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February 22, 2016
Jeremiah 11:18-20
Yahweh informed me and I knew it; you then revealed their scheming to me. I for my part was like a trustful lamb being led to the slaughterhouse, not knowing the schemes they were plotting against me, ‘Let us destroy the tree in its strength, let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may no longer be remembered!’
Yahweh Sabaoth,
whose judgement is upright,
tester of motives and thoughts,
I shall see your vengeance on them,
for I have revealed my cause to you.
St. Thomas says:
"The man who sins through
ignorance or passion is like
a man who is temporarily ill.
When his illness passes - when
he learns better or when his
passion subsides - he can
recover easily.
But when a man is chronically
ill of a serious disease then
his recovery is uncertain and
sometimes most improbable. So
too the man who sins through sheer
malice has a disease of the will
itself. Neither knowledge alone
nor the cessation of passion
removes the disease of a
bad will. A man with a bad
will has a more or less
permanent inclination to evil.
And because will is the basic
principle or source of free human
acts, sins of malice are more
evil in themselves. That is
why men forgive sins of
ignorance or of passion more
readily than they forgive sins
of malice. We can forgive a man
when we say that he did not know
what he was doing. But we resent
a man's actions when we say that he
does them on purpose."
My way of Life – Pocket Edition of St. Thomas
R. It is far worse for a man to do a malicious deed and to
hold concealed the deed in deception for God is
absolute truth and to sin with such maliciousness
comes from within the man.
Sin is disorder –how great is the disorder and
darkness of the heart and soul. God wants us to
have a loving relationship with Him.
Everything is about relationship – built on trust,
built on love, built on truth.
God knows all things – The heavenly Father knows
our needs before we ask. He loves us. Jesus loves us
so much He died for us. Why would a person lie before
God – bringing deception and malicious conduct
into a relationship with God and others who have
loved them and tried to establish relationship with
them, when in malicious conduct – they turn their
back on God and others and remain in deception
because the sin is their top priority, darkness,
and their desire to hold secrets and deception
before God.
Eve ate of the forbidden fruit and then she
knew she had sinned. She hid herself, but none
of us can hide from God who is absolute truth
and knows all things.
When a man continues to walk in darkness and
deception as long as he does so before God and
hides his guilt – he is saying that his sin is
more important to him than God.
How paradoxical is this to remain in sin and
hide the truth of malicious conduct as if God
does not know all things and the sin can be
hidden. God is all knowing – we are being
tested here below – God commands us to love
Him and to love others as ourselves.
The devil tempts the person with a weak will
and they can give in very easily. The person walking
in virtue and praying for grace for a stronger will
can ask God to help them to resist temptation and
we see the devil even trying to tempt Jesus the
first Sunday of Lent in the Gospel.
The devil wants the person sinning to be
disordered, to say yes to sinning against
God's will. Maliciousness done St. Thomas says
comes from a diseased will – like one having
cancer, they will not bounce back like a man being
diseased from the flu. Maliciousness comes from
a diseased will – how dark is the sin within when
it is hugged and enjoyed and secretive of
this malicious conduct.
God can give a man a tremendous gift of grace
because of others' prayers and the person of weak
will and maliciousness can choose the evil –
in the face of God and hold onto it.
Mary is the perfect handmaid of the Lord. Mary
was conceived without sin – God has given us
such a gift to love and serve Him. Like the
prodigal son – we can squander the gift and
choose to say yes to the leprosy of sin and to
remain in darkness, turning our backs to
purity and truth and asking God for forgiveness
is so offensive to God.
Jesus: It is a hypocrite who walks before men and
shows them a title, a way of life that looks
righteous and underneath conceals the secrets
and darkness of malicious conduct.
Pray to be pure. I died for the sins, so scarlet
red from those who walk in deception and enjoy
their lies. How disgusting, I bled, blood red blood
for malicious conduct.
Love and peace is not stirring the pot for
turmoil and deception and excitement and
drama. Walking deceptively before God as if
I do not see the brazenness of their ways, the deception
and lies of the heart.
I call you to love and to truth, to walk the
ways of peace and love and trust with your
brothers.
The man of maliciousness walks from the
misery of darkness and sin he chooses inside,
how it galls Me to see this brazenness
when I have given so much love and they
turn from Me in rejection these men who
do not even care for their sin and parade
their wrath and deception before men for their
own power.
How deep is the darkness within when one
fails to be sorry for sin and hugs it with
joy for deceiving the just.
