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May 29,
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May 30th Holy Spirit
Novena |
The Novena Rosary
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Today's Readings Sirach 36: 1, 4-5a, 10-17 Take pity on us, Master, Lord of
the universe, look at us, Gather together all the tribes of
Jacob, Psalm 79: 8-9, 11, 13 Do not count against
us the guilt of former generations, May the groans of the
captive reach you, And we, your people,
the flock that you pasture, Mark 10: 32-45 Third prophecy of the
Passion They were on the road, going up to
Jerusalem; Jesus was walking on ahead of them; they
were in a daze, and those who followed were
apprehensive. Once more taking the Twelve aside he
began to tell them what was going to happen to him,
'Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of
man is about to be handed over to the chief priests
and the scribes. They will condemn him to death and
will hand him over to the gentiles, who will mock
him and spit at him and scourge him and put him to
death; and after three days he will rise again.' The sons of Zebedee make
their request James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
approached him. 'Master,' they said to him, 'We want
you to do us a favour.' He said to them, 'What is it
you want me to do for you?' They said to him, 'Allow
us to sit one at your right hand and the other at
your left in your glory.' But Jesus said to them,
'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink
the cup that I shall drink, or be baptised with the
baptism with which I shall be baptised?' They
replied, 'We can.' Jesus said to them, 'The cup that
I shall drink you shall drink, and with the baptism
with which I shall be baptised you shall be baptised,
but as for seats at my right hand or my left, these
are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom
they have been allotted.' Leadership with service When the other ten heard this they
began to feel indignant with James and John, so
Jesus called them to him and said to them, 'You know
that among the gentiles those they call their rulers
lord it over them, and their great men make their
authority felt. Among you this is not to happen. No;
anyone who wants to become great among you must be
your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among
you must be slave to all. For the Son of man himself
came not to be served but to serve, and to give his
life as a ransom for many.'
R. Christ came the Almighty God
Jesus warned the apostles, but they
Christ came to teach, He taught
The Mass is the Sacrifice of
Christ, the Victim, Christ, the Priest
Is there not one to listen to Him,
Were not their hearts so very hard and
Is there one who would not weep for
I sought to speak, as He told me of His
The events of the Christ-life the
Should not one weep with Mary as she
Mary:
I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I
saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My
Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I
suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and
give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this
message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I
stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried
for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How
do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I
appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject
me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored.
The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you.
Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and
I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart
was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this
day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold
back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to
help my children. You are my children of light.
end of Mary's Message
R. They wanted their vain glory here for a
Did not Christ come to serve, to give
Would one not weep when I saw
Oh the beauty of His countenance,
Oh would not one weep for this
R. Why would the pride of men outweigh
When He called me to write about
Was not Christ whipped for loving
Listen to such a prayer given to us
Would not one weep with such
Jesus: Love, Love, Love and I suffered
I emptied Myself to My death on the
A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite
with God in the sacrament of His greatest love. I want to be one in Him in this act of
love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him.
Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of
greatest love to Him. Let me unite with Him more, that I may
more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and
the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and
pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to
You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul. Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me.
Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like
Jesus. Father, I offer this my sacrifice,
myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more
deeply in this act of my greatest love. Give me the grace to grow in my
knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest
participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply
in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love. -Mass Book, December 27, 1995
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
A
Prayer for
Intimacy
with the
Lamb,
Oh Lamb
of God,
Who
take
away
the
sins of
the
world,
come
and act
on my
soul
most
intimately.
I
surrender
myself,
as I
ask for
the
grace
to let
go, to
just be
as I
exist
in You
and You
act
most
intimately
on my
soul.
You are
the
Initiator.
I am
the
soul
waiting
Your
favors
as You
act in
me. I
love
You. I
adore
You. I
worship
You.
Come
and
possess
my soul
with
Your
Divine
Grace,
as I
experience
You
most
intimately.
Jesus: Would not one weep and they numbered
Jesus: Would not one weep, I cried for you
I cried over the city for your sins
I cried for your pride and blindness
Wrenched by the cold hands of
When I gave you a garden, you
Why have you made the Lady of
Who do you serve when you
Would one not weep at such
I came to unite those I called and
Would not one weep with Mary
Mary:
I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I
saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My
Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I
suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and
give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this
message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I
stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried
for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How
do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I
appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject
me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored.
The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you.
Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and
I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart
was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this
day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold
back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to
help my children. You are my children of light.
end of Mary's Message
Jesus: Would not one weep for your
Would not one weep when you
They whipped Me for this day and 16 1/2 Years Ago December 5, 1996 R. Mary had appeared almost every 5th for
two and 1/2 years beginning July 5, 1994. On December 5, 1996, instead of Mary appearing Jesus appeared
on the cross in utter anguish at the point of death at Holy Cross-Immaculata
Church. He spoke not a word, but His mouth moved profusely. I was
horrified by the apparition. I saw Him at the point of
death on the cross December 5, 1996, after Mary appeared 500 times. He hung, all battered, greatly weakened. His mouth moved very
clearly. It seems that a man in His condition could not move His mouth to that
extent. Later in the rosary that night, He gave messages and said:
"No one was listening." end of excerpt
R. Christ's Blood cries on the altars John 15: 1-5 I am the true vine,
I want Blue Book 10 published and the
Parents and Children's Rosary Book reprinted.
Parents and Children's Book
should be presented together as a unit
because they are from January 1st, 1996 to March 31, 1996.
in Spanish printed with the Imprimatur.
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honor Mary
spread fear of yourself throughout all other nations.
Let them acknowledge you, just as we have acknowledged
that there is no God but you, Lord.
Send new portents, do fresh wonders,
win glory for your hand and your right arm.
restore them their heritage as at the beginning.
Take pity, Lord, on the people called by your name,
on Israel whom you have made your firstborn.
Have compassion on your holy city,
on Jerusalem, the place where you rest.
Fill Zion with your praises
and your sanctuary with your glory.
Vindicate those whom you created first,
fulfil what has been prophesied in your name.
Give those who wait for you their reward,
let your prophets be proved true.
Grant, Lord, the prayer of your servants,
in the terms of Aarons blessing on your people,
so that all the earths inhabitants may acknowledge
that you are the Lord, the everlasting God.
in your tenderness come quickly to meet us,
for we are utterly weakened;
help us, God our Saviour,
for the glory of your name;
Yahweh, wipe away our sins,
rescue us for the sake of your name.
by your great strength save those who are condemned to death!
will thank you for ever,
will recite your praises from age to age.
and He was the perfect victim.
He was rebuffed by men, who
hated Him and made Him their enemy.
To their own destruction they wanted to
kill the Son of God. They were envious
of His gifts and afraid of His Power
He worked miracles and people heard His
teaching, it was a threat to their own
power and position over the people so
they planned to get rid of Him, to destroy
Him.
did not understand, they argued who
would be first, when Christ knew
all that would happen they were
selfish and focused on themselves.
and worked with men with a wounded
human nature for love of them, for love
of all men, for the mystery of God's love
was unfolding more and more through Christ.
He gave Himself for the sake of souls.
Such gifts and look how He was
treated.
