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December 15, 2004
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December 15, 2004
Jesus speaks: Out of darkness I have called you.
Sing song: Out of Darkness
Mary speaks: I am the handmaid of the Lord
Messenger:
We live as the spouse of Jesus
He is with us every second
He is attentive to our every need
The ocean is so beautiful
The sky so fresh and clear
But we can carry with us a
heavy fog.
Jesus speaks: I asked
you to do something
for Me and instead of doing
it you can just be
contrary
Messenger:
I remember when Jesus gave me
the prayer
the Intimacy with the Lamb the Bridegroom
of my soul
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
December 15, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
It was at that time I had
experienced so many deep
ecstasies with Jesus.
I know Jesus acts on my soul
when He chooses I am eager
and ready for Him to act on
my soul.
Many days go by when the devil
presses in and tries to get us
to be divided.
Here is the prayer of Jesus
before He went to His bitter
passion.
John Chapter 17
After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:
Father, the hour has come:
glorify your Son
so that your Son may glorify you;
so that, just as you have given him
power over all humanity,
he may give eternal life
to all those you have entrusted to him.
And eternal life is this:
to know you,
the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I have glorified you on earth
by finishing the work
that you gave me to do.
Now, Father, glorify me
with that glory I had with you
before ever the world existed.
I have revealed your name
to those whom you took from the world
to give me.
They were yours
and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.
Now at last they have recognised
that all you have given me
comes from you
for I have given them
the teaching you gave to me,
and they have indeed accepted it
and know for certain
that I came from you,
and have believed
that it was you who sent me.
It is for them that I pray.
I am not praying for the world
but for those you have given me,
because they belong to you.
All I have is yours
and all you have is mine,
and in them I am glorified.
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you.
Holy Father,
keep those you have given me
true to your name,
so that they may be one like us.
While I was with them,
I kept those you had given me
true to your name.
I have watched over them
and not one is lost
except one who was destined to be lost,
and this was to fulfil the scriptures.
But now I am coming to you
and I say these things in the world
to share my joy with them to the full.
I passed your word on to them,
and the world hated them,
because they belong to the world
no more than I belong to the world.
I am not asking you
to remove them from the world,
but to protect them from the Evil One.
They do not belong to the world
any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth;
your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world,
I have sent them into the world,
and for their sake I consecrate myself
so that they too
may be consecrated in truth.
I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.
Father,
I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see my glory
which you have given me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
Father, Upright One,
the world has not known you,
but I have known you,
and these have known
that you have sent me.
I have made your name known to them
and will continue to make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me
may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.
December 15, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
Here is a picture of China inside the
Church in China during our
recent retreat.
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December 15, 2004 message continues
Messenger: The last time it snowed was April 13, 2004.
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December 15, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
Big flakes were coming down on December 13, 2004.
It was 8 months since this last
snow, April 13, 2004.
It was 8 years since the Mary's
Message tape and it was
first pasted out December 13, 2004
8 years ago like the snow.
It will be 8 years December 17, 2004 since
Mary first appeared on the
building in Clearwater.
Isaiah 49: 8-10
Thus says Yahweh:
At the time of my favour
I have answered you,
on the day of salvation I have helped you.
I have formed you and have appointed you
to be the covenant for a people,
to restore the land,
to return ravaged properties,
to say to prisoners, Come out,
to those who are in darkness,
Show yourselves.
Along the roadway they will graze,
and any bare height will be their pasture.
They will never hunger or thirst,
scorching wind and sun
will never plague them;
for he who pities them will lead them,
will guide them to springs of water.
December 15, 2004 message continues
Messenger: On January 2, 1999 Mary gave me this message.
January 2, 1999
Mary speaks: I am Our Lady of Snows. I come to cover the earth with a soft white blanket of my love.
I come to bring peace to the earth. I tell you to let go of the anxiety in your heart and experience my peace and His love.
I am your heavenly Mother. I come to hold you and caress you and take you to my Immaculate Heart.
December 15, 2004 message continues
Jesus speaks:
Some people are used to living
with tension people over them
making them feel they are victimized
a person can create tension themselves through
contrariness then try to control
the whole atmosphere liking doing this
and because they feel they are now the ones over
everyone else.
I am peace and love. Jealousy
is a contributing factor to why some
people act the way they do.
Socialization with others is vital.
I intended for men to work hand-in-hand.
People who have failed to have or failed
to be in intimate relationships may
think that being a "loner" is more
important than working honestly
and lovingly with others.
Some people do things to drive others
away by creating an atmosphere
of tension they thereby control
others, they think, they may try
through these measures to get
control.
