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February 5, 2020

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sirach 15: 15-20

If you choose, you will keep the commandments
    and so be faithful to his will.
He has set fire and water before you;
    put out your hand to whichever you prefer.
A human being has life and death before him:
    whichever he prefers will be given him.

For vast is the wisdom of the Lord;
    he is almighty and all-seeing.
His eyes are on those who fear him,
    he notes every human action.
He never commanded anyone to be godless,
    he has given no one permission to sin.

Psalm 119: 1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34

How blessed are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the Law of Yahweh
Blessed are those who observe his instructions,
who seek him with all their hearts,

You lay down your precepts
to be carefully kept.
May my ways be steady
in doing your will.

Be generous to your servant and I shall live,
and shall keep your words.
Open my eyes and I shall fix my gaze
on the wonders of your Law.

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your will,
and I will observe it.
Give me understanding and I will observe your Law,
and keep it wholeheartedly.

1 Corinthians 2: 6-10

    But still, to those who have reached maturity, we do talk of a wisdom, not, it is true, a philosophy of this age or of the rulers of this age, who will not last long now. It is of the mysterious wisdom of God that we talk, the wisdom that was hidden, which God predestined to be for our glory before the ages began. None of the rulers of the age recognised it; for if they had recognised it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but it is as scripture says: What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualise; all that God has prepared for those who love him; to us, though, God has given revelation through the Spirit, for the Spirit explores the depths of everything, even the depths of God.

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.

‘For I tell you, if your uprightness does not surpass that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of Heaven.
    ‘You have heard how it was said to our ancestors, You shall not kill; and if anyone does kill he must answer for it before the court. But I say this to you, anyone who is angry with a brother will answer for it before the court; anyone who calls a brother "Fool" will answer for it before the Sanhedrin; and anyone who calls him "Traitor" will answer for it in hell fire. So then, if you are bringing your offering to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar, go and be reconciled with your brother first, and then come back and present your offering. Come to terms with your opponent in good time while you are still on the way to the court with him, or he may hand you over to the judge and the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison. In truth I tell you, you will not get out till you have paid the last penny.

    ‘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.

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

February 11, 1996

HOMILY – (Sirach 15:16-21, 1 Corinthians 2:6-10, Matthew 5:17-37) Doctors and nutritionists have been telling us for years that what we feed our bodies is going to affect our health. Likewise many wise and intelligent people have also been telling us that what we feed our minds is going to affect us in many ways, physically, emotionally and socially. There are those, however, who do not agree. For example, a number of groups are upset that the new telecommunication bill that was passed this week outlaws the transmission of sexually explicit and other indecent materials to minors over computer networks. Apparently they think kids (and adults too) can feed their minds with all kinds of garbage, without any ill effects. These people must not be aware of the fact that our society is seriously being weakened and harmed by promiscuity, divorces, sex crimes, abortions and illegitimate births. But despite the efforts of civil libertarians to protect our freedom to feed our minds on whatever unhealthy or toxic diet we choose to, scientific research continues to demonstrate what is obvious to most common sense people that there is a connection between what shapes our thinking and how we behave. Just this week a study has come out proving that viewing violence on TV or in movies definitely encourages aggressive and violent behavior in the viewer. This is especially true when violence is shown in such a way that criminal violence goes unpunished or is even rewarded, or it is shown without also showing the human suffering that results from such violence. I think that what I am saying connects with what Jesus tells us in today’s gospel. Our emotional, moral and social health begins with what’s in our mind. And so he tells us not only is murder wrong, but so is the mental attitude of hatred and unforgiveness that we may choose to carry around within us. Even if we never act it out by killing someone, an attitude of hatred and revenge will affect not only the person who holds on to such feelings but also his or her relationships with others. The same is true with regard to sexuality, honesty and so on. Now, I am not talking about those passing temptations that we all have, where we may feel extremely angry toward someone, or we feel a surge of physical attraction toward someone. I am talking about holding on to those feelings, nurturing them, wanting to keep them. Our first reading says that before us is life and death, whichever we choose we will have. Choosing to hold on to negative, destructive, sinful, or evil thoughts will only bring those kinds of results.

There is an area of psychology, I called cognitive therapy. Cognitive therapy is a form of therapy that helps people deal with a certain emotional problems. The approach it begins with is to help people control their thoughts. For example, how can we be happy, how can our mood be bright if we are always thinking negative, depressing, gloomy thoughts. What we feed our mind, not just on TV or the Internet, but especially what we feed our mind by the things we say to ourselves, can affect not only the way we behave, but the way we feel. I am 100% convinced that this is true, because I experienced it myself when I was younger. I was always going around condemning myself and putting myself down, and then I couldn’t figure out why I was depressed. Once I became aware of what I was thinking and started to change my thoughts to ways of thinking that were healthier and more fair to myself, my mood changed too, for the better.