Calvary sacramentally made
present. Christ the Victim, Christ
the Priest we unite to the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass and offer our-
selves we unite to Christ, offering
ourselves, body and soul, to the Father
the interior disposition of our hearts
we want holy, pure, entire we want
to lay down our lives as a sacrifice
united to Jesus.
men rebuked Him He gave and gave to
the last drop of His Blood He gave
His all to His last breathe Christ, the
Victim, Christ, the Priest
Christ, the Lamb of God, led to the
slaughter
Is there one who would not weep with
Mary under the cross, with such
blindness in men, such emptiness
in blind hearts?
to Mary, the perfect witness of Christ's
suffering?
closed down not open to Him
think of their blindness
He gave His all. He died for their sins,
He was rebuked by those He loved because
of the hardness of their hearts.
His sacrifice given for ungrateful men
full of pompous pride when the feast
is the gift of the Divine Almighty
Lamb of God - giving Himself as a sacrifice
to them and this is how He is received
by ungrateful, blind, men.
love and men refused to listen to so great
a gift to hear His words written and
spoken of His love. I was rebuked and
met with the greatest resistance for
delivering a message of what life is all
about the love of God, who led Him
to take flesh and to give Himself to
His death on the cross.
mystery of the Mass for us; our lives as
members of the mystical body of Christ;
men spoke of their vain glory; some
wanted power - like the men who
punished Jesus. Jesus committed no crime,
He wore the stripes of our sins on His
naked flesh and oh yes, Jesus says, men
rebuked Him, hated Him, wanted Him
destroyed because He was a threat to
their power.
stood under the cross and today she
has appeared to me for 19 years to deliver
this message and I am rebuked for delivering
it to men of such a cold and callous
world for who hears or wants to hear
the words of Mary who appeared at
Clearwater.
All 5ths -
Our Lady of Clearwater Florida
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Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
few short years and when she appeared
at Clearwater, those called had their
designs in mind.
Himself is not the mission of the
Suffering Servant
Why would men in pretense to serve
God be concerned with serving
themselves, if they were true
followers of Jesus who has
appeared in Clearwater on the
building for so many years and has
appeared inside to me.
Him transfigured outside in the
statue February 5, 2000?
beyond words to write or talk
about
Oh the sorrow of His face
gift given, in His description
of what life is all about?
such descriptive gifts given,
but did not Christ, Himself
suffer men's rejection from
birth to death, to death on
a cross for our sins?
Christmas, I was hailed with
hatred on the day Christ - mass
Oh the beauty of a snow laden
blanket of such peace, wrong
with the anger and fury of the
wounded.
and giving
Love given from God to direct
us to the real treasure for
why we were created
Love, Love of God, Love of men.
for your sins
I was whipped for your offenses,
Crowned with thorns for your pride.
cross, You rebuke Me and throw
My gifts to you today back in
My face 
the
Bridegroom
of the
Soul
all My bones 
and your blind, pompous ways
and your lack of care for those
I have delivered these writings
to reach in the future, who
were not even born yet
those who betrayed Me with
their two-faced hearts
Cold & Callous and Selfish
turned it to mud,
When I sent you a well you
did it your way and
resisted any correction
to fix my well for the
children who need My waters
and gifts I give there.
Clearwater cry
her message was given to be
heard, not regulated by
cold hands
serve yourself opposed
to My will
gifts given and
Who hears anything I say
when you focus on yourselves?
as in the garden, I gifted them
and I was rejected and scorned
and disobeyed
Would not one weep for the future
of the children to come,
who will never know
about My gifts given
under the cross
Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
sins of pride or your
ways of selfishness and blindness
throw out the baby with
the bathwater, when you
want to block My message
and are angered at any
way I try to stop you.
I appear, I appear and I
appear and who listens
of the Church. There must be so many
holy people in the Church. Mary
was here after Christ died. Mary
wants us to dwell in her Immaculate
Heart and live our lives modeling ourselves
after her and Jesus Jesus gives
us this Movement, Servants and Handmaids
of the Good Shepherd to grow in this
Holiness. The fruitfulness of the priest
is dependent on his life in Him
and my Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in me that bears no fruit
he cuts away,
and every branch that does bear fruit
to make it bear even more.
You are clean already,
by means of the word
that I have
spoken to you.
Remain in me, as I in you.
As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself,
unless it remains part of the vine,
neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine,
you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me, with me in him,
bears fruit in plenty;
for cut off from me you can do nothing.
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. We need to let God possess us
...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.
From the Priestly Newsletter
Cardinal Newman said
"... everyone who breathes, high and
low,
educated and ignorant, young and old,
man and woman,
has a mission, has a work. We are not
sent
into this world for nothing; we are not
born at
random. . . God sees every one of us;
He creates every soul, He lodges it in
a body, one by one, for a purpose. He
needs,
He deigns to need, every one of us.
He has an end for each of us... we are
placed in our different ranks and
stations, not to
get what we can out of them for
ourselves, but to
labor in them for Him, as He rejoiced to
do His work,
we must rejoice in ours also."
(Discourses addressed to
mixed congregations)
R. Jesus must be at the center of our life!
Our mission
leading men to Jesus
Living in Jesus
Jesus the center of our life
Jesus is truly present with us
in our Churches in
the Eucharist
Friendship with Jesus calls
for surrender
R. Selfishness or Surrender?
Decisions to commit deliberate
venial sins
takes us from God
leaves us with misery
we don't feel good
How do we abandon what
God wants, for sins that
leave us not feeling good?
And Jesus wants us to use our
free will to stop the sins
we give into.
Jesus wants our love, but He
doesn't force us
Jesus loves us so much, He does
not want a lukewarm love
we throw at Him
especially religious who wear
a ring on their finger, a
cross on their neck
The spiritual life is summed up
to living according to the
Father's will
Excerpt from the Shepherds of Christ Priestly Newsletter 1999 - Issue 5
The Father's Will
St. Teresa of Avila, one of the three women doctors of the Church, tells us how the spiritual life is summed up in loving conformity to the Fathers will:
"All that the beginner in prayer has to do and you must not forget this, for it is very important is to labor and to be resolute and prepare himself with all possible diligence to bring his will in conformity with the will of God. As I shall say later, you may be quite sure that this comprises the very greatest perfection which can be attained on the spiritual road."
9Again she states: "...love consists ... in the firmness of our determination to try to please God in everything."
109. St Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle, translated by E. Allison Peers, Doubleday and Co., "Second Mansions", p. 51.
10. Ibid., "Fourth Mansions", p. 76.
From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.
end of excerpt
Holy Spirit Novena
DAILY NOVENA PRAYERS
Opening Prayer
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Dear Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit. We come to You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in the perfect, sinless heart of Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting ourselves to her holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory.
Prayer for Holy Spirit
We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.
Protection by the Blood of Jesus
We pray that the Blood of Jesus will be spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement, that we will be able to move steadfastly ahead and be protected from the evil one.
Healing
We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.
Prayer for Strength and Light
We adore You, oh Holy Spirit. Give us strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light and grace, we want to only do the will of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always in the Father's will.
Eternal Spirit fill us with Your Divine Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your Divine Mysteries.
Give us lights, Oh Holy Spirit that we may know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of the Virgin Mary, to form us more and more into the image of Jesus.
Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
We long for You, Oh Spirit of Light, we long to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God. We want to be one with the Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We want to know the beloved One, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want to be one with You, Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.
Prayer to Be One in Jesus
Let us experience life in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...." Let us live, united to the Mass, all through the day being one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this elevated state of oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You, we love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and thank You, our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
We seek to be one in God, to live and dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on earth, to experience life in the all perfect, pure, sinless heart of our Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to be united to Jesus as the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered to the Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world to help in the salvation of souls.
Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts
Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.
Leader: Send forth Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All: And You will renew the face of the earth.We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.
Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.
Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts
We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.
Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit
Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God.
Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs for us.
Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.
Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is wrong.
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
end of Holy Spirit Novena
Excerpt from the Shepherds of Christ Priestly Newsletter 1999 - Issue 5
Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church's universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, 'in this clean oblation' He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS. XXXV, 232-233) 14
Archbishop Luis M. Martinez offers us these inspiring words: "If we could dispose ourselves at least to think about what He suffered for each one of us! Our souls are enveloped in His tenderness and in His pain. We are the fruit of His love and His martyrdom. We increasingly receive His gifts of all kinds. We receive them tranquilly, at times joyfully. But those gifts are marked with the blood of Jesus, the blood from His veins and from his Heart. In order that we might taste the least of His consolations, Jesus had to taste the gall and vinegar of interior desolation...
"Each communion we receive cost Jesus the sacrifice of Calvary ... Holy Communion is a banquet from heaven prepared with the blood of Jesus and the bitterness of His Heart."
1514. Pope Puis XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS, XXXV, pp. 232-233.
15. Archbishop Luis Martinez,
Only Jesus, B. Herder Book Co., pp. 212-213.
R. A city divided against itself cannot survive.
If people obey the will of God, if they recognize
their creature hood under the Creator they
will be blessed by God.
Satan raised up
Satan says "I will not serve"
The more we rebel against God we move further and
further from God sin is putting our will
over God's will
sin is choosing ourselves over God.
Sin is becoming more and more common
Secularism, Relativism
After the fall of man Adam and Eve blamed each other
Look at the blaming and un-Christ-like ways - today
Fr. Mike told the story of the frog who was put in warm water
and then the water is heated to boiling he will die,
but not recognize it because it is gradual.
Fr. Mike said if you put the frog in boiling water
he jumps out right away
Satan is like that he works slowly so you don't notice it
as much; Abortion, Gay marriages, more and more and
more and more religious freedom
When God created the world there was perfection,
harmony, order
after the fall there was disorder, violence, hatred...
because of the wounded human nature there
is distorted vision
the further we move from God
the more distorted the vision
blindness sin makes men blind to the truth
Satan acts deceptively trying to get people who do things
wrong to justify their wrong as right
How do you as, one in charge, ever get past
pandemonium caused by deliberate disobedience
and enforced through using what is needed
to operate as a fulcrum to force bad behavior
patterns
Unless men want to serve God, because they love
Him, they can give into the blinded deceptions
and temptations of satan
Those who keep disobeying God's will keep bending
rules and satan gets a stronger and stronger
hold
It is why those who misuse power if
they continue and continue will finally
self-destruct
The purpose for which God created these men is
ignored, likewise recognizing their dependence
on God, when they sin against God's will
and satan is ruling in their deceptions
of not operating according to God's will
under just authority
God has all the power and
Power comes from God.
God never abandons us. Jesus died for us,
Jesus loves us and commands us to love
Him and others in return
The person choosing to misuse power through
force over just authority - opens a
door to satan.
That person is acting selfishly because they
are not considering their effects of
disobeying God's will on the souls
seeing their example and future souls
who are having to deal with rules that
are against God's will because of their
disobedience to God's will.
We are to see the Big Picture
This is seeing the vision with the eyes of faith.
We are to love others who come after us
in leaving a legacy of God's desires
for us to help build His Kingdom
not tear it down for selfish vain glory.
We are commissioned in baptism to spread the
Good News to be witnesses of hope
Look at what Pope John Paul II lived
through in Poland, his family he lost
and he affected the whole world with
his life.
Faith, Hope and Love
God will never abandon the human race
Genesis 9: 12-17
And this, God said, is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.
That, God told Noah, is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.
R. Look at how Joseph's brothers treated Joseph and
look at how Joseph served the one
true God What a witness of hope
What love What faith.
What God created is good
Look at the effects of sin and disobedience
against God through out salvation
history
Look at the importance of Covenant
and how God loved us.
Jesus has come for all people
Jesus means Savior
Song: A Song from Jesus
R. Jesus' flesh came from Mary.
Luke 1: 35
The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God.
R. Mary - full of grace
Mary was free of sin
Jesus, the Son of God
Jesus could not come in Sin
Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
e) Relationship with Members of the Church
There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Churchs existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.
The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.
The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in Gods own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completionthe absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.
This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."14 And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.
The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.15 The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."16
The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from othersyes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.
Not only can we be aided by the saints intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.17
NOTES:
14Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
15 Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
16Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
17Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.
R. Every word in scripture is so important
full of information.
Joseph is the patron of the Universal Church
I had 3 main visions
In the second vision of Holy Saturday
here is what I saw
April 6, 1996
R. This is what I see when I see a vision. The rocks in the grotto Mary has appeared in glisten and they are sparkling. LINES are not defined, instead they are adorned in light. Saturday (April 6, 1996, Holy Saturday) I saw the whole wall adorned in the brightest light, St. Joseph was surrounded in this thick light, like comes from a fire, like a celestial mirror. I don't know how to describe it, it is as a mirror with light in it, but no light like our human eyes have seen. I looked at St. Joseph and he was pushing the Child Jesus out at us, the Baby coming out glistening in light. The statue of the resurrected Lord was alive. All the flowers were topped with this light. This is how it was and is now at All Saints Church. It is as if heaven has poured its light on the earth and it tops the flowers. All distinct lines are gone. In their place is light. So all I look at has a splendor.
Matthew 12: 46-50
The true kinsfolk of Jesus
He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?' And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'
R. God who was invisible becomes
visible in Jesus Christ, Son of God.
John 1: 1-18
In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
except through him.
What has come into being in him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept him.But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believed in his name
who were born not from human stock
or human desire
or human will
but from God himself.
The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.Indeed, from his fullness
we have, all of us, received
one gift replacing another,
for the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth have come
through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son,
who is close to the Fathers heart,
who has made him known.
R. Mary, the perfect handmaid of the Lord,
was absolutely obedient to God's will.
Mary loved the Father's will
Mary loved the Father like a little daughter
We see God calls us not to be 'wishy-washy'
in our faith
if we are we act in silence in the world.
Mary had complete courage
Mary had complete obedience
God's Kingdom is built on love
Listen to the message Jesus gave me with
the great vision
not with power or force will we conquer
the world, but with the fires of love
coming from Jesus' Heart
The Reign of the Sacred Heart is with arms of hearts
filled with love, Blue Book 1 and Blue Book 2 and
Red Rosary Book
March 26, 1996 (excerpt)
Jesus: To him who has eyes to see, they will see - not with earthly vision, but with the eyes of faith, and to him who has ears to hear, he will hear with the fluttering of the Spirit moving within him.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I am the Almighty God. I say to the rocks to fall and they fall and to the grass, grow, and it grows, and to the sun, shine, and it shines. I give to you My love in these letters. Filled with My love, you will conquer this earth, not with weapons and powder or force, but with fires of My love. The fire will wipe out the hatred in the cold hearts and the earth will be covered with My celestial light. The earth will rock and I will appear in the heavens adorned in power and glory and the contrite hearts will be saved. I came to separate the sheep from the goats, the light from the darkness. I come and no one pays Me heed.
