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Dear Friends,

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

Well thank God we are finally able to resume the Priestly Mailing of Fr. Joe's last homily book.

This was delayed for almost 2 months and
God really wants this to reach our beloved priests.

That means we send out at least 35,000 of Fr. Joe's Homily books yearly to priests and hierarchy. 
This is a weekly Newsletter, Jesus says.
If a priest preaches to  parishioners every weekend
they could reach so many people with the focus on the Word of Fr Joe's insights and knowledge he offers-the history of the scriptures and the Eucharist. 

There are so many priests in New York this is the next mailing.
We will need $2,000 for the postage if we can mail it by next Monday.

Please help us with a donation for the postage if you can or the expense of this mailing now.

We need your prayers

We need your help

Thank you
Love in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Rita

We are praying for you  Feb 2 thru 5  and Feb 10 thru 13.
Please be united
We have had the exposed Eucharist in China 8 years today.

We had Eucharistic adoration for about 11 years for 24 hours a day.
 

Thank you.

Rita

                February 22, 2015
 

Happy Birthday Melanie!
 

                R. I offer you this day, so that all my
                actions will be acts that are good and
                please you. Acts of love. My Divine
                God, come into my soul and let me
                realize that I am to live to serve You
                and perform all acts for the honor
                and glory of God.

                    My Divine God come into my heart
                and help me to see You in others and
                to see myself as a servant of the
                Lord.

                Jesus: And I call you to be people of
                love, to love one another and to work
                with others.

                    That your habits are habits of love,
                of uniting with those you were called
                to work with.

                    Let anger in your heart go, let love
                abound, release bitterness and be
                living the Consecration to My Heart - that
                is to give your heart to Me, so you are
                instruments of love.

                    Let bitterness, anger, envy, jealousy
                not have any place in your heart and
                your heart full of peace and joy
                and love. Let your eyes see the
                others I have sent to you as brothers
                you love and want to work with.

                    A man can do good in his actions or
                he can give himself into actions that
                are impure, out of anger and bitterness
                of their heart. Actions of a man should
                be for the building of the Kingdom,
                actions for good actions for the
                honor and glory of My Heavenly Father.
                Actions of a child, humble and
                pure of heart, actions of a child
                wanting to please God, actions of
                a child that always has as their
                goal – their heavenly reward –
                so they perform actions that are good
                and loving –

                    not actions that are vices, deep
                seated in a heart of anger, resentment,
                bitterness, envy, feeling cheated and
                hating their brothers like enemies.
                Men that are performing actions of
                anger over and over again have
                vices, bad habits of anger.
                Trying to provoke your brother
                to anger through acts of hatred
                is far from Me and the man
                who does so leads himself to greater
                and greater unhappiness.

                    Let your hearts be pure. Consecration
                to My Heart and to My Mother's Heart
                means you give your heart to God
                to spread love, you give your
                heart to God, so you are My heart
                beating in this world. Your actions
                are in Me.

                    Consecration to the Sacred Heart of
                Jesus means your whole life is
                given to bring love and peace to
                this world. You give your heart to God –
                to have and to hold, to use, to be
                a fruitful vine in this world - to
                bring forth fruit for the Kingdom of
                God.

                    I am a God of justice –

                Song: I Am a God of Justice

                    I call you to be of a holy heart,
                not one that is filled with old
                bad habits, of darkness, but of
                light and unity, of generosity,
                of gratefulness of all you have
                been given by God.

                    My Heart is an endless burning vat,
                of love. When you live the life of
                Consecration to My Heart and My Mother's
                Heart – you are giving Me your heart
                to use for loving in the world, you
                surrender your life to Me – you
                no longer see those I called you to
                work with as enemies, but as
                brothers in the building of My Kingdom.

                    You must unite together with your
                brothers, when you are calling yourselves
                Catholics, Christians, Christ-like and
                you are divided – you are not one
                in Me. Christ-like means you seek
                unity and love with your brothers
                against the enemy who is satan
                spreading hatred in the world.

