Please Pray for Fr. Joe & Bob
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 24, 2021
Through Him, With Him, In Him
John 6: 52-59
Then the Jews started arguing among
themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ Jesus replied
to them:
In all truth I tell you,
if you do not eat
the flesh of the Son of man
and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh
and drink my blood
has eternal life,
and I shall raise that person up
on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh
and drinks my blood
lives in me
and I live in that person.
As the living Father sent me
and I draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me
will also draw life from me.
This is the bread
which has come down from heaven;
it is not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread
will live for ever.
This is what he taught at Capernaum in
the synagogue.
Jesus: Life is in
Me.
I am the way the truth and
the life.
I am the Lord; I give you My Body to eat.
I give you, My Blood.
I am Jesus the Bread of
Life.
I paid a heavy price to
give you such a gift.
Suffering, how you suffer,
can lead to greater life when you stay rooted in Me.
I give you the Eucharist -
This is My Body, This is My Blood.
The Mass is the sacrifice
of Calvary, sacramentally made present.
R. We pray to the
Father.
We offer the sacrifice of
Jesus to the Father as we unite to Jesus.
We are one in Him.
The Father accepts the sacrifice of His beloved Son, Jesus.
We give ourselves one with
Jesus.
It is the most precious
gift to Our heavenly Father.
The Father is well
pleased.
We offer Jesus: Body,
Blood, Soul and Divinity.
Song: Your Presence
Pervades my Soul
Song: I Love You Jesus
A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite
with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.
I want to be one in Him in this act of
love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him.
Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of
greatest love to Him.
Let me unite with Him more, that I may
more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and
the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and
pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to
You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.
Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me.
Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like
Jesus.
Father, I offer this my sacrifice,
myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more
deeply in this act of my greatest love.
Give me the grace to grow in my
knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest
participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply
in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.
-Mass Book, December 27, 1995
R. Jesus gives us
the Eucharist exposed in China.
Love
Strength
Adoration
R. It is the
relationship with Jesus - loving Him, adoring Him,
I love You so much Jesus.
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. Jesus is here, truly present in the Eucharist.
Sing: I Am the Bread of
Life
December 18, 1995
IN
THE DEEPEST RECESSES
OF HIS HEART
The place Jesus took me was into the
deepest recesses of His Heart. I was enveloped in His burning love. It was a
red room with heat and an intense glow. I was swept away in this embrace, and
I only existed in Him. The power of the Almighty God enveloped me, and I only
existed in Him. There was no fear, for I was existent in this Almighty Being.
My heart was wrapped in the eternal embrace of this Supreme Being. The
security, the power I know was His deep presence in which I existed.
I knew the room was red and warm. I knew
His immenseness, but I felt my own completeness in Him. I did not feel little,
as a speck, but elevated and empowered for I existed then in Him in a most
special way.
I was overtaken by the love of God. The
fire of the Holy Spirit filled me. I was absorbed by the love of the Father,
and I existed IN Him and in the deepest recesses of the Heart of Jesus. Our
heaven on earth is these inner chambers of His magnificent Heart - the Heart
of the Almighty God, with all the power, with omnipotence, with the fire of
the love of God. He took me to the deepest chamber of this fiery Heart, and in
that moment, I touched eternity, for I knew what it was to be enveloped in the
deep furnace of His love. I now want to exist in this chamber of His Heart,
swept away in His burning love, absorbed in my every cell with His love.
We do not understand the fire of His
love. We do not understand what it is to be absorbed by love itself. He took
me to the inner, deepest chamber of His Heart, and I felt the heat and knew
the presence of love itself, and there was no fear, only a feeling of
completeness, omnipotence, all-embracing, penetrating love - a power
indescribable in words, a saturation of my being in the presence of God, and I
was as I was created to be - living in Him!
This is how I will forever live my life,
saturated with His divine life and love deep within this inner chamber of His
burning Heart, living in Him as He possesses my being, and I operate with His
power in me.
Little creatures though we are, we are
His, His power, His life, flowing through us. In Him, we are as the Father
intended: one in Him, each one of us, dwelling in this fiery furnace of His
love. With our fears quieted and our hearts empowered by His life, we live
forever in Him - in the Heart of Jesus.
Let no man separate what God has joined
together. I am wed in the deepest love with my beloved Spouse, wed to the
Heart of Jesus. As I am, I am one in Him. I live and I breathe in Him. He, Who
is love, He Who is our all, He Who is mighty and without limits, He Who is, He
Who is God and as I live, He lives in me in this world.
I am wed to Him, and I shall not fear for
He is God - one, complete, loving, God. Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in
Thee. As I live, I live in Your most adorable Heart, the furnace of God's
love!
December 27, 1995
L
ET US
LOVE THE TWO
HEARTS OF JESUS AND
MARY
IN THE RECEPTION OF THE
HOLY EUCHARIST.
HE GAVE HIMSELF TO US ON THE CROSS. HE GIVES
HIMSELF TO US IN THE EUCHARIST.
How great was the act of
love, God gave to this world, when He gave Himself and
died on the cross. He gives Himself to us this day in
the Holy Eucharist.
The greatest commandment
is that we must love God with our whole heart, our whole
soul, and our whole being. This is a commandment. If we
are to enter heaven, we must follow the commandments.
They are commands given by God for us to follow.
The greatest act we can
do on this earth is an act of loving God. The reason for
our existence is to love God. In the sacrament of His
greatest love, He gives Himself to us. This is an act of
love on His part. We are called to respond by giving
ourselves in love to Him.
This is the purpose of
the Holy Eucharist: to unite in such oneness with our
Holy, Loving God. Our all consuming passion should be
that of loving God. How many go to the Eucharist with
the sole purpose of giving great love to God? He wants
us to love Him. He wants souls to tell Him how much they
truly love Him. This is the most intimate act of love
when Jesus gives Himself-Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity
to man. If it is such an act of love, how are we
receiving Him in Communion? We should beg God, in this
most intimate union with Him, to help us to love Him
with greatest love.
Jesus is a Person. He
wants our love. The Holy Spirit wants such intimacy with
us. Our Father wants us to love Him. In the Eucharist,
we unite with God. In this intimate act of uniting with
our beloved God, with Divinity, we must pour out our
love to God. We must pour out our heart to the most
adorable Heart of Jesus. Jesus is so unjustly treated by
many of His beloved souls He loves so much. Let us help
make reparation to the Almighty God by loving God with
our whole heart, our whole soul, and our whole being in
the sacrament of His greatest love. This is the Gift of
Himself.