To you, My beloved son, Father Carter, I have sent you on a mission to spread this fire that will cover this earth. The hearts of men will turn from their sick and desolate ways to hearts gentle as a little lamb.
There will be one flock and one Shepherd and My staff will rule over all. Hearts consecrated to Our Hearts will lead the light across the earth. This light will be a light of intense brightness, brighter and hotter than any light from a flame. It will be the fire of God's love. The Spirit will move in the hearts of all consecrated to My Heart, and you will know how fire truly spreads, for the love of God is a fire. It is vibrant. It is encompassing. It is smoldering, burning deep within and speedily spreading on the outside. No fire on this earth can ever describe the burning embers that burn from the Sacred Heart of Jesus. No fire burns like the fires coming from My Heart and hearts filled with the love from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
I have written your name, Fr. Carter, in My Heart, never ever to be blotted out and this earth will be renewed with the fire of God's love through you. You are My beloved priest-son, forever, according to the order of Melchizedek. Most holy and most sacred are your hands that consecrate the Host and write My precious newsletter for My beloved priest-sons. You are never unguarded. You are held within the deepest chamber of My Heart, and you will spread My love to the priest-sons of this earth.
I am Jesus. You will spread My love to all souls on this earth. I love you with the tenderest burning love. I am Jesus, your beloved Savior.
R. Never has an empire been conquered by
love Jesus gives us the Shepherds of Christ
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R. God is with us!!
Isaiah 7: 14
The Lord will give you a sign in any case:
It is this: the young woman is with child
and will give birth to a son
whom she will call Immanuel.
R. Joseph took Mary on faith
Joseph had a dream
Joseph obeyed the will of God
Jesus shows men how to be men
obey the will of God in love
Joseph shows men how to be husbands
and fathers
Joseph loved Mary
Joseph did God's will in love and
served Mary and Jesus.
Joseph was a Servant of God
Joseph was celibate
Jesus came in an eating vessel
Jesus gives us Himself in the Eucharist
Jesus is the Word
God feeds us with the Bread of Life
the Eucharist and the Word
Excerpt from the Blue Book
To The Reader
Jesus wants to share His love with you. He comes in these letters to tell you how you can be in intimate union with Him.
All of us possess everything we need to have an intimate union with Him. He has written to me since October of 1991. For at least a year I sat in front of the tabernacle and begged him to talk to me. I wanted words. I prayed to the Holy Spirit and begged and begged Him to baptize me. After a long and seemingly endless search, trying to hear God, He told me to "feed the hungry." For six weeks this was all I heard. I thought maybe I wasn't feeding my children well or eating well enough myself. What a long wait for three words! At long last one day, as I was writing to Jesus, I received a letter back. He told me, "I am Jesus, Son of the Living God." I did not want to write this but it kept coming-and so many other messages. I knew nothing of anyone getting messages. I wrote them, reluctantly, and hid my notebooks. The letters kept coming-a lot in the night-and I would be awakened by long letters which I felt compelled to get up and write down. I read these letters privately and my life began to change. I felt a new life within me.
He taught me of His fervent love and how truly present He was. He taught me how precious I was to Him. Over and over again He would call me His precious child and tell me how He loved me, how He clothed me with dignity and honor. He told me over and over how He was right by my side always. He is teaching me to give up all fear and to trust in Him. He is teaching me to let go of myself and let Him run my life. I am trying every day to do His will.
He is also telling you in your heart all you need to know. He has all the answers for you there in your heart. You must be silent and go to Him so you can hear His words for you.
Sit in front of the tabernacle and be with Him. Sit and be open and just be with Him. Read these letters there. These are Jesus' love letters to you. Sit in front of the tabernacle and let Him talk to you. Sit silent awhile. Read these letters part of the time. Open any page and He will talk to you. Do not read this like a book, cover to cover. Just open to a page and read that page. That is the way He speaks to you.
end of excerpt
R. Through the Pierced Heart of Jesus the
Church was born
R. There were people who wanted power over
Jesus because they were afraid of
losing power they hurt Jesus!
Jesus said you will be hated by all for
My name sake
Jesus is love, peace and joy
A sick man has passion for controversies.
they should serve them all the better, since those who have the benefit of their services are believers and dear to God.
This is what you are to teach and urge. Anyone who teaches anything different and does not keep to the sound teaching which is that of our Lord Jesus Christ, the doctrine which is in accordance with true religion, is proud and has no understanding, but rather a weakness for questioning everything and arguing about words. All that can come of this is jealousy, contention, abuse and evil mistrust; and unending disputes by people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, and imagine that religion is a way of making a profit. Religion, of course, does bring large profits, but only to those who are content with what they have. We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it; but as long as we have food and clothing, we shall be content with that. People who long to be rich are a prey to trial; they get trapped into all sorts of foolish and harmful ambitions which plunge people into ruin and destruction. The love of money is the root of all evils and there are some who, pursuing it, have wandered away from the faith and so given their souls any number of fatal wounds.
But, as someone dedicated to God, avoid all that. You must aim to be upright and religious, filled with faith and love, perseverance and gentleness.
R. Timothy is warned about false teachers
quarrelling, greedy, envious
Timothy is told to be faithful
to hold onto sound doctrine
A sick man is envious, slanders, have
evil suspicions, twisted minds
of hatred for his brothers, is lost
in his twisted mind about the truth
has distorted vision
John 14: 6
I am the Way; I am Truth and Life....
R. Some of our greatest enemies can be
those closest to us
Luke 12: 51-53
'Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three; father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'
R. Judas was the keeper of the money
Judas was secretive behind Christ's back
Judas thought he knew more than Jesus (pride)
Judas was greedy
Judas sought dominance for
dominance sake
Judas betrayed Jesus
The devil works in secrecy!!
How can we call ourselves holy if
we smile to those on the outside and
hate those God gave us to work
with to build His Kingdom
Jesus says: Hypocrites, Hypocrites!
Vipers to oppose God's will, but worry
for your two-faced ways.
Peter was corrected by Jesus, but he
has humble in heart
Peter was the first pope
Peter was chosen by Jesus
God has a way of getting our attention
why would we parade in
rebellion before Him?
Jesus wants us in heaven with Him
Jesus died for us
Jesus is perfect goodness
Jesus' enemies hated Him
Jesus only did good
Jesus could raise the dead
Jesus rose from the dead
Jesus' enemies wanted to
destroy Him
All knees are to bend at
the Name of Jesus
John the Baptist was beheaded
They tried to kill Jesus
Jesus was rejected
God is rejected by humanity
The Pharisees wanted to
destroy Jesus because
they were afraid of
His Power
The Pharisees sought
man-made recognition
to save face
to look good to men
Their god was themselves
Jesus says - you will be
hated by all for My name
sake
Jesus shows the Apostles
He would suffer and die
He would be killed
He would be raised from
the dead
2 Standards
Standard of God and Standard of satan
The Pharisees put themselves
under the wrong standard
What gain, then, is it for anyone to win the whole world and forfeit his life?
R. What good does it do to know
anything if we miss
the Plan of God
If we think we "know it all"
How can we know God
if we stay in all
the "muddle" of the
world
Know God
To know God - we know
the Trinity
R. In God there are three Divine
Persons The Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit
God made all things from nothing
God created angels and men
The fallen angels disobeyed God
God commanded Adam and Eve,
our first parents, not to
eat of the fruit of a certain
tree
If they obeyed, Adam and Eve and their
descendants could stay
in Paradise
But they disobeyed
Genesis 3: 19
By the sweat of your face
will you earn your food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.