"Punishment is mine" says the Lord.
The just will know peace in My Kingdom,
they walk in righteousness and are pleasing
to My Father, but the man who denies his
sin and hugs his malicious conduct will
know justice for his evil deeds –
I am all just –
You were made to love the Lord your God with
your whole heart, your whole soul and your
whole being. Satan is division, separation,
driving darkness and deception where
there could have been peace and love and
joy.
Stirring the pot and lying for the sport
of it, is turning your back on the love
I give to you. How dark is your heart?
Heaven is a place prepared for those who
loved and served the Lord.
Hell is eternal misery, division, and the
absence of God, anything that is good –
beyond anything you can imagine and there
will be the grinding of teeth and the
wailing shrieks of ugliness, for the souls
of hell turned in maliciousness from
a loving God and served satan without
repentance of their sins.
You were created to know, love and serve God.
The devils know they are condemned to hell
forever and they are jealous of men who
can be forgiven and live eternally with God
in heaven.
Who walks as the enemy of the Lord,
but the man walking in maliciousness
and not asking for forgiveness. The
gall of him who parades as if
I do not see their ways and they reject
a good and loving God.
But the man deceives himself with
his unrelented lewd conduct. He deceives
and condemns himself. I died a brutal
death for your sins, I have given them
so much love and they turned their back to
God for their sordid ways and sinned mortally
unrepented before a loving God.
Wisdom 2:1, 12-22
And this is the false argument they use,
‘Our life is short and dreary,
there is no remedy when our end comes,
no one is known to have come back from Hades.Let us lay traps for the upright man, since he annoys us
and opposes our way of life,
reproaches us for our sins against the Law,
and accuses us of sins against our upbringing.
He claims to have knowledge of God,
and calls himself a child of the Lord.
We see him as a reproof to our way of thinking,
the very sight of him weighs our spirits down;
for his kind of life is not like other people’s,
and his ways are quite different.
In his opinion we are counterfeit;
he avoids our ways as he would filth;
he proclaims the final end of the upright as blessed
and boasts of having God for his father.
Let us see if what he says is true,
and test him to see what sort of end he will have.
For if the upright man is God’s son, God will help him
and rescue him from the clutches of his enemies.
Let us test him with cruelty and with torture,
and thus explore this gentleness of his
and put his patience to the test.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death
since God will rescue him—or so he claims.’Error of the godless
This is the way they reason, but they are misled,
since their malice makes them blind.
They do not know the hidden things of God,
they do not hope for the reward of holiness,
they do not believe in a reward for blameless souls.
Jesus: You were put here to grow in My image
and likeness and walk My ways and
some who sinned mortally and did
not repent were the ones who erred,
but the price was their own soul.
You are here and put to the test, I
know all things, why would you
walk deceptively before Me –
Some wallow in their ways for they could not
love or let others love them – their
ways were chaos and darkness and
when the sky opened and the light
shown – they turned their hearts to
darkness for the scum within them
was their delight –
Oh the leprosy of sin – when I offered
them forgiveness and healing they
chose to walk without My healing
and turned their back in deception,
for power in darkness is no power
at all, it is condemnation for the
man of malicious deeds who covers his tracks,
denying before Me and to himself that
I know all things, I know everything
and the darkness of the heart steeped
in mortal sin and deception.
I am a God of Justice. I am above all.
Philippians 3: 17 - 4: 1
Brothers, be united in imitating me. Keep your eyes fixed on those who act according to the example you have from me. or there are so many people of whom I have often warned you, and now I warn you again with tears in my eyes, who behave like the enemies of Christ’s cross. hey are destined to be lost; their god is the stomach; they glory in what they should think shameful, since their minds are set on earthly things. But our homeland is in heaven and it is from there that we are expecting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transfigure the wretched body of ours into the mould of his glorious body, through the working of the power which he has, even to bring all things under his mastery.
So then, my brothers and dear friends whom I miss so much, my joy and my crown, hold firm in the Lord, dear friends.
Jesus: In your life you are to be holy –
to work for purity –
to walk justly –
to be people of the Light –
Only a fool turns to malicious conduct and
deception before the Lord, for I know
all things and the eyes of God are
on the just to help them to have,
someday, eternal life –
but to the wicked man, who walks
in darkness and hides their sinful
ways in deception –
they will suffer a fate beyond
their imaging for their lewd conduct –
Do not walk in darkness, My children,
your ways of darkness that you give
into scorn Me and condemn
yourselves, when you will not repent
and turn from your evil, deceptive, ways.