Think of how it is to
love someone and give your all for that person, to pour
out your heart to him or her and then be treated with
coldness and neglect. It hurts our heart so much more
when we deeply love someone to be rejected by that
person. Jesus loves us with the deepest love. We cannot
fully comprehend this love. Let us love Him with the
deepest love. Let us love Mary and her Immaculate Heart.
Let us love her as the Mother of God. Let us love her as
the virgin who bore the Son of God. May we, in the
reception of the Eucharist pour out our love to Him, to
this adorable Heart. May we pour out our love to His
Holy Mother.
Mary said at Fatima that
Jesus wants His Heart venerated next to the heart of His
Mother. Let us love these two Hearts as we receive the
Sacrament of the Eucharist. Then we are so deeply united
with God. We see Their two Hearts surrounded with thorns
for the injustices against Their Hearts. Let us help
make reparation daily as we receive Him in the
Eucharist. This is a special time to help make
reparation to Their wounded Hearts.
Let us remember how He
poured His love out to us on the cross and how He pours
out His love to us now when He gives us Himself in the
Eucharist, the Eucharist which contains His Heart of
burning love. His Heart was pierced with a lance. Her
heart was invisibly pierced with a sword. As the wounds
in Their Hearts are deep, so too is Their love so deep.
He does not want "surface
love". He wants hearts filled with deep burning love.
Mysteries of Light
The Baptism of Jesus
1. The sky was thrown
open, the voice of the Father was heard.
2. "This is My beloved Son
in whom I am well pleased."
3. John the Baptist
baptized Jesus in the Jordon.
4. Jesus gave Himself to
bring life to the world.
5. Jesus is the chief
spokesman for the Father.
6. Jesus is Priest,
Prophet and King.
7. Jesus is the way, the
truth and the life.
8. Jesus is the New Adam.
9. Mary is the New Eve.
10. These are the
Mysteries of Light.
The Wedding at Cana
1. Adam's bride came from
his side.
2. Through the pierced
Heart of Jesus the Church is born.
3. Water for baptism –
Blood for the Eucharist.
4. The bride, the Church
comes from the
side of Christ.
5. John
2: 1-10
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in
Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples
had also been invited. And they ran out of wine, since the wine
provided for the feast had all been used, and the mother of Jesus
said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus said, ‘Woman, what do
you want from me? My hour has not come yet.’ His mother said to
the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ There
were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions
that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty
gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water,’
and they filled them to the brim. Then he said to them, ‘Draw some
out now and take it to the president of the feast.’ They did this;
the president tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having
no idea where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the
water knew—the president of the feast called the bridegroom and
said, ‘Everyone serves good wine first and the worse wine when the
guests are well wined; but you have kept the best wine till
now.’
6. Mary is a powerful
intercessor.
7. Jesus changed water
into wine at
the wedding of Cana.
8. The Mass is the
sacrifice of Calvary
sacramentally made present.
9. Sacrifice is an outward
sign of
an interior attitude of worship.
10. Jesus began His public
life at
the Baptism of Jesus.
The Kingdom of God
1. Jesus worked many
miracles.
2. We pray to have greater
faith.
3. A sacrifice is an
offering – we
unite in all we do to the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass.
4. Say Daily Card
5. Jesus died for our sins
–
6. We have contrition for
our sins.
7. Prayer to the Father
- May 16, 1998
My Father,
With my whole heart I desire to consecrate
the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole being for the salvation of souls
and that man live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that
we may be one in You and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we
may intercede to You for this cause.
It is this burning desire within my soul to
spread the consecration to the far ends of the earth, that the cries
of Your children are cries of glory and honor and adoration,
praising God as their God.
My Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the
edge of death. For all eternity they will go to a place. It is not
the plot of this soul as it trods this barren land to decide on the
edge of death. You created us that we would grow in our oneness with
God, that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness to
God.
And so My Father, I pray with every cell in
my body for this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I consecrate
all the souls of this earth to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary in the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of
the Mass with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory.
I beg You Father for mercy.
I beg You Father for assistance.
I beg You Father to help us to spread this consecration to
the far ends of the earth.
Please help us. We are helpless little ones
coming in the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our wounds and our
sins.
Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of
His Blood for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite in this
sacrifice, sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world
at every moment. Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of
men.
Please my Father, help us. Held in the heart
of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of Eve to beg
for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart.
Look upon our love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our
sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by the means
of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us whole, that we are
one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in the name of Your
Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit united with all the angels and saints,
in the heart of Mary. We beg for help for special intentions
concerning the Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to
give these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the
family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help us Father
to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be
one in You that we act as intercessors to help this world to be
turned to God as their God, loving, honoring and adoring Him as the
Lord of Host is truly present on His throne.
We are Your children Father, we implore You
to answer our prayer.
We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank you and
we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name.
Alleluia
8. A Prayer before the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite
with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.
I want to be one in Him in this act of
love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him.
Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of
greatest love to Him.
Let me unite with Him more, that I may
more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and
the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and
pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to
You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.
Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me.
Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like
Jesus.
Father, I offer this my sacrifice,
myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more
deeply in this act of my greatest love.
Give me the grace to grow in my
knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest
participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply
in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.
-Mass Book, December 27, 1995
9.
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
10.
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 Transfiguration
1. Mark 9: 2-8
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James
and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves.
There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became
brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them.
Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus.
Then Peter spoke to Jesus, ‘Rabbi,’ he said, ‘it is wonderful
for us to be here; so let us make three shelters, one for you, one
for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He did not know what to say; they
were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and
from the cloud there came a voice, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved.
Listen to him.’ Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no
one with them any more but only Jesus.
2. Jesus was transfigured
in magnificent
light before the Apostles.
3. The voice of the Father
was heard
"This is My beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased."
4. Christ leads us back to
the Father
in the Holy Spirit.
5. We celebrate our
Christian life.
6. We live the Gospel
message.
7. Christian living.
8. The Christian life is a
response to
God's love –
9. God loved us first.
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.
10. The Heart of Jesus is
a symbol of
God's love for us –
God calls for our love in
return.
The Institution of the
Eucharist
1. Sing Song: I Love
You Jesus
2. From Blue Book II
I Love You
April
13, 1994
Words of Jesus. Read before
the Tabernacle.
