Daily Writing
| Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing |
|
April 5, 2007 - Holy Thursday
April 6th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 2 Period II.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for April 6th are Sorrowful.
The 5th Prayer Service will be
in Clearwater, Florida on April 5th.
Please come and join us praying for the priests,
the Church and the world
or tune in on the Internet Radio!
The monthly retreat will be at the
St. Anthony Shepherds of Christ center
in China, Indiana from
April 10th through the 13th.
Those who have came in March
had a marvelous retreat!
The Priesthood Newsletter is coming soon.
We need funds for postage.
Please, we need your help and support.
Come to China and please help with the mailing.
April 5, 2007
Today is a special feast
for us.
Luke 22: 14-20
When the time came he took his place at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, ‘I have ardently longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; because, I tell you, I shall not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.’
Then, taking a cup, he gave thanks and said, ‘Take this and share it among you, because from now on, I tell you, I shall never again drink wine until the kingdom of God comes.’Then he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ He did the same with the cup after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood poured out for you.
February 22, 1995
Stations of the Cross
1. Jesus Is Condemned to Death
Jesus: My dear child, with angry hearts and hatred on their faces, they poked at Me and condemned Me to death. I stood so silent, My hands tied, in perfect peace, because I knew the Father's love. I knew the Father's Will. You too will stand your trials in perfect peace, the more you realize the immense love the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for you. Pray to the Spirit to transform you more and more into My image and, through this transformation, you will be led ever closer to the Father. Oh, how I love you!
2. They Give Jesus the Cross
Jesus: They gave Me a heavy cross, laden with the sins of the world. They placed it on My shoulder. It was so heavy I felt as if My shoulder would break. I ask you to carry little crosses, to experience little pains. I could not remove this cross from My shoulder. The weight was unbearable. It is through My suffering and death that you receive new life. It is through your sufferings this day that you will grow in your life with Me. Oh, child, I loved you so much that I took up the cross of salvation. I love you. Please realize that I am talking to you here. To My death I loved you. Oh, how I love you!
3. Jesus Falls the First Time
Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could hardly walk. I held on to My cross for greatest love of you and in compliance with the Will of My Father. It became so hard to walk! The cross was so heavy! I fell. I fell and the cross fell on Me. They poked at Me, they struck Me, they demanded I get up. The pain from the instruments they used to poke Me and strike Me was so great! I somehow managed to get up.
When you fall under the weight of your cross, come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am no less present in the tabernacle and in the Eucharist than on the day I carried My cross. I wait with the same love that I had for you when I carried this cross and suffered such agony. Oh, how I love you!
4. Jesus and Mary Meet
Jesus: I saw the face of My beautiful Mother. She was weak, her face reddened and full of tears. I saw her tender heart, her love, her anguish, her pain. I saw My dear Mother Mary. My Heart was comforted by the sight of her, but torn by her suffering.
Mary: As I looked into the eyes of my beloved Son, I saw His love. His head, bleeding and wounded. His body weak. His clothes covered with blood. I looked into His eyes and I saw His love for you. I call out to you today. I appear today with a face full of anguish and tears. I appear to call you back to the love of my Son. See through my eyes, as I peer into His eyes, the love He has for you this day to give of Himself for you. Oh, He loves you so much, my little children. See through my eyes the love of my Son. Oh, how He loves you!
5. Simon of Cyrene Is Forced to Help Jesus Carry His Cross
Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could not move. My persecutors became angry and forced a man to help Me. The cross was so heavy the two of us could barely move it. How is your cross today? Does it seem so heavy you cannot go on? I am forever watching you. When you are suffering the greatest, I am very close to you. It is in immense suffering that you realize My great love for you. Pray for grace to do always the Father's Will. Pray for grace to grow in your knowledge and love of Me.
6. Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
Jesus: My face was covered with blood. From the crowd Veronica came forward with a cloth to wipe My face. On the cloth I gave to you an imprint of My bloodied face. This, My children, remains with you this day as a sign of My immense love for you. But more than any cloth, look beyond the visible consecrated host. I, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, remain with you, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Eucharist this day, waiting and longing to be with you. Oh, how I love you!
7. Jesus Falls the Second Time
Jesus: Oh, dear ones, the road became harder and harder to walk. The cross was becoming heavier, My body weaker and weaker. My shoulders and arms hurt so much! My head throbbed as I walked. The blood came from My body, from My head to My feet. I was covered with open wounds. I could not go any farther. I stumbled and fell. Again they poked at Me, only harder, and with such hatred they kicked Me. Such vileness in the hearts of men! My greatest agony was not the agonies of My body, but the agonies of My heart for the love I have for all My precious souls. I loved them so dearly. I loved those who persecuted Me. Oh, how I love you!
8. Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
Jesus: The women came to Me with their children, their tender hearts crying and wanting to comfort Me. I saw their love, their care. I saw the coldness of men's hearts for all time, the hatred, the anger, the sins, all the souls that, despite all of My sufferings and death, would be condemned to eternal damnation. I told the women to weep not for Me, but for themselves and their children. My greatest agonies were the agonies of My Most Sacred Heart. Oh, how I love you!
9. Jesus Falls the Third Time
Jesus: I fell hard the third time. I was so weakened I could not go on. My body collapsed under the cross from such exhaustion! My child, My child, My greatest agonies were not the wounds to the body. They were the wounds I experienced to My heart. Do you know a little more now how I love you? It is in meditating on My Passion and death that you will realize My immense love for you. When you fall, when you struggle, I give you the grace to get up. I never give you more than you can handle. Your strength will come from Me. Come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am waiting for you this day. Oh, how I love you!
10. Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments
Jesus: They took Me to the hill to crucify Me. They angrily stripped Me of My garments. They took off My clothes to whip Me. They had covered My bloody wounds with a dirty purple robe. Now, total surrender-they took off My clothes. I showed you the way to surrender, always complying with the Will of the Father. It is in living in His Will that you will have peace and joy, and life eternal some day. Oh, how I love you!
11. They Nail Him to the Cross
Messenger: See Mary as she holds the little Baby Jesus. See her as she washes His tender hands and feet. See her now as she watches as they pound into those same hands and feet the gigantic nails that fix Jesus to the cross.
Mary: Oh, my dear ones, my heart was torn in my chest as they nailed His hands and feet to the cross. I ask you this day to walk the Passion with me and see through my eyes the love He has for you. He truly was nailed to the cross.
Jesus: They pounded the nails into My first hand, then they stretched My body and nailed My other hand. The blood poured from these wounds that went totally through My hands. My pain was so immense, but then they nailed My feet! You do not know what pain I suffered, My child. My children, My children, for each one of you I suffered this pain. Oh, how I loved you!
12. Jesus Dies on the Cross
(Silence.)
Messenger: He hung for three agonizing hours on the cross against the darkened sky. His greatest agonies were not the agonies of His body, but those of His Heart for the great love He has for each and every soul.
Jesus: I gave Myself to you, My dear ones. I gave My all. I hung with My arms spread in total surrender. My head was punctured; My hands and feet were nailed to the cross. I gave Myself to you. I give Myself to you this day in the Eucharist. I give Myself to you. I, God, give you Myself! What more do you want?
Song: Oh, burning Heart, oh, Love divine, etc.
Messenger: They pierced His Heart with a lance and what flowed forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the Church, water for Baptism and blood for the Eucharist. His life, death and resurrection live on in the Church this day.
13. Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
and
Placed in the Arms of His Mother
Messenger: His totally lifeless body was placed in the arms of His most loving Mother. As she had held the little baby body in her arms, she now received His bloodied, bruised body in her arms. This is how He obeyed the Father's Will. Jesus gave His life for us. The Father gave His only Son because He loves us so much. Mary, His Mother, our Mother and the Mother of the Church, is forever by His side. See Jesus in the arms of His loving Mother under the cross. This is love.
Mary: I held His lifeless body in my arms. See through my eyes the love He has for you this day. He gives Himself to you today in the Eucharist. He loves you so much!
14. Jesus Is Locked in the Tomb
Messenger: His enemies rolled the stone up to the tomb and were pleased to have buried Jesus. Mary, outside the tomb, wept bitterly. The cold reality that He was dead! But death has no power over Jesus for on the third day He rose, triumphant, from the tomb! We are partakers in His divine life. Death has no power over Jesus. He is with us this day. He comes to bring us life to the full. He loves us so much!
end of The Stations from February 22, 1995
Oh night richly blessed.
You Jesus went to the cross for our sins.
Help us to be humble like Mary
to recognize the big price you
paid for our salvation.
To walk humbly following your way
in the truth.
Say we are sorry we have offended You
and living in truth with our
brothers living in love.
