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December 28, 2008

December 29th Holy Spirit Novena
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                    Obedience as we ask for in the
                Our Father —

                    Horses at the gate — that run to win —
                    not horses that don't run — they do not win — scamper

                    As we dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
                we will live in oneness obeying the Father's will —
                Mary is the Queen of Peace — Mary under the cross —
                suffered, but was in perfect peace —
                Mary held Jesus' lifeless body in the Pieta — her
                    suffering great — in perfect peace

                Not saying words — I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.
                meaning it — that we want to obey God
                We want to run the race — under God
                    doing it for God

                The devil presses on people to be aggressive for his evil
                    scam —
                    rush to do something evil

                Mary:

                My peace plan

                    (1) conversion

                    (2) giving your heart to Jesus' Heart and
                        My Immaculate Heart

                    (3) Pray the Rosary — meditating on
                            the life of Jesus and My Life —
                            Jesus is the New Adam
                            I am the New Eve —

  

 

                    (4) Praying for the priests, the Church
                            and the world

                    (5) Reparation to God
                        Reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

                        Prayer services 5th Clearwater
                                                13th China

                        Retreats in China and Clearwater

                    (6) First Saturday devotion

                    (7) Reception of the Sacraments and Adoration

                    (8) Being Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

                    (9) Living by the Word

                    (10) Prayers Jesus gave Fr. Carter

                    (11) Holy Spirit Novena

                    (12) Greater intimacy with God

 

                The Japanese that attacked at Pearl Harbor —
                    planned, practiced —
                    Where there was their will to conquer and
                        to disarm — to win over the United States

                    They were driven
                    They believed they could do it

                How are we in building the Father's
                    Kingdom?

                How are we in helping to bring about
                    the Reign of the Sacred Heart and
                    Triumph of Mary's heart?

                How about fighting with me for
                    this era of peace Mary
                    promised at Fatima?

                Fighting and giving ourselves really to the
                    pure and sinless Hearts of New Adam and
                    New Eve.

                Where there is a will there is a way.

                Help us.
                           
 

Mary by day
July 5, 2000

by night
July 5, 2000

                You may not do evil to
                bring good out of it —

                Pray to the Sacred Heart

                We may want to be good and pray
                    for the grace to be good —
                    go to confession — a good confession
                        and God gives us a grace

                    but the choice is there —

                Will I continue sinning out of
                    my past habits and desires

                Will I choose what God wants —

                God gives us grace

                God sends people to us, but
                    we say no many times to
                    God's grace

  

Deuteronomy 30: 19

I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.
Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,

  

                There are movie stars all over
                    the world who have
                    much beauty and talents and
                    fame, money, recognition,
                    but are so empty inside —

                What happens when we don't
                    live in our heart —
                    seeking the spiritual
                    things — the way God
                    intended —

                Another person can get a
                    tremendous grace and
                    cooperate with that grace
                    and their lives are changed —

                It is grace —

                God can give us grace to be good —
                    but we have a free
                    will

 

Deuteronomy 30: 19-20

Today, I call heaven and earth to witness against you: I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, holding fast to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends the length of time that you stay in the country which Yahweh swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give them.’

 

                Our Lord tells us many travel
                    a wide road,
                    but we must follow the
                    narrow gate —

 

Matthew 7: 13-14

‘Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and many take it; but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

 

                When I am lethargic and don't
                    do what God wants of me — I
                    am making a choice


                God calls us and we are to
                    respond according to His
                    will in love —

                God gives us talents to build His
                    Kingdom
                    We are commissioned in
                    baptism to act as the
                    Father wants

                Jesus sweat blood so we would
                    be saved, but we must
                    live to love and serve Him and
                    follow His way —

                God has called us, given us talents
                    to help build His Kingdom

                We have just so many days here —

                To try others because we are to
                    do a certain act and not do
                    what is needed when it
                    is our job is not
                    right —

                It is choosing to not do what we
                    are supposed to

                Do we choose life or death —

                Do we give love to God by doing
                    the Father's will —

                Are we trying to do God's will —
                    willingly in the Spirit —
                    or are we sitting and doing nothing —
                        making people wait for us
                        who hold what they need
                        to do God's work —

                Satan wants the people to block
                    God's work —

                Satan is an abuser —
                    he tries and he tries and he tries
                        a soul and he wants them
                        to finally give in

                    But he doesn't give up —
                        he presses
                        on a person - provoking —
                        he will continue until
                        he can tempt them to sin —
                        if they will give in

               

                 People can act for satan —
                    instead of building God's
                    Kingdom — they are in
                    darkness and they provoke and provoke
                    another trying to be just —
                        the abuse cycle

 

                Living in the Spirit is not giving
                    into the devil —

                One is saturated more and more with
                    God's grace —

                The Father, Son and Holy Spirit live in
                    the baptized graced soul
                    most abundantly the more
                    they are filled with God's grace and
                    the Holy Spirit fills them —
                    the spirit of such a soul is
                    willing — cooperative — going
                    forth with enthusiasm to do
                    God's will —

                LIFE IN the SPIRIT


                Where as the soul choosing to
                    hurt others doing God's work —
                    can be passive-aggressive —
                    sitting on a pity pot after
                    their attack because they
                    feel bad for their evil actions —
                    expecting to suck the energy from
                        a holy soul

                A person acting for satan — is dark —
                    provoking, causing disharmony,
                    laughing at others suffering
                    for their evil, discord —
                    disorder

                They block the work others are
                    doing — they become more and
                    more enslaved to satan who
                    counsels them


                The baptized soul filled with light - is
                    filled when they go to the sacraments
                    The Holy Spirit moves in them
                    They are not willful seeking dominance
                        for themselves

