Retreat in China

                            April 9 - after 6:20 prayers
                                       discernment of spirits
                                       purpose
                                       sin - tendencies toward impure ways

Messenger:       God thank you for the gift of
                                new life ––

                        God thank You for baptism.
                        Little girls like to be pretty ––

Messenger:        Dear God help us to see ourselves
                            as the little children of
                            Mary and little children of
                            the Father.

Spiritual Childhood

Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how I love to enfold you in my arms as my little child! Enfolded in my arms in my maternal embrace, I press you against my Immaculate Heart. I draw you within my Heart. There, through my maternal intercession, I clothe you with Jesus' graces. As you dwell in my Heart, I place you ever more deeply within Jesus' Heart and there the Holy Spirit fashions you increasingly in the image of my Son. As you grow in the likeness of Jesus, He takes you ever closer to the Father.

"Thus, as you grow in the sense of your helplessness without God, the stronger you become in Jesus. Childlike thus becomes strength. The smaller you become in living out spiritual childhood, the taller you stand beside Jesus. Weakness becomes strength, your sense of helplessness becomes spiritual maturity!

"Tell all my children about the wonders of spiritual childhood! Tell them to come to me and I will school them in its ways. How I love all my children! Oh, how I love to exercise my motherhood toward them all!"

Reflection: In the Gospel, Jesus speaks emphatically to us about spiritual childhood: "At this time the disciples came to Jesus and said, 'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?' So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, 'I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven'" (Matthew 18:1-4).

end of excerpt from Tell My People

April 3, 2005 message continues

Messenger:        Christ has died ––

September 4, 2004

Messenger:        Then Christ resurrected

John 20: 19-31

In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you,’ and, after saying this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Lord, and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. 

    ‘As the Father sent me, 
    so am I sending you.’ 

After saying this he breathed on them and said: 

    Receive the Holy Spirit. 
    If you forgive anyone’s sins, 
    they are forgiven; 
    if you retain anyone’s sins, 
    they are retained. 

    Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, ‘We have seen the Lord,’ but he answered, ‘Unless I can see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you,’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving any more but believe.’ Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him: 

    You believe because you can see me. 
    Blessed are those who have not seen 
        and yet believe.

There were many other signs that Jesus worked in the sight of the disciples, but they are not recorded in this book. These are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing this you may have life through his name.

Hebrews 11: 1-40

   Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities that are unseen. It is for their faith that our ancestors are acknowledged.

   It is by faith that we understand that the ages were created by a word from God, so that from the invisible the visible world came to be.

   It was because of his faith that Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain, and for that he was acknowledged as upright when God himself made acknowledgement of his offerings. Though he is dead, he still speaks by faith.

   It was because of his faith that Enoch was taken up and did not experience death: he was no more, because God took him; because before his assumption he was acknowledged to have pleased God. Now it is impossible to please God without faith, since anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and rewards those who seek him.

   It was through his faith that Noah, when he had been warned by God of something that had never been seen before, took care to build an ark to save his family. His faith was a judgement on the world, and he was able to claim the uprightness which comes from faith.

   It was by faith that Abraham obeyed the call to set out for a country that was the inheritance given to him and his descendants, and that he set out without knowing where he was going. By faith he sojourned in the Promised Land as though it were not his, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. He looked forward to the well-founded city, designed and built by God.

   It was equally by faith that Sarah, in spite of being past the age, was made able to conceive, because she believed that he who had made the promise was faithful to it.

Because of this, there came from one man, and one who already had the mark of death on him, descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore which cannot be counted.

   All these died in faith, before receiving any of the things that had been promised, but they saw them in the far distance and welcomed them, recognising that they were only strangers and nomads on earth. People who use such terms about themselves make it quite plain that they are in search of a homeland. If they had meant the country they came from, they would have had the opportunity to return to it; but in fact they were longing for a better homeland, their heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, since he has founded the city for them.

   It was by faith that Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He offered to sacrifice his only son even though he had yet to receive what had been promised, and he had been told: Isaac is the one through whom your name will be carried on. He was confident that God had the power even to raise the dead; and so, figuratively speaking, he was given back Isaac from the dead.

   It was by faith that this same Isaac gave his blessing to Jacob and Esau for the still distant future. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, bowed in reverence, as he leant on his staff. It was by faith that, when he was about to die, Joseph mentioned the Exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his own remains.

