April 25, 2016
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April 25, 2016
R. Dear Jesus,
We are so sorry for all that we could have
done to help spread Your love to others.
It is our calling to spread Jesus' love
to others because Jesus loves them so very
much, more than we can ever understand.
Jesus loves us and we need to focus on this
love that is really real.
In the Blue Books Jesus tells us how
much He really loves us.
We were created by God to grow in this
love, to be lovers, to grow in relationship
with God and with others.
Today souls are on the edge of death and they
will die and move on. What we needed to do while
we were here was to learn to love more and more
like Jesus.
We are imperfect, we have a wounded human
nature, we need to be docile and humble and
recognize the truth of this wounded human
nature and know we have a tendency toward sin.
So we need to pray to God to strengthen us, to help
us live virtuously, we need the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes a person has a weakness with one
knee, or a bad back, or something that kicks
up if we do certain things. We know this and we
can watch we don't over exert that weak joint
or whatever.
We may have a tendency spiritually to fall into
certain bad habits that we have known that
lead us away from holiness and love – may
begin fights so we let go to God and we don't
give into the darkness when we are tempted.
We need the Holy Spirit to help us to be pure
and docile and truthful about bad tendencies we
need to work on and change. We need to recognize
the truth – we are a work in progress, but
God has us here to grow to be more perfect –
He calls us to a particular state in life and
in that state in life, He uses others to help us
grow, to help us relate, to help us lead others
to greater love in Him.
The goal is to learn to love, to keep giving
love. We know how much He loves us
and we grow more and more one in Him.
When things are tough for us – we identify in
the sufferings of Jesus. We see His bloody face
and we know He loved us so much He paid
for our sins with His suffering.
We look to Jesus and we follow Jesus who
gave, who loved, who is the Light of the world.
Because of survival tactics learned in
dysfunctional homes a person may have bad
habits that need to change. A person may have
been forced to be a perfectionist and always
living to prove they were perfect, but in
reality we are imperfect, if we meditate on the
sufferings of Jesus and how He died for our
sins – we know we are imperfect and we
because of our selfish ways made Jesus
suffer.
We are called to love. If we are focusing on
how nobody can ever correct us, then how can
we ever change and get rid of bad habits that
we have and need to change in.
We can think about Mary's message how
she said souls were going to hell like rain
and begging us to be children of the light and
to do the work God has called us to do, to help the
souls today that could go to hell because of their
choices, their sins that were mortal and they
needed to ask to be forgiven.
We need to bend the stubborn heart and will,
to melt the frozen, warm the chill, to taste
the sweetness of the new day, to hear the birds
chirp, but to know that we have weaknesses,
that we must learn to work with and beg
the Holy Spirit to help us to be converted to
a more holy life –
We see a lot in working in the vocation God
has put us in – in saying we are sorry when
we were wrong and asking for forgiveness for
ways in which we hurt others because of our
wrong doings.
To be a human person with a wounded
human nature we will have things we need
to change – and in the Our Father it says –
forgive us our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against us.
Nobody is perfect and God has sent
us each other to help, to grow – to love – to
walk in the light.
If a person is so caught up in perfectionism
that they have to be right when they are
wrong, how can they ever change.
So many souls died yesterday that we
could have touched by going out and
loving, through our prayers, by efforts
God wanted from us to forgive and to
ask for forgiveness of others.
A hidden tendency a person may have is to operate
in conflict and satan can press on a person to
work in conflict – to make conflict, to be
only comfortable in conflict.
So today God calls you to love – to help
another in the building of the Kingdom, but
you have a bad habit to provoke, create conflict
and turn a beautiful day into a dark ugly
day while you keep trying to get someone
to get angry.
Wouldn't you want to change a bad
habit of hurting others if you are maliciously
prone to starting a fight because you automatically
start to create conflict with a bad mood and
press on people to try to provoke them –
So your good friend says, let's do this work
today for God and helping people because
God wants it and you just start a fight
and turn the day to darkness while you
try and try to start conflict and a fight –
Don't you want to use the precious life
you have to stop it and give love in giving
service to others.