                    Unite in love as brothers in
                Christ, love your enemies and
                pray for your persecutors, for the
                sun rises and sets on the good
                and the bad.

                    Be willing to surrender your
                heart to Me – to let Me live and
                operate in you in this troubled
                world.

                I call you to love. I am love. I give
                you so much and like the lepers who
                were healed – you do not thank Me –
                you, many of you, have such habits
                of anger and bitterness in your
                heart and your bad habits are
                just that, habits of treating others
                from a wounded, unloving heart,
                that is not healed because of your
                own selfish, angry and jealous
                actions.

                    Actions should be to bring
                love to others, real love, rooted in
                the commandments, rooted in
                holiness.

                    Bad habits are vices, they become
                so automatic in some and they divide
                your heart from others and from
                God.

                    A heart of anger needs healing.
                A jealous heart, thinking of oneself
                as cheated in the past, can be ready
                to strike others that are innocent
                in your lives. Bitter, angry hearts
                breed division.

                    Hearts likened to Mine, bring
                love and unity. The more one, genuinely
                loves, the more ones habits in their
                actions promote unity and are
                habits of love among the brothers.

                    You are here to die to your
                ways of anger and bitterness of
                heart. Living and consecrating your
                heart to My Heart of love should
                bring your heart to a heart likened
                to Mine.

                Song: Give me Your Heart Oh Jesus

                    Song: Why Do We Hurt the Ones We Love

                    You must know you have a wounded human
                nature and you want your heart to be
                healed – to be lifted up – to be pure
                like My Mother's Heart.

                    Do you recognize the sins in yourself?
                Do you admit the deep seated anger inside
                of you? Do you see your combatal heart,
                when you are one who argues with
                authority and beats them down
                as far as you can, to have control
                and power over anyone over you?
                Who is your God? Consecration to My Heart
                means - you know God is your God
                and you want God to dwell in love
                in your heart –

                In heaven you are embraced by God
                in the beatific vision –
                You must learn to obey the spiritual
                authority that is just over you.

                A man can be out - there – he is really
                not connected to the Vine when he
                is under authority and argues
                and disobeys and does his own
                thing, when he discredits the
                authority – through argumentation –
                before the community.

                    In heaven men are one –

                From the Our Father

                    "Thy will be done on earth as
                        it is in heaven"

                    A man is always seeing himself as
                being more and more in need of being
                lifted up to the level of holiness
                likened to God.

                    The man who is seeing himself
                as up, will be flip to those over
                him and try to bring those over
                him down.

                    A man of humility under God,
                sees God as over him, sees others
                God places over him in authority
                as spiritual guides to help him
                grow and seeks greater sanctity –
                greater likeness to God –

                This is the spiritual journey here –
                    to be lifted up and to recognize
                    one's creaturehood, under God
                    the Creator –

                The fool lives his life seeing himself
                    up and pushing others down –

                A wise man wants to be taken up,
                    to be embraced in heaven by
                    God, who is all holy.

                A wise man sees himself as under
                    and in need of growing in holiness –
                    sees himself as a work in progress –
                    he is not consumed with proving
                    to others he is faultless, he is
                    on top and pushing those over
                    them down – In the wise man
                    none of this is going
                    on in his mind – He seeks to
                    be raised up to greater holiness
                    and wants to break those
                    bad habits, vices – in which
                    he is smug, self-centered, angry,
                    bitter and seeking dominance
                    for dominance sake -
                    A holy soul is thankful for
                    correction by a spiritual guide
                    over them –

                The fool is angry that anyone could
                correct them – they think the worst
                that could happen to them, is if
                anyone tells them they did something
                wrong – they are consumed with
                pride and faulty reasoning of
                their own grandeur, acts are
                performed – not for the honor
                and glory of God, but to prove
                a false premise – they are, they
                think and live to prove it,
                faultless.

                Satan counsels men that do wrong –
                that what they did was wrong was
                right –

                Satan is a liar –

                I am the way, the truth and the life –
                the fool sees himself as the
                way – he lies and he does
                not have life that I want to
                give, in his ways –
                He grows in bad habits of
                self-promotion, lying and
                trying to prove he has arrived.

