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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 22, 2019

R. Pray for special intentions please.

April 10, 2016

R. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

You are the light of the world.

A city set on the Church cannot be hidden.

Lamp Stands

Lights are elevated

Church is elevated –

If God asks me to do something, He
gives me the grace to do it.

What is the difference if He asks me to carry
a pebble or a bolder.

Fortitude
gives us strength to do the difficult

Children of light

Sin is hatred for myself –

Love is the gift of self to promote
good of those loved.

Sin is a form of self hate –

Jesus is the Light of the world –

Jesus: A city set on a hill can shine
its light to the world –

Let your light shine that others
will see your good works –

Tell them to praise your
heavenly Father.

You are the light of the
world –

Do not put your light
under a bushel basket –

You have been given the gift
of the Eucharist –

                You receive Me and you grow
                    more and more in My image
                    and likeness –

Let your light shine –

                Others have a free will to
                    choose Me or to reject
                    Me –

You do as you know you are
to do –

Don't grab a snake –

Satan wants you to grab
onto his prodding –

Pray My people –

Pray to do the difficult –

Satan wants you stopped –

You are to remain a light in
the darkness –

I am with you always –

The Father and I, and the Holy Spirit
dwell in your graced, baptized soul.

Pray, My people,

Pray with faith –

                Pray for healing for those who
                    attack you and
                    walk away –

Let your light shine –

                Live to love even the down-
                    hearted –
                    pray, My people –
                    pray for their souls –
                    pray for the man in darkness –
                    pray together –
                    believe and pray –

I am the way, the truth and
the life

                They persecuted Me, they whipped
                    Me, they put Me to death –
                    and on the 3rd day I rose victoriously –

Pray and know I am with you
in this trial –

                I am your hope –
                I am your love –
                I am who am –

Walk and live to do the Father's
will –

Live to love –

You must rely on Me - always –

I go with you into the desert –

                You can walk the road of
                    ridicule and I am
                    with you –

                Identify with Me in the Passion
                    and know the victory of
                    how I draw you closer
                    to Me –

                I draw you in the suffering
                    to hold you in My Heart
                    ever closer –

                But you know you have the
                    fortitude to do the difficult
                    and you do God's will always –

Your directions come from doing
God's will –

Let your light shine –

Identify your suffering in My
passion –

R. Come into me Lord and possess
My soul –

Jesus: I am a God of miracles
You must have faith –

Pray for healing –
Pray for faith –

Pray for prudence and temperance,
fortitude and justice –

Don't grab onto the snake –

                Pray for grace – pray for an
                    increase in the virtues
                    of faith, hope and love –

                Your road can be difficult
                    and the suffering can bring
                    down great grace –

I am with you always –

I love you so much –

I am all powerful –

Every man has a free will –

They must choose God –

You are a light in the darkness –

                Pray for strength
                Pray to love –
                Pray to be holy –
                Pray, Pray, Pray –

Endure your sufferings in
love –

I speak to you –

Listen to Me –

                I love you even in your
                    trials – I am there when
                    you turn to Me – I
                    comfort you, come to Me –

Suffering is suffering –

I am the way, the truth and
the life –

I am all powerful –

I never abandon you

                In life you will suffer –
                    write to Me –
                    use the Blue Books –
                    open and I will help you.

I love you so much –

Pray to do the difficult – this
takes fortitude

Pray for healing

Spread My Blood –

You are being drawn closer
to Me in all your trials –

This is the treasure to know
Me –

I love you –

Jesus –

                Be strong
                Be a light
                Be holy
                Be obedient to God's will

I will help you – you are
never alone –

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.

1 John 4: 19-21

Let us love, then,
because he first loved us.
Anyone who says ‘I love God’
and hates his brother,
is a liar,
since whoever does not love the brother
    whom he can see
cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Indeed this is the commandment
    we have received from him,
that whoever loves God,
    must also love his brother.

                R. God loves His creation. If we live
                a God-like existence we must love
                what He creates. We have been created
                and redeemed by God's love.

                We must love our brothers. We do
                not have to like their actions, but
                we must love them because they
                are creatures of God.

Excerpt from Chapter 8 Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

Chapter 8

The Christian Encounters Others and the World

... To authentically encounter others we must be properly aware of who they really are; we must, in short, be able to penetrate beyond surface appearances, which may or may not be appealing to us, and contact others in their core existence. When we are truly in touch with others at the core of their beings, we are simultaneously aware of their awesome dignity. We are conscious that these persons are created and redeemed by God in his love. Fortified with this proper awareness, we are thus in a position to relate to them as we should.

