Pray for Special Intentions
 
 

Consecration Prayer for Peace

I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.

I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able,  to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

     

Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.  

         
 

April 17, 2022

Happy Easter

Jesus has risen –
 

   

April 16, 2022

R. In the movie it said
“What frightens you”.
The soldier said
“Being wrong”.

The devil blatantly tries to
show right is wrong and
wrong is right.

Jesus is the way, the truth
and the life.
Many make themselves on
top and live to say they are
never wrong.
They rebel against God,
they want nobody telling
them what to do.
God is the Creator, we are
the creatures, if we want to
see ourselves as equal to
God, we are back where
Eve went wrong.

God is above, we are under
God, when we see
ourselves equal to God we
are wrong.

The devil wants to make
right look wrong and wrong
look right.

The devil said,
“I will not serve”.
You can see the devil is
working in rebellion against
God.

God’s will is to be done on
earth as it is in heaven -
Jesus said.

Say the Our Father!!!

The Christian’s life is our
response to God who loved
us first.
The Christian is to love God
and others.
When a person rebels
against love, they
disconnect, turn their back
on God. God is love.

The Resurrection
shows us Jesus died and
He came back alive in His
glorified body.

Jesus is truly present in the
Eucharist, no less present
than when He walked the
earth.

Jesus is the Son of God.
Jesus paid for our sins.
Jesus wants us to go to
Him and tell us we are
sorry for our sins, tell
God we are sorry for
offending Him.
We are to make reparation
for our sins.

Humility is truth. We need
to admit the good and evil
in us. This is humility.
We need to seek healing
from God. Jesus is the
Divine healer. We must
walk humbly and admit the
truth.

Jesus was crucified in
between a good thief and a
bad thief.
The good thief was sorry
for his sins.
The bad thief was mean
and stubborn, he was not
going to show any sorrow
for his sins.

Being a Christian means
walking in ways of love.
Jesus is love.

John 3:16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

 
God first loved us.
We are to respond to Him in
love.

 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Carter

    Our new life in Christ has arisen out of God's fathomless love, and, what is more, its entire dynamism breathes love. The Incarnate Word himself has taught us this. On our behalf, Christ, as man, has perfectly opened himself to the Father's love; he has then responded to the Father in love. In relation to men, Jesus has loved completely from the depths of his being, pouring himself out in a life of selfless service, a self-giving that drew from him life's breath itself so that he could say he loved—without reserve and to the end. Thus forever was etched upon the pages of man's history—indelibly and so deeply—the love of Jesus for mankind. In this very greatness and depth of Christ's love for us, he was also opening himself to our love, for he can enter the human heart only if there is a response of love that encounters his own. Consequently, Jesus is the sacrament—the visible sign—of the great dimensions of Christian love. Christians are the persons who receive God's love and respond with their own love; Christians also love their fellow human beings as themselves and, in turn, open themselves to receive others' love.
 

John 1:14-16

The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
   as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.

John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
‘This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.’

Indeed, from his fullness
    we have, all of us, received—
one gift replacing another,

Jeremiah 1 :4-8

 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:

 ‘Before I formed you in the womb
     I knew you;
  before you came to birth 
     I consecrated you; 
  I appointed you as prophet to the nations.’

  I then said, ‘Ah, ah, ah, Lord Yahweh;
you see, I do not know how to speak: I am only a child!’

  But Yahweh replied,
‘Do not say, "I am only a child,"
 for you must go to all to whom I send you
 and say whatever I command you.
 Do not be afraid of confronting them,
 for I am with you to rescue you,
 Yahweh declares.’

R. There are many wounds
that can interfere with
opening oneself to grow in
love.
Our Father created us and
we are creatures, created in
the image and likeness of
God.
Many hearts are shut down
because they refuse
healing for the Father and
Mother wounds and other
wounds,
that may have hurt a
person's ability to open up.

God is love.
God commands us to love
Him and love our neighbor
as ourselves.
God tells us we were
created to know and love
and serve God.

