February 21, 2017

                R. Dear God, please help our country –
                    We ask You to pray the prayer the Lord
                    gave to us to pray for our country.

                Jesus: It is a time of great sadness to My
                    Sacred Heart for it is that you are so
                    blessed, your country has been blessed.
                    I am telling you to pray as never before.
                    13 years ago March 1st, the image head
                    of the Virgin Mary was destroyed in
                    Clearwater, Florida.

                My children pray, your heavenly Father
                    sent the image of the Virgin Mother
                    in Clearwater over 20 years ago –
                    it is such a beautiful blessing and
                    sign of the Father's love that such
                    a gift was given to you.

                    I am love and I have blessed you in
                My Movement with great favors
                never given before.

                    Sin is an act out of order.
                God loves the creatures He has
                created, why would a person choose
                darkness to light, unloving, angry,
                prideful ways to loving and peace
                and joy.

                    When it is over, it will be over. You
                were given one life to live and use it
                to love God and others – to help others,
                to be kind and work in unity according
                to My Father's will.

                    You have a free will to love as I
                have commanded you or to oppose
                God, fight God, be a rival to God
                and impudently parade before Me
                when you do it. How foolish the
                sinner who walks in pride and refuses
                to be reconciled in their hearts to God.
                I have given you My Law, I am God,
                I created you, right reason stands
                why would you rebel against your
                Creator, the Almighty God. You
                have a free will to live by My Law
                or to rebel against the Law of God.
                It is out of order to rebel against
                the Law of God, for a creature to
                disobey their Creator – it is not
                right reasoning, it is not knowing
                your place.

                    A sinful act comes from what one
                chooses in their will. The will can be
                influenced if it is weak, from the devil,
                from reasoning, the sense appetites.
                A man can say "Oh, I didn't know"
                and plead he had nothing to do with
                his own actions. A man can deliberately
                lie about the pride and anger in his
                heart and plead innocent to any wrong
                doing having consented over and over
                again to hatred and ill will, injuring others,
                punishment of others and division,
                fighting, arguing and then say –
                oh I did nothing – I was right when
                I did this.

                    I am the way, the truth and the life
                and I give you My Law to live by –
                How can you rebel against the law
                to put God first, to love God, to love
                your neighbor as yourself, to be so
                unloving and evil and then act as if
                I do not exist and know the condition of a
                hateful, prideful heart and then say
                shamefully in deceit before Me –
                Oh I did nothing wrong or Oh I didn't
                know.

                Sin is an act of the will, acting on purpose
                in disorder, against My law. It is
                a voluntary act. A man must know
                he is sinning for it to be a sin, but if it is
                his fault he is ignorant and he is doing evil
                he is sinning.

                Many men continue sinning and lie to themselves
                when they deliberately rebel against My Law
                and refuse any correction from one over
                them or force through evil methods
                others from trying to stop their lewd conduct.

                    A person indulging in a sexual affair
                with another and being married can
                lie to themselves why it is okay in
                his case.

                    The devil tempts men to sin – and
                he wants them to continue sinning and
                deny they did wrong.

                    The person who seriously injured another
                person – may be the first to say – they
                did nothing wrong and become impudent
                and aggressively begin fighting another
                for trying to unveil the crime.
                Denying that they did anything wrong –
                Like a child caught steeling cookies
                with their hand in the cookie jar
                and saying he didn't do it.

                    A person can become in the habit of
                planning sins with malice of intent –
                these sins are worse than the man
                who sins because he did it from
                some instant passion or ignorance.
                Sinning through pure malice is a
                disease of the will itself – it is not
                like the man who gives into a sin
                on the spur of a moment. The sins
                of malice of intent are more evil
                than a man who just gives in in the
                spur of a weak moment.

                    A person that honestly did not know he
                was acting in disorder can be forgiven
                more easily than a man who has malice
                of intent and performs his acts deliberately
                to do wrong and take down the house,
                injure someone with a mean and angry
                deceptive spirit to hurt on purpose.
                The sinner, sins by his own will.
                The devil tempts people – he wants
                them to sin. He wants them to develop
                bad habits and live according to the deadly sins.
                The devil hates. He does not want man
                to love God or his brother or himself,
                he wants to get him to sin so much
                he loses his soul. The devil is real –
                The devil tempts men, but men
                give in freely to the sinful act.
                The devil cannot make anyone sin.
                Man is responsible
                for his sins We are free to sin or
                not to sin.

