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Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.

February 6, 2019

April 3, 2017

A Prayer for Grace and Holiness today
A prayer to work in love and holiness

John 16: 23

"If you ask the Father anything in my name,
    He will give it to you"

R. God wants our unity – we ask for this
    unity – that the Spirit of God fill
    us and help us to be holy –
    that we do not hold onto any of the deadly
    sins that block us from this unity –
    that the Holy Spirit can work in our souls,
    so we can be His instruments of love
    and peace and joy among our brothers.

We pray this heavenly Father in the name of
    Jesus who said ask in my name and
    it will be given to you.

    Let us experience the joy of unity and love
    on a supernatural level and know You
    our beloved God – more and more supernaturally.
    We want our hearts to be sanctified in
    our love and work so we are holy and
    pleasing to You God.

Come to us Lord and possess our soul.

We want to walk as God intends us
    to walk today in the plan of God,
    in the work He has called us to do today.

We know that we must cooperate with the grace
    You are giving us – now and today to
    bring unity and peace and love to this
    day as we serve to do the work – You are
    calling us in our vocation to do.

Dear Heavenly Father, hear our prayer,
    in the name of Jesus, we pray,
    we ask, heavenly Father for these
    graces necessary this day to
    bring peace, love and joy to
    our relationships and work – as You
    work in us.

    We seek perfection in our souls to be holy
    souls likened to You – in work
    and in play – to be holy in prayer –
    we invite You Holy Spirit to be
    the Guest of our soul.

We seek order in our lives, not disorder.

We beg for the virtues of faith, hope, love,
    prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice,
    and humility. We seek to be obedient
    to the will of God and live obedient to
    the will of God in love.

Come Holy Spirit Come into our hearts. Transform
    us from fear to fearlessness to serve
    You as You desire in our lives.

Help our actions to be for the glory and honor
    of God with the goal of these actions
    to one day be in heaven with Thee,
    our beloved God.

Heal our hearts and our bodies – Help
    us to have health of body now in
    this work you call us to do.

Instill in us a desire to want to only
    do the will of the heavenly Father
    and to walk in holiness and love.

We pray all these prayers heavenly Father,
    united to Jesus, in His name for
    grace and holiness today and always.

Help us to live by right reasoning in
    our lives – to have the truth
    in our every thought and to live
    in order as You operate in us
    in unity and love.

Come to me Lord and possess my soul.

We seek order in our lives – Your order
    to love in us, to help us to act as
    You desire, to have the thoughts
    that are in right reasoning and in
    Your order, Lord.

Give us the grace to use our faculties
    to love and serve You and do
    Your work.

Give us faith and right reasoning.

Help us to love and be just in our actions.

Help us to seek Your Divine Will and to
    perform those actions, which are actions
    pleasing to You in everything.

Come to us Lord and purify our consciences,
    our souls.

Help us to hope and love in Thee.

We seek heavenly vision – to see
    things through the eyes of
    the heavenly Father and to be
    perfected more and more in doing
    God's will in our lives.

We pray for the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

We pray for this purity in our souls –
    to live virtuously, to be perfected
    more and more and filled with the
    gifts of the Holy Spirit –
    Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel,
    Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety
    and Fear of the Lord

    and to have the fruits of the Holy Spirit –
    charity, joy, peace, patience,
    benignity (kindness), goodness,
    long-suffering, mildness,
    faith, modesty, continency,
    and chastity.

We do not want the enemies to
    invade our thoughts, our
    actions, our lives –

We pray to give up ugly bad habits of the
    deadly sins –
    pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth

We know on this journey we will
    experience sufferings and joys
    and we accept the struggles
    in life and ask You to help us,
    strengthen us in our lives to
    suffer and rejoice as You
    desire us to do in our lives.

We want to be a reflection of Your
    heavenly love – to be full of light –
    Your light in us. To operate in
    light and not darkness – IN You,
    our beloved God.

We want to follow in the footsteps
    of Jesus in giving love and
    light and unity to those
    we contact in our lives –



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.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

end of april 3, 2017

Excerpts from Blue Book 6C

From the Shepherds of Christ Priestly Newsletter March/April 1995

St. Thomas Aquinas on the Sufferings of Christ

These thoughts of Thomas Aquinas easily follow from our previous considerations:

“Why did the Son of God have to suffer for us? There was a great need, and it can be considered in a twofold way: in the first place, as a remedy for sin, and secondly, as an example of how to act.

“It is a remedy, for, in the face of all the evils of which we incur on account of our sins, we have found relief through the passion of Christ. Yet, it is no less an example, for the passion of Christ completely suffices to fashion our lives. Whoever wishes to live perfectly should do nothing but disdain what Christ disdained on the cross and desire what he desired, for the cross exemplifies every virtue.