 
 

        April 16, 2022

Glorious Mysteries

        The Resurrection

1. Matthew 28: 1-10

The empty tomb. The angel's message

After the Sabbath, and towards dawn on the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to visit the sepulchre. And suddenly there was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled away the stone and sat on it. His face was like lightning, his robe white as snow. The guards were so shaken by fear of him that they were like dead men. But the angel spoke; and he said to the women, ‘There is no need for you to be afraid. I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said he would. Come and see the place where he lay, then go quickly and tell his disciples, "He has risen from the dead and now he is going ahead of you to Galilee; that is where you will see him." Look! I have told you.’ Filled with awe and great joy the women came quickly away from the tomb and ran to tell his disciples.

Appearance to the women

And suddenly, coming to meet them, was Jesus. ‘Greetings,’ he said. And the women came up to him and, clasping his feet, they did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers that they must leave for Galilee; there they will see me.’

2. The Christian life essentially consists in God's
    loving self-communication to us with our
    concomitant response to Him is love.

3. In baptism God gives us a sharing in His life.

4. Romans 6: 3-4

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.

5. God first loved us.

John 3: 16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.
 

    We respond to this.

6. God calls us to love - to love God and
    love our neighbor as ourselves.
    Jesus shows us His Sacred Heart as
    a symbol of His love.

7. We do not want to be like these servants in
    this scripture. 

Matthew 21: 33-46

Parable of the wicked tenants

‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When vintage time drew near he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third. Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them thinking, "They will respect my son." But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, "This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him and take over his inheritance." So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ They answered, ‘He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him at the proper time.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures:

   The stone which the builders rejected
   has become the cornerstone;
   this is the Lord’s doing
   and we marvel at it? 

‘I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’ 

   When they heard his parables, the chief priests and the scribes realised he was speaking about them, but though they would have liked to arrest him they were afraid of the crowds, who looked on him as a prophet.

    Respond willingly to God's love.

8. In baptism our knowing and loving capacity
    is elevated. The more we are united
    to God, the more we share in His
    capacity to love.
    He gives us a share in His loving
    activity.

9. God created our neighbor, He commands
    us to love our neighbor. The
    devil tempts in the deadly sins to
    see our neighbor as an enemy.
    This is wrong!

10. We must consider the Christian life as a
    participation in God's life.
    Everything we do should be an expression
        of our Christ-life.
    God created us in the image and likeness
        of God.

 

The Ascension

1. Luke 24: 46-53

and he said to them, ‘So it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that, in his name, repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses to this.

‘And now I am sending upon you what the Father has promised. Stay in the city, then, until you are clothed with the power from on high.’

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. They worshipped him and then went back to Jerusalem full of joy; and they were continually in the Temple praising God.

2. Ephesians 1: 22-23

 He has put all things under his feet, and made him, as he is above all things, the head of the Church; which is his Body, the fullness of him who is filled, all in all.

3. The Christian should feel at home in
    the world of Jesus.

4. The world belongs to Christ. It has a Christic
    image, despite some men who have
    partially marred the image and
    stopped the world from shining
    as it should.

5. The Church is to help in bringing
    the Church and the world more and
    more in the image of Jesus.

6. The Christian should feel at home
    in the world that belongs
    to Jesus.

    The Church, the world and the individual
        Christian are in the state of
        becoming more Christ-like.

7. God has put us in the world to
    live now. It is His plan for us.
    In Shepherds of Christ God has
    called us to pray the prayers,
    Jesus gave to Fr. Carter for the
    renewal of the individual Christian,
    the Church and the world.

8. God wants us to consecrate the Church
    and the world to the Sacred Heart and
    Immaculate Heart.

9 We should have joy and peace because
    Jesus rose from the dead.

10. Prayer of St Ignatius

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.

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles

1. Acts 2: 1-4

When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves. 

2. The Spirit showed us His presence in
    the tongues of fire that
    appeared on Pentecost.

3. The Apostles were transformed
    from fear to fearlessness.

4. The Holy Spirit wants to work in
    us, now.

5. Do we remain closed to the Spirit
    out of fear?

6. Fr. Carter says "To refuse the Spirit,
    is to refuse real happiness."

7. Life in the Spirit helps us to
    be more human.

8. God travels with us along
    God's path.

9. From the Prayer Manual

Holy Spirit Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.
 

