November 8, 2015
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R. Jesus has taught us so very
much with His life. He has
taught us about the interior
life of the Trinity.
Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.
The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.
At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.
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R. Jesus
taught us about His
relationship with His heavenly
Father – the love of God for
us, the love of God, the
Holy Spirit and how He
teaches us and reveals to
us - truth.
John 16: 7-15
Still, I am telling you the truth:
it is for your own good that I am going,
because unless I go,
the Paraclete will not come to you;
but if I go,
I will send him to you.
And when he comes,
he will show the world how wrong it was,
about sin,
and about who was in the right,
and about judgement:
about sin:
in that they refuse to believe in me;
about who was in the right:
in that I am going to the Father
and you will see me no more;
about judgement:
in that the prince of this world
is already condemned.
I still have many things to say to you
but they would be too much for you
to bear now.However, when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking
of his own accord,
but will say only what he has been told;
and he will reveal to you
the things to come.
He will glorify me,
since all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
Everything the Father has is mine;
that is why I said:
all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
R. God is
absolute truth –
To be one, more and more with
God – we seek truth –
Satan is the father of
lies. Any deception we
intentionally give into, takes
us away from God who is
truth.
Dear God, I seek to
know You more and more
and to live more and more
the mystery of Christ in
my life –
It is a mystery – God reveals
to us more and more – insight
into the Divine Mystery –
That is why Mary told us to
meditate on the Mysteries
of the Rosary.
From meditating on these
mysteries we know more
about the love of Jesus
and the love of Mary.
The Holy Spirit works in the
mysteries of the rosary
to help us to know the mystery
of God's love, the mystery of
unity, the love of Jesus for Mary
and Mary for Jesus, the mystery
of death/resurrection –
the mystery of life – to know
more and more how God
abundantly fills us with His
life – God's life in us.
I reached out for my God and
He took my hand and I walked
in this barren land for a while
and felt deep security to know
how God knows all things.
We are like the pupils of a
class – eager to get onto the
next thing and God wants us
to stop, to be with Him, to
listen to the fluttering of the
Holy Spirit revelation in our hearts
and not to dismiss God so quickly
when He comes to us in a special
way and like children wanting to
play, we run away to the play-yard.
Jesus: Linger with Me now – focus
on absolute truth – So many are
so quick to run and I call to
them and they ignore Me for
their schedule, their plan, their
inordinate attachments they
worship.
I am God and you shall have
no gods before Me – no person,
place or thing – you put
before your God. The will of
the Father, I make clear to you,
but many do not want My will,
they have their will fixed so deeply
in their plan and live in
utter deception of their wrong
doings –
Even when I have given and given,
despite their willfulness, they are
fixed and locked up tight on their
plan that leads them from Me
and some are solidly rigid
and hard in heart pursuing
their own plan and fooling
themselves. They can fool themselves,
like a fantasy – they write the
script and try to force it to
happen.
My ways I make clear to those
who come to Me and listen to
Me in My gifts given in order.
I work in order, I am not combattal
and when one lives rigidly with
an argument on the tip of his
tongue – it tips you to the
unrest in the soul. I am meek
and tender in Heart. Deception
is far from Me. I am a God of
order and light.
People do not see how 'what
they sow – so shall they reap'.
It's like a parent who shows their
children it's okay to rob banks –
the children will watch the
parent and think it is okay
to steal.
The fruit does not fall - far from
the tree. A man so focused on
himself in misery – teaches others
to be distant and if he is flippant
he raises this in his children –
'So shall you reap what you
sow' –
A man went out and he put
great seeds in his garden and
the seeds grew and they were
as he intended – a great harvest.
Another man went out and
he was far from his heart –
he showed 'control' and
'rebellion' as his life grew –
the deception in him grew to
spread his weeds wherever
he could and when the shoots
came up – they were far worse
than what he intended, for
they grew and were thick and
out of hand.
You have so many days of your
lives to choose truth and not
deception. Little ones and all
that watch feel the disorder
and disharmony – the anger
is not easily concealed.
Like genuine love of the heart
that grows like ripples on a pond –
Love contributes to unity and
friends and the circle of this
building in love reaches out
farther and farther and farther –
A man planted love - every
where he went. This love turned
into a following of more and
more love. I carefully picked
your founder, Fr. Carter and Fr. Joe
to spread love to the world.
