December 10, 2018

                R. We were created in the image and likeness of
                God – we will do what we see others do. Children
                learn by watching those taking care of them –
                I had a dream a mother was smoking and I
                was shocked when her little child, about 4 was
                smoking a cigarette behind her.

                    Jesus gives us His Word to teach us about
                Himself. If children are subjected to lies and
                cheating they think it's okay, mom and dad
                do it.

                    A leader in any firm should create an
                atmosphere of unity and good work ethics –
                a good employee if asked to do a job does
                all they can to serve the person they work
                for.

                    Likewise our lives are to know, love
                and serve God – this is why we were
                created.

                    God intends us to be witnesses and
                leader and parents have a special
                requirement to be witnesses before
                others.

                    God commands us to love Him and
                love our neighbor as ourselves. God is
                our boss – God is the one we will
                answer to –

                    We see the humility of Jesus, the Son
                of God, to come a baby in the womb
                of Mary. We see how Mary and Joseph
                served God in raising Jesus.

                    We know wherever we are at work or home
                we are to make an atmosphere of unity and
                care and follow the rules set down for
                us.

                    God showed us with Adam and Eve
                when they disobeyed, it was such an
                offense against God – all of us, except
                Mary, have original sin when we are
                born because we are
                ancestors of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve
                were thrown from the Garden of Paradise.
                Baptism takes away original sin, but we
                have tendencies toward the deadly sins.

                    We are to prepare in Advent. Jesus came
                a helpless little baby in a stable – we
                see such humility, we see sacrifice,
                we see the hiddenness of God –
                Humility is truth – We don't put on a
                mask and wear the mask of pride –
                if we need to change old plumbing because
                it doesn't work – we do it –
                We are to have hearts, likened to Jesus, the
                Son of God, who in humility took flesh and
                came into the world in love to save us.
                His focus was always to help us to get
                to heaven – Jesus perfectly served the
                will of God in love –

                Mary perfectly served the will of God
                in love –

                St. Joseph was the servant that God chose
                    for the foster-father of Jesus –
                    He did his job in love –

                Humility is truth –

                We should see in the nativity story –
                    humility and love –

                We unite to the truth of Jesus –

                Christ came to be our Savior – to
                    bring salvation to all –

                Song: A Song from Jesus

                Song: Give me Your Heart oh Jesus

                R. When we are free – really free – we are
                    not attached to inordinate attachments –
                    So if I want to focus on the job,
                    God has given me – like St. Joseph
                    and Mary –
                    I pray to be freed of my sins –
                    being enslaved to pride, anger,
                    jealousy, envy, slothfulness,
                    lust and gluttony is not
                    being free –

                God please help us to be free to serve
                    and love You as we should –

                We see in the first reading today –
                the dream of Isaiah to be led out
                of captivity –

                Sinners must seek to be led
                    and set free of the captivity,
                    bondage of sin –

Isaiah 35: 1-10

Let the desert and the dry lands 
    be glad, 
let the wasteland rejoice and bloom; 
like the asphodel, let it burst into flower, 
let it rejoice and sing for joy. 
The glory of Lebanon is bestowed on it, 
the splendour of Carmel and Sharon; 
then they will see the glory of Yahweh, 
the splendour of our God. 
Strengthen all weary hands, 
steady all trembling knees 
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.’ 
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, 
the ears of the deaf unsealed, 
then the lame will leap like a deer 
and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy; 
for water will gush in the desert 
and streams in the wastelands,
the parched ground will become a marsh 
and the thirsty land springs of water; 
the lairs where the jackals used to live 
will become plots of reed and papyrus. 

And through it will run a road for them 
    and a highway 
which will be called the Sacred Way; 
the unclean will not be allowed to use it; 
He will be the one to use this road, 
the fool will not stray along it. 
No lion will be there, 
no ferocious beast set foot on it, 
nothing of the sort be found; 
it will be used by the redeemed.
For those whom Yahweh has ransomed 
    will return, 
they will come to Zion shouting for joy, 
their heads crowned with joy unending; 
rejoicing and gladness will escort them 
and sorrow and sighing will take flight.

