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Jesus: My retreat in Florida
and China is a
privilege
it is a gift
I outpour My grace
It is for My purpose
It is for My honor and glory
Pray with Rita as I have instructed
Make reparation for your sins
What is not so bad is the sin
as the one who denies
they sin
they are stuck!!
Be contrite and truthful
come to Me and beg for
love and mercy and forgiveness
when you sin
R. I watched the movie "Bobby Jones"
and I saw a man in his life with
so many relationships all of which
were so important to his life
God the Father created us uniquely
special to relate with others on
a unique relationship No other
person can fill a relationship as
one, husband, child, leader,
worker, friend etc.
Each relationship is unique
To try to possess another person in
a relationship and try to force them
to have only that relationship
is to be a rival to God's will
which is a life of misery
God calls men and women to
religious life, married life,
single life their relationships
are all different and yet they
form a beautiful love of many
as is seen in the movie
Bobby Jones
Because an individual
rebels against their own vocation,
uniquely created by God and given
all the right talents one leads
a life rebelling against the
Plan of the Father, the Father's
will and this leads to misery
God intends us to love the world
love the souls Jesus died for
help build His Kingdom and
put Him first in our lives
A person wounded in a very
painful relationship may never
trust another again and keep
their distance
Relationships are formed to
be deeper to work better
together to let people go
in and out of doors to do what
God wills them to do
Nobody will be happy
blocking another from living
their vocation as God intends
because of slavish possessiveness
Every day is a new day to do God's
will to surrender as Mary,
the perfect handmaid of the
Lord to live as God intends
us to live and to say yes and
be happy serving God
A mom went away for a 1 1/2 day
trip the children were
angry
the two, almost three year
old, played very cold to mom
when she returned 1 1/2 days
later
Adults are to be mature
spiritually to realize that
we are happy only in living
according to God's will in
love It is preparation for
relationship in heaven
"Give us this day, our daily bread"
"Thy will be done on earth as
it is in heaven"
A person that gives to a relationship
and then when they leave
punishes the person for
leaving never learned
about love and relationship
in punishing their friend
leaving they know little
about love the invisible
string that binds friends
They are immature in trying
to possess another or try
to force another to disobey
God's will for them for their
slavishly dependent ways
A person who loves and relates to
others is gladden when they are
together, they want God's will
when separated and then they
are happy again to re-unite
Hurting someone we love for
a possessive sickness
hangs our own heart on a
stick because when we
are unloving to anyone we
sin
God intends us to trust
to be committed
He gives us the New Covenant
what a gift
The person afraid to ever
commit doesn't understand
the goal in relating and going
to heaven
When we put a lot of
love and time into a relationship
we know others have to do God's
will
we don't act like selfish
people
or cry like babies when mama
leaves
We want all to do God's will
Serve God and
not be leeches for us
A person building relationships
with others gets their
strength in the love they
know God has for them
Not controlling
Not trying to make others
slavishly dependent
They want the will of God
They are filled with love and
pray for those who need
it in love
They never punish others to
control and manipulate
them
They are too busy living and
loving their vocation
as God has called them
Jesus: This is My
message with
love to you
Love mightily as your
heavenly Father intends and
thank God for His
over pouring love to
us
Trust in My love
I am Jesus, I died for your sins
R. The devil presses on an individual and he
tempts them with run-on thinking to
create a case against someone they
love deeply
Now the heart of the person is bleeding
in this division because they have
worked long and hard to make a
relationship of love
What caused the division
write it down
then write how God has blessed
you both in the love and
talents He has given to be united, and
build His Kingdom
and spread love
Love is a choice
God wants us to love from a free heart
So He gave us a free will to love
We choose to do God's will and love
and work in unity or
We can rebel against God's will and
blame an innocent other for
our own unloving heart
Even when one is distant and relationships
broken up a person must work
through that hurting relationship
and learn to forgive and work
through the offense
turning their hearts to forgiveness
even if they do not think it is God's
will they are still together
forgiveness, working through the
relationship in love in their
heart is necessary for a happy
free heart
to be a heart of love
Empty and ready to love as God
intends
They need closure in the relationship
in their heart even if it is no longer active
Song: Why do We Hurt the Ones We Love
R. Love is the answer
God is love
If we say we love God, but hate our
brother we are a liar
God calls us to love Him and love our
brothers as ourselves
To go in and out of doors in relationships
praying that all does God's will
Jesus: I am love
He who loves, abides in Me and I in Him
Love is a choice
Love as I have loved you
I died for your sins
I forgive your sins when you ask Me
I am a God of justice
You have a free will to love or not
I obeyed My Father's will to My death
on the cross
Song: I Am a God of Justice
Revelation 5: 9-10
They sang a new hymn:
You are worthy to take the scroll
and to break its seals,
because you were sacrificed,
and with your blood
you bought people for God
of every race, language, people and nation
and made them a line of kings and priests for God,
to rule the world.
