Song: Take Lord Receive

                R. Dear God we ask You to help us to
                    forgive all we are angry at —

                Please dear God help us heal
                    in our memories

Excerpts 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
 

                        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.

    

Soul of Christ

Soul of Christ, sanctify me
Body of Christ, save me
Blood of Christ, inebriate me
Water from the side of Christ wash me
Passion of Christ, strengthen me
O good Jesus, hear me
Within Thy wounds hide me
Permit me not to be separated from Thee
From the wicked foe defend me
at the hour of my death call me
and bid me come to Thee
That with Thy saints I may praise Thee
For ever and ever. Amen.

  Exodus 34: 6-7

Then Yahweh passed before him and called out, ‘Yahweh, Yahweh, God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in faithful love and constancy, maintaining his faithful love to thousands, forgiving fault, crime and sin, yet letting nothing go unchecked, and punishing the parent’s fault in the children and in the grandchildren to the third and fourth generation!’

                R. We have original sin from the
                    sin of Adam and Eve —

                God we are sorry for offending You!
                God we are sorry!!

                Jesus died
                Jesus rose —
                Jesus shed His blood!!

                Jesus: I have called you to write every day —
                    to write to My people of what really matters —
                    You are loved —

                    The devil wants you to think you are not loved
                        and if you do one thing wrong people will
                        reject you —

                    In today's world there is little respect for authority —
                        This is at the very root of the world's chaos —

                    God has made this world, with rules to follow —
                        rules for you, rules for children, rules
                        to live by —

                    What is right is children are told by adults
                        what they are allowed and not allowed to do —

                    Today many children want their way —
                    They use the situation to prove they get their
                        way — Many are rebellious, testing,
                        argumentative —

                    Children are to learn to obey just authority,
                    Children are to obey their parents —

                    People today are to obey God's rules —

                    Challenging authority, (not obeying) rules is at the
                        root of your problems —
                        It can be said — people want their
                        own way —
                        a sense of rebellion —
                        not of love, as I have told them —

                    Look at your earth, its coldness, disobedience
                        and unloving ways —

                    I am love —
                    I want obedience —
                    I want respect for authority —

                    I show you My Heart and My Mother's
                        Heart — the Hearts of greatest love —

                    You are to obey God
                    You are to obey just authority —

                    You are loved —

                    If a person did not love their family members
                        would they continue to live with them —

                    You are to work in love, as a team, under
                        the authority of God's rules and loving
                        parental authority —

                    Life is short —

                    You are to prepare yourself as if today was
                        your last —

                    Giving that day - all you have —
                    Taking care of yourself —
                    Acting out of love for others —

                    Look at the Our Father
 

               Jesus: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver
                        us from evil —

                    A man who sees himself not tempted by the
                        devil is deceived — the devil wants
                        you to be self-centered —

                    You were created to love — to work as a
                        community —
                        I was seen eating with those who
                            were rebellious to what I was
                            teaching and I was rebuked for this —

                    Hypocrites you can be — a just man acts
                        to do God's will —
                        Not for his own selfishness —

                    You are to be a new creation —

                    Not like Adam and Eve who did their own will
                        for selfishness and pride —

                    You obey God, from taking care of yourself,
                        to loving, to forgiving, to trying to
                        work with all God intends you to
                        work with in love —

                    A man caught a sickness from another who
                        did not care to warn others of their germs —
                        didn't wash their hands —
                        went into food, people not sick would eat —

                    Next the sickness went to the next state, the
                        little baby at the Family Feast,
                        it could have been avoided and a lot
                        of people saved from the virus had
                        the person stayed home, or if they
                        came - washed their hands, not
                        entered into the community food etc. —

                    If you can see how germs spread from
                        others not willing to think of others,
                        washing their hands,
                        staying home when sick,
                        not contaminating others' food if sick,

                    You can see how important it is to keep
                        yourself always thinking of others
                        in the community — those you deal
                        with in love —

                    I watch the selfishness with people's lives
                        and watch those who are victims of
                        this selfishness —

                    You are loved —
                    You must see yourself as loved —
                    You are to do God's will —

                    It becomes a habit to act dysfunctionally,
                        in selfishness toward your brother,
                        because of your own self-talk you tell
                        yourself about what others are thinking —
                        or you reject yourself as a contribution
                        God has chosen to the others and it is
                        God's will you make that contribution
                        of love and kindness of doing the work
                        you were called to do — not come and
                        be angry or stay away when God called
                        you to be a team player and make your
                        contribution in love, by attendance and
                        support you are to make —