                    The wise man knows his life
                is lived to learn to know and
                to love. The wise man seeks to know
                what is impure in his actions
                and to try to remove those bad
                habits like weeds in the garden
                choking the vine. They know
                God is superior and they are
                in need of correction and healing.
                Their goal is God – true happiness
                is found only in seeking God as
                superior.

                    Eve sinned – she was full of pride
                and she wanted to be equal to
                God – have you learned that lesson
                yet?

                The prideful man – sees himself superior
                and wants to decide what is right
                and wrong without God. Pride fills
                his heart and anger and remarks
                are those – "I am high - authority
                is under me"

                R. In today's Gospel we have satan
                trying to get Jesus to get under him.
    

                R. You cannot cut God down to your
                size – men in authority as spiritual
                guides are not to be cut down
                to the size of those under them –
  

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.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

 

                R. It is by knowing God that man
                is possessed more and more by God –
                the man who put himself high
                on the pedestal and tries to cut
                just authority over him down
                to his size – uses his life for
                such games of trying to put
                himself up and isn't really
                seeking to know God and how
                He is manifesting Himself in
                the man's own life. The man
                wants to rule and wants God to
                get down to his size.

February 22, 1995  

Stations of the Cross

The First Station JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH Jesus: My dear child, with angry hearts and hatred on their faces, they poked at Me and condemned Me to death. I stood so silent, My hands tied, in perfect peace, because I knew the Father's love. I knew the Father's Will. You too will stand your trials in perfect peace, the more you realize the immense love the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for you. Pray to the Spirit to transform you more and more into My image and, through this transformation, you will be led ever closer to the Father. Oh, how I love you!

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The Second Station THEY GIVE JESUS THE CROSS Jesus: They gave Me a heavy cross, laden with the sins of the world. They placed it on My shoulder. It was so heavy I felt as if My shoulder would break. I ask you to carry little crosses, to experience little pains. I could not remove this cross from My shoulder. The weight was unbearable. It is through My suffering and death that you receive new life. It is through your sufferings this day that you will grow in your life with Me. Oh, child, I loved you so much that I took up the cross of salvation. I love you. Please realize that I am talking to you here. To My death I loved you. Oh, how I love you!

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The Third Station JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could hardly walk. I held on to My cross for greatest love of you and in compliance with the Will of My Father. It became so hard to walk! The cross was so heavy! I fell. I fell and the cross fell on Me. They poked at Me, they struck Me, they demanded I get up. The pain from the instruments they used to poke Me and strike Me was so great! I somehow managed to get up. When you fall under the weight of your cross, come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am no less present in the tabernacle and in the Eucharist than on the day I carried My cross. I wait with the same love that I had for you when I carried this cross and suffered such agony. Oh, how I love you!

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The Fourth Station JESUS AND MARY MEET Jesus: I saw the face of My beautiful Mother. She was weak, her face reddened and full of tears. I saw her tender heart, her love, her anguish, her pain. I saw My dear Mother Mary. My Heart was comforted by the sight of her, but torn by her suffering. Mary: As I looked into the eyes of my beloved Son, I saw His love. His head, bleeding and wounded. His body weak. His clothes covered with blood. I looked into His eyes and I saw His love for you. I call out to you today. I appear today with a face full of anguish and tears. I appear to call you back to the love of my Son. See through my eyes, as I peer into His eyes, the love He has for you this day to give of Himself for you. Oh, He loves you so much, my little children. See through my eyes the love of my Son. Oh, how He loves you!

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The Fifth Station SIMON OF CYRENE IS FORCED TO HELP JESUS CARRY HIS CROSS Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could not move. My persecutors became angry and forced a man to help Me. The cross was so heavy the two of us could barely move it. How is your cross today? Does it seem so heavy you cannot go on? I am forever watching you. When you are suffering the greatest, I am very close to you. It is in immense suffering that you realize My great love for you. Pray for grace to do always the Father's Will. Pray for grace to grow in your knowledge and love of Me.

