May 13th, 2022
Prayer Service in China
12 Noon
No Mass
 

Pray for Special Intentions
 
 

Consecration Prayer for Peace

I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.

I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able,  to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

     

Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.   

May 9, 2022

Christmas
December 25, 2004

    Did you ever hear of Robert Fulghum? He wrote a book called All I Ever Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten. He wrote a lot of other stories too, and today I want to tell one of them. His story is about a Christmas play. There was a little Protestant church out in the country that used to have a Christmas play every year at its Christmas service. It was always somewhat chaotic, but they enjoyed doing it anyway, until several years ago when the performance was especially traumatic. The children in the Sunday school were the main actors. There had been an outbreak of the flu right around Christmas so some of the kids were not feeling well. The little boy who played Joseph got sick an upchucked in the middle of the play and so did two of the wise men. The play was usually held at night, and two of the angels were nervous and cried and wet their pants. The congregation was worried that the shepherds who carried candles might set something on fire. And to top it all off, there had been a sleet storm and a power failure right before Christmas, so because some people’s clocks had stopped, several of the actors came late. That year the decision was made to have no more plays.

    Well, as time went on new members joined the church and after a few years, there were new people calling for a Christmas play. Those who opposed the idea were talked into it and before long they were involved in making angel costumes and decorating the church for the Christmas play. The angel choir was whipped into shape. A real manger with real straw was obtained and someone borrowed two small goats for the occasion. But to make it really authentic, someone suggested getting a real donkey for Mary to ride on. They had never used a donkey before and it seemed like a great idea. They decided to hold the play on Christmas morning, so none of the little kids would get scared and cry or wet their pants and so they wouldn’t have to worry about any of the shepherds setting the church on fire with their candles. Lots of people came, of course, since it was Christmas. The play started off pretty well. The angels sang almost on-key and in unison. The goats did get away from the shepherds and put on a show in the parking lot, but they got them under control. The Star was shining brightly over the manger when Joseph came into the sanctuary leading the donkey with Mary riding on it. The donkey made two steps into the sanctuary, took a look at all the people and got stage fright. He just stood like a statue right where he was. Now if you were out on the farm, you might do a few things to get the donkey moving again, but in church some of those things might seem inappropriate. Mary gave the donkey a few kicks with her heel, but the animal wouldn’t move. One parishioner came out of the audience to grab the halter and pull the donkey and the president of the church board, in his Sunday best, got behind the donkey and started pushing. The floor of the sanctuary was polished cement so the two of them slowly slid the rigid animal across the floor. With progress being made the choir director turned on a tape recording of some Christmas hymns. Just as the donkey with his puller and pusher reached the middle of the church, the tape recorder blew a fuse and there was a sudden silence. And in that silence, from the backside of the donkey came a noise that needed no explanation. The donkey then brayed loudly and the crowd broke into hysterical laughter. The church decided once again, no more Christmas plays. But… someday somebody will come along and say “let’s do another Christmas play.” Hope is always alive, hope that this time, this year we’ll get it right.

    Isn’t the story of the Christmas play a lot like Christmas itself? We make a big production, get worn out, frenzied, frustrated, excited, happy, hopeful, laugh and cry. We’ll sing, maybe almost on key, some may get sick, some may get scared or nervous and wet their pants, some may have their feelings hurt, some may need to be pushed into getting the Christmas spirit. Christmas is real life. Only it’s a lot more of it than usual, and all at once. But we’ll do it again and again.

    But it’s not just for the fun of it all that we do it. Primarily we’ll do it again and again because of one person whose birthday we celebrate. Every child’s birth gives hope to his or her parents, but the child whose birth we celebrate today gives hope to all the world. He gives us hope that, in spite of all our faults and imperfections, someday we might get it right, some day we might all love one another, someday there might be peace in our world and peace in our hearts. As Isaiahtells us in the first reading: “Every boot that trampled in battle, every cloak rolled in blood, will be burned as fuel for flames.” But even if we don’t get it right in our lifetime, all is not lost. The child whose birth we celebrate has assured us that God created us for more than just a few short years on this earth, and that God wants us to enjoy peace, love and happiness forever and he has shown us the way to find it. That child is our God who created us and who loves us infinitely and who has shown that love in every way possible. We celebrate that love not just on Christmas but every time we gather in his memory as we do tonight. Life is messy. Life may by like Robert Fulgham’s Christmas play, where some things go right and some do not, where all the actors and actresses are not perfect, but what is good about life is we have each other and at the center of it all we have the greatest love and hope there is, Jesus, our Lord. May you all have a blessed and peaceful Christmas filled with God’s Spirit of love and joy. Amen.