                    Love is doing God's will —

                    Loving yourself is admitting the truth —
                        you are a work in progress —
                        you make mistakes, you need to be corrected —
                        you need to work with others in the
                            community —
                            work in love —
                            obey authority —

                        Loving God —
                        Loving others —
                        Loving self —

                    You can get up and the same story starts —
                        you need to prove yourself, you can think  —
                        people reject you, you can think —
                        If one thing happens, like you are corrected,
                            you can flee mad —

                    That is a prescription for doom —
                    That is deception —
                    That is not living by God's rules —

                    No team can get to the top by people with
                        such pride — thinking they cannot be
                        instructed on what to do —

                    Teams that win, are teams that welcome
                        instruction, that are being molded
                        into winners, that know team
                        strength —
                        that are not isolated, angry, unable
                            to be instructed or corrected
                            because of 'stumbling block'
                            pride and deception —

                    Teams are made out of people who
                        want to win, want instruction
                        and work together in strength —

                    Teams are about love —

                    Being united —
                    Working under leadership —
                    Working with the others on the team —

                    The biggest team effort is working under
                        God —
                        loving God, the authority —
                        loving your brothers as yourself —

                    You are rebelling against leadership when
                        you have the attitude "Nobody tells
                        me nothing and I do as I please"
                        That's a prescription of failure!!
                        That's a prescription of rebellion!!
                        That is not strength — it leads to
                            isolation and selfishness, the devil's anarchy!!

                    Live by the Word —
                    Use your Bible —
                    Love the Word as a two-edged sword —

                    Pray for your persecutors —

                    Don't be a part of the poison a person
                        rebelling spreads on everybody —
                        Be part of the winning team —
                        Live to win
                        Live to do God's will —
                        Judge your actions on God's will for you —

                    In doing God's will in all things —
                        eating, sleeping, obeying — you will
                        be the most happy —
                        You won't be a major part of the problem —
                            rebelling against rules given by God —
                            rules for taking care of yourself —
                            rules for obeying structure —
                            rules for obeying instruction —
                            Being disciples of Jesus —
                            Learning, being molded — using life to
                                prepare your hearts for heaven

                    I give you Myself in the Eucharist —
                    I give you My will —
                    "God loves you", say this —

                    Don't give into age old rejecting
                        thoughts about yourself or
                        your whole focus is trying to
                        be accepted —
                        seeing yourself as rejected by others
                            who love you —

                    You are loved —
                    Be about your work doing God's will —
                    Know you are loved

               Jesus: Look how the Apostles worked together in
                        the Acts of the Apostles to build
                        up the Church —      
                   
                    And the Church was built up on the
                        Blood of the Martyrs —
                        Stephen, the Apostles etc. —
                        who sacrificed doing God's will —

                    Why are your little feelings your god —
                        when these men paid a precious
                        price for the Church with
                        their lives —

                    Put your love where your mouth is —
                        don't tell others how to be
                        and disobey and be selfish yourself —

                    You were created for heaven and
                    You are homesick wanting to get to
                        heaven your true home —

               Jesus: You are on earth now,
                    But you were to be in heaven some day —
                    I paid a precious price for you —
                    I died and rose — I am Jesus —
                        I LOVE YOU!

                    To My death I loved you —
                    You were made for heaven —
                    Don't rebel against God's will —
                    Like the son who left home and
                        squandered his father's wealth —

                    Focus on preparing for heaven —
                    You walk on earth —
                    You live for heaven —

Psalm 18: 50

He saves his king time after time,
displays his faithful love for his anointed,
for David and his heirs for ever.

Psalm 21: 2-3

You have granted him his heart's desire,
not denied him the prayer of his lips.       Pause
For you come to meet him with blessings of prosperity,
put a crown of pure gold on his head.

                Jesus: Do not act in jealousy, anger or pride,
                        envy or slothfulness —

                    Act only doing God's will —

1 Peter 1: 3

Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

                Jesus: Celebrate the Pascal Mystery
                        Death/Resurrection

                R. We see the Holy Spirit at work in the Acts of
                        the Apostles

                Jesus: Pray to the Holy Spirit for help
                    Pray to the Holy Spirit for healing —

Acts 4: 13-21

They were astonished at the fearlessness shown by Peter and John, considering that they were uneducated laymen; and they recognised them as associates of Jesus; but when they saw the man who had been cured standing by their side, they could find no answer. So they ordered them to stand outside while the Sanhedrin had a private discussion. ‘What are we going to do with these men?’ they asked. ‘It is obvious to everybody in Jerusalem that a notable miracle has been worked through them, and we cannot deny it. But to stop the whole thing spreading any further among the people, let us threaten them against ever speaking to anyone in this name again.’

