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December 20, 2006
December 21st Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 4 Period II.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for December 21st are Joyful
December 20, 2006
Messenger: How pure is the Heart of Mary —
We can measure our own motives for
responding to God's call, our motive for doing
anything — St. Ignatius talks of the 3 classes
of men, but deeply I know the motive force
for responding to God has many more facets than
to be limited to three —
To be as Christ who shows us perfect obedience
to the Father and Mary as I watch her response
in answering the will of God with whole heart
and soul as in the 7 sorrows — I know more
complete surrender and obedience to God's will.
I know a little the intensity — the depth of Jesus
responding to the Father's will to die on a cross, but
the oneness of Jesus and His Father in Jesus dying on
the cross out of love for sinful men — of Jesus
in giving Himself completely is indeed immeasurable.
It lies in perfect harmony and oneness of the
Persons of the Trinity, but in trying to analyze it
for our own understanding of our response
to God — measuring or discerning how God intends
us to respond to many different commitments
in life — I see the discord left from the garden —
the striving in myself for perfect accord — oneness
with God and others, striving so deeply to live in
God's will — deeply and in all things at every moment and
in this lies my peace and joy — my life lived for
knowing how to communicate with God and others more
deeply to grow in greater perfection of being in
absolute accord — which I cannot be here below —
but striving - striving to reach heights of the
unknown, that I truly know exists and is in reality
in my soul — a reaching for perfection in obedience
and oneness with God in living and knowing more
Mary's Fiat and Jesus' words on the cross "Thy
Will be done."
But this brings me to human response — if
really living in truth — for Jesus is the way, the
truth and the life —
Some things and how we respond are hidden because
of imperfections learned as a child from imperfect
parents and having to survive and live in obedience
to imperfection —
But there is the element of grace — where by
God outpours His grace to us and shines the light
in our soul — revealing to our cognitive reality —
our existence more perfectly in truth — known
in oneness of God in our soul — that can lend to
such knowledge of truth we do not deviate from
God's precepts — we are "attuned" to God's way —
living in His truth — being as it were almost
inseparable, by a desire so deep in our soul —
to be consumed with Him and living in Him and
thus in His truth.
I am of this later stage where I seek the
presence of God — being almost unable to decipher
my imperfections left from the past — thirsting after
His grace as one thirsting for water in a parched
desert.
Jesus: Seek, oh child, the quenching of your thirst
to know My truth in a world of deception —
where one seeks so deeply to hunger after because
of the longing for greater perfection —
R: And yet in dealing with loving God more
deeply and dealing with imperfection in ourselves
and others — there is a suffering in knowing
incomplete harmony — suffering, seeking, longing
for the oneness of perfection knowing IS in
the Divine God — 3 Persons — one God —
Jesus: Why do you scamper, but to seek the desirable
fruit as one seeing a succulent grape at the
high place on the vine — Open your soul for I
see you with your hands crossed across your
lap and I show you My arms spread out wide
on the cross.
R: So therefore I see how deeply we can love
more likened to Jesus, as I see how deeply we
can be bitter as opposed to God's will and being
evil.
I see truth as layered for sinful man (by this
I mean he is striving to be more purely in the truth,
he has not arrived. There are levels for sinful man
how he lives in the truth, the holy man is always seeking
to know pure truth found in Jesus who is the
Way, the Truth, and the Life.)
— how deeply we can
be IN the truth because of our tainted
nature and how we have allowed ourselves to
live "tainted" truth and how we can be blinded
because we allow "tainted" truth to remain
in us because of wanting things against
God's will — living imperfectly because of pride,
envy whatever —
God is pulling us to Him — attraction like
a magnet, but the further we go away
from Him — the less that pull — the closer
that we are to Him the greater the pull — like
He told me in those early writings, 1991 — we are
pulled to Him like steel to a magnet.
There is this element of truth in what I
speak here — that there is depth —
Like today's scriptures I just heard at Mass
Isaiah 7: 10-14
Yahweh spoke to Ahaz again and said:
Ask Yahweh your God for a sign,
either in the depths of Sheol
or in the heights above.But Ahaz said, ‘I will not ask. I will not put Yahweh to the test.’