Jesus: How, child, do I, Jesus, tell you
I love you? You hold on to silly things when God is in your midst and is
ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each
precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the
Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My
beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved
children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same
Jesus Who died a brutal death on the Cross.
Do you know I am truly present there? Do
you know that God waits every day for you in the tabernacle? Do you
comprehend even a minute amount of My love? You will never know of how I
love you on earth.
I, Jesus, truly the Son of God, came to
earth a man and suffered a brutal death for love of you. I love you so much!
I remain with you this day. I long for your love. I want you to come and be
with Me in front of the tabernacle. I wait, I yearn for you to come and
whisper your love to Me. I am a person and I love you this day, with such an
ardent on-fire love! No human could ever compare a speck to My love for you.
I wait, little ones, in the tabernacle. I
wait for you to come and receive Me in Communion. I want you to want Me so
much you cannot wait to come and receive Me. I want to be the love, the
center of your life!
I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am
writing to you this day. I want to possess your very soul and live in you. I
have all you need, sweet ones. Oh, you are so blind! I long for your union
with Me. I wrote the book of love. I instituted it, yet you go to the world
for your love and do not even come to Me! Oh, I love you, little ones.
Little ones, beloved of the Father, loved by the Holy Spirit, mothered by My
very own mother! What more can I say? The rest is up to you!
I give you your will with such love and I
want your love freely given. I am God. What do you think you could ever need
that I do not give you? I am the Savior of this world. I am Jesus, the Son
of God. I am waiting for you. I am longing for you. I am yearning for you. I
am God. I have all you ever will need!
Surrender this life to Me. Pray My Prayer
for Union with Me. I want to possess your soul and operate from your very
being. I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am
Who am. I died and rose on the third day.
Harken to My call, harken to My pleading.
Spend your days in love with Me. Nothing matters unless it is rooted in Me
and rooted in My love. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
I love you with the tenderest love. I am waiting this day for just you, My
beloved one. Come to Me for I am the tenderest of all hearts. I am the
Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- God's Blue Book,
Volume 2 April 13, 1994
3. Our response to God's
love.
Matthew 22:
34-40
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.’
4. The Three loves.
Love of God.
Love of others.
Love of self.
5. 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.
6. God created us in His
image and likeness.
7. Jesus gives us Himself
in the Eucharist,
Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
8. God gives us a share in
His loving
activity in baptism.
9. The more we are united
to God, the
more we share in His
capacity to love.
10. 2 Peter 1: 3-7
By his divine power, he has lavished on us all the things we need
for life and for true devotion, through the knowledge of him who has
called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these, the greatest
and priceless promises have been lavished on us, that through them
you should share the divine nature and escape the corruption rife in
the world through disordered passion. With this in view, do your
utmost to support your faith with goodness, goodness with
understanding, understanding with self–control, self–control with
perseverance, perseverance with devotion, devotion with kindness to
the brothers, and kindness to the brothers with love.
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Agony in the Garden
1. Jesus took Peter, James
and John into the garden of
Gethsemane.
2. The Apostles slept –
3. Jesus saw before Him
all He would suffer.
4. Jesus saw all the souls
that would
reject His love.
5. Jesus knew all the sins
of men, He
would suffer for.
6. Jesus loved us so much,
despite
all His suffering, He
was willing to suffer for our sins.
7. God is the source of
love –
He loved us first –
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.
8. John 4: 10
Jesus replied, 'You
are the Teacher of Israel, and you do not know these things!
9. Many people today
suffer deeply
in their lives.
10. Song: I Am Your
Sacred Heart
The Scourging at the
Pillar
1. We can give God
ourselves.
Sing:
Prayer for Union
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.
2. Jesus says deny
yourself and follow
Me.
3. What good does it do a
man to
save his life and lose his soul.
4. We live Jesus' life,
death and resurrection
in our lives.
5. Matthew
27: 24-26
Then Pilate saw that he was making no impression,
that in fact a riot was imminent. So he took some water, washed his
hands in front of the crowd and said, ‘I am innocent of this man’s
blood. It is your concern.’ And the people, every one
of them, shouted back, ‘Let his blood be on us and on our
children!’ Then he released Barabbas for them. After
having Jesus scourged he handed him over to be crucified.
6. Matthew 12: 46-50
He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his
mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a
word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is
my mother? Who are my brothers?' And stretching out his hand towards his
disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does
the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'
7. Matthew 11: 28-30
‘Come to me, all
you who labour and are overburdened, and I will
give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from
me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is
easy and my burden light.’
8. With regard to human
suffering,
it's not that there is so
much of it, but so much
is wasted.
9. My ultimate goal is for
the
salvation of my soul,
I can't do that if I don't love
my neighbor.
10. Song: Give me Your
Heart oh Jesus
The Crowning with
Thorns
1. Jesus was crowned with
thorns for
our sins.
2. I am actually hating
myself when
I don't love my neighbor.
3. Luke 9: 23-26
Then, speaking to all, he said, 'If anyone wants to
be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his
cross every day and follow me. Anyone who wants to save his life
will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, will save
it. What benefit is it to anyone to win the whole world and forfeit
or lose his very self? For if anyone is ashamed of me and of my
words, of him the Son of man will be ashamed when he comes in his
own glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels.
4. Luke 24: 13-27
Now that very same
day, two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven
miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking together about all that
had happened. And it happened that as they were talking together and
discussing it, Jesus himself came up and walked by their side; but
their eyes were prevented from recognising him. He said to them,
‘What are all these things that you are discussing as you walk
along?’ They stopped, their faces downcast.
Then one of them,
called Cleopas, answered him, ‘You must be the only person staying
in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have been happening
there these last few days.’ He asked, ‘What things?’ They answered,
‘All about Jesus of Nazareth, who showed himself a prophet powerful
in action and speech before God and the whole people; and how our
chief priests and our leaders handed him over to be sentenced to
death, and had him crucified. Our own hope had been that he would be
the one to set Israel free. And this is not all: two whole days have
now gone by since it all happened; and some women from our group
have astounded us: they went to the tomb in the early morning, and
when they could not find the body, they came back to tell us they
had seen a vision of angels who declared he was alive. Some of our
friends went to the tomb and found everything exactly as the women
had reported, but of him they saw nothing.’
Then he said to
them, ‘You foolish men! So slow to believe all that the prophets
have said! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer before
entering into his glory?’ Then, starting with Moses and going
through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages
throughout the scriptures that were about himself.
5. Pascal mystery is Death
/ Resurrection.
