Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing

December 30, 2014

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                December 30, 2014

                R. A man was tortured by others –
                The man was some how able to
                get away. Will the man be mean
                to those who tortured him?

                    Jesus was treated like an enemy.
                He was chained, He was whipped,
                He was beaten, He was crowned
                with thorns. Jesus is God. Jesus
                suffered for our sins. Jesus paid
                the price for our offenses against
                God. Jesus was beaten, His body
                ripped, torn, bloodied and
                after they pounded nails into
                His hands and feet – they hung Him
                on a cross, to His death.

                    Jesus was put in a tomb
                and He rose on the 3rd day –
                Victorious –

                    He came to give us a sharing
                in His life. God, the Son of God,
                took on a human nature and
                took on flesh and allowed Himself
                to be beaten, whipped, bloodied,
                crowned with thorns and crucified
                for us.

                    We see the selfishness of men
                because of their wounded human
                nature, we see men who think
                only of themselves –

                    Jesus loved His persecutors,
                His greatest anguish was the
                anguish He suffered because
                of His love for the men who even
                put Him to death.

                    Jesus shows us a lesson for
                all men. Jesus obeyed the will
                of His Father to His death on the
                cross.

                    We see how God has allowed saintly
                men to suffer. Stephen was martyred.
                Jeremiah was whipped and thrown
                in a pit, but he never disobeyed
                his calling – He withstood the suffering
                to do as God told him. Abraham
                obeyed God – he led the people
                in suffering to what he was
                told to do. God even tested
                Abraham and asked him who
                was more important, his son or
                what God was calling Him to do.
                God operates in rules. The devil
                is always trying to break the
                rules God is trying to establish.
                We see that with Eve in the
                Garden. Eve wanted it her way –
                She wanted to be equal to God –
                So we see how Eve's sin hurt
                the whole human race –
                Eve was to do God's will and
                she disobeyed. We have a calling
                to do God's will, the way He calls
                and to follow in the footsteps
                of Jesus – who came and showed
                us how we are to be sons of our
                Father in heaven.
                Jesus obeyed His Father's will
                to do the Father's Plan –

                God calls men and women to religious
                life to be under a superior
                and to live in the community
                under a rule –

                The religious has taken vows of
                poverty, chastity and obedience
                for over 1000 years in the
                Church. Religious are under
                the rule –

                This is the way the Catholic
                Church has set up the
                Consecrated Life for over
                1000 years.

                    Think of the hundreds of
                religious orders who have
                struggled over hundreds of
                years enforcing or trying to
                enforce the rule.

                    It is like Eve in the Garden –
                she was told to obey, but she wanted
                her way, so she disobeyed God.
                God shows us the obedience He wants.
                God the Father sent His only Son
                into the world – God sent His
                Son and He obeyed the will of
                the Father. Jesus gave His life,
                was beaten – doing the will of
                God –

                    He did the will of God so we
                could be saved.

                    Jesus went through this torture –
                showing us the New Adam obeyed
                His Father's will to His death on
                the cross –

                    We see Adam and Eve disobeyed
                the Father – Eve wanted to do
                it her way. Abraham was put to
                the test with his son – We see
                God the Father gave His Son as
                a sacrifice.

                    Today we see the Mass is the
                Sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally
                made present. Every time we go
                to Mass we are called to give ourselves,
                to be pure in our interior offering.
                God calls us to obedience to His will.

                The example we set for others is
                no little matter. When put in
                a position of authority – Adam
                and Eve were the parents of the human
                race, we see how their sin hurt
                the human race.

                    We are put in a small window
                on this earth and Jesus showed us
                how He obeyed His Father's will
                to His death on the cross.

                    Jesus shows us love – Care
                for others –

                    We see how God calls religious
                to obedience to show the world
                how to live, to give one's life
                for the Church, for others, like
                Jesus who came and gave Himself
                for us – our Savior –

                    Jesus died for all men – Jesus
                carried the cross, laden with the
                sins of men's willfulness in disobeying God
                and ignoring how they hurt others
                in salvation history by their
                bad example and lack of doing
                what they should have, that over time,
                affected so many others' lives –

                    We can see how the life of Mary
                has affected her children. How
                Mary never disobeyed the Father's
                will –

                    How selfless Mary and Jesus
                were. How the lesson of the Two Hearts
                is love for God first – love for
                God's will – wanting only to
                serve God – in His Plan
                and do it His way.

