Happy Birthday Jerry!

                Given February 24, 2013

                        the River Euphrates,  

                R. We see the Covenant between God and Abram
                Abraham had faith – Abraham was blessed
                for his faith and obedience –

                R. St. Paul tells the Philippians if
                they are faithful to God, and obey His will,
                they will have salvation and glory,
                citizenship in heaven.

                R. The apostles were asleep –

                Moses and Elijah appeared

                Man doesn't see what God has planned.
                Mary has appeared to me almost 20 years –
                The depth to which we see Jesus' love for
                us in Blue Book 10 can help lead souls to
                renewal and the Reign of the Sacred Heart –
                We can treat God like He doesn't know
                our hearts –

                God knows our hearts –
                God knows our motives –
                God knows the truth –
                We can't fool God –
                God is a just judge –

                Heaven is a reward promised to those
                    who love and serve the Lord –
                    We are here preparing ourselves
                        for heaven –

                Jesus showed us how important
                    Abraham's obedience was –
                    God tested him to see if He would
                    sacrifice his son –

                Jesus showed us obedience to the
                    Father and its importance –
                    He died obeying His Father's
                        will –

                Satan in last Sunday's readings
                    shows us he wanted power –
                    he wanted God to obey Him –

                God's timing is perfect –
                    Satan wants a person to disobey
                        those over them,
                        seek power,
                        discredit authority –

                Lent is a time of prayer and penance –
                    of dying to our will and
                    serving God –
                    Lent is a time of discipline –
                        of conversion of
                        imitating Christ and the
                        cross, obedience to the
                        Father –
                    Carrying our crosses –

                Are our eyes focused on God or are
                    our eyes focused on our will,
                    our power, manipulation,
                    not disciplining ourselves and
                    giving into temptation –

                God help our eyes to be focused on
                    you –

                Jesus wants to pour clean water on
                    us –
                    Jesus wants us to confess our
                        sins and come with a
                        humble, contrite heart –
                    Jesus deserves our love and
                        gratitude
                    Jesus wants to fill our hearts
                        with love and outpour
                        His grace to us –

                The selfish person is like a capped bottle
                    Jesus says

John 4: 42, 15

and they said to the woman, ‘Now we believe no longer because of what you told us; we have heard him ourselves and we know that he is indeed the Saviour of the world.’

    ‘Sir,’ said the woman, ‘give me some of that water, so that I may never be thirsty or come here again to draw water.’

                R. The gift Jesus gives is there – people
                    can give into satan and refuse
                    His gift –
                    We can't fool God about our
                        motives –

                Jesus: I have given you 10 Commandments.
                    I am to be first in your life –
                    Focus on Me – it's a commandment
                    Lying is a sin – Lying to those
                        over you –
                    My lesson to you is to study
                        the crucifixion
                    I had enemies –
                    So do you My child - those who
                        are not with Me are against Me –

                To hold out and provoke others to
                    incite anger in another is the cycle
                    of violence –
                    I am love –
                    I am pure and I give Myself for
                        you –

                You can be master over satan or
                    keep serving him –
                    Pray to be freed from any
                        bondage –

                Say "Here I am Lord, I come to
                    do your will"

                I am kind and merciful –

                I tell you to live to bear fruit for
                    My Kingdom –
                    Live prudently –

                R. We see the parable of the fig tree

                R. We are to live Lent in prayer and
                    discipline –
                    discipline our unruly will –

                Jesus Speaks: Purify your hearts –
                    love your God, Do Him homage,
                    not bring down more sin –

                Live in charity – do not let
                    your hearts turn to hate.

                R. Saul disobeyed God –
                Samuel anointed David
                Saul wanted to kill David –

                Not only did Saul block God's
                    plan by his disobedience –
                    in vengeance and anger he
                    decided God's plan should
                    serve his evil heart –

                Saul wanted to block David,
                    kill him for his own
                    disobedience –
                    thereby blocking the important
                    role of David by
                    chasing him and wanting
                    to kill him –

                Saul put himself before God –
                So did Eve –

                When we sin we put ourselves
                    before God –

John 8: 12

When Jesus spoke to the people again, he said: 
    I am the light of the world; 
    anyone who follows me 
        will not be walking in the dark, 
    but will have the light of life.

