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December 28, 2014

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                December 28, 2014 - The Holy Family

                R. Loving means giving. I see Christ
                who is our model who gave – He
                came to teach us about our life
                here below.

                    I am sure Christ worked long
                hard days with the Apostles and
                they were men – all of different
                dispositions – all with imperfections
                because of their wounded human
                nature and Christ showed us
                while He worked with them – how
                when He died, how they were left
                to carry out His work in building
                up the Church. He left His Apostles
                behind after He had taught them
                and showed them His example in
                their lives.

                    The fact He was sleeping in the
                boat – we not only see His power
                to control the storm, we see He
                was tired, we see Him with the
                others, we see Him working among
                people problems, pride, anger,
                jealousy, of the men.

                    We don't see Christ shrieking
                His calling, planning it His way –
                being selfish –

                    We see Christ working with
                men and teaching them – working
                miracles.

                    Three years is a long time. When
                a person is trained by Jesus – like
                they were – hands-on – three years
                was a lot of training –

                    Think of a man's life and how
                satan can keep him focusing on
                his will – narrowing his life and
                how all he is supposed to do –
                doesn't happen because he does it
                his way.

                    I think of how Jesus told us to
                sell the houses and send the Priestly
                Newsletter around the world with a certain
                priest's books. It cost a lot of
                money, but I just did what
                He said and later the economy
                became so bad in the housing
                market – if we had disobeyed
                we would have not only, not sent
                the mailing, but gone bankrupt –
                God calls us to do things while
                we are on earth. We can block
                His Plan and hold onto our
                part of it and then much is
                not done because of our "no".

                    We see Mary, the perfect
                handmaid of the Lord and her
                "yes" – Her perfect "yes"
                to being God's handmaid.

                    In the movie Pope John Paul II
                I saw his life unfold. He gave
                himself to God's Plan.

                We see Abraham – who gave
                himself to God's plan – to where
                he was willing to sacrifice his
                son – to do God's will –

                    God was testing him – How
                many people have said "no"
                to God's plan because they wouldn't
                do what God wanted and did
                their own will –

                What do I learn from many, devoted
                priests' lives – like my brother,
                like our Bishops here in Cincinnati
                I learn their "yes"

                    Priests are called to be priests,
                but they have to be 'other' people –
                focused on the moment, on the
                job at hand – so self-less –
                a parishioner loses a spouse –
                a child of a parishioner is dying
                of cancer, another one is being
                threatened by people in their family - unjustly –
                another may be in serious sin and
                need help 'NOW' – another man
                may have just found out he is
                dying and away from the Church –
                    "people - problems"
                    "people - problems"

                    Some parishioners are always
                causing trouble – they just want
                things for their own glory – they argue
                on the 'parish - council' to get
                their way and fight the unity needed
                to do things in the parish – they
                can fight the authority of the priest –
                they can challenge things in the
                parish to make themselves look
                like heroes – when in fact they
                cause big problems with pride
                and jealousy.

                    Some parishioners act-out,
                get mad when they don't get
                their way, want authority when
                it isn't theirs to have –

                    A priest is called to bring
                love and unity to a parish –
                despite the guy who is immature
                and does everything for himself –
                A priest is to love the sinner
                and try to bring that love of
                Jesus to the homily, the family,
                the person who comes unannounced
                and demands recognition, when
                the priest is trying to focus on
                Sunday Mass –

                    A priest needs holiness to
                be like Jesus. Consecration to the
                Sacred Heart of Jesus – means
                we put on the Christ-life. We
                do God's will – We live our lives
                working in people problems –
                getting our hands dirty – our
                hearts hurt – our tired bodies
                used for service – like Jesus
                in the boat.

                    We see the compassion of Jesus –
                We see Jesus serving and doing
                the Father's will.

                    I remember Fr. Carter telling
                me – when you love others –
                you make time for them if it is
                God's will –

                Some-times we may wish to be
                with certain others and God calls
                us to be somewhere else with
                others than the ones we want to
                be with.

