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                R. We need to pray and spray now in these
                days before the inauguration. God
                is calling us so firmly to say this prayer
                all through the day.

February 10, 2017

R. God first loved us –

It is our response to God's love –

This implies something went before –

John 3: 16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.

R. We have devotion to the Heart of Jesus.

Jesus' Heart is a symbol of His love for us.

God calls for our love in return –

Matthew 22: 34-40

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, 36 'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'

R. Connection between the 3 loves.

(1) Genesis 1: 26-27

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.

(2) 1 John 4: 19-21

1 John 4: 19-21

Let us love, then,
because he first loved us.
Anyone who says ‘I love God’
and hates his brother,
is a liar,
since whoever does not love the brother
    whom he can see
cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Indeed this is the commandment
    we have received from him,
that whoever loves God,
    must also love his brother.

R. We are made in the image and
likeness of God –

When we hate our neighbor we are
hating God –

What we do to others we do to Jesus –

                We are called to love our neighbor –
                    - our neighbor was created in the
                        image and likeness of God –
                    - our neighbor was created by God –

                God gives us an elevated share in
                    His loving activity in baptism –
                    We can love on a supernatural level –

                The more we share in this
                    supernatural way of loving
                    God and others – the more
                    we are united to God –

                We must see the person at
                    their CORE level
                    as created by God.

                (1) We are to respond to God's love if
                    we call ourselves Christians –
                    being a Christian is response
                    to God's love –

(2) PARTICIPATION in God's life

2 Peter 1: 3-7

The generosity of God

By his divine power, he has lavished on us all the things we need for life and for true devotion, through the knowledge of him who has called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these, the greatest and priceless promises have been lavished on us, that through them you should share the divine nature and escape the corruption rife in the world through disordered passion. With this in view, do your utmost to support your faith with goodness, goodness with understanding, understanding with self–control, self–control with perseverance, perseverance with devotion, devotion with kindness to the brothers, and kindness to the brothers with love.

R. (3) The Christian life as elevation
of human nature.

1 Corinthians 10: 31

Whatever you eat, then, or drink, and whatever else you do, do it all for the glory of God.

R. There is the new life we receive
in baptism –

We have an elevated human
nature –

A new life in Jesus from baptism –

Everything is effected in this life –

Knowing and loving capacity is
elevated in baptism.

                (4) Christian life considered
                    as the Christ life –

Romans 6: 1-11

Baptism

What should we say then? Should we remain in sin so that grace may be given the more fully? Out of the question! We have died to sin; how could we go on living in it? You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glorious power, we too should begin living a new life. If we have been joined to him by dying a death like his, so we shall be by a resurrection like his; realising that our former self was crucified with him, so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be freed from the slavery of sin. Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin. But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too. We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power over him any more. For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God. In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4: 7-11

The hardships and hopes of the apostolate

But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God’s and not our own. We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair; we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us; always we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our body. Indeed, while we are still alive, we are continually being handed over to death, for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our mortal flesh.

                    R. Christ is a Divine Person
                        with 2 Natures –
                        a human nature and
                        a Divine nature

                Our nature is how we operate –
                    by our nature –
                    a dog has a dog nature –
                    a fish has a fish nature –
                    we have a human nature –

                God elevates our human nature
                    in baptism to share in
                    His Divine life and
                    He opens up the supernatural
                    world to us and
                    He elevates our knowing and
                        loving capacity –

Everything we do should be an
expression of our Christ-life

Everything we do must be
according to God's will –

Everything we do must be
centered in love.

Life has a Christic structure
or pattern –

If we take a fish out of
the water it dies –

If we are put in water we can drown –

                We must respect nature –
                    God puts the operating
                        principle in the nature

                God made us social –
                    there is a healthy way to relate
                        to others.

                God put a fear of danger in us –
                    but fear can become morbid
                    and dysfunctional –

                We must respect our nature –
                    men cannot fly –
                    birds do fly –

Divine life gives us new powers
of activities

                God gives us the supernatural
                    virtues – faith, hope and love
                    and puts His handprint on us
                    in baptism –

                Only through Faith –
                    through the elevated intellect
                    can I believe in the
                    Trinity – other Divine Mysteries.

Life of Baptism has a Christic structure,
it can only develop in HIM.

CHRISTIC SELF

a) personal relationship with Jesus,
bridegroom of our soul

Galatians 2: 19-21

In fact, through the Law I am dead to the Law so that I can be alive to God. I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. The life that I am now living, subject to the limitation of human nature, I am living in faith, faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not setting aside God’s grace as of no value; it is merely that if saving justice comes through the Law, Christ died needlessly.

b) From the Priestly Newsletter

Cardinal Newman said

                    "... everyone who breathes, high and low,
                    educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman,
                    has a mission, has a work. We are not sent
                    into this world for nothing; we are not born at
                    random. . . God sees every one of us;
                    He creates every soul, He lodges it in
                    a body, one by one, for a purpose. He needs,
                    He deigns to need, every one of us.
                    He has an end for each of us... we are
                    placed in our different ranks and stations, not to
                    get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to
                    labor in them for Him, as He rejoiced to do His work,
                    we must rejoice in ours also."
                                    (Discourses addressed to mixed congregations)

R. God knows us intimately more
than we know ourselves –

Jesus died for us and give
Himself for us.