                Given February 20, 2017

                Today's Readings
 

Sirach 1: 1-10

All wisdom comes from the Lord,
    she is with him for ever.
The sands of the sea, the drops of rain,
    the days of eternity — who can count them?
The height of the sky, the breadth of the earth,
    the depth of the abyss — who can explore them?
Wisdom was created before everything,
    prudent understanding subsists from remotest ages.
For whom has the root of wisdom ever been uncovered?
    Her resourceful ways, who knows them?
One only is wise, terrible indeed,
    seated on his throne, the Lord.
It was he who created, inspected and weighed her up,
    and then poured her out on all his works —
as much to each living creature as he chose —
    bestowing her on those who love him.

Mark 9: 14-29

As they were rejoining the disciples they saw a large crowd round them and some scribes arguing with them. At once, when they saw him, the whole crowd were struck with amazement and ran to greet him. And he asked them, 'What are you arguing about with them?' A man answered him from the crowd, 'Master, I have brought my son to you; there is a spirit of dumbness in him, and when it takes hold of him it throws him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and goes rigid. And I asked your disciples to drive it out and they were unable to.' In reply he said to them, 'Faithless generation, how much longer must I be among you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to me.' They brought the boy to him, and at once the spirit of dumbness threw the boy into convulsions, and he fell to the ground and lay writhing there, foaming at the mouth. Jesus asked the father, 'How long has this been happening to him?' 'From childhood,' he said, 'and it has often thrown him into fire and into water, in order to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us.' 'If you can?' retorted Jesus. 'Everything is possible for one who has faith.' At once the father of the boy cried out, 'I have faith. Help my lack of faith!' And when Jesus saw that a crowd was gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit. 'Deaf and dumb spirit,' he said, 'I command you: come out of him and never enter him again.' Then it threw the boy into violent convulsions and came out shouting, and the boy lay there so like a corpse that most of them said, 'He is dead.' But Jesus took him by the hand and helped him up, and he was able to stand. When he had gone indoors, his disciples asked him when they were by themselves, 'Why were we unable to drive it out?' He answered, 'This is the kind that can be driven out only by prayer.'

                R. We see the sun and the magnificence of
                the world God has created. Man is given a
                free will to live according to His Plan – to obey
                the commandments, to live by the Word of God.
                He can seek God's will and live by God's will
                if he chooses because he has a free will –
                He can reject God's will and disobey God's
                commandments, ignore the Word of God
                and operate in opposition to God's will.

Romans 8: 5-9

Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

                R. Giving into the deadly sins of pride, greed,
                envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth, become
                habits. The more one chooses to be prideful,
                the more he disobeys the First Commandment
                to put God's plan, His will, first. The prideful
                man is blinded – before he even hears the
                situation, he is accessing the situation from
                his willful habits – how he is up and trying
                to put others under him – even God – he can
                use every situation to tell himself why he is
                right – he refuses corrections, for he has a
                built-in-radar – he is up and always right –
                this leads to darkness and blindness. We are
                to live in truth, serving and loving God –

                The man of pride as described above is living
                in falsehood. He does not know his place
                among men, under God. A man can live his
                whole life with fear of authority and not let
                anyone act over him. He can seek out a place
                where he can control or force his dominion
                over everything despite what is God's will. He
                is ruled by his rule – no one will ever be
                over him. His life is centered around himself
                and his rule he gave himself. He can grow deeper
                in his conviction, using abuse, holding out,
                anger for his plan to be implemented.

                He expects this as the way and is very angry
                if someone tries to stop this evil way of
                his and how he is acting – The rule becomes
                the disordered dysfunction, he has worked so
                hard to establish, growing in greater darkness,
                and greater anger – more manipulation and
                lies for the goal is evil, opposed to God's plan
                of love, unity, obedience to the will of God.
                We see what Hitler imposed on the people of
                Germany and the world and 66,000,000
                people were killed because of World War II.

