Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our old president as he leaves office and our new president as he takes office.

Given December 31, 2006   — Feast of the Holy Family

Received after 10:00am Mass

Messenger:              There is this place of unity in the family that is
                            only met with love. Not giving people "anything"
                            they want, but doing God's will in love.

                                Looking at the Holy Family is so beautiful — for
                            God came amongst human creatures in a family,
                            born of a Mother, living with His foster-Father
                            Saint Joseph.

                                We in the Shepherds of Christ, servants,
                            handmaids, apostles, associates, Apostles
                            of the Eucharistic Heart, Prayer Apostles were
                            called to be a family — united in the Hearts
                            of Jesus and Mary in love. Our gift is to be
                            one in Their Hearts. Mary is our spiritual
                            Mother, Jesus our beloved Bridegroom —
                            God the Father — our Father, Creator, the Holy Spirit,
                            we live in the Holy Spirit with the
                            fire of God's love.

                            God calls us to form these little prayer chapters
                            all over the world united deeply in the Hearts
                            of Jesus and Mary. Forming little spiritual
                            families of support — helping to spread God's
                            love to all the earth.

                                Sending the Newsletter centered in love and
                            dwelling in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary to 190
                            countries — uniting all more deeply in the body
                            of Christ in love, dwelling in the Hearts of
                            Jesus and Mary and living in love in the Holy Spirit.

                                This is a time of love — when a baby is born —
                            people are filled with awe and love (usually) and
                            happiness and joy.

                                Into this dark world — the promised Savior
                            comes in such poverty — loving so deeply His
                            beloved souls. We are the family God put on
                            this earth — the human family rooted in
                            love and heaven and earth unite at this
                            birth of Jesus — Mary is espoused to the Holy Spirit —
                            Jesus is the Son of God —
                                    the angels sing, simple shepherds
                            come and beast of this earth —

                                And through this birth all will be able
                            to live harmoniously if they so choose
                            to obey God and follow the Son of God
                            Jesus.

                                Jesus is the way, the truth and the life —
                            To the wandering human family — the
                            Son of God is born —

                                Open the portals of love — outpour
                            your grace on this earth oh God.

                            Heaven and earth Kiss —
                            A Savior is born —

                            But many will suffer — they will
                                wear the marks of battle to carry
                                the white flag of His victory —

                            Many will walk in suffering —

                            But the Victory is won.

                                He has triumphed over death.

1 Corinthians 15: 20-58

    In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first–fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first–fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

    Otherwise, what are people up to who have themselves baptised on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, what is the point of being baptised on their behalf? And what about us? Why should we endanger ourselves every hour of our lives? I swear by the pride that I take in you, in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I face death every day. If I fought wild animals at Ephesus in a purely human perspective, what had I to gain by it? If the dead are not going to be raised, then Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead. So do not let anyone lead you astray, ‘Bad company corrupts good ways.’ Wake up from your stupor as you should and leave sin alone; some of you have no understanding of God; I tell you this to instil some shame in you.

Someone may ask: How are dead people raised, and what sort of body do they have when they come? How foolish! What you sow must die before it is given new life; and what you sow is not the body that is to be, but only a bare grain, of wheat I dare say, or some other kind; it is God who gives it the sort of body that he has chosen for it, and for each kind of seed its own kind of body. 

    Not all flesh is the same flesh: there is human flesh; animals have another kind of flesh, birds another and fish yet another. Then there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; the heavenly have a splendour of their own, and the earthly a different splendour. The sun has its own splendour, the moon another splendour, and the stars yet another splendour; and the stars differ among themselves in splendour. It is the same too with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable; what is sown is contemptible but what is raised is glorious; what is sown is weak, but what is raised is powerful; what is sown is a natural body, and what is raised is a spiritual body. 