I would like to conclude by offering another example. Thoughts are like seeds we put in the ground. The kind of seeds we put in will determine the kind of plant that grows. The kind of thoughts we plant in our minds, or that we let others plant there, will affect our attitude, our mood and our behavior. This is why it is so important to read good literature, to support worthwhile programs, to pray and to reflect on God’s word and to meditate. Our Lord is telling us we have to have control over our thoughts, we have to make good choices about what we feed our minds, because, for better or for worse, our thoughts are going to control us.

From March 8, 2014

January 13, 2014 Rosary
China, Indiana

live - transcribed from a tape

The Transfiguration

Jesus: I have called you here this day to hear the message that I have delivered, for the situation in the world is serious, and so many souls this day, are being lost. After all the apparitions of My Mother, you should know her cries for her children, that are being lost in this world. And yet it is taken, as if it is nothing, when a soul is lost for all eternity, to the fires of hell. What do you think of that? As you meditate on the remaining Hail Marys of this mystery, meditate on the soul being lost for eternity, into the fires of hell. Is this not far worse than the loss of lives that you experienced in World War II, or the slaughter of the innocent babies within the womb of their mother? How horrifying indeed it is, for the violence in the schools today, when a madman goes into the school and begins to fire at the innocent. But your children are being poisoned this very day.

    After 22 years of messages, I have come to you in this church, appeared here, to deliver this message of the seriousness, that it is not to be taken lightly. The message that I have delivered and the Lady of Clearwater, after she appeared for 7 1/2 years, and her image head destroyed on March 1, 2004, 10 years ago. As you grow, more and more, in your lack of sensitivity to the very things that are surrounding you, you have become numb, to messages delivered. How are you to be reached, for souls are at stake. It is like a flu, where people say, "oh I won't catch it, I won't catch it. My family won't catch it. We are not involved." Living your lives, many of My people, as if death will not come, some day at your door, living willy-nilly lives, in a numb state of inactivity. And I have called to you, and told you the seriousness.

    And so the more that I speak, the more that I feel that I am ignored. The more that I give, the more the ingratitude. . . . Willy-nilly – Insensitivity – Scuffing it off, as if it is nothing. I am offended. I am offended by the deaths of the Holocaust. I am offended, when the warning was given, and there was no consideration to how such destruction of lives offended God, who gave to man, gifts upon gifts, and ask that they love and bear fruit for the Kingdom, that they work with one another. It is as if you think I do not see. I know your hearts. I know your ways. I know how I have been blocked, by many of the very people, that I have called.

    And I speak to you of St. Francis, for he is a saint, that delivered the message that he was asked to deliver. And yet this very day, there are Franciscan all over the world. For what mattered was what he delivered that helped so many souls. When Mary appeared to the children of Fatima, they treated the apparitions, in such a way in which, they tried to block them and jailed the children. Was it the children's fault that they were jailed? And where are the jailers this day? But what of the lives of so many millions that were destroyed, torn apart, blown apart, drowned, shot from the air, the Jews exterminated, the babies killed, the murder of the innocent – and you do not feel, you owe your God reparation for such an atrocity?

    When I was ignored after the apparitions of the Blessed Mother, long ago, We gave to you another chance, as Mary appeared on the building in Clearwater, in a way that has never happened in salvation history. And your world responded by shooting off the image head. Now all these years later, with insensitivity, the message is not received with the seriousness, in any way, in which it is delivered. And the world will continue to go deeper into darkness and suffer far more than World War II, with what is happening today.

R. I am the messenger, and I have delivered the message, that He delivers to us this day. It is a message from the Lord that is giving to us a life savor, to change lives, to make the world into that Christic image, for which the world was created, to bring forth children of the light, love in the human family, a community that is united, the Father's family, the reflection of love in unity. As a messenger, I deliver this message from God, and He gives, and He gives, and He gives, and He gives and He is ignored.

Hail Mary

Song: A Song from Jesus

The Institution of the Eucharist

1. Jesus: What a gift it is that you are given, the Eucharist. How I am neglected, ignored, treated with disrespect, and I give Myself to you. How fast you are to think of your little hurts, but how slow you are to think about how you have offended God.