                    Some-times we are called in
                all different ways – to love like
                Jesus – to give to others like Jesus
                calls us – thinking of others and
                giving to others –

                    Satan wants the guy who
                does it his way to waste his
                life here – year after year after
                year after year –

                Giving to others is what the greatest
                commandment is all about –
                When we give to others, as God
                calls us, we are giving to Jesus.
                Standing aloof and being selfish
                reminds me of the Scrooge
                movie of Christmas –

                Look at the 3 years of Christ's
                public life –

                Look at the teachings He taught
                us in the parables –

                Look at the Miracles He performed.
                Was He thinking of Himself when
                    He worked with the Apostles –

                Jesus showed us all how to be –
                He showed us how the Father
                    called Him to work with
                    men that were ignorant
                    sometimes –
                    Peter denied Jesus, when
                    Jesus was suffering,
                    thinking of himself –

                They scattered when Jesus
                    was hung on the cross –

                Jesus gave us a sharing in His life
                    in baptism –

                A good part of the writings Jesus
                    has given to me
                    addresses life IN HIM –

  
 

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993

Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.

    You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.

    When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.

    I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.

    I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.

end of May 13, 1993

                R. I can see a person seeing their
                    relationships with God and
                    leaving others out –

                The others God calls us to serve
                    can be a major part of
                    our serving vocation God
                    calls us to –

                We can want to control our
                    two-way relationship with
                    God –

                Me and God –

                Yet Father Carter tells us so very
                    clearly on the 3 loves –

Excerpt from Response to God's Love - Chapter 8

In order to be in touch with the inner self of others, we must be aware of or in touch with our own inner or true self. This awareness, in turn, is an awareness that our self is likewise made in the image of God, that it has been divinized in Christ and is to be oriented toward God and neighbor. Here, then, we see the profound interaction between the three awarenesses and loves—awareness and love of God, self, and neighbor. As Christians, consequently, we should have a maturing sense of how our existence is, in varied ways, profoundly interlinked with the existence of others. This feeling of union with others is not limited to those we directly encounter, but, in some sense, is directed to all members of the human family.

Let us now consider some of the main attitudes that the Christian should maintain and develop in his or her dealings with others. We will build upon the very basic attitude we have already mentioned—that we must always try to be aware of the true self of others, the self that has been created and redeemed by God's love. This awareness, in turn, calls forth our own love for them.

                        end of excerpt

                R. In Chapter 8 of Response to God's Love
                    He says no man is an island –
                    we are to walk
                    hand-in-hand with each
                    other –

                I study the life of a priest and how
                    God called them to give
                    and give and give –

                My brother is 77 and still giving –

                Fr. Mike - gives and gives –

                The hierarchy - gives and gives –

                Pope Francis gives and gives

                It would be a real loss for us to
                    run our lives and to stop
                    what God was calling us
                    to do as servants of the
                    Lord –

               But just as giving can become
                    so much a part of Pope John Paul II's
                    life – living during World War II –
                    watching his friends die –
                    helping to mold so many
                    men to be leaders in the
                    Church –

                He learned to live God's will –

                He lived His whole life being
                    a servant of God

                He lived every day, every moment
                    to do God's will –

                To love others as God calls us
                    in God's will –

                When we give to others – we
                    give to Jesus –
                    raising our children –
                    being where God calls us now
                    being the link in God-the Father's
                        plan
                    not the broken piece of
                        a chain - stopping
                    the work needed to get done –

                    If God cares for the lilies of
                the field and God cares for
                the birds of the air –

                    Why do we think holding
                out what God calls us to
                do is okay –

                    Spreading the Consecration –

                    Being there to serve others
                        as God has called us to do –

                    Praying in their lives – like Betty
                        and Jerry does –

                In Fr. Carter's library – he had
                    many books –
                    most were on Jesus
                    most were on love –

                Fr. Carter taught me about
                    love –

                Fr. Carter was there for only
                    6 years and I spent time
                    with him – talked to him –
                    and then he died at
                    70 –

                Fr. Carter gave and gave and gave
                He gave when he was sick
                    going to Florida –

                    I remember walking through
                        the Columbus airport with
                        him in 2000 –
                        several times –
                        It was so hard on him –

                    I remember how tired he was
                        carrying his bag at the
                        Faber house to get in
                        my car to go to China
                        he went September 8, 2000
                        and found out he had cancer
                        on September 22, 2000
                        filling his body.