So they called them in and gave them a warning on no account to make statements or to teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John retorted, ‘You must judge whether in God’s eyes it is right to listen to you and not to God. We cannot stop proclaiming what we have seen and heard.’ The court repeated the threats and then released them; they could not think of any way to punish them, since all the people were giving glory to God for what had happened. The man who had been miraculously cured was over forty years old.

                R. Jesus eats with the Apostles
                    even after He resurrected
   

John 21: 1-14

Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this: Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fishing.’ They replied, ‘We’ll come with you.’ They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night.

When it was already light, there stood Jesus on the shore, though the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus called out, ‘Haven’t you caught anything, friends?’ And when they answered, ‘No,’ he said, ‘Throw the net out to starboard and you’ll find something.’ So they threw the net out and could not haul it in because of the quantity of fish. The disciple who Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord.’ At these words, ‘It is the Lord,’ Simon Peter tied his outer garment round him (for he had nothing on) and jumped into the water. The other disciples came on in the boat, towing the net with the fish; they were only about a hundred yards from land.

As soon as they came ashore they saw that there was some bread there and a charcoal fire with fish cooking on it. Jesus said, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught.’ Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore, full of big fish, one hundred and fifty-three of them; and in spite of there being so many the net was not broken. Jesus said to them ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples was bold enough to ask, ‘Who are you?’ They knew quite well it was the Lord. Jesus then stepped forward, took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish. This was the third time that Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after rising from the dead.

John 21: 12-13

Jesus said to them ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples was bold enough to ask, ‘Who are you?’ They knew quite well it was the Lord. Jesus then stepped forward, took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish.

 

                R. The devil attacks eating for the health of
                    the body —

                Jesus ate with the Apostles —
                The Eucharist is food for our soul —

                Food nourishes the body —
                The Eucharist feeds the soul —

                For 6 weeks Jesus told me
                    to feed the hungry

                From Blue Book I

To The Reader

Jesus wants to share His love with you. He comes in these letters to tell you how you can be in intimate union with Him.

All of us possess everything we need to have an intimate union with Him. He has written to me since October of 1991. For at least a year I sat in front of the tabernacle and begged him to talk to me. I wanted words. I prayed to the Holy Spirit and begged and begged Him to baptize me. After a long and seemingly endless search, trying to hear God, He told me to "feed the hungry." For six weeks this was all I heard. I thought maybe I wasn't feeding my children well or eating well enough myself. What a long wait for three words! At long last one day, as I was writing to Jesus, I received a letter back. He told me, "I am Jesus, Son of the Living God." I did not want to write this but it kept coming-and so many other messages. I knew nothing of anyone getting messages. I wrote them, reluctantly, and hid my notebooks. The letters kept coming-a lot in the night-and I would be awakened by long letters which I felt compelled to get up and write down. I read these letters privately and my life began to change. I felt a new life within me.

He taught me of His fervent love and how truly present He was. He taught me how precious I was to Him. Over and over again He would call me His precious child and tell me how He loved me, how He clothed me with dignity and honor. He told me over and over how He was right by my side always. He is teaching me to give up all fear and to trust in Him. He is teaching me to let go of myself and let Him run my life. I am trying every day to do His will.

He is also telling you in your heart all you need to know. He has all the answers for you there in your heart. You must be silent and go to Him so you can hear His words for you.

Sit in front of the tabernacle and be with Him. Sit and be open and just be with Him. Read these letters there. These are Jesus' love letters to you. Sit in front of the tabernacle and let Him talk to you. Sit silent awhile. Read these letters part of the time. Open any page and He will talk to you. Do not read this like a book, cover to cover. Just open to a page and read that page. That is the way He speaks to you.

end of excerpt

                Jesus: When you don't eat — you don't think
                    right — so the devil works in
                    this clouded thinking to operate
                    in tempting you to be angry etc. —
                    so he can divide you and others
                    doing My work

                You don't see clearly when you
                    starve your body —
                    It's not God's will —

                Be loving —
                Be kind —
                Do My Father's will —
                Don't listen to satan —
                You make your own misery

                Love
                Love
                Love

                As I loved you —
                    to My death I loved you

                Pray for the priests, the Church and the world —
                Don't isolate when you are called to operate
                    with your brothers

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