He then said:Listen now, House of David:
are you not satisfied
with trying human patience
that you should try
my God’s patience too?
The Lord will give you a sign in any case:
It is this: the young woman is with child
and will give birth to a son
whom she will call Immanuel.
Messenger: How pure can we be in our actions?
Luke 1: 46-55
And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
Messenger: How deep is our love?
How deeply do we live in the truth?
How do we even know about the burning
on fire love of the Heart of Jesus —
I judge by my imperfect eyes!
I am limited in understanding God's love —
I am ever growing in my capacity to love
more purely likened to Him
I am limited in understanding my offences
against God and others —
When He has lifted the veil for me there is such
a sensitivity to everything — His Word —
A Word — I am deeply taken into His
Mystery and given knowledge of Him — capability
of loving — EXISTING IN HIM
How can I measure His love to express it on this paper —
or how pompous we are to judge what He is
revealing with our limited, jealous minds —
I know that what comforts me is to go to the Blessed
Sacrament - the Mass and there He outpours His
grace to me —
We live in an imperfect world —
We are imperfect —
He has asked us to love and work with one another —
To drop our imperfect ways and enter into the
fiery abyss of the love of His Heart we
do not even begin to understand —
We are like children being taught who want to learn —
When we become hardened in our hearts — thinking
we know it all — we cannot learn like
we need to —
The docility of the child
Matthew 11: 25
At that time Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children.
Messenger:
What comes from baptism is
a greater capacity to love
a greater capacity to know
an elevation of our knowing and loving capacity —
deeper insight into the hidden mysteries —
What comes from baptism is a
sharing in His life —
God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in the
graced soul —
We may reach for apples and oranges in the
store and try to pay for them with
$2, $4 — we think in this way —
"cut and dry"
And yet in God's great love for us He gives us this
gift in baptism —
a sharing in His life —
elevating our loving and knowing capacity —
I know His presence after communion —
I know His presence in the Church when
I go to the Blessed Sacrament —
We cannot even fathom how God loves
us — with our limited ways — but
God opens His Heart —
He gives us the sacraments
He gives us these hidden insights —
The veil goes up —
like a roller shade —
letting light in a darkened room
He imparts to me insight into the hidden mysteries.
Think of how God knows — the love of our hearts —
How much He wants our love —
He is love
Think of how God is so offended by the bitterness,
anger, greed, lies, vindictive actions —
Why are we so blind to see with our limited
minds and veiled eyes, our imperfect
ways and then act like
"We know it all"
We hurt ourselves when we wear burial
cloths like a mummy and do not look
at our imperfections —
We keep ourselves from being more and more
sensitive to the truth and His
touch —
Pride is an enemy of our soul —
It keeps us stuck in a place —
where we are blind by the
deception of our wounds and
deception of our own false lies.
We want to be like Christ - coming forth
from the tomb — dropping the
cloths that blind us — staying blind keeps us
from that sensitivity of communicating
with Christ in our soul —
being one with Him —
growing in deeper life in Him and
so you say
Well, Rita, how do we do this —
Grace — going to the Eucharist —
going to Confession —
not giving into pride —
justifying when we are wrong —
blaming someone who
is not responsible
Go to the tabernacle —
be filled with His grace —
Go to Mass
be filled with His grace —
Be forgiving —
Recognize past wounding
AND REALLY FORGIVE
not say "oh it never bothered me and
carry a bag of tension"
Dear God —
This Christmas help us to have the heart
of a child — to let go of past hurts and
to open our eyes to YOU — Peace is found
in TRUTH
DOCILITY
LOVE —
Always love —
If we want to be tense and argue - bitter —
then something inside needs some
healing —
God is love —
In Him there is no darkness
Let the joy of His love help us to reach
out like Mary —
in love —
building His Kingdom —
begging for healing of past memories and
being joyful of the gifts we have
Celebrate —
God is giving us so many gifts —
Jesus is the Savior —
Joy is in this —
Jesus was born a baby for love of us —
Jesus died for love of us
Jesus remains truly present in the Eucharist —
Thank God for the priests
Thank God for the Church —
Pray for the priests, the Church and
the world —
Shepherds of Christ Newsletter Issue 3 2006
Messenger:
Spread the Consecration to the 2 Hearts —
The poor banished children of Adam and
Eve can go to the
pure and sinless Hearts of Jesus
and Mary.