                R. Jesus had enemies –
                    the hostility grew in those
                    wanting to kill Jesus –

                Spiritual blindness can be
                    healed by keeping our
                    eyes on Jesus –

                Jesus: Never perform an operation
                out of anger and jealousy opposed
                to God's will –

                    Anger and jealousy, envy
                against a just man is from
                satan –

                    So your decision to oppose God's
                will is based on satan if it
                comes from anger and jealousy –
                based on evil –

                Act according to God's will for you –
                    not because others have
                    done, what you consider,
                    wrong - or they
                    can constantly serve satan by
                    their anger and jealousy and oppose God.

                The Blind Man

                Read John 9: 1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38

                R. The people failed God and ridiculed
                    the prophets in the Old Testament –
                    we see the blind man –

                They were punished we see
                    because they wouldn't
                    listen to Jeremiah –
                    the Babylonian captivity
                    was their punishment.

                R. God came into this world to
                    save it

John 3: 19-21

                R. The meaning of Lent

                We are to die to sin, to ourselves,
                    our selfish ways –

                We see the Gospel of Lazarus
                    toward the end of Lent –

                If we ignore God – it doesn't
                    mean He will go away –

                God wants to put a new heart
                    in us –
                    one like His

                Song: Give Me Your Heart Oh Jesus

Hebrews 5: 7-9

During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to the one who had the power to save him from death, and, winning a hearing by his reverence, he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his sufferings; when he had been perfected, he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation

 

Jesus foretells his death and subsequent glorification

Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. These approached Philip, who came from Bethsaida in Galilee, and put this request to him, ‘Sir, we should like to see Jesus.’ Philip went to tell Andrew, and Andrew and Philip together went to tell Jesus.

Jesus replied to them:

Now the hour has come
for the Son of man to be glorified.
In all truth I tell you,
unless a wheat grain falls into the earth
   and dies,
it remains only a single grain;
but if it dies
it yields a rich harvest.
Anyone who loves his life loses it;
anyone who hates his life in this world
will keep it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me, must follow me,
and my servant will be with me
   wherever I am.
If anyone serves me,
   my Father will honour him.
Now my soul is troubled.
What shall I say:
Father, save me from this hour?
But it is for this very reason
   that I have come to this hour.
Father, glorify your name!

A voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will again glorify it.’
The crowd standing by, who heard this, said it was a clap of thunder; others said, ‘It was an angel speaking to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not for my sake that this voice came, but for yours.

‘Now sentence is being passed
   on this world;
now the prince of this world
   is to be driven out.
And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I shall draw all people to myself.’

By these words he indicated the kind of death he would die.

                From Blue Book 10

January 10, 1996 - 9:00am at Mass

Emptying Yourself is the Only Way

R. Jesus gave Himself as the greatest sacrifice ever, totally emptying Himself. They pierced His Heart and what flowed out was blood and water. When we love Him we empty ourselves more and more and identify with Jesus' sacrifice of offering Himself. I realized how I was to empty myself because I love Him so much.

    In the Psalm of the Good Shepherd, it says, .."And I will dwell in the courts of the Lord for years to come." My whole desire is to be united with Him in deepest union forever, our lives have meaning in this.

    With all my heart I offer myself as a sacrifice for the spread of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Their intentions. My whole consuming desire is for this intention of giving myself to God, to use me as you want to, according to the Father's Plan.

    Such love for the Father, giving myself to Him, imperfect as I am, but such great love for Him. The Gospel was about the Father - this overwhelmed me with love for Him, seeing how He is one with Jesus, but knowing Him as My beloved Father. Great joy in this oneness with God. I love the Trinity - I love each Person of the Trinity, I love God.

    I want to give the greatest love to God. The greatest love I can give is in emptying myself - it is in sacrifice wanting the Father's will for me. My great love for Him compels me to see no alternative. I love Him so much. I give myself freely without counting the cost. There is not another way.