R. We come into life without these
gifts Adam and Eve had
So we have to die
So we have to suffer
So we have to work
And we have a strong inclination
to sin
We, human creatures, have original sin
except Mary
Sin is an act against
the Law of God
A retreat is a journey toward God.
We ask God to tell us about
Himself
We listen
We are open
Jesus told us to "Watch and pray"
The law of God is to be in
our hearts
OUR HEARTS
The law
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Song: Deep Within
Excerpt from the Shepherds of Christ Priestly Newsletter 2000 - Issue 3
The Father's Will for Us - Our Source of Peace
Pope John Paul II instructs us: "The Church, as a reconciled and reconciling community, cannot forget that at the source of her gift and mission of reconciliation is the initiative, full of compassionate love and mercy, of that God who is love (see 1 John 4:8) and who out of love created human beings (see Wisdom 11:23-26; Genesis 1:27: Psalms 8:4-8) He created them so that they might live in friendship with Him and in communion with one another.
"God is faithful to His eternal plan even when man, under the impulse of the evil one (see Wisdom 2:24) and carried away by his own pride, abuses the freedom given to him in order to love and generously seek what is good, and (instead) refuses to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when man, instead of responding with love to Gods love, opposes Him and treats Him like a rival, deluding himself and relying on his own power, with the resulting break of relationship with the One who created him. In spite of this transgression on mans part, God remains faithful in love.
"It is certainly true that the story of the Garden of Eden makes us think about the tragic consequences of rejecting the Father, which becomes evident in mans inner disorder and in the breakdown of harmony between man and woman, brother and brother (see Genesis 3:12 ff; 4:1-16). Also significant is the Gospel parable of the two brothers (the parable of the prodigal son; see Luke 15:11-32) who, in different ways, distance themselves from their father and cause a rift between them. Refusal of Gods fatherly love and of His loving gifts is always at the root of humanitys divisions.
"But we know that God like the father in the parable (of the prodigal son), does not close His heart to any of His children. He waits for them, looks for them, goes to meet them at the place where the refusal of communion imprisons them in isolation and division. He calls them to gather about His table in the joy of the feast of forgiveness and reconciliation.
"This initiative on Gods part is made concrete and manifest in the redemptive act of Christ, which radiates through the world by means of the ministry of the Church." 13
13. Pope John Paul II, as in Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, pp. 140-141.
R.
The devil comes and we can
habitually train ourselves
to do what God doesn't
want us to do
Death makes its entrance into
human history
Man sees with distorted vision
Man sees God with distorted vision
Man sees others with distorted vision
Man sees himself with distorted vision
We must seek to see through the eyes
of God
What does God want us to do?
We don't give into sinful habits!
We are to pray for grace to be more
and more in the image of Jesus
Those addicted can use the Pamphlet
put out by AA, Alanon
A Merry-Go-Round Called Denial
Say the Act of Contrition
Tell God you are sorry for your sins
don't be angry
don't lie
don't be jealous
don't disobey
ASK yourself
"What does God want?"
Give it to Him Pope John Paul II says
God created me to love
to give love
to promote His Kingdom
What gain, then, is it for anyone to win the whole world and forfeit his life?
R. Make a retreat!!
Go away from the world
How else can you get closer to God?
We are to grow in our ability to love.
To be more likened to God
To freely love God
Being obedient to God's commands
TO LOVE
The fallen angels
said "I will not serve"
Standard of Satan
Being obedient to God helps
us to unite to Jesus
For all eternity in heaven
perfect obedience
Sin brought death to man
Man is in this world
the world is sinful
We are to learn to not be WILLFUL
But - TO OBEY
DIS-Obedience brings misery
- on this earth
effects our eternal life
SIN BRINGS PAIN
TO US
God wants us to be
with Him forever in heaven
Our whole lives are to be
lived
. Serving God
. Having the Vision of God
. Building God's Kingdom
To have FAITH, HOPE
and LOVE
Are you hungry in your
stomach
What about
spiritual hunger
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R. We cannot even fathom God's love
for us
God gave us in Shepherds of Christ His
Personal love letters
to know this
overwhelming love He
has for us
The devil is hate
He wants you to hate God
He wants you to hate others
He wants you to hate yourself
Hate makes you miserable
Hate brings pain in this world and the next
Don't you feel the pain of hate
in this world
It's worse in the next
Jesus is the Savior
Song: A Song from Jesus
R. Pray for grace to imitate
Jesus, who came to this
earth and died for us
Jesus is gentle and kind of
heart
Jesus was a man on earth
Who do we worship
"Satan as our ruler"
"God as our ruler"
HATE
LOVE
Satan wants slaves
Christ wants
to sin
us to promote
His Kingdom
He rules on his throne
Be wise as serpents and gentle
as doves
Those following God must
'Discern the Spirits'
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. pp. 141-150
313. RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
IRules for understanding to some extent the different movements produced in the soul and for recognizing those that are good to admit them, and those that are bad, to reject them. These rules are more suited to the first week
314. I. In the case of those who go from one mortal sin to another, the enemy is ordinarily accustomed to propose apparent pleasures. He fills their imagination with sensual delights and gratifications, the more readily to keep them in their vices and increase the number of their sins.
With such persons the good spirit uses a method which is the reverse of the above. Making use of the light of reason, he will rouse the sting of conscience and fill them with remorse.
315. 2. In the case of those who go on earnestly striving to cleanse their souls from sin and who seek to rise in the service of God our Lord to greater perfection, the method pursued is the opposite of that mentioned in the first rule.
Then it is characteristic of the evil spirit to harass with anxiety, to afflict with sadness, to raise obstacles backed by fallacious reasonings that disturb the soul. Thus he seeks to prevent the soul from advancing.
It is characteristic of the good spirit, however, to give courage and strength, consolations, tears, inspirations, and peace. This He does by making all easy, by removing all obstacles so that the soul goes forward in doing good.
316. 3. SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION. I call it consolation when an interior movement is aroused in the soul, by which it is inflamed with love of its Creator and Lord, and as a consequence, can love no creature on the face of the earth for its own sake, but only in the Creator of them all. It is likewise consolation when one sheds tears that move to the love of God, whether it be because of sorrow for sins, or because of the sufferings of Christ our Lord, or for any other reason that is immediately directed to the praise and service of God. Finally, I call consolation every increase of faith, hope, and love, and all interior joy that invites and attracts to what is heavenly and to the salvation of one's soul by filling it with peace and quiet in its Creator and Lord.
317. 4. SPIRITUAL DESOLATION. I call desolation what is entirely the opposite of what is described in the third rule, as darkness of soul, turmoil of spirit, inclination to what is low and earthly, restlessness rising from many disturbances and temptations which lead to want of faith, want of hope, want of love. The soul is wholly slothful, tepid, sad, and separated, as it were, from its Creator and Lord. For just as consolation is the opposite of desolation, so the thoughts that spring from consolation are the opposite of those that spring from desolation.
318. 5. In time of desolation we should never make any change, but remain firm and constant in the resolution and decision which guided us the day before the desolation, or in the decision to which we adhered in the preceding consolation. For just as in consolation the good spirit guides and counsels us, so in desolation the evil spirit guides and counsels. Following his counsels we can never find the way to a right decision.
