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October 27, 2006
October 28th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 4 Period II.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for October 28th are Sorrowful.
October 27, 2006
May the love of God fill the tainted children of Eve with peace, love and joy.
Messenger: Dear God we thank you for our priests, sisters and brothers. (and deacons)
Messenger: If the priest were so in love with Jesus as their Souse-truly present in the Eucharist there would not be so much dysfunction.To grow in greater oneness as members of the body of Christ it takes a commitment of our will to do God's will-To be in our vocation as God intends us to be.In the Blue Books we see how God is a Person longing for His precious souls to have this deep on fire love union with Him.God loves us so much that Jesus remains with us this day truly present in the Blessed Sacrament.We see from the messages of the angel at Fatima how Jesus is ignored by many in the Blessed Sacrament in the Sacrament of His greatest love.Excerpt from Spirituality of Fatima
Before receiving the six apparitions of Our Lady, May through October of 1917, the three Fatima visionaries were visited by an angel on three different occasions during the preceding year. He appeared to them in the spring, summer, and fall. Lucia (now Sr. Lucia) describes the springtime apparition of the angel:
On reaching us, he said: "Do not be afraid! I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me."
Kneeling on the ground, he bowed down until his forehead touched the ground and made us repeat these words three times: "My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You."
Then, rising he said: "Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications."
His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them. 3
During the summer of 1916, the angel again appeared to the three visionaries. He said to them:
Pray! Pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. Bring peace to our country in this way.... I am the Guardian Angel of Portugal Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you. 4
In the fall of the same year, the angel visited the visionaries a final time:
The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners." 5
Sr. Lucia relates how the angel gave them Communion:
Then, rising, he took the chalice and the Host in his hand. He gave the Sacred Host to me and shared the Blood from the chalice between Jacinta and Francisco, saying as he did so:
"Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God." 6
Reflecting upon these messages of the angel, we see how much they contain for our spiritual instruction.
- Louis Kondar, SVD, editor, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words [Fatima: Postulation Center, 1976], p. 62. Distributed in the U.S.A. by the Ravengate Press, Cambridge, MA.
- Our Lady's Peace Plan, op. cit., pp. 1-2.
- Ibid., p. 2.
- Fatima in Lucia's Own Words, op. cit., pp. 64-65.
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The Divine God remains with us through the hands of consecrated priest, longing for our love.The priests and religious should know this most Personal love with Jesus.In preparation for the beatific vision be longing to unite in an ever deeper Trinitarian union with our God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.The strength for vocation for religious is this oneness with God to lead the whole body of Christ into this deep ecstatic union of growing in the mystical marriage with God which reaches to such heights in heaven.But this cannot occur if we allow ourselves to be filled with hate and unforgiveness.Some people says to me Rita I don't know Jesus like you.I tell them they should go to daily Mass and do an hour of adoration if they can and Jesus outpours His grace to them, but they have to work in greater purity in their lives-wanting only God's will-seeking healingforgiving our dads and moms and sisters and working through hurts-praying and loving- not harboring deep seated hate that leads to pain.Letting go of generations of anger passed down -like peeling off the layers of an onion.I sat for several years and got the Blue Books people use now, but I always had to work more with the people-who wants to work on making a community more one and serving GodI doWe have a fantastic mission to circulate this Priestly Newsletter and begin Prayer Chapters, but we have to pray and try to grow to be more perfect like Jesus -letting go of imperfections so to grow in greater oneness.The world today says you must act perfect-Jesus says- you are imperfect admitting your faults and growing in greater holiness.We need the religious to be about this very deep oneness with God.To teach the people why celibacy is what God wants for His priest and religiousAnd how obedience to superiors stops pandemonium.God is ordered.The devil wants us to be our own god without God.This is what Adam and Eve did in the garden- they disobeyed God.We are wounded from this sin in the garden.I watch the sins of jealousy- blocking God's work for no reason.I watch envy and slothfulness-envy-anger- disobedience to authority- trying to seek dominance-It is God's Plan to be one in more perfect love being like Jesus.Living more like the most perfect community the Trinity,Priests will teach other priests about being Shepherd's of the FlockJesus wants priest and religious to be living a deep Spousal union with Him.Souls are at stake Mary says- dropping into hell like rain-
We need to answer the call to help renew the Church through our prayer and live in oneness and love according to God's plan.The Father has a Plan He created us.We are the creatures- we are to be the strong ones in the ChurchA light to this troubled world.Won't you pray with us for the priests, the Church, and the world and circulate this Newsletter Jesus wants and these prayers- yellow and red book by Fr. John for greater holiness among men.Amen.
