Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

December 2, 2015

December 3rd Holy Spirit Novena
 Scripture selection is Day 7 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for December 3rd are Sorrowful.


Florida Retreat
December 2nd - 5th
1:30pm & 6:20pm
Please tune in!

 

Pray for special intentions.
  

Pray for Dan & Melanie, Jimmy,
Fr. Joe, Mary, Blue Book 16.

Please pray for funds & grace.

    

 

 

Give the gift that Counts.

Blow Out Sale for Reprinting of Blue Book 1, 2 & 3

While Supplies Last

Blue Book 1   -  $4 each plus postage
Blue Book 2   -  $4 each plus postage
Blue Book 3   -  $3 each plus postage

Call 1-888-211-3041 for Doris

 

                  

New Homily Book - Cycle C
Available $10.00 plus postage

 
      

The Feast of St. Francis Xavier is December 3rd.
 
This has always been an important Feast.
 

 
 

There will be the special 5th service on December 3rd.
 
This will be played on tape December 5th.
People are called to come and pray both nights in Florida
and to pray in China
and to tune in and pray on the internet
for the Church and the World.
 
Come to the Virgin Mary building - the Building of the Two Hearts
 
and pray for the world through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater,
 
Mary Queen of Peace for Peace in the world.
 
Also December 17th is the anniversary of  Mary's apparition in Clearwater 19 years ago.
 
Come to the 6:20 Prayer service December 17th.

There will be a procession.

 

 

                December 2, 2015

                Readings for Tomorrow

Isaiah 25: 6-10a  

On this mountain, for all peoples, 
Yahweh Sabaoth is preparing 
a banquet of rich food, 
    a banquet of fine wines, 
of succulent food, of well–strained wines. 
On this mountain, he has destroyed 
the veil which used to veil all peoples, 
the pall enveloping all nations; 
he has destroyed death for ever. 
Lord Yahweh has wiped away the tears 
    from every cheek; 
he has taken his people’s shame away 
    everywhere on earth, 
for Yahweh has spoken. 

And on that day, it will be said, 
‘Look, this is our God, 
in him we put our hope 
    that he should save us, 
this is Yahweh, we put our hope in him. 
Let us exult and rejoice 
    since he has saved us.’ 
For Yahweh’s hand will rest 
    on this mountain, 

 

Psalm 23: 1-6

Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 
In grassy meadows he lets me lie. 

By tranquil streams he leads me 
    to restore my spirit. 
He guides me in paths of saving justice 
    as befits his name. 

Even were I to walk in a ravine as dark as death 
I should fear no danger, for you are at my side. 
Your staff and your crook are there to soothe me. 

You prepare a table for me 
    under the eyes of my enemies; 
you anoint my head with oil; 
    my cup brims over. 

Kindness and faithful love pursue me 
    every day of my life. 
I make my home in the house of Yahweh 
    for all time to come.

 

Matthew 15: 29-37

Jesus went on from there and reached the shores of the Lake of Galilee, and he went up onto the mountain. He took his seat, and large crowds came to him bringing the lame, the crippled, the blind, the dumb and many others; these they put down at his feet, and he cured them. The crowds were astonished to see the dumb speaking, the cripples whole again, the lame walking and the blind with their sight, and they praised the God of Israel.

But Jesus called his disciples to him and said, ‘I feel sorry for all these people; they have been with me for three days now and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them off hungry, or they might collapse on the way.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Where in a deserted place could we get sufficient bread for such a large crowd to have enough to eat?’ Jesus said to them, ‘How many loaves have you?’ They said, ‘Seven, and a few small fish.’ Then he instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks he broke them and began handing them to the disciples, who gave them to the crowds. They all ate as much as they wanted, and they collected what was left of the scraps, seven baskets full.

  

                Jesus: I am the way, the truth and the
                life.

                R. Our goal must be God –

                    Therefore we do not want to
                deceive in any way, but to bring
                to all things the truth.