10. From the Holy Spirit Novena

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

    Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

 

The Assumption

1. Mary was taken body and soul
    into heaven.

2. Luke 1: 46-56

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.
 

3. We live out Jesus' life,
    death and resurrection
    in our lives.

4. Sing: Ave, Ave Maria

5. God wants to heal us. We need to admit
    we need healing from wounds we
    have. Jesus healed the blind and
    the lame.

6. We have to tell the truth about the
    evil and good in us – this
    is humility – Humility is
    truth.

7. Some are so stubborn they will
    not even admit they sin.

8. Mary was conceived without sin. Mary is
    the Immaculate Conception –
    Mary is Mother of Jesus –
    Mary takes us to the Heart of Jesus.

9. We know from the wedding of
    Cana Mary has powerful
    intercession. Mary is
    our Mother.

10. Sing: See the Eyes That Look at Mary

 

 

The Queenship of Mary

1. Sing: Hail Holy Queen

2. Sing: Immaculate Mary

3. Mary is the Queen of Peace –
    God has entrusted the peace
    of the world to Mary.

4. April 13, 2022

Mary:
I appear Our Lady of
Sorrows,
I speak and men do not hear.
You must realize the Peace
of the World has been
entrusted to me.
I am the Queen of Peace,
Our Lady of Clearwater.
I call you as a messenger from
your Heavenly Father to
purity, obedience to His will,
love, examination of
conscience and living a
saintly life.
God calls you to holiness, to
obeying the
Commandments of God -
God’s direction given to you.
You are under God.
God created you to know,
love and serve Him and thereby
attain eternal life in your
true home in heaven.
I am Mary, your Mother,
Queen of Peace, perfect
handmaid of Jesus.
You are to Consecrate
yourselves, the Church and
the world to my Immaculate
Heart and Jesus’ Sacred
Heart, you need this for
peace.
In so doing men will be
united in one mind, and one
heart under God.
This is a message from God 

        April 13, 2022.

5. Mary, Cause of our joy -
    pray for us.

6. From the pierced Heart of Jesus
    the Church was born –
    Mary is Mother of the Church,
    Mary is Mother of our Christ-life.

7. Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

  ...Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask grace from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. ⁽¹⁹⁾

19. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p.9.

8. From Mother at Our Side by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

   If we are to be instruments of peace, we ourselves must be at peace. Our personal peace is the tranquility of order which results from our doing God's will. The more we are united through love with God in the doing of His will, the more we experience peace.

9. Luke 2: 51

He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority...

10. Promises of Our Lady to Those Who Pray the Rosary

Over the years, in various apparitions, Mary has stressed the importance of the rosary. She has promised great blessings to those who pray the rosary. To St. Dominic and to Blessed Alan she stated:

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armour against Hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.

6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.

9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.

12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.¹

1.   Rev. Edward J. Carter, Mother at Our Side, Shepherds of Christ Publications, Morrow OH, 1993, pp. 83-85.

 

  

April 16, 2022

R. In the movie it said
“What frightens you”.
The soldier said
“Being wrong”.

The devil blatantly tries to
show right is wrong and
wrong is right.

Jesus is the way, the truth
and the life.
Many make themselves on
top and live to say they are
never wrong.
They rebel against God,
they want nobody telling
them what to do.
God is the Creator, we are
the creatures, if we want to
see ourselves as equal to
God, we are back where
Eve went wrong.

God is above, we are under
God, when we see
ourselves equal to God we
are wrong.

The devil wants to make
right look wrong and wrong
look right.

The devil said,
“I will not serve”.
You can see the devil is
working in rebellion against
God.

God’s will is to be done on
earth as it is in heaven -
Jesus said.

Say the Our Father!!!

The Christian’s life is our
response to God who loved
us first.
The Christian is to love God
and others.
When a person rebels
against love, they
disconnect, turn their back
on God. God is love.

The Resurrection
shows us Jesus died and
He came back alive in His
glorified body.

Jesus is truly present in the
Eucharist, no less present
than when He walked the
earth.

Jesus is the Son of God.
Jesus paid for our sins.
Jesus wants us to go to
Him and tell us we are
sorry for our sins, tell
God we are sorry for
offending Him.
We are to make reparation
for our sins.

