Prayer for Grace for our Country

                November 30, 2018

                R. Think of an organization and how it
                survives so many years. The Shepherds of Christ
                is 24 years old.

                    Now look at the Church, founded by
                Jesus – look how old it is.

                    Look at all the saints who gave their
                lives for the building up of the Church,
                look at St. Stephen the first Martyr –

                    All the poverty, trials, injustices, wars, plagues,
                disorders in the world. Look at men with minds
                that helped the world to grow.

                    Look at all the popes that were
                in charge in the Church –

                    God used women and men saints in
                the Church. The Holy Spirit at work in
                all people and problems, sanctifying
                souls that co-operated with
                God's grace –

                    We are part of a major plan in these
                24 years – praying hard for the Church –
                praying from our little simple Church
                in China, Indiana, sending out materials
                rooted in the Bread of Life the
                Eucharist and the Word, spreading the
                devotion to the Sacred Heart and Mary's
                Immaculate Heart –

    From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

                R. There were many saints in the Church,
                martyrs that suffered so things
                did not go off –

                St. Thomas More for example –

                St. Joan of Arc
                St. Catherine of Siena
                St. Pope John Paul II
                St. Gertrude the Great
                St. Elizabeth
                St. Teresa of Avila
                St. John of the Cross
                St. Angela Merici
                St. Charles Borromero
                St. Ignatius Loyola
                St. Francis
                St. Claire

                So much trials in the world,
                    Wars –
                    Schisms                   

                St. Margaret Mary Alacoque 1647
   

                R. St. Pius X encouraged
                    frequent communion

                St. Francis de Sales
                St. Vincent de Paul
                St. John Baptist de la Salle
                St. Rose of Lima
                St. Isaac Jogues, John de Brebeuf
                    and other Jesuit Martyrs
                    shed their blood to help
                    the world to be holy –

                Franciscans were civilizing the
                    Indians building missions

                The Jesuits were suppressed
                    in the third quarter of the
                    18th Century –

                John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)

                Pope Leo XIII Encyclicals – last
                    pope of 19th Century –
                    His reign was enlightenment,
                    peace and blessing for nations.

                R. St. John Vianney, Cure of Ars
                St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
                St. Therese of the Child Jesus
                St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes
                St. John Bosco –

                R. Pius XII - pope to have visited Americas

                St. Faustina

                We should be happy and proud and
                    thankful for the Church.

                This is such an organization
                    on earth –

                Mary appeared in Clearwater December 17, 1996.

                R. This is a privilege to be called by God
                    to this Movement to help the
                    Church.

                We are to co-operate with the Holy Spirit
                    in helping to build up the
                    Mystical Body of Christ – the Church,
                    with this Movement, our prayers,
                    the writings, the gifts our Founder
                    gave us, Fr. Carter, S.J., gifts
                    through Fr. Joe –

                Sin drives the Holy Spirit from our souls –

                This is a privilege –

                God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in our
                    graced, baptized souls –

                Sin takes us from the goal of
                    eternal happiness –
                    SHIPWRECK –

                God loves us so much –
                    Jesus gave us the Church

                R. Christ is the Head of the Church –

                The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ.

                The Holy Ghost is the soul of the Church.

                We are the members –

                God opens the supernatural world
                    to us in Baptism and
                    gives us a sharing in Divine Life.

Matthew 16: 19

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven: whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.’

 

John 20: 23

                R. Sin is the cause of unhappiness.
                Sin means we prefer ourselves to God.

                The deadly sins are also referred to
                    as capital sins

                Pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

                Sin is a turning one's back on God.

                In temptation we can
                    (1) reject motive immediately –
                    (2) dally with it
                    (3) yield and commit sin

                By giving into the thoughts of doing it
                    one is partially starting to give
                    into the sin –

                If the will surrenders to the temptation –
                    sin has been committed –

                Consenting to:
                    evil thought
                    evil desires
                    carrying out the evil –
                        by word, deed, omission

                If will refuses consent, there is
                    no sin –

                But if will says "yes" to the
                    temptation - sin is committed –

                The 3 enemies of temptation is
                    the world, the flesh and
                    the devil –

                Idleness must be avoided –

                Prayer to reinforce the spiritual life.
 

                Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
               

^SIX    The Christian and Sin 

We should not have a sin-centered mentality. Christ wants us to focus our attention on the positive aspects of the Christian existence. Still, we should not minimize the existence of sin and the part each of us has contributed to the sinfulness of the world. Anyone who tends to doubt the enormous dimension of sin throughout man's history has only to read scripture to be reminded of the truth. Every age has been hauntered by sin's presence, our own being no exception. Some say that the modern world is not conscious of sin, but this observation does not seem to be entirely true. Modern man has articulated his consciousness of sin very noticeably through contemporary literature, philosophy and theology.

To be realistic, then, each of us must be properly conscious of sin, of our own sinfulness, of the fact that sin constitutes one of the major obstacles to the proper growth of the Christian life. 

1. The Nature of Sin

What is the nature of sin? Contemporary theology emphasizes that sin is not primarily a violation of a law, but a disruption of personal relationships. Sin is a refusal to love. Serious sin is a radical refusal to love. Venial sin is a partial refusal to love. 

The most obvious personal relationship that is affected by sin is that between God and the sinner. In sinning a man fails, to a lesser or greater degree, to accept God's loving gift of Himself. He fails also to respond with his own gift of love. In serious sin man refuses intimate friendship with God. In venial sin he dulls the ardor of that friendship. Man, in so far as he sins, maintains that he does not want his life to be directed by the loving hand of his heavenly Father. He wants to be a law for himself; he wants to be the one who decides what is good for himself and what is not. Schoonenberg observes: "Especially in the prophets sin is an aversion from and an unfaithfulness to Yahweh himself; hence it is placed in the heart rather than in the wrong deed. We see that aversion, that rebelliousness, that lack of faith which precede the act of transgressing the Law already in the story of the sin in paradise, where it is presented as the wish of possessing autonomously the knowledge of good and evil, of being independently the Law unto oneself. . .”¹ 

As we sin and fail to love God, we close in upon ourselves. We prevent a further growth in openness to transcendence, to God and to His grace. We block off the source of our only real self-development and fulfillment. To the extent that we close in upon ourselves in sin, to that extent we feel the misery of sin. This misery of spiritual "self-enclosedness" is a faint participation in the essential pain of hell. The damned are eternally and completely closed in upon themselves, completely deprived of God and other personal relationships. This, then, is hell – the damned really experiencing no one but themselves. Hell is God's ratification of the choice which the unrepentant serious sinner has himself made. This choice is one of radical self-isolation. 

Sin is primarily a refusal to love God, a refusal to be loved by Him, to be guided by Him. In sinning, man seeks for a false fulfillment, and therefore actually becomes impoverished. The great St. Augustine puts it this way: "For when the soul loves its own power, it slips from the common whole to its own particular part. Had it followed God as its ruler in the universal creature, it could have been most excellently governed by His laws. But in that apostatizing pride, which is called 'the beginning of sin', it sought for something more that the whole; and while it struggled to govern by its own laws, it was thrust into caring for a part, since there is nothing more than the whole; and so by desiring something more, it becomes less. . .”² 

Yes, sin is an act disruptive of one's relationship with God. But sin has other dimensions also. It is a refusal to love other men as we should. For the Christian, sin is an offense against the covenant life of the People of God. In some way the sinfulness of the individual Christian makes itself felt in the corporate body which is the Church. The Christian, in sinning, is failing to love the corporate good of the People of God. He is failing to contribute his share to the progressive maturation in Christ of the total Christian community. The Christian in his sin becomes a burden to the People of God.  

Sin also is an obvious refusal to love others in those instances when one directly harms others through his transgression. So many sins come under this category: theft, all forms of uncharity, social injustice, scandal, detraction. Furthermore, not only does one man often sin against another, but he frequently leads another into sin. In God's plan man is supposed to help his neighbor achieve his temporal and eternal happiness, but how often, even among Christians, the opposite is true. Not to make a positive contribution to the true growth of others is failure enough, but to be a positive hindrance is a far greater evil. 