                    We are here and we should have
                as our goal God and we must
                desire to please God, by willing
                what God wants us to do –
                so we pray for that vision of
                faith – to see God's Plan –
                we seek God's plan and
                God's vision and this should
                be our goal – to be on the same
                page with God – to have
                harmony –
                to want unity –
                to seek the will of God and
                to operate in love –

                God shows us this – obedience to God's
                    will in love –

                Jesus died doing His Father's will –

                Jesus operated in perfect love –

                We are to seek knowledge of God –
                this is our delight –

                We give loving obedience to God

                We want to do God's will
                in loving obedience –

                    Jesus showed us how He obeyed
                His Father's will to His death on
                the cross.

                    God loves our will freely
                given to God's will – given
                with a heart seeking, longing
                and loving to serve God by
                doing God's will in love –

                    Jesus showed us in the
                Garden – He obeyed the Father's
                will in love –

                    With the desire of His
                loving Heart – Jesus carried
                the cross and obeyed the Father's
                will in suffering and love –

                    Jesus' Heart is all pure,
                all perfect –

                    God is truth –

                    God has revealed to us
                about His truth –

                    We are to seek truth –

                    God is absolute truth –

                    Living in the truth helps us
                to be one with God –

                    Living a lie, the smallest
                lie distances us from God –

                    God is all knowing and all
                truthful.

                    God elevates our knowing and
                loving capacity in baptism –
                Knowing God on a supernatural
                level –
                It is a capacity to be made
                deeper as we live in Him,
                as we live in His truth,
                as we seek His will, His vision
                and we want to do only that
                which pleases God –

                    Our life, our vocation is
                focused on serving God –
                our goal is God –

                    Our goal loving God and our
                neighbors as ourselves –

                    We receive this elevated human nature
                to know and love in baptism –

                    We pray for God to increase in
                us these virtues of faith, hope
                and love.

                    We want His life to abundantly
                fill us.

                    We seek increase of His grace.
                We want to please Him, we
                don't want lies to be in us –

                    God is absolute truth –

                    We are here to live our lives on
                a journey to God. We seek truth on
                this journey to God. We live in
                the truth – we want unity with
                God.

                    The gifts of the Holy Spirit help us
                to see and have knowledge of
                our faults – to be able to
                strive to correct what we need
                to – to be more perfected as
                God wants – more in the image
                of Jesus –

                    We do not want to live any deception
                in ourselves, but seek to know
                the truth about our own faults,
                as not to offend God with the
                slightest sin.

                    We see the virtuous life –

                    We live the commandments of
                loving God first and loving
                others as ourselves –

                    God is love –

                    Our heart is to be more and
                more in that image of Jesus,
                by loving God and loving
                others – because God commands
                us to love –

                    The deadly sins
                    pride, anger, jealousy, envy,
                slothfulness, lust and gluttony
                are sins that drive us away
                from that intimate union with
                God. That make us miserable
                because of this, that lead us
                deeper and deeper into darkness
                and blindness and dull the
                vision of seeing through the
                eyes of faith the Father's Plan
                and loving God and others as
                God commands us to do.

                Heaven is for lovers –

                God elevates our knowing and loving
                    capacity in baptism so we
                    can actually love on a
                    supernatural level –
                    so we can see more and more
                    the vision of God –
                    and know God and want
                    only to do His will in greater
                    love –

                God calls Servants and Handmaids
                    of the Good Shepherd to follow
                    in the footsteps of the
                    Virgin Mary –

                    Mary is the highest
                in purity of human creatures –

                Mary conceived without sin –

                Mary shows us her love of
                    God the Father, the Creator
                    her love of Jesus to serve
                        God –
                    her love of her Spouse the
                        Holy Spirit –

                Mary is the perfect handmaid
                    of the Lord –

                Mary: My soul proclaims the greatness
                    of the Lord –

                R. The more pure one is, the more
                one seeks to be likened to the
                Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