“If you seek the example of love: Greater love than this no man has, than to lay down his life for his friends. Such a man was Christ on the cross. And if he gave his life for us, then it should not be difficult to bear whatever hardships arise for his sake.

“If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross…Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth. Therefore Christ’s patience on the cross was great. In patience let us run for the prize set before us, looking upon Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith who, for the joy set before him, bore his cross and despised the shame.

“If you seek an example of humility, look upon the crucified one, for God wished to be judged by Pontius Pilate and to die.

“If you seek an example of obedience, follow him who became obedient to the Father even unto death. For just as by the disobedience of one man, namely, Adam, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one man, many were made righteous.

“…follow him who is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Upon the cross he was stripped, mocked, spat upon, struck, crowned with thorns, and given only vinegar and gall to drink.

“Do not be attached, therefore, to clothing and riches, because they divided my garments among themselves. Nor to honors, for he experienced harsh words and scourgings. Nor to greatness of rank, for weaving a crown of thorns they placed it on my head.”²

On the Resurrected Christ

Here are words of Melito of Sardis, bishop, which, speaking of the Resurrected Christ, complement the previous words of Aquinas on the Suffering Christ:

“The Lord, though he was God, became man. He suffered for the sake of those who suffer, he was bound for those in bonds, condemned for the guilty, buried for those who lie in the grave; but he rose from the dead, and cried aloud: Who will contend with me? Let him confront me. I have freed the condemned, brought the dead back to life, raised men from their graves. Who has anything to say against me? I, he said, am the Christ; I have destroyed death, triumphed over the enemy, trampled hell underfoot, bound the strong one, and taken men up to the heights of heaven: I am the Christ.

“Come, then, all you nations of men, receive forgiveness for the sins that defile you. I am your forgiveness. I am the Passover that brings salvation. I am the lamb who was immolated for you. I am your ransom, your life, your resurrection, your light, I am your salvation and your king. I will bring you to the heights of heaven. With my own right hand I will raise you up, and I will show you the eternal Father.”³

St. Ambrose on the Paschal Mystery

These thoughts of St. Ambrose help us to continue our reflection on the Paschal Mystery:

“We have died with Christ. We carry about in our bodies the sign of his death, so that the living Christ may also be revealed in us. The life we live is not now our ordinary life but the life of Christ: a life of sinlessness, of chastity, of simplicity and every other virtue. We have risen with Christ. Let us live in Christ, let us ascend in Christ, so that the serpent may not have the power here below to wound us in the heel.”⁴

Our Participation in the Paschal Mystery

When we are baptized we are incorporated into Christ’s paschal mystery of death and resurrection. St. Paul speaks of this marvelous assimilation to Jesus: “You have been taught that when we were baptized in Christ Jesus we were baptized in his death; in other words, when we were baptized we went into the tomb with him and joined him in death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too might live a new life.” (Rom 6: 3-4).

And, again: “…wherever we may be, we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may always be seen in our body.” (2 Cor 4: 10-11).

Christ has structured the Christian life by the way He lived, died, and rose from the dead. It is obvious then, as Paul tells us above, that the pattern of death-resurrection must be at the heart of the Church’s life. Individually and collectively, we continually die with Christ so that we may continually rise with Him. Thus we pass over in a process of continual religious transition to a greater participation in Jesus’ resurrection. It is true that our participation in Christ’s resurrection will reach its completion only in eternity. Nevertheless, we begin the life of resurrection here upon this earth, in the here and now of human life, in the midst of joy and pain, in the experience of success and failure, in the sweat of our brow, in the enjoyment of God’s gifts. As Christians, we should have a sense of dynamic growth concerning our here-and-now life of resurrection.

We cannot maintain the life of resurrection or grow in it without a willingness to suffer. This does not mean that we need to feel overwhelmed and heavily burdened by the suffering in our lives. The greater portion of suffering for most Christians seems to be an accumulation of ordinary hardships, difficulties, and pains. At times, however, deep suffering, even suffering of agonizing proportions, can enter one’s life. Whether the sufferings one encounters are of either the more ordinary variety or the more rare and extreme type, Christians must nevertheless convince themselves that to relate properly to the cross is to grow in resurrection, and for an individual to grow in resurrection means one will also have an increased capacity to help give resurrection to others.

Reflections on Suffering

All of the above provides an occasion to offer various reflections on suffering:

The great tragedy concerning human suffering is not that there is so much of it. The real tragedy is that apparently so much of it is wasted. So much of it apparently is not coped with according to God’s will.

Suffering can beautifully expand or bitterly constrict the personality. It is our choice which prevails.

A willingness to suffer for a cause must accompany any true commitment.