There is still another way in which the sinner refuses love to his fellowmen; when man sins he makes his contribution to the "sin of the world.”³ He thus adds to that huge, negative weight, nourished by the sins of the centuries, a weight which is always trying to draw man away from his God-given destiny. This mass of sinful ugliness, this "sin of the world," always has its considerable influence, but at times its hideousness makes itself especially manifest. The great race riots which have tragically risen up recently in various parts of the United States are examples of these special manifestations of the "sin of the world." Such events are not isolated instances of sins connected with race. In back of such tragedies there is a long history of grave social and racial sins, of seething hatred of white for black, and black for white. Such accumulated sinfulness in regard to race is part of the "sin of the world." 

There are many other examples of these special manifestations of the "sin of the world." There are the world wars and the lesser wars, with their share of unbelievable accounts of the hatred which man can impose upon his fellowman. There are the histories of the various crime syndicates throughout the world with all their blatant categories of human degradation – narcotics, prostitution, terrorization and the rest. There are the sins of colonialism and the sins of communism. 

The "sin of the world" with its stark and bold manifestations is a sickening reality. But a reality it is. And each man's sinfulness adds a little to this universal world sin. Each man's sinfulness contributes to sin's divisiveness. Man is intended to help Christ progressively unify all creation more and more into Himself. When man sins, he contributes to the disruptive and disunifying force of the "sin of the world." 

Sin, then, because it is a failure to love God, man and the world, is selfishness. Sin seems to offer some sort of happiness, or advantage, or fulfillment. But this is a delusion. Sin can accomplish none of these things, because man's only real happiness and fulfillment comes from his authentic relationship in love with God, his fellowman and the rest of creation. Sin works against all these relationships. 

Sin is so hard to understand because it is an absurdity. But if we are to grow properly in the Christian life, we must have some basic realization of what sin is, and of God's attitude towards sin and the sinner. Our best source for such a mature realization is given to us in the crucified Christ. In this figure we can know all the Father wants us to comprehend concerning sin. First of all, Christ crucified tells us very starkly of the overwhelming heinousness of sin. We know that sin is overwhelmingly evil because it alone could nail Incarnate Goodness to the cross. Secondly, Christ crucified speaks to us concerning the justice of God. God's justice does ask satisfaction for sin – yes, even that satisfaction which is the death of His Son. Thirdly, and very importantly for us poor sinners, the crucified Christ speaks to us unmistakably and overwhelmingly of the Father's great love and mercy towards us. Because of this love and mercy we can be so positive about human existence, for great as is the power of sin, the love and mercy of the Father, incarnated in His Son, is infinitely greater. This is our peace and consolation. 

God's love and mercy moves the sinner toward repentance, and when the sinner repents, God's love changes him. In Isaiah the prophet we read: " 'Come now, let us talk this over, says Yahweh. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.' " (Is 1:18). 

Included in our sorrow for sin is a resolve to take the proper means and precautions to avoid sin in the future. One of the reasons we fall into the same sins with the same frequency is that we tend often enough not to go to the root causes of our failures, and, consequently, we often fail to apply the more efficacious remedies. All this not to say that we should become morbidly introspective in looking at sinfulness. However, without succumbing to this type of introspection, we all must allow for appropriate self-examination and self-knowledge. 

Part of this self-examination and self-knowledge includes the manner in which I handle temptation in my life. The proper attitude toward temptation lies between two extremes. The person at one extreme is overly fearful of temptation, concentrates too much on avoiding it, and can even tend to equate temptation with sin. Such an attitude toward temptation breeds a negative mentality toward the Christian life, and detracts from the peace, joy and happiness which Christ wants us to experience. 