                He gave and gave and gave –

                I remember Margaret a handmaid
    

Margaret C.

How Shepherds of Christ Has Changed My Life

In midsummer of 1996, after receiving some material from a friend, I asked people to help form a Shepherds of Christ prayer chapter. I requested and obtained our Pastor's permission to expose the Blessed Sacrament nightly for our prayer gatherings. I also began making monthly pilgrimages to China, Indiana, for the special prayer service on the 13th of each month and a bit later, for the three-day retreats with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.

The teachings, prayers, love letters, and way of life given to us by Jesus through His Shepherds of Christ Movement helped me realize that I held erroneous views about my faith and God's ways. I recognized too, that I had developed several unChrist-like habits. As ridiculous as it sounds now, the discovery that I could not make myself holy by hard work and perseverance, was quite an insight. But these disconcerting conclusions were accompanied by the refreshing realization that I was made to be totally dependent upon my Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier, and Heavenly Mother for all things -- including my sanctification. I came to understand that I needed an increased dependency:

On God the Father for His mercy, grace and the manifestation of His will for me,

On Jesus for His example, word, Sacrifice of the Mass, Sacraments, and Shepherds of Christ teachings,

On the Holy Spirit for His gifts and transforming action,

On Mary, my Mother for her protection, modeling and intercession.

The fact that all these gifts are free for my taking, will never cease to amaze me.

The pace with which self dies and gives way to Christ would be discouraging if it were not for the infinite, unconditional love and patience Jesus has for each soul, the explicit guidance He provides us on how to become more like Himself, and His generous promises. Jesus' love, expressed most vividly for me in His Incarnation, Passion, death, Eucharist, and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, provides the impetus I need to forever plead and beg for God's transforming action in me.

The stations and the rosary prayed as Jesus and Mary request, have made Their lives so real and made me increasingly aware that Their lives were always shaped by love for God the Father, for each Other, and for souls. I often now place myself at the scene of the mystery or station, and find myself asking questions, seeking counsel, expressing gratitude, or making a request or Act of Contrition. I have come to recognize that the slightest lack of love between my brother and myself is offensive to God and my Mother and that it distances me from Them. I have come to equate the lives of Jesus and Mary with a never-ending "fiat" -- some prayed tearfully, some joyfully, but all said unconditionally. This unending and uninterrupted fiat has become a source of great inspiration. While I believe it is rarely if ever attained in this life, I know that Jesus has set this as a goal for the members of His Movement. Stations, rosary and the messages from Jesus and Mary have also convinced me that working as a co-redeemer with Jesus and Mary is not only an essential component of Christianity but a privilege that allows us to truly share Divinity.

One of my favorite lessons is the channeling of grace and mercy from the Father, and the reverse channeling of our prayers to Him. A second favorite is the instructions Jesus has given us for more effectively offering the Sacrifice of the Mass. These two lessons have substantially affected my prayer life. I still frequently find myself trying to devise my own strategies, my own goals, my own time table; but when I catch myself doing so, I at least now recognize the absurdity of such self-direction and the wisdom of using the fool-proof methods identified by Jesus and Mary in the Shepherds of Christ Movement.

So with the grace of God I intend to daily nestle in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary through frequent consecration, learn to listen with my heart to Their counsel, beg for Their help to discern the Father's will, and join Them in praying "fiat".