A persistent suffering is the necessity of bearing with our limitations.

The fear of suffering is, for some people, one of the greatest crosses.

True love, in any of its forms, must be experienced against the background of the cross. Jesus has very vividly shown us this. Strange, then, that at times we can strive to develop another pattern of loving.

The suffering that is presently the most necessary for us is the one we can most consistently refuse.

Happiness cannot be achieved without a proper encounter with suffering. This is a basic premise of the Christian message. It would seem, then, that we would eagerly embrace the cross. Yet how often is this the case?

Being misunderstood by others precisely because we are striving to do God’s will is a not uncommon suffering.

To have to unavoidably hurt others can cause the sensitive person a suffering greater than the one he or she is inflicting.

There is a part of us that does not want to surrender to God. This struggle between the true self and the false self produces a unique type of suffering which is persistently present, often in milder degrees, but occasionally with an intensity that pierces very suddenly and very sharply.

It is not necessarily those who suffer the most who are the holiest. We grow in holiness through suffering—whatever its degree—to the extent we encounter it in loving conformity to God’s will.

The boredom that can grow out of daily routine, the frequent occasions which try one’s patience, ordinary episodes of failure, minor annoyances of various kinds, anxieties—these and other forms of the daily cross do not, taken separately, require a Christian response of heroic proportions. But in their cumulative effect over a long period of time, such occasions offer us the opportunity of becoming love-inspired Christians to an eminent degree.

There is nothing in the Christian teaching of the cross that says we cannot pray for relief from our sufferings.

To want to flee suffering is an un-christian attitude. So also is the attempt to make suffering an end in itself. The Christ-event did not end on Calvary.

“Then to all he said: ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.’” (Lk 9: 23).

Reflections on Joy and Happiness

When we cope with suffering according to God’s will, we grow in the Christ-life of grace. We grow in love. We grow in peace and joy. Suffering, which is properly encountered, consequently leads to a greater share in the joy of the resurrected Christ. There follow some reflections on joy:

The Christian vocation includes the call to be joyful. If we live properly in Christ Jesus, we will increasingly share His resurrection joy despite the painful dimension of being human: “I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.” (Jn 15:11).

The Christian who is not fundamentally joyful presents a contradiction. He or she claims to be a follower of the Jesus who has promised abundant life, abundant joy. To remove the contradiction, such a Christian must look to himself or herself. Such a person does not lack a basic joy because there is anything wanting in Jesus’ message. The person lacks joy because there is something wanting in the self. In some way or another, for some reason or another, the person has failed to assimilate properly the Gospel message. The Gospel is the good news. Jesus invites us to listen to His Gospel, to respond to it, to live it ever more fully and dynamically. Jesus tells us that if we do, we will experience a peace and joy that the world does not know. We know that Jesus does not lie, that Jesus does not deceive, that Jesus does not cruelly excite the expectations of His followers and then fail to fulfill them. Again, if a Christian is lacking in joy, he or she has to look at the self and ask why. But one should not ask this question in isolation. One should ask it in the company of Jesus. Jesus will help the person find the answer. Jesus will help the person remedy the situation.

Western, industrialized culture has tended to create the illusion that joy can be bought and that, the more money one has, the greater the prospects of enjoying life. This tragic illusion has time and again prevented people from living in a manner which alone can give true joy.

Real and lasting joy comes only when we are consistently willing to expend the effort required to grow in union with Jesus. Since this effort is a graced effort—one accompanied by God’s grace—we should pray daily for the grace to use the means God has put before us to grow in union with Jesus. And the greatest of these means is the Eucharist.

One of the greatest sources of joy is learning to share in the joy of others.

There are many daily occasions for experiencing joy, but we often pass them by unaware of their joy-producing possibilities because we have foolishly narrowed our expectations regarding what is a source of joy and what is not.

St. Paul says to us: “I want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord; I repeat, what I want is your happiness…There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus.” (Phil 4: 4-7).

On Union with Jesus

One of the above reflections on joy states that growth in joy depends on growth in our union with Jesus. One of our readers, Msgr. Bob Guste, in his book, The Gift of the Church, speaks to us convincingly concerning deep, personal relationship with Jesus: “Ideal Catholics held up to us by the Church are the saints. As you read their lives, what do you notice? One after the other, they were men and women who had a deep, personal relationship with Our Lord Jesus Christ. Their hearts were on fire with love for Him. Take a man like Ignatius of Loyola…Alphonsus Ligouri, with his brilliant mind, composed that prayer I learned as a child in Catholic school: ‘I love You Jesus, my love. I love You more than myself. I repent with my whole heart for ever having offended You. Grant that I may love You always and then do with me what is Your will.’” A woman like Margaret Mary, to whom Our Lord appeared with His Heart ablaze with love, spent her life proclaiming the mystery of Jesus’ personal love for each of us. Therese, called “the little flower of Jesus,” died at the young age of 24. Under obedience, she wrote her autobiography, The Story of a Soul. Every page burns with love for Our Lord. One after the other, these men and women had a deep personal love for Jesus and, as a result, an ever growing love for all their sisters and brothers.