                    Obedience to the Father's will –

                Jesus: My gift to you is Myself–

                    A man had two sons and one
                did his own will and the other
                son his father's will. Remember
                the parable of the Gospel –

                    What I tell you – is your time is
                so short in salvation history as you
                walk the earth –

                    Why do you plan your life and
                then do everything your way and
                tell yourself you are doing My will.
                Did you not learn the message of
                the Gospel – I have given these
                writings to help men to see about their
                place and how this life on earth
                is passing. A man put all his
                eggs in a basket and then a storm
                came up and he stumbled and all
                his eggs broke – he had nothing
                left.

                    God the Father created you and
                put you on this earth – you
                don't belong to your mother or
                father – you were put here because
                God has a mission for you –

                    Pick and choose and do it
                your way opposed to the Father's
                Plan. Man when you operate
                against the Father's Plan – you
                have problems – you are the
                first problem – doing your own
                will, making your own rules –
                doing your own thing – then
                what follows is out of order –

Romans 8:5-9

Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

                Jesus: Do your own plan and watch
                your mess – Ignore My greatest
                commandment of loving God first
                and loving your neighbor as yourself
                and you have ignored My rule,
                My commandments given to you –

  1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
  2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
  3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
  4. Honor your father and your mother.
  5. You shall not kill.
  6. You shall not commit adultery.
  7. You shall not steal.
  8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
  10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

                From Blue Book 14

February 23, 1997

Sacrifice

Messenger: When I go to Mass I offer a sacrifice. God wants our all. He wants to be first in our life. He asked Abraham to sacrifice his son.

Gen. 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18:

It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. "Abraham, Abraham!" he called. "Here I am," he replied. God said, "Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall point out to you.

When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.

But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven. "Abraham, Abraham!" he said. "Here I am," he replied. Do not raise your hand against the boy," the angel said. "Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me your own beloved son." Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from heaven. "I swear by my own self, Yahweh declares, that because you have done this, because you have not refused me your own beloved son, I will shower blessings on you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies. All nations on earth will bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed my command.

The Father gave His Son for us. This is how great the Father's love is for us.

When we go to the altar many times we are suffering. We want something really bad, but we know we love God the most. What the Father asks for us is to offer that which we are so attached to as a sacrifice, united to the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. If we offer this sacrifice to Him, the Father will pour out blessings that will be divine blessings, greater than anything we could have here on earth.

The Mass is the perfect sacrifice we offer to the Father, in which God pours out His blessings and we are one with Him and with all others in a profound expression of love. God shares His divine love with us and we partake in an intense way in His divine loving capacity. In order to become one in Him and to feel His love like this, we must surrender ourselves and be open.

He told Abraham to offer his son. God gave him his son back. He wanted Abraham to love God above all things and people.

Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice to the Father. This is the most pleasing sacrifice to the Father. If He gave His Son Who died for love of us, will He deny us when we unite our petitions with Jesus and offer these at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?

He took them to the highest mountain and He was transfigured before them in the greatest light.

Mark 9:2-10:

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus, "Rabbi," he said, "it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and from the cloud there came a voice, "This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him." Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.

As they were coming down from the mountain he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves they discussed what 'rising from the dead' could mean.

We go to the altar of sacrifice. The mountain to come, in which so many graces will flow, is the altar of sacrifice where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered through the hands of consecrated priests.

We hear the Father say, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him." He is speaking to us. He is the Word. He is speaking in these messages. He is unveiling the Scriptures and speaking to us in plain talk. This is a great gift He is giving to us.

We are transformed in the Mass. We unite with the greatest sacrifice offered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We have the most perfect sacrifice to offer to the Father when we offer this sacrifice. He gives us great blessings. We die to ourselves, we become white.

We must unite all of our sacrifices to this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being said all over the world. This is the greatest way to magnify all of our offerings - by uniting everything we do as an offering, a sacrifice to the Father in union with His Son.

end of February 23, 1997

                Jesus: I bled for your sins. I was
                whipped, beaten bloodied
                for your sins – Do you see
                the lesson I gave you.

February 23, 1997 (excerpt)

R. He told Abraham to offer his son. God gave him his son back. He wanted Abraham to love God above all things and people.

Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice to the Father. This is the most pleasing sacrifice to the Father. If He gave His Son Who died for love of us, will He deny us when we unite our petitions with Jesus and offer these at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?