Acts 13: 26-33
My brothers, sons of Abrahams race, and all you godfearers, this message of salvation is meant for you. What the people of Jerusalem and their rulers did, though they did not realise it, was in fact to fulfil the prophecies read on every Sabbath. Though they found nothing to justify his execution, they condemned him and asked Pilate to have him put to death. When they had carried out everything that scripture foretells about him they took him down from the tree and buried him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead, and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem: and it is these same companions of his who are now his witnesses before our people.
We have come here to tell you the good news that the promise made to our ancestors has come about. God has fulfilled it to their children by raising Jesus from the dead. As scripture says in the psalms: You are my son: today I have fathered you.
Psalm 2: 6-11
I myself have anointed my king
on Zion my holy mountain.I will proclaim the decree of Yahweh:
He said to me, You are my son,
today have I fathered you.
Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations as your birthright,
the whole wide world as your possession.
With an iron sceptre you will break them,
shatter them like so many pots.So now, you kings, come to your senses,
you earthly rulers, learn your lesson!
In fear be submissive to Yahweh;
John 14: 1-6
Do not let your hearts be troubled.
You trust in God, trust also in me.
In my Fathers house
there are many places to live in;
otherwise I would have told you.
I am going now to prepare a place for you,
and after I have gone
and prepared you a place,
I shall return to take you to myself,
so that you may be with me
where I am.
You know the way
to the place where I am going.
Thomas said, Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way? Jesus said:
Jesus said: I am the Way; I am Truth and Life.
No one can come to the Father
except through me.
Margaret's casket
Fr. Carter's casket
R. God has prepared a place for them
1 Peter 2: 9
But you are a chosen race, a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, a people to be a personal possession to sing the praises of God who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
R. Paul was rejected by His own people
Acts 13: 44-52
The next Sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the word of God. When they saw the crowds, the Jews, filled with jealousy, used blasphemies to contradict everything Paul said. Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. We had to proclaim the word of God to you first, but since you have rejected it, since you do not think yourselves worthy of eternal life, here and now we turn to the gentiles. For this is what the Lord commanded us to do when he said:
I have made you a light to the nations,
so that my salvation may reach
the remotest parts of the earth.It made the gentiles very happy to hear this and they gave thanks to the Lord for his message; all who were destined for eternal life became believers. Thus the word of the Lord spread through the whole countryside.
But the Jews worked on some of the devout women of the upper classes and the leading men of the city; they stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their territory. So they shook the dust from their feet in protest against them and went off to Iconium; but the converts were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.
R. Can you imagine
Jesus called 12 men and
They had a fallen human nature
They were disobedient and
prideful and afraid and
argumentative
Look at how Jesus had to talk
in this Gospel
Philip asks to see the Father
John 14: 7-14
'Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?If you know me,
you will know my Father too.
From this moment you know him
and have seen him.Philip said, 'Lord, show us the Father and then we shall be satisfied.' Jesus said to him,
'Anyone who has seen me
has seen the Father,
so how can you say,
"Show us the Father"?
Do you not believe
that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me?
What I say to you
I do not speak of my own accord:
it is the Father, living in me,
who is doing his works.
You must believe me when I say
that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me;
or at least believe it
on the evidence of these works.
In all truth I tell you,
whoever believes in me
will perform the same works
as I do myself,
and will perform even greater works,
because I am going to the Father.
Whatever you ask in my name
I will do,
so that the Father may be glorified
in the Son.
If you ask me anything in my name,
I will do it.
R. Pride and lack of forgiveness can get
in the way of loving and doing
the Father's will
St. Ignatius says all sins can come
from pride, seeking affections
for oneself, greed
No human person can satisfy us
We were created for God
As long as our goal starts and ends with
a human person fulfilling us
we see that that person is barking
down the wrong tree
May the eyes of the blind be opened and
their hearts healed and
emptied of unforgiveness,
shame and lies
A heart like Jesus is one who is
empty of hate and anger and
focused on doing God's
will in love
One who has not advanced in loving
God and loving others as ourselves
becomes more and more self-centered
instead of going out of themselves
they go into themselves
caved-in
the world is caved-in
not like the selflessness of Jesus
as one matures in the spiritual life
they go from self-centeredness
ego focused
to other focused
they come from a place, Jesus says,
of giving love without strings
attached with the purpose of
doing God's will in love
and building His Kingdom
From a place of giving love to others
like Jesus and not living to need love
like a baby who needs the affection
of their parents or guardian to survive
Giving love like Jesus
Not caved-in doing everything for
themselves caved-in
their world begins and ends in
their head
blinded by their own thoughts
and failure to choose love
Love is a choice
The life we have is a gift from God
Jesus is the Savior,
but heaven is a reward for those
who love and serve the Lord
We have to work at being like God
wants
being self-centered, caved-in
is not loving
Jesus loved those who rejected Him and
put Him to death
He died for our sins
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