April 12, 2011
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R. Ancestors
Seek True Treasures
February 17, 1994 5:30 a.m.
Jesus: My little ones, how are you doing? Are you getting bogged down in this weather? Do you know yet that you do not control the elements? You live every day and you think you have much to do to control your actions but you do not see the eyes of Him Who watches over you with loving care.
I give to you this earth and all you need to sustain your life here. Man worries about the earth and if this or that will happen. Man has become so independent that he thinks he controls all things and he needs to worry about his present and future.
You, My favored, chosen ones, know that life here lasts but a moment and like smoke it is gone without a trace. Look at your ancestors. So few people ever remember their ancestors, yet your ancestors thought that at every moment their actions were so crucial. Little ones, you hold on to life. You hold on to these little happenings here and you worry in vain! Look at the big picture, My little ones. Here today, gone tomorrow, and where are you going?
The days go by with such speed. "Oh," you say, "Where have the years gone?" You think every second is so important. You worry, you fret, you wander empty roads and I watch you. I see you with your emphasis on the moment. You are being deceived, My little ones. It is in seeing the moment as part of eternity that you really know what is going on. Each moment you live, you are the teacher about the God Who dwells in your breast. Each moment you live, you are My messenger to this cold, scared world. Nothing you do means anything except as you are serving Me.
Take off your glasses. Behold the life above. See every moment as a drop of the life to come. See every moment as part of eternity. All these drops together make up your pass into My kingdom.
You worry, you wonder, you fret, you hold on. I give you a toothache, I take it away. One second and a toothache is gone. Is that not how it is with life--one second and it is gone? Oh, how those little precious moments seem to die away and you scarce can remember what happened! Yet during people's lives those moments seem earth-shattering. Those moments are yesterday's forgotten memories. You hold on, you fret, you fume and I watch you let go of each moment, only to become forgotten by today.
Store up your moments as part of eternity. Every moment here is part of your pass to My kingdom. How are you living this moment? Is it used to give service to Me and preach My gospel? Are you making all your moments count towards your eternity? Each moment is but a breath and it is gone. Did you use the moment I gave you to do My work? This time is not yours. I can snatch your moments away in one breath. It matters, My children, only as you choose to serve Me and spread My love!
If everyone had God as their primary goal, what love you would possess. What power you would know, because God is the mightiest force. I have all the power. Other power is false power!
Do you get it yet? Do you think anything you hold on to is so precious here? Here today, gone tomorrow, and I snatch you from your seats and you never return to finish what you deemed so important.
Are you comprehending My words here? The body is but an instrument to get you around. Reach with the spirit within. Live from the soul. Communicate with Me in your soul. Look for the unseen world that surrounds you constantly. Die to yourself.
You have a soul at this very moment that is a vibrant spiritual force alive within you. Live from your soul, My little ones. Focus on your soul. Live from your heart. Do not fret and fume for the things of this world. Here today, gone tomorrow, and then forgotten. Today's moments, yesterday's forgotten treasures. Do they mean so much or do you forget what seemed so important?
Reach with the soul. Live for God. Each moment is your chance to store up treasures for eternity. They will never be forgotten. What you do to help others to know Me will never be forgotten. How you loved will never be forgotten. How you gave lives on in those you touched. Your love is like a bubbling brook. It bubbles and keeps on bubbling. Your selfishness dies the moment after you live it.
Love is the force. Love is the power that reflects the God above. Love is not selfish. Love does not demand its own way. Love gives and doesn't stop giving. On the day of judgment it will be found in the hearts of those you touched. Think of only yourself and watch your moments become yesterday's forgotten moments. Love your brothers and watch the world reflect the love you gave, from now to the end.
Love or selfishness? I call you to love. I call you to plant a seed that grows into a mighty oak. Plant My seeds of love. Ask not how you can attain your goal but how you can fulfill the goal of God. Love God, love one another. Too simple, too hard for many.
Love, children. Reflect the God Who dwells within your soul. Store up your moments forever lest they become yesterday's forgotten treasure.