Jesus:
Ask yourself how Pope John Paul II
spread so much love and
encouragement every where
he went. He was so solidly
rooted in My love and My
truth. Pope John Paul II did so much
for the world in his trips to
Poland. Pope John Paul II taught love –
His virtue was seen. His life
was coming from his heart so
one with Mine. He lived the
Father's will in love –
You cannot even measure how
some great leaders sowed peace,
from a heart of peace – one
with Mine. They lived in unity
with the Father's will – they
were not rebellious, they were
peace makers of love – given
for others – from a heart –
grounded in love –
Love is not someone saying they
love you – then they stay far
away and do their own thing –
Love is in seeking God's will –
Love is in dying to self and
rising in God –
Love is in relationships, in working
with others to solve problems,
in working in misunderstandings
to continue to do the Father's will
Love is in observing God's order because
you don't want the slightest sin to
offend your God and others –
Love is in giving, as a servant for
the good of the other, because
you want nothing you ever
do to offend God's will by
rebellion to God –
R. Here is a quote from Pope John Paul II on the
Father's will.
Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter - Issue 3 2000
The Father's Will for Us - Our Source of Peace
Pope John Paul II instructs us: "The Church, as a reconciled and reconciling community, cannot forget that at the source of her gift and mission of reconciliation is the initiative, full of compassionate love and mercy, of that God who is love (see 1 John 4:8) and who out of love created human beings (see Wisdom 11:23-26; Genesis 1:27: Psalms 8:4-8)…He created them so that they might live in friendship with Him and in communion with one another.
"God is faithful to His eternal plan even when man, under the impulse of the evil one (see Wisdom 2:24) and carried away by his own pride, abuses the freedom given to him in order to love and generously seek what is good, and (instead) refuses to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when man, instead of responding with love to God’s love, opposes Him and treats Him like a rival, deluding himself and relying on his own power, with the resulting break of relationship with the One who created him. In spite of this transgression on man’s part, God remains faithful in love.
"It is certainly true that the story of the Garden of Eden makes us think about the tragic consequences of rejecting the Father, which becomes evident in man’s inner disorder and in the breakdown of harmony between man and woman, brother and brother (see Genesis 3:12 ff; 4:1-16). Also significant is the Gospel parable of the two brothers (the parable of the ‘prodigal son’; see Luke 15:11-32) who, in different ways, distance themselves from their father and cause a rift between them. Refusal of God’s fatherly love and of His loving gifts is always at the root of humanity’s divisions.
"But we know that God…like the father in the parable (of the prodigal son), does not close His heart to any of His children. He waits for them, looks for them, goes to meet them at the place where the refusal of communion imprisons them in isolation and division. He calls them to gather about His table in the joy of the feast of forgiveness and reconciliation.
"This initiative on God’s part is made concrete and manifest in the redemptive act of Christ, which radiates through the world by means of the ministry of the Church." 13
Pope John Paul II, as in Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, pp. 140-141.
22 Years Ago
November 9, 1993 4:45a.m.
Your Time Is So ShortJesus: My dear child, you must turn yourself over entirely to Me. Oh, child, I am your Savior. Do not ever doubt Me. Always count on My being present to you. The days go by with such rapidness, you will soon be with Me forever in heaven.
Everyone only sees each moment as it is occurring now. There is an end to all of this and your reward waits for you. It seems hard to think of this as ever ending, but time is so short, little one. Soon all this will be over.
Fight a good fight for Me. You need to help all you can to know of Me. Keep remembering that these days will not go on forever, that this life is so short compared to all eternity.
Some day you will truly be with Me in heaven. Your life is so short compared to eternity. Here today, gone tomorrow. All that remains is how you choose to live, for God or against God!
You are responsible for all your time and your actions and how you live in service of Me. It sounds simple but people alive on earth in sin cannot see anything else but what they are doing now. Satan blinds you into thinking this life will go on and on when, in fact, it is so short compared to eternity, just a short while. It is so easy to see. Why do you get so caught up in this life here? It is so short. The batting of an eye, the dropping of a pin, and your life is over and eternity awaits. Do these short moments mean so much to you?
Listen to Me, little one. Time is so short. My light is at hand. My time is so precious because it determines your eternal life. So short, indeed. Heed My word and listen to My voice. What you do, how you act, are so small when compared to eternity! This is no laughing matter. It is your soul that is at stake. It is your life forever and ever. Is a few years of life, holding on to such insignificant "stuff" worth all eternity? My life for you is so simple. Love God, love one another. Put Me first and all falls into line! So simple, but so hard for so many precious little ones. I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter of My law will pass away.