319. 6. Though in desolation we must never change our former resolutions, it will be very advantageous to intensify our activity against the desolation. We can insist more upon prayer, upon meditation, and on much examination of ourselves. We can make an effort in a suitable way to do some penance.
320. 7. When one is in desolation, he should be mindful that God has left him to his natural powers to resist the different agitations and temptations of the enemy in order to try him. He can resist with the help of God, which always remains, though he may not clearly perceive it. For though God has taken from him the abundance of fervor and overflowing love and the intensity of His favors, nevertheless, he has sufficient grace for eternal salvation.
321. 8. When one is in desolation, he should strive to persevere in patience. This reacts against the vexations that have overtaken him. Let him consider, too, that consolation will soon return, and in the meantime, he must diligently use the means against desolation which have been given in the sixth rule.
322. 9. The principal reasons why we suffer from desolation are three:
The first is because we have been tepid and slothful or negligent in our exercises of piety, and so through our own fault spiritual consolation has been taken away from us.
The second reason is because God wishes to try us, to see how much we are worth, and how much we will advance in His service and praise when left without the generous reward of consolations and signal favors.
The third reason is because God wishes to give us a true knowledge and understanding of ourselves, so that we may have an intimate perception of the fact that it is not within our power to acquire and attain great devotion, intense love, tears, or any other spiritual consolation; but that all this is the gift and grace of God our Lord. God does not wish us to build on the property of another, to rise up in spirit in a certain pride and vainglory and attribute to ourselves the devotion and other effects of spiritual consolation.
323. 10. When one enjoys consolation, let him consider how he will conduct himself during the time of ensuing desolation, and store up a supply of strength as defense against that day.
324. 11. He who enjoys consolation should take care to humble himself and lower himself as much as possible. Let him recall how little he is able to do in time of desolation, when he is left without such grace or consolation.
On the other hand, one who suffers desolation should remember that by making use of the sufficient grace offered him, he can do much to withstand all his enemies. Let him find his strength in his Creator and Lord.
325. 12. The enemy conducts himself as a woman. He is a weakling before a show of strength, and a tyrant if he has his will. It is characteristic of a woman in a quarrel with a man to lose courage and take to flight if the man shows that he is determined and fearless. However, if the man loses courage and begins to flee, the anger, vindictiveness, and rage of the woman surge up and know no bounds. In the same way, the enemy becomes weak, loses courage, and turns to flight with his seductions as soon as one leading a spiritual life faces his temptations boldly, and does exactly the opposite of what he suggests. However, if one begins to be afraid and to lose courage in temptations, no wild animal on earth can be more fierce than the enemy of our human nature. He will carry out his perverse intentions with consummate malice.
326. 13. Our enemy may also be compared in his manner of acting to a false lover. He seeks to remain hidden and does not want to be discovered. If such a lover speaks with evil intention to the daughter of a good father, or to the wife of a good husband, and seeks to seduce them, he wants his words and solicitations kept secret. He is greatly displeased if his evil suggestions and depraved intentions are revealed by the daughter to her father, or by the wife to her husband. Then he readily sees he will not succeed in what he has begun. In the same way, when the enemy of our human nature tempts a just soul with his wiles and seductions, he earnestly desires that they be received secretly and kept secret. But if one manifests them to a confessor, or to some other spiritual person who understands his deceits and malicious designs, the evil one is very much vexed. For he knows that he cannot succeed in his evil undertaking, once his evident deceits have been revealed.
327. 14. The conduct of our enemy may also be compared to the tactics of a leader intent upon seizing and plundering a position he desires. A commander and leader of an army will encamp, explore the fortifications and defenses of the stronghold, and attack at the weakest point. In the same way, the enemy of our human nature investigates from every side all our virtues, theological, cardinal, and moral. Where he finds the defenses of eternal salvation weakest and most deficient, there he attacks and tries to take us by storm.
328. RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
IIFurther rules for understanding the different movements produced in the soul. They serve for a more accurate discernment of spirits and are more suitable for the second week
329. I. It is characteristic of God and His Angels, when they act upon the soul, to give true happiness and spiritual joy, and to banish all the sadness and disturbances which are caused by the enemy.
It is characteristic of the evil one to fight against such happiness and consolation by proposing fallacious reasonings, subtilties, and continual deceptions.330. 2. God alone can give consolation to the soul without any previous cause. It belongs solely to the Creator to come into a soul, to leave it, to act upon it, to draw it wholly to the love of His Divine Majesty. I said without previous cause, that is, without any preceding perception or knowledge of any subject by which a soul might be led to such a consolation through its own acts of intellect and will.
331. 3. If a cause precedes, both the good angel and the evil spirit can give consolation to a soul, but for a quite different purpose. The good angel consoles for the progress of the soul, that it may advance and rise to what is more perfect. The evil spirit consoles for purposes that are the contrary, and that afterwards he might draw the soul to his own perverse intentions and wickedness.
332. 4. It is a mark of the evil spirit to assume the appearance of an angel of light. He begins by suggesting thoughts that are suited to a devout soul, and ends by suggesting his own. For example, he will suggest holy and pious thoughts that are wholly in conformity with the sanctity of the soul. Afterwards, he will endeavor little by little to end by drawing the soul into his hidden snares and evil designs.
333. 5. We must carefully observe the whole course of our thoughts. If the beginning and middle and end of the course of thoughts are wholly good and directed to what is entirely right, it is a sign that they are from the good angel. But the course of thoughts suggested to us may terminate in something evil, or distracting, or less good than the soul had formerly proposed to do. Again, it may end in what weakens the soul, or disquiets it; or by destroying the peace, tranquility, and quiet which it had before, it may cause disturbance to the soul. These things are a clear sign that the thoughts are proceeding from the evil spirit, the enemy of our progress and eternal salvation.
334. 6. When the enemy of our human nature has been detected and recognized by the trail of evil marking his course and by the wicked end to which he leads us, it will be profitable for one who has been tempted to review immediately the whole course of the temptation. Let him consider the series of good thoughts, how they arose, how the evil one gradually attempted to make him step down from the state of spiritual delight and joy in which he was, till finally he drew him to his wicked designs. The purpose of this review is that once such an experience has been understood and carefully observed, we may guard ourselves for the future against the customary deceits of the enemy.
335. 7. In souls that are progressing to greater perfection, the action of the good angel is delicate, gentle, delightful. It may be compared to a drop of water penetrating a sponge.
The action of the evil spirit upon such souls is violent, noisy, and disturbing. It may be compared to a drop of water falling upon a stone.
