Shepherds of Christ          Daily Writing

February 20, 2007

February 21st Holy Spirit Novena Scripture selection is Day 3 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries   for February 21st are Luminous.

February 20, 2007

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February 20, 2007 continues

Messenger:           What good does it do to win the whole
                        world and lose your soul?

                            A priest is a special gift from
                        God, another Christ in the world.

                            God gives us the gift of the
                        priest.

February 20, 2007 continues

Messenger:       Jesus gave His life for His
                            precious souls.

                        Priests, religious give their lives
                            for the special children of the Church
                            to pray for the souls of this earth,
                            the souls in purgatory.

                            With God all things are possible.
                        We must believe and pray for
                        the renewal of the Church and the
                        world.

                            We must fill our hearts
                        with love, Be one with God,
                        live according to God's plan —
                        not write our own opposed to
                        God's plan.

                            God gives us the Church and the
                        sacraments.

                            God gives us the gift of baptism.
                            God calls us to love.
                            God calls us to live in the truth.

                        As we live in the truth and love we
                            teach others that pass this on
                            to others in generations to come.

                        God wants us to be teachers of love and
                            truth while we are on earth.

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. 

                        p. 12                     

                        23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

                            Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God 
                        our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.

 

p.11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment

                        p. 25

46. PRAYER.  In the preparatory prayer I will beg God
our Lord for grace that all my intentions, actions, 
and operations may be directed purely to the 
praise and service of His Divine Majesty.  

 

TAKE, LORD, AND RECEIVE

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, 
my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have 
and possess. Thou hast given all to me. To Thee, O 
Lord, I return it. All is Thine, dispose of it wholly 
according to Thy will. Give me Thy love and Thy 
grace, for this is sufficient for me.

February 20, 2007 continues

Messenger:            The vision of being other focused — that
                        is seeing Jesus as He hung on the cross —
                        knowing how important it is when we go to
                        the Mass and offer ourselves, our lives, as a sacrifice
                        united to the sacrifice of Jesus in the Mass —
                        the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally
                        made present through the hands of the priest.

                            I see the disrespect by the media for the
                        priest and I see the vision of the Father who
                        so deeply loves the priest and has given to
                        all of us this great gift of the priest
                        from God.

                            I see how Mary is blasphemed by some
                        and how the Father wants us to be so filled
                        with gratitude for the gift of Mary, conceived
                        without sin, our precious Mother.

                            So God has called us to be a body of people
                        so united in love realizing the great gifts He has
                        given to us and telling God we are sorry
                        for the sins of the human race, that we love
                        Him above all things, that we will carry our
                        little crosses with love and honor and
                        serve Him.

                            Why write at all — because God wants me to
                        write and to tell all to reflect during this
                        lent of His body racked with pain on the cross.
                        Look at the sins of the body — all the sins Jesus
                        shed His Blood for. Can't we just be good and
                        purely focus on what God put us here for.
                        Do we need the inordinate attachments that
                        really drive us away from being so united to
                        Him as St. Paul says

Galatians 2: 19-20

...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.

Messenger:            We know when we drink poison that it has
                        effects on our body —

                            Why do we not see how filling ourselves with
                        the poisons of the world that can further distort
                        our vision hurts us spiritually.

                            What we sow — so shall we reap —

                            And yet we know we cannot stop the constant
                        poison that is being paraded before the
                        people's eyes by the media — it is like filling
                        a swimming pool —

                            We cannot fill ourselves with the poisonous
                        view of things — we must seek the view of
                        God the Father, the Church — pray for the priests —
                        The gospel yesterday - told us to love the ones who
                        hate us.

                            This brings me to the vision of Christ as He
                        hung on the cross — His body racked with pain —
                        He endured it all for the love of His precious
                        souls.

                            We can be so wounded that we do not see
                        how we can be other focused. A bleeding
                        dog will bite at anyone who approaches,
                        but God through His grace can heal our
                        wounds and help us turn to "other" focused
                        people.

                            We, many times, do not trust the Almighty God
                        as being able to handle our problems — when
                        only God and our will to serve Him can be
                        that which heals us.

                            We must pray for His vision, not fill ourselves
                        with the poisons of the world that can distort
                        our view of things away from the view God wants
                        us to seek, to have. We are on a journey to clearer
                        vision.

                            Some blind people can see the things in
                        the spiritual life clearer than those whose
                        eyes are 20/20.