Here today, gone tomorrow, and I am your God. Come to me and all will be brought to light! He made the crooked ways straight and He nourished their souls. Listen. You do not know the glories that await him who serves the Lord. Hold tight to Me, little one. Hold tight to Me and receive a divine reward forever. May My name be exalted in heaven and on earth. The trumpet blares and the Lord ascends His throne. All know His glory. Their lives were not in vain who served Him while in their lives. Their rewards are as golden gems whose splendor no one can comprehend.
Heaven and earth may vanish like smoke, but your deeds will not be forgotten. Store up treasures in the life hereafter by doing good works. Keep your eyes on your Father in heaven, Who waits and loves you so. All will be made open in the end and your life will be spent in the hereafter. What a reward for such a short test!
R. Oh, Jesus, praise to You from the heights. You are so good and loving. We trust in You and Your mercy. Alleluia. Alleluia.
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21 Years Ago
I Showed You the Way -- I Showed You Surrender
March 7, 1994 4:00a.m.
Jesus: You are the city set on the hill. You will shine with the intimate love of Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am He Whose bootstraps you are unworthy to tie.
I am Jesus and I loved My little ones to My death. Do you know even a little about what it is to give your life for someone? Do you think of yourself and ponder yourself being this selfless? People cannot even take one hour to sit with Me. The world has made you all blind. You do exactly as you want. Meditate on My sorrowful Passion. Read My meditations on the rosary. This was My life, given for you, My little loved ones. I gave My life for you and you want more? You want more proof and signs, yet you cannot even pray a few moments after Communion!
I am the Master. I taught you about selflessness and surrender. Look at My position on the cross. Yet you hold back. You want your comfort. You want to make the world your end! Oh, you give a little. You give Me what you dole out, a little here, a little there, and say, "Okay, Lord, I'm good. I pray prayers. I spend my life doing holy things, but I am in control of what and how much I give you. I am in control, Lord. Aren't you satisfied?"
I am only satisfied when you surrender your all to Me! You give Me such little bits and pieces and you pat yourself on the back and look at the sick world and say, "Well, I am pretty holy." This is not the point. You judge, you decide, you do your own will! This is you, playing the game of running your life! You give here, you keep there. I want your all. I want your time spent alone with Me in front of the tabernacle. I want you to have an ardent on-fire love affair with Me. When you love, you give. You say to your lover, "Oh, anything you ask for I will give to you." If you ask for my shirt, I will give you my cloak as well because I love you this much!"
You don't know about love. You control your relationships with Me. Then what hurts My aching heart is how you talk about the love of God. There is not love in your actions. If you came and spent your life with Me, if you freely gave sacrifices for Me, this is love!
You look to the world and you judge yourself as doing so much. Look to Me, hanging on the cross, and judge yourself by My standards. I call you to an ardent love affair with Me. I call you to love--love of God, love of one another.
You do not have love for one another because you do not love God first. Love gives its all. Love does not seek itself. Love gives freely!
I died on the cross to teach you how to love. I am the Master. If you look to the world and judge yourself, you are not learning any lessons from Me. You must look to Me to learn from Me.
Look at Me on the cross, My arms outstretched, hanging from the cross. I gave My all! I gave Myself for love of you. I held not back a little. I held not back and I, God, could have stopped it all, but I gave you freely from the bottom of My heart with greatest love for you!
This, My sweet ones, is love. I showed you the way. I showed you surrender. I am Jesus Christ and I write to you. Do you listen? Oh, you, in your busy lives, do not surrender to Me even now.
What do I do to shake My beloved ones? You are all blind and dense. Look at how attached you truly are. You do not surrender. You do your will, you do your thing. I tell you over and over again to come and pray with Me for long periods. I tell you to pray after Communion. I write about praying before the tabernacle, but you do your will. You go to the world. You ask your questions there. You look for answers from each other. You do not surrender even one hour of your time.
I come and you receive Me, the Son of God, in Holy Communion! Do you stay and sit with Me or do you do what you want? I died for you, yet you cannot let go of even little things.
I am Jesus, Son of God. If you who profess to love Me cannot give of your life to Me, how do you expect others to learn from you? You teach as you are. You teach in your actions. Your actions are selfish and centered on self. I call you to denial of self and love of God.
One person fixed to the true life of Christ can move a mountain. You follow the world and try to do it yourself.
