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

                R. Let us know more and more as we
                    grow to see through the eyes of God –

                God knows every problem we are
                    experiencing

                We seek the gift of counsel –

                We can find a solution to a problem, because
                    of anxiety – the devil presses on this and
                    makes us want to act – to do something
                    to be finished with the anxiety –

                God wants us to wait on His timing –
                    To do it in His order –
                    To do what He wants us to do –

                The saints do not follow men –

                When we act to get the job done against
                    God's will and timing –
                    We make a mess – we can
                        make a bigger problem –

                Men of wisdom follow the counsel of
                    God – there is a way to solve the
                    issue, it must be seen as God
                    desires –
                    When the Holy Spirit tells them what to do –
                    in the light of God –

                God has given some saints, some priests, and people
                    the gift of healing –
                    they must be operating under God –

                A miracle is supernatural –
                A healing is supernatural –

                We do not depend on the natural –

                We look for the power from above –

                We are always seeking God's will –

                We pray for the gift of counsel to know
                    God's will for us

                And we do what His will is

                We seek the gifts of the Holy Spirit
                And we are ruled by the virtues in
                    our lives –
                    faith, hope love, humility,
                    prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude

                We seek the Holy Spirit to guide us with His gifts –
                We live according to good habits in
                    our lives.

                We act in faith and love –
                We are prudent and temperant in our
                    activities –

                We are just in our dealings with others

                We want the hand of God to guide us –

                We want truth – always truth –

                We walk in the light –

                The Holy Spirit moves us and we respond
                    to His fluttering in our soul –
                    Like leaves in the wind –
                    The Holy Spirit fills us and moves us
                        and helps us to be holy
                    The Holy Spirit works with Mary – as we
                        give our heart to Mary –

                The Holy Spirit, the artist in our soul –
                    paints more and more the image of
                    Christ on us, as we co-operate
                    with His direction.

     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.

                R. The Holy Spirit moves us along the path of life –

                When God has this presence in us –
                    Father, Son and Holy Spirit –
                    we have joy!!!

                God is at work in our soul –

                We are surrendering and willing to be
                    molded more and more into the image
                    of Jesus –
   

Revelation 19: 7-8

Revelation 12: 1-8

Revelation 7: 14-17

Revelation 3: 1-3, 12, 16-19

'Write to the angel of the church in Sardis and say, "Here is the message of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know about your behaviour: how you are reputed to be alive and yet are dead. Wake up; put some resolve into what little vigour you have left: it is dying fast. So far I have failed to notice anything in your behaviour that my God could possibly call perfect; remember how you first heard the message. Hold on to that. Repent! If you do not wake up, I shall come to you like a thief, and you will have no idea at what hour I shall come upon you.

Anyone who proves victorious I will make into a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and it will stay there for ever; I will inscribe on it the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which is coming down from my God in heaven, and my own new name as well.

'...but since you are neither hot nor cold, but only lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth. You say to yourself: I am rich, I have made a fortune and have everything I want, never realising that you are wretchedly and pitiably poor, and blind and naked too. I warn you, buy from me the gold that has been tested in the fire to make you truly rich, and white robes to clothe you and hide your shameful nakedness, and ointment to put on your eyes to enable you to see. I reprove and train those whom I love:

1 Corinthians 15: 20-28

In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

John 14: 21-31

Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal myself to him.'

Judas-not Judas Iscariot-said to him, 'Lord, what has happened, that you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?' Jesus replied:

Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him. Anyone who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not my own: it is the word of the Father who sent me. I have said these things to you while still with you; but the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you. Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me say: I am going away and shall return. If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. I shall not talk to you much longer, because the prince of this world is on his way. He has no power over me, but the world must recognise that I love the Father and that I act just as the Father commanded. Come now, let us go.