I see the light comes every day. When
we walk with Jesus we walk in the light –
When we hold onto destructive patterned
behaviors and hurt others and create
conflicts for making conflicts – it's like
staying in a dark night and never seeing
the light of day.
How awful it would be to not have
the sun come up. How awful it is for
a man who does not recognize the truth and
keep making conflict and bringing darkness
to himself and others.
A few days ago I talked about life long
secrets that were hidden in one's past and
needed to be brought to the light and healed –
secrets that satan can distort to keep a
person stuck in darkness and not loving
themselves as they should. A person can be in
darkness for years and the darkness grows,
as they hide these secrets that need to be
shared with a trust-worthy person God sends
and helps us to see ourselves in the right
light to heal from wounded secrets.
Hiding the truth about our own wounds
that we did to others keeps us in darkness.
When we have sinned we need to recognize
our faults and ask God to forgive us.
This keeps us humble to see we aren't
perfect and it makes a connection with
those we harmed.
We are in relationship – we need to
recognize when we hurt others and it was
our fault and say we are sorry – tell God
we are sorry for our sins.
These secrets where we do not examine
our conscience and see how we have
sinned and abused others, if we did,
keeps us living in darkness.
Relationships is about being fair –
trying to understand and build and say
we are sorry and communicating about
what needs to be talked about to work
with others.
When a person is addicted to creating
conflict and conflict feels familiar to them
so they make it – instead of having a good
day – they need to change this bad habit –
It's wrong to sit around and provoke
others to see if we can make conflict –
If a person makes conflict, is unpredictable
and their bad habit of provoking others
can come any time –
It is like living in a world where
they remain in darkness and the sun never
comes up.
Fr. Carter examined his conscience two times
a day – take your spiritual pulse – see if
you are going from your goal of living
for eternal happiness and love –
Love is the goal – if a person is choosing
anger and satan is pressing in – then they
have to pray to the Holy Spirit to help them to get
out of it.
Anger is a deadly sin, pride is a
deadly sin, envy is a deadly sin,
jealousy is a deadly sin –
These deadly sins keep a person in
darkness.
We pray for grace. The Mass goes on all
day like a fountain of God's grace being
poured on the earth. God is there – God
will help us if we ask Him, but we must
discipline our unruly weak wills because
God has commanded us to do so. God has
commanded us to love – to be truthful –
to not live lies of how we are perfect,
but to see ourselves as we are and ask
for forgiveness, admit the truth, live
in the truth and forgive others –
God intends us to work with others.
Some of our greatest help to greater perfection,
to greater holiness is to work in the
difficult relationships God has put us
in with those He has called us to work
with.
We are on a journey to learn to love –
to live in peace – to keep on building God's
Kingdom –
Life long patterned behaviors like creating
darkness, starting conflict, hurting others
is wrong.
God put us here to work with others
in our life.
The darkness of sin is real!
God may be setting up things in our
lives to build more and more in relationships –
in doing the work of building His Kingdom –
Like God calling a meeting, a luncheon,
a gathering to promote in our case –
the Ministries to spread the prayers and
the love of God –
to further Eucharistic Adoration and
to help men to say prayers, the rosary,
to go to Mass –
Satan is real –
He will work on the weakest link to
create conflict, hatred and stop
the work of spreading God's love –
of bringing men into the light –
Satan hates –
Satan hates God
Satan hates people getting along –
Satan wants to bring down the house
with angry people – stirring
up conflict, division, who
don't want to go along –
meet, be at peace –
help to build the Kingdom of God –
Satan once he has had his way with a
person –
presses hard –
A person must listen to guidance God
sends to stop bad habits and
realize –
working together can be suffering
because bad habits of provoking
others, being isolated, dividing,
creating conflict to stop unity –
have to change to make peace –
harmony, going along, working with others
on a plan that may not be where you
are in control, trying to get control,
etc. –
If a person says, oh its Saturday and I have
a bad mood on Saturday – that needs
to change –
God is working in our life – in a new
day every day – He brings light
every day – He has a plan for building
the Kingdom of God – Light is the habit –
not excuses for why darkness is eminent –
We have a free will –
We have to let go of inordinate attachments –
We have those things we hold onto –
like creating conflict – when we
should be going along in love –
provoking people to start conflict –
division – a ruckus –
brings down the house
And the provoker is walking in darkness –
not light –
Manipulating others in jealousy and envy
or in pride is giving into the
deadly sins –
How do you dance through life –
Are your doors open to the morning
light –
Is loving important in your heart?
