R. Salvation History

                God is all good

                God created us to know,
                    love and serve Him

                    God created the seen and the
                    unseen —

                    God created a peaceful, loving,
                harmonious, orderly world
                without sin and violence or
                evil —

                    God made creatures in
                His image and likeness to love —
                love between them and God —

                Love of brother for brother —
                We see the story of Cain —
                We see the story of Joseph and
                    his brothers —

                Jesus: Now I tell you —
                    sin entered the world —
                    You are at battle —
                   
                    You have a free choice to
                        love or to hate —

                    To love your brother —

                Your brother has been attacked
                    by the enemy
                    (a) will you help and love him by
                        praying for him
                    (b) will you go and cry outside of
                        his imprisoned walls and
                        tell him he never loved you —
                        hurt yourself and him —

                The devil is a roaring lion looking
                    for someone to devour —
                    You need to love and pray for
                    your wounded brothers —
                    wrapped in sin —
                    bound up —

                    to pray that they will receive
                        the light and walk the
                        way of God —

                Are you giving love to your
                    brother through prayer
                    and forgiveness —

                Do you think your brother who
                    is wounded and suffering
                    can make you happy —

                He needs your prayer for him —

                Are you a giver as I gave
                    to you —
                    I suffered for your sins —
                    I died for your sins —
                    I rose on the 3rd day
                    to bring you new life —

                So too you live My life, death
                    and resurrection in your
                    lives —

                    Loving and giving to your brother

                Jesus: You are to help each other —

                Work as a group —

                The body has many parts —
                    if one thing goes wrong —
                    the whole body suffers —

                You were created to love —

^{Matthew 11: 28-30}

‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’

                R. God has given us a chance to pray
                    for the world —

                He has given us this Movement —
                    Shepherds of Christ — 

                R. Look at the world —
                Look at the division —
                Look at the lack of love —
                Look at the hatred —

                All over the earth - divided —
                    rebelling against the
                    commandments of God —

                We are helping the souls Jesus
                    died for by
                    praying for the priests, the
                    Church and the world —

  A message for the Earth from Jesus

Rita

Fr. Carter and Rita

4 days before Fr. Carter's death

Fr. Carter, Rita and John

                R. God wants us to have this prayer
                    all over the world —

                Nursing Home people praying —

                School children praying the rosary
                    consecrating their hearts —

                Prayer chapters in 8 languages

English

Español

Français

Português

Italiano

Polska

                R. This is love —
                    praying —
                    going to Mass —
                    saying the Morning Offering —

Morning Offering (for Shepherds of Christ Members)

All 5ths - Our Lady of Clearwater Florida
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                R. These prayer chapters since 1994
                has provided a network of prayer
                for the priests, the Church and the world.
                After we are gone they can still
                be praying if we work hard at
                keeping them connected and pray
                for the prayers from Prayer Chapters
                because Jesus told Fr. Carter to begin
                them 17 years ago —

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

    ...Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask grace from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. ⁽¹⁹⁾

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NOTES:

19. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to
        Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford:
        TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p.9.

                R. We need to grow in the way
                the Father intended us to grow —
                Jesus gave Fr. Carter this mission —

                    It is a privilege to be called
                to the Shepherds of Christ Movement

                    The Good Shepherd leads us to
                abundant life in Him
 

                Today's Readings

Deuteronomy 4: 1, 5-9

‘And now, Israel, listen to the laws and customs which I am teaching you today, so that, by observing them, you may survive to enter and take possession of the country which Yahweh, God of your ancestors, is giving you. 

Look: as Yahweh my God commanded me, I have taught you laws and customs, for you to observe in the country of which you are going to take possession. Keep them, put them into practice, and other peoples will admire your wisdom and prudence. Once they know what all these laws are, they will exclaim, “No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation!” And indeed, what great nation has its gods as near as Yahweh our God is to us whenever we call to him? And what great nation has laws and customs as upright as the entirety of this Law which I am laying down for you today? ‘But take care, as you value your lives! Do not forget the things which you yourselves have seen, or let them slip from your heart as long as you live; teach them, rather, to your children and to your children’s children.

 Psalm 147: 12-13, 15-16, 19-20

Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem,
Zion, praise your God.

For he gives strength to the bars of your gates,
he blesses your children within you,

He sends his word to the earth,
his command runs quickly,
he spreads the snow like flax, 
strews hoarfrost like ashes,

He reveals his word to Jacob,
his statutes and judgements to Israel.
For no other nation has he done this,
no other has known his judgements.

