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December 21, 2006

December 22nd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 5 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for December 22nd are Luminous

 

 

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 —

 

   

 

 


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