We have a unique way of loving Jesus –
no one can love Him like we can.

                Jesus loves us more than we love
                    ourselves –
                    If I realized this and how
                    He wants redemption for
                    us – we would be happy!

                If I think my self image depends
                    on what others think of
                    me then I am not happy!

                If I don't do what God wants
                    me to do in my vocation
                    to build the Kingdom of God
                    then the world suffers for my
                    selfishness – its my unique
                    job Jesus gives me –
                    to do it for Him –

He loves us so much and
to do it in love!!

Becoming

We are in the process of becoming
more Christic.

All life is meant to develop to its
greatest Christian potential.

Spiritual Exercise!

We are to develop our Christian
existence!

We are to develop the Christian
life to its fullest stages –

(5) The Christian Life Considered
as life in the Holy Spirit.

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1 Corinthians 2: 6-16

But still, to those who have reached maturity, we do talk of a wisdom, not, it is true, a philosophy of this age or of the rulers of this age, who will not last long now. It is of the mysterious wisdom of God that we talk, the wisdom that was hidden, which God predestined to be for our glory before the ages began. None of the rulers of the age recognised it; for if they had recognised it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but it is as scripture says: What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualise; all that God has prepared for those who love him; to us, though, God has given revelation through the Spirit, for the Spirit explores the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, is there anyone who knows the qualities of anyone except his own spirit, within him; and in the same way, nobody knows the qualities of God except the Spirit of God. Now, the Spirit we have received is not the spirit of the world but God’s own Spirit, so that we may understand the lavish gifts God has given us. And these are what we speak of, not in the terms learnt from human philosophy, but in terms learnt from the Spirit, fitting spiritual language to spiritual things. The natural person has no room for the gifts of God’s Spirit; to him they are folly; he cannot recognise them, because their value can be assessed only in the Spirit. The spiritual person, on the other hand, can assess the value of everything, and that person’s value cannot be assessed by anybody else. For: who has ever known the mind of the Lord? Who has ever been his adviser? But we are those who have the mind of Christ.

R. The spirit within allows
us to know ourselves –

God is the one who perfectly
understands God –

God is teaching us to
understand a God-like existence.

Jesus leads us to the Father in the Holy Spirit.

Definition of Love by Fr. Carter

                    Love is the gift of self to
                        others to promote the
                        good of the other or
                        others –

So we should live to give love –

                    There are many failed
                        marriages because
                        people selfishly married
                        not to give love at all,
                        but get love for themselves only.

                Is the world teaching us the
                    true meaning of love as
                    God wants us to love –
                    respect, kindness, giving,
                    sacrifice.

Can we love someone without
liking what they do?

                It is necessary to love to see
                    oneself divinely created
                    by God and then if
                    we love ourselves as
                    God wants us to we
                    will love others!

We must care for ourselves –
God loves us –

                A person is to learn to accept
                    love and give love –
                    Accepting love from those
                    who genuinely love us
                    helps deepen relationships,
                    develop trust with
                    that person and God.
                    God puts people in our
                    lives to help us grow in
                    love of Him and others.

We must learn to trust those
God intends us to trust –

                Loving another means we die to
                    selfish, self-centered ways
                    and become more one –
                    harmonious with those
                    God wants us to love to
                    grow in genuine love.

                Love in our family of origin
                    may have been dysfunctional,
                    a roller coaster, love-hate
                    relationships –
                    untrustworthiness, jealousy,
                    pride, envy etc. –

We were put here, by God, to grow
in love.

                The Blue Books and Daily Messages help
                    us to grow in love of
                    God, others and self.

                There is serious lack of
                    love in today's world
                    in many people's
                    hearts. Lack of
                    concern for others –

                Read the Sermon on the
                    Mount Chapters 5, 6, 7
                    of Matthew.

                We must renounce whatever
                    gets in our way of
                    loving Jesus.

Nobody ever suffered more
than Jesus.

Jesus died for our sins.

The Father allowed Jesus
to die for our sins.

Matthew 11: 28-30

‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’

Matthew 12: 46-50

He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?' And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'

R. We are members of God's family.

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                R. Please spread blessed holy water
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                with your blessed Holy Water if you have it.)
                in your yard, around your house,
                in the state you live in.

And ask God to bless your state
Ask God to bless the United States

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Ask the Lady of CLEAR - WATER
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    everything you do in life can help
    to bring down great grace for the world
    because of your being so
    one with Jesus.

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                4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
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                7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
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               11) Blue Book 17 and cover and all involved.
                    For our Publisher and all involved
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               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
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               16) Healing of the Family tree.
               17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
                    Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
               18) All who asked us to pray for them.
               19) All we promised to pray for.
               20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
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                    2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
                    Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
               21) 2 babies and moms.
               22) Funds and insurance.
               23) Jerry's garage.
               24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
               25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
               26) Consecrate all hearts.
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