Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.  

                November 18, 2019

R. My dear Jesus,

Thank You for all the beautiful people you have given me in my life.

Thank You for life.

Thank You for the priests, the Church, our country.

Thank You for all that You have given us in Fr. Carter, Fr. Joseph, Fr. Mike. All our beloved priests.

Thank You for the Mass, for Baptism, for penance, Confirmation.

All seven sacraments.

Thank You for everybody that helps us.

Amen.

We love You God.

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               November 19, 2019 

                R. Please pray for Joe, Mary, Jim,
                Dan, Sanja and Blue Book 19 and Beth –
                today is her birthday.

                Dear Jesus,

                    Today is an important day
                because God has given us life.
                I will do a healing prayer service
                today in China.

                    I offer You, my God, all my
                prayers, works, joys and sufferings
                in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the
                Mass around the world. Heavenly
                Father united to Jesus in the Holy
                Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit,
                I pray with all the angels and saints
                and the souls in purgatory, through
                the powerful intercession of Our Lady of
                Clearwater and pretty Mary for
                the priests, the Church and the
                world. Heavenly Father I consecrate
                the whole world to the Sacred Heart and
                Immaculate Heart in as far as I am able. I
                cast the devil into the fires of hell by
                the precious name of Jesus Christ,
                Your Son and I spread the Blood
                of Jesus on the whole world.
                Please send Your powerful grace.
                Please Holy Spirit come to this earth I
                beg You – May the Light of Jesus
                shine in all the dark corners
                of this troubled earth.

                    We love You God, we adore You,
                God, we thank You God for
                giving us life, all the gifts You
                give us – our minds, our hearts,
                for creating us in Your image
                and likeness.

                    Heavenly Father please hear
                our prayer. Help all the
                sick, Joe, Mary, Jim, Dan, Rosie,
                all the doctors to do Your will
                and to love their patients to
                help heal them because it is
                God's will.

                    All we do, we do for the
                honor and glory of God – Alleluia -
                Alleluia.

                    We pray for all hierarchy,
                for the mailing – Father Joe's
                homily book, for Blue Book 19,
                for grace for this prayer
                service today.

                    We are one with You, our
                beloved God. We want to dwell
                in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
                Come Holy Spirit live deeply in our
                soul.

                R. We love You, we love You,
                we love You –

                    Please help our priests, outpour
                Your grace to young ones to
                be holy, to know You and
                to do the will of God.

                    We pray for our children,
                we want them to know what
                is right and be holy. Help
                us circulate the rosary and
                these messages to children –
                Help them to love the Mass
                and the Church –

                    We pray this Christmas,
                that light will shine on
                this earth and bend stubborn
                hearts to love – love God,
                love themselves, love others
                and live by the will of the
                heavenly Father.

                    We are little ones, praying
                to You, heavenly Father,
                in the name of Jesus, in
                the Holy Spirit, united to the Mass,
                the angels and saints and souls in
                purgatory and through the
                powerful intercession of
                Mary, Our Mother. Amen.           

                Mary: My sweet little children,
                God loves you so much. Pray
                the rosary and meditate on
                Our lives. I am your
                heavenly Mother, I love
                you so very much, my little ones.
                Love – I love you –
                Your heavenly Father loves
                you –

                Carry your little crosses
                and meditate on how Jesus
                carried the cross for love
                of you, my little ones –
                Love this Christmas –
                Spread these two books –
                Fr. Joe's homilies, Blue Book 19 –
                they are related and
                a teaching Jesus gives in these
                troubled days –
                Adhere to the teachings
                God has given –
                Pray for strength –

                    I love you little ones
                so much, I am Mary your
                Mother – Come and dwell
                in My Immaculate Heart and I will
                take you to my Son, Jesus'
                Sacred Heart.

                    His Heart is on fire for
                love of your little ones –
                the heavenly Father, loves
                you His little child –
                turn to Him.