 

Feast of the Holy Family
December 30, 2001

HOMILY - (Sir 3:2-6,12-14; Mt 2:13-15,19-23) Just a few days ago we heard St. Luke describe the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem. Although the manger may not have been the Ritz, we imagined a scene described in the song: Silent night, Holy night. The silence of that night was broken only by the angels praising God and announcing peace to God's people on earth. Now we hear Matthew’s gospel. The peace and quiet are gone. The paranoid king, Herod the Great, is intent on destroying the child Jesus and the Holy Family have to escape by leaving their own homeland and becoming refugees in neighboring Egypt. It’s like a splash of cold water in the face, but this splash is really a splash of cold reality, reminding us that no family, not even the holiest has a stress-free existence. It also reminds us of the universal conflict and tension between the forces of good and evil, light and darkness, grace and sin. The forces of evil lined up against Jesus right from the beginning. Matthew’s story also reminds us that although our decision to follow Jesus takes us along a road that leads to eternal happiness, that road is not always paved or smooth.

    Our focus today is on the family. The importance of the family cannot be overstated or over emphasized. The family is where we discover what it means to be human, what are our strengths and weaknesses, where we experience love and forgiveness, where we learn about relationships, unity, sacrifice, loving others, accepting others, where we learn values and attitudes and trust and how to handle stress and how to be responsible. Family is where we learn how to get along with one another. All these important learning tasks are hopefully learned in a family that is relatively healthy. I say “relatively healthy” because none of us and none of our families are perfect. A family that is seriously dysfunctional teaches a lot of other things that end up not being very helpful. The success of society depends on the health of the family. That creates a big burden for families to carry. It also puts a big burden on society to care about the family and to foster healthy families.   

    Today we celebrate the importance of another family, our parish family. Here too we discover who we are as God's children, how to trust God and to love God and one another. We learn values here too, values that are intended to lead us into eternal life. Hopefully we learn how to give as well as take, how to forgive as well as be forgiven. Here we gather around a family table to be fed, not with perishable food but with food that will nourish us eternally. Our faith community is just as important in its own way as our family of origin. And the Lord’s supper that we share is just as important to our spiritual well being as being together and eating together as a family is to our emotional well being.

    Today we celebrate 10 years as the united family of St. Boniface and St. Patrick. Back in 1853 St. Aloysius was founded as the Catholic parish in North Side. It didn’t last as such. The area grew and there was not always peace between the Irish and the Germans, so in less than 10 years St. Aloysius became two parishes: St. Boniface and St. Patrick. On December 29, 1991 we formally became once again, a single parish. Since St. Boniface was structurally the stronger of the two and since St. Boniface had a school, St. Patrick parishioners moved here and the move was a good one from practically every aspect. Only a hand full of people that I know of were unhappy about the merger. (We put passed out a booklet a few years ago which contains much more history about our parish. Most people probably already have one, but if you do not we have some more at the doors of church.)

    It has been my privilege to be pastor here for the ten years since our merger. None of us knows what the future holds, but if I could make a guess, I think for many reasons St. Boniface will be here for a long time. As for myself, if my health holds up and if the Archbishop lets me I would like to be here for at least another six years. By then I will be 70. I do not know what I will do when I turn 70. I will have to reevaluate things when I get there.

    I do want to say how grateful I am to have so many people’s support. There’s only one thing I wish, and that is that more people took seriously the serious obligation to attend Mass weekly. I think that for the most part families are strengthened by meals together. And the Lord’s supper is our family meal each week. I have seen too many people, once they get away from going to Mass every week, slowly drift away from their faith. St. Paul gives us a wonderful list of virtues that would enhance and enrich any of our relationships with one another, especially the relationships within our families: compassion, kindness, gentleness, humility, patience, forgiveness, etc. Notice in this short passage he tells us twice to be grateful. The words St. Paul wrote of course were Greek, but you might find it instructive to hear what words he used: the verb he used was “Eucharisteo.” And he tells us we are to become “Eucharistos.” It is obvious from these words that the Eucharist allows us to perfectly fulfill his mandate. It is a perfect act of thanksgiving because, in a special way, we, as God's sons and daughters, offer thanks in union with God’s own Son, Jesus Christ. May we, on this anniversary, give thanks for our family in Christ, and for our own immediate families. May we be strong and healthy families, full of thankfulness, and may we rejoice one day in the home of the one Father we all have in common, our Father in heaven. Amen.