    In my overwhelming love for Him I totally empty myself and realizing there is not another way, for to love Him is to give myself to Him as He desires.

    The greatest gift I can give to others is giving myself to Him. Jesus emptied Himself. I understand more, emptying myself with all my heart. Wanting to love Him more, I learn to empty myself, pray for self-lessness.

    We are to love Him with all our heart, all our soul, all our being. Our greatest desire is God's will. We should love to be united to Him in deepest union for all eternity, there is not a choice. It takes giving of oneself, emptying oneself to Him and giving great love to others.

    It is in the Mass we give the greatest love to God as we join in this sacrifice with His Son, Jesus. The Mass, offered through the hands of the priest, to the Father.

    Jesus emptied Himself and gave His all. In the Mass the sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present. We unite, we die to our selfish ways. When the priest raises up the Host and says, "This is My Body", the Father looks down and sees the sacrifice of His Son. We unite and give ourselves, give our all, offer ourselves, as a sacrifice to the Father, united to Jesus. When the priest raises up the chalice and says, "This is My Blood", we give ourselves - we empty ourselves, and we want to die to all that is not like Him, to live more in Him. Jesus feeds us with His Body and His Blood and He gives to us the "Bread of Life."

    He tells us, "I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me shall not be hungry." Look at the world. Look at the hungry souls. Jesus gives Himself to us, to feed us. He feeds us with His very own Body and Blood.

    As we unite in this Holy Sacrifice all over the world all day we can unite to the Mass. We see the Body and Blood of Christ raised and elevated in our hearts, we unite every moment of the day in our self-sacrificing gift of our love, given to God.

    We die to our ways not like Jesus and offer ourselves united to Jesus as a sacrifice to the Father. We receive an outpouring of His grace – His life more and more in abundance. All through the day make spiritual communions and unite to this gift of Himself given in the Holy Eucharist. The greatest gift of our love is to empty ourselves and give ourselves to God.

 R. This offering continues all day in all our actions, if we unite them to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We offer ourselves as a sacrifice. We die with Him, that we will raise to new life more and more in Him. Our every action is an offering with Jesus, His Son, to the Father in the Holy Spirit.

    This is our continual love, given to God and to all men, as we unite in this our offering. Whatever we do, if it is the Will of the Father, we are offering a great act of love to God.

    Through Him, With Him, and In Him, I die with Jesus and unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Special Moments in the Mass:

    Let us celebrate the Mystery of God's love. Let us open our hearts to the graces He gives us that we may understand more fully the great gift of the Mass. Jesus Christ gives Himself to us. Who are we that God gave Himself as a sacrifice on the cross for love of us and the sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present in the Mass, all over the world all day.

    Help us to receive graces to understand more fully this Divine Mystery of God's love and to treasure the gift of Himself, given to us in the Holy Eucharist.

    The world is so hungry, waiting to be fed and He comes with a kind and gentle Heart and gives us the gift of Himself. The world is looking for the perfect love affair. Jesus gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to Him in the deepest act of intimate love in the Mass.

    When the priest mixes the drop of water with the wine and says, "let us share in the Divinity of Christ, who humbled Himself to share in our humanity." Think of this God who gives us a sharing in His life.

    The first miracle at Cana was when God changed water into wine. How great it would be to witness this miracle. How much greater is the gift of the Mass when, through the hands of the priest, bread is changed into the Body of Christ and wine is changed into His Blood.

    I pray the priest raises high the consecrated host that I may love this gift more and more in the Mass, that I may see the great love of God, more and more. Let's spread this message about the intimate love of God at Mass.

    I want to adore His Body and adore His Blood, and to offer my all – my body, my blood, to the Father.

    Every word of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is so beautiful. Let us savor these special words of greatest love.

    I see the hands of the priest as so sacred. He is so sacred and chosen by God. Such dignity and love should be given to the priest!