“Sometimes, for us Catholics, when we read these lives or hear them we think, “Well, that was okay for them but it’s not for me! The Church honors them in order to say, ‘Hey! It is for you!’ We’re all called to genuine holiness, as the Second Vatican Council reminds us. We’re all called to grow every day in knowing, loving and serving Our Lord Jesus Christ. That’s our goal, and everything we do in the Church is meant to foster that goal.”⁵

On Prayer Before the Tabernacle

Bishop Fulton Sheen, one of the most admired and influential speakers of this century, gives witness to the efficacy of praying before the Blessed Sacrament: “When I stand up to talk, people listen to me. They will follow what I have to say. St. Paul says: ‘What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given, how can you boast as though it were not?’ (1 Cor 4:7). The secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That’s where the power comes from. That’s where sermons are born. That’s where every good thought is conceived.”⁶

2. St. Thomas Aquinas, as in The Liturgy of the Hours, Catholic Book Publishing Co., Vol III, pp. 1335-1336.
3. Melito of Sardis, bishop, as in The Liturgy of the Hours, op. cit., Vol II, pp. 554-555.
4. St. Ambrose, as in The Liturgy of the Hours, op. cit., Vol II, p. 204.
5. Msgr. Bob Guste, The Gift of the Church, Queenship Publications, pp. 22-23.
6. Through the Year with Fulton Sheen, compiled by Henry Dietrick, Servant Books.

March 6, 1995

Love is Unity with Jesus

R. Open my eyes Lord —
Help me to see Your face in my brothers

Sing: Give Me Your Heart oh Jesus - Give me your Heart

R. Love is forever joining — love is Unity —
love never ever separates those in love with God

                The devil said "I will not serve"
                Hold back — disharmonious — disobey God's will
                The devil wants to get us in a word game
                of explaining to try to control - hold back —

                God created an orderly, harmonious world —
                To be loving doing His will in all I have to do,
                it unites, it bonds, it draws all together in His love.

                Each soul should realize its true potential
                allowing God to operate within them.
                God gives us talents that we have been given to serve God —

God wants peace, love, harmony
using our talents to do God's work —

                This takes knowing His love —
                second by second, minute by minute
                this takes selflessness

                A person acting because of sinful jealousy
                is basing their actions on their sin —
                They hurt themselves and
                drive themselves from union with God —

                The more I die to self, live in humility
                dependent on Him for my every need,
                realizing His constancy with me,
                I will be one in Him.

Sunday Mass 9:00 Fr. Carter

                    Such union — do not want to move
                overwhelmed by the presence of God.
                Who are we that He comes to us in such intense union.
                I am so unworthy to receive Him in communion —

How much Jesus and the Father and Mary can
do in 5 minutes alone with Him.

Such peace

Saw Jesus stripped. He turned
around holding a lamb so gently.

The Father was above, His arms were outstretched —
I saw the Father from the waist up.

                Last night I saw Mary. It was the 8th month anniversary —
                    red haze over chapel. She had the most sorrowful face,
                    old, looked cracked, went to the young face.
                Light - could not even describe, a supernatural light.
                What an experience, beyond all comprehension.

GLORIOUS

Luke 24: 5-6

...‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive? He is not here; he has risen...



R. See Jesus' gentle face look at you, sparkling in
    a gown

He has not gone, He is here this day, minute by
    minute second by second.

See Jesus' face, His gentle looking eyes.

Peace, Peace, Peace a face of peace

Mary Magdalene heard His voice — He called her by name

He is not Dead

                How many times we do not recognize Jesus, we
                    do not see Him in others, see Him
                    in our world, see Him in the
                    hungry, the sick, the old

Jesus is the Son of God, He is a Divine Person — I must
seek the Divine Lord. Open my eyes.

                Jesus is with us today and we fail to see the Risen Lord
                    alive and in our midst —
                    He is alive

Luke 24: 27-32

Then, starting with Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages throughout the scriptures that were about himself.

When they drew near to the village to which they were going, he made as if to go on; but they pressed him to stay with them saying, ‘It is nearly evening, and the day is almost over.’ So he went in to stay with them. Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, 'Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?'

                Jesus: The Kingdom of God is at hand, open your hearts and
                let Me live in you, for I give you My
                very own flesh and blood. What is in
                the troubled heart is fear.

