February 12, 2006 - 6:30am

Messenger:            There are ways God makes His will clear to us
                            in our hearts. We have a chance to obey or not
                            to obey. Doing God's will may be hard, maybe
                            a certain pleasure, but whenever we do not
                            do God's will we cause a chain reaction that
                            blocks others from doing God's will and that
                            goes on and on because we do not live in a
                            vacuum.

                                When I give a retreat God usually wants
                            me to distance myself and be alone with
                            Him. Things may seem to be predictable.
                            Because God gives me and other's free will
                            and since I am a person with a body — I
                            cannot predict exactly what my plan
                            will be.

                                I try to do God's will, but in the
                            end some events may cause me to deviate
                            or another to act irrationally actually
                            blocking the course I desire to make my
                            own and I am thereby subject to follow
                            another plan because someone has
                            actually blocked my path as this example —

Jesus speaks:          Mary Lou went into the dark night, her mother
                            very ill and needing immediate medical
                            help — Mary Lou traveled the shortest
                            route between her home and her mothers,
                            it was now midnight and it usually took her
                            15 minutes to get to her mothers, but a
                            bridge was under repair and the entrance
                            to it blocked with boards and a big
                            brown fence — straight across — boarded up —
                            she could not pass.

                                Mary Lou being a holy soul began to pray
                            as she began the long-way around taking
                            now three-fourths of an hour and she
                            cried and prayed the whole way.

                                Her mother having a kidney stone was able
                            to pass the stone and all seemed to be in
                            good shape when Mary Lou finally got there.
                            Her mother's pain caused Mary Lou immediate
                            alarm and with fear and love she traveled
                            in the dark night toward her mother's —
                            crying and praying, crying and praying.

                                Her sufferings having been blocked
                            from her destination was a time of
                            trial, but she prayed and cried and
                            hung in there being very close to Me.
                            The outcome was very good for Mary Lou and
                            her mother, but lets talk about the period
                            of endurance.

                                I gave My life for you, enduring the suffering
                            for three hours on the cross. I endured the
                            bitter suffering to the hill of Calvary.
                            My body was wrenched with excruciating pain
                            and I could have stopped at any moment
                            and let go of that pain being God, but I
                            tell you of the lesson of enduring the sufferings,
                            the unpredictable pain - you are asked to bear.

                                Suffering is suffering and I have shown you
                            how I suffered to bring you new life. I am
                            guiding you now and helping you with My grace
                            to endure your trials when you pray and ask
                            Me to help you.

                                A man went to a ball game —
                            he traveled a 30 minute drive and intended
                            to meet his friends, when he was very
                            close a man in a white car pulled into his
                            red car and it was a big wreck. The
                            men were not injured, but the man going
                            to the ball game was jolted, stopped by the
                            accident, waiting for a police, a wrecker
                            and his "nerves" he felt all shook-up. He
                            had his daughter come and take him home.

                                He loved the ball game, he and his
                            men friends would have some spirits
                            and a hot-dog and sit and laugh and
                            root for their best team and players. He
                            really enjoyed it so much and anticipated
                            it for a long time.

                                Stopped in his tracks by an unwanted car
                            making an illegal left turn before him.
                            Now his body ached, his car was wrecked and
                            he just had to go home and settle
                            down, praying and thanking Me for things
                            not being worse, a person near the game
                            could have been hit in the accident
                            where the wreck took place — there were
                            always lots of people around, but nothing
                            happened.

Messenger:            I remember once years ago we were
                            putting up a big fence in the yard. It had
                            6' by 8' pieces and my daughter and I
                            picked up 8 of those in a truck.

                                I told the man to tie them down — he
                            said "Oh it is heavy, no problem,
                            you don't need them tied down."

                                My daughter watched out the back of
                            the truck and I began to pray. All of a
                            sudden she said "mom there they go" —
                            the pieces of fence were caught by a
                            wind — stood up gracefully and like
                            cards were dealt across the road and
                            laid out on the hill next to each other —
                            like this

Messenger:         I was still praying and we swung the truck
                            around and went over to the hill. I
                            had to go back and tell them what happened.