He took them to the highest mountain and He was transfigured before them in the greatest light.

Mark 9:2-10:

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus, "Rabbi," he said, "it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and from the cloud there came a voice, "This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him." Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.

As they were coming down from the mountain he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves they discussed what 'rising from the dead' could mean.

We go to the altar of sacrifice. The mountain to come, in which so many graces will flow, is the altar of sacrifice where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered through the hands of consecrated priests.

We hear the Father say, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him." He is speaking to us. He is the Word. He is speaking in these messages. He is unveiling the Scriptures and speaking to us in plain talk. This is a great gift He is giving to us.

We are transformed in the Mass. We unite with the greatest sacrifice offered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We have the most perfect sacrifice to offer to the Father when we offer this sacrifice. He gives us great blessings. We die to ourselves, we become white.

We must unite all of our sacrifices to this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being said all over the world. This is the greatest way to magnify all of our offerings - by uniting everything we do as an offering, a sacrifice to the Father in union with His Son.

end of February 23, 1997

                "This is My beloved Son
                in whom I am well pleased,
                listen to Him."

                R. Jesus appeared to me on the cross
                December 5, 1996 – because He said
                no one was listening – Remember
                Mary had appeared to me since
                July 5, 1994 –

                    I learned that what we do to
                others – we do to Jesus –

                    Listen to Sunday's Gospel –

                    God may call us to simple
                obedience and give us a big gift
                and we can try to own the gift God
                is giving as if we aren't blessed
                and should do with it what
                God wants rather than hoard
                it and think we own it and
                keep it from others.

                    When we die – we take
                nothing with us –

                    Not any person, any thing,
                any place –

                    Someone will one day probably
                live where we once called
                our house, our kitchen, our
                yard etc. –

                    Someone will come in
                and decide what to do with
                things we thought were so
                precious.

                    Our lives belong to God –
                We are to live to know, love
                and serve Him. He has
                called us to not "hoard" anything,
                person, places or things –

                    We saw in World War II the destruction –
                Do you remember the Babylonian
                Exile –

                    There is a lesson there –

                    The King would not listen to
                        Jeremiah –

                    In the end he even lost
                        his sons –

                It is the Father's Plan we do
                    what He wants with us
                    here –

                When we ignore God, we
                    have consequences –

                Instead of God directing us –
                    we can oppose God's will –
                    hurt those He called us to
                    reach and
                    "hoard" things like the guy
                    burying his talent –
 

                R. Jesus emptied Himself –

                Jesus was hung on a cross on Calvary –

                He showed us we take nothing
                    with us
 

                From Blue Book 14

February 27, 1997

After the Death, There is the Resurrection

R. My love affair is with You, my crucified Lord. I kiss Your cross and caress You tenderly. I smother You with kisses and I know Your love.

    This is love - to kiss the cross of Christ. I cursed the darkness and the light came across the sky, ever so gently as if it grew in intensity to a bright brilliant shade of glistening light. And in this I beheld my Beloved. I saw His glory in the wonders of the earth and I embraced Him, the divine, all-powerful, Almighty Lord!

    He took away those things I was attached to. I held on with a gripping hand. Oh, I cried out in pain and I heard the words in my heart: beyond the surrender is the real gift.

    Is it not after the death there is the resurrection, after the dying, there is the glory?

    Oh, my Divine Lord, I feel as if my eyes have crusted over. I laid down on the floor and pounded my fists to the earth. I did not see the miracle in the grass that touched my hand. I did not see the power and the might behind the work of endless beauty. A blade of grass, you say? Oh, yes indeed, for it lives and is not life the real miracle? For I am not a rock, but a living creature, created in the image and likeness of God and oh, you say, how much do you share in the life of the Divine Being? And I say, "I share through Baptism. He, God, gives me a sharing in His divine life!"

    I pounded the earth and I cursed the darkness. I scoffed and I complained and beyond the horizon the sun slowly stole across the sky and the light appeared in glistening glory. The darkness was black and the night was cold. I heard the clamor of fear in my heart. I felt like screaming in that night and oh, I beheld the crucified Lord. He spoke no words to me, the Holy Spirit filled my heart with light and I saw the glory. I saw the resurrection, not with my earthly eyes, but with the awakening of a joyous heart within.