Oh Jesus and Mary, I'll need eternity to begin to thank You for the lessons You are teaching me and the call and mission You have given me as a member of Shepherds of Christ. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! I give to each of You, my body, my heart, mind and soul. I place my trust in You.

                R. When going through her things when
                    she died –
                    her letters to Jesus were filled
                    with her devotion and love
                    for Him and
                    how she lived to serve Him –
                    to give herself to Him –

                When we give ourselves to others,
                    according to God's will –
                    we are giving to Jesus –

                Love does make the world go round –

                Love is following so many old
                    priests today who give and
                    give and give –

                God has called us to do His will –

                God has called us to spread this
                    Movement –

                God has called us to focus on His
                    Plan and not ours –

                When we give to others – to others
                    according to God's will –
                    we are serving Jesus –

Look, my servant will prosper,
will grow great, will rise to great heights.

As many people were aghast at him—
he was so inhumanly disfigured
that he no longer looked like a man—
so many nations will be astonished
and kings will stay tight–lipped
   before him,
seeing what had never been told them,
learning what they had not heard before.

Who has given credence
    to what we have heard?
And who has seen in it
   a revelation of Yahweh’s arm?
Like a sapling he grew up before him,
like a root in arid ground.
He had no form or charm to attract us,
no beauty to win our hearts;
he was despised, the lowest of men,
a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering,
one from whom, as it were,
   we averted our gaze,
despised, for whom we had no regard.
Yet ours were the sufferings
    he was bearing,
ours the sorrows he was carrying,
while we thought of him
   as someone being punished
and struck with affliction by God;
whereas he was being wounded
    for our rebellions,
crushed because of our guilt;
the punishment reconciling us fell on him,
and we have been healed by his bruises.
We had all gone astray like sheep,
each taking his own way,
and Yahweh brought the acts of rebellion
of all of us to bear on him.
Ill–treated and afflicted,
he never opened his mouth,
like a lamb led to the slaughter–house,
like a sheep dumb before its shearers
he never opened his mouth.

Forcibly, after sentence, he was taken.
Which of his contemporaries
    was concerned
at his having been cut off
    from the land of the living,
at his having been struck dead
    for his people’s rebellion?
He was given a grave with the wicked,
and his tomb is with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
had spoken no deceit.

It was Yahweh’s good pleasure
    to crush him with pain;
if he gives his life as a sin offering,
he will see his offspring
    and prolong his life,
and through him
    Yahweh’s good pleasure will be done.

After the ordeal he has endured,
he will see the light and be content.
By his knowledge, the upright one,
   my servant will justify many
by taking their guilt on himself.

Hence I shall give him a portion
    with the many,
and he will share the booty
    with the mighty,
for having exposed himself to death
and for being counted
   as one of the rebellious,
whereas he was bearing the sin of many
and interceding for the rebellious.

Hebrews 4: 14-16

Since in Jesus, the Son of God, we have the supreme high priest who has gone through to the highest heaven, we must hold firm to our profession of faith. For the high priest we have is not incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us, but has been put to the test in exactly the same way as ourselves, apart from sin. Let us, then, have no fear in approaching the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace when we are in need of help.

HOMILY – (Is 52:13-53:12; Heb 4:14-16, 5:7-9; John18:1-19:42) Every day we gather around this altar to celebrate the Eucharist. In the Eucharist God’s love is shown to us through Jesus Christ who gave his life for us on the cross. So he can share his life with us now, he continues to give us his body and blood. The gift of his life involved immense suffering on his part. Our gospels do not dwell long on his sufferings. They didn’t need to because the people who lived at the time the gospels were written knew what crucifixion involved. It was one of the most agonizing forms of execution that human beings had ever concocted. On this one day of the year, out of respect for what Jesus went through, we do not celebrate the Eucharist as we do every other day. Instead we have a rather extended service of reflection, intercessions, and Communion.