People who are rescuers are
very often looking for things to
feed their false pride. They may
not be concerned with doing
God's will They may not be
concerned with the good of others
at all. They may be manipulative
and controlling and their endeavors
are for disharmony. Very often
they have a record of no successful
intimate interaction with others.
They like being alone and they don't
have any need for changing since they
see themselves as perfect and knowing
all things.
Some people rarely look into the face
of others, they are too busy writing
their own play that keeps them
isolated and not having to interact
in meaningful relationships with
others.
People need to be alone, but some
people really never learn to be
with others.
A man was made head of a house
he chased everyone away by his
gruff manner and attitudes,
poutiness, lack of openness,
real consideration for others.
People who marry many times get
married to please themselves - not share love
It can become habitual for some,
who from childhood have always
had some problem going on with
somebody
They live in tension
While children from healthy homes
learned to live in love and
peace and interaction and being
productive from childhood
Others from dysfunctional homes
lived in constant tension having
a dad or mom they feared
Wherever they go now they set
up this same relationship
where someone is suppressing
them and they act out all
their hidden anger on their partner or
someone they can now control
through their snarly attitude.
They take special occasions
special times of gathering,
Christmas, birthday when their
dad made them all suffer by
creating tension, being drunk
etc. and everyone else looked
like they were really happy
in the world so they felt like the
wounded child in the secret
house they never told the world
how truly birthdays and holidays
were.
In a normal house there may be
some tension before guests, before
parties, birthdays, but when a
person creates tension for the sake
of division when everyone else
is trying to have an event that
will mold people together then
you know that is not healthy.
Some people wait until the
birthday is there and then create
terrible tension to ruin the party
its sad and they then become the
one controlling events. What is
important to them, the dysfunctional one,
is not sweet peace and joy,
but they now have an opportunity
to rise up, be noticed and ruin
everything. Why?
It is most of the time
inability to share joy with others
seeking isolation and wanting
all to suffer as they once
did
control of a situation with
tears and anger
There are passive-aggressive habits
some have to control situations.
They never learned simple give and take
as children
Things may have been so bad at home
they were comfortable running
from the situation, reading books,
thinking, day dreaming
Now when others are around they are
uneasy they have old "patterned fear"
they think things may be threatening
they may be hollered at, they may
be criticized they learned to flee
from others as a child and so they
automatically don't trust others,
they may be suspicious
Little children learn to socialize
to trust mom and dad to work
with others
Children in dysfunctional homes
thought it was perhaps, normal
to live with tension, unforgiveness,
a fog could go on of heated
tension - red and angry - of
silence for months and years
problems were not handled,
perhaps, never spoken of
honest communication thwarted
Communication skills are learned
In math - there is a problem
It is looked at
It is understood
There are ways to solve it
If the math problem were given
and if the students never open
the book they don't understand
the problem they don't have
procedures to use to solve it
and when the test comes they
don't have a clue
they make things up
they leave the paper blank
they cover-up and try to fool the
teacher
Communication is like this
the tests come every day
the problems every day
the one taught as a child to
never trust, never look
honestly at the problem
has all this baggage they
learned
they learned dysfunctional ways to
try to get their needs met
and then most of the time not getting
hardly any emotional needs met,
they feel, they built
up big walls of protection
because they were wounded
emotionally
Every time they have a problem they
go through past learned means
to handle or not handle it
Few skills in dysfunctional homes
may have been learned to handle problems,
that is to say good skills
many games were used mixed
with stuffed, pouting, emotions
of a depraved child
If one who is dysfunctional was
unloved when shown love
today, they may do many things
a grown man can, when shown love,
reach out and hurt the one
showing love, trying to provoke
them to see if they will keep
coming and giving them more and
more love while they punish
them for the deeds done to them.
A small child when mother has
gone away on a trip may cry
and cry and when mother returns
want mother to hold them and
hold them while they cry and
cry and cry and cry
The wounded adult when shown love
may do the same thing
showing love to them is like
opening up a beehive and they
send all their bees out to
sting
Where a normal person learned to
give and take with love
relationships the wounded
child has all kinds of dysfunctional
ways of handling things
A person whose boundaries were
violated physically as a child may not
want anyone getting too close
because they are afraid.
Normal people have a sense of
what is a safe space
around them and they may
let some intimate others
in and not let everyone
be that close.
The situation I wish to deal with
is the problem, people who have
not worked much with others,
may experience when dealing
with others in close relationships.