                    Some people live with the rule in their
                lives not trusting anyone because of sexual
                abuse, betrayals, childhood dysfunction –
                Love is giving for the good of the other –
                We see Jesus, the Son of God, who came to
                this earth and took flesh to teach us about
                love.

                R. Love is giving and receiving. Love is
                relationship. A person can give themselves
                a rule they won't trust anyone or love
                anyone because of being hurt in love.
                Love is more than sex – Love is what God tells
                us about in God's Blue Book, love is what
                God commands of us in the Commandments
                of God. Again living with such a rule, to not love
                or trust anyone violates the commandments of
                God – so a person is living in opposition to
                the will of God. They can construe all kinds
                of ways to avoid any trust or love with
                others and try to force others by control
                to live in their darkness and sin – so
                they don't have to obey God; so they don't
                have to change the unloving, sinful way
                they are opposing God –

                    Living like this is, not living, it is
                existing and it is existing in, opposition
                to God's will. They can become harder and
                harder in their hearts – living to implement
                their darkness and hurting others,
                manipulating others. This darkness and way
                makes the person more and more angry
                because – with their free will they are
                opposing God to live their unloving, dark
                way of closing their heart.

                    The Shepherds of Christ is about the love
                of the Two Perfect and Pure and Holy
                Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The 25
                years God has given me messages and
                22 years of Mary's apparitions has been
                to deliver the message of God's love –
                The Blue Books are to open men's hearts to
                know God loves them and wants love
                in their hearts for God and others and oneself.
                God tells us we are to live by the will of God –
                the goal of all actions are to be eternal
                salvation. The baptized person living more and
                more to be like Jesus, living the supernatural
                life more and more – loving supernaturally,
                knowing the Scriptures more and more on
                a supernatural level.

1 Corinthians 3: 16-23

Psalm 93: 1-2, 5

Yahweh is king, robed in majesty,
robed is Yahweh and girded with power.

The world is indeed set firm, it can never be shaken;
your throne is set firm from of old,
from all eternity you exist.

Your decrees stand firm, unshakeable,
holiness is the beauty of your house, 
Yahweh, for all time to come.

                R. A man who knows his place is ridding
                himself of inordinate attachments – the need
                to control, manipulate, abuse, punish,
                lie.
 

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

                R. We can, with our free will, refuse
                to obey God and oppose Him and
                lower ourselves when God raises
                us up.

                    A person who won't trust and love is
                shut down, and they can't ignore
                loving their brother and love God –

1 John 4: 17-21

                R. He who does not love, does not
                know God.

                A person can live by these rules he gives himself
                in blindness – like not obeying authority –
                not loving or trusting anyone because of hurt –
                Love is not all sexual relationships – love is my
                love for God, my love for my children, my love
                for my grandchildren, my love of the human race,
                the love of the Church, love for the country –
                love of friends, love of people who are
                in the mystical body of Christ, love of
                priests, love of the world – love then of
                God's will, etc.

                    A person who is hurt sexually, by parents,
                by a divorce, has to realize shutting down
                your heart, hurting people, being controlled
                and unloving, life-long opposes the will of God.
                God commands us to love Him and our brother as
                ourselves – these are the commandments of God.

                    If a person tells themselves they don't have
                to trust or love anyone they are acting in
                desolation – opposed to God's will –

                    Read today's Gospel - People who shut themselves
                off and only trust themselves are being used by
                satan in pride – That is pride, to think you are
                above everyone – including God.

                We have a duty to do God's will –
                We have a duty to do our
                    responsibility in our
                    vocation – not punish
                    others with our duty by
                    holding out and using it
                    to wager abuse and control
                    on those who direct us –

                Grow up – commitment to
                    God's rules, the commandments
                    of God –

                To let the creative energy of God
                    in our lives –

                Commitment comes in loving from
                    the heart –

                How can a man who has given
                    himself rule over God's
                    commands to love, but
                    to operate opposed to God's
                    commands think he is
                    right?
                    And satan is in this!

Matthew 5: 17-37

‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. In truth I tell you, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, is to disappear from the Law until all its purpose is achieved. Therefore, anyone who infringes even one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be considered the least in the kingdom of Heaven; but the person who keeps them and teaches them will be considered great in the kingdom of Heaven.

