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March 6, 2006
| March 7th Holy
Spirit Novena Scripture selection is Day 3 Period II. |
The Novena Rosary
Mystery for March 7th is Glorious. |
Pray for the publication of Blue Book V.
March 5, 2006
December 27, 1994
Feast of St. John the Evangelist
This rosary was prayed just prior to the Shepherds of Christ Meeting and Mary appeared at the 6:30 Daily Apparition.
His Greatest Anguish was His Sufferings to His Most Sacred Heart
Sorrowful Mysteries
Agony in the Garden
1. The agonies of the heart are the greatest of agonies. How Jesus suffered in the garden.
2. The sufferings to Jesus' Most Sacred Heart were so great that we can never comprehend them; Jesus loves us so much.
3. Jesus saw before Him all the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite all His suffering.
4. Put yourself in the garden and be there with Jesus. Hear the sounds of the night and realize that He is God. He saw before Him everything that He would experience in His whole Passion. He suffered willingly for us. He loves us so much.
5. Jesus saw before Him all the souls that He loved so dearly and would neglect Him and treat Him with such indifference for their whole lives.
6. Jesus saw all the souls that would receive Him in the Sacrament of His greatest love, the Eucharist, and would not even talk to Him.
7. Jesus saw all the sins of all men, before this time and after this time.
8. Jesus suffered so for the anguish that He felt to His Heart for all the souls that would not have time for Him and would not come to be with Him, and for the endless hours that He would spend in the Tabernacle in which no one was there.
9. Jesus' anguish was so great that His sweat became as great drops of blood on the ground.
10. As Jesus suffered so for our sins, He was comforted by the acts of love that we give to Him this day.
Song between decades: A Song From Jesus
Scourging at the Pillar
1. Jesus suffered so because He loved Judas so much and Judas betrayed Him with a kiss.
2. Jesus said, ‘Judas, are you betraying the Son of man with a kiss?’ Luke 22: 48
3. His followers, seeing what was about to happen, said, ‘Lord, shall we use our swords?’ And one of them struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear. Luke 22: 49-50
4. Then Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the Temple guard and elders who had come for him, ‘Am I a bandit, that you had to set out with swords and clubs? When I was among you in the Temple day after day you never made a move to lay hands on me. But this is your hour; this is the reign of darkness.’ Luke 22: 52-53
5. They tied Him to a pillar.
6. Be there at the pillar and hear the blows that they gave to Jesus, and Jesus did not cry out; He barely made noise as they beat Him to their own exhaustion.
7. Jesus had wounds on His body from His head to His feet.
8. Jesus loved those so much who beat Him.
9. How could I not love my brother when Jesus suffered these beatings for love of my brother?
10. Jesus would suffer for each one of us this day again because He loves us so much.
Crowning of Thorns
1. They pounded into Jesus' most Precious Head, a piercing crown of thorns.
2. They clothed Him in a dirty purple robe and gave Him a scepter to hold.
3. They hit Him.
4. They persecuted Him; they spit on Him; they treated Him with such cruelty.
5. The blood ran down Jesus' face into His eyes and blurred His vision.
6. Dear Jesus, please help us to see You more clearly, not with the blurred vision that we see You sometimes.
7. Open our eyes to see that You are truly in our midst this day in the Eucharist.
8. Open our eyes so that we can see that it is through Your blood that You paid the price for our sins.
9. Let us see that You live in us in a very special way when we are baptized and in the state of grace.
10. Sing: Crown Him With Many Crowns
Carrying of the Cross
1. They gave to Jesus a heavy wooden cross that He carried on His shoulder, and His shoulder felt as if it would crack through to the ground.
2. Mary stood by and she saw her beloved Son as Jesus fell under the cross. Mary kept all these things in her Most precious heart. Mary felt the pain and the anguish that her Son, Jesus, suffered, helplessly she stood by. Mary was Jesus' Mother, but Mary could not raise a hand to help Him.
3. Do we even know a little bit the anguish of Mary's most precious heart?
4. Mary's eyes peered into the eyes of her beloved Son, and in that peering look is the deepest intimacy between Mary's heart and Jesus' Heart, Mary saw Jesus suffer and Jesus saw Mary suffer. In that look is the knowledge, love, memories of their lives, the intense knowing of each other in Their Hearts, the intense love that They had for one another.
5. How well the Heart of Mary knows the Heart of Jesus. Mary rocked Jesus when He was a baby; she held Him; she carried Him; she was with Him all through His public life. Now on Calvary she walked every step with Him, unable to do anything.