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The Sixth Station VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS Jesus: My face was covered with blood. From the crowd Veronica came forward with a cloth to wipe My face. On the cloth I gave to you an imprint of My bloodied face. This, My children, remains with you this day as a sign of My immense love for you. But more than any cloth, look beyond the visible consecrated host. I, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, remain with you, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Eucharist this day, waiting and longing to be with you. Oh, how I love you!

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The Seventh Station JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME Jesus: Oh, dear ones, the road became harder and harder to walk. The cross was becoming heavier, My body weaker and weaker. My shoulders and arms hurt so much! My head throbbed as I walked. The blood came from My body, from My head to My feet. I was covered with open wounds. I could not go any farther. I stumbled and fell. Again they poked at Me, only harder, and with such hatred they kicked Me. Such vileness in the hearts of men! My greatest agony was not the agonies of My body, but the agonies of My heart for the love I have for all My precious souls. I loved them so dearly. I loved those who persecuted Me. Oh, how I love you!

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The Eighth Station JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM Jesus: The women came to Me with their children, their tender hearts crying and wanting to comfort Me. I saw their love, their care. I saw the coldness of men's hearts for all time, the hatred, the anger, the sins, all the souls that, despite all of My sufferings and death, would be condemned to eternal damnation. I told the women to weep not for Me, but for themselves and their children. My greatest agonies were the agonies of My Most Sacred Heart. Oh, how I love you!

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The Ninth Station JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME Jesus Falls the Third Time Jesus: I fell hard the third time. I was so weakened I could not go on. My body collapsed under the cross from such exhaustion! My child, My child, My greatest agonies were not the wounds to the body. They were the wounds I experienced to My heart. Do you know a little more now how I love you? It is in meditating on My Passion and death that you will realize My immense love for you. When you fall, when you struggle, I give you the grace to get up. I never give you more than you can handle. Your strength will come from Me. Come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am waiting for you this day. Oh, how I love you!

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The Tenth Station JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS Jesus: They took Me to the hill to crucify Me. They angrily stripped Me of My garments. They took off My clothes to whip Me. They had covered My bloody wounds with a dirty purple robe. Now, total surrender-they took off My clothes. I showed you the way to surrender, always complying with the Will of the Father. It is in living in His Will that you will have peace and joy, and life eternal some day. Oh, how I love you!

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The Eleventh Station THEY NAIL JESUS TO THE CROSS Messenger: See Mary as she holds the little Baby Jesus. See her as she washes His tender hands and feet. See her now as she watches as they pound into those same hands and feet the gigantic nails that fix Jesus to the cross. Mary: Oh, my dear ones, my heart was torn in my chest as they nailed His hands and feet to the cross. I ask you this day to walk the Passion with me and see through my eyes the love He has for you. He truly was nailed to the cross. Jesus: They pounded the nails into My first hand, then they stretched My body and nailed My other hand. The blood poured from these wounds that went totally through My hands. My pain was so immense, but then they nailed My feet! You do not know what pain I suffered, My child. My children, My children, for each one of you I suffered this pain. Oh, how I loved you!

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The Twelfth Station JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS (Silence.) Messenger: He hung for three agonizing hours on the cross against the darkened sky. His greatest agonies were not the agonies of His body, but those of His Heart for the great love He has for each and every soul. Jesus: I gave Myself to you, My dear ones. I gave My all. I hung with My arms spread in total surrender. My head was punctured; My hands and feet were nailed to the cross. I gave Myself to you. I give Myself to you this day in the Eucharist. I give Myself to you. I, God, give you Myself! What more do you want? Song: Oh, burning Heart, oh, Love divine, etc. Messenger: They pierced His Heart with a lance and what flowed forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the Church, water for Baptism and blood for the Eucharist. His life, death and resurrection live on in the Church this day.

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The Thirteenth Station JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND PLACED IN THE ARMS OF HIS MOTHER Messenger: His totally lifeless body was placed in the arms of His most loving Mother. As she had held the little baby body in her arms, she now received His bloodied, bruised body in her arms. This is how He obeyed the Father's Will. Jesus gave His life for us. The Father gave His only Son because He loves us so much. Mary, His Mother, our Mother and the Mother of the Church, is forever by His side. See Jesus in the arms of His loving Mother under the cross. This is love. Mary: I held His lifeless body in my arms. See through my eyes the love He has for you this day. He gives Himself to you today in the Eucharist. He loves you so much!