   

January 11, 1996

R. Last night at Mass I had such an experience at St. Gertrude's. I was overwhelmed with offering myself united to Jesus as a sacrifice to the Father, in the Holy Spirit.

    They surrounded Him and cried "crucify Him". He carried the cross and offered no resistance.

    I realized, to have a love relationship with God, an intimate love relationship, there must be self giving on my part. I must give myself! An intimate act is the giving of each person to the other.

    I am overwhelmed in wanting to give myself to God. I am filled with this great grace and all I see is Him and His magnificence and I want to give Him my all.

    The more I give, the more intimate the act, the more I empty myself, the more intimate the act between Him and me. The more I give of myself, the deeper the intimacy.

    Yesterday I had a good day, realizing how He is truly with me and attentive to me at every second.

    I recognize it as a sharing in His Passion and He is in control. I accept the cross and seek to live His life, death and resurrection in my life. I am giving myself to Him.

    I see my wretchedness, in this self-giving. How far I am from being like Him! I realize the Holy Spirit will have to change me to be more like Jesus.

    Mary conceived Jesus in her womb through the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

January 13, 1996 - 8:30am

There are 3 Persons in One God

R. I felt as if I couldn't breathe. I realized the Father's love and how He is one with Jesus and I receive the Almighty God in Communion. Deep connection in surrendering to Him as the little, dependent child, and realizing His immense oneness with Jesus. To know I receive the Almighty God, I realize the love between Father and Son and the Holy Spirit. I realize the presence of God in the Eucharist and my overwhelming desire to empty myself, that I may be deeper in union with God, my total desire being this deep union with God for all eternity.

    And, He reached down and in that moment I beheld God before my eyes, the Almighty, never changing, presence of God and my heart was in immense peace and awe for to know Him, to be saturated with His love, is to possess your heart's desire.

    Alleluia, God loves His people!

 

January 14, 1996 - 1:20am

What Are You Doing?

R. I was standing in the laundry by the dryer and felt the Lord asking me what I was doing and told me to go to bed. I knew He was there, the same as if He was standing there, and I was afraid: I fear the Lord - He is Almighty!

    I was in awe. He told me to come and pray and be with Him. Even feeling His presence as I did, I wanted to continue to do more things and make Him wait.

    I was aware of myself and He came from nowhere and it shocked me. I heard Him say, "what are you doing". He was standing in the doorway.

 

January 14, 1996 - 8:30 Mass

Love God, Love Others

R. I spent so much time tending to my life, being with others and I feel it takes me from Him and I want so much to be with Him and love Him and felt Him telling me that I must love Him in all others, see all the good things they do, see their unique beauty and with all the love I have for Him - pour it out to them. The world needs this love.

    This is how He loves the world through us. I love Him so much and He loves me so much that in my burning desire to give my love to Him, I see the reflection of Him in them and pour out my burning love to them. We are one body in Him. In loving others, I am loving Him.

    Love God - Love one another. The love of God flows into love of everyone. It cannot be disconnected, it is all one. We are all one. He is the Head, we are the members of His body.

    I long and thirst for You, my God. I give my love to You in others. Love flows as a bubbling brook. It doesn't stop and start - Love IS!

    My love is not separate. His love and love for others - it is all one. My burning love for Him compels me to love all His creatures. Anything to do with Him, I love because I love Him so much.

 

January 15, 1996

R. Even when I do not see you, you are so present, Lord. You are with me always - always there. I offered myself entirely to Him. I suffered so much since Friday about some things relating to others. I didn't get to pray much and that is what I love the most at those times with Him. I need Him and I miss Him when I feel distant from Him. I love Him so much.

    My body hurt all day yesterday. Friday night I had pains in my hands and feet. Yesterday I had pains in my right hand and chills, feeling sick. My hands have a constant ache. I had pains in my left foot most of the morning, but my body - how it hurt, hurt to move, my legs hurt when I stood and I felt as if I wouldn't walk or stand anymore because my legs hurt so much. I wanted to relieve the pain.

    I see more to love Him is to want to suffer with Him. Friday night when my feet and hands hurt, it was a constant realization of His presence with me.

