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November 12, 2015
R. Christ loves us so much and
He calls for our love in return –
This is the message of the Blue
Books. This is the message of
the Christian seeking to grow
in the spiritual life – It is love –
This is the essence of the Sacred
Heart devotion.
Christ gives to us a confidence,
even in the greatest trials and
suffering because of this
devotion to His Sacred Heart.
Jesus is a Divine Person.
Jesus has two natures, a Divine
Nature and a Human Nature. This
emphasis on the Heart of Jesus helps
us to keep in focus on the Sacred Humanity
of Christ. Jesus came to this earth
and Jesus took flesh. Jesus
taught us, Jesus walked with
us and Jesus died and Jesus rose.
Jesus died for our
sins, Jesus suffered in His body,
was whipped, crowned with
thorns and hung on a tree –
Jesus died for our sins.
We do not forget Christ – God-made-
man and with the Devotion of
the Sacred Heart we keep our focus on
His Divine Love, on Christ the
Second Person of the Blessed
Trinity – on Christ - truly
present in the Eucharist in
His Divinity and humanity.
To me the devotion to the Sacred Heart
of Jesus is so connected to Eucharistic
Adoration.
I know Jesus as the Sacred Heart. I know
and love Him, I meditate on the
mysteries of His life – especially
in the rosary and the scriptures –
I love Him so deeply in the Eucharist –
I love the Exposed Eucharist – I
love the gift of Jesus truly
present in the consecrated host
in the tabernacle –
I know Jesus the Sacred Heart, Jesus
is truly present in the Eucharist – I love Him
so much.
I love Jesus, the Sacred Heart and
I am one with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I love God, so much.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
is so important – God is love –
His Sacred Heart is a symbol of His love
for us and in loving Jesus –
He takes us to the Father, in the
Holy Spirit. We go to the Heart of Jesus and
Jesus takes us to the bosom of the Father
in the Holy Spirit. We love God – Father,
Son,
and Holy Spirit.
We focus on the pierced - Heart
of Christ and keep before us
His Passion and death –
It is an important part of growing
in holiness to realize the aspect
of dying and rising in Him.
If one does not realize that they are
to live the pascal mystery of
death/resurrection – do they
realize: discipline in the spiritual
life, dying to bad-habits of pride
and anger and envy and jealousy,
and slothfulness, lust and
gluttony – so they can rise
to greater perfection in the
image and likeness of Jesus –
R. The fire
of His love, that
led Him to the cross, the
crown of thorns that
surround His Sacred Heart and
the pierced side, in which
flowed blood and water –
water for baptism
blood for the Eucharist.
John 19: 25-27
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
R. Through
His pierced Heart the
Church was born.
One must identify their
sufferings in life with the
cross of Christ.
The more we focus on the Heart
of Christ - we can give ourselves
interiorly in deep love to Jesus.
We need to grow deeply in the interior
life, being so one with God –
Our life of grace is centered
in our living in love.
We are loving. We have
true heart-felt love –
Our life in Jesus centers
around our response in being
more likened to Him in a loving
heart. We love God first and love
others as ourselves. We are
called to put on Christ –
God is love –
When we are weak – we are
strong – if we draw our
strength from Him.
Devotion to His Sacred Heart
helps us put ourselves in Him
to draw this strength.
The person who is deeply
interior and deeply rooted in
the Heart of Christ can
find comfort. There are so
many influences by others to
focus on the exterior influences
only, and leave out the heart-felt
love that leads us to intimacy
and holiness in Christ.
The interior life should originate from
a willingness to do God's will in love.
One is deeply interiorly rooted in God.
The interior life deeply
in God comes from growing
in our knowing and loving
capacity in Him. In baptism
our knowing and loving capacity
is elevated – We can know
and love supernaturally as
we grow in our life more deeply
in Him.