6. Mary's heart was pierced with an invisible sword as time and time again she walked beside Jesus. Mary heard the cross as it bumped along, her heart in such anguish.
7. Only by the grace of God could Mary withstand what she went through during the Passion. Mary walks by our side this day. It is by the grace of God that we will be able to handle the difficulties for she is forever by our side, ever watching us, and ever there to be our most loving mother.
8. Veronica wiped Jesus' face and on that cloth was the blood stained face of our Beloved Savior.
9. This cloth stands today with the stain as a remembrance of Jesus' greatest love, that He gave Himself on Calvary, and He gives Himself to us this day in the Eucharist.
10. Do we know how much Jesus and Mary, so closely united in their Hearts, love each one of us. They suffered so for each one of us and they call out for us to love God and to love one another. They showed us the way.
Jesus is Crucified and Dies on the Cross
1. As Mary held the little baby hands and baby feet of the child Jesus, she now stood by and watched them as they pounded into His most precious hands the nails that went through to the cross.
2. These wounds to Jesus' most precious hands and feet were so deep that they went all the way through His hands and feet.
Sing: Little Baby Hands and Feet
3. Jesus' greatest agony was to His most precious Heart. How deep were the wounds that He suffered to His Heart for all the souls that neglect Him this day, and for all the souls that use His name in vain and do not even think of Him. He loves each soul with the most burning love and longs and thirst for them to come and give Him their love.
4. Jesus hung on the cross for three agonizing hours while His Beloved Mother stood beneath the cross supported by her beloved John. Mary scarcely could stand, but she stood and withstood the tortures that Jesus went through. She did not leave but she stayed there as she stands with us in all of our trials that we undergo this day. She is forever by our side.
5. Mary, help us to see more through your eyes and through your heart the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so that we may more closely unite to this overabundant source of love... divine love ... Help us to be an instrument to promote love and oneness.
Sing: See the Eyes that Look at Mary
6. See Jesus hang on the cross in total surrender, humped over in a darkened sky. Jesus shed the last drop of His blood. He gave His all for each of us, and He calls us to love. He showed us how to love and He calls us to love Him and to love one another.
7. With greatest love for each one of us, Jesus remains with us this very day, the same as the day He died on the cross, waiting for us to come and receive Him in the Eucharist and wait with Him in the Tabernacle.
8. See Mary under the cross hold the lifeless body of her beloved Son. . . the love that both Mary and Jesus have poured out for each one of us.
9. See Mary weep outside of His tomb as they lock Jesus in the tomb.
10. Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. John 19: 25-27
Rita saw Jesus appear as the Divine Mercy Jesus in tremendous light. Marty saw the Sacred Heart picture in brilliant light.
This rosary was prayed just prior to the Shepherds of Christ Meeting. Marty led the rosary, many people in attendance.
December 29, 1994 - 7:00am - Holy Spirit Chapel
What You do to the Least of My Brethren You do Unto Me
Jesus: Oh My dear one, do you not see Me in your brother starving to death, do you not look into his eyes and see that what you do to him you are doing to Me?
When you give do you not know that you are giving to Me? Your acts of kindness given to one of these My little loved ones is given to Me.
For I am gentle and kind of Heart. I am all loving. Give freely of yourselves. I want to give My love to this world. As you give to your brothers you are giving to Me.
For I was naked and you clothed Me. I was in need and you came to My aid. It is in giving that you receive.
What do I ask, but that you share your wealth with each other. Some have more than others, if you see Me in your brother you are loving Me when you love him.
The secrets of your life is to learn My ways. Study My life. Pray for a heart that is likened to Mine. Oh dear ones do not live your lives in vain.
You are here today, you are gone from this life tomorrow. Give to your brother as you would give to Me and your joy and love will abound. For I am in your brother, I am in his smile and in his heart — look into his eyes and see the God who dwells within. I am Jesus, your Savior, come to save the world from its sin and I come to you that you might have life and have it to the full. Life is found in loving and your hearts will know peace. Love, Love, Love, be a cheerful giver, give as you would to Me and your Father in heaven will bless you for your undertakings. I love you, I am Jesus the Savior of this world. I live in you this day, be the light that shines in the darkness, be Me to those who are bowed down. I am the Alpha and the Omega, I come to you with greatest love, I come to you this day. I live in you in this world, such dignity I impart to you My beloved ones, such dignity indeed.