 

Feast of the Epiphany
January 2, 2005

INTRODUCTION – (Is 60: 1-6, Eph 3:2-3,5-6, Mt 2:1-12) God's people had been living as slaves and exiles in Babylon for 50 years. But when the Persians conquered the Babylonians in 538 BC, the king of Persia allowed the Jews to return home. The prophet enthusiastically proclaims this return: “Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come…” The prophet sees more than the Jews reclaiming their homeland. He sees Jerusalem prospering and becoming the spiritual center for all nations. The Church sees this passage fulfilled in Jesus, who is the light of the world, inviting all people to follow the light he brings. Unfortunately, not all people choose to follow this light, but at the end of time, those who have followed Christ’s light will enter into the new and eternal Jerusalem beautifully described at the end of the book of Revelation.

HOMILY – I want to tell you about a guy named Dave. He worked odd jobs that brought in enough money to provide for his wife and children. His greatest passion was baseball. He played ball for the local neighborhood team and he was a very good player. Soon word got around how good he was. In time he became known by the manager of the New York Yankees. He was eventually offered a contract assuring him of five million dollars for the next three years. But he turned it down. He wasn’t trying to get a better deal out of them. He decided all the fame and fortune of a professional ball player would disrupt his life. He didn’t want to change. He didn’t want to have to give up being able to relax at home when he felt like it, drink his beer, watch his favorite TV shows and talk with the neighbors. He turned the Yankees offer down without any more discussion.

    How could anyone be so unbelievably foolish? Sounds unreal, doesn’t it? And it is! I made it all up. But in today’s gospel is the real story of someone who was just as unbelievably foolish. It is King Herod, brilliant in many ways, but not in the way that mattered the most. Herod was the leader of the Jewish people, a people who had been longing, hoping and praying for a Messiah for centuries. He got a message that it was highly likely that the Messiah had just been born. He should have been overjoyed and filled with excitement that after centuries of waiting, the Messiah may have arrived, during his reign, and within a few miles of his own palace. We know from the rest of the story, he was not the least bit happy about it. He thought it would be too much of a threat to him. He didn’t want things to change so he deed to destroy this baby who might upset his life. A little baby drove this great and powerful king to mass murder of innocent children, but that was Herod’s style. He disposed of anyone whom he suspected might get in his way, including his brother, his wife and some of his own children. He was afraid he would lose everything while actually he had everything to gain. By the way, for all his efforts to preserve all he had, death took it all away from him about two years after Jesus was born.

    We can all learn a lesson from Herod. Sometimes we are afraid we will lose everything to follow Christ more faithfully, but really we have everything to gain. God makes himself known to us in so many ways; those are our own Epiphanies. He invites us to get to know him better, to spend more time with him, to search for him in prayer, in the sacraments, to serve him more faithfully. When he makes himself know to us, we can close our minds and hearts, we can be like Dave, the ball player I made up, we can be like King Herod, jealously holding on to life the way we know it. We can refuse to let the Lord try to influence us, or we can be like those wise men who knew they could not rest until they found the greatest treasure of all, Jesus, king of kings and Lord of lords.

 

March 21, 1995

Sorrowful Mysteries

This rosary was said by candlelight during the Tuesday Shepherds of Christ meeting. Jesus told Rita to pray this rosary in front of the Pieta statue in the back of the Rosary chapel. Rita was in an ecstatic state. Some present at the Rosary saw Jesus alive in the statue and blood running from His wounds. During the crucifixion His face was white. Mary was seen crying.

 

The Agony in the Garden

1. R. Be there with Jesus in the Garden in the darkened night as He kneels. Before Him He sees all the sufferings He is about to undergo.

2. R. His Heart is in such anguish to see before Him all the souls that will be lost despite all the sufferings He is about to experience.

3. R. We tap ever so lightly at the door of His Heart. He is an endless, burning furnace of fire, on love for each one of us. He says, "You do not know even the smallest amount of the immensity of the love that I have for you. You must come into My Heart. It is in My Heart that I lavishly give you My great love."