In order to be in touch with the inner self of others, we must be aware of or in touch with our own inner or true self. This awareness, in turn, is an awareness that our self is likewise made in the image of God, that it has been divinized in Christ and is to be oriented toward God and neighbor. Here, then, we see the profound interaction between the three awarenesses and loves—awareness and love of God, self, and neighbor. As Christians, consequently, we should have a maturing sense of how our existence is, in varied ways, profoundly interlinked with the existence of others. This feeling of union with others is not limited to those we directly encounter, but, in some sense, is directed to all members of the human family.

Let us now consider some of the main attitudes that the Christian should maintain and develop in his or her dealings with others. We will build upon the very basic attitude we have already mentioned—that we must always try to be aware of the true self of others, the self that has been created and redeemed by God's love. This awareness, in turn, calls forth our own love for them.

In dealing with others, we must strive to maintain the balance, so delicate at times, between independence from others and dependence on them. We must, on the one hand, humbly realize that in so many varied ways we consistently depend on others. Have you ever tried to analyze the many, many people you depend on to make it through a very ordinary day? Have you ever tried to enumerate all the people involved—most of whom you don't even know—in putting a simple meal before you?

The consciousness of our dependence on others narrows into much sharper focus, of course, regarding those we encounter daily in a more direct fashion. The members of our families, our friends, our coworkers—these are some of the people we immediately think of as we reflect upon the mutual interdependence that exists among fellow human beings. We depend on such people in a special way for the growth opportunities of loving and being loved, of serving and being ministered to, of affirming and being affirmed—in short, for all the opportunities of variously giving and receiving.

If, however, we must, on the one hand, strive to maintain a sense of proper need for others, we must, on the other hand, couple this with a thrust toward independence. To have an attitude of healthy dependence on others is a main ingredient for true personality growth; to maintain a morbid need for others, however, is a serious obstacle in becoming the persons we are destined to be. We should never become slavishly dependent on the company of others, their love, the attention they give us, the approval they give to us, our ideas, or our work. It is, of course, always very pleasant to receive love, attention, and approval; all this, however, must occur within the framework of God's will for us. We must constantly strive to lovingly do his will at all times and in all circumstances. This is the all-embracing and all-necessary imperative that permeates every facet of our being. When we live according to this imperative, we gladly and gratefully receive love, attention, and affirmation from others when it is forthcoming; what is more, we realize that to be offered this is a part of God's plan for us. If, however, it is not forthcoming at any one time, we courageously continue to live as we think God intends, aware that, in his loving faithfulness, God will compensate for what currently appears to be a lack of human support.

Early in our discussion of the Christian's encounter with others, we should obviously say a few direct things concerning the core attitude of love, a trait that should permeate all other attitudes. It is well to begin by observing a phenomenon of our culture concerning love: Many persons who choose marriage say they do so out of a desire to be loved. Notice, they say that they marry out of a desire to be loved, not to love. In fairness to these persons, perhaps we should presume that they realize they in turn must also offer love. Yet, is it not revealing that they explicitly mention as the reason for marrying a desire to be loved? Could there be a close correlation between this phenomenon and the extraordinarily high divorce rate that prevails in our culture? If it is common that both partners enter marriage more from a need to receive love than from a desire to give it, do we have to look further for the reason to explain why so many marriages are plagued with various degrees of unhappiness?

We should realize that all of us are in danger of falling into the above temptation. Whether we are married people, celibates in the priestly and religious life, or single persons in the world, all of us have to be aware lest we be more concerned with receiving love than in giving it. God wants us to receive love, and we have a need to receive love; however, we must not allow this legitimate desire to degenerate into a morbid preoccupation whereby we always enumerate all the different ways that others should be manifesting love toward us while, at the same time, we ourselves might be guilty of neglecting numerous opportunities for loving them. If our main concern is to love others rather than to be loved by them, I think we will more often than not be surprised at the love others show us over a lifetime. Nonetheless, even in the event that we might feel slighted in this regard, our vocation as Christians is eminently clear: we ourselves must continue to love even when it is extremely difficult to do so, thus following the example of Jesus who loved even those who nailed him to the cross.

As maturing Christians we should be assimilative individuals. In various ways, we must be able to absorb from others, not in an artificial way that does violence to our uniqueness, but in a manner that actually enhances our uniqueness. Our wonderful privilege is to assimilate ever more and more the truth, the goodness, the beauty of God himself by, among other ways, realizing that God is variously reflected through all the human persons he has created. Just as we are created in God's image—and thereby are reflective of his perfections—so also are all others. When all humans are true to God's designs, all do indeed provide various opportunities to one another for personality growth. All of us, I am sure, can recall more than one instance in which we felt especially inspired to become better persons because we have encountered certain individuals.

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