Because of the influence of the
modern world we can focus more
than we should on the exterior world
with its clamor and distractions and be
drawn away from living that interior life
we need in Him –
With this the person can be
missing that connection to God
deeply in the interior life needed for
that dependency on God and growth in
the spiritual life –
The Holy Spirit is present and acting in
His gifts in us.
Consecration to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus should lead the person to living
the Father's will in love; to
seeking the Father's will in love;
to insight into the Divine
Mysteries, to deeper live in
their oneness with Christ –
So one can say with St. Paul
...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.
R. There
must be a balance
between the interior and
exterior life. A person is to
die to those things not
likened to Christ, to rise to a
greater likeness of Him.
We see the unity of Jesus and Mary.
Christ's Heart was formed in the
womb of Mary by the power
of the Holy Spirit.
We see the inseparable
union between Mary and Jesus.
Christ was formed in Mary –
Christ was carried in Mary –
Mary gave Him His life support
in her body –
We see Mary cared for Him –
We see the Prophesy of Simeon
at the Presentation, The Finding
of Jesus in the Temple –
we see Mary on the way to Calvary,
under the cross, holding her
Son after His death –
Song: See the Eyes That Look at Mary
R. There is
this inseparable union
between the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Here is a message Fr. Carter got
in Tell My People.
From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.
end of excerpt
R. From the Fatima message –
Mary said:
Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
...Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask grace from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. (19)
NOTES:
19.
For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p.9.
R. The
Immaculate Heart of Mary teaches
us about Mary and her love –
her love for Jesus, her love
for her Spouse the Holy Spirit,
her love of the Father,
her love for us – Her love
for the Church and the
world –
Her heart is a symbol of her
love for God and for us.
We think of the interior
life of Mary when we contemplate
and love her Immaculate Heart. Her
dedication of herself totally to God:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We go to
her Immaculate Heart as our spiritual Mother –
This is our spiritual womb and
the Holy Spirit works molding
us more and more in the
image of Jesus –
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.
November 4, 2013
Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997
end of excerptIn 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".
R. Mary
consecrated her Heart
to Jesus perfectly – Mary shows
us about devotion to the
Heart of Jesus.
R. This book
is about the love
of Jesus for Mary, Mary for Jesus,
Jesus for us, Mary for us –
This book was given in the summer
of 1994 when Mary first
appeared to me –
Mary shows us what it means
to put on Christ – for she is
the perfect disciple of Christ –
Act of consecration to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."
R. Mary is
Mother of our Christ-life –
Mary is Mother at Our Side –
In a rosary a couple of months
ago on the 5th – the
message was over and over again –
Focus on Jesus –
The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive
to the voice of your
supplication.
Through Him, With Him, In Him
From Pope Pius XII Mystici Corporis No. 58-59 AAS 35 (1943)
"How does Christ continue
the work of Redemption through
His Mystical Body the Church?
Basically, He does so by
re-living His earthly
life in the members of this
Mystical Body."
R. We as
members of the mystical
body of Christ are to live
His life, death and resurrection
in our lives –
Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
In schematic outline we have discussed the manner in which the baptized Christian extends his Mass to his daily existence. As he so lives out his Mass, he is becoming more Christlike. He becomes a more perfect priest and victim for his next participation in the eucharistic sacrifice.42 The beautiful cycle which the Mass contains lies exposed before us. As part of this cycle the Christian is intimately involved in the process of continued redemption. The Mass is the center of the Christian life: “. . . the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all her power flows.” 43
42. For a current treatment of the varied richness of the Eucharist, cf. J. Wicks, “The Movement of Eucharistic Theology” in Chicago Studies, Vol. 10 (1971), pp. 267-284.
43. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 10.
November 21, 2013
Jesus: I call you to live your lives as devout members of the mystical body of Christ. I have given these writings that men will realize that they are to live united deeply to the Mass going on around the world. Your lives, given as an offering, a sacrifice every moment in union with the Mass going on around the world. Your life, a sacrifice, offered to the Father, in union with the Mass in oneness with Me, in the Holy Spirit through the intercession of the Blessed Mother with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory.