One of the hardest things to do is when adults come together to live as a community and they all come from different dysfunctions, but this is like a little world with all its imperfect ways.The Trinity is Three Persons in one God.There is perfect love in the Trinity.As long as people marry one person they may grow out of some imperfections or adjust to other's bad habits and survive or they may divorce.A person addicted to some substance gets angry to use sometimes.They may be a hot spot waiting to leave.They put their control in the substance.They are a slave to that substance.The devil can use that substance, addiction (can be a person, shopping- any addiction)When they are anywhere they need a fix- they can be controlled by something.Spending money, if I feel unsettled I can have an addiction buying on the internet- what ever the "candy" is when I feel lonely, frustrated- they can be a "workaholic".The bottom line is we need always to be doing God's will.That is why we act we are not controlled by an outside addiction.We are the Spouse of Jesus- He makes us happy, but a mother ignoring her little children going to the tabernacle is not doing God's will if she leaves her children.We live with each other, work with each other, but one cannot make another slavishly-dependent on them and expect them not to do God's will because they create a problem when one is being called to do something for God.We always know that our peace lies in doing God's will and satan may try to set up road blocks through others, but we focus on God's will even when they try to tie us up from leaving.When I have an important thing to do- communication with someone who is to help me prepare for the journey may be so trying to almost block what I am doing and I am tested to stay on focus and accomplish what Jesus wants me to do- still be loving and not give into one who is trying to keep me there for some "weird" time-deterrent.Some people may cause problems just to tie up another they want with them- basically they rationalize- being with them even if they are not liking it, is better than not being with them at all.This reasoning can be very selfish and block God's plan through them and in the end hurt others immensely- lots of souls.The key is always focusing on God's will despite distractions, delays, frustrating communication to send two boxes that don't need to go out anyway before your big trip.Focus on God's will.When people from different homes are adults and live together they can grow immensely in the ways of holiness, but selfish pouting ways cannot be given into by adults.In intimate relationships we may wish the other to fill our love desires.We will never be satisfied on earth. God has it set up this way.We cannot put another person in a place greater than our relationship with God.All roads lead to deeper love union- deeper oneness with God- deeper love according to God's will.To want something more than God is to suffer for we must always want His will in all relationships.Not too close if one is a religious- romantic and not fighting to hate another person.All relationships according to God's will.The devil wants relationships off in both directions.Too much romantic when it is not righttoo much fighting when there is division and we should be doing God's work with the other person to promote His Kingdom.Not for selfish gain and our own comfort.In writing this article it is to help renew the Church and the world by being able to work as members of the body of Christ in great oneness helping to accomplish the mission God intends through us.God wants us to be one without sinning- that is He is first- religious should not be romanticly involved except with Jesus-I can work one with another- we join in one mind and one heart -we are on the same page, but there is not romantic involvement, passions among religious- touching- looking into others eyes passionately etc.God will give us grace if we ask Him to be able to work in great oneness as members of the body of Christ, but not giving into ways that are not for this purpose.Religious take the promise or vow of obedience, celibacy- They will grow in deeper love union with their Spouse Jesus if they give themselves in loving union to Him.
Messenger:
Having a vocation with Jesus is
having your relationship with Jesus
in happy times and suffering. Like the
married couple that married for
better or worse. Suffering comes —
you turn to Jesus, the Blue Book,
the Word of God, the tabernacle.