    If there is a natural body, there is a spiritual body too. So the first man, Adam, as scripture says, became a living soul; and the last Adam has become a life–giving spirit. But first came the natural body, not the spiritual one; that came only afterwards. The first man, being made of earth, is earthly by nature; the second man is from heaven. The earthly man is the pattern for earthly people, the heavenly man for heavenly ones. And as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so we shall bear the likeness of the heavenly one. 

    What I am saying, brothers, is that mere human nature cannot inherit the kingdom of God: what is perishable cannot inherit what is imperishable. Now I am going to tell you a mystery: we are not all going to fall asleep, but we are all going to be changed, instantly, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. The trumpet is going to sound, and then the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed, because this perishable nature of ours must put on imperishability, this mortal nature must put on immortality.

And after this perishable nature has put on imperishability and this mortal nature has put on immortality, then will the words of scripture come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin comes from the Law. Thank God, then, for giving us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

    So, my dear brothers, keep firm and immovable, always abounding in energy for the Lord’s work, being sure that in the Lord none of your labours is wasted.

December 31, 2006 message continues

Messenger:           The angels sing

                                        Hosanna in the highest —
                                        The human family should live
                                                  in love and joy — the Savior
                                                  came to this earth.

December 31, 2006 message continues

Messenger:           The holy Family - teaches us about community
                                   oneness in love —
                                   strength comes in modeling every
                                        community after the Trinity —

                                    the Trinity — the most perfect community.

                            Sing:  What Child is This —

                            Jesus says "I am the way, the truth and the life."
                            Everything according to God's will.

                            Jesus says "I am the way, the truth and the life."

                                Love is doing things according to God's will
                                     not dysfunctionally.

                                Anytime dysfunction is at the root the
                                     devil is working to keep things dysfunctional.

                                Temperance according to God's will.

                                 Love according to God's will.

                                When we see that satan is working in the
                                          family and community, it can be a blessing —
                                          if we can close that open door
                                          so satan can no longer work there,
                                          the problems in the Church should
                                          have been exposed and healed —

                                          this makes us a stronger Church —

                                          this shows us — we as human creatures
                                                have impurities — we are imperfect —
                                                we always are focused on holiness.

                                           What is God's will —
                                                    not slavishly dependent relationships to
                                                            fill a sick need — all things
                                                              as God wills — in holiness —
                                                                        in real love —

                                    Because sin entered the world — there was
                                        dysfunction —

                                        God showed us His way —
                                        It was obedience —
                                        His rule was for us to obey Him —

                                    People may seek a simple, quick solution
                                             for pain — that is a wrong solution and
                                             what they can keep doing is creating a
                                             monster.

                                      Pain is a part of life — in an act of love
                                             God died on the cross —
                                             He experienced pain —
                                             But He did the Father's will —

                                      A person that acts incorrectly because of
                                              pain can make a big monster in
                                              their lives, alcoholism, addictive
                                              behaviors — slavishly dependent
                                                        relationships —

                                      God want us to love deeply according
                                              to His will — according to His rules —

                                      A wounded child grows up to be a wounded
                                            adult until the healing is allowed
                                            to take place —           

                                      Wounds in families — go on and on and on and
                                            are passed down — so is anger — secrets —
                                            A person who follows Jesus — see that
                                            Family life should be modeled after the
                                            Holy Family.

                                            Jesus was born a baby —

                                            Jesus showed us about obedience to the Father.

                                            Jesus showed us about love —

                                            Jesus experienced so much pain
                                                         He died on the cross —
                                                         so the victory was won in the
                                                                   Resurrection —

                                      The pascal mystery
                                             death-resurrection.

                                      People are taught today by the media that
                                            their bodies should be their gods —
                                            People can be taught by the media to
                                                avoid pain —

                                      We must work on relationships as God wills
                                            us to have them —

                                      In this lies the mystery of love according
                                            to God's will —

                                      Loving by God's rules —

                                      Loving brother, sister, mom, dad —
                                            spouse, people at Church —
                                            people at work —
                                            loving always as God wills —

                                            The tendency can be to have slavishly
                                      dependent relationships — this can throw
                                      a relationship in a family in another
                                      bizarre direction — everything must be
                                      as God wills.