Your lives given as members of My mystical body can help to bring down great graces for the priest, the Church and the world.
Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
“How does the Christian help Christ redeem the world? (Henceforth the term “world” is to be understood as including both rational and nonrational creation.) As previously stated, the Christian helps Christ redeem the world by reliving Christ’s mysteries. The same “events” or mysteries which accomplished the objective redemption further the subjective redemption also. Since at the heart of Christ’s mysteries are His death and Resurrection, it is especially these that the Christian must relive. As the Christian dies mystically with Christ through loving conformity with the Father’s will, he rises with Christ to an ever greater share in the Resurrection, in the newness of life, in the life of grace. As the Christian in this manner relives the paschal mystery of Christ, he is accomplishing not only his own redemption, but he is also, in a mysterious yet real manner, helping Christ redeem the world.”
end of excerpt
Excerpt from the Introduction
Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church’s universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, ‘in this clean oblation’ He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS. XXXV, 232-233)11
11. Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS, XXXV, pp. 232-233.
Matthew 12: 33-37
Words betray the heart
‘Make a tree sound and its fruit will be sound; make a tree rotten and its fruit will be rotten. For the tree can be told by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can your speech be good when you are evil? For words flow out of what fills the heart. Good people draw good things from their store of goodness; bad people draw bad things from their store of badness. So I tell you this, that for every unfounded word people utter they will answer on Judgement Day, since it is by your words you will be justified, and by your words condemned.’
Matthew 16: 24-26
Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will anyone gain by winning the whole world and forfeiting his life? Or what can anyone offer in exchange for his life?
Matthew 19: 27-30
Then Peter answered and said, ‘Look, we have left everything and followed you. What are we to have, then?’ Jesus said to them, ‘In truth I tell you, when everything is made new again and the Son of man is seated on his throne of glory, you yourselves will sit on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children or land for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and also inherit eternal life.
‘Many who are first will be last, and the last, first.’
A Mystery of Light
R. Jesus performed so many miracles –
He raised Jarius' daughter
from the dead –
Jesus raised Lazarus from the
dead –
Jesus healed the blind, the deaf,
the paralytics, the lepers
and others –
Jesus walked on water, Jesus helped them fishing.
Jesus fed 5,000 from a few
fish and loaves –
R. Jesus changed water into wine
at Cana –
Jesus healed Peter's Mother-in-law –
Jesus healed the hemorrhaging woman
Jesus healed the withered hand
Jesus healed Malchus' ear –
Miracles, miracles, miracles –
Jesus is love –
Jesus healed –
Anger
Is Destructive-Love Heals
April 12, 1994 After Communion at All Saints Church 7:00a.m.
R. Love is healing. If you attack me and I respond with love by the grace of God, but let it fester later into anger, I have an active emotion inside of me. You hurt me. I was right, you were wrong. I get angry or I get depressed. Some action occurs within me. If, by the grace of God, I acted lovingly when you attacked me, then, when I go away, I must continue to dismiss any thoughts of how I have been wronged and beg God for His help to forgive and love you.
end of excerpt
R. Jesus says to us –
Come follow Me –
Walk in My footsteps
R. Jesus calls us to conversion –
we must keep growing to be
more and more like Him –
Jesus taught in parables,
the barren fig tree –
the Good Samaritan –
the hidden treasure –
the talents –
the sower –
the laborer in the vineyard –
the lost sheep –
the sheep and the goats –
the virgins
the house on sand and rock
There are so many parables
Jesus taught us
Jesus gives us His Word today –
We are given these gifts
in teaching us - today –
What have we been called to teach –
in Shepherds of Christ
how to pray, about the Mass, about
God's love, about the scripture –
all these gifts can help
change the lives of so many, but
it is God's Plan and by God's
Might and we are instruments
untied to Him. We live in Him!
