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                June 11, 2016 

                In the Month of the Sacred Heart

                R. The more a man loves God, the less
                he thinks about himself.

                    The more a man loves God the
                more he desires not to offend God
                in anyway.

                    The more a man loves God
                he does not want to be
                far from Him – so he does
                what is good and right
                because he seeks love with
                the beloved.

                    Greatness is found in being
                united to God – in pleasing God –
                in being in harmony with God –

                    Disharmony with God comes from
                one who choose to do the opposite
                of what God is asking of him.

                    The diseased will is the will
                where a man is so set on
                opposition to God's will and
                obedience he will fight to
                oppose God's will, punish,
                pull tricks because he is
                so set on not doing what is
                asked of him.

                    If it is pointed out to him,
                by a spiritual director,
                how opposed he is to what is the
                light, what he should do –
                he can because of his life-long
                commitment to power and being
                in charge, do what is necessary
                to win his war of willfulness.

                    This only proves the point
                further how a man has a free
                will.

                    Children of two years of age
                can test parents over a simple
                direction to see if they will carry
                out what they say. They are learning
                about free choices and obedience.
                Children learn the word "no".

                    But somewhere in the line of
                a person that refuses the light
                and growth, is a seeking of
                darkness and self will to almost
                cling to that way of thinking as
                normal for them.

                    God wants us to be eternally
                happy with Him in heaven. He has
                given us a free will to make choices
                about our actions and these choices
                for actions to have real happiness
                must be based on having the goal
                of eternal life. We seek eternal
                happiness with God and we know
                real happiness is only in God.

                    We seek right reasoning, that
                means our decisions and actions
                are guided by God's laws, by the
                commandments of love and
                by the Word of God. We follow
                in the footsteps of Jesus. Jesus,
                our Savior, came and showed
                us, with His life, how we are to
                live the Christ-life.

                    Jesus paid a big price to do this.
                Jesus shows us love – He took on
                flesh to come to this earth and
                teach us how to grow in His
                image and likeness.

                    A person seeking what is right
                does not want to walk in
                darkness, but another rebelling
                against the light must use
                some force mechanism to try
                to implement their darkness and
                dysfunction on innocent others –
                Satan can work to try to get others
                to seek power for power sake
                over others.

                This is pride and we see this in
                the Garden, when Adam and
                Eve disobeyed God.

                Eve wanted to be equal to God.
                Eve was tempted by the devil.
                Eve rebelled against the command
                God gave to them and she
                persuaded Adam to do so.

                Sins can be communal. A person
                is put in charge under another
                and they tell those under
                them what to do and tell
                them not to tell the top
                authority.

                    This is disorder and it is
                off. God is perfect order.

                    Eve was out of order – she
                rebelled against a good God and
                God dealt with her and cast
                them from the Garden –

                    This is a lesson for us about
                obeying God's law – God gives
                us the greatest commandment of
                loving Him first and loving our
                neighbor as ourselves. The
                commandment is love. Love
                is an act of the will.

                    We can choose the light, we can
                choose obedience to just authority,
                but a person can blatantly bait
                authority by disobeying authority
                as soon as a direction is given
                and then telling the authority
                they disobeyed while holding
                some force over the authority's
                head to get away with it.

                    Thinking this way is not
                being in harmony with God –
                with anything that will draw
                us in greater union with the
                All, perfect, pure God who wants
                us to freely choose His will and
                love what is right.

                    Rebelling against God's law
                has consequences in an unhappy
                life and we can see the consequences
                of what Adam and Eve suffered
                when they disobeyed God.

                    Our minds and hearts are
                precious and we want, with
                our free will, to choose what
                is right in God's eyes – so
                we can be closer to Him –
                this is where happiness lies –

                    Wanting God and His will for us
                above all things and we pray
                for the virtues to have good
                habits – fortitude to choose to
                do the difficult that God wants
                us to do in love, also doing it
                right – in the right way to have
                the results God wanted, to do it
                in all the time it takes to do
                it right – to do it with love
                of serving our Master, God.

                We pray for the virtue of prudence
                to know what is the right thing
                and to do it prudently.
                Prudence is a virtue. We pray
                for temperance not to do too much
                or too little of a thing – to
                control our actions. And we
                pray for justice – we want to
                give every one what is
                right – not cheat people of
                what is rightfully theirs.

                    When a person wants to walk
                in pride and anger and jealousy
                and envy, lust, slothfulness,
                they give into bad habits and
                vices that lead them to darkness
                and unhappiness Years and years
                of these ways deaden the thinking
                of an individual that walks
                always to prove they are right
                and perfect and above others –
                They practice these selfish
                capital sins --

                And where does this go where a
                person decides they can be
                undisciplined in their spiritual
                life and willful. It leads to
                darkness and misery.

                    O Most Holy Heart of Jesus –
                outpour Your grace to us.

                    We thank You for Your love
                given to us. We love You, Our
                Savior and we want to please
                You in all we do.

                    O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
                we want Your grace to flow
                on us. We pray for Your blessings
                and ask You to shower us with
                the grace to choose to live a
                holy life pleasing to You.

                    Protect us from satan's snare
                and from rebelliousness in
                ourselves to disobey Your will
                for us.

                    Give us greater faith to see
                with greater vision Your plan
                for us – and grace to follow
                Your will.

                    Give us the grace to hope
                for eternal salvation someday
                and to live our lives with
                this goal in all our actions.

                    Comfort us in our afflictions
                and help us to be healthy in
                body, mind and soul.

                    Oh Divine Jesus, thank You
                for Your gifts to us. Oh Bread
                of Life we love You so much.
                We seek the light in our hearts,
                lest we walk in darkness and
                fall.

                    Dear God help us in our
                actions to always choose
                what is in harmony with
                You – to live by Your light,
                to choose what is Your will
                in love –

                Sing: Glory Be

                God come and help us –

                R. A man who seeks God knows
                    his sin – he does not give
                    into deceit but asks for
                    God's forgiveness and mercy –
                    he is truthful to God and
                    truthful in himself so he can
                    grow to greater perfection  in God.

                Dear God, I know the abundant
                    love You want to pour out
                    on the just man who seeks
                    You –
                    Dear God I beg for Your grace,
                    fill me abundantly –
                    let me walk in Your light –
                    help me to serve You in love –

                Jesus: How precious you are to Me, My child –

                Sing: A Song from Jesus

                Sing: God's Love

                R. God is mighty – He has all the
                    power, why would we seek
                    power over Him –

                Only a fool rebels against
                    God –

                God stretches out His hand to us –
                    we can take it –
                    or throw back the grace
                        God is giving us for our
                        deceit and willfulness.

                How precious is the Divine Love
                    of the Sacred Heart of Jesus –

                Evil doers fall!

                God is just –

                Sing: I Am a God of Justice

                Sing: Glory Be –

                R. Sing in joy, Oh Jerusalem,
                    your Savior comes to save
                    a fallen race –

                Let your shouts of joy be
                    heard around the world –

                Live to Love and Serve God
                And proclaim His works to
                    the captives –

                God is all powerful –
                    He rules the world with
                        equity

                Raise up and honor your King –
                    do not put yourself above
                    God – only fools walk
                    the road of darkness –

                Jesus: You have a free will –
                    You can choose My will
                        or do your own will
                        opposed to Mine –

                    The willful man is a
                        man of misery –
 

1 Samuel 2: 1-10

                R. Dear God, I cry for Your help –
                    please hear my prayer –

                I love You God –

                I love You –

                Jesus: Let the waters wash away the
                    darkness –
                    water is used to purify –

                You wash your body –
                    what about cleaning
                        your hearts