Acts 2: 1-4

                Sing: Come Holy Ghost

                Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

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

   

From the Priestly Newsletter Book III by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

The Holy Spirit And Mary

The late Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of Mexico strikingly speaks of the ongoing cooperation of Mary with the Holy Spirit regarding the reproduction of Jesus within us: "Christian life is the reproduction of Jesus in souls…

"Now, how will this mystical reproduction be brought about in souls? In the same way in which Jesus was brought into the world, for God gives a wonderful mark of unity to all His works. Divine acts have a wealth of variety because they are the work of omnipotence; nevertheless, a most perfect unity always shines forth from them because they are the fruit of wisdom; and this divine contrast of unity and variety stamps the works of God with sublime and unutterable beauty.

"In His miraculous birth, Jesus was the fruit of heaven and earth…The Holy Spirit conveyed the divine fruitfulness of the Father to Mary, and the virginal soil brought forth in an ineffable manner our most loving Savior, the divine Seed, as the prophets called Him…

"That is the way He is reproduced in souls. He is always the fruit of heaven and earth.

"Two artisans must concur in the work that is at once God’s masterpiece and humanity’s supreme product: the Holy Spirit and the most holy Virgin Mary. Two sanctifiers are necessary to souls, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, for they are the only ones who can reproduce Christ.

"Undoubtedly, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sanctify us in different ways. The first is the Sanctifier by essence; because He is God, who is infinite sanctity; because He is the personal Love that completes, so to speak, the sanctity of God, consummating His life and His unity, and it belongs to Him to communicate to souls the mystery of that sanctity. The Virgin Mary, for her part, is the co-operator, the indispensable instrument in and by God’s design. From Mary’s maternal relation to the human body of Christ is derived her relation to His Mystical Body which is being formed through all the centuries until the end of time, when it will be lifted up to the heavens, beautiful, splendid, complete, and glorious.

"These two, then, the Holy Spirit and Mary, are the indispensable artificers of Jesus, the indispensable sanctifiers of souls. Any saint in heaven can co-operate in the sanctification of a soul, but his co-operation is not necessary, not profound, not constant: while the co-operation of these two artisans of Jesus of whom we have just been speaking is so necessary that without it souls are not sanctified (and this by the actual design of Providence), and so intimate that it reaches to the very depths of our soul. For the Holy Spirit pours charity into our heart, makes a habitation of our soul, and directs our spiritual life by means of His gifts. The Virgin Mary has the efficacious influence of Mediatrix in the most profound and delicate operations of grace in our souls. And, finally, the action of the Holy Spirit and the co-operation of the most holy Virgin Mary are constant; without them, not one single character of Jesus would be traced on our souls, no virtue grow, no gift be developed, no grace increased, no bond of union with God be strengthened in the rich flowering of the spiritual life.

"Such is the place that the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary have in the order of sanctification. Therefore, Christian piety should put these two artisans of Christ in their true place, making devotion to them something necessary, profound, and constant." ¹⁸

18. Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, op. cit. pp. 5-7.

   

                R. And so the dilemma is this –

                Do we become a rival to God's will
                    like Adam and Eve –

                When God is so good to us and we are
                    called to live by His will –
                    to love His will –

                Mary showed us –
 

Luke 1: 46-55

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.

   

                R. Mary showed us –

                Mary is full of grace.
   

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus.  Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

   

                R. Every time we pray the Hail Mary we
                    remember –
                    Mary is full of grace –

                We seek to be full of His life in
                    heaven –

                We are here to prepare ourselves for
                    this
   

November 4, 2013

 

Second Sunday of Easter

April 30/May 1, 2011

INTRODUCTION – (Acts 2:42-47; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31) In our first reading today, St. Luke gives us a lovely picture of the early Church – how it was like one big happy family where everyone was agreeable with one another and cared about each other. If we read a little further in the Acts of the Apostles, we see this idyllic condition didn’t last very long, especially as the Church grew and became more complex. Even if the Church is not as unified as it was then, the basic elements of the community that St. Luke identifies for us still form the Church today. They devoted themselves, St. Luke tells us, (1) to the teachings of the apostles, (2) to the communal life, (3) to the breaking of bread (their term for the Eucharist or the Lord’s Supper) and (4) to the prayers. This statement tells us in general that being a member of the Church is more than just a matter of calling ourselves a Catholic or having our name on some Church’s roster. Being Catholic involves (1) seeking to grow in our faith, (2) caring about one another, (3) participation in the Eucharist, and (4) taking time to pray. An inactive believer is not a believer at all, or as St. James tells us: “Faith without works is dead.” (James  2:17)