John the Baptist prepared the
way for Jesus and John the Baptist
lost his head –
Matthew 3: 1-6
In due course John the Baptist appeared; he proclaimed this message in the desert of Judaea, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is close at hand.’ This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said:
A voice of one that cries in the desert,
‘Prepare a way for the Lord,
make his paths straight.’This man John wore a garment made of camel–hair with a leather loin–cloth round his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judaea and the whole Jordan district made their way to him, and as they were baptised by him in the river Jordan they confessed their sins.
February 21, 1994 (excerpt)
Jesus: ... What do I say to you? I, God, come to you in Holy Communion. I love you unconditionally with such love you cannot even fathom and you turn away and run after such senseless things. I am lamenting the loss of your love. I am lamenting the time you spend in other things, and for what? It is God Who waits for you. I wait! I am here, God-made-man, Jesus Christ! I wait, I wait!
You have 24 hours a day and you do not have one hour for the Son of Man? What do you do? What is important to you? I am God! What could be more important than God, Who is waiting for you? I am Number One. The First Commandment says, "I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have any gods before Me."
What is your god? Who speaks to you? Whom do you spend your time with? Where are your thoughts? Whom do you ponder over in your mind? What things are so important to you? Do you listen to the First Commandment? Do you not hear My Commandment to love God and love one another? Is this your concern? What are the Commandments to you, little things you follow after you do what you want first?
Do you do the will of The Father? He wills you to keep the commandments. An act of following My will pleases Me far more than a day of mortification. Are you doing My will or yours? Do you pick your good works, prayers, etc., and is doing what you will a good thing? Or do you earnestly sit in silence and listen to the promptings I give you in the heart?
"Oh, I have time to recite all these prayers, but not to sit in silence and listen to You, Lord." I am calling you to love of God and love of your brothers. Loving God is action from the heart. You sit, you in silence, with your lover, and you ponder Him with ardent love. If you want to recite prayers, it only comes from great love first. It comes from great, ardent, longing and loving of the heart, not sitting and endlessly doing your quota today. To do your prayers every day is great if you are doing it out of intense love for Me. You must have this great love to pray these prayers from the heart!
Many say prayer after prayer after prayer, a task they give themselves like brushing their teeth. I call you to love of God. Love is from the heart. I want your love. I want you to sit and be with Me as an ardent lover. I do not want you heartlessly reciting prayers at Me and ignoring Me. Would you do this to your lover?
I want a love relationship with Me. I want you to know I am a true person. I want your time with Me to come from great love. You long to come and sit with Me. I am real. I am a person. I am Jesus, sitting in the tabernacle waiting for you!
Do you love God first? Do you know what love is at all? Is your love for Me a chain of prayers you say every day, just to put in your time? What lover would put up with a relationship like the one you are giving Me? Do you follow My command to love God and love your neighbor? I do not say to spend time doing busy prayers with God and just tolerating your brother.
Love is an action from the heart. It evolves from such longing and heartfelt feelings. I call you to love God. What are you doing to follow this commandment?
I am a heart on fire for love of you. I am the lover Who is waiting for you in every tabernacle in this world. I am waiting, My beloved, with a heart on fire for love of you and what are you doing, little ones? You come in a rush and you throw prayers in My face. You pray to Me at bedtime, half asleep, and your mouths are running like a machine. This, child, is love? What lover would stay around for such coldness. You treat Me coldly. My heart aches for love of you, little one. It is a burning furnace on fire with ardent love–hot and burning, yearning, deepest love–and you, My child, come with such indifference and coldness.
I want your love. I want to share a love affair with you. My heart aches over this coldness and indifference. My heart is in such anguish for love of you. Some in their busy lives never even come or do not even know Me. My heart is aching. You know of the treasure here. Do you spread the love of God to your brothers or do you worry about what they may think? You can talk about the weather and the sick society, but you can't talk to a stranger about the love of God!
