Given October 15, 2010 - Eve of St. Margaret
Mary
Ephesians 1: 15-23
That is why I, having once heard about your faith in
the Lord Jesus, and your love for all God’s holy
people, have never failed to thank God for you and
to remember you in my prayers. May the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a
spirit of wisdom and perception of what is revealed,
to bring you to full knowledge of him. May he
enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see
what hope his call holds for you, how rich is the
glory of the heritage he offers among his holy
people, and how extraordinarily great is the power
that he has exercised for us believers; this accords
with the strength of his power at work in Christ,
the power which he exercised in raising him from the
dead and enthroning him at his right hand, in
heaven, far above every principality, ruling force,
power or sovereignty, or any other name that can be
named, not only in this age but also in the age to
come. He has put all things under his feet,
and made him, as he is above all things, the head of
the Church; which is his Body, the fullness of him
who is filled, all in all.
Psalm 8: 2-3, 4-5, 6-7
even through the mouths of children,
or of babes in arms,
you make him a fortress, firm against your foes,
to subdue the enemy and the rebel.
I look up at your heavens, shaped by
your fingers,
at the moon and the stars you set firm—
what are human beings that you spare a thought for
them,
or the child of Adam that you care for him?
Yet you have made him little less
than a god,
you have crowned him with glory and beauty,
made him lord of the works of your hands,
put all things under his feet,
sheep and cattle, all of them,
and even the wild beasts,
Luke 12: 8-12
'I
tell you, if anyone openly declares himself for me
in the presence of human beings, the Son of man will
declare himself for him in the presence of God's
angels. But anyone who disowns me in the presence of
human beings will be disowned in the presence of
God's angels.
'Everyone who says a word against the Son of man
will be forgiven, but no one who blasphemes against
the Holy Spirit will be forgiven.
'When
they take you before synagogues and magistrates and
authorities, do not worry about how to defend
yourselves or what to say, because when the time
comes, the Holy Spirit will teach you what you
should say.'
Jesus: I call you to holiness —
I call you to love —
I call you to oneness with the Trinity —
R. To know the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
dwelling in your graced baptized soul —
To pray united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the
Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present —
praying to the Father united to the sacrifice of the
Mass, to Jesus in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit through
the intercession of the angels and saints and the
souls in purgatory — through the intercession
of Our Lady —
Jesus gives us Himself in the Eucharist —
Jesus tells us in the Blue Books how He intimately
wants our love —
Jesus gives us pure love —
Jesus gives us Divine love —
To know that my love union with the Father, Son
and Holy Spirit will grow to more perfected love and
to be wrapped by this love of the Trinity
in the Beatific Vision —
The more I go to the Eucharist — the more I go
to Him in adoration, going to confession
and receive His grace — His love, His
forgiveness — the more I am filled with
His life — The more one I am in Him —
We are so blessed to be free to practice
our Catholic faith —
to go to the Eucharist every day —
to have this chapel in China where the Eucharist
is exposed
We are so blessed to know the Word as a two
edged sword that penetrates our heart and
soul and gives us greater knowledge of
our beloved Jesus — of God — of the
love of the Persons of the Trinity — of the
love of Father and Son — the oneness
of the Father and Son — the love of God for us —
To know more the interior life of the Trinity —
Excerpt from Response to God's Love
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
...
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.
We carry our crosses and the more we suffer
for Him, the more we identify with Him —
Love is an act of the will —
In loving God, I want to deeply give myself
united to Jesus in the Mass, united to the
Mass, praying to the Father in the Holy Spirit —
through the intercession of the Saints and Angels
and all the souls in purgatory —
through the intercession of the Blessed Mother —
loving God
praising God
petitioning God
and asking God to forgive us for our sins —
so I am closely united to God helping to make
reparation for my sins and the sins of the
whole human race —
God is worthy of our love and honor and praise —
We are commanded to love God with our
whole heart, our whole soul, our whole
being —
And secondly to love our neighbor as ourselves.
Loving in the Mass is praying for grace for all
our brothers and sisters of this earth — that
they will live as God wants them to be
and to pray they cooperate with this
grace given to them —
God choose us to be here now to help build
His Kingdom on earth —
Jesus died for the souls on this earth today
with us —
Jesus rose to give us a sharing in His
life —
Through the pierced Heart of Jesus the
Church was born what came forth
from His Heart
Blood for the Eucharist
Water for Baptism —
We seek the vision of God
God is the Creator
We are the creatures
We seek to know God's Plan for us —
To receive the reward of heaven —
one is to constantly open himself more
and more to being in the image and
likeness of God —
So if we prepare for the beatific vision —
If we live in greater purity — like the
Heart of Jesus —
we can enter into eternal glory —
Excerpt from Response in Christ
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
e) Relationship with Members of the Church
. . .The
members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life
in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is
incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them,
and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or
lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to
the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further
purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with
merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The
pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving
the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people
by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to
our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book
of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.