In souls that are going from bad to worse, the action of the spirits mentioned above is just the reverse. The reason for this is to be sought in the opposition or similarity of these souls to the different kinds of spirits. When the disposition is contrary to that of the spirits, they enter with noise and commotion that are easily perceived. When the disposition is similar to that of the spirits, they enter silently, as one coming into his own house when the doors are open.336. 8. When consolation is without previous cause, as was said, there can be no deception in it, since it can proceed from God our Lord only. But a spiritual person who has received such a consolation must consider it very attentively, and must cautiously distinguish the actual time of the consolation from the period which follows it. At such a time the soul is still fervent and favored with the grace and aftereffects of the consolation which has passed. In this second period the soul frequently forms various resolutions and plans which are not granted directly by God our Lord. They may come from our own reasoning on the relations of our concepts and on the consequences of our judgments, or they may come from the good or evil spirit. Hence, they must be carefully examined before they are given full approval and put into execution.
end of excerpt
R. Don't act in desolation
Be humble
Hope in God
Make no changes
Cooperate with God
The evil one tries to destroy
God's work
Jesus' miracles
(1) Calmed the storm
(2) Cast out demons
(3) Walked on water
(4) Fed the crowd
(5) The transfiguration
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12
23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
R. Jesus heals soul and body
Jesus feeds soul and body
Song: God's Love
After the psalms had been sung they left for the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them, You will all fall away from me tonight, for the scripture says: I shall strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered, but after my resurrection I shall go ahead of you to Galilee. At this, Peter said to him, Even if all fall away from you, I will never fall away. Jesus answered him, In truth I tell you, this very night, before the cock crows, you will have disowned me three times. Peter said to him, Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you. And all the disciples said the same.
Then Jesus came with them to a plot of land called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, Stay here while I go over there to pray. He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. And he began to feel sadness and anguish.
Then he said to them, My soul is sorrowful to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake with me. And going on a little further he fell on his face and prayed. My Father, he said, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it. He came back to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, So you had not the strength to stay awake with me for one hour? Stay awake, and pray not to be put to the test. The spirit is willing enough, but human nature is weak. Again, a second time, he went away and prayed: My Father, he said, if this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, your will be done! And he came back again and found them sleeping, their eyes were so heavy. Leaving them there, he went away again and prayed for the third time, repeating the same words. Then he came back to the disciples and said to them, You can sleep on now and have your rest. Look, the hour has come when the Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up! Let us go! Look, my betrayer is not far away.
R. Jesus did the will of
His Father
Doing God's will means
we will
die and rise
Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord
R. We are to compare our
imperfect selves to Christ
and how perfect He is
so we can grow
Someone may ask: How are dead people raised, and what sort of body do they have when they come? How foolish! What you sow must die before it is given new life; and what you sow is not the body that is to be, but only a bare grain, of wheat I dare say, or some other kind;
It is the same too with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable; what is sown is contemptible but what is raised is glorious; what is sown is weak, but what is raised is powerful; what is sown is a natural body, and what is raised is a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is a spiritual body too. So the first man, Adam, as scripture says, became a living soul; and the last Adam has become a lifegiving spirit. But first came the natural body, not the spiritual one; that came only afterwards. The first man, being made of earth, is earthly by nature; the second man is from heaven. The earthly man is the pattern for earthly people, the heavenly man for heavenly ones. And as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so we shall bear the likeness of the heavenly one.
Psalm 56: 10-14
In God whose word I praise,
in Yahweh whose word I praise,
in God I put my trust and have no fear;
what can mortal man do to me?I am bound by the vows I have made, God,
I will pay you the debt of thanks,
for you have saved my life from death
to walk in the presence of God,
in the light of the living.
Luke 8: 4-15
With a large crowd gathering and people from every town finding their way to him, he told this parable:
A sower went out to sow his seed. Now as he sowed, some fell on the edge of the path and was trampled on; and the birds of the air ate it up. Some seed fell on rock, and when it came up it withered away, having no moisture. Some seed fell in the middle of thorns and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some seed fell into good soil and grew and produced its crop a hundredfold. Saying this he cried, Anyone who has ears for listening should listen!
His disciples asked him what this parable might mean, and he said, To you is granted to understand the secrets of the kingdom of God; for the rest it remains in parables, so that
they may look but not perceive,
listen but not understand.This, then, is what the parable means: the seed is the word of God. Those on the edge of the path are people who have heard it, and then the devil comes and carries away the word from their hearts in case they should believe and be saved. Those on the rock are people who, when they first hear it, welcome the word with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of trial they give up. As for the part that fell into thorns, this is people who have heard, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life and never produce any crops. As for the part in the rich soil, this is people with a noble and generous heart who have heard the word and take it to themselves and yield a harvest through their perseverance.
R. We study Jesus Christ to
be more in His image
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)
R. Jesus performed miracles
the first at Cana
Jesus taught them in
parables
Jesus healed them
Jesus will heal our hearts
if we want to be
healed and ask Him
Jesus raised Lazarus from
the dead
Jesus gives us the Eucharist
Jesus sweat Blood in the garden
Jesus was made to carry the cross
Jesus tells us to take up our
cross
Jesus died for us
R. Jesus was laid in Mary's arms
R. Jesus rose from the dead
John 20: 30-31
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.
Act of Contrition
Oh God
We are sorry for our sins
Please accept our earnest
desire to make amends
We recognize our sins
We want to change our lives
Help us to reform our lives
We want to go to heaven Oh heavenly Father, we
pray this prayer united
to Jesus in the Mass, in
the Holy Spirit through the
intercession of Mary
with all the angels and saints
and the souls in purgatory.Oh Father give us Your mercy
help us to grow in the
image of Jesus
Help us to be a witness in
our vocation
Help us to be a witness to
Your love Dear God we thank You,
praise You and worship You
thanks for Your blessings
and Your grace and mercy and
for forgiving our sins
R. Life is very short
One soon learns when your
friends die,
when you see babies die,
that life is promised to
no man.
Sirach 28: 1-7
Whoever exacts vengeance will experience the vengeance of the Lord, who keeps strict account of sin. Pardon your neighbour any wrongs done to you, and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven. If anyone nurses anger against another, can one then demand compassion from the Lord? Showing no pity for someone like oneself, can one then plead for one's own sins? Mere creature of flesh, yet cherishing resentment!-who will forgive one for sinning? Remember the last things, and stop hating, corruption and death, and be faithful to the commandments. Remember the commandments, and do not bear your fellow ill-will, remember the covenant of the Most High, and ignore the offence.
Matthew 17: 5
He was still speaking when suddenly a bright cloud covered them with shadow, and suddenly from the cloud there came a voice which said, This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour. Listen to him.
Psalm 97: 1-2, 5-6, 9
Yahweh is king! Let earth rejoice,
the many isles be glad!
Cloud, black cloud enfolds him,
saving justice and judgement the foundations of his throne.The mountains melt like wax,
before the Lord of all the earth.
The heavens proclaim his saving justice,
all nations see his glory.For you are Yahweh,
Most High over all the earth,
far transcending all gods.
1 John 3: 2
My dear friends,
we are already Gods children,
but what we shall be in the future
has not yet been revealed.
We are well aware that when he appears
we shall be like him,
because we shall see him as he really is.
Matthew 3: 10
Even now the axe is being laid to the root of the trees, so that any tree failing to produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown on the fire.
Sing: Here I am Lord
R. Jesus had enemies
'Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three; father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'
R. Some of our greatest enemies
will be those of our own
household
Judas was the keeper of the money
He was the one who betrayed Jesus
How can we call ourselves
holy when we smile to
those outside our family and
give nothing but hate to those
God has called us to live with
Peter suffered humiliations and
yet Jesus picked him as
His Vicar
Matthew 16: 18
So I now say to you: you are Peter and on this rock I will build my community. And the gates of the underworld can never overpower it.
God has a way of getting our attention
God knocked Saul to the ground
Spirit of Discernment
Ignatius - Spirits - Holy Spirit
other spirit
Jesus was perfect goodness
Jesus' enemies hated Him
Jesus only did good
Jesus could even raise the dead
His enemies wanted to destroy Him
Word of God is a 2-edged sword
It divides us
Jesus' life
Hared tried to kill Jesus!