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The Fourteenth Station JESUS IS LOCKED IN THE TOMB Messenger: His enemies rolled the stone up to the tomb and were pleased to have buried Jesus. Mary, outside the tomb, wept bitterly. The cold reality that He was dead! But death has no power over Jesus for on the third day He rose, triumphant, from the tomb! We are partakers in His divine life. Death has no power over Jesus. He is with us this day. He comes to bring us life to the full. He loves us so much!

 

THE SEVEN SORROWS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
AT A SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST MEETING

The Prophecy of Simeon
Mary, Joseph and the child Jesus went to the temple. Simeon, the prophet, inspired by the Holy Spirit, met them and told Joseph and Mary of the great sufferings of Jesus and Mary. He told Mary that a sword would pierce her heart. From that point on, Mary ever remembered the prophecy of Simeon whenever she beheld her child. When she looked at His little body, even as an infant, she knew He would suffer. Every time she clothed Him and watched Him at play, her heart was torn in her chest as she knew what He would suffer. And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

 

The Flight into Egypt
Joseph was told by the angel to flee. Joseph, Mary and the child Jesus had to flee because of what might happen to Jesus. They had to pack for a long stay. The child Jesus was so small! They left on their journey, hearts full of fear, trying to protect Jesus. They were forced to flee into Egypt.

 

Jesus Is Lost, In the Temple
Imagine the sufferings in Mary's heart when she realized the child Jesus was not with them. Think of how it would be to lose your child and not know where he was or if anything happened to him. With sorrow in their hearts, Mary and Joseph returned to Jerusalem to look for the child Jesus. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary!

 

 

Jesus Carries His Cross
Song: See the eyes that look at Mary, her tender infant child. See the child's Heart beat so tenderly, the Savior of the world!
See the eyes of Jesus and Mary as they met on Calvary. Mary's Heart knew Jesus' Heart so well! From the first moment of conception and throughout His life, Mary was so connected with Jesus and now she peered into His eyes. The crown of thorns adorned His Head! Blood ran down His face! A heavy cross on His back! Wounded, His whole body covered with bleeding wounds! And her whole life flashed before her, the life that she had spent with Jesus. This was the beloved child that she had held in her arms when Simeon told Mary that 'a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!'

 

Jesus Dies on the Cross
Mary stood under Jesus' cross as He was put to death. The child that she had held in her arms as Simeon prophesied, And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary! Now Jesus is dead on the cross! He gave His flesh, He gave His blood so that we might be with Him forever in heaven. He held not back. He gave His all. He calls out to us this day to see through the eyes of His mother as she appears and calls out with a Heart of great love, "Return to the love of my Son! He is with you this day. He remains with you, no less present than the day that He hung on the cross, in the Eucharist. He longs for you to come and be with Him. He is in your brother. How can you not love your brother when Jesus died for your brother?"

Her Heart was pierced with a sword. His Heart was pierced with a lance. What came forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the church. He lives with us this day in the Church. He gives to us His sacraments, the source of His life! He gives to us the Sacrament of Penance whereby any sin that we commit can be taken away through the priest. He wants us to be so close to Him! He gives us everything to be close to Him. But we see with such limited vision only those things that are right before our face, when the true reality is that which we don't see with our eyes, the reality of the invisible divinity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in the consecrated Host! This is reality! This is our life! This is our power! This is God! And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
If we ever doubted for one second that we were loved, we could visualize the picture of Mary as she sat beneath the cross with the lifeless, battered, bruised and bloodied body of her Son in her arms, the same child that she held when Simeon prophesied her suffering. He gave His last breath. He gave the last beat of His Heart. He gave His all! This is the way He complied with the Will of the Father. He came to show us the way. He died in perfect peace. To His death He was in peace because He knew the Father's love. The Father loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son for love of us! The Spirit descended upon the Virgin Mary and the Word was made flesh! The love of the Two Hearts! Such immense love beating for us!