                    The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are
                the Hearts of pure and perfect
                love –

                    We seek absolute truth –

                    We seek greater faith and
                the plan of the Father – to see
                through His eyes –

                    We seek the light –

                    The deadly sins of pride,
                anger, envy, jealousy –
                dull the man –

                    We are to live a life of
                virtue –

                    We are to recognize anger
                and pray for grace to deal
                with it –
                    not lie about it and
                    let it rule our lives

                We want our minds to be lifted
                    up –

                To seek God –

                To want to know God on a
                    supernatural level –
                    know His plan for men –
                    for us

                    What is the goal of God for us
                in why He created us.

                    God has a Divine Plan –

                    God created us with a purpose –

                    We see the big picture –

                    We want the big picture –

                    We want the plan of God to
                        enfold –

                We are not locked in a tunnel
                    of anger and darkness –
                    where we are prone to
                    hatred, lies, anger,
                    jealousy, envy and pride.

                God is light –
                    in Him there is no darkness –

                Every moment of every day He
                    gives us light and life
                    to serve Him as He desires –
                    to love with the Heart of Jesus –
                    to consecrate our lives to Jesus
                        to do the will of the
                        Heavenly Father –

                    to live virtuously –
                    to pray to God for grace to
                        raise above the natural –
                        to know God and have
                        greater insight into the
                        hidden mysteries –

                Jesus says:

                    I am the way, the truth
                        and the life –

                Living Lies makes you far
                    from My pure Heart –
                    You are accountable to
                    God for your actions
                    and responsible for the
                    effects of those actions –
                    pray for mercy and
                    forgiveness from God –
                    Live to be pure in heart


                       

  

 

 

Give the gift that keeps giving.

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Books available in limited supply for this sale.

 

The more you use the Blue Books and
    become one with Jesus – more
    intimate with Jesus –
    the more your lives are a blessing and
    everything you do in life can help
    to bring down great grace for the world
    because of your being so
    one with Jesus.

 

Guiding Light Homily Book Series

Fr. Joe’s Books


Cycle A –
Steadfast to the Son


Cycle B –
Focusing on the Word


Cycle C –
Feed My Soul

 
Cycle A – 
Inspired to be Genuine

4 for $20 plus postage of $5.95 

 

These books can be given to:

1) All Priests

       2) Good for Music Ministers
       3) Good for DRE's
       4) Good for Deacons
       5) Good for Principals of Schools
       6) Good for Teachers
       7) Good for Mom and Dads

     

 

                Given March 21, 2014

                R. Pray for These Things

                1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
                2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
                    Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
                3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
                6) People going to Florida and China.
                7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
                8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
                9) Pray for pope helping us.
               10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
               11) Blue Book 16 and cover and all involved.
                    For our Publisher and all involved
               12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
               14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
               15) Donors and members and their families.
               16) Healing of the Family tree.
               17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
                    Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
               18) All who asked us to pray for them.
               19) All we promised to pray for.
               20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
                    Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
                    2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
                    Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
               21) 2 babies and moms.
               22) Funds and insurance.
               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.

 

 

 The Wedding Rosary 

Crystal Image Rosary

$40 plus shipping

 

Original Image Rosary

8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box

$40 plus shipping

 

  

Give the gift that counts.

                Give to your priests Fr. Carter's Books plus postage.

Tell My People                    $5.00
Response to God's Love    $8.00
Response in Christ              $8.00

      

 

Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur 
$2.00 plus postage


 

New Mass Book with Imprimatur   
$8.00 plus postage


 

New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage


 

Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage

Give the gift that keeps on giving!

Give to your priest.


Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage

     

Get a canvas print of Mary's image
with a sliver of glass and a little
bottle of Jesus and Mary water.
The glass will be fixed behind the
back of the picture.
$200.00 plus postage

 

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