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March 7, 2014
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March 7, 2014
Galatians 2: 20
and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.
R. Abandoning oneself to the will
of God.
The saints knew it, the body
exists for the soul.
Jesus: I impart to you this wisdom to
know the truth as I teach you
more perfectly.
R. In the rosary, I go to a place and
He speaks through me. Insight
into the Divine Mysteries.
To be in the mind and Heart
of Christ. To will to be where
God wants us to be spiritually in that
place of union with Him, inside –
in one mind and one heart – To put
on Christ – to see with the eyes of the
soul, that is one with Him, to know
Him more deeply, as never before, the
reality of the place of existence
more and more in Him, preparing
ourselves with His grace for the
beatific vision.
Look at Saint Stephen and he
prayed, and he saw what God
was showing him – despite
the fact he was being stoned –
he saw with the invisible eyes
of the soul.
So the martyrs, some of their bodies were
burned, they were led to be tortured,
decapitated – they saw with the eyes
of the soul rather than offend God,
to give men a place higher than God.
Sunday's Gospel Cycle A –
The devil tried to tempt Christ –
Christ in His bitter passion
shows us the mind of God.
His body was beaten, His flesh
was torn, He said
"Not My will, but Thine be done."
I know the place of union deeply
with Him, as in last night's rosary,
being so one in Him, so detached from
the world – He speaks through me
in the Rosary Meditations.
Surrendering to Him.
Being in the mind of Christ.
Letting go of it all and letting
Him more and more come and possess
my soul.
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. I opened to Him my heart and
He gave me eyes to see, not with
earthly vision, but with the
eyes of God and He opened the heavens
and I knew Him and how He wants
us to be more and more one with Him.
To be in the mind and Heart of
God.
To embrace His will for us.
The pure prayer He wants during
retreats, during Mass, the letting
go of us as members of the mystical
body of Christ – to be surrendering
to the mind and Heart of God.
This is harmony and unity will
follow –
for the man who gives his
will to God's will is not enslaved
by thoughts of himself. He is not
held bound by jealousy and pride,
wanting to look better than his
brother – Even as Eve wanted to be equal
to God – She was tempted by satan
and wanted to be equal to God.
The eyes of the jealous, plan
their actions around their jealousies
and they are enslaved – for the man
rooted in God doesn't plan at all –
he is as a flowing brook – dependant
on God for his way – He knows a
place of surrender and the Spirit
of God lives in Him – He is docile
to His touch, He is surrendering and
willing to be an instrument God uses
to live in and operate through as
he lives in love and not enslavement
to jealousies and envy and pride
and anger, lust, slothfulness.
God calls us to united prayer
during the retreats especially at
Mass when praying together –
being in the mind and Heart of
God, letting go of one's selfish
will to rise to a place of
higher existence in God.
Jealousy and pride, envy,
anger, slothfulness, lust
are enslavement. The devil
uses old memories and feelings where
the person is sunken in deficiencies
about how they see themselves and
so they lash out against their
brother in distorted thinking to
fill their sick abandonment
needs.
There is the man, who lives by
the Blue Books, who lives in
union with Jesus, who puts on
the mind and Heart of Jesus
and who exists in Him. This
place is not made of matter,
it is a place of being so
one with God, that reaching out
further and further to Him is
like the plant seeking sunlight.
Letting go to God – being more and
more abundantly filled with
His life.
The willful man is enslaved
and he lives to please himself –
he runs a side-show to the
main event.
The main event is Jesus. See
the monstrance
and focus
on the prayer and be united to
Him – in the mind and Heart
of God.
Being in the mind and Heart of
God brings unity.
This is a powerful place to be –
in one mind and one heart at
Mass, in China, in Florida –
it brings down great healing
graces and blessings.
In the first reading
in the second Sunday of Lent
Cycle A – God says to Abraham
I will bless those who bless
you and curse those who
curse you –
Genesis 12: 1-4
Yahweh said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your kindred and your father’s house for a country which I shall show you; and I shall make you a great nation, I shall bless you and make your name famous; you are to be a blessing!
I shall bless those who bless you,
and shall curse those who curse you,
and all clans on earth
will bless themselves by you.’So Abram went as Yahweh told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy–five years old when he left Haran.
R. Abraham was the Father of God's
people. Abraham brought to them
the message of God – the mind
of God and they prospered
when they listened, but we
see when Joseph came, how
his brothers opposed the will
of God and the sufferings
that followed.
We see how David struggled
with those opposed to him,
How the people fought
Moses in the desert –
Joseph was rooted in the mind
of God. He did His will and He
prospered. He was sold for 20
pieces of silver, He was a
slave, Joseph was whipped,
Joseph obeyed the will of God –
He was straight to prepare
the way of God's people –
The forming of the people
faithful to God is seen in the
Old Testament and those who went
against God's will ran a
"side-show" and caused
havoc.
Faith was strong in our fore-fathers
in Abraham, Isaac and Joseph.
They laid the path and their faith
in God was their strength.
Hebrews 11:1-40
The exemplary faith of our ancestors
Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities that are unseen. It is for their faith that our anestors are acknowledged.
