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December 26, 2007

  

Retreat in Florida

January 2nd - 6th

If you can go call Doris

1-888-211-3041
 

Regular 5th Prayer Service at 6:20p.m.

in the New Grotto Room.
 

Epiphany January 6th

will be held under the image

in the afternoon.

 

  

December 26, 2007

 

 

      

                A baby comes into the world and they are
                    helpless —

                Jesus came a baby

                The Son of God came — not high and mighty, but
                    a little helpless baby —

                I love the Finding in the Temple because it
                    shows the wisdom of God —
                    Jesus is teaching the doctors in the temple
                    I would have liked to been there to see
                    this 12 year old boy and take notes, but He has
                    given us the Blue Books

                He has given us these writings
                Did you think Jesus lived a quiet life so
                    He would be protected until His
                    time —

                It is the tendency of man to seek dominance
                    for dominance sake, man is prideful
                    and jealous, envious because of his
                    wounded human nature

                Mary is our pure spiritual Mother —
                    she is the New Eve —

                Spreading the consecration of the Two Hearts for families
                Spreading the consecration of the Two Hearts for schools
                Spreading the consecration of the Two Hearts for Churches
                    IS so important

                Jesus was born God-made-Man
                    Jesus the perfect baby
                    So beautiful
                    Born in a stable
                    No where to put His head

                 Does Jesus have a space to be in our heart —

                Or do we really make Jesus into what
                    we want
                    have an agenda this Christmas
                    Jesus came to save souls
                    Jesus is the Savior
                    Jesus is crying over the world —
                    the world has focused little on purity
                    there is much evil in the world
                    Jesus is with us

  

  

                    Jesus wants people before the Blessed Sacrament
                    Jesus is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament
                    Jesus wants intimacy with His priests
                    Jesus wants them to lead them to the Eucharist
                        and consecration

                    The Power is in the Eucharist

                    Jesus came a baby and He grew at the knee of
                        Mary —
                        He learned to walk and to talk
                        Jesus grew by Mary's side
                        Mary's pure love — her motherly touch was
                            with Jesus
                        Joseph taught Jesus about wood
                        Jesus came — God-made-man
                            and He lived amongst His creatures

                        Jesus grew from a baby body to the man who
                            taught the world and worked miracles
                            during His public life
                            to the man who mounted it and died for
                                our sins.

                    Jesus didn't have to do any of this
                    Jesus did it for love of us
                    When someone - gives and gives like Jesus and
                        lives for Jesus
                    because of jealousy and pride, envy, slothfulness
                        someone may say
                        "Why isn't God talking to me"

                    This is how it was at the Holy Spirit Center and
                        Mary appeared every day
                        instead of helping me with what
                        Mary wanted

                    I was persecuted —

                    Nothing is worse than being persecuted by those
                        you love and have given yourself for

                    Jesus hung on the cross and died for our sins
                        He didn't have to do that
                        He did it out of love

                    Did Jesus like the way the men whipped
                        Him —
                        crowned Him with thorns —
                        How they made Him carry the cross
                            laden with the sins of the world —
                        He did it out of selfless love for
                            His creatures

                    Jesus' Apostles fought and argued —
                    Think of Mary after Jesus went into heaven
                        after the Ascension

                    John was under the cross with Mary —

  

  

John 19: 25-27

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

     

                    It was there under the cross Jesus gave us Mary as
                        our Mother

                    He hung on the tree
                    Mary stood under the cross
                    The New Adam
                    The New Eve

                    His life poured out from His pierced Heart —
                        Water for baptism
                        Blood for the Eucharist

  

                    From Tell My People

Age of the Two Hearts

Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I have allowed you to experience in extraordinary fashion the riches contained in My Heart and My Mother's Heart. I desire that you tell all My people about these riches. I desire that My people consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary's Immaculate Heart. My people are living in the beginnings of the age of the Two Hearts.

"After the time of the purification is completed, this new era of the Church and the world will become firmly established. This era will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. All those who consecrate themselves to My Heart and to My Mother's Heart will help to establish this glorious new age. I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My urgent request. Within Our Hearts you will experience the love and security, the peace and the joy, which you all desire. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in My love I give them this message!"

Reflection: This is the Age of the Two Hearts! The surest road to sanctity in these our times is through consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. In making this consecration, and striving with God's grace to live it as best we can each day, we are contributing to the establishment of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and to the arrival of the reign of the Sacred Heart.

end of excerpt from Tell My People

                       Today's Gospel

Matthew 10: 17-22

‘Be prepared for people to hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues. You will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as evidence to them and to the gentiles. But when you are handed over, do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes, because it is not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you. ‘Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will come forward against their parents and have them put to death. You will be universally hated on account of my name; but anyone who stands firm to the end will be saved.

                The Incarnation goes on in us

                Birthing in the Immaculate womb
                    the Heart of the Virgin Mary —

                No stain of sin

                The Holy Spirit works to bring us
                    more and more to the image of Jesus.