                R. Jesus quiets the troubled heart. Jesus rose triumphant and
                He wants us to see Him in our brothers —
                To Love our brothers — to be holy

John 20: 26-27

...‘Peace be with you,’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving any more but believe.’

R. Do we have to examine His side and His
    hands before we believe?
He calls us to trust, to have faith and surrender,
    We want that which is secure.

They could not catch anything and Jesus appeared
    and told them to fish. Then Jesus helped them
    and their nets were breaking.

R. He can do in a second, what we
    are unable to do — we must let go
    and let Him help us fish for souls —
    Trust Jesus and Love —

He asks us to be fishers among men. He supplies
    the people, we plant the seeds.

He does the work in their hearts with His
    grace
    We must be holy and forgive and love —

The devil wants us to be unloving
Fr. Carter says this is sin —
    rebellion against God's law of love —

The Power is in God —
The Power is in the Eucharist

Song: Take and Eat

R. Jesus wants to share Himself intimately with us.
Jesus says: "I give you Myself."

Unity in the Eucharist, to be one with Jesus and others —
God wants unity — harmony — order — obedience

When we pray before the tabernacle we are
    praying in the Presence of Jesus truly present in the consecrated host —
    He is there, we become more deeply united to Him.

The Eucharist unites
    Eating together unites —
    Jesus showed us this —

Jesus died on the cross and gave His all

Now He shares His life with us in the Eucharist —

Jesus was giving them food — Miracles of the loaves and fish —

Share in the life of the Risen Lord.

Lord I want to believe, Help my doubt,
    my unbelief.

Luke 24: 52-53

^{They
worshipped him and then went back to Jerusalem full of joy; and they were
continually in the Temple praising God.}

R. We must continue to build up the Kingdom
    and continue to see Him in our brothers —

My whole life is a journey to grow in greater
    faith, hope and love - not give into the deadly
    sins of pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

God Help me to see with Your vision —
God Help me to serve You in love —

March 4, 1995

The Sorrowful Mysteries
Feast of St. Casimer
First Saturday — Season of Lent

Meditate on the Blood and Passion of Jesus

The Agony in the Garden

1. R. Be with Jesus as He kneels in the Garden. Be there! See the dark night and see Jesus. Put yourself right there so that you can experience this mystery so deeply in your heart, so that you can be drawn closer to Jesus as you meditate on this mystery.

2. Jesus: My greatest agonies were not the agonies that I experienced to My Body, the wounds that I would receive, but My greatest agonies were the agonies that I experienced to My Most Sacred Heart.

3. R. Jesus saw before Him all the souls from all time, the souls that He loved dearly and would neglect Him and treat Him indifferently.

4. R. He saw His entire Passion before His eyes: all the battering, all the wounding, the carrying of the cross, the crowning with thorns. He knew of His death on the cross. He saw this clearly before His eyes and He saw the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite all of His suffering.

5. R. The natural fear of death came into play. He went to the Apostles and He said to them: "Can you not watch one hour with Me?" But they slept! Peter, who had vowed to remain always faithful, slept. And Jesus went away!

6. R. He loves us so dearly that He remains with us this day in the Eucharist, in His Divinity and humanity, no less present than the day that He knelt in the Garden, waiting and longing and thirsting for our love. He saw before Him the endless hours that He would remain in the Tabernacle and so few souls would come to be with Him.

7. R. His agonies were so great that His sweat became as great drops of blood on the ground!

8. R. Lately when we pray the rosary, there is a red filter throughout the room. Frequently everything in the room is blocked out and all that remains is Jesus' face. He wants us to meditate on the blood that He shed for each one of us. His red blood! In meditating on this blood, you will realize more and more the immensity of His on-fire love, His burning love that He has for us. He truly shed His blood because He loves us so much!

9. Jesus: I call out to you, My beloved ones. How dearly I love each one of you that is here this evening. I want to be ever closer to your heart. Meditating on My passion you will realize more and more the immensity of the love that I have for you.

10. Jesus: Meditate deeply on My passion all through this Lenten season for My Heart longs and thirsts to be drawn ever closer to you for I truly shed My blood for love of you, My dear, dear beloved ones.

(Song between decades: 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.)



Jesus is Scourged at the Pillar

1. R. We speak about His love as we speak about our laundry — the love of God! This is not the way that He speaks of the love that He has for each one of us. He truly was scourged at the pillar. Tied! Beaten! To their own exhaustion with their angry hearts, they scourged Him with sharp instruments that tore His flesh and made Him bleed. This is the love that He has. When we speak of His love, when we read His Word, speak and read from the heart. He wants us to read every word, to know how the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit love us. Out of greatest love, the Father sent His only begotten Son into this world, Jesus, that He shed His blood, Father, Son and Holy Spirit love us so much. The Spirit wants to move inside of each one of us to transform us more and more into the image of Jesus and lead us to the bosom of the Father.

