Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing

May 6, 2014

                May 6, 2014

                From Blue Book 11

Before the Tabernacle

R. Jesus loves us with Divine love, far beyond our comprehension. We cannot fathom the depth of His love He has for us. Let us open our hearts and let Jesus fill us with this Divine love in these moments that we spend before Him in the tabernacle.

We pray for an increase of faith, hope and charity. Give to us please the gift of faith that we might have a wider vision of the Almighty God; give to us, please, the virtue of hope. Fill us with the fire of God’s love, the fire of God’s love for the Almighty God and for one another, that we may be joined in this rosary in one mind and in one heart, that the fire of God’s love may be felt in this room as He penetrates our soul and comes closer and closer to us.

  

The Resurrection of Our Lord

R. How tenderly our beloved Jesus loves each one of us. Let us pray at this moment that we receive the grace to feel His presence deep within our hearts, that He will embrace us with His Divine love and that we may know Him more intimately than we have ever before.

1. R. In those moments when Jesus comes to us in the Eucharist, He imprints on our being knowledge of Himself, He fills us with His grace and He gives to us this knowledge, a knowledge of knowing God, not in words, not in sight, but knowing God in our very being and we are permanently changed when He gives to us a grace such as this. Let us pray that, in this rosary, we receive Him in a spiritual communion where we unite in such intimacy with Him and He imparts to us this intimate knowing of Himself that there is this deep union where our souls meet in a special way.

2. R. It is life that we seek. We were created by the Almighty God with this appetite to love God, to have God. Nothing fills the craving in the soul for God but God Himself. The people in hell for all eternity crave the Almighty God and know that they will never know Him and have Him.

3. R. God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit, communicate the most perfect love because of Their great love. God created man out of His goodness and His love, God created man that man would share with God for all eternity this great love. We are here on this earth only a short while. We are being tested to see if we are worthy to enter the kingdom of heaven. God created us to know, love and serve Him and to love one another and to be with Him forever and ever in heaven. Every act that we perform on this earth should be an act performed in love for it is our goal to be in heaven with Him some day.

4. R. Jesus hung on the cross and on the third day we see the glorified body of Jesus adorned in the most celestial light, in such brilliance and Jesus came forth from the tomb victorious. We too, if we live our lives to know, love and serve God, will come forth victorious and we will be with Him in this celestial bliss forever and ever in heaven.

We cannot even imagine minutely the love of God. We know a speck of what love is. If He gave us wider vision into His love we would truly see how little we know of His love. God is love. He asks us for two things: to love Him and to love each other.

5. R. Love is giving of self for the other. Jesus showed us that act of greatest love when He gave His all for love of us and died on the cross.

6. R. Dear Jesus, help us to unselfishly love You and to love one another, to give this gift of self to each other.

7. R. The world is so focused on the self, but God tells us to die to ourselves. It is in living according to the Father’s will that we will have peace and joy in our lives.

Song: Choose Life

R. At this moment there is a soul on the edge of death. It is the soul of my beloved brother that I love so dearly, for to know God is to love all of our brothers. The soul, on the edge of death, in one moment will be passing into another life. One moment we are here and one moment we are not here.

Mary says “so many souls are dropping into hell like rain.” God put us on this earth to help one another, to love one another, to help each other get to heaven. This is my brother, on the edge of death at this moment. Will he be engulfed in the fires of hell for all eternity or will he be embraced by the Divine embrace of the Almighty God?

Mary has asked us to consecrate our hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, for it is in this consecration that we become one with God and that He lives in us. When we give our hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and unite all of our actions, all through the day, to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the day and offer it for the souls of our brothers, we can help by praying for the soul at this moment that stands on the edge of death. Pray they will receive a grace that may help them. How heroic is each moment of our life that, that moment lived as a sacrifice is an offering united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This can help souls if we pray for grace for them.

Jesus no longer walks this earth, He lives in us and He wants us to unite our lives to the Masses going on around the world. Let us pray with all our hearts in the rosary and unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered to the Father for all the souls that are now on the edge of death. Jesus died but He rose victorious on the third day. This is my brother – let us pray for him.