6. Romans 6: 1-11
What should we say then? Should we remain in sin so
that grace may be given the more fully? Out of the question! We have
died to sin; how could we go on living in it?
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.
7. Suffering always leads
to greater life.
8. 2 Corinthians 4:
7-15
But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so
that the immensity of the power is God’s and not our own. We are
subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no
way out but we never despair; we are pursued but never cut off;
knocked down, but still have some life in us; always we carry with
us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too,
may be visible in our body. Indeed, while we are still alive, we are
continually being handed over to death, for the sake of Jesus, so
that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our mortal flesh.
In us, then, death is at work; in you, life.
But as we have the
same spirit of faith as is described in scripture--I believed and
therefore I spoke -- we, too, believe and therefore we, too, speak,
realising that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up with
Jesus in our turn, and bring us to himself -- and you as well. You
see, everything is for your benefit, so that as grace spreads, so,
to the glory of God, thanksgiving may also overflow among more and
more people.
9. We are to live
according to God's will
in love –
10. Die to the ways not
like Jesus
and rise in Him.
The Carrying of the
Cross
1. Jesus showed us love –
All Christian virtues support love.
2. It's easy to like
people who reflect
Christ – see Christ in them.
3. In baptism our knowing
and loving capacity
is elevated.
4. We live the Christ-life
in our lives.
5. We live in the Holy
Spirit.
6. We are to be more and
more like Christ –
growing in love –
maturing as a Christian.
7. The virtues are
supernatural faculties,
the deadly sins come from the
wounded human nature.
8. Christ paid for our
sins.
9. Christ fell under the
cross for our sins!
10. The two most important
faculties are
intellect and will because they
allow me to reflect God.
The Crucifixion
1. 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
2. 2 Corinthians 12: 10
and that is why I am glad of weaknesses,
insults, constraints, persecutions and distress for Christ's sake.
For it is when I am weak that I am strong.
3. The more humble you are
the
stronger you are because
you draw your strength from Jesus.
4. We need the community
which is
the Church.
5. 1 Corinthians 12:
12-31
For as with the human body which is a unity although it has many
parts-all the parts of the body, though many, still making up one single
body-so it is with Christ. We were baptized into one body in a single
Spirit, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as free men, and we were
all given the same Spirit to drink. And indeed the body consists not of
one member but of many. If the foot were to say, 'I am not a hand and so
I do not belong to the body,' it does not belong to the body any the
less for that. Or if the ear were to say, 'I am not an eye, and so I do
not belong to the body,' that would not stop its belonging to the body.
If the whole body were just an eye, how would there be any hearing? If
the whole body were hearing, how would there be any smelling?
As it is, God has put all the separate parts into the body as he
chose. If they were all the same part, how could it be a body? As it is,
the parts are many but the body is one. The eye cannot say to the hand,
'I have no need of you,' and nor can the head say to the feet, 'I have
no need of you.'
What is more, it is precisely the parts of the body that seem to be
the weakest which are the indispensable ones. It is the parts of the
body which we consider least dignified that we surround with the
greatest dignity; and our less presentable parts are given greater
presentability which our presentable parts do not need. God has composed
the body so that greater dignity is given to the parts which were
without it, and so that there may not be disagreements inside the body
but each part may be equally concerned for all the others. If one part
is hurt, all the parts share its pain. And if one part is honoured, all
the parts share its joy.
Now Christ's body is yourselves, each of you with a part to play
in the whole. And those whom God has appointed in the Church are, first
apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers; after them, miraculous
powers, then gifts of healing, helpful acts, guidance, various kinds of
tongues. Are all of them apostles? Or all prophets? Or all teachers? Or
all miracle-workers? Do all have the gifts of healing? Do all of them
speak in tongues and all interpret them? Set your mind on the higher
gifts. And now I am going to put before you the best way of all.
6. A Prayer before the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite
with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.
I want to be one in Him in this act of
love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him.
Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of
greatest love to Him.
Let me unite with Him more, that I may
more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and
the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and
pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to
You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.
Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me.
Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like
Jesus.
Father, I offer this my sacrifice,
myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more
deeply in this act of my greatest love.
Give me the grace to grow in my
knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest
participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply
in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.
-Mass Book, December 27, 1995
7. When a person does not carry
out their mission in the
Church, the whole body
suffers.
8. The Church is the body
of Christ.
Mystical Body.
9. Christ is the Head of
the Mystical
Body, the Church.
10. We celebrate the life,
death and
resurrection of Christ
in our life, every day.
Mary is model and Mother of
the Church –
Glorious Mysteries
The Resurrection
1. Mark 16: 1-11
When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary
the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices with which to go and anoint him.
And very early in the morning on the first day of the week they went to the tomb
when the sun had risen.
They had been saying to one another, ‘Who will roll away
the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?’ But when they looked they saw
that the stone—which was very big—had already been rolled back. On entering
the tomb they saw a young man in a white robe seated on the right–hand side,
and they were struck with amazement. But he said to them, ‘There is no need to
be so amazed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he has
risen, he is not here. See, here is the place where they laid him. But you must
go and tell his disciples and Peter, "He is going ahead of you to Galilee;
that is where you will see him, just as he told you." ’ And the women
came out and ran away from the tomb because they were frightened out of their
wits; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Having risen in the morning on the first day of the week, he appeared first to
Mary of Magdala from whom he had cast out seven devils. She then went to those
who had been his companions, and who were mourning and in tears, and told them.
But they did not believe her when they heard her say that he was alive and that
she had seen him.
2. Sing: Glory, Glory,
Glory Lord
3. Excerpt
from Response to God's Love
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
...
In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate
mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden
from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us
briefly look at this inner life of God.
The
Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of
knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent
expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise,
from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in
a perfect act of loving.
At the destined
moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed
himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also
become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God
becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself,
about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He
tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in
the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life
through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through
Christ.
4. When we are baptized we
are incorporated
into Christ's pascal mystery of death and resurrection.
5. Resurrection in my life
– the mystery of our
beloved Jesus and the Incarnation goes on
more and more in my life as the Holy Spirit
forms us more and more in the image of God.
6. Resurrection must be at
the heart
of the Church's life.
7. We are constantly
growing in our
deeper life in Him, if we live
the life of resurrection.
8. Imagine the joy of the
Blessed Mother to see Jesus.
9. "This
is the day celebrating My Resurrection.
The day of newness of life. I am Lord and Master.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life."