I preach coming to Me and sitting with Me. I, God, have all the answers. No one listens. What do I do to shake My faithful ones in their comfort?
I am Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God. I want to dwell in you and operate with the power of God. I invite you to My altar. I sit and wait with all the answers and you, in your pride, tell Me, "I am too busy."
Busy yourself for your day is at hand and you will know My might! I will shake the earth and you will listen. Then you will listen, but where were you when I gave you forewarning? You are waiting for the big boom. I am calling you now to listen to Me here.
Play your safe game. Waste your time. I am God and I am talking to you. You do it your way. I sit with the answers. Every answer is given here. I want My beloved ones to read these letters. I grow so tired of your foolishness. I am God and you are busy. Die to yourself, child. I showed you the way. I lead. You must follow Me!
I am your God. You shall have no gods before Me! Do you pray to Me in silence? You want your answers given to you. You want My love given instantly as you demand. I am waiting for a love affair with you. The fire of love is enkindled. Love is time spent together. Lovers sit together for long hours and learn to know one another. Would you give so little of yourself to develop a love affair with Me? I sit, I wait. I am there at every moment in all the tabernacles of this world, and you are busy!
Time is so short. One moment and it is up in smoke.
All that remain are the things of God. You are here to know, love and serve Me. I am sending out an urgent plea to publish all these messages--now.
These letters will turn the cold hearts to love. Do you not think I have all the power? You tarry, you deliberate. I grow tired. I am God and no one listens. You want Me your way. You want Me to come your way.
I sweetly tell you, in My gentle love letters, that I come, Jesus, the Son of God, gently in Communion. You are numb and blind. You want Me to roll drums and blare trumpets, but I come in the quiet moments. I roll no drums, I blare no trumpets. I come and you miss My calls!
What do I do to shake you? I, in all My might, can rock you off your rockers. I try to prepare you but you are too busy. Hold on to your last piece of dust and watch it go up in your face!
I am Jesus Christ, Son of God and I write to you and who pays heed here? This should tell you of your attachment to worldly things. You want proof. You look the other way. I am God and you contain the mighty medicine for this sick world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. Do you listen? Look at Me, dying on the cross. I gave My all for you. Do you not think I would send a mighty medicine this day for you? You are so blind. You do not listen.
I, God, talk here to you this very day.
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21 Years Ago
Do Not Worry
May 3, 1994 5:00a.m.
Jesus: My dear child, what are you doing? Do not worry. Put all doubt aside and let Me comfort your heart. I am God. This life is very short. You do not focus on the things of this world.
Satan wants to get you focused on yourself always. Pray to be led by Me. Live for love of Me. Live only to draw all close to My Sacred Heart. Operate for love of your brothers. You will not become prideful or boastful if you constantly focus on bringing others close to Me. That is your goal, to draw others to My Sacred Heart, to tell them of My ardent love, to lead others to My arms. Your job is to promote the love of Jesus. Do not be smart in your speech. Be loving. Operate to draw others close to Me.
Do not be hurried. When someone approaches you, speak of My love. I am sending people to you. A few words from these letters can help a hurting soul. Do not focus on yourself at all. Focus totally on My letters to them. Love, love, love!
If you feel yourself getting irritated at your brother, pray for him and yourself. Pray to act Christ-like.
Do not be rushed. You are going nowhere. The love you give this day is all that matters. How did you preach the gospel in your being this day?
I am the Way. I am the Truth. I am the Life. I am your precious Jesus. Oh, how I love you, little one. Tell all how tender I am and how I wait for them and want to share Myself with them. I am the tenderest of hearts.
Mary is very close to you. She is so loving to her children! We are guarding your every move. Let go into the loving arms of Me and My mother. It is a fact that we are truly by your side, loving you and guarding you. Angels go where you walk. Pray to us constantly. We are always there.
Continue to focus on your union with Me. Pray the prayers, become selfless. You are not in this in any way to promote yourself. Constantly pray the Prayer for Union with Me. You must remain selfless or Satan moves in.
Let each day unfold. Do not be anxious. Let go. You are going nowhere. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and I walk with you wherever you go. Feel My presence by your side, talk to Me, walk with Me. I am your best friend. Love Me, little one. I love you so and I want to be united to you. No human can be in union with you as I can. Let go and let it happen. Focus on Me and Me alone. You will love others when you are focused on Jesus. Love is from the heart. It is action. Do not hold back your emotions. Love Me, love your brothers!