Jesus brings cleanliness
of heart
They tried to kill Jesus
Jesus was rejected
God is rejected by humanity
Spiritual Communion
Dear Jesus we want to make a spiritual
communion, we cannot receive You
now, but we want to know Your
presence deep in our heart
deep in our soul
Oh God fill us
with Your presence that we can
just focus on You and Your love
for us now Love deep in us
Oneness with You
Quiet surrender to be alone in
this moment with You in our heart
in deep love
We love You so much our beloved
God
R. Pray for the Elderly
Help spread the Consecration cards
to children
R. Let the bells ring
as we make Jesus and Mary
the King and Queen of our hearts
the King and Queen of our families
Let's spread these prayer chapters
to the United States - to the world
Prayer Brochures
English
Spanish
Italian
Call Doris 513-477-4242
R. Help us spread consecration to 2 Hearts
and Rosaries for the month
of the Sacred Heart
Song: The Rosary Song
Rosary Books
Consecration Cards
R. Rosaries for the schools
R. Florida - Come on June 5th - 6:20pm
R. Retreat in China
June 10th - June 13th
June 13th - Feast of St. Anthony
Fr. McCarthy will say Mass at 10:30am
We will have a little procession at noon.
Please come and pray to help
make reparation to the Hearts
of Jesus and Mary for our sins and
the sins of the human race
We are to be lights in this world
We are to be witnesses for Christ
So others see our witness and
follow Jesus
as we act more and more in
the image and likeness of Jesus
wanting to bring others to Christ
The Sacred Heart devotion possesses marvelous unity.
We must know God's love for us.
Love God in Return
Devotion to the Sacred Heart gives Unity,
Vitality in loving God!
The Mass helps us to be united
We must see that unity of consecration
to Jesus and Mary at Mass.
We are willing to suffer for Christ and
carry out crosses because we
love Jesus. We ask God to reveal
more to us about the hidden
mystery of Jesus' love
We study and circulate the Blue Books.
We live the Pascal Mystery of
Death/Resurrection
We study the mystery of the Cross:
the Sorrowful Mystery Meditations
from Jesus and Mary
the Way of the Cross from Jesus.
Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
Before receiving the six apparitions of Our Lady, May through October of 1917, the three Fatima visionaries were visited by an angel on three different occasions during the preceding year. He appeared to them in the spring, summer, and fall. Lucia (now Sr. Lucia) describes the springtime apparition of the angel:
(3)"My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You."
Then, rising he said: "Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications."
His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them
During the summer of 1916, the angel again appeared to the three visionaries. He said to them:
(4)Pray! Pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. Bring peace to our country in this way.... I am the Guardian Angel of Portugal Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you.
In the fall of the same year, the angel visited the visionaries a final time:
(5)The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners."
Sr. Lucia relates how the angel gave them Communion:
Then, rising, he took the chalice and the Host in his hand. He gave the Sacred Host to me and shared the Blood from the chalice between Jacinta and Francisco, saying as he did so:
(6)"Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God."
Reflecting upon these messages of the angel, we see how much they contain for our spiritual instruction.
NOTES:
3. Louis
Kondar, SVD, editor, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words
(Fatima: Postulation Center, 1976), p.62. Distributed in
the U.S.A. by the Ravengate Press, Cambridge, MA.
4. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., pp.1-2.
5. Ibid., p.2 (The words in brackets are my
own-added for clarification).
6. Fatima in Lucia's Own Words, op cit.,
pp.64-65.
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Month of the Sacred Heart June 3, 2000
The Rosary
The Joyful Mysteries to be used on June 4, 2000.
Annunciation
Jesus:
1. My Heart is an endless furnace of love.
2. My Heart is that of the Divine God.
3. The angel Gabriel appeared to Mary.
4. I am the Son of God.
5. I am He Who comes to fill you with My life.
6. My staff I hold in My hand.
7. I come announced by the messenger (the angel).
8. Mary accepted.
9. Let My life transform you.
10. The incarnation goes on in you.
Visitation
Jesus:
1. I come a Babe in the arms of Mary.
2. I am the Savior of the World.
3. My love is eternal.
4. My Heart is on fire for you.
5. A child carried in the womb of the Virgin Mary.
6. A Heart filled with love.
7. My endless love I pour out to you now.
8. Come and be with Me.
9. On the long hot days of summer, feel the love I give to you.
10. Sufferings are gifts I give you. The sufferings are given to draw you closer to Me.
Birth of Jesus
Jesus:
1. A little Baby carried in the womb of the Mother.
2. Mary takes you as a little baby into her Immaculate Heart.
3. In her Heart, the Holy Spirit transforms you more and more into My image, if you cooperate with the grace I give you.Messenger:
4. O Holy Spirit, come and fill the hearts that are weary.
5. O Holy Spirit, fill them with fire.
6. O Holy Spirit, enlighten the blinded minds.
7. O Holy Spirit, spark a fire burning in the children of Mary.
8. O Holy Spirit, it is a light and love the children of Mary seek in their hearts.
9. O Holy Spirit, enlighten the little babies' eyes.
10. O Holy Spirit, let them see God and hear the voice of the Good Shepherd.
Presentation
Messenger:
1. Oh a little Child, God-made-man.
2. Taken to the temple.
3. Simeon foretold, ...'Look, he is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel...' (Lk 2:34).
4. Oh Heart of Mary pierced by a sword, oh Mary help us endure the sufferings of life.
5. Oh Heart of Mary, help us to spread the rosary.
6. Oh Heart of Mary, help us to teach the world how to pray the rosary.
7. Oh Mary so fair, protect us from the devil and all that could come against us as we spread the rosary.
8. Oh Mary most pure, we humbly pray for this grace.
9. On this first Saturday of June, 2000, Mary help us, Jesus help us. Dear Father, Son and Holy Spirit help us. Amen.
10. Into the arms of our Mother we give ourselves as little dependent children of our God.
Finding in the Temple
Jesus:
1. You must obey your God.
2. I am a just God. All your deeds will be judged.
3. I am just!!
4. So many are lost, today.
5. At the end of this rosary, I ask you to see Me, My hands on either side of My Heart. I want you to see the fire, I want you to see My eyes, I want you to see Me, a Child in the temple, 12 years old. I want you to know I gave My life for you.
6. My life is given for you. My love is an endless furnace of love that does not flicker.
7. I am the Son of God.
8. Pray for the children of Mary to find their way home to My Heart.
9. Oh children, be humble.
10. Oh children pray for enlightenment, go to the spiritual womb of your Mother, she is your spiritual mother. Oh My children go to her now.
On this 3rd day of the month of My Sacred Heart, I ask you to show My picture before this rosary.On the left I want Mary with the babe, as in the church in China, Indiana. On the right I want My Sacred Heart.
I want you to see yourself as a little babe in the arms of Mary. Put your little body in her arms. I want you to see yourself this way now.
I want you to think of yourself as a child, a child of God, learning to be like God in your ways.
God is your Father, Mary your Mother, pray this rosary to your Father and Mother for help.
See yourself in the spiritual womb of your Mother being more and more formed in My image.
My little sweet baby, I love you so much.
I am the Sacred Heart.
end of June 3, 2000
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