In all love there is suffering. Her Heart was pierced with a sword. His Heart was pierced with a lance. And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

Jesus Is Locked in the Tomb
And now Jesus, His body lifeless, is locked in a tomb! What cold reality for Mary to realize that His body is now gone! A stone separated her from her Son!

He gave His last breath! He gave the last beat of His Heart for love of each one of us! And she comes to us this day with her sweet, beautiful voice and she asks us to go to her Son and love Him! How can we refuse Jesus who spread His arms and gave His life for each and every one of us? How can we not trust Him when He loved us so much that He allowed them to tear His flesh, to crown Him with piercing thorns and, lastly, to hang Him on a cross? He truly gave His life for us! He, truly God, is with us this day, the same as the day He died on the cross, in the tabernacle! And we take it so lightly! Death has no power over Him! Locked in the tomb for three days, He rose triumphant on the third day as He had foretold. He comes to give us life. He gives us the sacrament of Baptism that initiates us into His life, that makes us children of God and heirs of heaven if we remain in the state of grace. He asks two things: love of God and love of one another! He came to show us the way and His way is love. To His death on the cross He loved each one of us! He calls out to each one of us here today to be His soldiers, to march on a world that has forgotten God, that has forgotten what it is like to love! It is a battle to live in this world. But the battle is won with hearts that are filled with His love, empowered by the grace and might that He pours out in the Eucharist. He calls out for us to come to the Eucharist and to the tabernacle and be fed with His very flesh and blood. To feed on Divine Life, the greatest nourishment, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God! This is the love He gives. This is the love He asks us to share.

February 22, 1995

The Resurrection

1. On the third day, Jesus rose from the dead as He had foretold. Death has no power over Him!

2. They had rolled the heavy stone in front of the tomb and His enemies believed that they had won. Jesus was locked in the tomb! These are truly the Glorious Mysteries for He rose triumphant on the third day!

3. Mary Magdalene and some of the others went to the tomb. When they arrived, they saw the stone had been rolled back.

4. Come Holy Spirit, fill us with the fire of Your love. Pour out to us Your Divine Love, Your Divine Life, so that we may partake more and more in this life and be raised to eternal life in heaven.

5. Jesus walked with two disciples on the way to Emmaus and recounted for them all the scriptures in the Old Testament from the time of Moses that referred to Him.

6. They did not understand that Jesus would die and then rise again. They did not recognize Him after He rose. You might think, 'oh, so blind were they! How could they not recognize Jesus?' But Jesus is in our midst this day. He is present right here with us. He is present in the tabernacle. He is present in us and in our world and the world continues to go on its way in blindness.

7. Take the blinders from our eyes so that we may see more and more with the vision of God. As we unite with You, lead us ever closer to the vision of God.

8. He gives us sufferings. He gives us trials. He allows all that happens to us to happen. It is in acceptance of all that He allows, and in focusing on Jesus, that we will have new life, new life in Him! He is forever present and forever ready to pour out to us His life in abundance. But we must realize that the way to Him is to follow Him. He came to carry His cross. He suffered and died so He could bring us new life!

9. Song: I know Your love a little now, so dear You are to me. Come give me life, abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee.

10. Who are we that God loves us so much that He sent His only Son into this world and His Son died on the cross for our redemption? Now He rises on the third day to bring us new life. He gives to the apostles the power to baptize and to forgive sins. It is through baptism that we are made children of God and heirs of heaven. We are given new life in baptism!
    
    We are on a spiritual journey. We are reborn in baptism as little babies on our journey, and our mother is our Spiritual Mother to lead us on our way to closer and closer union with Jesus, her beloved Son!