    ‘You have heard how it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I say this to you, if a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye should be your downfall, tear it out and throw it away; for it will do you less harm to lose one part of yourself than to have your whole body thrown into hell. And if your right hand should be your downfall, cut it off and throw it away; for it will do you less harm to lose one part of yourself than to have your whole body go to hell.

    ‘It has also been said, Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a writ of dismissal. But I say this to you, everyone who divorces his wife, except for the case of an illicit marriage, makes her an adulteress; and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

    'Again, you have heard how it was said to our ancestors, You must not break your oath, but must fulfil your oaths to the Lord. But I say this to you, do not swear at all, either by heaven, since that is God's throne; or by earth, since that is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, since that is the city of the great King. Do not swear by your own head either, since you cannot turn a single hair white or black. All you need say is "Yes" if you mean yes, "No" if you mean no; anything more than this comes from the Evil One.

                R. Give up the bad stuff in our
                    lives –
                    don't let the devil win

                Love is all around us
                    Jesus gives us Himself in
                        the Blessed Sacrament
                    Jesus gives us the Church –
                    We have the sacraments
                    We have the priests –

                Mary appeared in Clearwater
                    7 1/2 years on the building.

                The Gospel at yesterday's Mass
                    was an excerpt from the
                    Sermon on the Mount.
 

Matthew 5: 38-48

    ‘You have heard how it was said: Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. But I say this to you: offer no resistance to the wicked. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well; if someone wishes to go to law with you to get your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone requires you to go one mile, go two miles with him. Give to anyone who asks you, and if anyone wants to borrow, do not turn away.

                R. Jesus wants us to obey God –
 

Leviticus 19: 1-2, 17-18

Yahweh spoke to Moses and said: 
‘Speak to the whole community of Israelites and say: 
    "Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

You will not harbour hatred for your brother. You will reprove your fellow–countryman firmly and thus avoid burdening yourself with a sin. You will not exact vengeance on, or bear any sort of grudge against, the members of your race, but will love your neighbour as yourself. I am Yahweh.

                R. Even God gives punishment,
                    but is merciful to those
                    who ask for forgiveness.

                Jesus didn't stand and take
                    the abuse –
                    He asked why did you
                        strike Me – but He
                        did not respond in
                        violence, revenge –

                A person holding anger in their
                    hearts, hurt themselves
                    more than they know – anger in
                    the heart – held onto stops a
                    person in having a close relationship
                    with God –

                Anger held out against one's neighbor
                    who is innocent is sinful –

                Anger like this is called a
                    deadly sin – it brings
                    darkness and blindness in
                    the heart and
                    the person acts in desolation
                        for letting satan win in
                        their heart –

                Seeking revenge is not God's
                    way –

                We are told to pray for those who
                    persecute us –

                Given February 5, 2017 

                R. Dear Jesus,

                    Please help me, put my
                spiritual bandages on my
                soul so I will be healed of
                all that needs healing.

                Jesus: Though you walk in
                the valley of darkness I
                will be your rear guard
                and your shield.

                    That you know more
                and more that life is in Me.
                Woe you who labor and are
                heavily burden – a light shines
                around you and peace I infuse
                into the troubled heart.

                    Peace to you, My child, though
                you walk the valley of darkness
                I send light to light your path –
                the victory is seen in that
                the sun comes every day –
                Sunrise, Sunset, Sunrise,
                Sunset and your days are
                soon ended.

                    How did you live in
                your hearts? How did you
                labor in My vineyard – did you
                use the days I gave wisely to
                promote My work – to do the
                job the Father created you to
                do – to love and serve Him
                as only you can do.

                    Sunrise, Sunset,
                swiftly goes - the days
                of your lives. Do not ever
                waste a moment living
                in self-pity and fear – soon
                the days are gone, your
                life is gone – your trial is ended.

                    How did you live child,
                for or against the heavenly
                Father's will.

                    Let your days be numbered
                aright. Let the morning
                and evening remind you
                of the days of your lives.