Thank you God for dying and rising for us.
end of April 5, 2007
Given April 4, 2007
When somebody goes to a certain
school, or
studies under some
person — we
say
Oh he studied at so-n-so —
He graduated
from so-n-so
He
studied under so-n-so
Yes we have studied under God —
We have the
Eucharist
We have His
Word
We went
through the Church year
year after year after year
A baby comes into the world and he is
taught things
right away
Look at the corruption after Adam
and Eve so
much that God had the great
Flood and
saved Noah —
Let's live in the reality that
1) Mary's heart is sinless —
Mary did not have a wounded
human nature
Mary was full of grace
2) Christ is the Son of God
So what happens when we ignore
our wounded human nature —
We can be jealous
envious
prideful
greedy
lustful
What did I see when Mary appeared —
Jesus appeared
I saw light
A person that is wounded
needs to heal
When they have made no attempt
to heal their wounded heart
the devil can use their wounded —
unhealed heart to try to trap
a holy soul through passive
aggressive measures —
They can say —
come on in and try to get someone to
get in the ring and fight with
them —
the innocent other goes in like
a lamb into the lions den and
they are battled by the wounded
other who is unhealed —
Then the devil has battled through
the unhealed wounds of one
wanting to fight —
Why do you fight —
Why the confrontation
Why want dominance where dominance
is not yours to have
God has a plan
Adam and Eve wanted to be equal
to God
Adam and Eve sinned
Adam and Eve blamed each other —
they blamed God
Tension —
God wants oneness —
God wants unity —
Look at John 17 before Jesus
went to the bitter
passion
John 17: 21-22
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
So you say this —
The devil invites someone in the
ring through another's
jealousy, anger, past wounds
The other
wishing to do God's will
wants oneness —
the struggle begins
I apologize —
I tell you your great points, but
I seek to do God's will
Having a problem with another
is not black and white —
having a problem does
not mean you do not love them —
it does not mean — you do not
appreciate their good works —
it means you have a problem —
A person can be angry and try to
work it out on an innocent
other —
The innocent other doesn't want
to deal with the anger,
willfulness —
they may be just trying to do
God's will —
But the angry party wants a fight —
they want dominance — they want
control — they want to engage
the other and —
they want to win
I think of Joseph and his brothers —
Joseph didn't want what
his brothers did to him
Many saints were mistreated by
others in a religious community
because of their jealousy
for the gifted saint and their
desire to be very holy
Because a person is engaged in
confrontation by another —
does not mean they wanted
it
We see the working in an alcoholic
home —
where one may want peace and
the other is subjected to dealing
with the others alcoholism
Who wants that unpredictable behavior,
manipulation
while the other uses a
drug
—
Who wants to deal with people who
bend the
commandments and hurt everybody
in the name
of religion —
What superior ever said — oh good
I get to
fight a willful person trying
to dominate
for their own will
I look at arm - wrestling
I am not very strong —
I am 60 years old
I can't fight a young man
at arm wrestling
My arm would be down lickety-
split
So would have the Virgin Mary against
a strong muscular man, but
that doesn't have anything
to do with her being Mother of
the Church —
Men and woman's bodies are different —
If this is so — other things in
how they think may be very
different —
I know this
from being close to
Jesus — He
wants oneness —
Because someone does something
very wrong there have been
annulments in the Church,
But God made man and women in
marriage to be one, but it
can be a struggle, just
because of male, female
differences —
But to bait a person to work out
an old wound — hurts everybody —
A person engaged in drug abuse
hurts everybody —
but old wounds not healed, but acted
out on innocent others — hurt
everybody
There must be that modeling after
Mary and Jesus —
the pure hearts
Mary was sinless
Mary had struggles, but she
wasn't jealous, or
prideful, or envious,
greedy, lustful,
slothful etc.
They put Christ to death —
They crowned His Head with thorns
They whipped the son of God —
Does that show the wounded human
nature
Psalm 22: 1, 8-9, 17-20, 23-24
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
‘He trusted himself to Yahweh, let Yahweh set him free!
Let him deliver him, as he took such delight in him.’It was you who drew me from the womb
and soothed me on my mother’s breast.I can count every one of my bones,
while they look on and gloat;
they divide my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothing.Yahweh, do not hold aloof!
My strength, come quickly to my help,
rescue my soul from the sword,
the one life I have from the grasp of the dog!‘You who fear Yahweh, praise him!
All the race of Jacob, honour him!
Revere him, all the race of Israel!’For he has not despised
nor disregarded the poverty of the poor,
has not turned away his face,
but has listened to the cry for help.