        

Matthew 5: 17-19

‘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.

Psalm 110: 4

Yahweh has sworn an oath he will never retract, 
you are a priest for ever of the order of Melchizedek.

                R. Trust in God —

                We can see the trouble in the
                    world —

                It comes closer and closer —
                Are we not seeing the flood
                    waters raising on the
                    door outside our own
                    house as we say —

                Oh the trouble is over there
                    far away 

                R. Let's listen to these messages
                    and do what Jesus and Mary
                    are telling us —

                I am a messenger

Mary by day July 5, 2000

by night July 5, 2000

February 5, 2001

                R. Dear God increase our faith —
                    help us to be faithful

by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

Before receiving the six apparitions of Our Lady, May through October of 1917, the three Fatima visionaries were visited by an angel on three different occasions during the preceding year. He appeared to them in the spring, summer, and fall. Lucia (now Sr. Lucia) describes the springtime apparition of the angel:

"My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You."

Then, rising he said: "Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications."

His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them (3)

During the summer of 1916, the angel again appeared to the three visionaries. He said to them:

Pray! Pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. Bring peace to our country in this way.... I am the Guardian Angel of Portugal Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you. (4)

In the fall of the same year, the angel visited the visionaries a final time:

The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners." (5)

Sr. Lucia relates how the angel gave them Communion:

Then, rising, he took the chalice and the Host in his hand. He gave the Sacred Host to me and shared the Blood from the chalice between Jacinta and Francisco, saying as he did so:

"Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God." (6)

Reflecting upon these messages of the angel, we see how much they contain for our spiritual instruction.

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NOTES:

3. Louis Kondar, SVD, editor, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words (Fatima: Postulation Center, 1976), p.62. Distributed in the U.S.A. by the Ravengate Press, Cambridge, MA.
4. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., pp.1-2.
5. Ibid., p.2 (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
6. Fatima in Lucia's Own Words, op cit., pp.64-65.

                R. Let's praise Jesus —

                Thank God for all the gifts He has given
                    to us —

                Gratitude to God

                Accountability for the times we wasted
                    time blocking God's will
 

                From the Prayer Manual     

Holy Spirit Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.

                R. We pray for healing so we will do the
                    work of God

                So we will use the talents God gave us —

                God is the Divine Healer —

                Prayer

                Oh God, fill us with Your love!

                You healed, Jesus, when You walked
                    the earth —

                Heal us physically, spiritually —

                You healed the lepers, Jesus —
                You raised the dead —

                Come Holy Spirit Come —

                We need God's healing power in our
                    hearts

                We need God's healing power in our
                    bodies —

                We need to look back and pray for
                    healing in our past relationships
                    that are wounded —
                    that needs healing —

                The emptiness we feel —

                The old sin —

                The blaming of Adam and Eve —

                That if we feel empty — lonely we
                    start looking for someone to
                    blame —

                Rather than obeying the greatest
                    commandment of God —

                R. God commands us to love —

                The devil is hate —

                We need to heal from wounds of
                    the heart —

                We need to love and forgive those who
                    hurt us in the past —

                We pray for those who hurt us —
                    we forgive those who hurt us —
                    we give them our love by our
                    prayers for them —

                We want peace

                We want to obey the greatest
                    commandment of God —

                Not blame others for our own
                    feelings of abandonment —

                Not blame others for our own
                    putting a wall around
                    our heart because of wounds —

                We were created in the image and
                    likeness of God —

                God is love —

                To grow in that image and likeness
                    we must love —
                    God is love —

                Father Carter says when we act
                    unloving to others we sin —

                Baptism takes away original sin,
                    but the effects are still there —

                Bondage —

                Jesus gives us this sharing in His
                    life in baptism —

                Jesus feeds this life with Himself
                    in the Eucharist —
                Jesus shows us His Heart —

                We see that God flooded the earth
                    at the time of Noah —
                    because of corruption —
        

                R. God is merciful —

                Holding onto hatred hurts our
                    health

                Holding onto hidden unforgiveness
                    hurts our relationship with
                    God and others —

                Praying for light to fill us —
                To be set free of sin —

                Sin that those over us were guilty of
                    anger that was sprayed on us
                    like a spray can from generations
                    past —
                    Deception —

                To get ahead we need to know the
                    truth about ourselves —

                We are blessed every day!!