2. R. If we realized for one second the immensity of the love of God, we would be in such tears. Their love is beyond our comprehension. They want us to experience this love penetrating in our being — to become one in us! Focus on His blood that He shed during this mystery of the scourging. See Jesus, with His unblemished back and then see His back torn, the blood pouring from His back. They stand there with their angry faces beating Jesus, tearing His flesh! This is the love that He has for us. It is not a little lip service love. It is the love He had when he was scourged at the pillar.

3. R. He asks us for two things: love of God and love of one another. He does not ask us to have a lot of money. He asks us to love one another. He came to show us the way. He was scourged at the pillar. Put yourself at the pillar. In the dim light, see the men as they beat His back. See them as they angrily hit Him. Then stop. Listen to the blows!

4. R. If you stop and listen to the blows that they gave to Jesus, listen in silence. He did not holler back. He complied always to the Father's Will. Not My Will but Thine be done! Hear Him scourged at the pillar and then know that He was scourged for each one of us because He loves us so dearly.

5. R. He was scourged for our brothers! How can I not like my brother when Jesus stood at the pillar and they tore His flesh because He loved my brother! How can I not love my brother when God the Father created my brother and he is a creation of the Father? When I hear the blows that Jesus received and think of the blood and His torn flesh and know He suffered this for love of my brother, how can I not like my brother?

6. R. His greatest agonies were not the wounds that they gave to His body, the tearing of His flesh, the crowning of thorns. His greatest agonies were the agonies He experienced to His Most Sacred Heart. He, Who is Love, loves each one of us so much that He gave His flesh and blood for us. He loves us! We can not even comprehend. To say that His love is a burning furnace of endless love are such flimsy little words. There are no words to describe the love that He has for us.

7. R. How we whimper when we have a splinter in our hand or when we cut ourselves and we bleed! Jesus wants us to focus on the blood that He shed because in focusing on this blood we will realize the immensity of His love. God the Father truly sent His Son into this world. God came into this world out of greatest love for us. His creatures! Who are we that God comes into this world and takes on a human nature? We are His beloved chosen ones! The more we focus on this blood that He shed and it becomes real to us, the more we will realize the immensity of the love of God.

8. R. Jesus gave Himself on the cross, His body and His blood! He gives Himself to us this day in the Eucharist, truly present! God, gives Himself to us! He wants to be one with us. He wants to be united to us. We are human. Through Baptism we receive a sharing in His life, we are made children of God and heirs of Heaven. He gives to us this sharing in His life. He elevates our human nature to such heights when we are baptized and His grace He outpours to us.

9. R. Jesus outpours His grace abundantly in the Eucharist and when we sit in front of the tabernacle. He is there in His Divinity and humanity. We receive such abundant grace. He is there the same as the day He was scourged at the pillar. Grace is a sharing in His life and He wants to be close to us, to penetrate our being, to unite with us. He gives us Himself in the Eucharist.

10. R. He calls out to please stay with Him and pray with Him. After communion, we can be so one in Him. He gives us His body and His blood!

(Song between decades: 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.)



Jesus is Crowned with a Crown of Thorns

1. R. They pounded into His head a sharp crown of piercing thorns. The blood ran down the side of His face into His eyes and into His ears. Blood ran from His mouth from the blows they had given to His head. Look at Jesus' face streaming with blood! This is the blood that He shed for love of each one of us! He calls out to us today to come ever closer to Him. He is outpouring His grace to us so we may be filled more and more with His life in us. He outpours His love. The soul searches this barren desert for so many things to fill it when only the love of God will satisfy the soul.

2. R. It is an endless search, over and over again, from one thing to the next thing. Jesus waits ever patiently, ever close to us. When we are in the state of grace, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, dwell within the graced baptized soul. Listen! Take time to listen! Be quiet with Him! Hear Him say second by second, moment by moment, "I love you!" There are so many distractions, so many hard times we go through every day, but Jesus is inside of each one of us, present at every second as we breathe and as our heart beats, He is in there. In all the trials and struggles that we go through, He turns them into such a gift if we open our hearts and hear Him whisper in our heart: "I love you, I love you, I love you."

3. R. When someone is persecuting you, when you are being attacked, when it seems like things are coming down on you, stop, listen, and hear His voice inside say to you: "I love you!"

4. R. You can not straddle the fence. This world has turned godless. He is here and in our midst this day. He is here inside of us. If we are in the state of grace, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell within our graced baptized soul in such a special way. He remains with us in His Divinity and humanity.

