision.

                    I believe God has called these retreats
                in the Virgin Mary building in
                Clearwater, Florida, because Mary, Queen
                of Peace is so powerfully interceding
                as Our Lady of Clearwater for
                the priests and the Church and
                the world from this place for
                4 days and also as Jesus calls
                me to China the 10th thru the 13th
                ending on the 13th praying before
                the exposed Eucharist there for the
                priests, the Church and the world.

end of excerpt

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Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage

Give the gift that keeps on giving!

Give to your priest.

Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage

     

Special sale statue with glass

27" Statue of Our Lady of Fatima
$175 plus postage

 

Get a canvas print of Mary's image
with a sliver of glass and a little
bottle of Jesus and Mary water.
The glass will be fixed behind the
back of the picture.
$200.00 plus postage

Dan called and gave the report to me, when I hung up I saw this rainbow and took a picture for him.