That was from a wounded human nature
They crucified the Son of God
Philippians 2: 8 -9
he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death,
death on a cross.And for this God raised him high,
and gave him the name
which is above all other names;
Yes they tied His hands —
They accused Jesus
The devil is the great accuser
Some people bait others with
passive-aggressive behavior —
they then when they provoke and
provoke an innocent other —
to work out their own tension
and the other screams — they
walk away with a white dress
or clean shirt —
Passive-aggressive provoking of others
is wrong
It's far worse when a youth does this
to parents over them or
a person does this to their superior
What is the pure love in the heart —
Because men beat Jesus and hung
Him to His death on a cross
doesn't mean they were winners
The guy provoking a fight wants
to win
He can want that mild loving person
to look like they are the bad guy —
Compelled by jealous ways in a persons
heart they may try to get their
way because they want to possess
another by controlling their
behavior
We all have a responsibility to recognize
jealousy, anger, envy, pride
being acted out in our behavior
blocking others from doing
God's will.
We are going to be held accountable
for telling the truth about how
we manipulated others for sinful
gain —
I see where acting in jealousy from
wounded places of our heart
unhealed can be a doorway
for satan —
So now I talk about the
unveiling of satan's tactics
in our lives.
I see Christ on the cross and
the skull under the cross —
Adam and Eve ate of the tree and we all
suffer because of the sin
of Adam and Eve —
We all have a wounded human
nature — The light was dimmed —
Is it not fitting Mary appeared
adorned in light —
The New Eve stands under the cross
of the New Adam —
Oh night richly blessed —
Oh Jesus you sweat Blood in
the garden for our sins and
Sin we do
And many try to act perfect —
Be perfect as your heavenly Father
is perfect.
1 John 1: 8-10
If we say, ‘We have no sin,’
we are deceiving ourselves,
and truth has no place in us;
if we acknowledge our sins,
he is trustworthy and upright,
so that he will forgive our sins
and will cleanse us from all evil.
If we say, ‘We have never sinned,’
we make him a liar,
and his word has no place in us.
God died for our sins —
How is it — we are so prideful to
not say we are sorry when we
sin —
How can we lie and say we
don't sin when we do
Who are we kidding
God shed His Blood for our sins
I remember a guy who stayed up
all night talking on the phone and always
tried to provoke arguments —
He saw himself as normal —
To somebody else who recognized
the need for sleep and food during
the day — they would say
"Man this is wrong, I'm
staying away from him — I need
my sleep — I want peace — I don't
want to argue"
To him he had a divorce and his
wife had total custody of the
children — he suffered and argued and
tried to provoke everybody — he
stayed up all night and it was normal
to him, but it would be very
abnormal to many of us and we
wouldn't want his tension and
abuse and wouldn't want to stay
up at night because we need to
go to bed if we are awake all day.
What is normal to some
person who is wounded or dysfunctional
may be far from normal to us and we
don't want this kind of behavior.
A whole family, school, nation
can be off and they all function
and think they are right and may be
very wrong.
Secularism, being like God
without God is not right !!
Just because somebody thinks
they are right doesn't mean
they are.
Babies are taught many ways
of being — and when they grow
up they just act a certain way.
Remember the lady who was
cutting off the ends of the ham and
her husband said —
Why are you doing that — she said
her mother did it.
Upon investigation she found
out her grandma did it because
her pan was too little for the
ham, the size it was.
What about the lady — married to
5 men who were all alike —
finally after her 5th divorce she
decided maybe she had a problem.
A person with a wounded heart
who tells themselves divorce,
child loss, death never affected
them may be trying to project their
unfinished business on others and
trying to get them to pay for the
injustice done to them.
Christ hung to His death on the
cross for our sins of pride, anger,
lust, jealousy, envy, greed etc —
Christ knows our sins
Christ knows our hearts
Christ knows every hair on our
head
Who will be our judge —
Why lie to men to prove we are
perfect
Why open a door to satan by
acting in jealousy, anger,
pride, control
A person who is jealous, controlling
can try to block lots of people
from doing their work for Jesus
We are here to love —
We are here to grow to be more holy
Heaven is a reward
What athlete does not have to
practice —
Should we go to heaven
when we just focus
on ourselves and sin
and sin and lie about
the truth?
Special Offer
Fr. John J. Pasquini's book
Light, Happiness and Peace
$5.00 plus postage
Call Glaci
1—888—211—3041
For this one time special offer we
offer these books so you can
spread these special prayers.
The book Light Happiness and Peace is a
companion to the
Authenticity book of prayers —
it is a masterpiece —
$5.00 plus postage
This will help spread these beautiful
writings and prayers for lent.
This will help us with the Newsletter.
Crucifix — hand carved by Felix
who carved the crucifix 22'
at the Virgin Mary building.
Giclee Art Print
Canvas Stretched on a wood frame
Print is suitable for direct hanging
12 x 16 — $150.00
18 x 24 — $200.00
Call Glaci
1—888—211—3041