The opposite attitude is that which is careless towards temptation. To take reasonable and grace-inspired precautions against temptation is not to be negativistic, but realistic. It is to realize that I am a sinner, and that there are various ways by which I can be led to sin. I cannot avoid all temptations, but out of loyalty to Christ, man and the world, I should not recklessly bring temptation upon myself. 

Despite our best efforts there will always be some sin in our lives, unless God were to give extraordinary graces. There is only one human person, as far as our certain knowledge goes, who has been preserved from all sin. This person is Christ's mother, Mary. Let us remember this very important point, however. The Church's teaching that we cannot avoid all venial sin without a very special assistance from God refers to semi-deliberate venial sin. With God's ordinary graces we can avoid all fully deliberate sin, both serious and venial. It is this fully deliberate sin which is such an obstacle to our proper growth in the Christian life. Finally, let us remember that as we grow in Christ, even the number of semi-deliberate sins become fewer.

2. The Sacrament of Penance

All of us are sinners, and God in His mercy has made special provision for this fact. He has given us the sacrament of penance. It is fitting – in fact necessary as regards serious sin – that the Christian incarnate his sorrow for sin through this sacrament. This is in keeping with the incarnational and sacramental dimensions of our life of grace. These dimensions impel us to exteriorize or incarnate our interior life of grace. The central focus for such exteriorization is the Mass and the sacraments. This exteriorization satisfies both our corporeal and social nature. 

As regards this social aspect of grace-life exteriorization, the Christian must always remember that he is a member of the new covenant, he is a member of a community. In sinning he has not only failed to love God, he has also sinned against the Christian community, and against man in general. As he expresses his sorrow for sin to God in the sacrament of penance, the Christian also gives expression to this communal aspect of his Christianity, because the sacraments have a very definite communal dimension. They are the sacraments of a community, the People of God. Through the sacrament of penance, therefore, the Christian expresses his sorrow to God in community and he likewise receives God's forgiveness in community. 

Certain contemporary practices which strive to bring forth more fully the communal aspect of the sacrament of penance are to be highly recommended.⁴ The practices we speak of are those in which there is a preparation for private confession and absolution through communal readings, prayer and examination of conscience.  

What about the frequency of receiving the sacrament of penance? Some in the Church today seem to be questioning the value of frequent confessions of devotion, that is, confessions which are not necessary because there is no serious sin. What is the truth of the matter? First of all, it must be admitted that in the early Church this sacrament was administered much less frequently that it is today. Gradually, the practice of frequent confession inserted itself more and more into the life of the Church. It is difficult not to admit that such a practice has taken root under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Frequent confession, although not necessary, has various values. Rahner, in his usual penetrating manner, gives a contemporary description of the value of frequent confession of devotion.⁵ The new Dutch catechism puts it very simply: "Some Catholics have the habit of receiving the sacrament frequently. If this is the result of anxieties, it is not advisable. But if it is due to a desire to meet Christ as the Lord who forgives, frequent confession can be a very evangelical practice."⁶ 

In conclusion, we remind ourselves that the struggle against sin is part of the Christian participation in Christ's death-resurrection. In baptism we die to sin and rise to a newness of life. We are constantly living out one aspect of our baptism, then, through our continual resistance to the forces of sin. As with all elements of our Christian existence, such an effort requires motivation. We can use a variety of motives, of course, but all of them ultimately will be centered in Christ. To grow in the realization of what sin has cost Christ is to grow in the determination to avoid sin. To permeate such determination with love of Christ is to respond to Him who has loved us first: "The life I now live in this body I live in faith: faith in the Son of God who loved me and who sacrificed himself for my sake." (Ga 2:20).

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1. P. Schoonenberg, Man and Sin (Notre Dame, Indiana: Fides, 1965), p. 8.
2. St. Augustine, The Trinity, Bk. 12, Ch. 14 (Washington: Fathers of the Church, 1963), p. 356.
3. For one description of the "sin of the world", see Schoonenberg, Op. cit., pp. 98-123.
4. One description of such services is given by A. M. Roguet, O.P., "Les celebrations communautaires de la penitence" in Vie spirituelle, 116 (1967), pp. 188-202.
5. Cf. Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), pp. 177-189.
6. A New Catechism (New York: Herder & Herder, 1967), p. 459.