   It was by faith that Moses, when he was born, was kept hidden by his parents for three months; because they saw that he was a fine child; they were not afraid of the royal edict. It was by faith that, when he was grown up, Moses refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter and chose to be ill-treated in company with God's people rather than to enjoy the transitory pleasures of sin. He considered that the humiliations offered to the Anointed were something more precious than all the treasures of Egypt, because he had his eyes fixed on the reward. It was by faith that he left Egypt without fear of the king's anger; he held to his purpose like someone who could see the Invisible. It was by faith that he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood to prevent the Destroyer from touching any of their first-born sons. It was by faith they crossed the Red Sea as easily as dry land, while the Egyptians, trying to do the same, were drowned.

   It was through faith that the walls of Jericho fell down when the people had marched round them for seven days. It was by faith that Rahab the prostitute welcomed the spies and so was not killed with the unbelievers.

   What more shall I say? There is not time for me to give an account of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, or of David, Samuel and the prophets. These were men who through faith conquered kingdoms, did what was upright and earned the promises. They could keep a lion's mouth shut, put out blazing fires and emerge unscathed from battle. They were weak people who were given strength to be brave in war and drive back foreign invaders. Some returned to their wives from the dead by resurrection; and others submitted to torture, refusing release so that they would rise again to a better life. Some had to bear being pilloried and flogged, or even chained up in prison. They were stoned, or sawn in half, or killed by the sword; they were homeless, and wore only the skins of sheep and goats; they were in want and hardship, and maltreated. They were too good for the world and they wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and ravines. These all won acknowledgment through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised, since God had made provision for us to have something better, and they were not to reach perfection except with us.  

April 3, 2005 message continues

Messenger:       The scripture tells us how our ancestors
                            believed and because of their
                            faith how much happened ––

                        Our prayer is for this faith ––

                        Satan tempts us to be negative
                            and wastes time telling us
                            then we will have some time
                            to ourselves, ––

                        How can we let the precious moments
                            of our lives when we have
                            failed to love go on? I pray for
                            grace for myself and this whole world
                            that we will not give into the
                            lethargy of doing little, those
                            who once heard, the calling,
                            believed had so much enthusiasm
                            and realized the joy of being an
                            apostle for Jesus in His Movement
                            Shepherds of Christ.

                        Christ has called us to be contemplatives
                            in action ––
                            so much time energy, day after
                            day can be given to negative
                            thinking –– it takes our fervor
                            away –– we forget about the joy
                            of dealing with the interested others
                            God has called to help us and spread
                            this mission.

                        Joy about Christ crucified who rose
                            on the 3rd day and gives us this
                            Movement ––
                            Jesus' Movement ––

                        I watch priests who continue to be
                            positive and focus on the scriptures
                            at Mass and the gifts of the Church ––

                        I watch them - those holy priests and
                            God talks to me in the scriptures
                            they speak about and the joy of
                            the gifts given - their faithfulness
                            to the mission ––

                        A life of deep prayer for each priest,
                            an hour before the tabernacle ––
                            saying their office - doing priestly
                            duties keeps them holy - with
                            our prayers praying for them.

April 3, 2005 message continues

Messenger:       I see the little ones and I hear the message
                            Mary has given me to reach the
                            little ones with the tiny-tot
                            books. We need your support to
                            do this. After 1 and 1/2 years of work we are
                            ready to launch this campaign to the
                            little ones. Can you help us? Write to
                            me and tell me if you feel Jesus
                            is asking you to support this
                            endeavor and send the donation
                            to Shepherds of Christ.

                            Today I watched the sorrowful
                        video with the greatest pictures
                        as I silently prayed my rosary.
                        The videos are tremendous aids.

                            When you do what Jesus asks of
                        us we get tremendous grace to help
                        us be happy –– be apostles in action.

                            A man got up everyday and sat in
                        a chair and thought of how he was
                        persecuted and made a victim. He
                        talked endless hours on the phone
                        complaining and he was tired because
                        his negativism dragged him down.

                            Did you ever go and tell someone
                        about this great mission, who is
                        already an associate, and they are
                        so interested in what is happening
                        because they have prayed for years
                        the Shepherds of Christ Prayers.

                            How many people gave up praying
                        the prayers because little contact was
                        made and they just got sluggish –– like
                        the tired blood of one who
                        only thinks negative thoughts all day.

                            When we act like apostles, when we
                        are filled with joy for the life God
                        has called us to and spread it ––
                        our hearts are filled with joy ourselves.

                            A man was negative, one day, two
                        days, three days, his whole life ––
                        Let's quit giving into satan. How much
                        time and energy is lost from this? Satan
                        wants us to be negative and spread
                        it to everybody else. This is how we
                        stop the work Jesus has asked us to do
                        and miss the joy of sharing it.

                            Tired Blood –– if a person just sits
                        they can get tired ––

                            God wants us to be happy in His
                        work.