4. R. Think of the Heart of the Virgin Mary from the first moment of conception and how she carried the child within her womb, how she watched Him at play. All through His life Mary was there, to His death on the cross. How her Heart knows the Heart of Jesus! She stood under the cross. She held His lifeless body in her arms under the cross. It is through the Heart of Mary that we will more tenderly embrace the love that Jesus has for us. See Him as He kneels in the Garden, His Heart in such anguish. His sweat became as great drops of blood upon the ground. He knew all the souls that would reject this immense love that He has, who would not even care, who would go about their days without even thinking of Him. Yet He longs to be so united to each one of us so that every action we perform is an action we do in oneness with Him. Jesus' Heart was in such anguish that His sweat became as great drops of blood on the ground.

5. R. Think of the mystery all through this rosary! Think of the mystery! There is a mystery when there is blood! The blood comes from deep within. Think of the mystery that Jesus sweat blood! He was in such anguish!

6. R. He tenderly calls to us day after day. Do we hear His gentle call, deep within our hearts, to be joined ever closer to Him? How many times do we reject the love that Jesus outpours to us because we are not sensitive to the little call that He makes to us in our hearts. He suffered in the Garden for all the souls He loved so dearly, some of whom would reject Him totally.

7. R. He suffered in the Garden for all of our sins, for our haughtiness and our pride, for our lack of compassion and mercy for our brothers. Yet He gives to us unconditional love and asks us to love one another. In the Our Father we say, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those…" He suffered for all the times that we say no to forgiving our brothers. We forgive some but not all and think it is okay. Jesus loves each and every soul.

8. Jesus: Come to My open Heart through My pierced side. Look at the wound in My side. Suffering helps you reach My immense love. Enter My Heart through My pierced side and fall deeply into the abyss of My great love.

9. Jesus: Do not let your hearts turn cold! You must come to Me with hearts that are soft and ready to love. Put aside all the hardness in your hearts, for a soul that is haughty and angry cannot unite with My love. I long to be in the deepest union with each one of you present. So deep! You cannot fathom the great love that I have for you. You must clean your hearts of all the debris. Sweep away the unforgiveness and come into My Heart through My pierced side.

10. Jesus: My Heart was in such agony that I sweat blood. Do you know, even a small amount, the immense love that I have for you? I was born a helpless baby in the town of Bethlehem and I gave My flesh and My blood for love of you.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.
 

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

1. R. Think of Jesus! Visualize Him, totally present, His body here! See Him as they lead Him away. They poke at Him! They pull His hair! See this so clearly in your mind. A person named Jesus being led away!

2. R. What a sight for our eyes if we truly saw what happened there, if we saw them with such violence and anger tie Jesus, our friend, to the pillar and then take out weapons and beat His flesh!

3. R. This is your best friend, Jesus Christ. They have tied Him to a pillar and they are beating Him with instruments that are tearing His flesh. The blood is pouring down His body!

4. R. They shout at Him and they holler angry and ugly remarks. He does not respond, only grunts as they hit Him harder. To their own exhaustion they beat Jesus. Watch this!
   Jesus: It is in your heart that you will know Me, My dear children. You must visualize more and more the lives of Myself and My Mother. As you go through these mysteries of the rosary, put yourself there. See as if you were present. Experience what I went through. It is in knowing Our lives that you will know the great love that We have for you.

5. R. He stood in a puddle of His own blood!

6. R. This is my beaten friend Jesus! He shed His blood for love of me so that I may be with Him forever in heaven.

7. R. Hear the blows that they give to Jesus! Listen! Hear the blows! These are the blows that He suffered for love of each one of us. He suffered those blows for each and every soul, the poor beggar, the person that is a little different, the person that is not as rich as I am, the person that is somewhat short, the person that I think looks strange. Jesus stood at the pillar and was beaten for each one of these persons. These are my brothers! When Jesus came to the world, He made us brothers with God!

8. R. If I stood at the pillar next to you, Jesus, and they beat my back and tore my flesh, if I did it for someone here and they did not even think about me, how my heart would ache. But you are God! You, who are infinite Love, suffered this brutal persecution for love of each one of us. How did Your Heart ache, Jesus, when you suffered your bloodied flesh and knew that people would not even think about You?