Tell My People
10. Romans 5: 12
Well then; it was through one man
that sin came into the world, and through sin death, and thus
death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has
sinned.
The Ascension
1. We are part of the
Father's family. We must
help each other to love. God is love.
2. I saw the young and old
faces of Mary.
The rosary is from Mary's young life to
her old life.
3. Luke 24:50-53
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.
4. From May 21, 1998
Jesus: I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the
Holy One of the Virgin Israel, I am the
gateway to heaven.
5. May 25, 2016
Jesus: On this Ascension Thursday, I have
given you great sufferings
and great joy.
6. Jesus: I have
allowed you to experience
the greatest ecstasies of My love.
7. The good news is Jesus
has died and He has
risen.
8. Jesus had glorified
wounds.
9. Jesus: On this
Ascension, I beg you to
carry out this message to
the world.
10. New life the victory
is won.
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. Sing: Your Presence
Pervades my Soul
3. Excerpt from
Response to God's Love
"Likewise,
from all eternity, the Father and the Son
bring forth the Holy Spirit in
a perfect act of loving."
4. From the Shepherds
of Christ Prayer Manual
Holy Spirit Prayer
We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit
on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on
the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to
fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help
bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We
pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the
Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.
5. Sing: Come Holy
Ghost
6. Sing: Come Holy
Spirit
7. From the Lectionary
Pentecost Sequence
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
Come, within our bosoms shine!
You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;
In our Labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill!
Where you are not, man has naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill!
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away;
Bend the stubborn
heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sev'nfold gift descend;
Give them virtue's sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
8. Sing: Veni Sancte
Spiritus
9. Jesus: You are
My Apostles to go into
the world and spread the good news.
10.
From Tell My People
by Fr. Edward J. Carter,
S.J.
The Holy Spirit
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to
the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people
must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit
desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are
docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs
this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My
Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit
leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your
transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the
more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell
them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am
Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the
gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My
people!"
Reflection:
The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever
more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus,
the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy
Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each
day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother,
the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of
the Holy Spirit within us.
Prayer:
Come, Holy Spirit, fill us with your gifts of wisdom, understanding,
knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord. As we dwell in
the Heart of Mary, Your spouse, fashion us more and more according to the
Heart of Jesus.
end of excerpt
The Assumption
Sing: Immaculate Mary
From
the Rosary Aves
-
R. Many years after Jesus' death
Mary was taken up to heaven.
-
R. Imagine her delight to be
forever united with her most precious Son.
-
R. Imagine her joy to be united
with the Father and the Holy Spirit. She beheld the face of God.
-
R. She had lived her whole life
in service of Him. Now she was taken up to her eternal dwelling
place.
-
R. Mary has not left. She remains
forever with us. She is wherever Jesus is. She is our spiritual
mother. She is forever by our side. She loves us. She mothers us
with such motherly love!
-
R. Who are we to have Mary as our
mother?
-
R. Mary watched it all. A young
Mary, an older Mary, a sad Mary, a joyful Mary-Mary, the reflection
of Christ's life!
-
R. To know Christ is to see Him
through Mary's eyes, to feel Him through Mary's motherhood, to love
Him through Mary's Heart.
-
R. She forever intercedes for her
beloved children. She cares for our every need.
-
R. Heaven is our true home.
The Coronation of Our Lady
-
R. A great sign appeared in the
sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and
on her head a crown of twelve stars.
-
R. Mary was crowned queen of
heaven and earth. Our most beloved mother now reigns in the court of
heaven!
-
R. Imagine her joy to hear the
choirs of angelic voices! Imagine her joy to see the angels and
saints praising God!
-
R. She-who carried the baby Jesus
in her womb, who held Him in her arms, who walked by His side during
the Passion, who stood under His cross, who held His lifeless body
and watched Him locked in the tomb-was now crowned Queen of Heaven,
forever to reign in the court of heaven with her beloved Son.
-
R. If we remain faithful to the
Lord until death, we too will receive a crown of life. In heaven
shall be found every good.
-
R. Such treasures for us in
heaven! The eye has not seen, the ear has not heard the glories that
await him who serves the Lord!
-
R. Heaven is the kingdom of God.
We are His heirs.
-
R. There is no more thirsting for
union with God, no more longing for Him. We will experience such
intense union with Him forever.
-
R. We will never want for love
again. We will know His love.
-
R. We will see the face of God
and live.
March 5, 2021
March 4, 2021Almost Midnight
Joyful Mysteries
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. Mary was conceived without sin.
3. Mary is the New Eve.
4. The Angel Gabriel asked Mary to
be the Mother of God.
5. Mary conceived the Child Jesus
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
6. The Incarnation goes on in us.
7. We go to the Immaculate Heart
of our Mother –
she is the Spiritual Mother.
Her Immaculate Heart is
our spiritual womb.
8. The Holy Spirit works in Mary's Heart
forming us more and more
in the image of Jesus.
9. Baptism takes away original
sin but our human
nature is wounded.
10. Our life here is to live to be
more and more like Jesus –
we are to prepare for heaven.
The Visitation
1. Luke 1: 39-56
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.’ Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made
her by the Lord would be fulfilled.’
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.
Mary stayed with her some three months and then
went home.
2. Heaven is for lovers.
3. Mary said
"My soul doth magnify
the Lord."
4. Mary said: "My spirit rejoices
in God my Savior."
5. Mary is the Spouse of the
Holy Spirit
6. In Baptism we receive a sharing
in Divine life.
7. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit
dwell in our graced, baptized soul.
8. Our knowing and loving
capacity is elevated.
9. In baptism we receive
the supernatural virtues
of faith, hope and love.
10. Children's Consecrations
The Birth of Jesus
1. Luke 2:1-7
Now it happened that at this time Caesar Augustus
issued a decree that a census should be made of the whole inhabited
world. This census—the first—took place while
Quirinius was governor of Syria, and everyone went to be
registered, each to his own town. So Joseph set out from
the town of Nazareth in Galilee for Judaea, to David’s town called
Bethlehem, since he was of David’s House and line, in
order to be registered together with Mary, his betrothed, who was
with child. Now it happened that, while they were there,
the time came for her to have her child, and she gave
birth to a son, her first–born. She wrapped him in swaddling
clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them
in the living–space.
2. Mary obeyed the Father's will.
3. Mary loved the Father's will.
4. Jesus came to show us the way.
5. Jesus is a Divine Person with
a Divine nature and a human
nature.