                Given November 29, 2018

                R. Advent –

                    We prepare for Christmas.

                    Advent means "coming"

                    Coming of Jesus, our Savior –

               Song: A Song from Jesus

                R. Christ's second coming at the end of the world.

                God coming in oneness in our hearts –

                Let us prepare our hearts in Advent
                    to make a stable, a cradle
                    of love in our hearts for Jesus –

                R. LOVE

                    Jesus, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity –
                came and took flesh as a baby, lived, died and rose.
                Jesus paid the price for our sins.

                    In the Shepherds of Christ the messages are to help us
                grow to fuller maturity in the spiritual life,
                for life in Him.

                    The retreats, Masses at the Centers are an
                opportunity for us to help bring down grace
                for the priests, the Church and the world
                and for the grace we need most.

                    The people waited for the coming
                of the Messiah. We are thirsty –
                hungry for God in our souls. Nothing else
                can satisfy the starved soul –

                    For 6 weeks before I received the
                Pre-Blue Book messages I heard –
                all day and night "Feed the Hungry"

                    The person using the Blue Books,
                Jesus' letters of love can grow
                deeply in love intimacy in their
                union with God.

                Advent is divided into 2 parts –
                    before December 17th and December 17th on –

                Mary appeared in Clearwater December 17, 1996.

                R. In the Pre-Blue Book I had a vision
                    of the Sacred Heart open and on fire and
                    called to help the world to know
                    about the love of the Sacred Heart.
                    This vision was 5 years before
                    Mary appeared in Clearwater
                    December 17, 1991.

                    The people of old were waiting for the
                coming of the Messiah. Isaiah wrote about
                this. Jesus fulfilled the coming of the
                Messiah.

Jeremiah 31: 10

   Listen, nations, to the word of Yahweh.
   On the farthest coasts and islands
      proclaim it, say,
   ‘He who scattered Israel is gathering him,
   will guard him as a shepherd
      guarding his flock.’

Isaiah 35: 4

and say to the faint–hearted, 
‘Be strong! Do not be afraid. 
Here is your God, 
vengeance is coming, 
divine retribution; 
he is coming to save you.’

                Sing: Oh Come Emmanuel

                Sing: Proclaim the Joyful Message

Luke 10: 21-24

The good news revealed to the simple
The Father and the Son

Just at this time, filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, he said, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, for that is what it has pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.’

The privilege of the disciples

Then turning to his disciples he spoke to them by themselves, ‘Blessed are the eyes that see what you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it.’

                R. We need to hunger for an increase of
                grace in us. We are hungry for God –
                "Feed the Hungry", "Feed the Hungry"
                He fills the hungry with good things –
                We have to seek Him – want Him –
                    love Him – open ourselves to Him –

                Sing: Remember Your Love

                R. He feeds the hungry with good
                    things –

                    This is a time when we feel the calm – like
                the song "Silent Night"

                    It is a time to be deeply united to our
                holy Mother Mary and the Holy Spirit.
                See Mary – the perfect handmaid of the
                Lord, so pure, so holy, sing and
                have joy to thank God for coming,
                for the Church and sacraments
                for the priest –

                Sing: See the Eyes That Look at Mary

                R. Here is a message God gave me on the
                    anniversary of the bombing at
                    Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1996.
 

                Sing: Yahweh I know You are Near

INTRODUCTION: Micah 5, 1-4a; Hebrews 10, 5-10; Luke 1, 39-45 Today’s first reading goes back 700 years before Christ. The Assyrians were attacking Jerusalem. The prophet Micah was speaking words of hope to God's people during this siege. Micah promised salvation would come, and it would come from a savior whose origin was out of an unimportant little village just seven miles south of Jerusalem named Bethlehem. 300 years before, Bethlehem was the birthplace of King David. Notice how their savior was described - his greatness would reach to the ends of the earth. When the Magi came to Jerusalem looking for the newborn king of the Jews, 700 years later, this was the Scripture passage that guided them to where Jesus was. It is an amazing prophecy and an amazing way in which God fulfilled it!