Is Jesus your constant companion?
Are you a partner to others – working
with them and others –
Jesus: Do you work for connection and
unity or are your bad habits
to get people away from you –
stop connections –
Would you rather bring down the
house than get along and
work with someone?
Do you want control to snuff
out all the candles that
surround you so you can
live in your comfortable,
ugly misery –
I am light –
A person that walks in darkness is far
from Me
Friendship is being focused on others –
working as a couple – working
with others –
opening a door to trust and
love – predictability –
Giving and taking
A person can be so possessive of another
person – they want them to
put up with their darkness and
jealousy –
they would rather bring down
the house and live in
darkness then live in the
light and
they expect others to join them
in their unpredictable
darkness
I do not intend a person to possess
another person for fear of
abandonment –
Love gives –
Love likened to Mine is healthy –
Love is responsible –
Love grows in order –
Love is accountable –
Love seeks truth –
Love doesn't live in lies and
expects others to dance to
your darkness –
Love communicates and works to
bring love to others – reach
out in My love to the world –
Love is giving for the sake of giving –
not possessively expecting others
to do the work of fixing
a dark heart –
Love is staying connected – not
being of the thought – if you
leave – you have abandon me
love is connected –
loving and doing My Father's will
means –
you do what My Father's will is
A person prone to darkness –
is a push over when satan
wants to manipulate work
that will help build My Kingdom –
What is normal to them is
manipulating others to stop
the light –
It becomes so hidden in them and can
become an art –
how to provoke –
how to divide –
how to tear down –
how to stop the Plan of the Father –
This conflict of their will opposed
to the Father's will makes so much
darkness inside of them –
Life is like living in a room
without lights on – it doesn't
feel happy –
and then the scenario continues –
more and more darkness –
they orchestrated and
it is a waste of time –
How many souls did you help today
to know My love –
to see the light –
to work positively –
to obey My Law of love –
I command you to love –
I am love –
I am light –
I am connection and unity –
I call you to be one in Me –
To be on a roller coaster of going along
and then pulling back and
distancing in emotional connection
through starting conflict –
dialogue to hurt unity – to
create misunderstandings
is sick –
To create misunderstandings and
react in anger then to the
misunderstandings you
created to drive others away –
is so twisted thinking
Learning to trust God and to
trust others comes in
doing it –
A person that never trusts those who
I have put in their path
makes a mess in their lives
who can work with a person
that is untrustworthy –
Reliability is a friend –
predictability as a person –
working in love in misunderstandings
is necessary and can be
hard –
Why would a person make conflict
and force misunderstandings so they
can be angry –
that is darkness –
that is pain –
that is opposing My Law of Love –
When a person is full of pain and anger
and darkness, it doesn't help
to lie about it and think
someone on the outside should
come down to your level and
be your dark companion –
Love is the answer –
Consistency in loving relationships –
Keeping connection when others leave
not starting things negative or
fighting to try to engage them
and keep them at bay –
Going in and out of doors
and being trustworthy –
Some people who isolate don't
want to trust anyone and
are so stifled in letting go if
some relationship feels good –
Others are so used to every day encounters
they sail like ships in the night –
but the person who has failed to
learn to relate with others and
is so fearful of relationships
is living a life of darkness –
You are here to do work with
others – not have your wall
in the way –
What a strange set up – | ||
The Father intended men to work with each other and love – God is love –
Satan wants this |
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I am Light
I am Jesus – |
Lighting a candle brings light to
a dark room –
Staying in the dark is not the
will of My Heavenly Father –
I am love!