Oh, how I love you, My sweet, little, beautiful children, created by My Father. You are His handiwork. Honor the creation the Father has made. Be loving to one another.
You are all His creations and I would die this day for your brothers. Guard your thoughts. Only think pure, loving thoughts. If you are troubled, pray. I will handle you and your problems. I love you so.
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21 Years Ago
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)
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R. Another new day –
Day after day – the Lord gave me a new
slate to live for Him –
the light came up again in stages –
first I saw the tree tops and
house tops as the light rose
in the sky –
then I saw more clearly – the
houses showed and windows
and doors –
the street could be seen to take
me to Church and school
and work –
Then from the darkness rose the
light more and more and more –
until soon I saw everything so
clear –
even a little bird came in
the tree by my window
Every day – a new day – to serve
God – to be free in our
hearts – to be one in our
hearts – to build the life
with others God has chosen
us to work with in the
building of the Kingdom.
R. God is a
mystery and we must
seek Him –
we must learn to work with
others He intends us to work
with in love –
It's about love –
It's about relationship –
It's about building relationships –
We know we get older and we
were made to move on –
hopefully to our heavenly
home – with God – in
loving relationship forever –
We are here to learn to love –
Sin blinds a man – more and more
to the truth –
Who would want to go there –
Sin puts stain on our soul –
We are accountable and responsible
for our actions –
We are to work on wounded
relationships –
admit it when we sin
and say we are sorry –
Try to make the bridge where
we caused the breach –
We just don't keep sinning and
stick wounds in others over
and over again – like Christ
paid for when He was beaten
for our sins –
We try to mend the relationships
when we sinned with
God and others we are
to work with –
This is justice
We give to God what is His due –
We don't operate in deception,
stabbing others in the back,
over and over again like
they did when they whipped
Christ's back –
They beat His back for our
sins –
Christ knows our sins and
He paid a big price so we
could be forgiven and some day
go to heaven –
Living is about relationships –
Living is about loving –
Living is about repairing the
breach – not adding
deception upon deception
and stabbing our brothers
in the back with our
sins –
Sin puts stain on our soul –
Sin drives us away from
God who is all good –
Today the morning came and the
light began to come out of the
darkness – as the light came
brighter the houses and sky
were covered with thick fog –
I kept wanting it to lift and
at long last it did as the
morning went on, but a
big rain came soon and the
day was not so clear as I had
hoped –
Think of the stain of sin on the
soul – we can ask God to
help us to see the sinfulness in our
actions that drive us from Him
and others and tell Him we are
sorry and tell others we are
sorry
We can think of the fog like
the sin that stains the soul
and we deceptively try to
hide and never tell God we
are sorry or build the bridge
with others to repair the
breach we caused where we
needed to love –
It's like the fog never lifts and
the fog can get thicker and
thicker –
like blindness when it could
have been clear –
How well do we see in relationships
clouded with bitterness, anger,
envy, jealousy that was never
washed clean by the new
fallen snow or the crystal
clear rain –
Years and years of stains of
sins that were never
brought to light and
no bridge built for the
breaches that sin made –
Stain of sin darkens the light
of reasoning –
And this makes it hard for
a man to even see the good
he needs to do.
Instead of living virtuously
in a working, honest, relationship
with others and God –
He can be dishonest and
stuck in a bucket of stagnant
water where the rupture in
his heart was wounded and
never repaired by loss, or sin or
whatever the trauma was that
made this reaction become
deception or bitterness.
God is the only source of
true happiness. The virtuous
man wants only God's truth
in him and doesn't want
to offend God with the
slightest sin. When he does sin,
he is immediately ready to make
recompense and try to
restore the wounded relationship
with God and others –
Sin is disorder –
God operates in order –
Sin brings disdain when
one refuses to come
clean and brings great
punishment in the life
of the sinner –
Only in God is their real
happiness –
God intends us to communicate
in love and to work
through our offenses
in love with others –
not hold out, – but be
harmonious –
Slothfulness or holding out what
God wants us to do in
harmony and love is a
bad habit and
holding out in contrariness
is far from God –
Sin is turning away from God –
what God wants –
Sin is turning away from love –
Sin is remaining
in deception
having offended God and others
and continuing the same
sin over and over and over again
offending God and others over and
over and over again with no
recognition of the damage of
the offense or the desire in
honesty to even recognize
the offense –
A sinner who turns away from
God like this becomes more
and more hard in heart
and angry because they
oppose God's plan – who
created them to love –
And only unity with God brings
true happiness –
Sin is paid for in one way
or another –
Sin drives us from happiness
because happiness is found
in serving God –
God gives us confession –
We have the opportunity to
come clean by trying
to repair the breach
brought on by sinful,
unloving actions –
This reparation, confession,
sorrow for sin – real
sorrow for sin and a
firm purpose of amendment to
turn away from the sin and
back to God can help us
restore the relationships that
were hurt by sin.