                            We must seek to see with the eyes of the soul
                        the vision God imparts to us in the Scriptures,
                        in the Church, from the pope's writings —
                        the encyclicals, from the saints who went
                        before.

                            The apostles slept as Jesus sweat Blood in
                        the garden —

                            Jesus has opened to us the door of His Most
                        Sacred Heart — in it lies the treasures we
                        seek — Mary is the sinless one, the singular
                        vessel, the Spiritual Mother of us all —
                        Mary offers to us her little children, a place
                        of security in her Immaculate Heart (our
                        spiritual womb) and Mary gives to us the promise
                        to place us in the deepest part of the Heart
                        of Jesus.

                            Security is dwelling in these Two Hearts of
                        Pure love. Seeking the grace to let go of
                        inordinate attachments.

                            To see with eyes unveiled when we
                        give into selfishness and jealousies and envy
                        pride, lust, anger, gluttony, slothfulness, greed

                            These keep us from being more deeply
                        united in love to Jesus.

                            Sin keeps us from being other focused

                            God is calling us to be more pure.
                            God is calling us to deeper intercessors.
                            God is calling us to be other focused and
                                loving.
                            God is calling us to be likened to Him —
                            To pray for grace to be like Mary —

                        Everything we do has an effect —
                        Sins in secret affect the whole body —

                            We have been called in baptism to contribute —
                        to pour in — to flood the earth with the love
                        of Jesus.

                            Satan wants us selfish —
                            "Oh poor me"
                            "Come fill me"
                            "Let me win for dominance sake"

                        God has paid the price for our salvation with
                            His precious Blood
                            His Body was an open wound
                            His love — "other" focused
                                love — outpouring His Divine Love for us

                       
                        This lent — let us pray to be holy
                            Go to daily Mass and beg for grace for the souls
                                of the earth to turn to the ways of God

                         Spread the Blood of Jesus on the world

                        Pray for unity

                        Say your Morning Offering

February 20, 2007 continues

Messenger:       Don't give into fear of what men think —
                            think of always pleasing God and
                            doing His will

                        We may be given greater sufferings
                            in lent — endure the little
                            crosses we have

                        Read these prayers

February 20, 2007 continues

Messenger:       Sing the song

                            Be Not Afraid and ponder the
                                words —

                            Be empowered to be a strong
                                hold for Jesus in the world

                        Ponder His racked body and how He
                            suffered for souls

                        Think of how He suffered for every
                            soul

                        And pray with all your heart for
                            purity to be a strong intercessor
                            in this world that is hungering
                            for God's grace

                        May the grace of God be outpoured on this
                            precious world —
                            God shed His Blood for all the souls!!

                        Today God calls us to be holy and to love
                            Him — to live more likened to
                            Him and to have the vision of
                            the Father —

                        Dear God,

                            I give you myself - wholy and completely and
                        I want the world to be as you want —
                        Help me to unite to all the Masses going on
                        around the world — for the sake of
                        your precious souls.

                                                I love you,
                                                Rita

                            And He hung on the cross to His death
                        for you and me — He gave His all —

                            Today He asks us to give our all to
                        Him and live in love according
                        to the Father's will.

                            Endure your crosses in love for
                        reparation for the sins of men
                        and tell God we are sorry for the human
                        race offending Him —

                        Dear God

                            Have mercy and forgive us —
                            out pour Your grace

                        I love you, God, your servant
                                                        Rita

                        And Jesus tells us how precious we are to
                        Him and He longs to have our personal
                        love relationship with Him. He wants
                        our love.

                            Go to the Eucharist and love Him so much.
                            How precious we are to Him.

 

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

     Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

Jesus speaks: Do you think I acted on your soul less when I gave you the experiences of hell?

I give to you the greatest graces to know My love. I act directly on your soul. I am the Bridegroom of your soul.

Messenger: Oh Jesus, He took me to the heights of ecstasy in Him in realizing how He is the Initiator and acts on my soul. How foolish I am indeed to think it is I who control the workings of God on my soul, when in fact He is the Bridegroom of my soul.

I see Him look at me with the greatest love, as I did once in the study, when I knew He looked at me and loved me so. I sat with a white dress and my Bridegroom looked with love on me, thinking me so beautiful to Him, me the little child of the Father in all my faults, and looking on me with such love. He stood above me as a Bridegroom dressed in black, tall and handsome, and He looked down with the most loving eyes upon me and I knew the love of the Divine Creator.