December 30, 1994
I Carried This Heavy Cross Laden With Your Sins
Messenger: Before Communion, after the Lamb of God, I saw His bare skin on the top of His body, a bare arm. I saw His head. I felt so connected to the fact that He was a man. Such a realization that Jesus said people dead in sin can be brought back to life. He rose from the dead. I wanted to touch His skin and hold His lifeless body. Two days ago after the consecration I had such a realization of Him carrying the cross so heavy with our sins. Almost as if I felt the weight of it, as if I was there - so close to Him and looking into His face. In my heart I felt Him saying, "I carried this heavy cross laden with sins and they do not remember Me."
One night and the next day, I had such an awareness of His arm. Such love for the left arm that carried the cross and hung to the cross with a nail. It's like I can see His skin. I am there with Him. It's such a visual experience, but I'm there and I'm feeling it. I would have liked to have touched His skin and held His body. It's like I'm there. I am there with Him, that's what it is. I'm not thinking about the passion during the Mass. These experiences just happen.
December 1994
How Mary's Heart Knows Jesus
Messenger: Mary felt Jesus' sufferings as He fell under the cross. She knew Him as a baby in her heart. It is through her heart I will know Jesus, I will feel His love.
She held Him as a baby, she watched Him as a child, she watched Him take His first step, she knew Jesus deeply in her heart.
The peering look on Calvary signified such union in Their Hearts. Their whole life, all Their feelings for one another can be seen in that look on Calvary.
The union between the two Hearts is the secret to our union with God.
December 1994
Messenger: His body held lifeless by His loving Mother. Look upon the lifeless body of Christ. This is love that He gave Himself for love of us. To His death on the cross He loved us.
Jesus: Be the light to the world. I live within you — others see My light in you. I am He who loves this world so much, My Father gave to you His only Son.
Messenger: I see the wrapped up body of Jesus being placed in the tomb. What Jesus did for us. He came into this world wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. He was wrapped after His death and laid in a tomb. Mary was there, with joy in her heart of birth and immense sorrow in her heart weeping as they laid Him in the tomb. How well the heart of Mary knows the precious Heart of her Son.
He was born a baby. Wrapped and lifeless He was laid in the tomb. This is God who humbled Himself to be born a baby and lifelessly laid in the tomb.
Oh what of this lifeless body of Jesus. What of He who laid as an infant in a manger, this is, my children, the Son of God, born of Mary, in a little town of Bethlehem for our Salvation. He took the nature of a slave to be a man like us, a man like us.
Oh are we loved, dear little ones, are we love or do we wonder and complain for no one cares and loves us.
What do we want? He came as a baby, He showed us how to live. He died on the cross, He was laid lifeless in a tomb, to bring us His life. Life eternal. He rose on the third day.
Oh good God, who am I that you shed this goodness to Me. You who are all good, how can I say I love you and not give good to my brothers.
Open my heart to be like your heart Lord.
I close my heart up and put up walls to protect me. when you are my DIVINE protector. You protect me, my job is to live in you. Oh I consecrate my heart and my life to you. I consecrate my life to you.
Song: See the Eyes That Look At Mary
Messenger: Wake us up, let us see that you are truly Christ the lord, we need your grace, we consecrate ourselves to you.
See the eyes that look at Mary, she is gazing steadily upon her infant Son.
Let me gaze on You steadily Lord. You are my Savior. Help me to keep my eyes on You. You were born a little baby to show me the way. Now I must gaze on You ever steadily for You are the Savior of the World. It is through You I am raised to new life. From the tomb He came forth at the resurrection in His glorified body, that we may share in His life and have it to the full.
Sing the song: Now We Remain
Jesus: Be of a pure heart. Wash away all debris in your heart. Love each child as the unique child of My Father.
Oh children how you love with such reservation. Pureness, let go, surrender to the loving arms of God.
Messenger:
Love of Mother
Love of FatherLove of Husband
Love of childrenHe provides love for our every need, so we are not slavishly dependent.
He and He alone feeds the hungry soul.
We have need for approval — God the Father created us, we are His creation.
He loves me. If I realize this I can give His love to others. He really loves me that He died for me.
December 31, 1994 - Very Early Morning at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center
Jesus Appearing as the Resurrected Lord, All White, Sitting Next to Where Mary Appeared.
So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.
But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too. We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power over him any more. Romans 6: 4, 9
And after this perishable nature has put on imperishability and this mortal nature has put on immortality, then will the words of scripture come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin comes from the Law. Thank God, then, for giving us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Corinthians 15: 54 -58
Messenger: I love my son so dearly, there is such a connection in my heart to him. He is ten years old. I know him in my heart from a little baby, when I carried him in my womb. His whole life is recorded in my memory.
