November 1, 2008 - All Saints Day
Make reparation for our sins
Holy Spirit help us to see
Help us to do what we need to, to tell God we are sorry —
Fatima mission is making reparation —
asking for conversion —
Most people don't think they need conversion —
We all must admit our sin
We all must say we are sorry for offending God —
Help us not to give into our wounded human
nature
Sing: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
Prayer of St. Ignatius Loyola
Soul of
Christ, sanctify me
Body of Christ, save me
Blood of Christ, inebriate me
Water from the side of Christ wash me
Passion of Christ, strengthen me
O good Jesus, hear me
Within Thy wounds hide me
Permit me not to be separated from Thee
From the wicked foe defend me
at the hour of my death call me
and bid me come to Thee
That with Thy saints I may praise Thee
For ever and ever. Amen.
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
(2) Sing: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
(3) Help me to live a virtuous life
(a) prudence (c) temperate
(b) justice
(d) fortitude
Matthew 17: 1-9
Six days later, Jesus took
with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them
up a high mountain by themselves. There in their presence he
was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his
clothes became as dazzling as light. And suddenly Moses and
Elijah appeared to them; they were talking with him. Then
Peter spoke to Jesus. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘it is wonderful for
us to be here; if you want me to, I will make three shelters
here, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He was
still speaking when suddenly a bright cloud covered them
with shadow, and suddenly from the cloud there came a voice
which said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my
favour. Listen to him.’ When they heard this, the disciples
fell on their faces, overcome with fear. But Jesus came up
and touched them, saying, ‘Stand up, do not be afraid.’ And
when they raised their eyes they saw no one but Jesus.
Christ behind us, Christ before us, Christ in us
(1) renewal — call to renewal
(2) repentance
(3) conversion
(4) faithfulness to - God's Law
- God's Commandments
Luke 11: 47-54
'Alas for you because you build
tombs for the prophets, the people your ancestors
killed! In this way you both witness to what your
ancestors did and approve it; they did the killing,
you do the building.' And that is why the Wisdom of
God said, "I will send them prophets and apostles;
some they will slaughter and persecute, so that this
generation will have to answer for every prophet's
blood that has been shed since the foundation of the
world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of
Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the
Temple." Yes, I tell you, this generation will have
to answer for it all.' Alas for you lawyers who have
taken away the key of knowledge! You have not gone
in yourselves and have prevented others from going
in who wanted to.' When he left there, the scribes
and the Pharisees began a furious attack on him and
tried to force answers from him on innumerable
questions, lying in wait to catch him out in
something he might say.
We must beg for God's grace
Jesus took them up to Mt. Tabor at the Transfiguration
Matthew 17: 1-9
Six days later, Jesus took
with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them
up a high mountain by themselves. There in their presence he
was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his
clothes became as dazzling as light. And suddenly Moses and
Elijah appeared to them; they were talking with him. Then
Peter spoke to Jesus. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘it is wonderful for
us to be here; if you want me to, I will make three shelters
here, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He was
still speaking when suddenly a bright cloud covered them
with shadow, and suddenly from the cloud there came a voice
which said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my
favour. Listen to him.’ When they heard this, the disciples
fell on their faces, overcome with fear. But Jesus came up
and touched them, saying, ‘Stand up, do not be afraid.’ And
when they raised their eyes they saw no one but Jesus.
(1) Moses gave us the 10 Commandments from God
(2) Elisha shows us the prophets — the
work of the prophets
Jesus is transfigured before them
...‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour.
Listen to him.’ Matthew 17: 5
Our eyes are always on Jesus
January 21 - He came forth on the cross in such light
Black to left behind Him kept getting darker
Jesus is the fulfillment of the law and the prophets
Father Pasquini tells us in his new book of homilies
"Living Portrait of the Gospel"
It is all homilies Cycle B
We need funds to begin printing to bring it
to our priests and us —
When we see an artist painting a picture we
watch as he paints
Jesus Christ comes to paint a picture of the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit
Excerpt from
Response to God's Love
1
The Mystery of Christ and
Christian Existence
...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.
St. Paul tells us: "I became a
minister of this Church through the commission God
gave me to preach among you his word in its
fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and
generations past but now revealed to his holy ones.
God has willed to make known to them the glory
beyond price which this mystery brings to the
Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of
glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we
admonish all men and teach them in the full measure
of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in
Christ". (Col 1:25-28)
excerpt
from Response to God's Love
God is the Ultimate Mystery
The mystery of God becomes the mystery of
Christ —
To not know the scriptures is to not know
Jesus Christ —
...‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour.
