March 17, 2017

                Today's Readings

Genesis 37: 3-4, 12-13, 17-28  

   Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a decorated tunic made for him. But his brothers, seeing how much more his father loved him than all his other sons, came to hate him so much that they could not say a civil word to him.

   His brothers went to pasture their father’s flock at Shechem. Then Israel said to Joseph, ‘Your brothers are with the flock at Shechem, aren’t they? Come, I am going to send you to them.’ ‘I am ready,’ he replied.

The man answered, ‘They have moved on from here; indeed I heard them say, "Let us go to Dothan." ’ So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
   They saw him in the distance, and before he reached them they made a plot to kill him. ‘Here comes that dreamer,’ they said to one another. ‘Come on, let us kill him now and throw him down one of the storage–wells; we can say that some wild animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams.’
   But Reuben heard, and he saved him from their clutches. ‘We must not take his life,’ he said. ‘Shed no blood,’ said Reuben to them, ‘throw him down that well out in the desert, but do not kill him yourselves’—intending to save him from them and to restore him to his father. So, when Joseph reached his brothers, they pulled off his tunic, the decorated tunic which he was wearing, and catching hold of him, threw him into the well. The well was empty, with no water in it. They then sat down to eat.
   Looking up, they saw a group of Ishmaelites who were coming from Gilead, their camels laden with gum tragacanth, balsam and resin, which they were taking to Egypt. Then Judah said to his brothers, ‘What do we gain by killing our brother and covering up his blood? Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, then we shall not have laid hands on him ourselves. After all, he is our brother, and our own flesh.’ His brothers agreed.
   Now some Midianite merchants were passing, and they pulled Joseph out of the well. They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver, and these men took Joseph to Egypt.

     

Psalm 105: 16-21

He called down famine on the land, 
he took away their food supply; 
he sent a man ahead of them, 
Joseph, sold as a slave. 

So his feet were weighed down with shackles, 
his neck was put in irons. 
In due time his prophecy was fulfilled, 
the word of Yahweh proved him true. 

The king sent orders to release him, 
the ruler of nations set him free; 
he put him in charge of his household, 
the ruler of all he possessed,

 

Matthew 21: 33-43, 45-46

‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When vintage time drew near he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third. Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them thinking, "They will respect my son." But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, "This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him and take over his inheritance." So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ They answered, ‘He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him at the proper time.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures:

   The stone which the builders rejected
   has become the cornerstone;
   this is the Lord’s doing
   and we marvel at it? 

‘I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’ 
   When they heard his parables, the chief priests and the scribes realised he was speaking about them, but though they would have liked to arrest him they were afraid of the crowds, who looked on him as a prophet.

                Given March 14, 2017

                R. Love is powerful
                Infinite – ordered – perfected
                Love works to make men
                work magnificently in unity –
                Love produces outcome –
                Better to have loved
                and lost than not have
                    loved at all –

                God is perfect love

                    We are wounded and we must
                see His reflection in what beauty
                He gives us. We can see beauty –
                see a baby and their beauty –
                We see the beauty of creation –
                we recognize the beauty of one's
                talents and abilities. We are
                open in our hearts and eyes
                to God who is our Creator and
                we are the creatures.

                    We reach to see the infinite
                beauty, but we see reflections
                of God and we rejoice at the
                glimpse He gives us.

                    We are learning. We are poor
                in spirit – humble in our
                spirit – we don't know it all –
                We are learning – we are seeking –
                we are students in God's world –
                we are God's creation – God has
                gives us life – He has created
                us for a purpose – We are to
                serve Him – we are to learn
                to love more and more deeply –
                about union – did you ever see
                how powerful it is when men
                are working together to produce
                some great outcome. Men can use
                their individual talents and with
                this unique contribution work in
                harmony, unity, love with others
                using their unique talents to
                produce a magnificent outcome.

                    A person that is prideful and
                selfish and not seeing their
                real role in the plan of the
                heavenly Father – may use their
                position to "act-out" their unfinished
                business – their own lack
                of loving themselves, their old anger
                passed down from generations past,
                their pride and need to control and
                manipulate their brothers for
                their own defects and lack of
                purity and real respect for others.
                They may use others to try to bring
                them down to their darkness
                and even try to get them darker
                than they are –

                    Say a person uses authority
                and manipulation and control
                because they are prideful, angry,
                not wanting to work with others,
                even be with others, self-focused,
                using others to boast their vain
                ego, using others for slavishly
                dependent relationships, using
                others for envy and jealousy –
                anger.