HOMILY – I understand this is a true story from Texas. Drummond’s Bar in Mt. Vernon Texas decided to expand their facilities. The local Baptist church, which disapproves of drinking alcohol, started a prayer campaign to prevent the bar from expanding. Construction on the bar progressed up until the week before the grand opening when lightning struck and burned the entire bar to the ground. After the bar burned, the church folks started bragging about “the power of prayer.” So the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church “was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect action or means.” In response to the accusation, the church denied all responsibility to the burning of the building. The judge read through the bar owner’s charges and the church’s response and commented: “I don’t know how I’m going to rule on this, but it appears that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire Baptist church congregation that now does not. (from the internet)

Our gospel today touches on a number of themes with faith being one of them. Jesus offers his friends his own special peace. He gives them a commission to continue his work (“as the Father has sent me, so I send you”). As a helper in this ministry, he gives them the Holy Spirit, and one of the works of Jesus they would do would be to forgive sins. This passage gave rise to the designation of this Sunday as Divine Mercy Sunday. God’s mercy, however, is not limited to this one Sunday. God is ready to forgive us any time we approach himwith true sorrow for our sins. Then we have the memorable story of Thomas who missed Jesus’ first appearance and refused to believe in Jesus’ resurrection until he had concrete proof. Jesus gave it to him the following week. Finally, Jesus proclaims all of us blessed who have not experienced what Thomas and the others experienced: “blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

What I have chosen to talk about for the rest of this homily may seem to some people as being a strange topic; however, I am sure most of us have at times wished we could see our Lord as Thomas and the others did; maybe even have a conversation with him. We envision this would greatly enhance our faith. I had often thought that if Jesus appeared to more people, maybe more people would believe in him.

A few weeks ago I was reading the book The Science of the Cross by Saint Edith Stein, a Jewish nun who was killed in a concentration camp. She was a brilliant philosopher, and in her book she was examining the teachings of St. John of the Cross, a doctor of the Church. The book talks about visions under the general treatise on the topic of faith. I am significantly summarizing their thoughts on this, for St. Edith Stein goes on for several pages talking about this matter. She says faith informs us of things we have never seen nor heard. It is a form of supernatural knowledge, knowledge we cannot acquire in any natural way through our senses or through reason. Faith does not contradict reason, but what it communicates to us cannot be acquired by reason. In this life we cannot grasp what God is. It is only through faith (on our part) and grace (on God’s part) that we can make progress in knowing God and in growing in union with God. John of the Cross says simply, “the greater one’s faith the closer is one’s union with God.” In considering visions or apparitions, the book goes on to teach that when they come from God, then God will accomplish whatever he wishes to accomplish through them, but we should never dare to desire such sensory apprehensions because such desires do not help us to live by faith. Desiring signs and visions to base our faith on holds us back from growing in faith and prevents the spirit from soaring to the invisible.

Thomas and the other apostles, of course, had to see our risen Lord for it would be their mission to give witness to the resurrection of Christ (something they would have had to see in order to be credible witnesses). And that’s what they did. The Greek word for witnesses is μάρτυρεs (martyrs). We don’t know if Thomas actually touched our Lord, but we hear how Thomas’ vision of Jesus took him beyond what the eyes could see to a greater level of faith when he declares: “My Lord and my God.” And the gospel ends with the statement that it is blessed to have believed even though we have not seen. And the next to the last chapter of John’s gospel ends by telling us that through this faith we have life in his name, a life that will lead us to someday see God face to face in eternal glory.

   

                R. The more we are filled with Divine Life
                    the more pleasing we are to God.

 

 

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