                R. When I was carrying the
                children in my womb I
                worried about their birth –
                then they came and all were
                well children and then I
                raised them and worried and
                fretted and then they left –
                and they are married and now
                I have grandchildren, the
                days go by in petty pace
                and never will I have a
                chance to do a more
                better day - we got one
                shot at every day –

                    The devil wants us to worry –
                to focus on emotions, needless
                details – God gives us the strength
                to deal with every day.

                    Every day is like a
                new sheet to write the
                story that day. How
                beautiful the sun comes
                up every day to light the
                day anew – after resting
                from the day before.

                    Oh it is a Divine Design
                that repeats and shows
                beauty for us. How blinded
                we can be, when we need
                to let go and live and walk by
                the hand of Jesus.

                    The Apostles did this –
                walk by the hand of Jesus,
                let Him teach them. He
                showed them miracles. They
                walked close to Him and He
                taught them what they needed
                to know.

                    Jesus is here – truly present
                in the Eucharist. We receive
                Jesus in communion, body,
                blood, soul and Divinity –
                Jesus, Jesus, why do we
                worry and give into the
                destructive ways when we
                must walk more and more
                in faith and live in hope and
                love – the heart was made
                for love. Why would men
                rebel against God who
                created them. Why are men
                so brazen in their pride
                and senseless ways.

                    We are the Spouse of Jesus Christ –
                we walk the isle and
                receive Him at Mass – We
                received in baptism a sharing
                in His life –

                Oh Holy Spirit Come into our hearts
                to enlighten the mind of Your
                people –

                    For the devil is strong and
                if you do the work of Jesus
                the devil will work to try
                to stop it.

                    Oh we need prudence
                and the gifts of the Holy Spirit to
                fight satan who is at battle
                with the man doing God's
                work.

                    God has told us – He tells
                us in this message – He wants
                such intimate love with us,
                He wants to dwell IN US –
                He wants to operate IN US –
                but He says the devil's grip
                is paralyzing and crippling –
                don't give into him.

                R. We need the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
                We need the virtues. We must
                let go of the pressing down
                of satan and walk by faith –
                live in hope of our eternal
                salvation. Come Holy Spirit Come
                and fill us with love and light –
                Come into our troubled prideful
                hearts and fill us with all
                we need to operate as Your
                instruments of love –

                    Come and dwell in my feeble
                heart – lest I stumble and
                fall and not find my way –
                Shelter me from the sun
                that is scorching. Protect
                our steps. Send the breezes
                to lift us up – the coolness
                of air on us on a hot day –
                the water, pure, to quench
                our thirsty souls – let the
                days be sweet with Your
                order and love and direction –
                and my life lived to serve
                and love You and live by the
                will of the heavenly Father –

                    Teach me Your precepts –
                Number me among those who
                are serving and loving You
                and others.

                    Only a fool turns away
                from God, who wants to
                forgive us and grant us
                mercy. The prideful man
                walks in his pride and he
                lives a life caught in his
                own darkness. His blindness
                grows every day because of
                his pride – even on sunny
                days – he may not see
                so good, but his blindness
                is so great he doesn't
                even know it.

                Jesus: My child, I give you a
                heart to love – I give you
                the light of day to see –
                I give you ears to hear My
                teaching – I give you friends
                to love. I remain in the Eucharist
                truly present so you will pray
                for yourself and your
                country and your world,
                the priests, the Church,
                your family.

                    Satan never slumbers
                or sleeps, if you intend
                to work for Me in a serious
                way – he is hypo-vigilant
                and breathing down your
                back at every turn.

                You need to know My intimate
                love. I want to dwell in you
                and operate from you.
                The Holy Spirit comes and enlightens
                and strengthens the open soul
                welcoming Him as their
                Guest – You must ask
                God to help you, now –
                to be pure – to be empty –
                to be surrendering – to live
                every day for God – live as it
                is your last!!

                Life is like a gallery of picture.
                Once you go to bed your picture
                is framed for that day for the
                Gallery by _______ _______ of
                your life.

                Jesus: Wear the armor I give you
                    for salvation.

                Dwell in My Heart of
                    love – on fire for
                    love of men.

                end of excerpt

                Given February 4, 2017 

 

Hebrews 13: 15-17, 20-21

Through him, let us offer God an unending sacrifice of praise, the fruit of the lips of those who acknowledge his name. Keep doing good works and sharing your resources, for these are the kinds of sacrifice that please God.