5. R. He talks to me and asks me to tell you that you must take a stand. Souls are at stake. You are His soldiers He is sending out into this world to spread His love. The world will persecute you as they persecuted Jesus but He is by your side. He knows what it is to suffer. He is calling out to you. The Father has a plan for you. He asks you to love God and love one another. It is in loving one another that we preach the Gospel to this world.

6. R. His body was covered with deep wounds, deep wounds that were bleeding, that were burning. His body was bruised and beaten. They put on His body a dirty purple robe that stuck to His bleeding wounds. He sat on a so called throne and they gave Him a scepter to hold. They spit on Him, they laughed at Him and they mocked Him! Sit there! Sit there as Jesus sat there streaming with blood with thorns on your head and think of people hollering at you and spitting at you! This is the love that He has for each one of us. This truly happened! He is asking you during this Lent to meditate on these mysteries often so you will be drawn close to His Heart. He longs, waits, and thirsts for your love. This is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who hung on the cross for three agonizing hours, Who gave His flesh and His blood because He loved you to His death!

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.

8. Jesus: My dear sweet ones, I call out to you. I watch you, so close to you as you struggle on your way and you think I have forgotten. Should a mother forsake her child, I will never abandon you. I stand forever with you. I watch you struggle and I know that in this struggle you will be drawn closer to My Heart. Withstand your suffering. In all suffering there is life. I know what it is to suffer. My Mother knows what it is. As she walked by My side, she walks by your side this day. Surrender to the God that loves you. Everything that you are experiencing, I am allowing. It will lead you to such life if you accept your trials and turn to Me for there is a bed of roses beyond the thorns. Trust me! Open your heart and draw yourself ever closer to My Most Sacred Heart on fire for love of you.

9. Jesus: I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I wait for you. I wait to be ever closer to your heart. It is in meditating on the blood that I shed for you that you will know more and more the immensity of this love that I have for you.

10. Jesus: How do I make you understand how I truly love you and wait this day for you? I speak to you here so you will know that I am truly waiting and longing for you.

(Song between decades: 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.)



Jesus Carries His Cross Up Calvary

1. Jesus: They gave to Me a heavy cross that they put on My shoulder. The cross was so heavy that I could scarcely move. The pain in My shoulder, it felt as if it would break! It would not go away. It just got worse and worse. As I carried My cross, I fell under the cross because I could not carry it.

2. Jesus: I saw My Mother in the crowd. My eyes peered into her eyes. Her face was reddened and streaming with tears. She looked into My eyes and she saw My face covered with blood. In that look, there was such intimacy between our Hearts. The peering look between Me and My Mother! The comfort and the pain!

3. R. See through the eyes of Mary! See her look at her Son at play. See her! See through her eyes as she now looks at her Son as He carries the cross on His back!

4. R. She appears to tell us to look through her eyes, to see her beloved Son, the cross on top of His body as He fell under it. She helplessly stood by and could not raise a hand to help Him. Her Heart torn deeply in her chest! She wants us to see through her eyes. It is in seeing through her eyes, we will realize the love that He has for us.

5. Song: I rocked Him as a baby. I fed Him as a child. I heard Him call my name out in the night...

6. 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!

7. R. What is love? Jesus is love! This is love, the love that He shed His blood, the love that He gave Himself and died on the cross. He bridges the gap between Divinity and humanity. He came to show us the way. He took on a human nature. Out of greatest love for us, Jesus was born a little baby, a helpless baby. A helpless baby, God, born a helpless baby in the town of Bethlehem. Look at a baby! He was the Almighty God! He humbled Himself so much to be born a helpless baby for love of us.

8. R. We cry and go about our way and say we are not loved. Jesus watches us and remains with us and is ever in our heart saying so softly "I love you, I love you." We are the ones that do not listen. We are blind. We do not see, we are blind men. It is only through the power of the Holy Spirit, by praying more and more to the Holy Spirit to open up our eyes, to help us to see more clearly, that we will grow deeper and deeper in our intimacy with Jesus. Holy Spirit, in the Heart of the Virgin Mary, transform us more and more into the image of Jesus. Who are we that God the Father created us in His own image and likeness? We are His chosen ones. The Father wants a child - a Father relationship with us. We are brothers in Christ - brothers. God is our Father. There is perfect love in the Trinity: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We should model all our relationships after this intimate communicating love between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Love is not inactive, love is vibrant. Love is deep love in the heart. Jesus is our teacher. We must go to Him, especially in the Eucharist and after communion and ask Him to instruct our hearts to know His love.

9. Song: Oh Burning Heart, O Love Divine, how sweet You are to me. I see the Host, I know You are here to love and care for me.