Mary by day July 5, 2000

by night July 5, 2000

                Excerpt from May 16, 2014

                Song: China Song

                Jesus: Fr. Carter knew how important China was to
                My Plan, the Father's Plan in Salvation History.

                Jesus: Every day you live is to please your Heavenly
                Father and to promote the relationships,
                as He desires that day to enfold in your
                lives to help in the Father's Plan for the
                building of the Kingdom of God.

                If you are doing other things, not what God
                wants, selfish pursuits opposed to His will
                you not only aren't doing what God is
                asking for, but you are taking others from
                what God wants of them to do.

                    What you do can make the difference
                to so many souls. Some I allow to suffer
                to help in the work of redemption – their
                suffering is redemptive –

                    You, I have allowed to suffer with
                those who oppose My Plan and work
                against it. I call and they can listen and
                respond or be the weak link to the Plan
                that can help so many souls to live to help
                build the Kingdom of God.

                    Your suffering can help souls to get
                to heaven. Your lives are like days in a
                book. When you take out a page of a
                book, something is missing in the story,
                when your lives are lived in your own
                agenda, doing your own will, seeking
                foolish whims and pleasures – those
                days – like pages in a book may be far
                from helping to build the Kingdom of God –

                Chapters can be missing and instead of making
                reparation to My Heart and My Mother's Heart for
                how you lived your lives, ignoring God's Plan
                for you – you can keep on lying about
                how you opposed God's will so – once
                again – you say –
                My face here below and how I look to others
                is my god –
                instead of plugging into the plug God
                wants you to be in and being connected
                to an undying source –
                you plug into nothing, that has might or power
                and just do your own will –
                one more time –

                Satan likes to tell you to do it your way –
                Be focused on your pleasures, satan says –
                Focus on yourself –

                Close in to relationships God is calling you
                    to, in purity for the building of the
                    Kingdom –

                Satan likes to waste time when no work
                    for the building of the Kingdom gets
                    done –

                People coming with an agenda and arguing to
                    try to stop what I asked for –

                I have called and asked for the Ministries –
                    The School Rosary Program –
                    The spreading of the Prayer Chapters –
                    The spreading of the Blue Books –
                        My sweet letters to My souls –
                        My teachings on the Mass –

                My Mother has asked since she appeared
                    in Clearwater for the spreading of
                    these rosaries from Our Two Hearts.

                You have so much time, I called you to give –
                    Meetings, people have all these meetings,
                    but I call for little discussions of My
                    Plan for these Ministries –
                    Oh we don't have any time for this discussion –

                Communication about problems is how they
                    are solved –
                    Some tell you – there are no problems
                    so they don't have to get involved
                    in helping you do what I am asking
                    them to help with.

                The problems you have are made by people who
                    are saying no –
                    some who have a responsibility to help –
                    not helping in the problem – telling you
                    it don't exist – so they don't have to
                    do anything then –

                Problems are a part of life and are to be
                    handled to help build My Kingdom –

                Those trying to solve what needs time and
                    attention as quick as possible
                    or ignoring it are damaging things
                    that I am calling to help souls –

                After years of this attitude –
                    satan makes it a rule –
                    you don't discuss anything that needs
                    attention –

                Order is the sweetness in relationships –

                Using time to argue, fight what I ask
                    for, not addressing problems is
                    like a man who has a bow and
                    arrow and a target –
                    He sends his arrow every where, but
                    where I am asking it to go – in
                    the center of the target –
 

                Jesus: Satan has lots of arguments to keep you
                    from doing what God is calling you to do –

                Pride – it must be, I am first
                            it must be, it is my idea

                Pride – focus on me
                            focus on my agenda - skip what God wants.
     