Listen to him.’ Matthew 17: 5
Mary appeared Our Lady of Clearwater
Mary appeared Our Lady of Life
Time of Noah —
World was corrupt
Jesus flooded the earth
Jesus gave us — the sign of the rainbow
Genesis 9: 8-17
God spoke as
follows to Noah and his sons, ‘I am now
establishing my covenant with you and with your
descendants to come, and with every living
creature that was with you: birds, cattle and
every wild animal with you; everything that came
out of the ark, every living thing on earth. And
I shall maintain my covenant with you: that
never again shall all living things be destroyed
by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever
again be a flood to devastate the earth.’
‘And this’,
God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I
now make between myself and you and every living
creature with you for all ages to come: I now
set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign
of the covenant between me and the earth. When I
gather the clouds over the earth and the bow
appears in the clouds, I shall recall the
covenant between myself and you and every living
creature, in a word all living things, and never
again will the waters become a flood to destroy
all living things. When the bow is in the clouds
I shall see it and call to mind the eternal
covenant between God and every living creature
on earth, that is, all living things.’
‘That’, God
told Noah, ‘is the sign of the covenant I have
established between myself and all living things
on earth.’
Jesus came to me
said we must reform
we must believe
beg for forgiveness of sins
...‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour.
Listen to him.’ Matthew 17: 5
Real love
being faithful to God
Changing — Conversion
Recognizing our sins — how we have offended
God
Not be prideful (devil works in this)
Let Holy Spirit paint the picture for us to see ourselves
now and what God wants of us —
our core person as God created us to love
Look at the Lepers
We have sins on ourselves
The devil is real
Death
Killing babies
for selfishness —
against the commandments |
Life
Baptism
Living in God
In the state of grace
Going to Eucharist and
Reading the Word
to be fed |
"In the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
Amen."
"The grace of Our
Lord, Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."
God pours out His
grace in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is the
greatest gift when God gives Himself to us.
We share with God His
life, given to us abundantly in the Mass.
He gives Himself to
us and we give ourselves to Him. The great love
affair between God and man: His Holy Mass.
The priest is another
Christ to us. It is Christ present, through the
priest, celebrating the Mass. We must see Christ in
the priest, see Him celebrate the Mass, see His
beautiful brown hair, His gentle face, see Him, our
Savior. This Jesus Christ that came was born an
infant and gave Himself to His death on the cross
that we would share His life. See Him now in the
Mass, giving Himself in the greatest gift of all. He
gives us His divine love and His divine life.
Oh, we thank You for
Your life. We know Jesus died and rose and gave us a
sharing in His holy life. His life is now abundantly
poured, as a fountain to us, especially in the Mass.
Then we hear His
word. Let the word of God penetrate our being. Let
us feel this Living Word of God. As a two-edged
sword, it comes forth with such conviction and love
and it penetrates the souls of the faithful with
such love. It is food indeed, food for our soul.
He is the Good
Shepherd. He speaks to us. He gives us all we want.
"Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing." (Ps. 23:1)
He gives us green
pastures, and His water pours out and refreshes us.
He outpours His grace as a fountain to feed us with
His life.
He is a just God,
good and kind, all loving, for He is Love. We want
for nothing for He outpours His love and His life to
us in the Mass. We feast on His Body and Blood and
are fed with His Word. We become one in Him and He
shares Himself with us.
It is through the
Mass celebrated by the hands of a holy priest that
we will experience the Mass the way Christ intends.
These writings are insights which hopefully will
help lead you to the spring of life-giving water,
the fountain of love and life He outpours in the
Mass.
There will be a new
earth when men will see with the light of seven
suns. They will know God. A people walking in
darkness will see a great light. They will no longer
be blind, they will be enlightened, they will love
God with the greatest love in the Mass. They will
feast on His Body and Blood and will be united as
one body in His holy Church through His life given
to us in the Eucharist.
We will drink
copiously from the fountain of grace which He pours
out in the Mass. We will be filled with His love,
absorbed with the love of the Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit and feasting on His divine life.
We see with the
vision of God. We partake in such a union with God.
We see with the light the Spirit gives to us. The
priest celebrates the Mass and we know God with such
an intense knowing in this union. We are saturated
with His life flowing from the hands of His
consecrated priest.
And I look at Him,
the priest, and I see Jesus there. I see Him giving
Himself to Me. I see the new and Holy City. I see
with such clarity the great gift that God gives to
us in the Mass!
We learn how to love
in the Mass, for we unite to God. He gives us such
an intimate sharing in His divine love that we carry
His love out to the world. In this union we know His
loving to an intense degree and we carry this love
out to others. We share in an intense way in His
divine act of loving. He, Who is love, gives Himself
to us and we are absorbed in His love and we know
intensely how God loves. We are filled with love for
God and for each other, for, in the oneness He is
loving through us. He gives us lights into His
loving capacity and we know His loving power in an
intensity we did not know before.
We then pray. We
offer up our intentions for this Mass. It is now we
who intercede to Him to outpour His grace on us and
help us with these intentions.