If you love your brother, you will preach My love in your very being. You will not get bowed down by Satan and cast a dark shadow on this world.
You, little ones, don't know how to love God and you don't know how to love your brothers. Listen to Me here and be taught My ways! I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God and I am speaking to you. These are the words of Jesus Christ for His beloved ones
I want to teach all about love, My love for them and their love for Me. Do you know how to love Me? My beloved ones come, day after day, and recite prayers in My face and don't have any actions in their hearts. This is not love. It is coldness. I call you to love in your heart, burning for the God Who is so good and loves you so much He died for you! I gave My life for you. I love you this way this very day. My love never changes. I burn for love for you.
Preach the Real Presence. Shout it from the housetops: Jesus is the Lord. He is God and He is with you this very day. He waits for you in Communion with ardent love.
I am God. You have the true treasure. Is anything of any more account than this? You are so blind and so silly.
Shout it from the housetops, "Jesus is Lord and He is in the Eucharist and in the Tabernacle."
Your King waits for you. Preach the True Presence. Mary leads you to the ardent, burning love of her Son, the love of Jesus. Alleluia.
I am Who am. I am your God!
end of excerpt
The Baptism of Jesus
Matthew 3: 13-17
Then Jesus appeared: he came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. John tried to dissuade him, with the words, ‘It is I who need baptism from you, and yet you come to me!’ But Jesus replied, ‘Leave it like this for the time being; it is fitting that we should, in this way, do all that uprightness demands.’ Then John gave in to him.
And when Jesus had been baptised he at once came up from the water, and suddenly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And suddenly there was a voice from heaven, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.’
R. When John was in Elizabeth's womb
and Mary came to visit pregnant
with Jesus –
the child in Elizabeth's womb,
John, the Baptist, jumped
for joy.
King Herod had the head of the Baptist –
John was chosen by God –
St. John the Baptist –
His head was cut off for the desires
of a dancer
John said:
John 3: 30
He must grow greater,
I must grow less.
R. The devil doesn't come with a tail
and a pitch fork –
the devil works through those
giving into him and turning
away from God –
22 Years Ago
December 7, 1993 - 3:30a.m. (excerpt)
Jesus: ... Oh child, be lifted above the earth. Spend time alone with Me. Focusing on Me, not anything else, is what moves you high. The more you look downward to the details of this earth, the closer you get to it. The more you focus upward on Me, the more you sail. Burdens do not carry them. I do the deciding. When you think you are putting yourself in control, cut the lines. Let go entirely. Let yourself float and feel the peace in surrender. I never abandon you. I am at your side. Trust in Me and then you fly!
R. My life with Him is unfolding. It is like having a floor that suspends out into space. I keep walking and He holds me up. Like walking on water, I do not sink. I have dreamt many times I was skimming the water and only on the top. I don't fall in. No fear. It is so free and beautiful. Enjoy the sights!
Jesus: Have no fear for I am with you until the end of time. I make all things work for those who love and serve the Lord. You go and live suspended in mid-air. No props. Does your life feel like this? This summer it was roller skates you were on. The floor felt shaky. Now the floor is gone and you are suspended in mid-air. You are being kept afloat by the fire of My love. I blow you gently. You may get a strong wind once in awhile, but you know that I am close by and you will be saved. Like walking on water!
R. If I try to fish all night, I catch nothing. He comes and He gets nets that are breaking. The more I try, the more I get nothing. When He does it, it is unbelievable.
end of excerpt
Isaiah 42: 1-4, 6-7
Here is my servant whom I uphold,
my chosen one
in whom my soul delights.
I have sent my spirit upon him,
he will bring fair judgement to the nations.
He does not cry out or raise his voice,
his voice is not heard in the street;
he does not break the crushed reed
or snuff the faltering wick.