                Jesus: Every day is a new day for new life –
                Every day is a new day of Death/Resurrection
                    Dying to the ways you give into satan
                        opposed to God's will –
                        for control,
                        for distraction,
                        for attention

                I call in perfect timing –

                Satan comes and tries to stop what
                    I ask for –

                Mary appeared all the 5ths for almost 2 1/2 years
                    the 5th was the day God the Father sent
                    her –

                I called on the 17th for meetings for over
                    2 1/2 years leading up to
                    December 17, 1996 –
                    The men involved tried to change
                        the 17th meeting –
                        every month for their agenda –

                Father Carter died after the 6:20 prayers
                    on December 18, 2000 –

                    I called and he died when I called him –

                    I am a witness to how the Father's Plan
                is what is important. The time I died was
                by the Father's Plan – The 3 days in the
                tomb was the Father's Plan –

                    I witnessed to the Father, a perfect
                manifestation of truth and love. You
                as members of My mystical body, are
                to witness to Me. The Christian's entire
                life is to witness to the truth – to live
                in truth.

                R. We are to be witnesses to Christ with our lives.

                This is one way the world knows Christ through
                    our witnessing to Christ.

                The incarnation goes on in our lives
                    as we put on Christ.

                Many people want to hold onto their bad
                    habits because they don't want
                    to change.

                If bad habits are spiritual pride and
                    jealousy and envy and anger its
                    like throwing rocks in a garden –

                It won't grow fruit and vegetables on rocks
                    and bad soil.

                    If we are not witnessing to Christ in our
                lives others will not see Christ at work
                in us. Do we say we know Christians in
                today's world by how they witness to
                Christ –

                    We die to those ways not like Christ and
                rise more and more in the life of resurrection.
                Christ's entire life can be summed up
                in Death/Resurrection.

                    God gives us His grace, so we
                can die to those ways not likened
                to Him – we are always living
                both – the dying to those ways
                not like Jesus to live the life
                of resurrection to be more like Jesus.
                We are to die to self-will in all
                the ways we hold onto that keep
                us from living God's will.

                We conform our lives, lovingly to
                the Father's will. Our ultimate
                goal is a greater sharing in His
                life – in the life of resurrection.
                In this lies our peace.

                    We as members of the body of
                Christ are to re-live Christ's
                entire life as centered in Death/Resurrection.
                St. Ignatius teaches us about living
                the Mystery of Christ in our lives and
                Jesus and Mary have taught us about
                the Mystery of Christ's life in the
                Rosary Books, the Blue Books,
                the writings Jesus has given to me.
                We are to live out these various
                mysteries in our lives. We need
                to meditate on this – Thus Jesus
                and Mary gave us all these Rosary
                Meditations.

                    We live the Mystery of Christ
                in our lives. We live this
                Mystery in our vocation, called by
                God to do so. There are various
                vocations in the Church –
                We are to project Christ into
                the world – bear witness to Christ
                in our lives –
                We are to put on Christ!
                We put on Christ in our vocations –
                in family and at work, dying and
                rising in Him – We witness to
                Christ in our relationships
                as we live the Mystery of Christ
                and project the way of Christ into the world.

                We are united to the Mass all day
                in the giving of our lives in
                our vocation to God. We live
                the Pascal Mystery of Death/Resurrection
                in our lives, united to the Mass
                in our Morning Offering.
                We live in oneness in Christ our
                head as members of the
                mystical body of Christ.
                We are members of His Mystical
                Body in our unique way in
                our vocation united to the
                Mass –– ALL DAY!

                We are united at Mass –
                We are united to the Mass all day –
                We live the Mystery of Christ
                united to the Mass
                    ALL DAY as members
                of the mystical body of Christ
                in Christ – our head!!
                We are created social beings –
                We do not go to God alone,
                God communicated Himself
                to man in salvation history
                in the framework of community –

                The liturgy is communal –
                    we worship as one body
                    in Him –
                    but we participate individually
                    at Mass in this union.
                    We respond to God deeply in
                    our hearts to God –
                    We worship as one –

                We are a member of a
                    religious community –

                We are the People of God –