Song between decades: Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts. Enkindle in us the fire of Your love. Come, Holy Spirit, fill our…

 

The Ascension

1. Jesus took the apostles out to the town of Bethany and gave them His final blessing and left them in His peace. The ways of God are the ways of peace. The more we realize the immense love that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for us, that the three Persons are truly inside of us when we are in the state of grace, the more we then realize that no one can take away this indwelling of the Trinity within us. The more we pray and stay connected to Them, the more They lead us to peace. Peace, joy and happiness come from the realization of the presence of God within us!

2. We walk this barren land not alone. We walk with the presence of the Trinity inside of us. We are temples of the Holy Spirit. It is in the realization of this divine gift that we are given that we will have peace within. As we look at Jesus all though the passion, the look of peace is always on His face, even though He suffers, because He knows the Father's love.

3. Satan tries to distract us, tries to make us think ill thoughts. It is only in trusting God, in turning over entirely to Him our wills, our lives, our whole being, that we can have peace. It is in living in the Father's Will, in doing what He calls us to do, that we will have true happiness and peace.

4. These are the Glorious Mysteries! Jesus truly rose from the dead! Can we even comprehend that a person who died could rise from the dead? This alone shows the magnificence of God's might!

5. And the glories that followed! He raised His arms and ascended upward into the clouds. The apostles, as they looked from below, were awestruck to see Jesus go upward into the sky, into a cloud which took Him out of sight!

6. They who walked and talked with Jesus, who were by His side, were filled with fear. As they were filled with fear, we should be gentle with ourselves when we are full of fear inside. We should realize that it was only through the power of the Spirit that they were transformed from fear to fearlessness. Almighty God can take us from the depths of doom and raise us to such immense heights, but it takes our will of surrendering to Him, of focusing on Him, of doing always the Father's Will, of living in the Father's Will as children who are being obedient to their Father.

7. Song: I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.
   Nothing feeds the hungry soul but the love and the life of God!

8. He came to give us life. He nourishes this life with the Eucharist. This is Jesus truly present in His divinity and humanity. He feeds our life through His own flesh and blood! He feeds our life in Him through the divine love that He has left with us. He feeds this life through the Church, through the sacraments. He gives us the sacrament of penance whereby all our sins can be taken away through the power of the priest. God is so good to us that He truly feeds our life in Him!

9. Song: I Am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me shall not hunger. He who believes in Me shall never thirst.

10. He, God, lets us partake in His divine life, in His divine love, and He nourishes us with His very own flesh and blood!

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The Descent of the Holy Spirit

1. The apostles were full of fear and they locked themselves in the Upper Room. Jesus had told them that they would be baptized by the Holy Spirit.

2. They were locked in the Upper room with the Virgin Mary and there appeared over their heads parted tongues of fire and the Holy Spirit descended upon them. Mary is the mother of the Church. She is our spiritual mother. She is the mother of Christ!

3. Mary is our model. She is the spouse of the Holy Spirit. It is in modeling ourselves after Mary that we become more and more like Jesus. Mary, help us to love you, to be drawn ever closer to you. Dear Spirit, please transform us in the Heart of Mary into the image of Jesus so that we may be ever closer to our beloved Father.

4. It is through Mary's pure and tender Heart that the Spirit transforms us more and more into the image of Jesus!

5. Dear Spirit, give us courage to go out into this world and preach the Gospel as did the apostles, who were filled with such fearlessness. These were the same men who, out of great fear, had locked themselves in the Upper Room. The key is the Spirit! Transform us, Spirit, please! Give us the courage to do what the Father is asking us to do: to help carry out the Gospel to the world, to help to spread the love of Jesus!

6. Please outpour Your Spirit onto this Center. Please let this Spirit dwell in us!

7. Let those involved in Our Lady of Light Ministries and the Shepherds of Christ Ministries be filled with the Spirit so that it is the Spirit that moves in them, that draws them ever closer to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ, the Son of God!

8. Transform all who are here to have the courage to carry out the worldwide plan that the Father has set before us. He Who has chosen us to be the Apostles of the Sacred Heart, to go into this world to spread the love of Jesus' burning Heart. May the Spirit move in each and every soul and draw souls ever closer to the Eucharist. For the power is truly in the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ, the Son of God!