10. R. God calls us to love, love of Him and love of one another, not lip service love, but deep love giving from ourselves as Jesus gave all through His passion. The Father provides us with such love.

(Song between decades: 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.)

Jesus is Crucified and He Dies on the Cross

1. R. See Mary as she cares for the tender hands and feet of her infant child and then see her as she stands by as they nail His hands and feet mercilessly to the cross.

2. R. The wounds to His hands and feet! They penetrated His hands and feet and went through to the other side. How deep are Your wounds, My Jesus? He suffered this agony for love of us and our brothers. Pray to Jesus for the grace to love our brothers as He loved our brothers. I can not love others unless I have love inside of me. Jesus wants to fill us to the brim with His love. He calls out to come to Him and let Him fill us with His Divine love, His abundant life that He fills us more and more.

3. R. He gave Himself on the cross. He spread His arms in total surrender. He gave His blood. They penetrated His skull with the thorns. The nails punctured His hands and His feet, He gave His all! He gives Himself to you this day in the Eucharist. For all the wounds that He suffered, the greatest wounds that He received were the ones to His Heart for He saw before Him all the souls from all time that would sin, that would neglect Him, that would treat Him indifferently, despite this immense burning Heart that is filled with love for each one of us this day.

4. R. The priest raises up the consecrated Host at Mass. I love the Consecration of the Mass. Who are we that God comes to us? Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and humanity in the Eucharist — the precious body and blood of Our Lord, Jesus Christ!

5. Song: Look beyond the bread you eat, see your Savior and your Lord...

6. R. Pray for our priests! We are so favored to have the priests, specially anointed sons that He loves so dearly. Through the power of the Holy Spirit He gives the priests the power to change bread and wine into His body and blood. Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. This presence is so overwhelming. And we go to Mass and take it so lightly, yet the priest is so chosen by God, the priest that can forgive our sins. Who are we that God gives this power to a priest? God has given us so much because He is so good to us and He asks us to pray for our priests, to kiss their hands, the hands that change the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. Open up our eyes, O Holy Spirit, and help us to see the great gifts that you give to us in the Mass, in the Eucharist and in the Sacraments. It was through the pierced Heart of Jesus that the sacramental life of the Church was born. The water and blood that poured forth from His side. Water for baptism. Blood for the Eucharist. We are so chosen by God and given such great gifts and we take these gifts so lightly. He loves us dearly. Dear Spirit, open our eyes and help us to see clearly the things that will draw us closer and closer to God. Outpour Your grace so that we may know and love God more. Please touch each person in a special way join their hearts ever closer to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the Hearts of such love! Her Heart was pierced with a sword. His Heart was pierced with a lance!

7. 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.

8. R. When the priest raises up the consecrated host, think that, that is the same Jesus Who hung on the cross for three agonizing hours, no less present than the day He walked on the earth with His cross on His back, no less present than the day He hung on the cross. See Jesus hanging on the cross. Know that it is Jesus' Body and Blood in the Eucharist, Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist when the priest raises the host. When you see the exposed Eucharist at adoration, pray for the grace to know more this great God Who loves us so dearly that He remains with us this day, in His Divinity and humanity, out of greatest love.

9. R. As Mary held the little baby body of Jesus in her arms in the Temple when Simeon prophesied the sufferings that she and Jesus would undergo, she now holds His lifeless body in her arms under the cross, covered with blood, without a breath in His body. Look at this picture. Mary with Jesus' lifeless body on her lap! This is the love that Jesus and Mary have for us! This is how Jesus complied to the Father's Will. He came to show us the way. It is in complying to the Father's Will that we will be the happiest, in living in His Will as little children. Not doing the Father's Will, doing what we want to do because we think it is a good deed, but is not the Father's will, is not the road to happiness. We need to live in the Father's Will as a little child trying to please their Father. This is what will make us the happiest. Dear Holy Spirit, please outpour Your gifts, help us to know the Father's Will. Help us to sit in silence with Jesus and listen to the inner prompting of our hearts to know the Father's plan for us.

10. R. And they locked Jesus in a tomb and rolled the stone sealing the tomb. His enemies were overjoyed because they thought they had won. But on the third day, Jesus rose triumphant. Death has no power over Jesus!

Song: New life, new life. He came to give us new life. New life, new life. He came to give us new life!

(Song between decades: 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.)

This rosary was prayed at Bernie and Wilma's home in Northern Kentucky during their weekly Prayer Meeting. There were approximately 25 people present.

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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.


    And ask God to bless your state


Ask God to bless the United States

Pray all prayers through the intercession of

Our Lady of CLEAR – WATER.

Ask the Lady of CLEAR - WATER

to help with the blessed water.

Mary has appeared to me for 22 years,

in Ohio and Florida.}}