6. God loves us so much.
7. God loved us first.
8. We are to meditate on the
mysteries of the Rosary.
9. Sing: The Rosary Song
10. Sing: Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Sing: We Three Kings
The Presentation
1. Luke 2: 25-34
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—
2. Simeon told Mary & Jesus
of sufferings to come.
3. A sword shall pierce your
heart, oh Mary.
4. Mary brought her little baby
to the Temple.
5. Mary's heart was invisibly
pierced.
6. Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(1) The prophecy of
Simeon
(2) The flight into Egypt
(3) The loss of the Child Jesus in the temple
(4) Jesus and Mary meet on the way to the cross
(5) Jesus dies on the cross
(6) Jesus is taken down from the cross and laid in Mary's arms
(7) The burial of Jesus
7. Sing: Little Baby Hands and Feet
8.
9. Jesus' Heart is a symbol
of God's great love
for us.
10. John 10: 10
...I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.
1 Corinthians 3: 18
There is no room for
self-delusion. Any one of you who thinks he is wise by
worldly standards must learn to be a fool in order to be
really wise. For the wisdom of
the world is folly to God. As scripture says: He
traps the crafty in the snare of their own cunning and
again:
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. Jesus was teaching the
doctors when Mary and
Joseph found Him after
3 days.
3. We meditate on the Holy Family.
4. Jesus lived the quiet life
from 12 to when He
was baptized by John
in the Jordon.
5. We live His life, death and
resurrection in our lives.
6. Many people would have
a different agenda for Jesus
than the quiet life.
7. Jesus teaches us that what
is most important is
love –
8. Matthew 22:
34-40
‘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.’
9. Jesus wants us to
consecrate ourselves,
our homes, our families,
the world, the church,
the schools, our country,
to the Sacred Heart and
Immaculate Heart.
We consecrate our lives,
the Church and the world to the
Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.
May 5, 2019
10. May 5, 1995
Consecrate Your
Churches, Home, and Workplace to Our Hearts
Jesus: I
want you to consecrate the human race to Sacred Heart of Jesus. I want
to be enthroned in all homes, churches, and businesses.
June is the month of the
Sacred Heart. I want to be king and center of all hearts. I will keep My
promises given to St. Margaret Mary of Alacoque. I promise all this from
My most Sacred Heart. Consecrate your chapter to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus. Consecrate the church or room in which you hold your meeting.
Today is First Friday. I want
you to circulate the message I gave to you on consecrating your homes to
My Sacred Heart. Make booklets available for people to be able to
consecrate their homes and businesses easily. Use the message I gave to
you when you consecrated your home.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
will triumph. Consecrate all homes and businesses to Our Two Hearts.
Tell all to have displayed and honored, pictures of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May and June are the months of
Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Tell all to consecrate their homes
to Our Two Hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On this day, the 5th
of May, 1995, First Friday, I request that you spend the next two months
encouraging all to do this consecration.
Gather your friends and say the prayers I have instructed
you to say. Sing "To Jesus Heart All Burning" and "Immaculate Mary." May
these Two Hearts of love give all members of the human race peace, joy
and love in their hearts.
R. Jesus said He desires to be honored
by men in the Blessed Sacrament.
Jesus: Circulate the Blue Book messages.
They promote this devotion. How My Heart is filled with happiness by the
souls who come to the tabernacle and sit with Me. I am Jesus Christ, I
wait and long and thirst for My precious souls to come. The souls of men
have turned cold. I want souls to come to daily communion and be with Me
in front of the tabernacle.
Men's hearts have turned cold. They do not know what love
really means. I want hearts that are filled with fire for love of God.
Men's hearts have turned to stone.
You are to promote devotion to My most Sacred Heart. I
want hearts that burn with love for My Heart. It is through Me that you
will know the Father's love. I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the
Life.
Offer a holy hour for the indifference, ingratitude, and
sacrileges committed against Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the
Sacrament of His greatest love.
R. He promises great graces to those who
give reparation to His Sacred Heart and who tell others about offering
reparation to Him.
end of May 5, 1995
R. What is important is
spreading these prayers
Jesus gave Fr. Carter.
On July 31, 1994, Fr. Carter, S.J.
doctorate said Jesus gave him
this message.
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to
Members of Shepherds of Christ Associates:
"My beloved
priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds
of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates,
in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter
and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful
instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to
become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them
I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help
bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My
Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of
Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart
and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy
Spirit."
- Message from
Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31,
1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus
(The Jesuits)
R. Mary said at Fatima
until a sufficient number
of people consecrate their
hearts to Jesus and Mary we
won't have peace
in the world.
First Friday - December 6, 1996
Jesus: I am calling you as a family. You will be joined
in one heart, acting as My Heart beating in this world. All the apostles
in the Shepherds of Christ Movement are joined in one Heart.
R. The core leaders will contact the coordinators. The
coordinators will contact the individual apostles. All are apostles with
a job directed by Jesus to do. Her peace plan was given at Fatima:
-
Until a sufficient number
of people have consecrated their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary, we will not have peace in the world.
-
Mary has requested all to
pray the daily rosary.
-
We must observe the Five
First Saturday devotion:
- Communion, confession (within 8 days before or
after the Saturday), recital of the rosary, meditating for 15
minutes on the mysteries of the rosary. All this is to be done in
spirit of reparation.
-
We must make reparation
to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
His plan centers around this.
We have heads functioning in the individual ministries. Everything we do
leads to consecration of hearts. As the apostles press on the three
institutions, the Church, family, and school to help spread the
consecration, the strayed ones will be led home to His Heart.
Mary said at Fatima until a sufficient number of people have consecrated
their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we will not have peace in
the world.
The present condition of the world
Peace will come when hearts are hearts of love. The scales must shift.
It will happen through the consecration. Mary's peace plan: until a
sufficient amount of people consecrate their hearts to the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary, we will not have peace.
The Father looks to the earth; He sees much darkness.
The Father looks to the earth. There are few hearts fervently in love
with God. The hearts of love light up the earth. It is as lights on a
Christmas tree. It is sparsely lighted by a few hearts. Therefore, the
tree looks dark.
As the Shepherds of Christ Movement spreads (as well as other movements
focused on spreading consecration to Their Hearts) the tree is covered
with more hearts and the earth becomes more lighted.
The tree is covered with hearts consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary. The tree is illuminated.