8. R. There will be one flock and one Shepherd – all hearts will be united.

9. John 10:7-19

So Jesus spoke to them again:
In all truth I tell you,
I am the gate of the sheepfold.
All who have come before me
are thieves and bandits,
but the sheep took no notice of them.
I am the gate.
Anyone who enters through me
    will be safe:
such a one will go in and out
and will find pasture.
The thief comes
only to steal and kill and destroy.
I have come
so that they may have life
and have it to the full.
I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
    for his sheep.
The hired man,
    since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
    and runs away,
and then the wolf attacks
    and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
    because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.
And there are other sheep I have
that are not of this fold,
and I must lead these too.
They too will listen to my voice,
and there will be only one flock,
one shepherd.
The Father loves me,
because I lay down my life
in order to take it up again.
No one takes it from me;
I lay it down of my own free will,
and as I have power to lay it down,
so I have power to take it up again;
and this is the command
    I have received from my Father.

These words caused a fresh division among the Jews.

Jesus: I give to you a free will and I call to you this day to lay down your lives for your brothers. Offer every deed that you do as a sacrifice, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Let your hearts be one in My Heart, that many will be touched by My grace and respond to the grace I give them. Make your offering to the Father, united to Me in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass going on around the world in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory. This is serious. Many souls are being lost this day. I come to give life, that you will have it more abundantly. I give to you this grace this day. I am Jesus, the Son of God. I love you with the most burning love. I am a Person and I am truly present in this room with you at this very moment. Come to Me and I will caress you and hold you tightly in My Heart. This is an urgent plea, to offer every moment of your day for the sake of the souls that are being lost, the souls of your brothers.

10. Hail Mary

 

The Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

For as with the human body which is a unity although it has many parts—all the parts of the body, though many, still making up one single body—so it is with Christ. We were baptised into one body in a single Spirit, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as free men, and we were all given the same Spirit to drink. And indeed the body consists not of one member but of many. If the foot were to say, ‘I am not a hand and so I do not belong to the body,’ it does not belong to the body any the less for that. Or if the ear were to say, ‘I am not an eye, and so I do not belong to the body,’ that would not stop its belonging to the body. If the whole body were just an eye, how would there be any hearing? If the whole body were hearing, how would there be any smelling?

As it is, God has put all the separate parts into thebody as he chose. If they were all the same part, how could it be a body? As it is, the parts are many but the body is one. The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you,’ and nor can the head say to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’

What is more, it is precisely the parts of the body that seem to be the weakest which are the indispensable ones. It is the parts of the body which we consider least dignified that we surround with the greatest dignity; and our less presentable parts are given greater presentability which our presentable parts do not need. God has composed the body so that greater dignity is given to the parts which were without it, and so that there may not be disagreements inside the body but each part may be equally concerned for all the others. If one part is hurt, all the parts share its pain. And if one part is honoured, all the parts share its joy.

Now Christ’s body is yourselves, each of you with a part to play in the whole. And those whom God has appointed in the Church are, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers; after them, miraculous powers, then gifts of healing, helpful acts, guidance, various kinds of tongues. Are all of them apostles? Or all prophets? Or all teachers? Or all miracle–workers? Do all have the gifts of healing? Do all of them speak in tongues and all interpret them?

Set your mind on the higher gifts. . . .

1. R. Jesus ascended into heaven. He no longer walks the earth. He left behind the apostles to carry out His work. Jesus has called us His special apostles in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to carry out this work this day. The world is in darkness, suffering and in pain.

The Father looks to the earth and He sees that darkness has covered the earth and He calls to us, His special apostles, to be the lights that will shine in this darkened world and to carry out the messages of God’s love. How can we say “no” to the Almighty God when He has chosen us and called us, His apostles, and has given to us great graces to unite in deeper union with Him. We have been called and we have been chosen. He has given to us such gifts – where we were blind, we now see many things because of these gifts.