9. R. And what do you ask of me, Jesus? To love God and love my brother! To become more closely united to You as You outpour divine love and divine life!

10. Jesus: I call you to purity. I call you to open up your hearts, to rid yourselves of anything that is impure. I long to be closely united with each of you. People are watching you! If you call yourselves Christians, then you must act as I would act! Do you preach the Gospel in your actions? Is your way the way of love? I came to show you the way. Will you follow Me? Will you love all your brothers as I ask you to do? People are watching you, My faithful Christians, apostles that I send into this world to spread the love of My Most Sacred Heart. You are being watched and are teaching so many lessons through your example. I call out to you today to rid yourselves of all impurities in your heart. Then you will receive a reward that far surpasses anything you can gain on this earth. You will receive closer union with My Most Sacred Heart. I love you! I love you! I love you! Moment by moment, second by second, I am there to provide you with everything you need. You must surrender and trust in Me!

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

 

Jesus Is Crowned with a Crown of Thorns

1. Jesus: They tore My flesh! They beat My body! I shed My blood! They pounded into My head a sharp crown of thorns that pierced My head and punctured My forehead!

2. R. Jesus, You bled for love of each one of us. Help us to realize during this Lenten season the immensity of Your love as we meditate on Your wounds, the wounds to Your most precious Head, the wounds that you suffered to Your hands and feet. How would it be to rub our hands across Jesus' head, to touch the puncture wounds from the thorns! He truly suffered this for love of us!

3. R. The thorns were pounded into His head and He bled down His face and into His hair. Think of His hair covered with blood from the thorns that punctured His head!

4. R. Let me kiss your wounds, dear Jesus, the wounds that you suffered for love of me! Let me enter into the wound in Your side. The more deeply I enter into this wound, the more I enter the abyss of the endless love of Your Most Sacred Heart.

5. Song: Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne. His regal scepter knows no bounds, all kingdoms are His own. All Christians come and sing to Him Who died for thee. And hail Him as our Savior King for all eternity.

6. R. Jesus is God! He is the King of all Kings! God took on a human nature and came into this world a helpless baby. Now He is spit upon and taunted, He is hollered at and He sits on a mockery of a throne.

7. R. We look for love in so many places when, minute by minute, second by second, Jesus is inside of our hearts telling us how He is truly there and loving us.

8. R. If you put your fingers into the nail marks in His hands and into His side, would you believe that, minute by minute, second by second, He loves you so much, and that He is God and will provide you with all your needs?

9. Song: Only this I want, but to know the Lord. And to bear His cross and to wear the crown He wore.

10. R. Minute by minute, second by second, hear the soft, gentle voice within your heart say, "I love you, I love you, I love you. It is in realizing this immense love that there is love to give to others.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

 

Jesus Carries His Cross to Calvary

1. R. He came to serve. He came into the world in such poverty in a stable in the town of Bethlehem. He left this world hanging on a cross. Both were bare wood! He came to show us the way! Meditate on this mystery as He carries His cross. The Son of God! He took on human form for love of us. He came to show us how to love.

2. Song: We were made for service to care for each other. We were made to love each sister and brother. With love that will last our whole life through…

3. R. Jesus came and He loved and He preached the Gospel. His way was love. He always acted in love and they condemned Him to death. When we preach the Gospel, when we act from love, why do we expect people to treat us differently when they treated Jesus this way? But He came and carried His cross to show us His way and His way is the way of love. He promises to us an everlasting reward far beyond our comprehension. Look at the Virgin Mary and the Pieta. Look at her face and see through her eyes as she watches her Son, with the cross on His back, covered with blood and wounds. This is her beloved Son! Look at her face. She comes today to ask us to go into this world and to spread His love. She asks us to open up our hearts and put aside any hatred or anger that we have, for if we do not spread this love, who will spread love into this world? Open up your hearts! Be not hardened but be as Jesus has asked us to be, with hearts that are filled with love, going into battle in a world that has forgotten God. He calls us this day to be His soldiers, to spread the fire of His love throughout the world. You may be persecuted, you may be spit on. Whatever happens, remember what they did to Him. His way is love and His reward is everlasting life.

