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Mass on April 12th - 12 noon

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Package for the month of Mary and First Communion     

The Song of Bernadette DVD       OR	The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima DVD	11" Fatima Statue with image glass	Blue Book 12	8x10 and 4x6 pictures of Our Lady of Clearwater

                April 12, 2014

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. Dear God, help us to have time alone
                with You. To see the beauty of
                Your creation and to just enjoy
                the moment. For You are by my
                side and You give me refreshment.
                After the weeks of Lent can we stop
                now and let go to God.

                Identify with Jesus in our lives –
                Seek the Father's will and give
                ourselves to His will –
                Like Mary who loved the Father's
                will and embraced it, lived it
                because she really saw herself the little
                daughter of the Heavenly Father.
                It is presence – presence of knowing
                God cares for us now and that Father, Son
                and Holy Spirit live in our graced baptized soul.
                When I was a child I did childish things,
                but now as I grow my sights are on
                You my God to reach, pure Christian
                maturity on this journey to You.
                I am the creature, You are the Creator,
                You created me with a purpose to
                be as You exist in me and operate
                in me to the world. This presence
                of You in me God means I can
                surrender, let go, see with Your eyes
                what You want me to see and be
                the little child in the arms of Mary.
                She is by my side and I am not alone.
                My God, I surrender to You. I let
                go to You – I want to know, love and
                serve You, my God.

                    Come to me Lord and Possess my soul,
                I am Yours, Lord. Come and dwell
                in me.
 

                R. Salvation History –

                    I am here in salvation history
                today –

                God enlists our help. Our lives lived
                to help in the work of redemption.
                I came and I was a child – He had
                a plan for me, I have interacted
                in love of God and love of others –
                I have learned to relate more and
                more in relationship – God is love –
                He has put us here to love – to grow
                in relationship with Him and
                all others and to someday go to heaven
                and be in the beatific vision
                in heaven.

                    Jesus showed us how He followed
                the way of the Father. He was
                not attached to the crowd who loved
                Him on Palm Sunday and wanted to
                crucify Him and did crucify Him
                on Friday.

                    His life was lived to do the Father's
                will. That means we cannot be
                enslaved to things in ourselves for
                why we act. It can be deficient
                ways we think about ourselves
                before others and so we become
                subconscious and try to prove
                ourselves when God is just
                asking us to be and to be His
                instrument always with eyes
                open to His Plan and hearts loving,
                and trusting and docile to His touch.

                    It means living the Prayer for Union
                Prayer because God wants us to
                live to reach more and more full
                Christian maturity.

                    As we go through Holy Week –
                it is about dying. Dying to our
                selfish ways, our attachments
                in our thinking that block us
                from letting go to Him. How tight
                can we hold onto our program
                that we want to control things
                and do it our way because we
                want what is familiar.

                Jesus gave me a song once about being
                clay in His hands. The time is
                nigh Mary said 2 days after
                she appeared at Clearwater.
                We are in the state of becoming more like Christ.
                The world is in the state of becoming more like Christ.
                The Church is in the state of becoming more like Christ.

                In order to grow to this Christian maturity
                    God wants – We must surrender to
                    God the Father and be like clay in
                    His hands. He has a plan for us.
                    Now is the time to die to that
                    control that keeps us stuck
                    in our own will and be
                    more and more one in God. Existing more
                    deeply in God, surrendering to
                    willfulness – going through Holy Week
                    with this attitude to die to our
                    will and love His will – to put on
                    Christ – So on Easter we are saying
                    with St. Paul –
 

Galatians 2: 19-20

                R. Holy Week is the end of Lent –
                We pick up the cross, the burdens
                we put on ourselves with our
                thoughts that are like weights
                on our back and become that
                new creation in Him – Asking God to
                sanctify our memories for His work –
                to sanctify our hearts to love more and
                more likened to Him –
                to help us to see through the pure
                eyes of Mary and Jesus, the Father's
                Plan for us –

                Not to put on jealous, prideful
                    glasses like Eve in the Garden
                    and to miss the vision of
                    seeing through God's eyes.

                To put on the mind and heart of Christ and
                    to ask God for His vision –

                To be open in our heart to God and
                    not closed in on ourselves in fear,
                    but open in love to all God sends
                    into our lives –

                To die to ourselves and consecrate our
                    hearts to Jesus and Mary.