                            A negative person, sometimes wants
                        to just stay negative –– then they
                        wonder - deeply wonder why they
                        aren't happy.

                            I asked a priest about God's will and
                        he said it boiled down to two things
                        loving God and loving one another ––

                            Love is the answer ––
                            Love invigorates the soul ––
                            Love fills the hearts with joy ––

                        A person that steals or hurts others
                            has to carry that dark bag on
                            their back.

                        God is watching us and helping us when we
                            stay connected to Him in our
                            hourly prayer and ask for that
                            hourly grace and His help.
                            Jesus told us to do the Infant of
                                Prague Novena hourly.

Novena to the Infant of Prague
(to be prayed hourly if possible)

 
          O Jesus, who said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted. 

          O Jesus, who said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask Your Father in Your Name that my prayer be granted. 

          O Jesus, who said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word shall not pass," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.

April 3, 2005 message continues

Messenger:       We are called to be Apostles of the
                            Sacred Heart of Jesus. Satan can try
                            to grip us so we just don't get
                            any work done ––

                        We can be happy and doing lots of work ––
                            walking on air, invigorated ––
                            like taking a walk and letting our
                            blood move and then ––
                            we may be tempted to give into
                            a negative, dividing thought or
                            someone comes with a bag of
                            ill will to try to drag us down
                            and then giving into that negativity
                            is like putting a hole in a bucket
                            of water and as the water goes
                            out we feel ourselves being pulled
                            down in muscles and body and
                            we just give into that temptation
                            to be negative, divided, maybe
                            mad and unsettled because we
                            let something drag us down ––
                            then we say
                            Oh I am so tired ––
                            "Oh I am so negative", might be
                                a good statement,

                        Satan comes like a thief in the night
                            to wrap us in a bandage like
                            a mummy and keep us from doing
                            the work - Jesus is asking us
                            to do ––

                        And we miss the joy of being an apostle,
                            filled with enthusiasm and action
                            because someone around us
                            with a stomach ache may
                            have seemed to snap at us and so we
                            choose to let ourselves spiral
                            down –– like an old bucket
                            with a hole in it.

                        Praying hourly can help us have grace
                            to keep being positive ––
                            praying with energy ––
                            smiling about the mission ––
                            knowing the joy of being an
                                apostle of Jesus ––

                        Jesus appears on the building for us ––

January 29, 2005

April 3, 2005 message continues

Messenger:           Jesus water has helped some - so
                                they were cured ––

                            Mary appeared on the building
                                7 and 1/2 years ––

                        If you are in a bad mood –– who will
                            tell the people how important
                            the prayers are?

                        God we pray for the grace to be good
                            apostles ––

April 3, 2005 message continues

Messenger:       God we pray to be thankful for
                            your gifts given to us in
                            this mission.

                        Pray for the prayer chapters ––
                            encourage them ––

                        The people in the prayer chapters were
                            supposed to support the Priestly
                            Newsletter.

                        The people must realize in Jesus'
                            Movement - the Priestly
                            Newsletter is the reason for the
                            Movement –– to spread it in
                            English and Spanish - so about
                            80% of the priests in the world
                            could read it.

                        By reaching the Bishops and Cardinals and
                            priests with the importance
                            of the Holy Father's writings and
                            consecration we can help
                            do what we must do to bring
                            about ––

                        The Reign of the Sacred Heart and Triumph
                            of Mary's Immaculate Heart and
                            this great era of peace Mary
                            promised at Fatima ––

                        We have to focus on this vision ––
                        God gave us this Movement for this
                            purpose

                        (1) Priestly Newsletter    (2) prayer chapters ––

                        Mary said until a sufficient number of
                            people have consecrated their
                            hearts to Jesus and Mary we won't
                            have peace in the world.

                        By spreading the Priestly Newsletter centered
                            in consecration to the Hearts of
                            Jesus and Mary to 72,000 priests now ––
                            we are doing what Jesus
                            wants to help lead priests into deeper
                            holiness dwelling in the Hearts of
                            Jesus and Mary and spreading it to
                            the people.

                            How many people can be reached
                                through one priest!!

                        There will be this great era of peace
                            when the Sacred Heart of Jesus
                            will Reign and the Immaculate
                            Heart of Mary will triumph.

Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

  Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

Palm Sunday 2005

Holy Thursday - March 24, 2005

Holy Thursday - March 24, 2005

Holy Thursday - March 24, 2005

Holy Thursday - March 24, 2005

Holy Thursday - March 24, 2005

Holy Thursday - March 24, 2005

Holy Thursday - March 24, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

Palm Sunday - March 20, 2005

March 26, 2005

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