9. Song: Come Holy Ghost, Creator blest, and in our hearts take up Thy rest. Come with Thy grace and heavenly aid, to fill the hearts which Thou hast made, to fill the hearts which Thou hast made.

10. And He gave to them the Eucharist to feed the life that He had imparted to them, and the Spirit moved within their souls to lead them ever closer to the love of God so that this love could radiate from their being and be seen in the world.

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The Assumption of Mary into Heaven

1. Mary was taken up into heaven, body and soul!

2. But she remains with us this day. She is our spiritual mother. She is the mother of the Church. Jesus is alive in the Church today.

3. Oh, how our mother is so much with us this very day!

4. Dear Mary, hold in your Heart all the especially anointed priests of your Son, Jesus. Hold them in your Heart and, through the Holy Spirit, lead them ever closer to the Eucharistic Heart of your Son, Jesus.

5. It is through the pierced Heart of your Son that the sacramental life of the Church was born-through the water, which represents baptism, and the blood, which represents the Eucharist. We are given life and we are fed. Hold the Church, and all those who minister there, in your Heart. Hold them ever close to you for you are their mother. Mother the Church! Hold them so close to you! Guide them! Protect them! Lead them through your spouse, the Holy Spirit, filled with the fire of God's love, into this world in which the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be triumphant!

6. Help us in the Shepherds of Christ to carry out whatever is the Father's plan for renewing the Church, for spreading the love of His Most Sacred Heart to many people in the nursing homes, in the prisons, throughout the world. Give us the courage through the Holy Spirit to spread the love of the Two Hearts in this world that is in darkness.

7. Dear Mary, help the priests, your beloved priest-sons, to realize the great mission to which the Father has called them. Help them to lead the flock to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ.

8. Help us to be proud to be a part of your Church, to be a part of the living Body of Christ alive in this world today.

9. The Church is the Body of Christ. He is the head and we are the members. We are all one in this Body of Christ. Unite us ever closer with you, Mary, mother of the Church. Lead all in the Church to the most burning love of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ, the Son of God!

10. Oh no! Mary has not left! She is truly here in our midst! She is mothering us and she is mothering the Church!

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The Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth

1. There appeared in the sky a woman, clothed with the sun. The moon was under her feet and there were twelve stars about her head.

2. Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth! The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph on this earth!

3. There will be an era of peace. Peace is only found in God and in doing His Will. We must turn our hearts back to God, follow the Ten Commandments, do all that He is asking us to do, say we are sorry for our sins and draw our hearts into union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

4. We are the children of the Father! Jesus loved us so much that He gave His very life for us. We are the favored children created uniquely by the Father and He cares for us this day with great love. Lead us ever closer to union with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit through the Immaculate Heart of our mother Mary!

5. Song: Hail, holy queen enthroned above, O Maria! Hail, mother of mercy and of love, O Maria! Triumph, all ye Cherubim! Sing with us, ye Seraphim! Heaven and earth resound the hymn, Salve, salve, salve, Regina!

6. All souls are joined in the Church with the souls in purgatory and with the angels and saints in heaven. We are all one in His Body. Let us love God, for we are children of God. We are brothers in Christ!

7. Help us to see more and more the big picture. Help us to let go of little details and see more with the vision of God all that we need to see to do His work here on this earth-to let go of the little daily distractions, but to see that we are His soldiers marching on a world that is godless. Help us to realize that souls are at stake and that Mary and Jesus are calling us to be these soldiers to spread His love.

8. Who are we that God is so good to us?

9. Mary, our Queen, lead us ever closer to Jesus' Heart. Be with us as we walk with Jesus on Calvary. Be with us and lead us to everlasting life so that we may one day be united with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit forever and ever.

10. May the saints and angels guide us on our way to eternal salvation. May we know God more and more. May He outpour His love on us, His beloved ones. We are His and He loves us so much!

Song after last decade: Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts...

Song: Holy God, we praise Thy name. Lord of all, we bow before Thee. All on earth Thy scepter claim. All in heaven above adore Thee. Infinite, Thy vast domain, everlasting is Thy reign. Infinite Thy vast domain, everlasting is Thy reign!