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April 25, 2008

April 26th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for April 26th are Glorious.

  

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April 25, 2008

 

                    Look my dear God of Your order and Your
                love — The trees come out — as from a long
                sleep and the dainty flowers so beautiful
                can cause some to have itchy eyes — Was not
                the crown of thorns made from the dogwood —
                I am not sure, but the trees in the garden where
                Christ sweat His Blood and wept — oh what did the
                trees in that garden see — The very trees He had
                commanded to grow —

                   Man has become so busy he can miss the sky and
                stay slumped in an angry, anxious cavern of
                darkness in his heart.

                    Even when the sky budges with light and the
                 warmth of another day surrounds the man he
                can be as a dark cavern — not really knowing
                the definition of what the Creator's plan for him
                was in living life with joy and peace and love.

                    A bed is made by different people, different ways —
                my friend was helping me clean and she said "I can tell
                if anyone slept in the bed after I made it?

                    God has given us our life here to live in
                His plan — to live as the creature of the Creator —
                say one man is a shoe maker — shoes made to
                order for a particular man — Cinderella showed
                us the glass slipper fit only her foot —

                    Well God made us — He created us uniquely —
                He gave us talents to do His work — He has a
                Plan for us —

                    I didn't like to read the
                instructions when assembling something — and what
                happened was I always had to read the instructions to
                assemble the thing in pieces — we learn somewhere to always
                read the instructions and even though we may feel it
                is hard — the instructions are usually very good and
                all the pieces are there — A man put this plan together
                so we could read the instructions and for example
                build a cabinet and we can do it with the instructions.

                    As I write the sun shines on my hand, my paper —
                the sun gives light to me to see, the sun warms
                the earth, the sun helps the flower grow — the sun
                is a gift from God for us creatures of the earth. We don't
                own the sun or the moon — God allows us to be on the earth
                He put us here —
                He loans us the earth —
                We are the tenant farmers
                We are to recognize His dominion over us —

                God gives us our wonderful bodies, our lungs bring
                    our bodies air — our heart pumps blood —
                    our bodies are so beautiful — the creation of this
                    magnificent system so we can operate and live
                    here and eat and sleep and see and hear and
                    think and talk and love and sing.

                God is our Father
                God is our Creator

                God has given men and women to each other to live in
                    love and marry and to help in making new little
                    children in a family.

                A child so sweet — so innocent — so helpless — learning,
                growing — hand in ours — "sit on your lap, grandma"
                so beautiful is God's creation — so awesome watching
                the clock set in time for a child to grow, to discover,
                such order — the years a woman can carry a child
                within her womb — our beautiful golden hair turned
                gray —

                    I see, I say, I wore glasses for years, now I can
                see without them — how do all these things happen?
                A plan — the plan of the Creator, the design of our
                God — the talents, the order, the intelligence, He gives
                us — the way men and women are different —

                    We can put the perfect foot in the perfect shoe like
                Cinderella or we can try to write our life our way
                against the Plan of the Creator.

                    He has a plan for us — God made us — Adam and Eve
                rebelled against God —

                    You have seen an argumentative child — saying no —
                arguing — focusing on what is wrong at an early age —
                correcting you, not being nice — children must be
                taught, but some stubbornness can come from
                all kinds of things inside — unmet needs, moms and
                dads that were not nice to the child, selfish, hurtful siblings —
                a little child can suffer from an unlearned brother
                or sister — selfish, not nice, not sharing, hitting —
                needing to learn themselves —

                    In this imperfect world — people can marry who had
                selfless parents — loving their family — teaching children
                great love — others can marry out of great selfishness —
                fighting is normal to them, discord, anger past down
                from their past generations — parents who may think
                that love is getting what I want and when I don't
                get it I do things to punish others because I must rule.
                It is sad to think in all the divorces that children
                must go through special events with parent who may
                act nice to each other after the divorce, but because of divorce
                have stuffed their awful jealousy and anger and are
                projecting this into the world on innocent others — this
                is a grave injustice — children forced to be separated holidays,
                older divorced children — 20's, 30's still suffer as their mom and
                dad can get new partners who may show little love to them.
                Anger, jealousies, envy, greed in a family,
                community, church, nation — blocks love —
                We do not live in a vacuum.

                    The more men live in love according to God's will
                the more harmony there will be — like a beautiful
                watch with all its little parts working smoothly or an automobile —
                everything "zinging and zonging" as it should.

                    Mary said at Fatima to spread the consecration to the
                2 Hearts of Pure Love, Jesus and Mary. In dwelling in Their
                Hearts we are more attuned to God's will — the Holy Spirit
                counsels us in the Heart of Mary — molding us more and more in
                the image of Jesus

    

February 5, 2001

     

                God is light and in Him there is no darkness —
                God the Father has a Plan — to want to be dominant
                over God is silly —
                God gives us our life
                We are in the world run by Him

  

Matthew 21: 33-46

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

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

‘I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’ 
   When they heard his parables, the chief priests and the scribes realised he was speaking about them, but though they would have liked to arrest him they were afraid of the crowds, who looked on him as a prophet.

     

Luke 15: 11-31

Then he said, ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, "Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come to me," So the father divided the property between them. A few days later, the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery.

When he had spent it all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch; so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs. And he would willingly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating but no one would let him have them. Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father’s hired men have all the food they want and more, and here am I dying of hunger! I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired men." So he left the place and went back to his father.

‘While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him. Then his son said, : "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son." But the father said to his servants, "Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the calf we have been fattening and kill it; we will celebrate by having a feast, because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found." And they began to celebrate.