    The more I am one with Jesus - the more I know the Presence of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To have the presence of Jesus is to have the presence of God.

    It is because of the suffering pain I feel so close to Him now, after the Eucharist. I am close to Him when I suffer.

    When I am in pain, I can be in that inner room with Him. My left foot and my body really hurt. Yesterday I could hardly bend my knees. Right now my right foot hurts too, but it is as the pains - you experience the pain but you cannot touch it or press on it. I am just experiencing it at this moment - my left hand hurts and my right foot.

 

January 16, 1996

R. We become one in Him. He lives in us in this world. He acts through us. We live to serve God do His work. This world is godless. Many today have turned their backs on God. Many times His name is used in vain and not spoken with the reverence He deserves.

    Jesus wants to dwell in our hearts. God communicates to us in our hearts. We go to the world and interact, but we go to our hearts to listen to His direction.

    If we spent days being in the world and do not take time to be alone with Him, we can get our answers from others and the world. We need time to sort out all the fragmented pieces we have collected in our lives and ask God's plan for us. God can communicate to us, also, through others, but we need time every day alone to listen to God. We need to spend time alone with God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit everyday. We need to hear the message what God uniquely wants to give to us about our life.

    Jesus says, "I am the vine, you are the branches." If the branches do not receive their nourishment from the vine, they wither and die. No two branches are the same, each one uniquely different. To bear fruit they must be nourished well.

    Our job is to spread the Kingdom of God - This is our calling, this takes knowing God's Plan for us. We can be busy and not do God's will and cause more confusion doing busy work. Do God's will. Pray to know it. Am I too busy to be alone with God?

    If I run down the wrong road at the fastest pace, if I spin my wheels in a rut, nothing is accomplished. When I am one with Him, He operates. His way is not speed, His way is precision. His way is right. His way is the way.

    When we do not go to God as our source we can be too busy doing the wrong thing. The devil is able to direct us to do things in haste. We must be rooted in God. The devil is paralyzing: his work is our mind. He fills us with pride, anger, envy, gluttony, and our starved souls can begin to wither. So as you are in your heart, you will be in this world.

    How can you speak from your heart when all you know is your own will? The mind must be in conjunction with the heart, the heart rooted in God. As a nurtured branch, a heart filled with His grace operates on His Plan.

    The mind, when the devil influences it, acts with vice many times: pride, anger, lust, gluttony, envy.

    The mind and the heart must be rooted in Him. We do not have a right to judge others, to make ourselves better than others. We have so many faults of our own. Spiritual directors and those in authority are to correct as God wants them to. We must stay rooted to the vine. We must have time alone with God. Our mind is to be united to God's Plan for us and we are to work for right reasoning, pray for right reasoning.

    We must have time with God to have a heart rooted in God - every day, time alone with God. Love is giving. We need peace in our homes - we need to consecrate ourselves and our homes to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

    I want to be with God before the tabernacle. Here at Immaculata Church I came in and saw Jesus again transfigured. I just wanted to be with God, to be alone and to be so one with Him. I am in awe of Him. I just love Him so much. I have been here three hours and I am so sad I only have one hour left. For the past three days I was unable to be here. I just long and want to know more about Him and be with Him and pray each word of each prayer so slowly and ponder it.

    I have had pains, especially in my left foot and my hands. My body aches and my knees feel as if I don't want to walk. I just want to love Him so much. I love Him - I love Him - I love Him.

 

January 17, 1996

R. These wounds hurt our beloved Savior, when some betrayed their friendship with God to do evil. Jesus is our friend. Sometimes more than one person treated Jesus with disrespect and criticism.

    To live Christ's life in our life, to live His death, to share in His sufferings, this is the greatest gift of all. We walk the walk, not knowing the great gift He is outpouring and allowing us to suffer to know Him more and share in His life.

    I know today what He gives me is to teach me lessons that I may be more like Him. The hardest thing, it seems to me, is to be mistreated by several friends.