                    I had a wonderful vision. A
                road was needed by so many and
                it was muddy and rock covered
                and in severe need of repairs.
                It went up a big hill and was
                so widely traveled, but men
                with all their talents worked
                hard to fix the road. They
                worked in harmony – they worked
                together – they directed people
                who needed the road so they
                could go around the work. These
                men helped and directed people
                in joy and love. They
                had a goal to accomplish the road
                in the quickest way as possible,
                working hard, using their talents
                and with the goal of giving it
                all they had to complete the
                project the best way they could.
                They wanted the work done so
                people could use the road as
                soon as possible and they were
                giving their unique talent to
                do so – purely giving it all
                they could to accomplish the
                road – harmony – fun –
                thinking about others, wanting
                the work done.

                    A woman came who was put
                in charge of the crew of men.
                She was angry and tried to block
                all supplies, she tried to frustrate
                them so they did not have supplies,
                they did not get directions, the
                equipment began to break
                and she worked hard to make
                the work fail. She did not
                respect the men's talent –
                their desire to work hard –
                she set traps for them to
                sabotage the work and make it
                fail – She wanted the work to
                fail – she wanted men frustrated
                and angry and she did it
                in sneaky ways – passive
                aggressive ways to make the
                work fail – Then she triumphed
                at the failure and she wanted
                the work never accomplished
                so that nobody could use this
                road.

                    God gives us talents to work
                purely with others to accomplish
                great things for the building
                of the Kingdom of God. We can work
                God's plan – use our talents –
                work, like men with a plan and a
                purpose to serve God.

                    We can work to help build the
                road men need to help in the building of
                the Kingdom of God. We can purely give
                our all to the purpose.

                    A man or woman in charge of an
                operation can use authority
                to help build God's Kingdom –
                this is why God created us to
                work for Him by the sweat
                of our brow – Jesus sweat
                blood in the garden for all
                the souls that would be lost
                despite His suffering and death.
                Jesus saw all the 300,000
                abortions a year with
                people helping women
                getting abortions – Jesus saw
                these little lives with heartbeats
                torn from their mother's womb –
                limb by limb.           

                    God gives life to a little baby.
                Jesus was in the womb of the
                Virgin Mary and was recognized
                as Jesus in her womb. Elizabeth
                carried John the Baptist at
                her old age.

                    The devil is real. We see how the devil
                tempted Eve in the Garden and she wanted
                to be equal to God and she disobeyed
                God and she worked to get Adam
                to disobey. Adam and Eve were
                thrown from the Garden of Paradise
                because they disobeyed.

                    We have been given life here –
                we are to obey God and His
                commandments. God commands
                us to love Him and put Him
                first in our lives.

                    God has given us life. God
                has put us to the test. Will we
                serve God and love Him and
                then get the reward of eternal salvation?

                R. We are so blest – we see the reflection
                of God in His creation. We have
                been given our lives to enjoy and
                obey Him. God is watching us –
                He loves us – He gives us the
                commandments to make us
                happy. When we disobey God
                we are not happy. We are to
                live in love and harmony with
                everyone and pray for them.
                God calls us in the Shepherds of Christ
                to start these prayer chapters praying
                for the priests, the Church and
                the world. God has called us to
                help us spread these Blue Books
                on how He loves us and wants us
                to love Him and others and ourselves
                by serving Him and helping to
                build up the Kingdom of God.

                    God is watching us. He knows
                our hearts – He knows everything –
                He wants us to grow in greater
                perfection and obedience and
                be with Him forever in heaven.

                    God loves us so much, He wants us
                with Him forever in eternity. We
                must keep our eyes on Him and
                live to serve and love Him and
                do what He wants of us. We have
                a free will to love Him or to
                turn from Him.

                    In the first Sunday of Lent we
                see how the devil tried to tempt
                Christ after He fasted 40
                days in the desert. The devil
                is going to hell and he wants
                men to follow him and
                disobey God and walk in darkness –

                    God loves us so much. He commands
                us to love. We are to follow Him.
                He is the light of the world.
                Help me spread these messages
                from Jesus.

   

 

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                Given March 16, 2017

                Jesus: Oh ye of little faith – I have
                given you so many gifts and you
                smite Me. I have loved you with
                such love and those I have
                blessed are the ones who have
                rejected Me most –

                    How you offend My Most
                Sacred Heart – when I
                love you so much and
                give you so much –

                Saul, Saul why do you persecute Me?