                                I was praying and the good news is they
                            could have unpredictably blew off and
                            hit another car. The road was a short path
                            between my house and the lumber company,
                            but it was like an expressway, divided
                            and no houses around, just the big
                            highway.

                                I thanked God that nothing happened
                            to anyone and that they were laid out
                            so pretty on the hill.

                                Unpredictability — I didn't like the
                            fact the guy wouldn't tie them down —
                            You may think well you should have known,
                            but sometimes people are so strong they
                            want their will imposed on you against your
                            good sense and you may give in like I
                            did and have your daughter watch and
                            keep praying. I believe my prayers helped
                            us from a trauma, but I had a problem
                            because I listened to the man who was not
                            going to tie them down one bit.

Jesus speaks:         Dealing with others may cause us tremendous
                            pain — Some people play games to get attention
                            and they manipulate others out of habits.

                                Every person is responsible for their actions.
                            Your interior is like a pipe — when the debris
                            is cleared — the pipe flows. Let My light
                            shine in you and get rid of the secrets,
                            plugs, bitterness, hatred, anger —

                                I know the condition of the heart, I
                            know the sins of malice of your brothers,
                            I carried My cross and bled for them. You must
                            discipline your will and not give into satan
                            who wants you stopped. You must endure
                            many trials, you will suffer and you
                            will know great joy if you stay
                            rooted in Me.

                                The road to holiness is paved by the
                            sufferings of the saints. Endurance is part
                            of the spiritual life. To endure and to love — as I
                            did when I carried My cross to the hill of
                            Calvary. I loved you, I loved you every
                            step of the way, I saw your face, I heard
                            your cries of love, I knew your efforts to
                            do My work in love, forgiving and building
                            the bridge. As you sow, so shall you
                            reap.

                                A man had a big hole in his back yard. He
                            filled it up so people wouldn't fall in it. It was
                            hard work filling the hole, but he endured until
                            the job was done. His grandchildren came soon
                            to play!!

                                Fill up the holes in your life and trust
                            in Me. The people who endured the hurricanes
                            have learned endurance when their roofs
                            were damaged and water leaked in "big-time"
                            all over the entire home and all their
                            possessions.

                                The world preaches pleasure, and yet a
                            catastrophe can strike, an illness, etc.

February 12, 2006 - After Communion

Messenger:         Strengthen me God in these moments
                        with You. As I gaze upon Your face I
                        behold Your precious gift of Yourself
                        to me.

                            Not as a labored moment in my life, but
                        my moments of greatest joy for I know
                        the true presence of Jesus in my soul
                        when I receive Him in Holy Communion.

                            I speak as a messenger, but the pain
                        of the dark night presses in as the world
                        dances on the roof-tops and fail to see that
                        the night is at hand.

                            A trumpet blare may not wake them
                        from their blinded way.

                            A trumpet that plays a disharmonious
                        tune they would dance to.

                            Oh lights of heaven that as the morning
                        steels across a darkened sky that the
                        lid would be unrolled like a can of
                        sardines and the once motionless bodies
                        would rise and jump to the tune of
                        the mockingbird singing the notes
                        of heaven.

                            But my embrace of Thy Divine Eucharist
                        swells in my soul and the city sleeps
                        like curtains drawn with a chord
                        that seems to be broken.

Jesus speaks:      But your prayers My child in
                        this retreat will open more that
                        curtain of what seems such nightly
                        darkness, encased on the sleeping
                        city.

                            In the city, the streets are paved
                        with the darkness of a night of sin,
                        of lust and debauchery, of lies, deception,
                        lust, greed, envy, jealousy, lust, envy,
                        jealousy, anger, anger and more anger —
                        a kiss in the night turns to a house
                        shut with hurricane shutters after
                        the affair. Talk of betrayal — how
                        many a young virgin gave her
                        virginity to a man who took it then
                        took down his sign and hid his
                        awful sin.

                            But from My eyes — you hid no
                        sin, sin is sin, betrayal is wrong.
                        A young girl may experience such
                        lust by one and work her pain
                        out on others, lying of the real
                        nature of her sordid ways.