I emptied Myself!
I give you Myself in the Eucharist!
R. We empty ourselves
We obey the Father's will
We walk in the Light –
We receive the Body and Blood of Jesus –
We are transformed –
We want unity in Christ –
Unity and love –
We are sorry for all the times we
could have spread love
to the souls of the earth –
Souls will be lost today –
Dear God have mercy on us for
our sins
We are sorry for our sins –
God has made us to be with Him –
We are tourist in this world –
God has put us here and then He
is going to call us to Himself –
What would we think if Jesus
walked in here right now –
Would we see His love
and His light?
We are to bring this light to others
through our example –
Jesus says:
"I am the way, the truth and the life –"
John 11: 25
Jesus said:
I am the resurrection.
Anyone who believes in me,
even though that person dies, will live,
Sing: On Eagles Wings
R. We must pray for ourselves to live
our lives as God wants so we
will be with Him forever in heaven –
Our goal is eternal happiness in heaven –
God calls and knocks on our door and
He says
"Come Follow Me" –
1 John 4: 17-21
Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. 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.
1 John 4: 7-11
My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.
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.
R. Our goal – Eternal Happiness
The beatific vision
All human beings are descendants of Adam and Eve
Genesis 3: 1-6
Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
R. Satan is evil
Satan will never go to heaven
Satan hates that man can have
eternal life if they live as God commands
Satan used Eve to get to Adam –
Satan does that –
Eve gave into pride
When we sin we offend God –
Ingratitude toward God –
Genesis 3: 23-24
So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
R. God is just
Song: I am a God of Justice
R. Man when he sins, puts himself
before God –
The devils hate us.
The devils hate God –
The devils hate each other –
The devil wants souls for hell –
The devil is smart –
The devil works on people through
the deadly sins –
The devil goes about the world
as a roaring lion –
1 Peter 5: 8-9
Keep sober and alert, because your enemy the devil is on the prowl like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand up to him, strong in faith and in the knowledge that it is the same kind of suffering that the community of your brothers throughout the world is undergoing.
R. The devil is the father of lies –
John 8: 44
You are from your father, the devil,
and you prefer to do
what your father wants.
He was a murderer from the start;
he was never grounded in the truth;
there is no truth in him at all.
When he lies
he is speaking true to his nature,
because he is a liar, and the father of lies.
R. Satan can come and to lure someone
appear as an angel of light –
then begin his evil allurement.
We have a free will to resist satan
and his temptation.
God intends us to have self-control –
Galatians 5: 24
All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all its passions and its desires.
R. We must control our senses
We are to be self-disciplined –
We should love God with our whole
heart, our whole soul and our whole being –
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are
Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel,
Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety
and Fear of the Lord.
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. The fruits of the Holy Spirit are
charity, joy, peace, patience,
benignity (kindness), goodness,
long-suffering, mildness,
faith, modesty, continency,
and chastity
Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus
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.
The Ten Commandments
1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
R. Law of Love
We are responsible
to God for our actions
Good Habits - Virtues
Bad Habits – Vices
We must follow God's law and
love to go to heaven.
R. The seven deadly sins are
pride, greed, envy, wrath,
lust,
gluttony,
and sloth
God is All knowing
God is All merciful
God is All powerful
God is All good
God is All just
God is All wise
God is All Just
Exodus 20: 2-5
‘I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you lived as slaves.
‘You shall have no other gods to rival me.
‘You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth.
‘You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God and I punish a parent’s fault in the children, the grandchildren, and the great–grandchildren among those who hate me;
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