It is by faith that we understand that the ages were created by a word from God, so that from the invisible the visible world came to be.
It was because of his faith that Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain, and for that he was acknowledged as upright when God himself made acknowledgement of his offerings. Though he is dead, he still speaks by faith.
It was because of his faith that Enoch was taken up and did not experience death: he was no more, because God took him; because before his assumption he was acknowledged to have pleased God. Now it is impossible to please God without faith, since anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and rewards those who seek him.
It was through his faith that Noah, when he had been warned by God of something that had never been seen before, took care to build an ark to save his family. His faith was a judgement on the world, and he was able to claim the uprightness which comes from faith.
It was by faith that Abraham obeyed the call to set out for a country that was the inheritance given to him and his descendants, and that he set out without knowing where he was going. By faith he sojourned in the Promised Land as though it were not his, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. He looked forward to the well-founded city, designed and built by God.
It was equally by faith that Sarah, in spite of being past the age, was made able to conceive, because she believed that he who had made the promise was faithful to it.
Because of this, there came from one man, and one who already had the mark of death on him, descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore which cannot be counted.
All these died in faith, before receiving any of the things that had been promised, but they saw them in the far distance and welcomed them, recognising that they were only strangers and nomads on earth. People who use such terms about themselves make it quite plain that they are in search of a homeland. If they had meant the country they came from, they would have had the opportunity to return to it; but in fact they were longing for a better homeland, their heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, since he has founded the city for them.
It was by faith that Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He offered to sacrifice his only son even though he had yet to receive what had been prcomised, and he had been told: Isaac is the one through whom your name will be carried on. He was confident that God had the power even to raise the dead; and so, figuratively speaking, he was given back Isaac from the dead.
It was by faith that this same Isaac gave his blessing to Jacob and Esau for the still distant future. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, bowed in reverence, as he leant on his staff. It was by faith that, when he was about to die, Joseph mentioned the Exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his own remains.
It was by faith that Moses, when he was born, was kept hidden by his parents for three months; because they saw that he was a fine child; they were not afraid of the royal edict. It was by faith that, when he was grown up, Moses refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter and chose to be ill-treated in company with God's people rather than to enjoy the transitory pleasures of sin. He considered that the humiliations offered to the Anointed were something more precious than all the treasures of Egypt, because he had his eyes fixed on the reward. It was by faith that he left Egypt without fear of the king's anger; he held to his purpose like someone who could see the Invisible. It was by faith that he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood to prevent the Destroyer from touching any of their first-born sons. It was by faith they crossed the Red Sea as easily as dry land, while the Egyptians, trying to do the same, were drowned.
It was through faith that the walls of Jericho fell down when the people had marched round them for seven days. It was by faith that Rahab the prostitute welcomed the spies and so was not killed with the unbelievers.
What more shall I say? There is not time for me to give an account of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, or of David, Samuel and the prophets. These were men who through faith conquered kingdoms, did what was upright and earned the promises. They could keep a lion's mouth shut, put out blazing fires and emerge unscathed from battle. They were weak people who were given strength to be brave in war and drive back foreign invaders. Some returned to their wives from the dead by resurrection; and others submitted to torture, refusing release so that they would rise again to a better life. Some had to bear being pilloried and flogged, or even chained up in prison. They were stoned, or sawn in half, or killed by the sword; they were homeless, and wore only the skins of sheep and goats; they were in want and hardship, and maltreated. They were too good for the world and they wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and ravines. These all won acknowledgment through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised, since God had made provision for us to have something better, and they were not to reach perfection except with us.
R. Being rooted in Him. The foolish
man sees his brothers that are
serving God as a problem to their
mastery and their will.
As we go through Lent we
see Adam and Eve sinned and
Eve gave into the temptation
of satan in the garden –
Sunday's readings show us
Christ being tempted by satan and
how He responded.
Satan is a fallen angel –
Jesus, the Son of God –
So Sunday in the first reading
we see Eve gave in.
In the Gospel we see Jesus,
the Son of God and how He
was, with satan's temptation –
We see Christ is the New Adam.
Joseph pre-figures Christ –
So we have the same side-shows
today – The world is the garden
and the focus of many is not
God's will, but they listen to
the temptations of satan and
serve satan.
In the second Sunday of Lent
we see these two readings.
Abraham forming
and leading God's people and God
says I will bless those who
bless you and curse those
who curse you in the first
reading and
then we see the transfiguration
"Listen to Him" God told me –
I saw Jesus appear at the point
of death on the cross – December 5, 1996
and His mouth was moving because
He said that night in the 5th
rosary
"Nobody was listening to Him"
Mary and Jesus told me to put out the
message
Mary's message on a tape
December 12, 1996 and pass it out
December 13, 1996 at the 3rd, 13th
meeting at Tom's farm –
After Mary appeared to me 2 1/2 years
she said "I do not appear as
I once appeared."
Jesus appeared at the point
of death December 5, 1996 –
We put out Mary's message on tape
December 12, 1996.
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