R. Jesus shows us Himself as the Suffering Servant
who died for us, for our sins.
Jesus suffered for us –
Jesus is the Mediator –
Jesus came so we could be united
in intimate oneness with
God – in intimate love –
Why would anyone reject their
vocation to spread the Good News –
and help in the work of redemption –
Micah 7: 7-9
But I shall look to Yahweh, my hope is in the God who will save me; my God will hear me. Do not gloat over me, my enemy: though I have fallen, I shall rise; though I live in darkness, Yahweh is my light. I must endure Yahweh's anger for I have sinned against him, until he takes up my cause and rights my wrongs; he will bring me out into the light, and then I shall contemplate his saving justice.
Jeremiah 7: 23-28
My one command to them was this: Listen to my voice, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. In everything, follow the way that I mark out for you, and you shall prosper. But they did not listen, they did not pay attention; they followed their own devices, their own stubborn and wicked inclinations, and got worse rather than better. From the day your ancestors left Egypt until today, I have sent you all my servants the prophets, persistently sending them day after day. But they have not listened to me, have not paid attention; they have deliberately resisted, behaving worse than their ancestors. So you will tell them all this, but they will not listen to you; you will call them, but they will not answer you." Then you are to say to them, "This is the nation that will neither listen to the voice of Yahweh its God nor take correction. Sincerity is no more, it has vanished from their mouths.
R. God is love.
In Him there is no darkness!
Jeremiah 17: 5-10
A group of wisdom sayings
Yahweh says this,
'Accursed be anyone
who trusts in human beings,
who relies on human strength
and whose heart turns from Yahweh.
Such a person is like scrub
in the wastelands:
when good comes, it does not affect him
since he lives in the parched places
of the desert,
uninhabited, salt land.
'Blessed is anyone who trusts in Yahweh,
with Yahweh to rely on.
Such a person is like a tree by the waterside
that thrusts its roots to the stream:
when the heat comes it has nothing to fear,
its foliage stays green;
untroubled in a year of drought,
it never stops bearing fruit.
'The heart is more devious
than any other thing,
and is depraved;
who can pierce its secrets?
I, Yahweh, search the heart,
test the motives,
to give each person what his conduct
and his actions deserve.
R. Our leaders are to be men of integrity –
Leaders knowing their place –
Leaders knowing they are under God –
A fool wastes his time trying to
prove he is above and others are below –
he can see himself even above God –
but his time is spent in wasted
energy and he has weakened
his will against evil with
his lewd conduct and serving
his unrelented malicious heart –
Oh cry to the hills Jerusalem –
They spilled the blood of our Savior,
They rejected His love given in
such a sacrifice to die for
their sins –
How are men so blind to hug the darkness
and to turn away from the face of God.
Cry to the hills Jerusalem –
the babies cry for the deeds before them –
Jesus: Oh My People pray as I have
directed you to pray –
My Heart is a Heart of pure and perfect
love –
My Mother's Heart is all pure –
Give your life to Our Two Hearts –
Walk in the way of the light –
Turn your backs to the darkness –
Jeremiah 18:18-20
‘Come on,’ they said, ‘let us concoct a plot against Jeremiah, for the Law will not perish for lack of priests, nor advice for lack of wise men, nor the word for lack of prophets. Come on, let us slander him and pay no attention to anything he says.’
Pay attention to me, Yahweh,
hear what my adversaries are saying.
Should evil be returned for good?
Now they are digging a pit for me.
Remember how I pleaded before you
and spoke good of them,
to turn your retribution away from them.
R. Christ paid for our sins with
His life given for us on the cross.
Oh Jesus, Your love is so great and
your sacrifice unyielding to the
man of vengeance – he sees
not the truth and he walks in
the hugged darkness –
Why? Why? Is he so blind
covered with the leprosy of sin
that can be healed only by You?
How are we if we stood before God today –
how are our thoughts, words
and deeds –
Why do we defy the just God –
Why do men hug darkness and turn their
backs to God –
Oh God open the hearts that are
closed down and help them
to see their fate if they do
not change their ways.
Isaiah 1: 10, 16-20
Hear what Yahweh says,
you rulers of Sodom;
listen to what our God teaches,
you people of Gomorrah.wash, make yourselves clean.
Take your wrong-doing out of my sight.
Cease doing evil. Learn to do good,
search for justice, discipline the violent,
be just to the orphan, plead for the widow.'Come, let us talk this over,' says Yahweh.
'Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
If you are willing to obey,
you shall eat the good things of the earth.
But if you refuse and rebel,
the sword shall eat you instead —
for Yahweh's mouth has spoken.'
R. We must admit our faults. No relationship
with God or others can be based
on lies and deception –
We must see through God's eyes –
We must see our sins of the past and
recognize them and ask God for
forgiveness –
This is relationship – it can't be
based on lies –
We pray for grace to see our sins
and to repent of them before
God – to be honest so we can
grow in relationships with God
and others – to be trustworthy
before God and others –
to be true to our word –
to live in love –
to take the Covenant with God seriously –
No relationship is solid when based on lies –
Jesus: Who is the enemy –
The one living a lie and walking
in deception --
he is an enemy to the building
of My Kingdom –
R. We must be faithful before God –
Study Jesus' fidelity as you gaze upon the crucifix –
God the Father wants kindness and fidelity –
God calls us to believe –
God wants us to act in faith –
Jesus was sent and He spoke with
authority!
Please God be merciful and forgive
our transgressions before You.
We are sorry for our sins –
Please forgive us –
We are slaves when we give into envy
and jealousy and pride and
hatred of our brothers –
These come from the wounded
human nature –
We must repent of our sins and
grow in faith –
Beg for God's grace and turn
to God –
not away from God in further
darkness –
Freedom is found in obeying the will of God.
Psalm 18: 48-49
R. Christ wants us to not be slaves of sin –
Christ died for our sins –
Put in Our Father –
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
John 8: 31-42
To the Jews who believed in him Jesus said:
If you make my word your home
you will indeed be my disciples;
you will come to know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.They answered, ‘We are descended from Abraham and we have never been the slaves of anyone; what do you mean, “You will be set free?” ’
Jesus replied: In all truth I tell you,
everyone who commits sin is a slave.
Now a slave has no permanent standing
in the household,
but a son belongs to it for ever.
So if the Son sets you free,
you will indeed be free.I know that you are descended
from Abraham;
but you want to kill me
because my word finds no place in you.
What I speak of
is what I have seen at my Father’s side,
and you too put into action
the lessons you have learnt
from your father.They repeated, ‘Our father is Abraham.’ Jesus said to them:
If you are Abraham’s children,
do as Abraham did.
As it is, you want to kill me,
a man who has told you the truth
as I have learnt it from God;
that is not what Abraham did.
You are doing your father’s work.They replied, ‘We were not born illegitimate, the only father we have is God.’ Jesus answered:
If God were your father,
you would love me,
since I have my origin in God
and have come from him;
I did not come of my own accord,
but he sent me.
R.
God wants to forgive us of our sins
–
We must come and ask for
forgiveness –
We need to be in order –
God is above – we are under Him.
Not make ourselves an enemy by
being prideful and sinning
against God –
Jesus was sent by the heavenly Father!
Jesus gave His life for us –
This is His love given for us –
Love is giving!
We are to love in thoughts, words and
actions – this is our call for our
life's work from God –
God is love!
Hatred increases when one gives
way to it and turns their
backs to God –
We see Jesus as the Suffering Servant!
We must learn that we care to die to our
bad habits and live likened to Christ.
Jesus is to be loved and honored – it is
our duty –
God promises eternal salvation to
those who love and serve God
as He desires –
Heavenly Father, we cry the poor
banished children of Adam and Eve –
help us this day to love and serve
You as You deserve!
Jesus came to this earth from the womb
of Mary –
Jesus taught us and He healed many
in disease and sin –
He taught with a two-edged
sword, with the tongue of
sweetness and the truth of
salvation for the just man –
We toiled and struggled and fought
the good fight for Him and God
promises us the reward of
eternal salvation for fighting
for the Good News –
Oh God make me beautiful in
wholeness and light and grace
before You –
be my strength in this battle
here below –
help me to serve You, God –
now and love You eternally.
Philippians 2: 8-11
he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death,
death on a cross.And for this God raised him high,
and gave him the name
which is above all other names;so that all beings
in the heavens, on earth
and in the underworld,
should bend the knee at the name of Jesus
and that every tongue should acknowledge
Jesus Christ as Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
R. We are given the Word –
Before we teach others, we must
live the Word ourselves –
Judas betrayed Jesus –
Judas betrayed Jesus for money!
1 Corinthians 11: 23-26
For the tradition I received from the Lord and also handed on to you is that on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread, and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, ‘This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ And in the same way, with the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.’ Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord’s death until he comes.
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