                Sing Song: Turn to Me

                Sing Song: A Song from Jesus

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

June 26, 2016

INTRODUCTION – (1 Kings 19:16,19-21; Gal 5: 1,13-18; Luke 9:51-62) No one knows for sure how often Jesus traveled to Jerusalem. Luke tells us when Jesus was young, his parents brought him to Jerusalem every year. It was about a three-day trip on foot, one way, if you made 25 miles a day. And that would have been a challenge considering that some portions of the trip were very hilly. Of course, we know nothing about Jesus’ years as a teenager or young adult. We only know about things he said or did after he began his public ministry. St. John, in his gospel, mentions three times during Jesus’ public ministry when he was in Jerusalem for Passover. Matthew, Mark and Luke tell us only of one trip to Jerusalem – Jesus’ last trip. In today’s gospel Luke begins to tell us about that last trip. It is an extremely important turning point in his gospel. Jesus knew what was waiting for him when he got there. This part of the gospel is called the “Journey Narrative,” and it goes on for practically ten chapters.

    Our first reading was chosen to correspond with the ideal of total commitment to one’s call. It tells about two Old Testament prophets, Elijah and Elisha, who lived about 850 years before Christ. Elijah was getting old and his life was coming to an end. At God's command he chose Elisha to replace him. Elisha was busy farming and Elijah came up to him and placed his mantle on Elisha’s shoulders. This gesture symbolized God’s call – that Elisha should replace Elijah. It would be analogous to my taking off my vestment and putting it over someone’s shoulders. The gesture would be obvious. The reading tells us Elisha had 12 yoke of oxen which would indicate that Elisha must have been quite a prosperous farmer. When he sacrificed his animals and burned his farming equipment, he was indicating his total commitment to his new vocation. Just as Jesus would do almost nine centuries later as he began his journey to Jerusalem, he broke completely with his former way of life and did not look back.

HOMILY – Most of you have heard this story, but it is worth repeating because it can speak to so many of us – I say “us” because I have to admit I’m as guilty in one way or another as anyone here. It’s a story about Satan calling his chief staff members together to complain that business is bad, too many people are getting into heaven, and the evil beings in hell had to come up with a strategy to change that around. So, Satan asks, who has a good idea of what we can do. One advisor said: “let’s tell people there is no heaven and they need to get as much enjoyment out of life as possible right now.” Satan was unimpressed – he said we’ve been using that line for thousands of years.” His next advisor said: “let’s tell people there is no hell, that magically everyone will be forgiven and everyone will be happy – no matter how much evil they may have in their hearts or how many people they’ve hurt.” Again Satan was unimpressed. “That won’t work. Too many people are reading the Bible and believing it.” Finally, a third member of Satan’s staff said: “Tell people there is no hurry…no hurry to change their life, to forgive someone who hurt them, to ask forgiveness for something they should not have done; there’s no hurry to get to Church this weekend - they can always go next weekend; no hurry to set aside some time to pray, to help a friend or neighbor - tomorrow will be soon enough.” Satan was impressed, but he said “what do you tell them if they are afraid they will run out of tomorrows?” Satan’s staff member had an answer for that too; he said: “I just tell them not to think about that. It’s just morose and depressing to think about – think about happier things.”

    As I wrote this, I was reminded of when I was teaching high school. I had to teach a section on the four last things. The students kept complaining, “why do we need to think about those things, it’s so gloomy.” By the way: the four last things were death, judgement, heaven and hell. They wanted to talk about peace, joy, happiness and love. Believe me: I’m all for peace, joy, happiness and love, but thinking about the negative events that might come our way – as they reach everyone eventually – help us to be better prepared to deal with them.

    Getting to today’s gospel, what is Jesus telling us today? He’s telling us there will come a time when werun out of tomorrows. In our gospel we see a determined Jesus. Following the will of his father is urgent. He didn’t have time to call down destruction on the Samaritans who rejected him, so they lost out on whatever he could have brought them. The persons who wanted to follow Jesus wanted Jesus to provide them with a few more comforts, or to have Jesus allow them to spend a little longer with their families. Jesus didn’t have time to do that.

    When a person is young, it seems like tomorrows are infinite. As we age, we realize that’s not so. Jesus knew his days were numbered. He predicted it three times. It was the suffering and the cross he foresaw, but he also saw he would enter into eternal glory with his Heavenly Father.

    He doesn’t tell us, if we follow him, we will avoid suffering – that’s part of life in this world for everyone, but if we follow him we can handle suffering more easily and our pain and suffering will lead us also to eternal glory.