Faithfully he presents fair judgement;
he will not grow faint,
he will not be crushed
until he has established
fair judgement on earth,
and the coasts and islands
are waiting for his instruction.I, Yahweh, have called you
in saving justice,
I have grasped you by the hand
and shaped you;
I have made you a covenant of the people
and light to the nations,
to open the eyes of the blind,
to free captives from prison,
and those who live in darkness
from the dungeon.
R. Jesus came to teach us about
the intimate love God wants
with us. Jesus took on a
human nature. Jesus walked
with men, talked with men,
Jesus took on flesh for us.
Jesus came to bridge the distance between
Him and us.
From Centered in Christ Homily Book
January 10, 2010
Baptism of the Lord (excerpt)
HOMILY – ...When a person is baptized, something really marvelous happens. The baptized person is lifted up to a higher level of life. He or she remains human but is made more than human. God reaches out and makes this human person his own child. We use the term “reborn.” That word is literally true. God could say over the person newly baptized, “you are my beloved child. On you my favor rests.” St. John says it clearly in his epistle, “See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are.” (1 Jn 3,1) At baptism the heavens are torn open, heaven is joined to earth and the barrier between God and the one who was baptized in essence no longer exists. I say “in essence” because “in everyday experience” there is still quite a distance between God and us. The word “reborn” can help explain that reality. When a child is born, there is a lot of work ahead for the child and its parents before a person attains full maturity as a human being. Also, when we’re reborn into God’s life, there is a lot of work ahead for the person who has been reborn and its parents before that person attains full maturity in Christ. Birth and baptism are both indeed miracles, but both are just a beginning.
Probably most of us seldom think of baptism and what a wonderful gift of life God gave us in baptism except on a feast like we are celebrating today or at an occasional baptism of a relative. But there are things to remind us of the sacrament, such as blessing ourselves with holy water when we enter church or the baptistery and Paschal Candle here in the sanctuary. Often we do not think of this but what we do every time we come to Mass is to renew the grace of baptism, to accept again the privilege of sharing God’s life, to have that life be nourished and strengthened by God’s word and by receiving Jesus’ body and blood in Communion. At Mass we renew our desire to live faithfully as God’s son or daughter.
The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Son of God, was God from all eternity and when the Son of God took on human flesh in Jesus, he was God’s Son from the moment of his conception. So Jesus’ baptism did not make him any more God’s Son or any more filled with the Holy Spirit than he already was. When Jesus was baptized, the Father and the Spirit demonstrated what had always been. But when we are baptized we are significantly changed, we are made infinitely more than what we were. May God help us live up to our high calling. Amen.
R. Jesus had to deal with the 12 Apostles –
Jesus formed them –
The Church goes on today –
The Wedding at Cana
(1) Jesus began working miracles –
(2) Jesus changed water into wine.
(3) Mary told them –
They have no wine –
This shows Mary's powerful
intercession.
(4) We think of all the
miracles Jesus worked.
(5) Jesus is with us today
truly present in the
Eucharist –
(6) Jesus was rejected in His
home town –
(7) Jesus preached and worked
miracles in His pubic
life –
He preached from Simon's
boat –
(8) Jesus called the disciples –
they responded –
(9) Some were fishermen – Jesus
showed them after a
long time of catching
nothing – He could
give them a miraculous
catch of fish –
He called them to be fishers of men.
(10) Jesus taught,
Jesus healed in Galilee.
Building of the Kingdom of God
(1) We see how Jesus was
building the Kingdom of God in
His miracles and teaching
and healing –
(2) Jesus healed lepers –
Jesus healed a cripple at the
Pool of Bethesda.
(3) Jesus preached the Sermon
on the Mount –
(4) List of Beatitudes
Matthew 5: 3-12
How blessed are the poor in spirit:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are the gentle:
they shall have the earth as inheritance.
Blessed are those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those
who hunger and thirst for uprightness:
they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
they shall have mercy shown them.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
they shall be recognised
as children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted
in the cause of uprightness:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and
speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven; this
is how they persecuted the prophets before you.