We watched a movie about a
priest in a concentration camp
in World War II and how they were
beaten for no reason – mocked –
In this movie the man was beaten
on the head, crowned with thorns
and crucified. He did nothing,
the men were violent and
cruel, seeped in power and angry –
Anger like this is a menace –
Jealousy is a menace when
one gives into it and
into it
And in envy, hates others looking
good over them.
It is just a very bad habit and
envy is a deadly sin because
it "deadens" the heart
to feel –
God gave me these messages so
we would advance to have
hearts of love – more and
more likened to Him –
Song: Give Me Your Heart Oh Jesus –
R. The devil can blind a man if the
man gives in – over and
over again and
envy becomes his way of
acting –
wanting a person to never
look better than them or
they will bring them down –
Likewise the person of pride and
jealousy and anger can fall
so far – they want no correction
by authority if they are called
to work with others –
Bad habits of pride – seeking dominance
for dominance sake can be
wrapped up in a person not
feeling good about themselves
and losing power in a big
way due to some trauma –
So they can seek a person to
dominate, to have power
over – ALWAYS – in
an attempt to repair power
taken from them by others
in the past –
DISORDER is disorder
Sin is Disorder –
Romans 8: 5-9
Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
R. Envy can
be so habitual a person
cannot stand others or a
certain other to look good
or they think it detracts
from them –
The person rooted in God rejoices
in one who is good and
experiencing good fortune –
The envious person can live a life
of wanting to bring the person
looking good – down –
This is evil – it is a deadly sin
to be envious.
The man of jealousy sees others
and because of his own
bitter heart is jealous
of others who he can even
see being happy.
The deadly sins are bad habits
that take a person into
very much misery and bitterness.
Being mean toward others should
never feel good –
Jesus is compassionate and
loving in Heart –
Sorrowful –
Agony –
in His perfection
Christ said "yes"
to the bitter passion
Christ saw all of us that
don't give thoughts to
our selfishness
while He paid with His Blood –
He paid in love for us –
We cannot even comprehend
in our feeble minds
the love of the Almighty God.
Given October 16, 2015
R. Dear Holy Spirit please impart to me
Wisdom to do the will of God.
My life is yours –
My heart is yours –
My hope is in Thee –
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my trust
in Thee –
Holy Spirit fill me with love –
Impart to me the gift of
Counsel to know what
I should do in the
uncertainties of life –
Help me God –
Fill me with Your grace –
Fill me with Your love –
Amen –
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place
my Trust in Thee
R. We are here in the world
this day. God loves us and
wants us to see ourselves in the
Plan of God the Father.
God has a Plan for us today.
See yourself in salvation history
See how God wants us to love
and serve Him today –
Be plugged into God's Plan
R. God created us in love. God's
plan is loving – Babies are
created in love –
See a little baby
R. God created the universe
God created us to know, love
and serve Him –
God is all good –
In justice we deserve to give
God what is His due –
to love and serve and know
Him as best we can!
Purpose of creation –
we are to give glory to God –
God created the stars
the stars responded –
God created light –
and there was light
Genesis 1: 2-5
Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.
God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. God called light ‘day’, and darkness he called ‘night’. Evening came and morning came: the first day.
Genesis 1: 26-27
God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’
God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
Genesis 2: 18
Yahweh God said, "It is not right that the man should be alone. I shall make him a helper."
Genesis 2: 21-23
Then, Yahweh God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And, while he was asleep, he took one of his ribs and closed the flesh up again forthwith. Yahweh God fashioned the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. And the man said:
This one at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh!
She is to be called Woman,
because she was taken from Man.
R. Man was given a free will –
Pride can ruin a man –
Seeking dominance for
dominance sake –
Sin entered the world
Genesis 3: 1-7
Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.
R. Adam and Eve were sent from
the Garden
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11) Blue Book 16 and cover and all involved.
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2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
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23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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