The problem is — is when we stay slaves to
the sin — slaves to our imperfections —
God loved us so much —
He showed us the way.
Messenger:
I feel as one seeing a wider vision, insight
into the hidden mystery — unable to express
what I know.
When God has given me a tremendous
grace and lifted the veil — the sensitivity of
knowing Him is such a joy — almost like grapping
onto a hot wire, the intensity is beyond verbal expression
and words -- almost the other
end is -- of one
sticking a fork in an open
wound, --
I just have no words to express it.
At times I felt as if I could hardly stand
it (this ecstatic rapture of knowing God and reality)
to even hear the word "Our Father", the
Word of a word in scripture read at Mass.
(such intensity of knowing truth and reality IN Him)
What we
know is so minimal, but if God would lift
the veil as He has done in these ecstasies —
the reality of His vision — the reality of
existence in Him is beyond what we can
humanly comprehend on this earth.
It is a place of joy for the soul created for
God that only can be reached in fullness
in heaven.
To the extent God allowed Mary to
experience what she knew, I do not know
how it was for Mary being full of grace and
not having original
sin, but I watch her as one watching a
movie in the 7 sorrows and her answering
God's call by living always as God willed —
was an example for us tainted in our
nature and knowing the life of our
Spiritual Mother Mary.
One, holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church —
all the books in the world cannot give us
what we need to be this vibrant force
we can be as members of the body of
Christ in the Church in the world today,
but for me this is reality, the ever
maturing Church, the pilgrim Church —
more becoming the bride coming out
of heaven as it speaks of in Revelations.
Revelation 21: 1-10
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.'
Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."' Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.'One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came to speak to me and said, 'Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.' In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God.
Messenger: You know the marriage thing
"What God has joined let no man
put asunder."
God showed us the imperfection of Peter —
then He shows us — He gave him the keys —
Peter — imperfect
us — imperfect
the Church — a pilgrim Church in the
state of becoming —
So where does this lead us anyway —
Mary, the sinless one, has been sent as
a messenger at Fatima to spread the
devotion of her Heart and Jesus' Heart —
The angel appeared at Fatima the year
before (1916) telling us how we have not
honored the Eucharist as we should.
Do we get to the place — we join in
the battles of sinful man and overlook -
these special gifts as at Fatima as if
we should not obey an angel and Mary
messengers sent by God at Fatima.
We want to do it our way! Many
times we cease to see beyond our
brains and let the Spirit of God
reveal to us insight into the hidden
mysteries.
But private revelation
MUST BE DISCERNED
God does not send a messenger
without a priest guiding them —
God doesn't send a messenger
or a unit to stand against
His Church —
God works in His Church to
renew it.
Saints have been called upon to
deliver messages for renewal.
Jesus asked Fr. Carter to start this
Movement.
Lucia, Mother Theresa
Pope John Paul II
majorly had a mission from God.
The docility of one to recognize
how vital the devotion to the Two
Hearts and treasure of the gifts
of the Eucharist — given in messages
at Fatima can majorly effect
this earth.
Mary, spiritual mother, help us.
Holy Spirit impart to us greater knowledge of
knowing God, obedience to God's will —
grace to live a holy life — seeing
the wider vision of truth —
We implore this, Holy Spirit through the
intercession of the Virgin
Mary our spiritual
Mother.
And the incarnation goes on in us —
Holy Spirit
Open our locked minds —
Penetrate us with Your grace —
Give us wider vision.
Let the truth live in us so deeply.
Let us not give into our weaknesses,
of pride, envy, greed,
slothfulness, anger, lust, gluttony
that keep us stuck.
Stuck like putting a pillar
in cement to stay a long
time —
Let us be pillars filled with
God's grace and permeated
with love.
God help us we pray —
Messenger:
A LOVE Relationship with
DIVINITY
"WOW"
God help us to grasp more fully
Your truth and saturate us
with Your grace —