As the Shepherds of Christ apostles spread the consecration to the
Church, the family, and the school, the tree is covered with lights and
the earth is covered with the fire of His love.
The Father looks to the earth now. He is displeased with the hearts of
men. The Father wants us to love God and love each other. He wants us to
live according to His will in love.
Mary appears at Fatima. She tells us that we are offending God. She
tells us what we must do. Mary's peace plan:
-
Until a sufficient number
of people have consecrated their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary, we will not have peace in the world.
-
Mary has requested all to
pray the daily rosary.
-
We must observe the First
Saturday devotion.
-
We must make reparation
to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Mary said there will be an era of peace, no matter what we do, in which
the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
will triumph.
Man disobeys, the devil blocks the Fatima message. World War II happens
just as Mary said.
Mary appeared to me for 14 months daily. She gives us the same message
as Fatima. Jesus and Mary give us God's Blue Book and Rosaries
from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He writes His message of love on
our hearts. His life lives in our hearts. The Scripture and the Mass
live in our hearts.
In the Shepherds of Christ Movement, our focus is on the priest.
Healings
from
The Building of the Two Hearts
1. A gentleman from
Florida called and said since he got the Fatima Statue with glass
his life has been transformed.
2. After using the Jesus
water, pain and non-movement (for 3 years) in my fingers was healed
instantly. Now fingers are cracking and working and no pain. Has
taken x-rays.
3. Ruptured ACL Ligament
and PCL ligament left leg (knee) and damaged meniscus. 3-4 weeks
excruciating pain. MRI showed damaged ligaments - went to do surgery
and scopes revealed no damage other than meniscus injury. Day before
surgery we came here to pray for healing. Wife anointed knee with
Jesus water. Were told prior to surgery that would be out of work
3-6 months and surgery would be 4 hours. Surgery was only 40 minutes
and recovery time is 1-2 weeks.
4. My best friend (a
couple) was granted a son, which now is my godson. They've been
married for a long time but never had a child until they both came
to see the Virgin Mary's image.
5. I just wanted to tell
you we have had so many prayers answered most especially since we
have had the image statue in our home a few months ago. Prayers
being miraculously answered for our children & grandchildren, our
daughter's heart has literally almost healed ... she is also
pregnant and that is also a miracle that she carried the baby this
far, she is so thankful and also her cardiologist can't figure out
how she is doing so well, and even agreed with her it must be
prayers being said for her. He also told her in her 4th month to
abort the baby, maybe he will have a conversion, we hope. Others in
my family have changed since we got the statue. They are more
understanding and patient and love being a Catholic more than ever
before ...We thank Jesus, Mary, Rita and you all. Praise all of
heaven. We are also so eager to have many more prayers answered. We
are giving our married children a 10 inch statue each for their
homes and red prayer manual if they would also like to say the
prayers if they so choose to. The statue we know will help them with
many graces as they pray before it as it has helped us in our home
and lives. Love you all.
6. Pregnancy. (A long
note about how a woman got pregnant after she came to the Virgin
Mary Building.)
7. My mother was
diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in April 2005. She received
the Jesus water of Clearwater that my brother brought to El
Salvador. She was treated at Instituto Salvadoreno del Segino
Social. She was expected to live 3-6 months. She lived well for 2
years. Now she rests in peace with Lord Jesus and Virgin Mary. She
died of Pneumonia March 21, 2007.
8. The CAT scan showed a
dark spot and they thought they would have to remove my right
kidney. My family went to the Blessed Mother and asked for prayers
and help. They also got the healing water. Well all our prayers were
answered. There was no cancer or tumor. Thanks for all your prayers
and help, and thanks to the Lord above.
9. Knees were injured
from motorcycle accident July/August 2006. His mom got the water in
Florida right after the accident and took it to him and he used it
every day and now his knees are completely healed. He knows Jesus
water did it.
10. Suspected blood clot.
Pain in leg with swelling. Jesus water was used and pain went away
and swelling.
11. Barretrs – My
husband brought Jesus water to hospital and put on my stomach.
Biopsy came back fine.
12. A man from South
Carolina came to thank Jesus and Mary for his healing. His brother
sent him Jesus' water when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Three doctors told him there was nothing they could do for him. He
started using Jesus' water and started feeling better (He could
hardly walk, he was using a wheelchair a lot). He went back to the
doctor and tests showed no more cancer — gone! The doctor told him
he never saw this happen before. He is around 70 years old and walks
and feels normal.
13. A lady from Egypt
wrote asking St. Mary for a baby for 3 years. She helped me and now
I have a little daughter. Her name is Mariam after St. Mary name by
my language. Thank God and Thank St. Mary. She always remembers me.
- Egypt
14. This woman filled out
a healing form at the site. I am so blessed by the Blessed Mother
that she has been there for me on more than several occasions. She
performed a miracle on all occasions, one in particular was cancer
of the right leg. The doctors wanted to cut my leg off the cancer
was in the bone. When I returned to New York and went to a plastic
surgeon he saw the cat scan and said my chances weren't good. When
he did the surgery the cancer was not in the bone. It was
superficial.
15. Stroke. Healed August
2006.
16. A year ago he went to
Orlando for a test on his prostate. It was positive. He came here in
May and got some Jesus water out of the trough. He went back to the
doctor and he was healed. - Venezuela
17. Infertility.
Conceived and gave birth exactly 9 months after our first visit to
Clearwater in August 2000. Our son was born exactly 9 months after
our visit (May 20, 2001). I've had surgeries on both ovaries in 1998
and had very little chance of conceiving. Mother Mary gave us our
blessing and wish.
18. Peter was operated on
for cancer he had for 10 years on his leg and because the wound was
so big, they had to take some skin from another part of his leg to
be able to fix it but it did split. So Monday the doctor said that
another surgery was needed but thanks to Jesus water on Wednesday on
that same week he was healed. - Argentina
19. Cancer of the lungs.
A friend of ours who we visit from Canada. He told us of his illness
and we came and prayed at the Virgin Mary's appearance on March 28,
2006. He had Jesus' water put on him the night before his surgery.
His surgery was on March 31 and the cancer was gone. Thank you for
your blessings.
20. Lower back muscle
strain. After straining my back I used the Jesus water before using
pain crème. After putting on the water I no longer needed the crème.
The strain was gone.
21. Neuropathy. He had
gotten Jesus water a few days ago and went to the doctor yesterday.