    I show the world the Jesus that lives within. I want to be a light. People act according to how deeply united they are to God. All different levels. To be like Him we must die to all that is not like Him and beg for the grace to be made holy.

    I want to be like Jesus. To do this I must be willing to look at my faults, see my sins, my weaknesses, the way I am not like Him.

    I love God so much. The statue was transfigured and He had on different garments. I realized His humanity.

 

January 17, 1996

R. There is so little love given this day. We can seek to receive and not give. We can seek others to fill us when only God can. Love is giving. Love takes time. God is the source of all love and so few have time to spend with Him and learn as He teaches the mysteries of His love.

    How can we love one another when we do not have time for God, who is love? We can be too busy to care, too busy to love, too busy to be Christ-like to others.

    We were created in the image and likeness of God, but are we acting like Him?

    Could we see Jesus talk about one another without love? Could we see Jesus rush by and not have time for anyone? Jesus came to give, He came to love, He came to serve.

    The world has made its end here and God speaks of the Kingdom to come. Open your hearts and you will know the mystery of His love.

 

January 20, 1996 - After Communion

Jesus:  My beloved priests:

    I love you with the deepest love. Many of you are going through motions. Your hearts are cold and you have turned yourselves to the things of this world.

    I came to you with a kind and loving heart and I am rejected by My beloved chosen ones.

    I call you to love, to a deep love affair with Me. How My Heart bleeds for the indifference and coldness of many of My priests.

    I call you to love – to giving of yourselves, to consecration to My Heart and the heart of My Mother.

    I suffered so through My Passion, but My greatest agony was from the coldness and lack of love I received from My beloved priests.

    I beg you, My child, to speak to My priests, to speak to all who will listen about My burning love. I give to you great graces that you may deliver the messages of Our love for this world.

    I will shelter you in My Heart and lead you on your way to speak to the religious about the Mass.

    I call you to speak and to sing My songs of love.

    How I love you. I have chosen you. I am asking for your selflessness to respond to My request. Speak – I speak in you. Love, Jesus

  February 9, 2016

Dear Friends,

I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.

If you read Fr. Joe's book like I did on the 13th you can see how awesome it is.

It helps me understand what is happening in the writings during the liturgical year.

It is so very good, it makes me so eager to live the liturgy in my life,
live in the liturgical year.

Well we have sent over 13,000 of Fr. Joe's new cycle books since the beginning of November to priests and hierarchy
all over the world.

It can enrich so many lives with the weekly sermon rooted in the Word, the Eucharist,
the liturgy,
the Mass,

Baptism, love and unity.

When a priest uses the book weekly he focuses on the Bread of Life to feed the people.

Say a priest says 4 or 5 Masses weekly
Think of how many souls could be reached with the people attending Mass.

Fr. Joe speaks of love and being a member of the body of Christ, living in relationships
all in the context of the scripture.

We see salvation history and its ups and downs -
we see our calling from God
and we see our part in salvation history.

God calls - we respond.

The body of Christ can help the world to raise up to greater perfection.

What are you doing to help this coming election in the United States.

This book of Fr. Joe's can help so many people every week.

We have sent over 13,000 books out to priests and hierarchy to every priest in your state.

We have sent the books to so many priests in the United States and all Bishops.

Can't you help us.

We also send a Prayer Brochure with the Shepherds of Christ prayers praying for the priests, the Church and the world.

We pray in adoration 8 days a month with usually 6 Masses for you, your family and the priests the Church and the world.

We pray in 24 hour adoration before the Exposed Blessed Eucharist in China for all this and for you.

The China mortgage is due tomorrow

and we are struggling because of giving so much money to the Ministries.

Can anyone help us with a donation.

Also we are printing another 20,000 of Fr. Joe's books
going to all the priests in the United States.

This can enormously help for this coming election.

A weekly Priestly Newsletter used about the scriptures and everything at Sunday Mass.

Please we need your help.

If you want to know what to do to help the world and especially all active priests in the United States please help us with a donation.

We need your help today.
Thanks for your prayers and help in advance.

God Bless you and love you.

Rita Robinson Ring