                    They are focused on God's will and
                    They live in the Spirit of God
                    They are willing to serve
                    There is energy
                    There is love — vibrancy —

                    They live for God not selfish for
                        themselves


                The selfish person is trying to
                    prove — they are worth
                    admiring — they are to
                    be honored — respected —
                    they want the top seat for
                    themselves

                    they manipulate or try to
                        manipulate others doing
                        good to be dominant for
                        dominance sake —
                        a weakness from the garden

                The devil is counseling them —
                    to hold back needed materials
                        for control —

                    to get control with money
                    to keep secrets —


                God is calling us to be children
                    of the light building His
                    Kingdom

                Knowing the purity of the Hearts of
                    Jesus and Mary

                Living in Their pure and holy Hearts
                A willing spirit inside loving God —
                Obeying the commandments of God

                WILLING —

                LIFE IN the SPIRIT

                God wants harmony


                People who do unpredictable things
                    in an isolated manner and
                    say
                    in secret

                    SURPRISE

                    work a path like this

   

                    But the act isn't enough —
                the devil then uses their actions
                if they continue to operate for
                him to cause confusion —
                    make those over them look weak
                    because they try to deal with
                    the misbehavior

                The devil wants confusion
                The devil attacks structure by
                    people he tries to use to
                    seek dominance for
                    dominance sake

                ie — God gave us the commandments
                        to obey —

                People can make fun of Jesus

                People can disobey the commandments
                    and they are relativists —
                    that means — this is my truth
                    and you have your truth and
                    that's okay

                That isn't okay

                Jesus is the way, the truth and the
                    life


                Did you notice - even with children —
                    if they were caught stealing
                    a cookie out of the cookie
                    jar — they can lie —
                    children must be taught to not lie —

                It doesn't feel good when you lie
                    to cover things up

                But after 40 years of lying our
                    conscience can become
                    uninformed consciences

                When we do something wrong —
                    the holy soul admits it —
                    they say they are sorry for
                    they want the truth in
                    them

 

John 16: 13-15

However, when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
   since he will not be speaking
of his own accord,
but will say only what he has been told;
and he will reveal to you
   the things to come.
He will glorify me,
since all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
Everything the Father has is mine;
that is why I said:
all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.

   

                When people do bad acts — they
                    are seldom finished —
                    many then go for weeks, years
                    months — punishing others
                    to prove what they did
                    was wrong — was right —
                    (a wrong act is wrong) 

                That is what the devil wants —
                    He wants to wreck marriages —
                    He wants to wreck institutions
                    He wants people to give up their
                        vocation —
                    because they want to be
                    right when they sin —
                    and they then hurt others more with
                    lies and punishment

                The devil wants this punishment
                    for those telling the truth
                    and living in the truth —
                    so he presses on people
                    who sin (because they
                    do not choose life) then
                    he gets them to try to punish
                    the just man for their
                    wicked deeds

                A person sinning is sinning —
                Provoking others
                Holding back needed information
                Controlling for a person not in
                    charge

                Is how the devil works in
                    marriages, churches,
                    schools, institutions —
                    wherever there is to be
                    Relationship

                The devil can attack using the
                    weakness of a wounded human
                    nature — and the person gives in
                    to their weak human nature
                    because of seeking dominance for
                    dominance sake, jealousy,
                    anger, envy, lust, slothfulness
                    gluttony —

                    We are to be pure like Mary
                and Jesus — the New Adam and
                the New Eve

                    Jesus is the way, the truth
                and the life

                    An uninformed conscience
                comes from choosing evil — it
                becomes easier to do evil
                acts —

                    Vices are habits

                    We must pray for virtues of
                prudence, temperance, justice,
                fortitude —

                these act as a unit —

                We beg God for the grace to see
                    so we do not give into vices —

                We go to the Eucharist
                We do adoration
                We go to confession

                When we go to the sacraments worthily
                    we are filled with His life
                    in us

                We live a grace filled life

                Life in the Spirit

                Willing


                We are struggling to become more
                    like God
                    old habits
                    weakness of will

                We seek to be more and more in the image and
                    likeness of God

                We live a deeper life of consecration —
                    We go to the Immaculate Heart
                        of Mary, and we know the
                        Holy Spirit forms us
                        more and more in the image
                        and likeness of God

                as children of light —

                not darkness we come forth


                Mary appeared in Clearwater —
                    sparkling like the sun —
                    to spread this Consecration to
                    her heart and the Heart of
                    her Son Jesus so we would come
                    forth children of light -
                    likened more and more to Jesus

                    She was covered with light
                in Clearwater

 

  
 

                    She appeared to remind us of
                our covenant with God

  

Genesis 9: 12-17

    ‘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.’

 

                Fr. Carter got this message

 

Excerpt from Tell My People

The Holy Spirit

Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"

Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.

end of excerpt

  

July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members
of Shepherds of Christ Associates:

    "My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

    "I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

    "I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

 

                    Do you say the words of the
                consecration to the 2 Hearts —

                You must live it —

                    Mary said at Fatima

                        Conversion

                            Do we talk about it and
                                don't change

                    Consecration to the 2 Hearts
                        means doing the will of
                        the Father
                        WILLINGLY IN
                                            LOVE
                        serving God

                Look at Mary

 

 

                Look at China


 

                There is peace in the pieta
                    resignation to God's will —

                How do we give into satan —
                    pressing down —

                We must have faith and love doing
                    God's will — struggle in peace —

                We want to be better —

                We want the Holy Spirit to help
                    us to be willing in serving
                    God as Mary was under
                    the cross —
                    holding Jesus under the cross


                We know the prayer
                    the Our Father

The Our Father

    Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

 

                God is our Father

                We want His will to be done
                    on earth as it is in heaven

                We are the adopted sons of
                    God, but we say

                Our Father —

                God's name is sacred —

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