2. Jesus: To those who have been given much, much will be expected. I have given to you the secrets of My Heart, with the deepest love, with enthusiasm for you to tell the world, that the answer is in loving God and loving others as yourselves, so much so, that I have given to you Myself this very day, in the reception of the Eucharist. And I cry to you to take this message seriously.

3. Jesus: For what does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul. Your world is so sterile in its ways, so cold in its hearts. And God has given to you the Mighty Medicine, so that men will know, that it is in God that your world can be healed, and formed, more and more, in the image and likeness as God intended from the beginning. Do you think that I will go away? Or that the plan will change with more and more rebellion?

    Whenever there is rebellion, in which a person has habits of rebellion, if they want to correct these ways, they must pray, they must come back, they must come out of the hole, however deep it is – deeper and deeper into darkness they have gone, with the murder of babies, and the killing of the innocent, with the ways of ignoring God, independence of God as Eve in the Garden. Independence from God, God the Creator. The creature rebelling against God. I have all the power, and all the healing comes through God.

4. Hail Mary

5. Jesus: I died a brutal death to bring you life. I died for your sinful ways, that you would be filled more and more with My life. Life is in ME.

6. Hail Mary
7. Hail Mary
8. Hail Mary
9. Hail Mary
10. Hail Mary

Sing: Hail Holy Queen

Jesus: Cold hearts, cold hearts – many are so familiar with the cold hearts, that it becomes normal to them. And yet I have given to you a life savor, of knowing about God's love, for you cannot even fathom what the love of God is really like. How it wounds My Heart, for the cold hearts. How does it wound you, when you give and you are not received? When you give and give and give, and how you lick your wounds and you whine. But how you come to My Eucharist, with hearts that are cold hearts. How you come before Me, and you honor Me only with your words, but your hearts are far from Me. And I have called you to the sanctuary of My Heart, for My Heart is burning with the most intense love, that you will know God, and bring this message of truth to the world. And yet many reject Me, and the message that I deliver, for their cold hearts, their cold hearts that become normal to them, like many of the other ways, that need to be addressed. You are here to grow every minute of every day, preparing yourselves in your lives, for that eternal banquet, in which, you will have love that you cannot even understand. Cold hearts, not in heaven. For heaven is made for Lovers. And the process is now, to prepare your heart that you will be taken to heaven, for when you are on your deathbed, the time will be nigh.

    What did you do with the days of your lives? So many today, do not want to commit. Do not want to commit to the plan of the Father? Or if they give themselves in a vocation, they don't want to work at it. Husbands and wives, that may selfishly join in such a sacred union, to only tear the other apart. It is commitment, that the devil attacks, that tells you, that you should be independent without God, and that you will be happy. The taunting of satan, the hypocrisy of his message, the ways he manipulates emotions, and people give in, when they know, if they stop and pray and think, what God really wants them to do. For you are on a journey, and by the sweat of your brow, you will earn your bread. It's not manipulation, it's not winning over the other to see who can be more powerful. Power comes from the Almighty God, and it is given to you, to serve Me. How flimsy is the excuse, when you say no to what you know is the truth, and you feed your pride, like yeast in the bread.

    Come to Me, for I have given to you one of the great treasures, for the hearts of this world, to be turned to the Reign of My Sacred Heart and the Triumph of My Mother's heart. You can join the train or you can be independent, all the way. But in the end all that will matter, will be only those things that were as God wanted. In the end when it is all over, what goes with you is how you loved and served the Lord, and sought to know Him with all your Heart, your whole soul and your whole being. I watched those who live their lives trying to prove that they are right. They are addicted, as one enslaved by satan. For you are wounded human creatures of the Creator, who loves you dearly. But you are to be docile. There are so many today, because of their pride, that will be lost for eternity.

And Mary speaks and she says: I stood beneath the cross of my Son and my heart was in such anguish for my little ones, that will be lost to the fires of hell forever. I appear, I appear, I appear and I am ignored. For the sake of your brothers and for your own hearts, turn away from your cold, controlling hearts, and surrender to the God who loves you and gives you such a treasure, and asks you to tell the world, for this is the Mighty Medicine. And where men having ignored this message, the angels will read the message, and their sounds will sing in the heavens, for the Lord has spoken a great gift to the men of this earth. Where will you be, when He calls with such fervor, to come to His Heart and to know His undying love? Where will you be when you held out your cold heart, and tried to convince the world, how your ways were the ways of God? For what comes from your mouth, if it is not from a heart of love, is like the wind, it blows and it is gone. But those that are rooted in the Heart of Jesus, will know the undying love of God, for all eternity. And the words of those, who blow hot air, is empty. Amen.

R. In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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