Living more open to the all Perfect Heart
of Christ —
Not caved in — living selfishly —
Living with our arms spread wide open —
caring for souls —
like Christ who spread His arms on
the cross —
Knowing the truth of Christ as found
in the Scriptures, the Church,
the Commandments —
We are like clay being formed more and
more in the image and likeness of God —
We as baptized Catholics and having
made our first communion can
come to the table of the Lord
and receive the Eucharist —
Jesus is truly present in His Divinity
and humanity and He gives Himself
to us —
Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes
away the sins of the world —
We pray for mercy
Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
Mary:
I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I
saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My
Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I
suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and
give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this
message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I
stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried
for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How
do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I
appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject
me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored.
The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you.
Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and
I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart
was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this
day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold
back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to
help my children. You are my children of light.
end of Mary's Message,
August 27, 1996
Jesus loves us so much He died for us —
Jesus is the head of the Church
Jesus is the Son of God
Jesus took on flesh for us —
Jesus did this for love of us —
Excerpt from Response in Christ
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
e) Relationship with Members of the Church
There
is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different
states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world,
composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its
development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have
the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The
Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those
who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim
Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence,
there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these
members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life
establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we
discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and
the heavenly Church.
The
members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life
in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is
incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them,
and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or
lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to
the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further
purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with
merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The
pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving
the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people
by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to
our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book
of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.
The
members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken
full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith
now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new
strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a
wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in
God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God
reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however,
until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to
the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of
the Trinity experienced here below.
This
life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in
Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this
grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of
Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father
through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision
of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."14
And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to
God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a
completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His
humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with
other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of
the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.
The
heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.15
The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are,
each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem.
Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in
Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God,
will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."16
The
members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until
we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our
behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity.
We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God
to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as
well as from those with whom we dwell here below.
Not
only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the
canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely
proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth
when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees
is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their
diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian
holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous
possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic
assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the
opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert
in the life of the Church.17
NOTES:
14Karl Rahner,
Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
15 Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
16Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No.
48.
17Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.
We belong to Jesus —
We love Jesus —
We as Christians are to be more and more
likened to Jesus —
More and more perfect likened to our
Heavenly Father —
Our oneness with Jesus in our love
for Him is to prepare us for
heaven —
Matthew 22: 36-40
'Master, which is the greatest commandment of
the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love
the Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your mind. This is
the greatest and the first commandment. The
second resembles it: You must love your
neighbour as yourself. On these two
commandments hang the whole Law, and the
Prophets too.'
We choose what Jesus wants —
We choose His way — not the ways of the world
We have a free will —
Deuteronomy 30: 15-20
‘Look, today I am offering you life
and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey the
commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am laying
down for you today, if you love Yahweh your God and
follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his
laws and his customs, you will live and grow
numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the
country which you are about to enter and make your
own. But if your heart turns away, if you refuse to
listen, if you let yourself be drawn into
worshipping other gods and serving them, I tell you
today, you will most certainly perish; you will not
live for long in the country which you are crossing
the Jordan to enter and possess. Today, I call
heaven and earth to witness against you: I am
offering you life or death, blessing or curse.
Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants
may live, in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying
his voice, holding fast to him; for in this your
life consists, and on this depends the length of
time that you stay in the country which Yahweh swore
to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he
would give them.’
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
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.
Jesus I want to be so one with You —
With all I do all day — I want to unite to the
Trinity dwelling in me — in my graced
baptized soul —
I want to be one with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit —
We live our vocation in this oneness with God —
God calls us to our vocation —
As we live in oneness all day — everything
we do in our vocation is to be
in seeking God's will in love —
Doing exactly as God wants —
We pray our Morning Offering — because as a
member of the mystical body of Christ
we are united to all the Masses going
on around the world —
We want to help bring down great grace
in our vocation for the people of
this earth —
We want to love God ever more and more
A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass
Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite
with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.
I want to be one in Him in this act of
love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him.
Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of
greatest love to Him.
Let me unite with Him more, that I may
more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and
the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and
pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to
You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.
Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me.
Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like
Jesus.
Father, I offer this my sacrifice,
myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more
deeply in this act of my greatest love.
Give me the grace to grow in my
knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest
participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply
in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.