                R. When a soul is led out of darkness –
                    there is light and peace and joy –
                    happiness –
                    led out of the desert of sin –
                    the bondage of darkness –
                    the willful spirit of rebellion to
                        offend God –

                The highway to heaven is built on
                    love and unity – obedience to
                    the Commandments, the laws of God –
                    respect for authority –
                    love in our hearts –
                    this is the highway to God.

                Song: A Song from Jesus

                R. In the Gospel Luke 5: 17-25
                    The Lord healed the paralyzed man –
                    The Lord forgave his sins –
                    The Lord restored his health –
                    The Lord brings joy to the
                        sinner who comes for
                        forgiveness and asks for
                        His mercy.

                Deliverance from bondage –

                    Christmas is the birth of Jesus –
                    Jesus is our Savior –

                    We see the return of the Israelites
                        from the Captivity of Babylon –

                    Highway to Jerusalem –
                        the Good Shepherd leads His flock –

                R. Shepherds of Christ –

                God is helping us.

                R. The Shepherd leads the sheep.

John 10: 11 - 15

I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
   for his sheep.
The hired man,
   since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
   and runs away,
and then the wolf attacks
   and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
   because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.

                R. Salvation is Good News!!
 

                Sing: Sing a New Song

                Sing: Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel

Matthew 18: 12-14

^{‘Tell me. Suppose a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays; will he not leave the ninety–nine on the hillside and go in search of the stray? In truth I tell you, if he finds it, it gives him more joy than do the ninety–nine that did not stray at all. Similarly, it is never the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.}

                Sing: Proclaim the Joyful Message

                Sing: Prepare in the Wilderness a Highway for Our Lord

                R. Life for eternity in heaven is being possessed
                by God in the beatific vision –
                Being wrapped in the presence of
                God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An eternity of love –
                which we were created for.
                Nothing here can ever satisfy us –
                God created us for the fullness of
                life in eternity in heaven.

                    When I was three my mom had
                just lost a baby, then developed
                cancer and died when I was five –

                    I called her my saint Alice – after
                she died we really started praying
                with 5 children and mom gone and
                my dad became very nervous, but
                was deeply growing in that cross
                in deeper relationship with God.

                    Suffering, when done properly,
                can bring us to new life. Life
                is depth. Life for me as a child
                grew in reflecting a lot dealing
                with mom's death –

                    We spent lots of time walking
                to Church and I made my first
                communion – mom was gone and
                my dad so nervous he didn't go,
                but from going to Church and all
                of us knowing mom, who was very
                holy, was in heaven, I felt connected
                to God from an early age –

                    We went to Mass every day and went
                to communion. Every one in the
                school (800 children) could go to Mass
                and receive communion daily if
                they wanted to – We had 3 priests
                full time at the parish.

                    I tell all this for several reasons:
                1) going to daily communion, praying
                daily as a family helps to bring
                down tremendous grace – even in
                suffering, even in trials, even
                when we are learning to love God
                and others more –

                    So much grace from Mass and
                before the Blessed Sacrament.
                I was a child – my brother was
                in the seminary when I was in early grade
                school – It was an honor to go
                and watch Mt. St. Mary's Seminary –
                which is now Our Lady of the Holy
                Spirit Center FULL of men
                studying to be priests.

                    They prayed vespers for hours,
                which was long for a little child
                in grade school and it was
                hundreds of young men praying
                and singing in the chapel where
                Mary later appeared to me when I
                was in my late forties.