22. Pregnancy. I could
not become pregnant. I came here to ask Mary to extend her hands on
me, to be able to have a child. The miracle happened. I did not know
that other women had become pregnant by asking Mary. My son is 3
years old. I am convinced that he is called to be special in his
life, he has a mission. When she went to see the doctor,
specialists, they said forget it, she couldn't have a baby, and she
went to many different ones. Came here to pray and became pregnant.
All the doctors never understood what had happened. They said he is
a miracle child.
23. Pregnancy. Became
pregnant of twin girls after we prayed in 2005 and even have a
statue of the Virgin Mary in our yard. After 15 years of concubinage
Virgin Mary finally blessed us. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Jesus water
was used to help conceive.
24. A woman came in today
from New York and said she was here last March (2005) and got the
Jesus water. Her cousin who was very healthy and had just retired at
age 60 suffered a massive stroke. He was taken to the best
neurological hospital in New York and the doctors said he had no
chance of recovery. He had a blood clot at the base of his brain
stem. He was in intensive care and the woman with the other family
members were visiting him and she put Jesus water on him and they
prayed over him, while he was laying in bed in a fetal position
unable to talk was paralyzed. After she had left (only 30 minutes of
visitation in Intensive Care) the woman received a call from her
cousin's wife saying the man had sat up in bed after they left and
was miraculously healed. He is back at home now. The doctors came in
and said this was a miracle. This was 2 months ago.
25. Dermatomyositis (a
form of Muscular Dystrophy). I was given 6 months to live. I was
really depressed ready to give up when, while being in town for my
girlfriends niece's Christmas Party. I heard it on the news.
(December 17, 1996) Decided why not let's go, when I got here I was
not expecting to see what I saw. I couldn't believe what I saw.
Within an hour I put the cane down, slowly but surely got better
enough where I wasn't paralyzed or dead. Thank you Jesus and Mary.
26. Small Bowel Syndrome.
Infant acquired surgical intervention at birth. 4 months care at
home. Healed completely as of May 2005.
27. Newborn very sick - 2
lbs. My mother came to visit me. We used to live in the post
apartments by Target. I brought my Mother to the Virgin Mary
Building in Clearwater and she prayed for my niece, who was in
Guatemala. When my Mother returned to Guatemala she took the picture
of Virgin Mary and put it in my niece's room. When my niece was
born, she needed a tube feeding. She couldn't eat on her own. She
was very thin and very sick. Many people told my sister and my
mother (including the doctors) that my niece was so sick that she
probably would died. Thank to our Lady Virgin Mary, my niece is a
healthy gifted 9 year old girl. - Guatemala - Healing was at 6
months old.
28. My daughter was told
she had thyroid cancer, after having one side of the thyroid removed
they found the cancer was gone. This had to be due to Mary and Jesus
Water and her belief in the Mother and Son.
29. Virus. He was in
Egypt. His relatives came to the site and asked for prayers for
healing for him. That same day they were here he was completely
healed of his Liver virus. He is a physician.
30. After waiting about 8
months for the baby to get bigger for the surgery, the doctor
checked him and couldn't believe it, but she said, "It just fixed
itself." He was 4 months premature and this surgery would have
lowered his sperm count significantly and its already been lowered
by a double inguinal hernia surgery.
31. Burst tube with
unexpected pregnancy. Was internal bleeding. Doctor told was
miracle, surviving from this kind of operation. She (the mother) had
come to the site and prayed to God if this Image (Our Lady of
Clearwater) was from God to grant her a miracle. Her daughter who
was in Lithuania at the time was in the hospital and the above
miracle happened during the 2 hours the mother was praying at the
site.
32. Heart failure. He was
not breathing. Jesus water was poured on him while praying. He
started breathing again.
33. When I was pregnant,
my baby was sick. My baby born was well. Thanks.
34. Flu. Both sitting in
car, praying rosary both sick of flu. He very sick, not getting
better. Both used the water, felt pain leave body, didn't say
anything, but after few minutes he said "I feel pain is gone." They
drove back to tell us that they were healed.
35. Asthma. Put Jesus
water on neck. Breathing much better.
36. Severe back pain.
Have a bad back from laying brick for years and sometimes I bend
over and the pain is severe and it takes at least 3 or 4 or more
weeks for it to go away. I put Jesus water on it and it went away in
2 days. Alleluia.
37. I must admit that
some days I forget to wash in the water. But I have felt the same
feeling once again a few days ago as I did on March 2nd, the first
time I applied it to my knees. On the movie that you took, I am
walking on the beach without a cane. I don't know if you noticed. I
didn't use the cane yesterday, and I have no pain. I'm still slow at
climbing the stairs, but I'm seeing a tremendous improvement. I'll
keep a journal, and continue updating you I pray a lot, as I'm
applying the medicine. Part of my prayer is "If it be your will."
Thank you. I'll be in touch soon.
38. My husband had a good
friend and he was diagnosed with cancer and given less than a few
weeks to live. Jesus told me to take him the Jesus water. I never
really met him, but I went to the hospital. He was so sick. He
bounced up and said I knew it - I will be healed. And he lived over
two years longer.
39. Leukemia went into
remission February 7, 2003. Her doctor can't believe how well she is
doing. She has the worse kind of Leukemia there is and she is doing
extremely well. He said this does not happen, so soon, we told him
its because of all the prayers, everyone is saying for her. The day
after we visited the Blessed Mother Building, her blood count was
excellent. Thank you so much. As of 11/3/2004 she is still in
remission and doing very well, a happy 10 year old little girl. We
are all so thankful for all the prayers from everyone, we truly
believe, if we hadn't had our faith and by going to the Virgin Mary
building so often, we wouldn't have been so fortunate to have her.
Prayer is still the most powerful and healing process. Thank you so
much.
40. Spinal Manangitas.
December 16th, 2002 we almost lost our little grandson. He was taken
flight for life to Madison where they worked on him for hours. They
told us he would either be blind - deaf - brain damage, or he might
not walk. Today he is a happy - healthy little boy full of life.
Thanks to everyone's prayers to our Blessed Virgin and our heavenly
Father, without them we would not have him. Thank you. As of this
date November 3, 2004 our little grandson is doing very well, a
healthy happy little boy, and so full of life, and without any
complications. Our prayers and by going to the Virgin Mary building
truly helped this little boy. Thanks to everyone for all their
prayers.
41. After my family visited the Virgin Mary
and returned to hospital, I showed no sign of having a
stroke. Doctors at hospital said I would not recover.
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