    Rather than focusing on the physical sufferings of Jesus, I would like to reflect on the mystery of suffering itself. The book of Genesis attributes suffering to sin. The first man and woman God created lost the happiness God had intended for them because of their disobedience to God. The whole first part of the Old Testament, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel and Kings and many of the prophets reflects this notion of suffering – that it is caused by disobedience to God. There is some truth in that notion, but it is not the whole story as the Book of Job tells us. Without telling us why good people suffer, the Book of Job took issue with the old theology on suffering. Sometime about 500 years before Christ, the prophet Isaiah gave us a new way of thinking about suffering – that it can have a positive purpose – that one person’s suffering can bring blessings to another. Weheard it clearly expressed in today’s first reading from a passage in Isaiah known as the 4th Servant Song. I would like to repeat some phrases from our first reading; they are so powerful. God’s Servant, Isaiah says, “was spurned and avoided by people, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity…Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured…he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins; upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed…though he had done no wrong nor spoken any falsehood, the Lord was pleased to crush him in infirmity… he shall take away the sins of many and win pardon for their offenses.”

    It is easy to see in a family how one person’s sufferings can benefit another person. For example, how parents make sacrifices for their children, how they have to go through difficult times to support those they love andteach them and discipline them. The sufferings of Jesus, however, were a scandal to his followers. The Messiah was not expected to suffer. We remember when Jesus tried to warn his disciples that he would “suffer greatly and be killed and would rise again.” Peter replied, “Heaven forbid, Lord, this will never happen to you.” Jesus response to Peter is familiar to all of us: “Get behind me, Satan.”

    Why did he have to suffer? I have asked myself that question many times and others have asked me that question many times as well. My current thinking on this is I think he had to suffer because of who he was. He was God’s Son who came among a sinful people. He could not be anything other than who he was and, without redemption, we could not be anything other than who we are. He was like a lamb dropped into a tigers’ cage. He was from above, we are from this world, his holiness did not fit in with our sinful ways. The only kingdom we could know was the kingdom of this world and his kingdom did not belong to this world. Thus he came to his own and his own received him not. Because he could not be other than who he was and because he was faithful to the purpose for which he came – his purpose being to confront the powers of evil, to heal and to teach us to change our lives and to live in a new way – conflict, confrontation, rejection and suffering were inevitable. Yet his sufferings led to his resurrection and glorification. Jesus has “passed through the heavens,” as the Letter to the Hebrews tells us, to take his rightful place at God’s right hand. But he has not left us, rather through his Spirit, through prayer and the sacraments and through his love in us he has transformed us and made us sharers in his new life. He has made us into a new creation. “He has become the source of eternal life for all who obey him,” the Letter to the Hebrews tells us. Or as Isaiah tells  us: “By his stripes we were healed.” Amen.

 
April 5, 2001
 

                R. We can see an orchestra how
                    every instrument has their
                    part – They contribute
                    to the music –
                    We can see the order God
                    wants, by putting us in
                    salvation history –
                    at a precise time and God
                    calling us to be a
                    part of the Grand scheme
                    of salvation history –

                And we see men who call themselves
                leaders for their own glory and
                men who give themselves to others
                    like Jesus and Abraham and
                    Joseph the prophet and
                    Joseph, Mary's husband –

                We have one life to live –

                God the Father is the conductor and
                    He put us here to serve Him
                    according to His Plan –

                Leaders lead others –
                    either to be like Jesus or
                    to follow their willfulness

                Leaders have a responsibility
                    to serve

                Just like the voice in the
                    orchestra –
                    who can drown out the
                        guy playing the
                        dissonant music –
                        when so many are on and
                        he ignores everybody
                        with his own plan –

                Did you ever hear of an assembly
                    live and how it works and
                    one man comes and drops a
                    wrench in it –

                We see how Judas betrayed Jesus

Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

In schematic outline we have discussed the manner in which the baptized Christian extends his Mass to his daily existence. As he so lives out his Mass, he is becoming more Christlike. He becomes a more perfect priest and victim for his next participation in the eucharistic sacrifice.42 The beautiful cycle which the Mass contains lies exposed before us. As part of this cycle the Christian is intimately involved in the process of continued redemption. The Mass is the center of the Christian life: “. . . the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all her power flows.” 43

42. For a current treatment of the varied richness of the Eucharist, cf. J. Wicks, “The Movement of Eucharistic Theology” in Chicago Studies, Vol. 10 (1971), pp. 267-284.
43. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 10.