We feel His presence within our hearts and we know that God is truly present and in this room. All of these are gifts that He is giving to us. Let us thank Him for these graces that He has given to us and ask Him to continue to fill us with this grace that He has given to us and ask Him to continue to fill us with this grace that we may know, love and serve Him more fervently within our hearts.

We thank You, Almighty God, for the great gifts that You have given to us and we ask You to continue to fill us with such graces that we will be filled more and more with Your life.

2. Jesus: You are many members of one body. I call you to unite in one mind and one heart, to love one another. There is power when you consecrate your heart together to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I am Jesus. I am calling you to holiness. You are the lights that will shine and light up the darkened world. I am asking you to take the consecration to Our Hearts seriously. It is in this consecration that you will be aided in reaching holiness.

3. R. When Jesus ascended into the sky the apostles were awestruck as they looked from the field below and they saw Jesus as a cloud took Him out of sight.

4. R. They were filled with fear and they locked themselves in the upper room, waiting for the Holy Spirit. Jesus had promised to send to them the Holy Spirit.

5. R. How many times are we like the apostles – we sit and see all the things that go on in this dark world and in our hearts we want to carry the message of His love, but we are ridiculed and looked at very strangely. God is telling us that there are souls at this very minute that are falling into hell. The way that we conduct our lives, the way we love, the way we live, the way that we walk with Him, may make the difference at this moment, as we offer up our lives united to the Mass and pray for grace for ourselves, the world and the Church. Others will see our witness, they will remember our strength, when we lived for God. This preaches a mighty lesson to those around us. Even though they may laugh and scorn us, we make an impression and teach the message of God’s love and how He truly exists and that there is a heaven and a hell! We choose to live this way and they see this and the fruits of our efforts may not be seen until they stand on the threshold of death and remember how we were so firm in our love of God. Mary asks us to pray the rosary.

When others laughed at us, we showed them how we lived, for God! Many saints were martyred because of their love of God. Many were converted because of this martyrdom of the saints. We do not know who is watching and what lesson we are teaching them and when the seed will germinate, but with God’s grace it may make the difference when the soul is standing on the edge of death.

6. Jesus: I call you to holiness. It is through your example that you teach mighty lessons to those around you. I am Jesus Christ, the Almighty God. You are the lights that I am sending into the darkened world and it is through you that many will see My light in you.

I am calling you to deep union with Me. I want to live within you and minister to all that you touch. You are My apostles that I am sending into the world this day. It is through your example that many will see My life alive in you. I am alive, I am alive, I am alive and I live in you in this world today. Come to Me. Come close to Me and let Me possess your soul.

7. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Though I command languages both human and angelic — if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all the faith necessary to move mountains — if I am without love, I am nothing. Though I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned — if I am without love, it will do me no good whatever.

8. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances. Love does not rejoice atwrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth. It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.

9. Hail Mary

10. Hail Mary

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

Acts 2:1-4

When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.

1. R. And the apostles that were afraid before, were now filled with such fearlessness that they went out into the world to preach the Good News and thousands were converted.

2. R. Holy Spirit, come upon us and fill this room with the fire of God’s love that we may know in our hearts the presence of the Almighty God, that we may know the strength to do the will of God to stand strong against opposition. We love You with our whole hearts and we want to do what God is calling us to do. Give us all the grace that we need that we may preach the lessons that You want us to preach in this world, that You will live within us and that souls will be touched by this, You operating in us.

3. R. Pour out Your bountiful grace, God - we long for this grace within our souls that we may be penetrated more and more with You. Illuminate our hearts and minds with Your light and wisdom. We want to be filled. We want to live in You. This is life. This is life that Jesus comes and gives us a sharing in His life. That we may share in His Divine life, Wow! To be filled more and more abundantly with His life.

4. R. Jesus is the vine and we are the branches. If we do not stay connected to the vine, we wither and die. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. It is only in following Him that we will be happy. Oh, precious Almighty God, thank You for this sharing in Your life.