Mary's heart knew her Son. The anguish at losing Him in the temple, the anguish, how her heart was in such pain, it is inexpressible in words.
As is the joy, inexpressible for me of the resurrected Lord to appear to me next to the Sorrowful Mother. It is such joy for me to meditate on this mystery to remember the vision, to see Him clothed in white, His body so beautiful. I saw Him so beautiful, sitting all in white next to where Mary appeared triumphant! Jesus rose from the dead. I cannot express this magnificent sight of Jesus in His resurrected beauty as I saw Him.
Note today December 28, 2005: (I recalled the vision of December 5th, 96 when He appeared to me at the point of death hanging on the cross.)
Death - Resurrection
Why do we worry about so many things Jesus is with us. He shows us His death and resurrection.
God took the nature of a slave, He put on a human body, He was born a baby, He died by crucifixion.
Jesus: Do not fear, there is fear in your heart, I am with you, surrender totally to the will of the Father.
Messenger: I see the risen Lord as He sits all in white in a chair, here, next to the Sorrowful Mother. When I saw Jesus in the parking lot He was wearing a white tunic looking like the resurrected Lord with His hands outstretched.
I want to get in touch with Jesus. He took on a human body, He lived, He died, He rose.
Jesus is God, He is Lord over all the earth and He took on a human form for greatest love of us. He was born a baby. He was carried in His Mother's womb. Oh Holy dwelling place of God, Mary's womb, Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God.
Sing: Oh Holy Mary
Philippians 2: 7-8
But he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
becoming as human beings are;
and being in every way
like a human being,
he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death,
death on a cross.
Sing the Song of Jesus Christ
Now having met together, they asked him, ‘Lord, has the time come for you to restore the kingdom to Israel?’ He replied, ‘It is not for you to know times or dates that the Father has decided by his own authority, but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth’s remotest end.’
As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their sight. They were still staring into the sky as he went, when suddenly two men in white were standing beside them, and they said, ‘Why are you Galileans standing here looking into the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way as you have seen him go to heaven.’ Acts 1: 6-11
Messenger: The Apostles' hearts were in such sorrow to see Jesus go, their eyes in awe to see Jesus go to heaven.
God the Father: I am pleased, My daughter, with the work you are doing, how I love you, My beloved one.
Do not focus on yourself, focus on the other, always the other, Jesus focused on the other.
Messenger: Think of the love of the Trinity -- it is a mystery -- the love of the Trinity.
Excerpt from Response to God's Love Chapter 1 by Father Edward Carter, S.J.
...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).
Messenger: The more I realize the love of the Triune God, love of Mary, the love of the angels and saints -- I am in awe!!
Jesus takes care of my needs. Why should I talk about myself or anyone else when we could be talking about the mystery of God.
Why talk about incidentals when I could be talking about God.
He is Divine, He is who I love, that is it, when people are discussing the napkins, I want to talk about Jesus.
Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles
When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves. Acts 2: 1-4
Messenger: The Apostles were transformed from fear to fearlessness.
Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven, and at this sound they all assembled, and each one was bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language. They were amazed and astonished. ‘Surely,’ they said, ‘all these men speaking are Galileans? How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language? Acts 2: 5-8
Mary Went Up into Heaven
Sing: Immaculate Mary
Sing: On This Day Oh Beautiful Mother
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, you who enjoy God’s favour! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?’ The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.’ Mary said, ‘You see before you the Lord’s servant, let it happen to me as you have said.’ And the angel left her. Luke 1: 26-38
Now it happened that at this time Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be made of the whole inhabited world. This census—the first—took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria, and everyone went to be registered, each to his own town. So Joseph set out from the town of Nazareth in Galilee for Judaea, to David’s town called Bethlehem, since he was of David’s House and line, in order to be registered together with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. Now it happened that, while they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to a son, her first–born. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the living–space. Luke 2:1-7
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. John 19: 25-27
From the Glorious Rosary Aves
3. R. Imagine her joy to hear the choirs of angelic voices! Imagine her joy to see the angels and saints praising God!
4. R. She-who carried the baby Jesus in her womb, who held Him in her arms, who walked by His side during the Passion, who stood under His cross, who held His lifeless body and watched Him locked in the tomb-was now crowned Queen of Heaven, forever to reign in the court of heaven with her beloved Son.
Mary is Crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Revelation 12: 1
Sing: Hail Holy Queen
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.'
Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."' Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.'
One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came to speak to me and said, 'Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.' In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God. Revelation 21: 1-10The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon. Amen; come, Lord Jesus. Revelation 22:20
Sing: A Song from Jesus
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