Humility is truth. We need
to admit the good and evil
in us. This is humility.
We need to seek healing
from God. Jesus is the
Divine healer. We must
walk humbly and admit the
truth.

Jesus was crucified in
between a good thief and a
bad thief.
The good thief was sorry
for his sins.
The bad thief was mean
and stubborn, he was not
going to show any sorrow
for his sins.

Being a Christian means
walking in ways of love.
Jesus is love.

John 3:16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

 
God first loved us.
We are to respond to Him in
love.

 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Carter

    Our new life in Christ has arisen out of God's fathomless love, and, what is more, its entire dynamism breathes love. The Incarnate Word himself has taught us this. On our behalf, Christ, as man, has perfectly opened himself to the Father's love; he has then responded to the Father in love. In relation to men, Jesus has loved completely from the depths of his being, pouring himself out in a life of selfless service, a self-giving that drew from him life's breath itself so that he could say he loved—without reserve and to the end. Thus forever was etched upon the pages of man's history—indelibly and so deeply—the love of Jesus for mankind. In this very greatness and depth of Christ's love for us, he was also opening himself to our love, for he can enter the human heart only if there is a response of love that encounters his own. Consequently, Jesus is the sacrament—the visible sign—of the great dimensions of Christian love. Christians are the persons who receive God's love and respond with their own love; Christians also love their fellow human beings as themselves and, in turn, open themselves to receive others' love.
 

John 1:14-16

The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
   as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.

John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
‘This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.’

Indeed, from his fullness
    we have, all of us, received—
one gift replacing another,

Jeremiah 1 :4-8

 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:

 ‘Before I formed you in the womb
     I knew you;
  before you came to birth 
     I consecrated you; 
  I appointed you as prophet to the nations.’

  I then said, ‘Ah, ah, ah, Lord Yahweh;
you see, I do not know how to speak: I am only a child!’

  But Yahweh replied,
‘Do not say, "I am only a child,"
 for you must go to all to whom I send you
 and say whatever I command you.
 Do not be afraid of confronting them,
 for I am with you to rescue you,
 Yahweh declares.’

R. There are many wounds
that can interfere with
opening oneself to grow in
love.
Our Father created us and
we are creatures, created in
the image and likeness of
God.
Many hearts are shut down
because they refuse
healing for the Father and
Mother wounds and other
wounds,
that may have hurt a
person's ability to open up.

God is love.
God commands us to love
Him and love our neighbor
as ourselves.
God tells us we were
created to know and love
and serve God.

 

April 16, 2022  

Joyful Mysteries in Petition

       The Annunciation

1. Luke 1: 26-38

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, you who enjoy God’s favour! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?’ The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.’ Mary said, ‘You see before you the Lord’s servant, let it happen to me as you have said.’ And the angel left her. 

2. Everybody has a story, a life God gave them with joys and sufferings.
3. We are called to live, to be a light to others, to open up to God.
4. Live a life surrendering to God’s will and filled with love.
5. Heaven is for real. We have a calling from God to be open to love, to live life as God intends.
6. God is light and in Him is no darkness.
7. Jesus died to bring us new life.
8. Jesus wants us in heaven with Him forever.
9. God first loved us. We are to respond to God in love.
    Being a Christian is a life of love. Jesus is love.

10. John 3:16

 For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

 

The Visitation

1. Luke 1: 39-45

Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah. She went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. Now it happened that as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She gave a loud cry and said, ‘Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord? Look, the moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy. Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.’ 
 

2. Elizabeth was thought barren, but nothing is impossible with God.
3. God has a Plan.
4. From the Our Father
    "…thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven…"
5. The babe in Elizabeth’s womb leapt for joy.
6. Jesus will not abandoned us, He loves us.
7. It’s God’s Plan!!
8. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
9. God is with us always, He is love.
10. We need to turn to God. Every day is a new beginning.

 

The Birth of Jesus

1. Luke 2: 8-14

In the countryside close by there were shepherds out in the fields keeping guard over their sheep during the watches of the night. An angel of the Lord stood over them and the glory of the Lord shone round them. They were terrified, but the angel said, ‘Do not be afraid. Look, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people. Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. And here is a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.’ And all at once with the angel there was a great throng of the hosts of heaven, praising God with the words:

    Glory to God in the highest heaven,
    and on earth peace for those he favours.