Obey your leaders and give way to them; they watch over your souls because they must give an account of them; make this a joy for them to do, and not a grief-you yourselves would be the losers.

I pray that the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood that sealed an eternal covenant, may prepare you to do his will in every kind of good action; effecting in us all whatever is acceptable to himself through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

   

                R. Dear Holy Spirit I want to be
                always open in my heart
                to receive Your love – Let
                me always see Your unending
                light with the eyes of my
                soul.

                    Let my hope for eternal
                salvation being wrapped
                in Your Divine Embrace
                be the song of my soul.

                    Holy Spirit I place my trust
                in Thee. Holy Spirit help me
                open my heart to Your love.
                Holy Spirit strengthen me
                to know the truth – that
                the truth will be in me.

    

John 14: 16-17

I shall ask the Father,
and he will give you another Paraclete
to be with you for ever,
the Spirit of truth
whom the world can never accept
since it neither sees nor knows him;
but you know him,
because he is with you, he is in you.

   

                R. Let me walk by faith
                believing in You and Your
                constant vigilant eyes upon
                me – let my life be lived
                in the hope of eternal salvation
                and leading souls to You
                and my heart filled with
                the love of God.

                    Let the hope of eternal
                salvation give me strength
                that all actions are governed
                by the goal of eternal life
                for myself and this goal for
                all others.

                    Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place
                my trust in Thee.

                Jesus: Trust in God, My Child, Trust
                lest you stumble and seek to
                walk alone, for satan tempts
                souls and they give in – to
                trust in themselves and close
                the door on God and others
                they need to trust and work
                with. A man who closes
                down with satan's grip
                stifles the Spirit who wants
                to work in their soul filling
                them with love and light –
                truth and faith.

                    Baptism opens that door
                to the supernatural world
                and the virtues of faith,
                hope and love are the
                handprint of God on their
                soul. But men of control
                and closing down can
                choose satan and himself
                to God and the light of
                sanctifying grace being poured
                out and active in the soul.

                    The Holy Spirit comes and sanctifies
                the soul, makes them holy,
                thirsting after God. God
                comes to you as a fountain
                pouring out His gifts, but
                a man can close down in
                pride and self-enclosure
                and live in desolation and
                darkness if he, with his
                free will, sees himself the
                end and beginning of
                everything. What a way
                to live – SINGULARITY
                and independent – closed
                and stubborn – when God
                is wanting to raise a man
                up in a loving supernatural
                relationship, the man
                rejects God's love and chooses
                to control and close down
                in deeper and deeper darkness.

 

Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

e) Relationship with Members of the Church

There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.

The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.

The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.

This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."¹⁴ And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.

The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.¹⁵ The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."¹⁶

The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.

Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.¹⁷

 

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NOTES:

 ¹⁴Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
 ¹⁵ Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
 ¹⁶Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
 ¹⁷Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.

 

                Jesus: The Holy Spirit wants to
                fill a soul with love –
                be the Guest of the soul –
                Man in his darkness has
                a free will to reject God,
                relationship with God and
                His love for him.

                    God gives love to the
                soul and the soul must
                meet love with love. Giving
                of oneself in submission
                to God. Love is giving.

                    A person wrapped in darkness
                gives to greater darkness
                and sin – Their life can
                be a life of growing in
                pride and anger, jealousy
                and envy and slothfulness
                as they live their lives
                shutting down more and
                more and walking in
                independence and darkness –
                even independence from God
                and relationship with God.

                    Faith, hope and love
                are supernatural virtues,
                capacities in the soul
                that are developed more
                and more as the Holy Sprit
                fills a soul with light and
                love. The soul welcomes
                this gift of the Holy Spirit as they
                open themselves to greater
                perfection in God.

 

Matthew 5: 48

You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.’

 

                Jesus: Seek God's will in
                all things that you want
                always to please Him
                as He desires of you
                right away and without
                deliberation.