                It is a birthing thing

                Men have mothers — they can tell them
                    what to do — They came from Adam and Eve

                We have imperfect parents —
                    some parents told children
                    do this, do that
                    do it this way

                It is a cycle for parents who continually
                    coercived their children —
                    they knew the proper way —
                    they may have continued telling them
                    and the child not given their chance
                    to be someone creative in choices —
                    may be filled with resentment for always
                    being told what to do —
                    so they can stall to get some control —
                    stalling — procrastinating
                    called the COMMAND-Resistant-Cycle

                Babies come from imperfect parents
                Jesus, the New Adam, came from the womb
                    Mary, entirely sinless
                    We must go to her Immaculate Heart —
                        her spiritual womb —
                        to grow in the spiritual life — to be
                        likened to Christ

Colossians 3: 12-21

As the chosen of God, then, the holy people whom he loves, you are to be clothed in heartfelt compassion, in generosity and humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another; forgive each other if one of you has a complaint against another. The Lord has forgiven you; now you must do the same. Over all these clothes, put on love, the perfect bond. And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, because it is for this that you were called together in one body. Always be thankful.

Let the Word of Christ, in all its richness, find a home with you. Teach each other, and advise each other, in all wisdom. With gratitude in your hearts sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs to God; and whatever you say or do, let it be in the name of the Lord Jesus, in thanksgiving to God the Father through him.

                We need this life long consecration
                    dedicating our babies to the
                    Immaculate Heart and Sacred Heart —
                    so they are consecrated as Harold
                    Kellner said in this prayer
                    before birth.

Consecration of an Unborn Child to Jesus and Mary

Dear Blessed Mother, we gather here in your presence and in the presence of your Son, the Almighty God, here present in the tabernacle and in our hearts. We ask you, Blessed Mother, in union with your Spouse, the Holy Spirit, to be the safeguard of this little child at birth and throughout its life. We ask you, dear Lady, to keep your mantle over this little one as well as (name), the mother. We come to you to consecrate this child to your Immaculate Heart and to the Heart of your Son. Please give this child your special blessing now and for eternity, and guard it from all the evils of the world.

In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, Amen. *
-This Consecration of an Unborn Child is by Harold Kellner

                We have concupiscence of the flesh
                God wants us to realize —
                    the New Eve crushed the head
                    of the serpent

                God allowed men's hearts
                    to be a certain way after
                    the fall —

                Men need to work with women —
                    men must cut the umbilical
                        cord with moms —
                    girls must have worked through
                        problems with dad

                If men are used to hearing mom
                    tell them what to do —
                    they must not let any woman
                    tell them anything
                    or any authority figure if
                    they had command-resistant-cycle
                    going on.

                We can tell ourselves what parents
                    told us — make a list we
                    can't follow

                Mom and dad may have
                    life long told us what to do direction
                    when another tells us anything
                    we get angry

                Some people learned to stall to
                    retaliate if mom and dad
                    kept saying —
                    this is the proper way — do it
                    this way — hammering —

                So when a simple direction is
                    given — they are ready to
                    stall — react against it

                Mom and dad may have mixed holding
                    back affection for a child who
                    needs affection to get them to
                    do it their way, the right way.

                When the person becomes an
                    adult they do this demanding of others

                    God wants us to have this male -
                female heart like Christ

                    Jesus shows us His relation with
                His Mother —
                    Mary Magdalene etc.

                The priests need to have a deep
                    spiritual union with Mary —

                In going to her Immaculate Heart —
                    she brings us forth children
                    of light —
                    the Holy Spirit brings forth
                        more and more the image of
                        Jesus

                Mary crushes the head of the serpent

                Dwelling in her Immaculate
                    Heart helps us deal with imperfections

                Going to the Holy Eucharist helps
                    heal our wounded human
                    nature

                My role as a female messenger
                    was to lead men, priests
                    into the burning Heart of
                    Jesus on-fire for love of
                    men

                There are things in Christ's Heart that
                    are not like men's hearts —
                    men must put aside pride —
                    thinking they are perfect —

                Going to the Immaculate Heart
                    of Mary —
                    having a relationship with

                    Mary is really important for
                male pride —

                They can say —
                    We don't need a woman
                    We are men —

                Christ made Mary our Mother
                Christ gave us Mary Mother of the Church
                Christ wants this birthing

                We are to die more and more to our
                    imperfections —
                   
                    Look at Christ on the cross
                    He showed us the way

                Mary is a key for purity
                Mary is a key for fighting off
                    satan

                Sign of rainbow is the
                    sign of our covenant
                    with God.

Genesis 9: 8-17

    God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons, ‘I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come, and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth. And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’ 

    ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.’ 

    ‘That’, God told Noah, ‘is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.’

July 5, 2000

Genesis 3: 16

To the woman he said:

    I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
    you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
    Your yearning will be for your husband,
    and he will dominate you.

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.’

Genesis Chapter 3

Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.

The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'

Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you
    of all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.'

    To the woman he said:

    I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
    you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
    Your yearning will be for your husband,
    and he will dominate you.

To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

    Accursed be the soil because of you!
    Painfully will you get your food from it
    as long as you live.
    It will yield you brambles and thistles,
    as you eat the produce of the land.
    By the sweat of your face
    will you earn you food,
    until you return to the ground,
    as you were taken from it.
    For dust you are
    and to dust you shall return.

The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

   

Revelation 12: 1-2

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.