5. R. If we go to heaven, for all eternity we will experience this presence of the Almighty God. Let us live holy lives now. So we live our life, moment by moment, day by day, asking for more and more grace that we will be filled more and more with this life and enjoy the pleasures for all eternity with this embrace of the Almighty God.

6. Jesus: In My house there are many mansions.

John 14:1-4

Do not let your hearts be troubled.
You trust in God, trust also in me.
In my Father’s house
    there are many places to live in;
otherwise I would have told you.
I am going now to prepare a place for you,
and after I have gone
    and prepared you a place,
I shall return to take you to myself,
so that you may be with me
where I am.
You know the way
    to the place where I am going.

 

7. R. God filled their hearts with fire and they knew within the presence of the Almighty God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

8. Song: Come Holy Ghost

9. R. How tenderly Mary cared for the Child Jesus. How tenderly Mary loved Jesus all through Jesus’ life and how tenderly our beloved Mother loves each one of us today and wants to lead us to deeper, deeper love of her beloved Son. I saw the face of Mary in such sorrow before me, time after time, after time, for the souls that would be lost for all eternity. I felt the pain and the anguish in my heart - the sword invisibly, pierced Mary’s heart deeply. The sorrow of our Blessed Lady for her little lost children – each soul Mary tenderly loves. The greatest thing we can do for this earth is to unite in oneness with her Son, for it is the Holy Spirit then that will lead us on our way and in this oneness with Jesus. When we live in Him, the Almighty God will live in us in this world today and touch many souls that need His touch.

10. R. Jesus speaks of fire. Jesus’ Heart filled with fire for man, the fire of Jesus’ love. Mary speaks of the souls that will go into the fires of hell. This fire is powerful and it is filled with energy but it is not really fire. Although I have felt this fire, it is the presence of the Almighty God that wraps our being with such rapture that we cannot even describe what it is to know a heavenly embrace, to know the presence of God, and Jesus uses fire to tell us about His love because we can understand the intensity of fire.

The intense light that comes from a fire – the warmth from the fire, but we have no comprehension whatsoever of the fire of God’s love. We have no comprehension of Divine Love. He widens our vision more and more and expands our hearts that we may understand more aspects of His Divine Love. It is only through His grace that we understand more fully His Divine Love.

Mary speaks of the souls that will be burned in the fire of hell. The souls of hell know immense torment forever and ever to want God so badly and to know that they will never have the love of God! Fire is powerful. We can be wrapped by the embrace of the fire of God’s love or we can be lost for all eternity in the fires of hell. The Father looks to the earth and He sees His creatures. He sees us as one family and He is our Father and He sees us as we poke and push at each other and are so selfish and cruel to one another, and all He wants is our love! We were created to love God and to love one another and to be with Him, loving God and loving one another for all eternity.

 

The Assumption

1. R. Mary Immaculate, conceived without sin. Mary Immaculate, who carried the Child Jesus within her womb has appeared to me almost every day for 14 months, calling out with an urgent plea to her children to come closer to the Heart of her Son. How can we who are called here by our heavenly Mother and by Jesus say “no” to this call?

2. Jesus: The fires of hell burn for many souls, but the fire of My love is beyond your comprehension. I am calling to you to come to My Heart and let Me hold you so close. I am Jesus. I am neglected and forgotten by so many of My beloved souls. I am calling to you to tell Me of your love, to give yourselves in love, to love Me and one another. I am alive, I am alive, I am alive and I am in this room and I beg you to come close to My Heart.

3. R. And we recall those intimate moments that we shared with the Almighty God, and in all of the wanting that we have experienced for love, nothing can compare to the moments when He filled us with His grace and we felt this presence of the Divine God within our being. Let us pray for the grace that He will outpour to us His grace, that we may know Him more intimately and love Him more fervently, to comfort His Heart for all those this day who care so little about our beloved God, the God who is so loving and so good, and is so offended by His creatures.

4. R. And God reaches out and we know His love He wraps us in His heavenly embrace.

5. R. Sweet Jesus, You are so good to us and You give to us many gifts. We are so ungrateful for Your great love! We walk around and think so little of You many times, and You are there with us at every single second. You know our every thought and You ponder all the desires of our hearts and when we feel alone and afraid many times, we do not turn to You and You are there in our hearts, longing for us to share the problems that we feel with You.

