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April 10, 2007

April 11th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 7 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for April 11th are Glorious.

 

 

The monthly retreat will be at the
St. Anthony Shepherds of  Christ Center
 in China, Indiana from
April 10th through the 13th.

Those who came in March
had a marvelous retreat!

 

 

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Please, we need your help and support.

Come to China and please help with the mailing.

          

 

Taken on Easter

April 8, 2007

 

   

April 10, 2007

                All the things that work

                    right —

                I spilled a big hot cup of

                    spelt in my car and it

                    made such a mess —

                My cup folded and I didn't

                    burn myself

                    but oh the mess.

                Sin is like this —

                Satan presses down and we

                    let go a big negative

                    bomb — it can be

                passive-aggressive to make

                someone else fall in a trap —

                but we are at battle and God allows

                us to be tested to be good

                    But the pressure to do

                something because of impatience

                anger —

                    can be really strong and we

                    give into that — or jealousy —

                    envy, bad habits —

                love can be felt —

                    love burns and spreads

                One person can start a

                    chain reaction to

                    - positive energy

                    - negative energy

                Like snow that comes

                    unannounced — negative

                    or positive energy can

                    grip us

                Some let satan work with

                    negative energy and innocent

                    others end up receiving

                    their baggage —

                Passive-aggressive ways can

                    be used to provoke others

                    and then they can walk away

                    like they didn't start it

                    with the angry heart

                    There are some people

                who change your lives

                with hearts of love — quietly

                    They don't come with

                a big fan fair — they just

                are love —

                    Christ's love is transmitted

                in their actions

                    They aren't wounding others

                because they got wounded

                    Christ please be in my

                heart and on my lips

                    give me grace

                Help me God —

                to not give into my fallen

                    human nature

                    Help me to spread love

                A person spent days shining

                    a vase and no one cared —

                    in the process they were

                    so unloving

                Should we write on a freshly

                    polished vase —

                    sparkling

                    UNLOVINGNESS

                    MADE

                    ME

                    SHINY —

                My step-mom was so good and sweet —

                    but when she had club

                    it was tense

                Years ago I began teaching

                    at the University and

                    before class I was so

                    tense — I had to fight

                    getting mad at someone

                    in my family

                A flag man was waving cars on

                    a busy highway —

                    Some people with angry hearts were

                        just mad

                    Some with loving hearts were thinking

                        of the poor guy flagging

                        out there on a busy highway

                    Some waved

                    Some sneered and shook fists —

                Line us up and we all have wounds —

                Christ suffered all those wounds for our

                    sins

                Man can remember wounds —

                Children get over things.

                Some people harden their hearts and then

                    they lose things —

                God has put people in our lives to love

                    and love us and

                    if we don't have the right love we

                        feel now —

                    God has given us enough in our lives

                    Maybe we are looking for too much

                        affection from others to heal

                        old wounds and we need to turn

                        more to God

                    In the end satan is a devil — if

                he gets to us today — he can attack harder

                when we are wounded — he wants us weak

                so he can knock us down

                    We are at battle

                    If satan gains ground in the battle

                    He comes back with more reinforcements

                    He just keeps trying to advance

                        to stop holy work

                He works through wounded souls

                    who give into him - whose

                    hearts need to be healed — who

                    need to purify their hearts

                Satan works in unforgiveness in our

                    hearts —

                We can be calm until somebody hits

                    that button and then wow —

                The bigger our work for souls

                    the more satan wants us divided

                    and stopped, but he works to cause

                    division through unhealed wounds

                    in somebody's heart

                We cannot hold onto unforgiveness

                    in our hearts — no matter how

                    we feel we were betrayed, we

                    must forgive and pray for them eventually 

                    Unforgiveness keeps us locked in

                a dark steel box — we must work through

                a process of letting go and bring in light

 

He is risen

                    The tomb of Easter —

                    the stone was rolled back

                    the burial cloths dropped

                Look at the wounds of Christ — glorified

                Look at Veronica's cloth —

                Blood stained for our sins with the

                    love of the face of Jesus

 

   

                                                      April 5, 2001

 

                Wounds in our memory can be a problem —

                We remember how it hurt

                We remember how they did it over and over again

                God gives us memory which is so wonderful —

                    we love

                    we remember

                    we establish relationships

                    we can tie past to present

                    It is a faculty

                Some people have so much pain in their

                    memory — they can't face it —

                    they harden their hearts

                They can cut off enjoyment, spontaneity —

                We have to flush out our hearts

                Hard experiences must be dealt with and healed

                Or we allow satan to have a key to our

                    door —

                A man with a key to a place — just gets

                    in real easy

   

Psalm 95

Come, let us cry out with joy to Yahweh, 
acclaim the rock of our salvation. 
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving, 
acclaim him with music.

For Yahweh is a great God,
a king greater than all the gods.
In his power are the depths of the earth,
the peaks of the mountains are his;
the sea belongs to him, for he made it,
and the dry land, moulded by his hands.

Come, let us bow low and do reverence; 
kneel before Yahweh who made us! 
For he is our God, 
and we the people of his sheepfold, 
the flock of his hand. 

If only you would listen to him today! 
Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, 
as at the time of Massah in the desert, 
when your ancestors challenged me, 
put me to the test, and saw what I could do!

For forty years that generation sickened me,
and I said, *Always fickle hearts;
they cannot grasp my ways.*
Then in my anger I swore
they would never enter my place of rest.

  

                Life is life rooted in Him

                Christ's Heart was pure —

                Through His pierced Heart the Church was

                    born

                Fountain of life —

                Creeks around China

 

                From Christ's pierced heart

                    Blood and water poured out

                Water for baptism

                Blood for the Eucharist

   

 

John 19: 33-34

When they came to Jesus, they saw he was already dead, and so instead of breaking his legs one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out blood and water.

 

                From the high altar

                    I see the grace flow

                    in the creeks around

                    China —

                Grace flows from the Mass —

                Grace flows to the body of Christ

                Grace flows to the world

                Alleluia

 

 

                Let us celebrate

                    Baptism and

                    sharing in His life!!

                Alleluia

       

  

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