                Holy Week is about dying to ourselves
                    and living in Him –

                To live the next 40 days in the days
                    of resurrection –

                Living to be a new creation in
                    Him –

                Listening to the readings of the
                    days of Easter and applying
                    it to ourselves –

                Days of resurrection, days of presence,
                    days of slowing down to our
                    pace and putting on Christ –
                    living in Him –

                Days of Easter joy –
                    taking off the heavy cross we
                    put on our own backs –
                    pride, jealousy, envy,
                    slothfulness, lust etc.
                    and begging God to increase
                    faith, hope and
                    love in Him.

                We are called to the table of the Lord.

                We are called to be witnesses of hope –
                    to be alive in Him –

                Will we answer His call to pray
                    as He wants us to –
                    will we put on Christ in our
                    thinking –

                Looking at the Garden and even though
                    He knew all that would
                    happen to Him in His Divine
                    Knowing – He did the Father's
                    will –

                We have prayed these days of Lent
                    for healing of the family
                    tree –

                Now is the time to let go of our bad
                    habits of independence and
                    closed in thinking –
                    hording our own time, even,
                    when God calls us to be pure
                    in heart and
                    rooted in His Plan –

                Let go to God.

                Let go of thinking we have as bad
                    habits of anxiety and fear and
                    let that burden lift we
                    put on ourselves and
                    put on the mind and heart
                    of Christ –

                The surrendering to Him and begging for
                    an increase of faith, hope
                    and love.

                We need to have God first in all our
                    thoughts –
                    In sufferings we put God first
                    many times, because we have
                    to pray to Him –

                Some saints wore a hair shirt to
                    remember God always.
                    We are not to do that, but
                    we should always have
                    Him before us and focus
                    on Him, not wait for
                    suffering to get us to be close in
                    prayer to Him.

                    We should be living in Him, in
                joy and in suffering.

                    So He can let us suffer an
                    affliction and it takes us from
                    controlling things and forces
                    us to let go. To see through
                    the mind of Christ. To see
                    how dependent we are on
                    Him always in joy and suffering.

                To know we are never alone –
                To have His presence in us –
                To see through the eyes of God –
                To open ourselves up to Him –

                Not close ourselves down because
                    we think we have to control
                    things for various thinking
                    we have that is twisted –

                To practice greater trust in Him,
                    through prayer and
                    greater love and trust in those
                    He has sent to us to work
                    with –

                To pray to be released of untrusting
                    thinking of those we love and
                    instead pray for them, pray
                    for grace for them to

                Consecrate their lives, their hearts
                    to Jesus and Mary and really live
                    that consecration –

                An attitude of gratitude –
                Not hording God's gifts and never
                    even recognizing how
                    ungrateful we were –
                    when He gives us so much –
                    We need an
                    ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE –

                Thank You God –
                I love You God –
                I am Yours God –

                Sing: A Song from Jesus

                He has blessed us giving us His Blue Books
                    and being able to be in the Hearts
                    of Jesus and Mary –

                Strength comes in surrendering
                    to God.

                Read the Blue Books – carry it and
                    open it

June 3, 1995

                Excerpt from April 20, 1995 Rosary

Mary Visits Her Cousin Elizabeth

1. Mary: Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me.” Teach your children how to pray. Teach them when they are young. Your children need to know about God.

2. Mary: Children are so precious to Jesus! My dear little ones, teach your children to pray the rosary.

April 14, 1995 - Good Friday 11:30 a.m.

Patience

R. Dear Jesus,

I don’t know why I left you, I just did, I wanted You my way and I wanted You now. You were always there loving me so silently, so sweetly and I in my impatience wanted You to come and be with me the way I wanted.

Teach me oh Lord, the gift of patience, teach me to love as You loved, all through Your life You showed Your peace. You were not anxious, You were always at perfect peace, always loving.

Thank You for coming to this earth, for taking on a human nature, for being My model that I can follow to learn to be more like You. Thank

You for the Blessed Virgin Mary, our Mother, that You give to us to model our lives after her. Thank You for the saints, thank You, thank You, thank You, for Your gentle, silent ways that teach me such great lessons.

In my willfulness, in my impatience, I want things my way, You taught us patience all through Your life. You knew that You would suffer and die and You were patient, kind and loving always complying to the  will of the Father.