4. R. These are rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. See their eyes as they gaze at one another on the way to Calvary. Look at her face here! The horror, on top of more horror, to behold her beloved Son in such anguish! She asks us to see through her eyes the suffering that her Son endured for love of us. The more we realize the love He has, the more we will go into the world and take this love to others. We are soldiers of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

5. R. He wants to become one with us so that it is no longer we who operate, but it is He Who operates in us, so that our every action is an action that we perform with Jesus, and the might is the might of the Almighty God within us! In order to unite this way with Him, we must be ever pure. Love unites only with love! If our hearts are filled with hatred and anger for any person, we cannot be one with Him. He longs for this love. He longs to be one in us! He wants to penetrate our souls with the fire of His love. Pray to the Spirit so that the Spirit moves inside of you.

6. R. See the horror in Mary's face and in her eyes. How would your face look if you were looking at your Son, covered with blood and wounded, as He fell under the cross? How would your face look? How would your heart be? It is through Mary's pure and sinless Heart that she will take us deeper and deeper into the Heart of Jesus. There is such oneness between these two Hearts, such connection between them! Look at the Pieta and see her, see her face, as she watches the Passion of her Son!

7. R. They hit Him on the head and the blood ran from the corners of His mouth. His face was covered with blood and Veronica wiped His face.

8. Jesus: My children, My children! I do not tell you things to be taken lightly. In My Heart I am longing for such union with you but you do not hear. You close your eyes and plug up your ears. You do not listen time and time again. I have come to you this evening and I have asked you to pray in front of this statue. I ask you to meditate on this. You do not know what I am saying to you. You take these words lightly. This world is in pain. You do not know the sufferings that are about to befall you. I ask you to listen, to listen to Me! I am truly Jesus Christ and I come to you this day and I beg you to spend your waking hours spreading My love throughout this world! I beg you to help save souls from damnation. Your actions are so important to Me and the plan of the Father. You are here because you are called and you have answered this call. Each and every one of you present I send into this world as warriors to spread My love. You listen and you take it so lightly but you will know that I am truly calling you for this world is in such sin and pain. To the little work that you do I will apply My grace to lead souls to My Most Sacred Heart. Surrender and become one in Me for I truly am calling you to the highest union for it is in this union that I can operate through you. As long as you resist My call there are many souls that will not be touched. I beg you to take Me seriously. Meditate on this statue (the Pieta). Meditate on this, My children.

9. Jesus: I carried My cross on My back And I fell under the cross. See Me as I crawl with the cross on My back.

10. Jesus: This is the love that I have for each and every soul. The bodily agonies I experienced were nothing compared to the agonies I experienced in My Heart for the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite My sufferings. I beg you this day to answer My call.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

 

Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

1. R. He hung for three agonizing hours against the darkened sky. He gave His flesh! He gave His blood! He gave the last beat of His Heart, the last breath in His body! Covered with blood and weakened, He hung on the cross!

2. Jesus: I speak and so many do not listen! I am crying out to you to listen to My voice here, to read My letters for they are truly letters of love that I give to each one of you. It is in reading these letters that you will know more and more the immensity of the love that I have for you. You are My soldiers that I send into the sick world with the medicine to heal so many hearts. You are the chosen ones I have called here to this Center. Please, I beg you, take My call seriously, for I am truly Jesus and I speak to you this day. So many take My plea lightly. I beg! I plead! I ask Rita to talk more and more about My pleadings. You do not know how I am longing for you to be so close. How I want you to surrender and let Me operate in your hearts! You tap ever so lightly when there is an ocean of My love that I want to give to you. Surrender your hearts and read My letters of love for it is in these letters that you will know My love more and more.

3. Jesus: I give Myself to you at every Eucharist and you take it so lightly! Take Me seriously, My children, for I am truly with you with much love! How it wounds My aching Heart that you do not listen.

4. Jesus: I am sending you into battle in a world that is godless, that has forgotten God, but with your hearts filled with My love. Will you answer My call?

5. Jesus: Surrender! Surrender! Surrender to the God Who gave His life for you!

6. Jesus: As Mary walked by My side on the way to Calvary, as she stood under the cross, she is by your side in all your sufferings. You are never alone.

7. Jesus: I give you My very own Mother!

8. R. As she held His little baby body, she now holds His lifeless body in her arms under the cross.

9. Song: At the cross her station keeping stood the mournful Mother weeping. Close to Jesus to the last.

10. R. This rosary is from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, so united, one with each other. To love Jesus is to love Mary. To love Mary is to love Jesus.

Song after last decade: I come to you with greatest love…