                    For the grip of satan comes
                from the man giving themselves
                in evil habits to darkness
                and like a soul gives themselves
                to be possessed by the Holy Spirit
                with love and giving –
                the evil one operates in
                the soul to hold back
                what God wants while
                they give into the chaos,
                confusion and darkness
                that lead the soul to greater
                and greater misery while
                satan counsels them in
                division and control,
                and the deadly sins.
                This man becomes more
                and more hard of heart,
                deadened in his reactions
                to the Holy Spirit who brings
                a soul life and sensitivity
                and awareness of the
                working of God's vibrant love
                in their hearts.

                 

1 John 4: 7-11

My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.

   

                Jesus: Love takes a soul into
                the light and into eternity.
                Man has a free will to
                thirst after God's love
                and pray to the author
                of love the Holy Spirit or to
                reject God's gift as they
                walk stubbornly in the
                isolating hateful hand of satan.

                R. The choice is ours.
                We have a free will
                to choose God with
                our whole heart or
                to reject Him –

                Jesus: Only a fool would
                    give into satan with
                    vibrancy and hate
                    to give love and
                    support to the
                    building the Kingdom of God
                    with all their heart –

                Love is simply action from
                    one's heart –

                With a closing down of a
                    man's heart to stone
                    hard hearts – comes
                    an independence and pride
                    where such a man
                    clings to darkness
                    through the leprosy
                    of unrepented sin.

                A man of darkness becomes
                    farther blinded and
                    deadened and stubborn
                    as he gives into more
                    and more of unrepented
                    sin.

                I am a God of order and
                    the man of wisdom knows
                    His place under God's
                    authority – His life is
                    not lived as a rival
                    to God.

                    The devil wants disorder
                and lawlessness, rebellion
                against rules causing
                suffering and chaos.

                    A man wanting conversion
                must go to God and seek the
                love of God to change his
                hard, angry, guilt-ridden
                heart. It is commitment
                and hard work when one
                has fallen so far from God's
                love in his heart.

                    Love of the Eucharist and
                My Word feed the life
                a man received in baptism –
                I give you the Blue Books.

 

        

          

         

 

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                Jesus: I am Jesus turn to Me
                lest a man of great sin
                and not repenting going
                into deeper darkness
                can lose their soul.

                    This letter is a gift
                to the wise man and the
                man of anger can receive
                it with greater anger and
                rebellion and ignore this truth
                to his own determent!

                    I died for you so
                you could have eternal
                life. I sweat Blood,
                My Blood in the
                Garden for the anguish
                of those who would
                reject My love and My grace.

                Pride keeps the
                    unrepented soul
                    stuck in a
                    hard heart of
                    their own
                    choosing.

  

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

                end of excerpt

                Given February 3, 2017 

                Today's Readings
 

Psalm 27: 1, 3, 5, 8-9

                R. My whole life has been a life
                of surrendering to Thee my God.
                When night fall comes the darkness
                crouches in and we know it
                is time to recoup and to give
                to God what is ourselves at
                rest so we can give ourselves
                anew at daybreak, for every
                day is a gift from God.

                    We are here to love and to serve
                God and our days move on
                in petty pace as we travel
                on this journey the Creator has put
                us on. We are His and He put
                us on this earth for His purpose.
                God wants us to grow in knowledge
                and love – He gives us baptism
                and in baptism a sharing in
                His life, but we see Jesus and
                the life of Jesus and he taught
                us about life with His life.

                    He taught us, yeah, though
                we walk in the valley of darkness
                His hand is ever upon us, every
                moment of every day. Letter
                after letter of Jesus over 25
                years I have learned of His
                ever vigilant presence with
                me, every day, every moment,
                every breath, every second,
                He sustains my life – I
                belong to Him. I trust Him,
                I know His Might, I know
                He abundantly fills me with
                life, He is a Person, Jesus,
                my Savior, I walk, not alone,
                His presence is with me –
                now, always, His comfort and
                care, I know Him – even
                in sorrow I can identify
                with the cross of Christ and
                know the power of being
                in Him.