 

November 21, 2013

Jesus: I call you to live your lives as devout members of the mystical body of Christ. I have given these writings that men will realize that they are to live united deeply to the Mass going on around the world. Your lives, given as an offering, a sacrifice every moment in union with the Mass going on around the world. Your life, a sacrifice, offered to the Father, in union with the Mass in oneness with Me, in the Holy Spirit through the intercession of the Blessed Mother with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory.

Your lives given as members of My mystical body can help to bring down great graces for the priest, the Church and the world.

Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

“How does the Christian help Christ redeem the world? (Henceforth the term “world” is to be understood as including both rational and nonrational creation.) As previously stated, the Christian helps Christ redeem the world by reliving Christ’s mysteries. The same “events” or mysteries which accomplished the objective redemption further the subjective redemption also. Since at the heart of Christ’s mysteries are His death and Resurrection, it is especially these that the Christian must relive. As the Christian dies mystically with Christ through loving conformity with the Father’s will, he rises with Christ to an ever greater share in the Resurrection, in the newness of life, in the life of grace. As the Christian in this manner relives the paschal mystery of Christ, he is accomplishing not only his own redemption, but he is also, in a mysterious yet real manner, helping Christ redeem the world.”

                R. God gives us a sharing in His life
                in baptism – think of the messages
                Jesus gives in the Blue Books about
                His love, about baptism,
                about the Eucharist and
                confession –

                    This message about God's grace
                and baptism need to go out –
                the devil wants this blocked –
                God has given us a mission
                to do it His way and affect
                so many souls in the Church –

                We receive the infused virtues of
                    faith, hope and love when
                    we are baptized –
                    We are given these gifts to
                    live to that realm of
                    greater Christian maturity
                    in this life and
                    to be eternally happy in
                    heaven –

                How can doing your own
                    will for affection or
                    wealth or power
                    be more enticing than letting
                    God have His will with us –

                How is our hearts –

                Ready to be the seed of love
                    planted in a well-cared
                    garden by the Divine God –

                Or do we think selfishly and
                    let His seed fall on
                    side-walk and cement to
                    do it our way –
                    opposed to God's will –

                Comfort zone – do you think
                    Jesus thought about
                    being comfortable
                    or doing God's will –

                Look at Jesus on the cross –

                R. God gave us a heart to give love –

                God gave us talents to use and
                    develop –

                God made us part of His
                    magnificent plan and

                He made others part of that
                    plan to be used as He intended
                    not for our selfishness –

                God wants to work in our souls
                    to be more and more perfect –
                    to be the voice in
                    the symphony –
                    we can have our own plan –
                    trying to force things
                    to go our way –
                    opposed to God's will
                    for us and others –

                Leaders are to lead people
                    the way God wants –
                    to serve –
                    to do God's will –

                To be focused on living more
                    and more fully according
                    to God's will –

                God has given us a gift to
                    be as He wants –
                    to be there when He wants
                    us –

                God made us more precious and
                    important than any
                    selfish way we can conjure
                    up to hold onto things –

                Jesus: How are you blooming in
                    the garden of life –
                    Do you give beauty to
                        others by your
                        talents used to do
                        the Father's will

                Or are you the Master of
                    control for your plan –
                    blocking the work My Father
                    called you to do –

                Life is for giving to others –
                    giving according to God's will –
                    Being where He wants you
                        in salvation history – 

I Died For You

This message from Jesus was very carefully discerned by Fr. Carter.