In normal relationships people
interact and then they leave,
come and go etc. without
problems because they trust
In relationships where people
are very immature or wounded
they may not want to let go
find saying good bye difficult
because of their insecurity from
childhood (fear of abandonment)
A child of an alcoholic can be close to
mom or dad - then the mom or dad
have an alcoholic bout and
then be mean to the child the
next moment
Some people are unpredictable
they give into satan, they do not
control their temper one little
incident can kick up their
red flag and they can burst with
anger and everyone else is
saying "What happened?"
They see it as normal to rage
their dad did it they never
questioned it and when put
in the face of others they would
never stop They thought it was
normal. When finally others convince
them it is sick.
They can stop raging and then punish
others in a passive aggressive way
all are sick games of manipulation
and need healing not new ways to
play new games of manipulation.
A person with "lots of baggage" can
be very unpredictable and can
sell the company because they
got mad one day and wanted to
punish somebody.
People punishing others unjustly and enjoying
it are very displeasing to
Me.
I am God.
I am love.
You are here to learn to be holy
You have a lifetime to work out the
imperfections.
If you think you are perfect you
will waste the time I have
given you in your life
to learn to be more perfected like
your heavenly Father is perfect.
Your life is given to you to
learn to grow spiritually to
love God to walk hand-in-hand.
People who can only really get along
with themselves on a long-term
basis - do - just that they are
like a withered reed hanging in
the storm, they know their
own wants and desires and they are
perfectly formed, they think, even
though they are withered and half
dead.
When asked what you want in
an intimate other do you
want one who will turn on you
I gave you the story of Judas
instead of St. Judas, he chose to
hang himself.
It is a choice
I told you the story of Cain
Genesis 4: 6-7
Yahweh asked Cain, Why are you angry and downcast? If you are doing right, surely you ought to hold your head high! But if you are not doing right, Sin is crouching at the door hungry to get you. You can still master him.
December 15, 2004 message continues
Jesus speaks:
Holiness is holiness
Do you want to commit sins?
Do you want to be prideful
over your superiors?
Some people at age 40 say
"no women will ever tell me anything
I think they are inferior and
I AM SUPERIOR?"
My mother was a woman chosen
by God for this!
One cold winter day, Mary had the
choice to build a bridge
or blow it up
Every time someone tries to be the
one ruining the party because
of selfishness they have a
problem they want to have
the focus on them.
Learn from the fig tree
Bear fruit
don't be a shriveled tree and
die
Fruit can be juicy
Fruit can be dead
John 17: 21-23
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.
December 15, 2004 message continues
Jesus speaks:
Light the fire of love in those
hearts around you
Are you the one with the taper
because you don't want anybody
too close to you so you
burn all the bridges?
Max was sent to build up a
community every person
that was sent to help build
it up left because Max
did things that nobody wanted
to live with
It is hard being in a house
with a hermit
It is hard being in a house
with someone who is
unpredictable and can
blow
Mary had three children
Every Christmas and party
was ruined by her husband
he sometimes decided to
repair a leaky faucet
that leaked for months
right before the company
came and because of his
poor plumbing the water
then had to be turned off
permanently
one time he removed a wall
for some reason
right before the birthday
The way to live is to strive
for oneness
The Father and Me, the Son and
the Holy Spirit are one.
If you want to learn the
right lesson strive for
oneness
The Father and I and the Holy Spirit
exist in perfect oneness
I am the I Am
You are imperfect and
selfish
self-centered
Oh the games people play
Is there not a soul who
purely acts
If all you lived with was
yourself lately and you
fight to make everything
your way when one
person moves in
It's time to learn a spiritual
lesson
There are 3 Persons in One
God
3 Persons in One God
3 Persons in One God
God is love
From December 3, 2004
Messenger: My dear friends
Today the Feast of St. Xavier,
First Friday, Jesus appeared to me
as the King on His Throne at the
Cathedral where He told me to go
to Church.
On December 5, 1996 -
8 years ago Jesus appeared
to me at the point of death His
mouth moving, He was in excruciating
pain, I cried and could hardly stand
it.From a previous daily message:
I saw Him at the point of death on the cross
December 5, 1996, after Mary appeared 500 times.He hung, all battered, greatly weakened. His mouth moved very clearly. It seems that a man in His condition could not move His mouth to that extent.
Later in the rosary that night, He gave messages and said: "No one was listening."
end of excerpt
Today the Feast of St. Xavier,
First Friday, Jesus appeared to me
as the King on His Throne at the
Cathedral where He told me to go
to Church.He was smiling and His
mouth moved and moved and moved.
He looked happy and the vision was
all aglow. He gave me a message to sit
in the first pew and He appeared
and talked about 20 minutes, He
was smiling.
May God bless you in this
most beautiful season.With lots of love and thanks,
Rita
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