                                            Pain is not handled by latching on to
                                      another to cover up the pain — pain is
                                      handled by going to God the Divine healer —
                                      so we can recognize it and get healed by His
                                      grace and become "other" focused — not
                                      live our lives being reactors to hidden —
                                      unhealed-pain-inside.

                                            Life is to be lived in going out —  in
                                      enjoying life as God wills — in being soldiers to help build
                                      the kingdom of God. A person with unhealed
                                      pain is one wrapped in burial cloths and
                                             sitting in a cave in the dark.

                                      Jesus came to set the captives free.

                                      What does He teach us about pain —

                                      In the death (suffering) when lived according to
                                         God's will — there is the resurrection.

                                      Pain is a part of life —

                                      Jesus shows us about pain and love —

                                      Jesus gives us this greatest act of love
                                               in the Mass.

                                      Jesus gives us the pascal mystery —
                                              death/resurrection —

                                      In the dying to the enslavement, we may
                                            have, because of our sins or the
                                            sins of others, is the victory —

                                      Jesus came to set the captives free —

                                      Drop the burial cloths of hidden wounds —
                                                quit blaming innocent others —
                                                    raise the curtain
                                                            Let the sun-light in —

                                      Study the mystery of the resurrection —

                                      Jesus came to Save us

                                      Sing:  Save us Oh Lord

                                      A person can have cancer and think — oh
                                                it will go away —

                                                If untreated the cancer may grow and
                                                        grow and get so big it takes over
                                                        the whole body and then they can die —

                                      Unforgiveness — deep wounds can be like
                                            this — we can decide to never face the
                                            truth about our pain and keep trying to
                                            do everything, but deal with it — hurting
                                            others while we control and manipulate —

                                      But the bottom line is — is to be really free —
                                            we give ourselves to God and we ask to die
                                            to our imperfection to become more
                                                perfected as our heavenly Father is
                                                                        perfect —

                                      God is love and in Him there is no darkness —

                                              Children are to be born into houses of
                                      love, but many children have big problems to handle
                                      when parents don't get along and the marriage
                                      breaks up.

                                             God wants us to live our lives not as reactors to the pain,
                                      but live in the truth.

                                             Jesus showed us no matter what happened
                                      He did the Father's will.

                                            We follow God's plan for us for the
                                      world.

John 1: 1-18

In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
    except through Him.
What has come into being in Him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.

A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
    through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.

The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept him.
But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believed in his name
who were born not from human stock
or human desire
or human will
but from God himself.
The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
    as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.

John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
'This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.'

Indeed, from his fullness we have,
    all of us, received—
one gift replacing another,
for the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth have come
    through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son,
    who is close to the Father's heart,
who has made him known.

Ephesians 1: 3-23
 

Blessed be God 
    the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
who has blessed us 
    with all the spiritual blessings of heaven 
        in Christ. 
Thus he chose us in Christ 
    before the world was made 
to be holy and faultless 
    before him in love, 
marking us out for himself beforehand, 
    to be adopted sons, 
        through Jesus Christ. 
Such was his purpose and good pleasure, 
to the praise of the glory of his grace, 
his free gift to us in the Beloved,
in whom, through his blood, 
    we gain our freedom, 
        the forgiveness of our sins. 
Such is the richness of the grace 
which he has showered on us 
in all wisdom and insight. 
He has let us know 
    the mystery of his purpose, 
according to his good pleasure 
    which he determined beforehand 
        in Christ, 
for him to act upon 
    when the times had run their course: 
that he would bring everything together 
    under Christ, as head, 
everything in the heavens 
    and everything on earth. 
And it is in him
    that we have received our heritage,
marked out beforehand as we were,
under the plan of the One
    who guides all things
as he decides by his own will,
chosen to be,
for the praise of his glory,
the people who
    would put their hopes in Christ
        before he came.
Now you too, in him,
have heard the message of the truth
    and the gospel of your salvation,
and having put your trust in it
you have been stamped with the seal
    of the Holy Spirit of the Promise,
who is the pledge of our inheritance,
for the freedom of the people
    whom God has taken for his own,
for the praise of his glory.