‘Now the elder son was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing. Calling one of the servants he asked what it was all about. The servant told him, "Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf we had been fattening because he has got him back safe and sound." He was angry then and refused to go in, and His father came out and began to urge him to come in; but he retorted to his father, "All these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed any orders of yours, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends. But, for this son of yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your propertyhe and his loose womenyou kill the calf we have been fattening.

‘The father said, "My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours. But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found.’


   


 

                There is no other way —
                Man has disobeyed God's will from the beginning
                    He gives into evil —
                    He is rebellious —

                But God outpours His grace to heal our wounded human
                nature in His Church — He gives us the sacraments —
                He gives us the Eucharist —
                He gives us these precious gifts
                We are to give honor and glory to God —
                We can never repay God for all He has done for us.
                How can we be so ungrateful — selfish

                God loves us so much, He created us in love —
                    He intends us to be more and more like Him
                    in this world — more and more molded in His
                    image and likeness —
                    God intends us to follow His plan — not try to
                    have dominion over Him — that is silly —

                Putting on the right glove for our hand feels good —
                    Could you see a golfer who put a right hand
                    golf glove on a left hand and tried to golf —
                    They make gloves for right handed and left handed
                    golfers —

                Why wear your pants for your shirt — it would be
                    very difficult —

                Man is here to learn from God —
                If you know it all or think you do — you are in for a
                    rough road and so is everyone else while you make

                        "Being right" your god —

                    the priest said at Church — Ghandi said —

                        he lived his young life trying to prove he was
                            right

                        then he lived his later life trying to be awake —

                    Mary said at Fatima that there would be this era of
                peace. Mary told Jacinta that Jesus' Heart is to be venerated
                next to Mary's Heart — In this network of prayer of
                the Shepherds of Christ Prayers — Jesus told Fr. Carter to begin —
                we are one in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary praying for
                the priests, the Church and the world.

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Use Your Talents

October 3, 1993 Chicago Marian Conference 11:30a.m.

Jesus speaks: I am your Savior, Son of the Living God. I come to you that you might have life, not as the world gives you life, but My life which is life eternal. I carved you from My special carving and made you little less than an angel. I love you and cherish all the moments when you, My special child, come to sit with Me. I wait here and I hope you will choose to come, but I never force you. Your will is totally free and I give it to you because of My love and the will of the Father. I inform you in numerous ways. You do not have to guess and wonder. Come be with Me in this silence and all you need to know will be told to you. Your life is unfolding as a beautiful rose. Each petal falls and you plant My odors about as I so desire. I make your life full and sure as you trust in Me. No need for worrying, My little flower. My ways give you freedom if you listen to your heart. I am a personal God and you know Me as giving you fullness and life. You know there is some magnetism to Me and the way you crave to be part of Me. This is the work of the one, true God Who created you with a thirst that can only be quenched by Me. All roads that lead to Me give you fullness, worth, peace and joy, not as the world thinks, but as you yourself know true peace and joy. When I really touch you, you do not remain the same. I shed My Blood for you that you will have the life only I can give. What friend in this world would die for you? You, My child, were worth My dying for. I came that you will have life eternal and the gift I give is My Precious Blood for your sins. Come to Me in trouble and when you are bowed down. Come to Me in joy. Come to Me every day that you live and I will give you all you need. Seek to know Me more and more. Knowledge of Me, being with Me, are the only way to perfect peace. They lead to eternal life.

    I have a divine plan for you. I created you with special gifts and talents to be used to do My work. They are not for your own self-promotion. You, My child, are nothing except as I created you. Why try to promote yourself? It is none of your own doing. I gave you the talents you are using. You had nothing to do with it. These talents were given to you to do My work. To use these talents to make yourself feel better than your brother is indeed a sin. You must realize they are loaned to you to work for Me. As you give someone a car, or loan them a place to stay, I loan you your talents to use to work for Me. If you do not work for Me and use them to make yourself better than your brother, you are offending Me. Likewise, if I give you talents and you do not use them because you think you are not as good as your brother, you are not being thankful to Me for My gifts to you. You are not using My gifts and that offends Me greatly. Each person was created by Me to do My work. Each person has all he needs to do My work. To be envious of others is fruitless. They have their job. You have yours. You are not supposed to do their work. That is why you were not given their talents.

    Do your own work. Don't be envious of your brothers. Don't hide your talents. You did not earn them. I gave you your talents. You must sing because I will it. Others must do as I will them to do. It displeases Me to give you a gift and watch you hide it and make light of it. I give the gift. You must use all your gifts. They were given to you to do My work. Your brother has his gifts. Be grateful for your brother and he should be for you. You are all chosen by Me for a special mission. You know what to do. It feels right. I plant little seeds in your heart and all you do that is for you in the end feels right. You are not to be doing your brother's work or he yours. Talk to Me that you might know just what your work is and do it.

    Do not hide your talents. Praise your God Who gave you these talents. Embrace and use them. This is not pride. This is My plan. I love you. I give to each of you, My precious children, as a mother who buys special Christmas gifts for each child. To buy gifts all the same for all your children is not to respect their specialness, their individuality.

    Oh, I love you, little ones, so much. Please come to Me. I am so good and I wait to be with you and share My love with you. Come now. This is your top priority. All else will work when you come to Me first. I love you. You are My chosen children. Come and be filled and I make your loads light and I fill you with the Spirit of Salvation.

    All roads that lead to Me are the right roads. Praise Me for I am good and I love you, little dear ones.

end of October 3, 1993 message

   

 

 

        

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