Give us the grace to grow in this relationship with You by giving ourselves to You in everything that we do, in all of our problems and all of our desires and all of our joys, in everything that we have to share in. Help us to have this most intimate relationship with You, our best and loving friend.

6. Song: I Have Loved You

7. Hail Mary

8. Hail Mary

9. Hail Mary

10. Hail Mary

 

Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth

R. My beloved Jesus, many times I go for days and do not feel this closeness to You. I know You allow me to experience this for in one second You fill me with Your grace and I know You and feel Your presence. Help me to be strong, to realize that at every second, even when I am not feeling You so close to me, that You are so present and You are always there.

Song: Your Presence Pervades My Soul

1. R. How would I have the summit if I did not have the low times? I know what it is to want You so badly, to not feel You closely, but I know what it is to feel You and to know You so close to me and it is worth all the moments when I do not feel this, for when You reach down and give me a great grace, I share Your presence in a special way.

2. R. Dear Holy Spirit, please work within my heart to purify my heart that I may be ever closer in this oneness with God, for I know if anything is not pure, it blocks my closeness to Jesus. I love to be so close to You and I want this closeness. Please, dear Holy Spirit, help to sanctify me so that I may be ever closer to the Almighty God.

3. R. Our Blessed Lady is forever by our side guarding and watching us even when we do not feel her presence or think of her. Mary is the most personal Mother, guarding us and watching us and protecting us, running after us when we stray sometimes, helping us to grow close to her Son. As any mother, she loves us in a very special way, but it is much more than the love of any mother.

4. R. The love of any earthly mother cannot even compare minutely to the personal love of our Lady for us.

5. R. Oh, holy day, when that day arrives when I stand on the edge of death and I know in that moment that my life was not lived in vain for the heavens open up and I see the celestial light and I feel the presence of the Almighty God as I am wrapped in a Divine embrace and for all eternity. I know that there will be no wanting and I will feel this completeness and know the love of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

6. Song: May the Angels lead you into Paradise

7. R. The joy in my heart is that what I know that is unseen is really real. That there is truly the Almighty God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I know there is heaven and there is hell. That God loves us with a Divine Love that He cares and is waiting for us to be with Him for all eternity in a special mansion that He has prepared for us and our brothers who loved and served God as God willed. We are one body with many members. If one member hurts, the whole body suffers. This is the plan of the Father, that we will be in one mind and one heart, that we will be wrapped in this Divine embrace of love between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. This is why we were created and this is what our soul craves. Nothing can fill the starved soul but the love of God. Souls suffer in hell for wanting the Almighty God forever and ever – it is torment beyond all torment.

8. R. We do not know what seed we are planting this day. It is through our example, it is through our prayers and our good works that many will know the Good News.

Jesus: I am calling you to unite in every action to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and offer every deed you do to the Father to help for grace for the Church and the world, for your soul and the souls of your brothers. You are one body with many members. If one member hurts, the whole body suffers. This is the plan of the Father, that you will be in one mind and one heart, that you will be wrapped in My Divine embrace of love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is why you were created and this is what your soul craves. Nothing can fill the appetite of the soul for the love of God. There are souls suffering in hell for all eternity. It is torment beyond all torment and it is rapture beyond rapture to be embraced by God.

9. R. I saw the celestial lights and the earth opened up and I saw beyond the light – intense light that is indescribable. For the glory of God is beyond all human comprehension and this is what is really real, that God truly is - and He is  love, and His love is burning and on fire for love of His precious souls. Each and every soul He wants to be with Him, forever and ever, in this Divine embrace. Every act that we do is a heroic act for we are helping to bring down grace that can help souls get to heaven. We unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present united to Jesus and pray for help! Graces are released in such abundance when our hearts are one in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and grace is spilled out on the earth. The souls knew God’s abundant love and mercy.

Song: Eye Has Not Seen

10. Hail Mary