                    How was the cross of
                Christ during His bitter
                passion? For men surrounded
                Jesus, the Son of God, and they
                tested Him with their evilness
                and He suffered. He suffered
                persecution, hardship – He
                suffered agonies to His body,
                He knew the men, who despite
                His suffering, would choose
                evil and condemn themselves
                to death eternally – Oh
                yeah – hardship for the
                lover, the Son of God, who gave
                so much in His passion and
                death, especially, for the
                beloved soul and they
                because of pride, jealousy,
                anger, envy, slothfulness –
                let the darkness rule in
                the willful stubborn
                spirit of iniquity and
                choose the darkness of
                sin to the light of the
                love and gift of the Savior –
                the gift of grace and
                harmony, order God
                wanted in their lives and
                they chose disorder and
                rivalry, rebellion and
                seeking power even over God.

                    For we know the free
                will is just that free and
                it is to be disciplined
                and follow under God –
                Not seek power for ones
                own vain power, but
                seek submission,
                surrender, peace, love,
                joy of the Savior. Walking
                in that cloud of witnesses
                that went before them –
                the lives of the saints –
                who were shipwrecked –
                tortured, crucified,
                beaten and other
                horrendous inflictions
                of their body and spirit,
                but knew the discipline,
                the love of God, the
                horrendousness of sin
                and offense against God
                that they would not
                sin to offend their
                precious beloved God.

                    What makes a man hold
                tight to God in the face
                of the battle of satan
                to drive a man from
                the joy of the light of
                Christ and choose the
                darkness of sin and
                condemn themselves
                eternally to hell. Why
                would a man of free
                will, created by God,
                go there – choose power
                and evil to good, when
                God the Father loved us so much
                to send His Son Jesus
                our Savior.

                    Why would a man
                choose darkness to
                light, anger with ones
                brother to peace –
                secrecy and games to
                serenity and a heart
                filled with darkness
                and lies to the warmth
                of the love on fire for
                him and the presence
                of God in his heart.

                    This Movement, the
                Blue Books are about
                God's love. Letters of
                love from Jesus on fire
                for love of men. The
                reality of His truth,
                how God loves us –
                the Light of the Son of
                God, the comfort of
                a heart full of the love
                of God verses the
                evilness and darkness of
                sin, the deadly sins
                that become such darkness
                in a heart and held back
                through the sin of greater
                and greater pride.

                    The path to Jesus is the
                path of trusting Him –
                taking the hand of Jesus –
                going away from rivalry
                with those God sends
                to us to help lead us
                to the light, but the temptation
                of satan and the free will
                that rejects Jesus and
                gives into satan can
                lead a man to his
                own condemnation
                eternally if he refuses
                to recognize God's hand,
                if he chooses blindness
                to light, darkness
                and power, to surrender
                and love, hatred and
                pride, envy and jealousy
                and anger to the warmth
                of the Heart of the Love
                of Jesus Christ. And gives
                in to mortal sin.

                    Our days are numbered
                aright and the story of
                the Pharaoh and his
                stubbornness is the
                story of many a man who
                chose the darkness of
                rival, stubborn,
                willfulness to the
                surrender of God's gift
                of love and peace
                and harmony.

                    The devil is chaos
                and confusion – he
                never lets up with
                the designs to tempt
                souls to turn from
                the light to darkness,
                from love to bitter
                hatred of his brothers –
                the devil tempts and
                pushes and a man of
                deep pride many times
                needs no one and in
                envy wants no one
                to help him – he is
                in a state of trusting
                no one even God
                and his isolation,
                stubborn will,
                self enclosure
                becomes greater and
                greater darkness
                and he chooses for
                himself the deadly
                sins.

                    When God gives to us
                His law of love –
                His Sacred Heart
                His gift to obey,
                love and serve Him
                with a soft and
                loving heart and
                why would a man
                walk in darkness –
                prefer this to light –

                Jesus: And every day I
                    give to you the
                    breaking of a new
                    day with the sunlit
                    sky and even a
                    man of darkness who
                    walks in sorrow
                    for his sin can
                    choose the light to
                    darkness.

                    I am all merciful
                and loving.

                    I am Jesus, I give
                you My Blue Books
                My letters of love –
                circulate these –

                Jesus: Feed the hungry.

                end of excerpt

                ^{Given October 29, 2016}

                R. Please spread blessed holy water
                (You can also mix Jesus and Mary water
                with your blessed Holy Water if you have it.)
                in your yard, around your house,
                in the state you live in.