February 23, 1994

Jesus: I want this emotion in the letter I told you to write. I, Jesus, Son of God, talk to you with such emotion! I am He Who died a brutal death for love of you. I died for you! I love you this much, to give My Life! Yet you couldn't even write when I asked you. You must do exactly as I say. I do not want you ever to say no to Me!

    I have such emotion! I am telling you how I died a brutal death and you, My child, did not write for Me! What more can I do? What more do they want? You put others before Me or you would do as I command. I want you to do as I tell you every moment.

    I am the Lord. I am the Son of God. Such emotion I let you feel for My death. I died. I am a person. I was human and I died for you. Think of yourself giving your life for someone and  they do not care. What can I do to shake you? What more can I say? I am here and I am loving you and pleading with you to listen to Me with this emotion that God is telling you. I am Jesus. I died for you. I gave My life for you and do you even listen, My little sweet one? You didn't want to write it for My children. When I give you a command, you write. When I say do, you do. Selflessness! I am pushing you because I need your total surrender. Do not ever deny My writing to My loved ones. You have a responsibility. I don't care where you are when I talk. I am God and I talk to you. I am so present to you.

    Listen. I need your selflessness. I need your surrender. I need your life, given for love of Me and Me alone. I need you to be the light that shines on the hill, that does not go in and out but is constant in My love. I need your commitment. I need your attention at every moment. I am feeding you My words every moment on paper and in your hand. You must obey Me exactly as I command. No questions, only action. I want action. Now! You write when I say write. I don't care where you are. You worry not for others. I am giving you the mighty medicine. Would you tell the doctor to wait? I am God and I do not ever want to wait while you play a safe game with Me. When I say do something, I want you to do it. You are My beloved and I am filling you with fire.

    I am pushing you to do that which I need done. Do not ever stop to look around. Keep your focus on Me and My commands for you. I am using you every moment. I must be able to count on your constant consent to do My will immediately! I am calling you to this work and I want you to comply. I love you ardently. I am so full of love for you. Focus on this and this alone. I am Who am. I am God, child. Do not ever hesitate. Do not doubt or think. You must act as I act in you or My work will not be done.

    Be selfless about My commands. You will do My work. You will spread My words of love and create emotion with My songs and I will use you to bring My flock to My love. I love every soul! You must spread My love.

Note: (Meditating on the Crucifixion) Going to Mass at the seminary at 8:00 a.m. was rushed. He said to me, "Where are you going, child. Do you not feel My presence with you?" A calm came over me. Then He started lamenting how He died for us, how He is a true person and He loves us so much. He said, "I died for you."

Messenger:  He gave His life for us. He is the little lamb led to the slaughter out of love for us. He said, "I need you to do this work now and I am pushing you." He was so upset! He died for us. He loves us so much as to give His life.

    He begged me to spread His love, to tell others how He, bloodied, bruised and beaten, gave us His life.

Jesus speaks:  I am God. I am God. I died. Spread My love now! Now! Now! Now! Now! I am begging you not to hold back! Read these letters now, read and learn about My love. I beckon you to speak of My love. Shout it from the high roof. Proclaim it in the cities. Jesus Christ died for love of you and He is risen! I am He Who is God and I died for you!

    Listen and preach My love and emotion here. Priests will create little cities, little cities in each church to spread the light of Christ to this sick world. Each priest can create his own little city, a powerhouse of God's love. God has all the power. His power is endless. It never runs out. It is might. You have no power except through Him. Churches filled with the intimate love of Jesus will be powerhouses.

    I am God, My little ones. God can do all things. I can make your cities light up the darkness. I am the Way, the Truth, the Life. I am the light of life. I am God! I can do all things. I want to act in you. You need to be in constant union with Me. My priests, you need to be selfless. My soul and yours are one. I want to act in you.

    Hold not back. Pray the Prayer for Union with Me.

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                Song: A Song from Jesus