    I saw the glorified wounds, the wounds once covered with blood, inflamed and red, gushing with deep, red blood. I saw the glistening wounds in the hands and feet and I knew behind His robe was the most tender of all wounds, the piercing wound to His side. It was there, the pierced wound of His most precious Heart. It was the wound of glory, from which His divine life would pour forth to a hungry Church. It would rain and fall as gently as the new fallen snow. It would go across the sky like the light and the souls would be transformed into the whitest light. The graced soul, oh, the glory of this soul, the soul that is filled with His divine life!

    Oh, need I say more, my Lord? I see the life in a blade of grass. I see the tiniest potato bug with its dots and beauty and I behold the face of God. I behold life, His life, alive in us and in the world.

    Well, the night was black, as black as black could be and the cold pierced my bones. I felt its chill go through my entire body and I wanted to scream and it happened--He gave me an outpouring of His life in my soul and my darkness was truly turned to light, another light, not the light of the eyes, a light of knowing God, the joy of beholding His heavenly embrace, the great illumination of another mystery. Oh, sweet gifts He gives when He gives me new knowledge of Himself. Sweet gifts He gives when, in an instant, I pray my rosary and the Holy Spirit fills my heart with lights and the mystery lights up and I know, I just know and I experience a great insight into God.

    This is the reason for this letter, for I laid in my bed and I wanted to cry and I was deeply afraid for the devils pressed in as rocks poking at me and hurting my precious skin. I laid in bed and I went into the womb of my Mother and I asked for the Holy Spirit to flood me with His light and it came. I speak His words to you, they are the words He gives: death-resurrection, darkness-light, sorrow-joy, suffering and pain, but oh, the joy of His light, the joy of His glory, the sacrifice I offer to Him that He turns into blessings and I experience His glory. It is in the death there is the resurrection. It is in the anguishing days of lent we come to the glory of Easter.

    So, my dear brothers, I walk the road to Calvary. I mount the cross and I die. I offer sacrifice and in the morning when the night is done I see the glory of the resurrection. I experience His joy in my heart.

    So I went to bed and went into the womb of my Mother and the Holy Spirit flooded me with light and I united deeply to my precious Jesus on the cross. I knew Him and His love. I reminisced on all the places of deepest intimacy I had shared with Him and my heart burned. I wanted Him so close and I loved Him so much. I cried out, "I love You, I love You, I love You." In that moment I knew and wanted only Him. He had removed my bonds and set me free to be engulfed by His divine love. I then knew Him as never before, the most Holy One, in this union with Jesus.

    I felt my great love for God the Father. I have been experiencing my littleness as a child and knowing my Father, seeing myself real little and knowing my Father and wanting, as a little child, to please Him. Then tonight I realized more His Fatherly love. I see myself depending on Him, needing Him, crying to Him, loving Him and then I realized His power and might and love coming to me.

    So I knew in an instant. He just gives you a light and you know, you experience--I knew, I experienced the Trinity. I loved Them, all three Persons, so much and I loved Them as one, my heart, being consumed with the presence of God and sharing the love of each Person--love beyond all love, and I stopped to be in this embrace, wanting it to never end, for in this embrace I felt peace, a peace I had not felt before, so different from the days that preceded this moment, the days of suffering and trial.

    I mounted the cross. I felt the nails press deeply into my hands and feet. I felt the crown of thorns on my head. I said to Him, "Oh, why, my God, if You love me, do You make it so hard?"

    And then I saw Him on the cross. I saw His mouth with blood running from the corner of it. I saw the body of a man, close to death. I saw His wounds, blistery and red, pouring out His precious blood. I saw the hollowness of His cheeks and the exhaustion of a body ready to expire in death. I saw the anguishing Lord who came to show us His way. His way is death and resurrection. His way is pain and glory. His way is the way to eternal life.

end of February 27, 1997

February 28, 1997

December 30, 1993 (excerpt) Jesus: It is in acceptance of all that is before you that you grow in your relationship with Me. Do not try to throw back into My face the little opportunity for grace you receive. Child, I am ever by your side and I am ever teaching you. Accept all things as happening from Him Who loves you. Know that My hand is in everything you are experiencing. I am vigilant and by your side. Nothing happens to you that I have not consented to. You are My messenger and this is My message: Look to Me and keep your heart fixed on the God Who loves you. At every second, turn to Him and place yourself in His arms. I am Jesus and I love you!