(5) Matthew 7: 12
'So always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the Law and the Prophets.
(6) Building our house on rock
and not sand is
important!
(7) Jesus taught simply so we
could understand!
Jesus taught in parables!
(8) Whatever we sow –
so shall we reap!
If you sow disorder, lack of
authority, pride, competition,
argumentation, holding out,
you will get a mess –
(9) Jesus showed His power
in calming the storm in
the Sea of Galilee.
(10) Jesus was teaching the Apostles
to be able to carry out
His work in the Church –
Jesus taught them –
Jesus walked with them –
Sing: The King of Glory
Sing: To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
The Transfiguration
(1) We see Jesus walking on the
water – what a sight,
but can you imagine
the Transfiguration –
(2) He took them up Mt. Tabor –
Peter, James and John and
was transfigured before
them.
(3) They saw Jesus talking with
Moses and Elijah –
(4) The voice of the Father was
heard
"This is my beloved Son in
whom I am well pleased,
Listen to Him."
(5) They came down from the
mountain after the
transfiguration –
(6) Jesus tells them they must
have faith!
(7) Jesus forgave sins –
we see the woman
caught in adultery –
(8) Jesus received sinners
and ate with them –
Jesus came for all of
us sinners –
(9) Jesus gave us the
"Our Father" to pray.
(10) God gave us the Commandments –
The Ten Commandments
1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
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.'
Institution of the Eucharist
(1) From Blue Book II
I Love You
April 13, 1994
Words of Jesus. Read before the Tabernacle.
Jesus: How, child, do I, Jesus, tell you I love you? You hold on to silly things when God is in your midst and is ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same Jesus Who died a brutal death on the Cross.
Do you know I am truly present there? Do you know that God waits every day for you in the tabernacle? Do you comprehend even a minute amount of My love? You will never know of how I love you on earth.
I, Jesus, truly the Son of God, came to earth a man and suffered a brutal death for love of you. I love you so much! I remain with you this day. I long for your love. I want you to come and be with Me in front of the tabernacle. I wait, I yearn for you to come and whisper your love to Me. I am a person and I love you this day, with such an ardent on-fire love! No human could ever compare a speck to My love for you.
I wait, little ones, in the tabernacle. I wait for you to come and receive Me in Communion. I want you to want Me so much you cannot wait to come and receive Me. I want to be the love, the center of your life!
I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am writing to you this day. I want to possess your very soul and live in you. I have all you need, sweet ones. Oh, you are so blind! I long for your union with Me. I wrote the book of love. I instituted it, yet you go to the world for your love and do not even come to Me! Oh, I love you, little ones. Little ones, beloved of the Father, loved by the Holy Spirit, mothered by My very own mother! What more can I say? The rest is up to you!
I give you your will with such love and I want your love freely given. I am God. What do you think you could ever need that I do not give you? I am the Savior of this world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. I am waiting for you. I am longing for you. I am yearning for you. I am God. I have all you ever will need!
Surrender this life to Me. Pray My Prayer for Union with Me. I want to possess your soul and operate from your very being. I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am Who am. I died and rose on the third day.
Harken to My call, harken to My pleading. Spend your days in love with Me. Nothing matters unless it is rooted in Me and rooted in My love. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I love you with the tenderest love. I am waiting this day for just you, My beloved one. Come to Me for I am the tenderest of all hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- God's Blue Book, Volume 2 April 13, 1994
(2) Sing: I Love You Jesus
(3)
(4)
(5) The Mass is the sacrifice of
Calvary, sacramentally
make present.
(6) We pray our Morning Offering
and unite ourselves to the
Mass all day.
(7) From Blue Book 11 - April 14, 1996
Purity of Heart is the Key
Message for Shepherds of Christ
R.