It is a very damaging way to use
a dysfunctional thing to gratify yourself
when you are frustrated.
Motive —
You justify the usage of drink,
sugar, cigarettes by seeing
yourself as a victim and therefore
you must use these things for
relief. An addictive person can
have this personality to justify
their addiction.
Even when "one" is not suffering
stress in a situation, "one" may get angry
at nothing to leave and use the
substance, whatever it is.
They may flee in anger when
nothing happened to go get a drink
etc., whatever the addiction is.
It can be another person, it
can be complaining, it can be
making themselves a victim,
the problem is within themselves.
Since sin entered the world
we have dysfunction, pain.
God is love, in Him there is
no darkness.
Man is blind, he may hide his
sin from himself.
To live in oneness we must
grow in greater perfection.
God gives to us a solid mission
to help renew the Church and the world.
Paramount is love.
Does love motivate my heart?
Do I see Jesus as the one I
love most?
Am I reaching for satisfaction —
wanting what I want for
my own sake, for what
I want —
or
for God's will?
What motivates me?
Are my intentions really pure
for His honor and glory, to love
God, to serve God, to want
to help the souls of this earth.
Am I truthful with myself —
for why I act?
Dear God help me to let go to
love — to put aside - all
that is impure — to
love - so that I will be
likened to You — to not
hold onto one thing that
may displease you —
but to be an instrument of
love - to give You honor and
glory —
not to impress someone or
to please myself — (only to
do Thy holy will)
Let my heart sing with the joy of
love —
to meditate on Your mysteries
to not be
(7 Capital Sins)
Prideful, Greedy, Envious, give into Anger against God's will,
Lustful, give into Gluttony, Slothfulness
Messenger:
Help me to recognize that I
am imperfect and I have
weaknesses —
Dear God,
I give myself to You —
I beg for Your grace —
I want to be holy —
I want to love for loves sake
I want to give as You desire
and not count the cost —
Help me to smile — to be a
light to all I touch —He says
Let go now -
Let Me fill your heart with
love —
Let go of tension in your
jaw,
Let go of anxieties —Let your heart be open to peace
and serving God —
I am your Spouse
I am always with you —Do not fear
Pray - pray in love and
know how I am listening —I love your heart to be humble —
so very pure —
so focused on Me —
so loving to Me and
so loving for the souls —You are the imperfect children
of Eve —
Come in love ——Come in humility —
Live one moment at a time in
love —You are at battle with the
evil one —Pray to be holy —
Fight for love of God
Fight for love on this earth
amongst menBe at peace —
Not wanting things for your own
honor and glory,
but the honor and glory of God —Do not be addicted to misery
Do not be addicted to drugs
Do not be addicted to sin
Do not be addicted to sex
Do not be addicted to fame
Do not be addicted to honor
Do not be addicted to wealth
Anything that becomes a god
to youIs fame your focus?
Is your honor more important than
anything else?Have you made a particular
person your god?Is your wealth your focus?
Are you really holy?
Do you lie to yourself or are
you holy because you
want to serve God and you
love Me with your whole
heart, your whole soul and
your whole being.Let go then to peace, love and
joy.Shout the Good News —
Comfort the hearts paralyzed
with fear —Don't give into it I tell
you —Love Me above all things —
be sweet and kind —Look at the crucifix
Don't be greedy —
Be thankful —
Rely on My Might
Don't say "give me" "give me"
"give me"
Say God for Your honor and glory —
I love You so much —
I thank You God for this moment,
for this dayI surrender —
I pray for all our work in the
Shepherds of ChristHelp us God —
We love You so much.
| Messenger:
Jesus is truth to be like Jesus we — |
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love live in |
We do not deny our sins.
We want to be more pure —
We ask God to help us let go
of bad habits to be like
Him.
We don't harbor hate.
We have not made ourselves a
god without God.
We want the freedom to live
according to God's will.