                            The work of satan is mask, the
                        work of satan is deception and lies,
                        where there could have been peace and love —
                        an evil worm rises like one trapped
                        in a can — dancing a dance of darkness
                        to get out and spread its evil seed
                        where it leaves a rut in the ground
                        not one inch deep, but the depth
                        of a rut that mares a heart with
                        a sword of pain.

                            Swords penetrate hearts, but woe
                        to he who turns the pedestal to fill
                        their greed and act out their pain.

                            A night of darkness is unknown
                        to an angel of light but to those
                        who carouse by the dim light it
                        is enough light to do their grim
                        deeds.

                            Unnoticed it is not, for it is
                        the beckoning call of the evil one
                        to spread his evil seed in hearts
                        and to turn swords in the hearts
                        filled with love.

Mary speaks:     My heart was pierced with a
                        sword, I watched the bitter passion
                        of my Son for the deceptive ways
                        of those tuned to dark nights
                        and sin.

                            My children, His flesh was
                        torn for your sins of pride and getting
                        even.

                            In the end it will be put to light —
                        all the evil deeds brought out like
                        trophies in the case, but they will
                        not shine, they will have a stench
                        and be covered with dark dried
                        blood.

                            My Son shed His blood for your
                        sins and He offers you forgiveness
                        through the priest — go to him —
                        tell him your sin of deception and
                        beg for the grace to live always in
                        the truth. Live a life of purity.
                        Go to confession, tell of your sins
                            of anger, lust, tell God you are
                            sorry —

                        If you lie to yourself — your lie gets
                            bigger and bigger and your house
                            (your interior self, Mary means)
                            gets filled with a bolder so big
                            and it grows like a snowball everyday
                            going down a hill.

                        Truth — is the way —

                        The more you walk in truth your
                            light will shine and you will
                            become more deeply united to
                            God.

                            How many teachers so focused on
                        themselves and their own pride have
                        led young people away from the
                        truth.

                            Eve wanted to be equal to God.

                            How many teachers of religious
                        matters who think first of their
                        own glory and the world is crying
                        like babies for the truth —
                            crying and crying —

                        Give the babies their medicine —
                        Give them these writings of God's Blue
                            Book and the other writing
                            on the rosary we give you.

                        I am Mary your Mother —
                        I am all pure.

God's Blue Book 6

February 14, 1995

Jesus:  I am Jesus, Son of the Living God, you will know such trials, but I will hold you up. I will watch you and you will grow ever closer to Me. I will be so close to you in these trials.

    Rita, let go, you must release yourself. I want to do My work through you. YOU ARE NOT ALONE - I AM OPERATING YOU.

Messenger:  A voice cries out in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord. How can we who have such good news remain speechless about God — Go into the highways and the byways and preach the good news, we are being called to prepare the way of the Lord.

    God calls us to obedience, He took away Zechariah's voice. Zechariah told them his name will be John. God allows us to experience blocks sometimes. We must do the will of the Father. He took my voice away.

    From the day we are born, God has been with us. Before we were born He knew us.

    Jesus was carried in Mary's womb. Mary is a woman, Jesus was conceived in her womb through the Holy Spirit.

    Woman must be respected, Mary is our model, so pure, so obedient to the Father's will.

    We must live in His will, as a little child obeying His Father.

    The Lady is calling.

    We are given a special sharing in His life through the sacrament of baptism. We grow in greater life in Him.

    He took Zechariah's voice away, I was teaching math — he wants us to go out and spread the good news.

    The Church is in the state of becoming.

    He came as a baby, born of the Virgin Mary.

    In all His Majesty — He comes as a baby.

    He comes to us in love.

    Christ had a human body, blood like ours — Jesus takes us to His Heavenly Father.

John 14: 6

Jesus said:

I am the Way; I am Truth and Life.
No one can come to the Father
   except through me.

Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; 1 Corinthians 15: 22

Messenger:  Jesus stands night and day knocking at the door of our hearts, knocking and wanting entrance "Behold I stand at the door of your hearts and knock." Jesus gives us His grace.