2. Jesus is our Savior.
3. Jesus came a baby, He loves us so much.
4. Song: See the eyes that look at Mary

5. Song: The Rosary Song

6. Jesus was born in Bethlehem in such poverty.
    The Almighty God, the Son of God born in a stable.
7. Jesus shows us the way to His Sacred Heart through Mary His Mother’s Immaculate Heart.
8. Why are we so high and mighty, Jesus was born among the cows and sheep in a stable.
9. Jesus came in such poverty, a baby, and Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
10. Jesus loves souls so much.
    Sing: Silent Night

 

The Presentation in the Temple

1. Luke 2: 25-35

Now in Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man; he looked forward to the restoration of Israel and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he had set eyes on the Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the Temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God; and he said:

    Now, Master, you are letting 
        your servant go in peace 
    as you promised; 
    for my eyes have seen the salvation 
    which you have made ready 
        in the sight of the nations; 
    a light of revelation for the gentiles 
    and glory for your people Israel.

As the child’s father and mother were wondering at the things that were being said about him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, ‘Look, he is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is opposed—and a sword will pierce your soul too — so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.'   

2. Simeon told Mary and Jesus they would suffer.
3. And a sword will pierce your heart, Oh Mary.
4. Mary and Joseph and Jesus had to flee into Egypt.
    And a sword will pierce your heart, Oh Mary.
5. Jesus was lost in the temple. And a sword will pierce your heart, Oh Mary.
6. Jesus and Mary meet on the way to Calvary. And a sword will pierce your heart, Oh Mary.
7. Jesus was crucified. And a sword will pierce your heart, Oh Mary.
8. Jesus was taken down from the cross and laid in Mary’s arms. And a sword will pierce your heart, Oh Mary.
9. Jesus was locked in the tomb. And a sword will pierce your heart, Oh Mary.
10. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet

 

 

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

1. Luke 2: 41-52

Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. They assumed he was somewhere in the party, and it was only after a day’s journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances. When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere. 

    It happened that, three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions; and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies. They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, ‘My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.’ He replied, ‘Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ But they did not understand what he meant. He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favour with God and with people.

2.

       April 13, 2022

Mary:
I appear Our Lady of
Sorrows,
I speak and men do not hear.
You must realize the Peace
of the World has been
entrusted to me.
I am the Queen of Peace,
Our Lady of Clearwater.
I call you as a messenger from
your Heavenly Father to
purity, obedience to His will,
love, examination of
conscience and living a
saintly life.
God calls you to holiness, to
obeying the
Commandments of God -
God’s direction given to you.
You are under God.
God created you to know,
love and serve Him and thereby
attain eternal life in your
true home in heaven.
I am Mary, your Mother,
Queen of Peace, perfect
handmaid of Jesus.
You are to Consecrate
yourselves, the Church and
the world to my Immaculate
Heart and Jesus’ Sacred
Heart, you need this for
peace.
In so doing men will be
united in one mind, and one
heart under God.
This is a message from God 

        April 13, 2022.

3. Jesus: You are the children of light that I am sending forth into the darkened world. I am begging you. This is an urgent request to go forth and to carry the message of My love to the world that is suffering and in pain.
4. Mary tells us we must pray, souls are being lost today.

5. Mary’s Message from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light. end of Mary's Message

6. Excerpts from The Spirituality of Fatima

July 13, 1917

    "During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:

    "You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

    "The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. ⁽¹²⁾

    "To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed....

    "But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world." ⁽¹³⁾

        13. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p.5.


7. Jesus: This is the Mighty Medicine for the sick world. Spread these messages now to the world.
8. Jesus: I am love.
    I command you to love.
    The Christian's life, is a life of loving.

9. Matthew 22: 34-40 

The greatest commandment of all

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to put him to the test, one of them put a further question,   36 ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said to him, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself.  On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.’

10. The Ten Commandments

  1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
  2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
  3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
  4. Honor your father and your mother.
  5. You shall not kill.
  6. You shall not commit adultery.
  7. You shall not steal.
  8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
  10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.