We do not lie to ourselves to
others and cover-up our
faults and others to
keep dysfunction going.
We offer up our day - connected
in love to God and others
in our heart.
We are loving in our relationships
not harboring hatred
not being mean —
Letting go of hidden hate
Letting go of anger toward
others - even our dead
parents.
God is peace
God is love —
Living in tension — tight inside
wound like a clock shows
us something is wrong.
Constant tension is not normal.
We live for peace
love
joy.
We don't love someone one
minute and hate them
the next —
Love is gentle
kind
caring for one another —
We don't give into helping a
person be addicted to
misery, hate, sin —
this is unloving
We build love in our lives
like a building.
We respect authority —
We do not have cycles of
abuse, alcohol running
our lives —
Our focus is to reward us with
our addiction — this is wrong!!
Joy is love
We stay in this phase
We don't love one moment and
if someone says something
to us mean —
we are crippled —
We know suffering is a part
of life —
We are actors, not reactors —
We respect authority — we are
not afraid of it —
it is God's way to have
order.
God is order.
We don't give into extremes —
all black — all white —
We are constant —
one with God —
Not abusing ourselves with
constant negative thoughts
food
drink
hatred
anger
We live to be like Jesus —
not punish people to get
attention like a baby —
We allow people to go and do God's
will —
We don't try to hold onto
others in anger — when
they must leave
tying them up — for selfish
control — to have them
one way or another
We work as one —
wanting to promote the
Kingdom of God —
Living to be like Jesus —
Thanking God for His
gifts
Thanking God —
Begging for grace —
It is evil to want another
to be punished for our
revenge —
We pray for mentally
sick people with
love —
not hatred in our
hearts
We are not an enabler to let
evil go on in our own
place —
help the devil —
hide it from authority —
evil can rot a place —
we unveil the workings of
satan
to hide evil is wrong —
Some people are given
love and respond in
hate — they learned these
relationships and still do it at
age 60
God is faithful
Alcohol, drugs can bring very
unpredictable behavior
hatred
anger
Anger can be stuffed from
generations back
We must learn to forgive like
peeling an onion — keep
working back hatred, anger to
live purely in love
We must be truthful to
ourselves —
about ourselves —
be truthful before God
We are responsible for sins
committed —
We are responsible for
our actions —
Blaming others for your anger
is wrong
The truth is freeing
Live to love
Read the Blue Books
Go to Mass
Sit before the tabernacle
Say this prayer hourly
Novena to the Infant of Prague
(to be prayed hourly if possible)
O Jesus, who said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted.
O Jesus, who said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask Your Father in Your Name that my prayer be granted.O Jesus, who said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word shall not pass," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.
Be free —
Let go of anger toward
mom, dad etc —
love them —
thank God for what
you were given —
forgive your parents
Pray to heal your bleeding
wounds
Don't give into
blaming others for your sins —
wanting to be a god without God.
dominance against
God's will
Do not want validations
from others so you
get crippled if they
do not validate you
Babies need this validation —
adults are mature — loving God
Don't be a reactor —
Blow up —
look at responses
like this —
beg to be healed —
You can control your
reactions
To be holy like Jesus —
It is your choice —
Don't give into sin —
If you sin admit it
Forgive
Love
Be truthful
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Harmony — Order |
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like God |
Not like this
1) Disharmony
2) hurting others
3) projecting anger on others
Is your motive for doing something
IMPURE
Then check it.
Love <——> Hate
Love - Hate relationships — if not corrected
go to More and more hate — they are
hurting another — they
must be stopped
Loving leads to the light when
done according to God's
will —
leads to be more like
Jesus
LIKENED TO GOD
Advance in holy love —
not for one's selfish
gain
We will answer to God
for our sins —
how we hurt others —
block God's work
God gives us gifts to use
in love —
to have peace and joy
Freedom is doing God's will
Living to love — Being like Jesus
Sin is slavery
Dances of co-dependence —
that are dysfunctional
stop growth.
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