                R. The road that leads to eternal life is
                the road of following Jesus - of working by
                the sweat of our brow under Jesus – for
                the building of the Kingdom of God.

                    We were not put here "willy-nilly" – we
                see that Jesus' birth was announced and
                the timing was God's timing when He came
                into the world and the Plan of the Father
                was that Jesus, the Son of God, would
                do what He did. Jesus paid for our sins,
                Jesus showed us how to live while He taught
                and worked miracles. We receive a
                sharing in His life in baptism. Jesus
                remains truly present in the Eucharist.
                Jesus gives us the Mass – so the saving
                grace can be outpoured to us through
                the centuries.

                    No man is put here – "willy-nilly."

                    The beauty we see with our eyes of God's
                creation is only a drop in the bucket
                compared to what is to come to the man
                who loves and serves the Lord and
                does God's will in love.

                    We can meditate on Jesus in the Garden,
                how He sweat Blood in His Divine knowing,
                knowing all the men who would reject His
                saving grace because of stubbornness,
                pride, anger, envy, jealousy, slothfulness,
                gluttony and lust and would turn their
                backs to God's love. God commands us to
                obey the commandments of God.

                    Men have a free will. They can obey God or
                disobey His commands and they can clutch
                the darkness and sin and make themselves
                feel they are equal to God instead of being
                under God like God commands us to be.

                    I see against the back-drop of Christ in the
                Garden the vision of Him on the cross of Calvary.
                Jesus knew in the Garden the bitter detail,
                the whipping at the pillar, the humiliation He,
                the Son of God, would suffer, the
                mocking, the crowning with thorns. Jesus knew
                He would be spit on and He would fall under the cross.
                But we see not only all Jesus suffered
                for love of us, but we see what Eve did.
                Eve made herself equal to God.
                Eve listened to satan. Eve worked on
                Adam to get him to sin.

                    We see Jesus always under His
                Father's will – In the Garden – we hear
                the Words – Jesus always
                did the will of God the Father – Jesus
                shows us we are always to OBEY
                God's will –

                    I hear Jesus call out "I am alive, I am
                alive, I am alive". Jesus, the Son of God,
                did not give into satan ever! That Gospel
                on the first Sunday of Lent reminds us –
                The New Adam – never gave into satan's
                temptations - and satan tempted Jesus
                in the Garden after He fasted.

                    The man who is chosen by God and
                lives likened to Jesus, in His image and
                likeness is a gift to the world. He is
                like the first scripture.

                R. He bears fruit for God's Kingdom –
                He hears the commands of God and
                he is not a "zombie" going down the
                wrong path listening to satan and
                committing sin after sin (capital sins).
                A man can see himself above
                authority, above God, above
                everyone and operate in pride –
                Pride, Control, Manipulation, being on
                top is what he wants.

                    Man was meant to be under God –
                to serve God, to obey just authority –
                to see the cross of Jesus against
                the back-drop of all of life – to live
                in the Pascal Mystery of death/resurrection –
                to know the resurrection in the sharing
                of Divine life in baptism –

                    A man must Love - to - Love God, by obedience
                to Him. Love to - serve God, by energy given to
                Him in everything in his life united
                to the HOLY SACRIFICE of the MASS –
                everything under God –
                everything under God's will –

                    Showing God we aren't like Adam and Eve
                who disobeyed God and who did what satan
                told them to do. They disobeyed God!
                Then hid in darkness and sin.

                    We see through the eyes of God. We see
                God's plan and we love it. We see through the
                eyes of God His love for us, His plan for
                us and we say "yes" God – it is
                good for us to be here - serving You –

                    We are made to live here under God –
                to love Him with our whole heart,
                our whole soul, our whole being
                and love our neighbor as ourselves –
                and at the end of our life –
                walk into the arms of God - while
                God says "He is Mine"! "Job well done,
                good and faithful servant"

                    Life is to be lived in Him. We ask God to come
                and posses our soul. We exist IN Him – we dwell
                IN Him, we love IN Him – we love
                God – we want to serve God – we
                love God's plan – we are more and more
                one in God.

                    Life is to be lived. When we live
                in Him – we live. The man who
                puts himself "up" over everybody,
                including God, in pride, is really turning
                his life over to the devil and this
                is not life. The man who makes
                himself equal to God – full of
                pride is not really living –
                Manipulating human beings, controlling
                human beings, living to snare them –
                trick them – deceive them to get
                control over them is not living. Life is
                in God.