    He calls us to action.

    LOVE IS ACTION FROM THE HEART.

    HIS LOVE IS A MIGHTY FORCE TOO POWERFUL TO BE CONTAINED.

    HE CALLS US TO DIE TO SELF — LIVE IN HIM.

    POWER IS IN THE EUCHARISTIC HEART OF JESUS through Mary's heart.

    Song:  I Love You Jesus

Jesus:  SURRENDER, SURRENDER, SURRENDER.

    GO TO THE TABERNACLE, YOUR ANSWERS ARE FOUND THERE.

    I CALL, I PLEAD, SPREAD MY LOVE THIS DAY.

 

Resurrection

Song:  Now We Remain

Messenger:  We cannot do it without Him. They were afraid after His death they locked themselves in a room. They knew Jesus, they lived with Him, they were afraid.

    Blessed are they who have not seen and have believed.

 

Luke 24: 13-35

Now that very same day, two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking together about all that had happened. And it happened that as they were talking together and discussing it, Jesus himself came up and walked by their side; but their eyes were prevented from recognising him. He said to them, ‘What are all these things that you are discussing as you walk along?’ They stopped, their faces downcast. 

    Then one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, ‘You must be the only person staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have been happening there these last few days.’ He asked, ‘What things?’ They answered, ‘All about Jesus of Nazareth, who showed himself a prophet powerful in action and speech before God and the whole people; and how our chief priests and our leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and had him crucified. Our own hope had been that he would be the one to set Israel free. And this is not all: two whole days have now gone by since it all happened; and some women from our group have astounded us: they went to the tomb in the early morning, and when they could not find the body, they came back to tell us they had seen a vision of angels who declared he was alive. Some of our friends went to the tomb and found everything exactly as the women had reported, but of him they saw nothing.’ 

    Then he said to them, ‘You foolish men! So slow to believe all that the prophets have said! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer before entering into his glory?’ Then, starting with Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages throughout the scriptures that were about himself. 

    When they drew near to the village to which they were going, he made as if to go on; but they pressed him to stay with them saying, ‘It is nearly evening, and the day is almost over.’ So he went in to stay with them. Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?’ 

    They set out that instant and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven assembled together with their companions, who said to them, ‘The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon.’ Then they told their story of what had happened on the road and how they had recognised him at the breaking of bread.

 

Messenger:  They did not recognize Jesus, how many times do I not recognize Jesus.

Song:  Look beyond the Bread you eat

Matthew 16: 17-19

Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a blessed man! Because it was no human agency that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my community. And the gates of the underworld can never overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven: whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.’  It is through baptism we are made children of God and heirs of heaven.

 

Ascension

Messenger:  He came to give us life that we might have it to the full — He gives us Himself. God gives us His Word, He gives us each other. Love God. Souls are hungry, they are starving for His love, go out to the highways and the byways, go into the world — He died for each and every soul, how can I hold my arms closed across my chest when I know the good news. Christ has died, He has risen, He will come again. Jesus remains with us this day in His Divinity and humanity. Spread the good news to this world.

Song: I am the Bread of Life

Messenger:  We too will be united to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in heaven soon if we do what God wants us to do, spread the good news, souls will be lost.

 

Descent of the Holy Spirit

Messenger:  Holy Spirit transform me into fearlessness.

    Spread the Gospel.

    You are all brothers in Christ.

    Christ is Mediator between us and the Father.

    He gives us a special sharing of His life in baptism. God is with us this day. Spread the love of Jesus burning Heart.

 

Assumption

Messenger:  Mary remained on the earth many years after Jesus ascended into heaven. Mary was taken into heaven. We remain on this earth, we will someday be in heaven if we love and serve God as He desires.

    Fight a good fight.

Song:  Eyes has not Seen

Messenger:  It is through Her heart we are led so closely to the Heart of Jesus.

    Mary hold us so tenderly in your arms and place us in the heart of Jesus.

    Mary is our spiritual Mother. Mary mother's us and leads us to Christ.

Song:  Our Lady of Medjugorje

Song:  New Life

  

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