We pray for this
reign of peace when the Sacred Heart of Jesus will
reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph
and men will fervently love and adore God with
burning love. We pray for all souls and the Church
and we beg for His help, His love, His grace.
We offer ourselves as
a sacrifice. We offer the bread that will become the
bread of life.
The priest mixes the
water and the wine and we realize how His Divinity
mixes with our humanity.
We offer the wine
that will become our spiritual drink-His blood.
I give myself to Him
and I beg to be cleansed of my sins with the washing
of the hands.
"May the Lord accept
the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory
of His name, for our good and the good of all His
Church."
We ask Him to accept
the gifts we want to give Him, we give Him thanks,
we lift up our hearts in thanks and praise and we
sing out:
"Holy, Holy God, of
power and might…" we sing Him praise and thank
Him-oh, God we love Thee so much."
My heart is so filled
with such awe. I cry because I love Him so much.
Every word in the
Mass, I love. The priest consecrates the host and
changes it into the Body and Blood of Christ.
Oh, it makes me cry
for I am so struck with awe at what happens at the
Consecration. I unite in the oneness with the
priest, with Christ and with all present, with
heaven and earth. I am one in that moment, united in
the sacrifice of Christ giving Himself to the
Father.
This is the moment
when I unite in such oneness with Christ in the
purity of Mary's heart. I give myself as a
sacrifice. I offer myself to the Father.
The Father looks down
and He sees us united to His Son's Sacrifice. It is
in this oneness that His grace is outpoured on us,
that we die to that which is not like Him and that
the Holy Spirit works in the heart of Mary and fills
us with His life.
I am in ecstasy as I
realize more and more the great gift of love that
God gives us in His holy Mass. I am taken to such
heights, being wrapped in the presence of God. It is
rapture, this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
It is a great gift,
experiencing this intense presence of the Almighty
God: Through Him, With Him, and In Him.
We pray to the Father
the prayer as Jesus taught us and beg, "thy Kingdom
come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
We pray: "For the
Kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and
forever."
We beg for peace in
our hearts. We share this peace with one another.
Then we beg of the Lamb of God. I want to get down
to the ground and beg for His grace, mercy and
forgiveness for our sins.
Please, God, I see us
as a sinful people. I want the grace and mercy to
flow abundantly.
He raises the Host
and says: "This is the Lamb of God Who takes away
the sins of the world, happy are those who are
called to His supper."
We respond: "Lord, I
am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word
and I shall be healed."
I receive the
Almighty God in Communion. All I want is Him. Oh,
God, I want you, I adore you, I worship you, I love
you.
Oh, for this moment
when God gives Himself to me. Oh, God, words do not
express this time-this intense presence of You
within my being. Oh, sweet Savior, I love You!
You share Yourself so
intimately with me. You imprint on my soul a knowing
of Your Divine Being that is so intimate in this
Communion when You give Yourself to me.
Oh, let our hearts be
open to His grace that we may know this great gift
more, that we will partake more fully in this
greatest act of love with Divinity.
He shares Himself
with us, the Almighty God, in such oneness. This is
the greatest way to bind us with each other, to
unite with each other in the Mass and Communion.
And so I sing the
love of God, the love of His Mass. I beg you to pray
for the grace that He can teach you in these
writings about His most intimate love affair with
man, the gift of Himself-the gift He gives us in the
Mass.
The Holy Sacrifice,
the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally-made-present
in the Mass when He gives Himself to us with the
greatest love!
And what does He ask
in return? He asks that we love one another, that we
give Him the glory, the thanksgiving, the adoration
that is His due as the Almighty God.
He sends us forth
with His blessing to share His most intimate love
with all. We go forth as other Christs in the world.
For He is alive this day and He lives in us and He
gives His love to others through us. We act as
channels of His life to one another.
The Mass is the
richest source of His life. His life flows through
the body, the Church, especially through the
Sacraments and the Mass.
Oh Jesus, from the
fountain of life that pours forth from Your pierced
Heart, give us holy priests whose hearts are
consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary to
celebrate the Mass-that there is such oneness
between the priest and Christ that His grace will
flow copiously.
We thirst for the
fountain of life pouring forth from the pierced
Heart of Christ. It is His life we seek and find in
the Church. It is His love we want and we experience
the greatest love affair with God in the Mass.
These books on the
Mass are accounts of my intimate love affair with
our Almighty God. Many experiences were
enlightenments I received in the Mass.
I strongly advise all
to pray, to say the Holy Spirit Prayer, the
Consecration Prayers, and the Prayer before the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, before Mass. (These prayers
follow this message).
This book is the
journey into the red room, the inner chamber of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the gateway, the pure
and Immaculate Heart of His Mother.
It is in the Mass we
give ourselves in such love to our Holy God. He
gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to Him.
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.