That is why I, having once heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love for all God’s holy people, have never failed to thank God for you and to remember you in my prayers. May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit of wisdom and perception of what is revealed, to bring you to full knowledge of him. May he enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see what hope his call holds for you, how rich is the glory of the heritage he offers among his holy people, and how extraordinarily great is the power that he has exercised for us believers; this accords with the strength of his power at work in Christ, the power which he exercised in raising him from the dead and enthroning him at his right hand, in heaven, far above every principality, ruling force, power or sovereignty, or any other name that can be named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. He has put all things under his feet, and made him, as he is above all things, the head of the Church which is his Body, the fullness of him who is filled, all in all.

 

 Colossians 1: 15-20

He is the image of the unseen God,
the first–born of all creation,
for in him were created all things
in heaven and on earth:
everything visible
    and everything invisible,
thrones, ruling forces,
    sovereignties, powers—
all things were created through him
    and for him.
He exists before all things
and in him all things hold together,
and he is the Head of the Body,
that is, the Church.

He is the Beginning,
the first–born from the dead,
so that he should be supreme in every way;
because God wanted all fullness
    to be found in him
and through him
    to reconcile all things to him,
everything in heaven
    and everything on earth,
by making peace through his death
    on the cross.

December 31, 2006 message continues

Messenger:               So what is God asking of us — to model
                            our community after the love of the Trinity.
                            We die to the imperfections that we can
                            be more united in greater oneness.

                                What is oneness?

                                There are Three Persons in One God.
                            I can deeply unite to the Persons of the
                            Trinity — I know the Father deeply, I know
                            Jesus deeply and I know the Holy Spirit
                            deeply. I know the embrace of the Divine
                            God — I know rapture, It is spiritual —
                            It is usually when I am in Church before
                            the Blessed Sacrament, at Mass, after
                            communion, but I can go to this place
                            of refuge if God gives me a grace and deeply
                            know God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwelling
                            within my graced soul. I know peace,
                            I exist in Him, I know truth.

                                Purity — greater purity —

                                Let's look at the Holy Family —

                                Mary: Mother of Jesus

                                Jesus, the Son of God

                                Joseph, the Foster Father. 
 

December 31, 2006 message continues

Messenger:           But look at the Mission God has given

                                 us —

                                to lead the poor banished children
                                of Adam and Eve to dwell in the
                                sinless Hearts of Jesus and Mary

                                I look at this picture of Jesus —

                                The perfect baby —

                                The Son of God —

                                The beauty of Mary, Jesus' Mother

                            There must be a problem in the human
                                nature or why would all these people
                                be unable to get along — especially
                                when little children's lives are so
                                effected if the parents separate or
                                divorce.

                            I think what Jesus told me —
                                 that wounded children grow up to be wounded
                                       adults is very profound.

                            In dealing with this mission where God calls us
                                to be one —  one in families

                                              —  one in churches

                                              —  one in schools

                                              —  one as a family the human race

                                   The problem is this

                                   IMPERFECTION

                                   PRIDE

                                   LACK OF LOVE

                                   NOT RECOGNIZING GOD AS ABOVE US

                                   NOT OBEYING GOD'S COMMANDMENTS

                            FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY

                                      RELATIONSHIP   <—>  ACCORDING TO
                                                                                    GOD'S WILL

                                      RELATIONSHIP        

                                      RELATIONSHIP               
 
                             

                                      JESUS AND MARY                 

                                      JESUS' RESURRECTION