                Not blame others for our isolation —
                    lack of love —
                    loneliness because we isolated ourselves —

                We were taught by others over us —

                We must seek PURITY to be as God wants —
                    We are here to learn — to love —
                Our ancestors may have been addicted to pride —
                Our ancestors may have been addicted to perfection

                Do we want the old trap they were caught
                    in?

                This is bondage —

                We want to be pure to go to heaven —

                Heaven is for lovers —

                Heart problems are past down —

                Diabetics can be hereditary —

                Anger, perfectionism, jealousy,
                    envy, prejudice,
                    pride —

                Cause - effect —

                A child is learning —
                The parents are imperfect —

                We know what to do —
                We must love —
                We must forgive —
                We must be merciful

                Not blame others for our roots of
                    isolation — blaming others
                    for our loneliness — when
                    we made the choices with
                    our free will to forgive or not —
                    to love or to not love —

                Dear God —
                    Forgive us —

                    Forgive us for not forgiving our
                        moms and dads, brothers
                        sisters, significant others in
                        relationships —

                There must be a cleaning of defilement
                    to get into heaven —

                We must love and forgive

                What is Lent about —

                To look at ourselves and to be more
                    holy —

                To be accountable for our unloving,
                    blaming sins —

                To let go of those who hurt us,
                    by really forgiving them —
                    not spending a life - time
                    acting out the unfinished business
                    on others —

                Jesus went into the desert for 40 days —

                We must not give into sin —
                    being unloving to those who
                    did nothing to us —

                    by our unloving, blaming
                        thoughts — we can project
                        hatred on others

                If we are full of vices in our ways we must focus on heaven —

                Lent is a time to be cleansed of
                    our sins —

                Jesus died for us

                We are to die to our sins —

                Come out of the bondage —
                Come out of the tomb —

                To come to new life in Him —

                If you have fear of abandonment,
                    why do you sin more by
                    hating and hurting others? Jesus says —

                Jesus: Why heap sin upon sin? —

                I was whipped for your sins — your
                    hatred, your unloving ways —

                I carried the cross for your sins —

                To get to heaven you are to love —

                Anger against your brothers and
                    acted out by a bitter heart
                    in retaliation is a sin —

                Jealousy shows the devil is working —
                A spirit of jealousy —
                Emotional jealousy —

                Basing ones actions on their jealousy
                    not on doing God's will —

                A person can act because of their
                    jealousy —

                Discernment of Spirits —

                R. Punishing someone because of
                    our own sins of jealousy is wrong —

                False domination —

                Controlling money —

                Stopping the freedom God wants —

                Controlling for the sake of using
                    that secretive ways for
                    their own power —

                Jesus: Bondage —

                Violence to others
                Punishing others, for ones own sin
                    to block the freedom to
                    operate as God wills

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, 
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12

                        23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

                            Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God 
                        our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.

                Song: Take Lord Receive 

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

                R. Depression, anxiety can be caused by
                    sin —
                    jealousy — acting out of
                    jealousy is a bondage —

                Jealous eyes —

                Watching in jealousy —
                Wanting to punish in unloving ways
                    for one's own wounds
                    and jealousies —

1 Peter 5: 8

 Keep sober and alert, because your enemy the devil is on the prowl like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

                R. The devil wants a crack to get in

                Failure to have relationships
                    that are working to promote
                    God's Kingdom —

                Selfish relationships in the family —
                    sisters and brothers hurting
                    each other —

                Mom and Dad dominating that hurts
                    their children's freedom —

                Children need love
                Children need to know the truth —

                Not live in fear because of parent's
                    possessiveness —
                    jealousies —
                    perfectionism —
                    control —

                The teaching can go back to further
                    generations

Genesis Chapter 3

   Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the snake, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ’ Then the snake said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.’ The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig–leaves together to make themselves loin–cloths.

   The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden,’ he replied. ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked. ‘Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘Why did you do that?’ The woman replied, ‘The snake tempted me and I ate.’

   Then Yahweh God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you of
    all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.’

     To the woman he said:

     I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
     you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
     Your yearning will be for your husband,
      and he will dominate you.