Like ripples on a pond, your love never dies. It reaches on and on and goes into the moments of eternity. Love is lasting. Love never dies. Love God, love one another. Die to yourself and live.
end of excerpt
R. Adam and Eve sinned
Adam and Eve were sent from the
Garden of Eden
Cain is jealous of Abel
Cain murdered Abel
Jesus shed His Blood —
innocent Blood of
the God-head for our sins
The people are corrupt
Noah finds favor with God
Noah builds an ark
Only those on the ark lived
after the great flood
It rained on the earth 40 days
God flooded the earth —
Men that were on the earth
were destroyed
There was a rainbow sent by
God —
symbolizing God's Covenant
with the Earth —
From Noah — God repopulated
the earth
They tried to build the tower
of Babel
God confused their languages —
Abraham was born
Abraham married Sarah
God made a Covenant with
Abraham
Abraham and Sarah go to Canaan
There is a famine —
no food —
They seek refuge in Egypt
Sarah was beautiful —
Abraham passed Sarah as
his sister —
Sarah delighted the Pharaoh
The Pharaoh's house became
ill —
Abraham and Sarah unite
Finally Sarah has Isaac
Isaac marries Rebekah — the
granddaughter of Abraham's brother
Rebekah was barren for 19 years
Esau and Jacob are twins
born to Rebekah —
Abraham dies
Isaac blesses Jacob
instead of Esau
Jacob marries Leah and Rachel
Joseph is born to Jacob and Rachel
Jacob was 90 then —
Rachel dies giving birth to
Benjamin —
Jacob's 12 sons
Dinah, Jacob's daughter is ravished
by Shechem
Joseph gets the favorite
coat —
Joseph is sold into slavery —
Joseph explains dreams —
Joseph is sold to Potiphar —
Potiphar's wife tempts Joseph
and lies about it —
Joseph tells of 7 years of
plenty
7 years of scarcity
Joseph oversees grain
Joseph becomes rich and famous —
Joseph's brothers need
food
Jacob sends his sons
to Egypt
Benjamin summoned to Egypt —
Joseph helps his brothers —
After Jacob's death
Joseph continues to rule
over Egypt —
Aaron is born
Moses is born
The Lord appears to Moses
in the burning bush —
God sends Moses into Egypt
Moses is to deliver Israel
from bondage
Moses and Aaron demand to
let God's people go —
There are the Plagues
The first born is dead —
Pharaoh plunges into the
Red Sea
Moses gets the 10 Commandments —
Moses renews the Covenant
of Israel with the Lord —
Moses dies 120 —
The Israelites under
Joshua cross the
River Jordon
Excerpt from April 3, 2010
Easter Vigil
(1) Genesis "Let There be light"
Psalm - Lord Send Out Your Spirit
Psalm 104: 1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35
(2) Abraham and Isaac scripture
Psalm: Keep Me safe, Oh God
Psalm 16: 5, 8, 9-10, 11
(3) Dividing of the Red Sea
Psalm: Exodus 15: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18
(4) Isaiah 54: 5-14
Psalm: I will Praise You Lord,
for You have rescued me —
Psalm 30: 2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13
(5) Come to the Water
Psalm: You will draw water
joyfully from the springs
of salvation
Isaiah 12: 2-3, 4, 5-6
(6) Baruch - Walk in the way of God —
you will live in peace
Psalm: Lord you have the words
of everlasting life
Psalm 19: 8, 9, 10, 11
(7) Ezekiel - The Lord will pour clean water —
The Lord will give us a new heart
Psalm 42: 3, 5; 43: 3-4
Like a deer that longs for running streams
(8) Romans 6: 3-11
Romans 6:3-11
You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. 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. If we have been joined to him by dying a death like his, so we shall be by a resurrection like his; realising that our former self was crucified with him, so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be freed from the slavery of sin. Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin.
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. For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God. In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.
Psalm Alleluia, Alleluia
Give thanks for the Lord, for he is good
(9) Gospel Luke 24: 1-12
Jesus has risen
Luke 24: 1-12
On the first day of the week, at the first sign of dawn, they went to the tomb with the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb, but on entering they could not find the body of the Lord Jesus. As they stood there puzzled about this, two men in brilliant clothes suddenly appeared at their side. Terrified, the women bowed their heads to the ground. But the two said to them, ‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive? He is not here; he has risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee: that the Son of man was destined to be handed over into the power of sinful men and be crucified, and rise again on the third day.’ And they remembered his words.
And they returned from the tomb and told all this to the Eleven and to all the others. The women were Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. And the other women with them also told the apostles, but this story of theirs seemed pure nonsense, and they did not believe them.
Peter, however, went off to the tomb, running. He bent down and looked in and saw the linen cloths but nothing else; he then went back home, amazed at what had happened.