                    We live in God. We embrace the
                mystery of God. We do not know everything –
                God is infinite – we seek knowledge
                of God's plan – we seek truth –
                not falsity and deception, control
                and pride.

                    Our actions are those based on
                the goal of eternal life and the
                reward of heaven. We are here
                following the New Adam – living
                under Him – loving God – saying "yes"
                to the commandments – living in
                God's truth – Life is in Him –
                TRUTH is in us!

                    Life is not limited like the man
                who tries to control his little world
                in pride and envy and jealousy etc.
                Life is a mystery – God has given us
                glimpses that we know Him and
                His plan for us more and more, not
                on a natural level, but on a supernatural
                level because of baptism –
                we seek, we know, we delve into
                the limitless, we seek the infinite
                our eyes are on the eternal reward –
                our lives are lived in the mystery
                of God!

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

                R. We accept with our free will the
                plan of God. We have a choice to say
                'yes' to God's plan or to disobey God. When
                we say "no" to God's Plan we
                walk in more and more rebellion
                and darkness. God is light and in
                Him is no darkness, we are to obey Him
                and say "yes" to His plan for our lives.
   

                    We are made in the image and likeness
                of God – we can seek to grow in this
                image or seek the darkness, pride,
                anger, control, hatred - etc. –

                    God is perfect – We are imperfect –
                the more we seek God, obey God –
                see through His eyes – the more
                we grow in purity and perfection –
                The more we live in the truth –
                the more we walk in the light –

                Life is in this –
                Life is in God –
                God is all good –

                We want to be good –
                    God is all Good –

                We know God more and more and
                    we love Him and we seek Him and
                    we want Him – We want truth
                    and goodness – we thirst after
                    it!

                Strength and living is in God!

                Men of darkness are weaklings,
                    sorrowing, belly-wailers,
                    "oh poor me – what can I
                    do to manipulate man for
                    excitement" DARK –
                    DARK – DARK –

                    I see the beauty of God's Goodness
                and I live in the joy more and more of
                Absolute Truth – God is Absolute Truth –

                    I go to God – Wisdom is in God!

                God is our Creator – we are the
                    creatures under God – We
                    walk by faith!

                It is an illusion for a man to
                    think he is independent and
                    needs no one –
                    He cannot live in such a
                    bucket of lies and really
                    live as God intends for
                    man to see and love and
                    be possessed by Him.

                    God is light and in Him is no darkness
                God is love – God takes us to the
                high road and we work by the
                sweat of our brow – we see the
                sacrifice of Jesus in the Garden –
                we see the sacrifice of Jesus
                on the cross –

                Birth of Jesus
 

                R. Fr. Joe said
                "Epiphany means God is revealing
                or showing to all people His Son
                who was born for us"

                The star led the magi to the Christ Child –

                Every year Jesus wants me in Florida
                    for the Epiphany.

                This year there were rainbows
                    all over the side walk –

                R. Fr. Joe writes:

The baptism of Jesus, as recorded in the gospel, was primarily to show that Jesus is God's beloved Son, that he was ever faithful to the will of his Father, that he was anointed by the Holy Spirit as Messiah and he was guided by the Spirit in the course of his ministry. "A new age under the power of God has begun." (The Collegeville Bible Commentary, pg 867)

Although Jesus was without sin and was God's Son from all eternity, Jesus' baptism does teach us some things about our own baptism. When we are baptized, we are fundamentally changed; God sends his Spirit into our hearts and we become, at that moment, God's sons and daughters. The Church reminds us of our baptism. For instance, at the Easter vigil by the Easter candle that is always lit during Easter and by the use of holy water. These reminders of baptism help make us aware of who we have become through God's grace, that we are God's sons and daughters and that we are to live always faithful to God's will. Remind yourself of that the next time you bless yourself with holy water and thank God for the gift of his grace that came to us through the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Matthew 26:39

And going on a little further he fell on his face and prayed. 'My Father,' he said, 'if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it.'

Luke 22:42

'Father,' he said, 'if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, let your will be done, not mine.'

                R. As Jesus died on the cross we
                    knew He spoke to His Father –

                We know that the stone was
                    rolled away from the
                    tomb.

                R. Jesus appeared His hands and
                    feet were glorified –

                Wow
 

Luke 24: 50-53

Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven. They worshipped him and then went back to Jerusalem full of joy; and they were continually in the Temple praising God.

                ^{Given October 29, 2016}

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