   To the man he said, ‘Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

     Accursed be the soil because of you!
     Painfully will you get your food from it
     as long as you live.
   It will yield you brambles and thistles,
     as you eat the produce of the land.
   By the sweat of your face
     will you earn your food,
     until you return to the ground,
     as you were taken from it.
     For dust you are
     and to dust you shall return.’

   The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, ‘Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!’ So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

                R. Blaming enters
                Sin entered the world

                The devil is real —
                There is a battle

                Jesus is the way, the truth and the
                    life —

                The Healing Power of Jesus —
                Jesus gives us the Eucharist
                Jesus gives us Confession

John 17: 20-23

I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
   and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
   you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
   that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993

Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.

    You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.

    When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.

    I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.

    I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.

end of May 13, 1993

                R. Jesus is the Divine Healer —

                We need to be healed —
                Not act out bad habits —

                Wanting to be set free of
                    sins of jealousy, anger —
                    by filling our lives with
                    giving love —

                Giving —

                Not selfishly focusing on others
                    giving to us

                May the Blood of Jesus be poured
                    on all of us in the Shepherds of Christ,
                    all we touch and our families —

                All our donors, all that touch
                    them — all their families

                All the Priests, the Church and
                    the World —

                We unite our prayers to the
                    Holy Sacrifice of the Mass —

                God hears the prayer of those
                    who do God's will —

                We must want to let go of sin and
                Then quit sinning —

                Then ask God for healing —

                We have to quit sinning —

                We are responsible for our
                    actions —

                We are accountable

                Jesus is the Savior —

                But we must have a contrite
                    heart —

                Quit sinning —

                Pray for reconciliation —

                Restoring relationships with
                    God and others —

                We don't expect God to take
                    the sin away without changing ourselves.
                    We must choose to not sin —

                We have to be sorry, quit
                    sinning

                Be in right relationship
                    with God —

                From the Holy Spirit Novena

Healing

We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.

                R. No man is an island —

                We come from a family —
                We relate with others —
                Sins are not isolated —

                Acting in jealousy from unhealed
                    wounds are from the devil

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, 
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment

                R. We are to discern the spirits

                Lead us from self - will and inordinate
                    attachments into freedom
                    of the sons of God —
                    to do God's will —

                The baptism of Jesus we hear 

                R. The transfiguration we hear 

                R. The Spiritual Exercises
                    to be loving like Jesus and
                        do God's will —

                The examine twice a day —

                We ask are we in desolation —
                    are we grateful for God's gifts
                    pray for grace to do God's will

                The Trinity is 3 Persons in one God —
                Perfect love

                R. God made us to know, love and serve Him —

                Praise God
                He deserves it —

                Don't listen to satan

                Seek healing —

                Quit sinning in jealousy, anger,
                    control, pride, unloving
                    hateful ways —

                The examine Fr. Carter did 10 minutes
                    twice a day
                    KNOW YOURSELF

                Pray for grace

                Pray to do God's will — obedience
                The fall of the angels — they said
                    "We won't serve God"

                Pray for grace to be obedient to God's will

                When we sin — we have consequences —
                    darkness —

                Sin is ingratitude to God
                Sin hurts our loving relationship
                    with God —

                Hell: the ultimate consequence of
                    sin

Matthew 25: 26-31

But his master answered him, "You wicked and lazy servant! So you knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered? Well then, you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have got my money back with interest. So now, take the talent from him and give it to the man who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough; but anyone who has not, will be deprived even of what he has. As for this good–for–nothing servant, throw him into the darkness outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth."

‘When the Son of man comes in his glory, escorted by all the angels, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory.

                R. We must forgive our enemies —
                Pray and love them

                God made us to love
                God made us to praise Him
                God made us to help build His Kingdom

                We want to be intimate with God —
                    deeply one in Him —
                    saturated with His grace

                Sin hurts our relationship with
                    God

                God is love
 

                Sin is a choice that hurts our
                    relationship with God

                Sin is saying "no" to serving
                    God who is love,
                    God who is all good —

Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. P.60-61
 

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human nature

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

window at a former Jesuit Seminary

137. FIRST PRELUDE.   This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.

138. SECOND PRELUDE.   This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.

139. THIRD PRELUDE.   This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
   

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

140. FIRST POINT.   Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.

141. SECOND POINT.   Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.

142. THIRD POINT.   Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.

   The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
   

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

143.   In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.

144. FIRST POINT.   Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.

145. SECOND POINT.   Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .
   

end of excerpt

                Jesus calls us to be humble  

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