Sing Psalm 118
This is the
day the Lord has made,
let us rejoice and be glad —
. . .
Holy Saturday
Creation let there be light
God created all things from nothing
for His holy purpose
Abraham put to the test
God the Father gave His Son
Dividing of the Red Sea
prefigures baptism
God wants intimacy with us —
faithfulness from us
Come to the springs of life
giving water
Reading of Baruch
Baruch 3: 9-15, 32─4: 4
Reading of Ezekiel
Ezekiel 36: 16-28
Reading of Romans
Romans 6: 3-11
Gospel
Luke 24: 1-12
end of excerpt
April 12, 2011 continues
R. Being one in the body of Christ —
Praying united in our hearts —
The devil wants to tear apart —
The devil wants to tear apart before prayer —
The devil wants to tear apart before Mass —
Union is not changing one's plan because
of irritations — feelings —
A person doing God's will doesn't
stop doing it because they are
pressed on —
If one gives into how they feel to determine
their actions — they are pressed on
more and more frequently by the devil —
Unity is found in praying united —
this is where there is such
power in prayer —
People get used to patterned
behavior —
From learning to be divided
with others — they come
in the same patterned
behavior to all
The Mystical body is to
be one —
Here is what Jesus says about
oneness
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.
R. A person teaches themselves
to be separate and they
because of habits put
walls around themselves
with all —
They believe it isn't safe, to trust
others to be authentically
what they are —
What you see —
Is what you get —
True to the face —
Not wearing a mask —
When you walk into a room —
how are you
sizing up the situation to see
why you need to put up walls —
Or are you living — enjoying the
flowers
One can spend a lifetime trapped
in fears and habits — survival skills
from unsafe situations of the past
locked in a tomb and
never living —
authentically being who they are —
they wear a mask of their own
making —
Acting out all kinds of things because
they used them to survive a
bad situation in the past —
One can become locked in fear
and habits —
While one is living authentically —
trusting and handling problems
as they come —
really living in the moment —
The other is preparing always to be
safe because of their unsafe
situations of the past —
So they have to size up the situation —
Scan the room —
Divide in fear — where they should
have been enjoying others' company
Praying united at Mass
Praying united at the Prayer Groups
Praying as one —
Pleading in one heart to God —
takes letting down these self-made
walls —
God doesn't want this fear
to stop our union with Him and
others in unified prayer —
Listen again to John 17
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.
R. We were made to be one —
Walk hand-in-hand
Not think others are enemies to
fear and not trust —
God help us to be whole —
Help our hearts not to look like
wounded Swiss cheese
God help us to focus on You
Prayer is turning our hearts to
God in unity and love —
Not being afraid of others
praying —
Afraid to be close —
Let the Holy Spirit come to the
group and make us one —
Happy to pray to God who loves
us in one mind and one
heart —
Turtles go in the shell because
they are afraid —
Anxiety can be a habit of fearing
unity with others —
God tells us we need unity at Mass —
Unity in our hearts praying as one —
Jesus: Stiff —
Dead —
Untrustworthy —
God the Father:
I created you to be one in God
in love —
Stiff and Prideful —
Your world needs —
you to quit focusing on yourself
and pray united in your heart
as a body —
pleading for the world —
Your attitude is stiff and secluded
Let go and surrender to God —
throw away your bad habits —
You can fear — fear —
Where does your fear stop —
Dead, Dead, Dead
Trees do bend though straight
and tall —
Pray to the Holy Spirit to fill you —
Let go — pray in your heart to
God — quit focusing on yourself —
Be truthful —
Don't wear masks —
A truthful man has nothing to hide
Jesus dies naked on the cross
Cover yourself so you are safe
You are throwing your life away if
you lock yourself up
Fear —
Lack of trust —
Look with eyes that see through
My eyes —
I created you to trust in God
I created you to love
You can be a prisoner to yourself and
never let your shoulders down —
wear your coats —
Jesus comes with a warm heart
You can be cold and stiff
as you choose —
God is not like that
Satan wants you cold-hearted
not trusting —
living by your anxiousness
and fears is not living at all —
Let your yes be yes
Let your no be no
Don't live in a masked body —
Pray as a body
Love in your heart
Let go
I am there
Trust in God
Sacred Heart of Jesus
I trust in you —
Fear and anxiety will shorten your
life —
not add time to it
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