                    I loved going there because Mary
                appeared and I received songs and
                messages in the chapel where
                Mary appeared and Fr. Carter was
                there many, many nights with my
                two children as we began the
                Shepherds of Christ Prayers –

                    Providence – we have to realize
                God has a plan for our lives to help
                souls go to heaven. Blue Book II, Fr. Carter
                said was on surrender, I lived it –
                Jesus taught me and wants to teach
                others through the messages in
                the Book. Fr. Carter lived by the
                Blue Books and helped me get
                them out because he said the
                Blue Books were as much mine
                as his.

                    Fr. Carter told me in 1994
                Jesus wanted the Servants and
                Handmaids of the Good Shepherd.

                R. Fr. Carter obeyed Jesus, he judged
                    what he did by moving ahead
                    despite problems satan tried
                    to stir up.

                On Lucia's birthday March 22, 1994
                    the whole corner of the Holy Spirit
                    Center fell off in minutes.
                    Like cutting a cake a whole
                        wing just went down –

                    Jesus said they were not listening –
                Jesus said before this they were
                bumping into the building –
                The morning the corner fell off
                Jesus told me I would be sitting
                on a chair, don't be afraid,
                and I would hear the biggest
                boom I ever heard and the floor
                would shake and men would
                run around in a circle, but
                don't be afraid, Jesus said.

                    After lots of struggle to do the
                prayer meetings and rosaries –
                Our Lady appeared in Clearwater –
                looking like Our Lady of Guadalupe.
                On December 17, 1991 Jesus said:

R. On December 17, 1991, I saw a vision of Jesus' Heart on fire after communion. He said – I didn't know how this Heart would lead people to His Sacred Heart.

                R. The Red Rosary book with rainbow
                    left the publisher December 17, 1996
                    and Mary appeared in Clearwater
                    December 17, 1996.

                R. Jesus lived a hidden, quiet life
                for 30 years –

                    Jesus came to this earth –
                We are to see that sight at
                Christmas and see the angels
                giving glory to God.

                We are to see that Jesus came
                    to bring peace to men of
                    good will –

                Jesus came to bring peace
                    to men –

                Jesus lived a quiet life –

                Look at the stable at Bethlehem.

                Mary is the Queen of Peace –

                God has entrusted the Peace
                    of the world to her –

                Peace is a gift of God –

                This is what God wants of
                us, peace as we rest in
                Him in our hearts --

                Peace to understand and
                recognize His blessings
                to us –

                The angels sang
                    "Peace on earth, Good
                    will to men"

                R. And the Angels sang:

                Sing: Angels we have Heard on high –

                Sing: Hark the Herald Angels Sing –

                Peace

                Sing: Oh Holy Night –

                Jesus said to the
                    Apostles after the
                    Resurrection
                    "Peace be with you"

                The Church gives us peace –

                R. We give peace to each other –

                The Mass –
                    We hear
                    "Peace be with you"

                Today's Psalm response –

                    "The Lord has done
                        great things for us"

                    "Peace I leave with you"

                Sing: Let There be Peace on Earth

                The world cannot give us
                    peace –
                    We need God –

                We know Jesus prayed in
                    the desert 40 days –
                    Peace is found in
                    our hearts –
                    inside –

                Inside in oneness to God –

                Deep in the interior life
                    we have peace in God.

                Even if one tortures a
                    man rooted in God –
                    the man in God
                    suffers, but the
                    torturer does not
                    penetrate the strength
                    of one rooted in God –

                R. No one can shatter a real
                    man rooted in God –

                Peace in Jesus is light
                    and beauty and joy –

                Peace in Jesus is
                    happiness –

                Sing: Peace is Flowing Like a River

                "Peace on earth, good
                    will to men"

                "Peace be with you"

                Song: Peace is Flowing Like a River –

                We as Christians should
                    have peace in Jesus.

                When Jesus is there –
                    there is peace –

                We have peace in our
                    hearts –

                We seek peace with
                    fervor and desire!
                    Working for peace!

                The devil is chaos,
                    confusion, turmoil,
                    clamor

                We must have faith in God –

                We must trust in God –

                Believing in the providence of God
                    brings peace.

                Sing: St. Francis Prayer