-Mass Book, December 27, 1995
Psalm 40: 6-8
You wanted no
sacrifice or cereal offering,
but you gave me an open ear,
you did not ask for burnt offering or sacrifice for
sin;
then I said, 'Here I am, I am coming.'
In the scroll of the
book it is written of me,
my delight is to do your will;
your law, my God,
is deep in my heart.
We have been called to offer up our lives
to help bring down grace for the souls
on this earth — for our own soul
Not to argue with those over us —
but to obey them
We pray to the Holy Spirit to give us deeper insight
into the mystery of God —
Sing: Veni Sanctus Spiritus
To seek the truth about the evil and good
in us —
to seek a pure heart —
to prepare ourselves to be greater one
with God who is all holy —
the more we grow in holiness
the deeper we can be one with God —
We give ourselves to God so we do what
He wants with our lives —
When we suffer — we can realize how we
are dependent on Him —
God always worked through barren women and then
they conceived —
We know when something seems almost impossible
and it happens after we pray that God did it —
God gives us the crucifix to hold to look at —
God did not say we would not struggle —
He gave some the stigmata —
He lets some suffer tremendous mental sufferings
from those acting against God —
Does it scare you to watch someone die?
We are here to learn to grow more and more like
Jesus —
Whether we do any way of life —
We will have suffering —
The devil presses down when something is
hard and tries to get us to give up our
vocation —
or disobey —
or act sinfully —
We are to be more and more like Jesus —
Jesus was obedient to His death —
Nothing in this world will get better unless
people turn to God and God has called us
to grow in greater holiness ourselves —
praying for the souls of the earth while we
live —
praying for the priests, the Church and the
world —
He is in the Holy Eucharist in the tabernacles
all over the world —
truly present in His Divinity and humanity —
We must seek out the imperfections in our
behavior and grow to be more perfect if
we want to be close to Christ
We grow in intimacy and deep love with Jesus —
We do not want to offend Him by sinning
against our brother
We seek to do His will in all things —
We want to be obedient —
We are teaching ourselves for heaven —
We want the simplicity of purely saying
"yes" to God's will — for this
becomes our delight —
We know happiness comes in only serving
God and doing God's will and
We seek to do it with all our hearts
for not persons, superiors over us,
but we do it for Jesus —
We are chaste because we commit ourselves
to God — to be pure as God desires —
We are the bride of Christ —
We do it to be married to God —
Not so others will think good of us —
Our moral choice is — because
we want only to do what is
right —
If we offend God we are immediately
sorry —
We surrender to God and His will for us —
We give ourselves to God —
We are growing in our love relationship
with God —
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
this delights us —
this consumes our heart —
LOVE OF GOD: FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT
We are children of the Father —
learning to be more deeply in love
with our vocation and
His will for us —
The devil is an enemy who wants to
take people to hell —
God wants us to build His Kingdom
to be obedient —
The devil is chaos, confusion, commotion,
hatred, selfishness —
We are at war with the devil —
We must love God so as we are
strengthened in virtue we
choose good and not evil —
Our life here is a journey —
We decide what we will choose —
The devil comes knocking —
He does not give up
He hates people leading souls to the love
of God —
The devil is relentless —
The devil is a liar —
The devil uses games and secrets to manipulate —
The devil is darkness and it keeps getting
darker if we give into him —
God wants us to offer up our trials in loving
others to build His Kingdom, but
superiors don't condone evil —
The devil comes knocking —
Jesus calls and we can respond in purity to God —
in love according to His will —
The devil tries to trick a person — to take
them home with him to hell —
to use them as instruments to try to make
those doing God's work to fail —
they can be driven to punish the good —
they can be driven to try to win over the good —
they can try to tear up what good people have
built —
Mary said her children were dropping into
hell like rain —
We must be pure, not vain —
Truly wanting to save our soul and
Loving others, even our enemies, so they
save theirs —
Pray to build the Kingdom of God
Even in the midst of hate — to love and
pray for the evil men —
like Christ
did for those
who
put Him to death —
Today with abortion it is the killing of the
innocent babies in the womb —
Little children were shot and persecuted
by the Hitler Regime especially
if they were Jews —
We see that the innocent were put to
death — persecuted —
Jesus was hung naked on the cross
Jesus, the Son of God, killed by His enemies
so we could have life —
Do not waste this precious gift —
Live your vocation —
united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass —
praying to the Father as I began this
message —
Life goes on in petty pace —
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:
"My beloved priest-companion, I intend
to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the
movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the
renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the
chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument
for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds
of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will
use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate
Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the
members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be
deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to
My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J.
Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The
Jesuits)
God wants us to be deeply united to them
and pray through their powerful
intercession