You taught us Your patience in the garden, in Your great suffering to know in such detail all You would experience and you could have stopped it all. You taught us patience to endure for the will of the Father. You taught us to trust in the Father’s love.

You taught us patience at the pillar, as they beat You and You humbly endured all the violence for love of us. You taught us patience as You sat and were spit on and crowned with thorns and persecuted, patience, patience, patience and You could have stopped it all. You taught us patience as You carried the heavy cross on Your back, patience as You fell and got up, patience, patience, patience until you finally hung for three agonizing hours to Your death on the cross.

I do not want to wait. Give me the gift of patience and teach me to comply always to the Father’s will.

April 14, 1995

Good Friday (excerpt)

Jesus: “I give Myself to you, no less present than the day I died on the cross.” I give Myself to you and you run from My altar to be about your busy lives. I AM who AM, I am God. I am your best friend, I never leave you, the friend you seek, you were created to love Me. No human person can satisfy your soul, I am He who loves you with unfathomable love. I am the Almighty God, born of Mary, a spotless virgin in the town of Bethlehem. I give you Myself truly present in the Eucharist. I am truly present, My dear ones, do you not comprehend, this. Oh what a gift I bestow on you. I am with you in My Divinity and humanity in the Eucharist. I dwell in your graced baptized soul. I give you My life.

April 9, 1995 (excerpt)

Glorious Meditations

 

John 2: 19-22

Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple: are you going to raise it up again in three days?’ But he was speaking of the Temple that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what he had said.

R. Fear and hatred watch around His tomb.

Jesus rose from the dead. He was no longer held captive.

Free, Joyous, Triumphant, Radiant. His Glorified Body.

1 Corinthians 15: 55

Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?
 

Death has no power over Jesus!

The ineffable joy and glory of the Resurrection has been purchased at the price of the most horrible sufferings.

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, so to have entered into His glory.

It is in the road of sorrow and pain that we trace His bloody footprints.

We see His Glory.

Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

R. See His glorified body, glistening!!

    Oh Death, where is your sting? Why do you look for the living among the dead? He has risen as the prophets foretold. He lives in us.
 

Ascension

Luke 24: 50-51

Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven.

R. He promised to send the Holy Spirit. He tells us our Mission given to us from Him. He blesses us.

The Apostles were filled with grief and wonder at the Ascension.

They continue to see Him go upward and a cloud takes Him out of sight — Let us always look upward.

He never leaves us.

He goes to prepare a place for us. This is His promise.

This world is not our true home. Jesus is perfect love — This is the place we should direct our thoughts to — “He goes to prepare a place for us” He enters into the bosom of the Father.

Mortal sin is death. The enemy does not want the soul to see the truth. Arise those who sleep, arise from the dead.

How do I break the cords that tie me down? How do I roll away the stone that keeps me tied down? How do I break the habits that keep me tied down, that stop me from life?

For us Christ died and He rose.

1 Corinthians 15: 39-44

Not all flesh is the same flesh: there is human flesh; animals have another kind of flesh, birds another and fish yet another. Then there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; the heavenly have a splendour of their own, and the earthly a different splendour. The sun has its own splendour, the moon another splendour, and the stars yet another splendour; and the stars differ among themselves in splendour. It is the same too with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable; what is sown is contemptible but what is raised is glorious; what is sown is weak, but what is raised is powerful; what is sown is a natural body, and what is raised is a spiritual body.

R. Our bodies will be glorified.

Help me to rise from the tomb of my failings to live in, through, and with Thee.

                Given March 21, 2014

                R. Pray for These Things

                1) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                2) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                3) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
                4) People going to Florida and China.
                5) Vocations to all 7 categories.
                6) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
                7) Pray for pope helping us.
                8) Blue Book 13 cover; Blue Book 12, Blue Book 13 - all involved.
                9) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
              10) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
              11) Donors and members and their families.
              12) Healing of the Family tree.
              13) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
                    Jim, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Tom's wife, Kerry.
              14) All who asked us to pray for them.
              15) All we promised to pray for.
              16) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
                    Betty, Sophie, Rosie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Jeff,
                    Louie, 2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us.
              17) 2 babies and moms.
              18) Funds and insurance.
              19) Special intentions.
              20) Jerry's garage.
              21) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
              22) Consecrate all hearts.
              23) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.