Today I knew how it was, how He acted on my soul.

I see how it is when someone really acts in love and does something for me because that person loves me.

I see myself as open, letting go, putting myself entirely in the hands of the Creator, the God I love, and the Bridegroom comes with the greatest love and His grace. He gives me Himself. My job is to be, just to be, a soul, waiting for the Bridegroom to just give me Himself in the greatest love. I am, I know it is He who acts, and when He acts His presence overtakes my soul. I am, I let go and I reminisce about all the times He just overtook my soul.

Little do I do, for it is the Bridegroom loving me, loving my soul and acting most intimately on my soul.

I sit and surrender myself entirely to Him. He is the Initiator. He is the One Who acts with His grace and NOTHING - no intimate experience, nothing here can fill the soul with this love and satisfaction.

For the Bridegroom acts and the soul is satisfied, the only desire is that it will never end. Sometimes there is such a longing and realizing the temporariness of it all. Sometimes He gives my soul such satisfaction, comfort and love, and I am filled with the greatest peace and satisfaction with less awareness of the temporariness, just peace.

Jesus speaks: I give you the peace of the Sacred Heart of Jesus when He acts on the soul of His spouse. I am the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. I am the Spouse of your soul. I give you this satisfaction so that you will write to Me after Communion for My Mass Books for the world. This book will be entitled the Spouse of the Lamb. I will act on your soul most intimately.

And what My child is the key, but total surrender as a spouse who knows her spouse loves her and takes the love given. You, child, pray for this grace, to be possessed by the Lamb, the Bridegroom of your soul. What lesson did I teach you this day but that it is I who act upon you, you do not control My love given to you in any way. A grace is given, a grace is received.

Your total surrender is the way to most optimally allow the Bridegroom, the Lamb, to act on your soul.

Total yielding, so that you will allow yourself to be IN ME.

Messenger: Oh my God - how to explain that which happens when You act on my soul and what I experience. Are there any words that could do this justice when the Almighty God finds favor with me most intimately, and gives Himself to me?

Jesus speaks: My child, I act, you are passive, empty and open. Surrender and I will possess your soul with the lights of heaven so you can experience your Divine Lover most intimately. Surrender, surrender, surrender, a state of being and surrender to live in Him at the point of greatest intimacy in the Mass.

You will know days of darkness and joy as the shadows and lights fade in and out of your life and I reveal Myself most intimately to you.

I am Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom of your soul. Your hand must record these experiences for the marriage of the Lamb to the soul.

I act upon your soul most intimately.

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience you most intimately.

Messenger: My beloved Jesus,

The Bridegroom of my soul. It is not I who write, but in fact, You Who write through me, to Yourself. I surrender myself and want to exist in You in such oneness that I can more optimally love You.

This is my desire to give You great love from my heart existent in You.

And this I write for 10 minutes that You will help me to love God most intimately and give myself more completely to Him.

My God, I adore You, I worship You, I love You, my beloved Spouse, the Bridegroom of my soul. I know the black Bridegroom, the one dressed as a bridegroom who wears a white robe of glory. Yes, it is the priests dressed in black that are to teach us to be the spouse of the Lamb.

  

Revelation 1:6

…and made us a Kingdom of Priests to serve his God and Father; to him, then, be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.

  

Messenger: And the Bridegroom comes, He summons the soul.

Oh, my Bridegroom, we pray for the wedding of the Lamb to our souls.

We pray for the spousal relationship of our souls with Our Divine God.

Jesus speaks: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The life flows from My Sacred Heart to My body, the Church. Many never mention the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

What body would survive cut off from the heart? My life flows from My Heart into the body, My Church.

I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus and My Heart will reign - I am calling My people to a personal spousal relationship with God. This is the work of the Shepherds of Christ. I bless you in this mission to bring about the Reign of My Sacred Heart.

I am Jesus, the Son of God, Son of Man, the Sacred Heart, I am the beating Heart that keeps the body alive with My grace.

Messenger: Blood and water poured forth from His most Sacred Heart. Blood a symbol of the Eucharist, water a symbol of Baptism.

He cursed the barren fig tree.

  

Revelation 6:13

…and the stars of the sky fell onto the earth like figs dropping from a fig tree when a high wind shakes it;

   

Revelation 7: 17

…because the Lamb who is at the heart of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.

  

Revelation 5: 10

and made them
    a line of kings and priests for God,
to rule the world.