The heart must be filled with light, to be one in Him. Love is deeply embedded in our hearts. It is okay to love deeply - it must be rooted in Him. Love is self-giving. This world with all of its sins has made many relationships sinful. Genuine spiritual love deeply embedded in Him is self-giving for the love of the other. Love never divides one from God.Jesus:
I call you to love as I have loved you. I stretched My arms and gave My all for love of you. My love is burning. I give you this love to share with each other. This love is always according to the Father’s will.R.
I can only love a few very deeply. God gives to us special relationships in which we love deeply.The Mass is the greatest sharing. Consecrating our hearts in Jesus and Mary’s Hearts join us in a special love relationship in one heart.
The apostles converted thousands because they loved, because they were in one heart in Him.
Our main purpose is to love God and love one another. Our main purpose is to love God and love one another. Our main purpose is to unite in this love.
There is such power in praying with our whole heart with one another.
I love you, my precious God and I love deeply all those deeply rooted in Your love. To be one in Him is to be one with all He loves. He loved us to His death. We must love more and more as He loves.
A most important aspect of love is to consecrate our hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the Hearts of perfect love. As we become one in Their Hearts, we love all. There cannot be division with any person and dwell in Their Hearts. There is not division in Their Hearts. Jesus gave His life for each and every soul. He loved them to His death.
Jesus:
In a group all must be united. You must be joined in one heart. To talk about one person in the group divides the group. I am calling you to always love. They surrounded Me and hollered: “Crucify Him, crucify Him.” The mob is not always right. The majority does not rule.I am the way, the truth and the life. They singled Me out and put Me to death. You are not of this world, therefore the world will hate you. I have given you each other to love. I am joining you in My Heart and My Mother’s Heart in the Shepherds of Christ Chapters. As you become united all over this world the light of My love will shine across the dark world.
Pray the prayers in the Handbook in one heart. This is most important - that you feel this bonding when praying these prayers. The apostles converted thousands, they were joined in one heart, praying and loving. You too must be joined in one heart in Our Hearts, always loving and giving of self.
R.
We must consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary in our family - in our groups. I cannot love too much. I cannot love my children too much. If it is love according to the Father’s will, a woman cannot love another woman too much, or a man another man, or a woman a man!Jesus:
I give you love. The devil has waged a war to keep people from loving. Children cannot be too close to parents, women too close to other women; men to other men if they are genuinely loving, according to the Father’s will. Love is giving of self for the love of the other. Love is genuinely caring for the other. Love is self-giving. Love is giving as I gave Myself for love of you. To unite every moment of your lives to the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world, helps in the work of redemption.Excerpt from April 3, 1996 discerned by Fr. Carter
This is the moment of sacrifice. The bells toll all over the earth and Christ, Chief-Priest and Victim, gives Himself in the Mass through the hands of the priest. I give myself in love to help in the work of redemption.
end of excerptJesus:
I call you to love, to love as I have loved you, to give and continue to give, according to the Father’s will. Many, when they feel the burning love for another in their heart, hold back because of the sin in this world. I call you to love each other with hearts of deepest love according to the Father’s will. I love you, My beloved ones, to My death, I loved you.Song:
A Song from Jesus
(8) From the Priestly Newsletter
Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church’s universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, ‘in this clean oblation’ He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS. XXXV, 232-233)11
11. Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS, XXXV, pp. 232-233.
(9) From Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis No. 58-59 AAS 35 (1943)
"How does Christ continue
the work of Redemption through
His Mystical Body the Church?
Basically, He does so by
re-living His earthly
life in the members of this
Mystical Body."
(10) From the Priestly Newsletter
At the Last Supper, on the night He was betrayed, our Saviour instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of His Body and Blood. He did this in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the centuries until He should come again, and so to entrust to His beloved spouse, the Church, a memorial of His death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a paschal banquet in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 47)9
9. The Documents of Vatican II, "Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy", America Press Edition, No. 47
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