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June 13
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June 14th Holy Spirit
Novena |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries |
Please pray for Rosie, Dan, Special Intention, Blue Book 13
Given March 21, 2014
R. Pray for These Things
1)
Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue, Jack & Jean.
Special intentions
2) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
3) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
4) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
5) People going to Florida and China.
6) Vocations to all 7 categories.
7) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
8) Pray for pope helping us.
9) Pray for Jeff and sales. Pray for Nick.
10) Blue Book 13 cover; Blue Book 12, Blue Book 13 – all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
11) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
12) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
13) Donors and members and their families.
14) Healing of the Family tree.
15) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
16) All who asked us to pray for them.
17) All we promised to pray for.
18) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, a special couple,
Rosie & all involved.
19) 2 babies and moms.
20) Funds and insurance.
21) Jerry's garage.
22) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
23) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
24) Consecrate all hearts.
25) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
June 13, 2014
Glorious Mysteries
Come Holy Spirit, Come
The Resurrection
1. John 20: 11-17
The appearance to Mary of Magdala
But Mary was standing outside near the tomb, weeping. Then, as she wept,
she stooped to look inside, and saw two angels in white sitting where the
body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet. They said,
‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ ‘They have taken my Lord away,’ she replied,
‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’ As she said this she turned
round and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not realise that it was
Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking
for?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken
him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him.’
Jesus said, ‘Mary!’ She turned round then and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbuni!’—which
means Master. Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me, because I have
not yet ascended to the Father. But go to the brothers, and tell
them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and
your God.’
2. R. The Life of Resurrection asking the Holy Spirit
to be with us, to help us live
every day – the life of Resurrection.
3. R. It is a choice, all day we make choices.
We can meditate on the nails in the hands
and feet of Jesus and
then meditate how Thomas said –
John 20: 25 ...‘Unless I can see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’
R. We know Christ's wounds were Glorified
wounds.
The Life of Resurrection – the
Life of Resurrection.
4. John 20: 24-29
Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, ‘We have seen the Lord,’ but he answered, ‘Unless I can see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you,’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving any more but believe.’ Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him:
You believe because you can see me.
Blessed are those who have not seen
and yet believe.
5. Jesus says, I came to bring you life –
R. How full is our life today –
Life is in Him –
Deeper life every day in Jesus.
Jesus says
I am the way, the truth and the life.
R. Come to me Lord and possess my soul.
6. R. We live to be with God forever in
heaven.
7. R. We see Christ really walked the
earth, We know where He was
on the earth –
many of the places where Jesus
was today is full of strife –
8. R. We can actually say – Jesus was
here, at the Sea of Galilee,
in Bethlehem, in Egypt –
9. R. It takes faith to realize –
Jesus is truly present here in this
Church in China,
for over 16 years and God outpours
His grace to us to know and love
Him more and more.
It takes faith to believe Jesus is
truly present in the Eucharist.
It takes faith and God gives us His
grace to love Him and know
He is truly present here.
10. R. What will this day be like –
Melanie says –
She gives every day to the Lord
and she lets Him give her
the day – Melanie is on His Plan.
The Ascension
1. Acts 1: 6-9
Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for you to restore the kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not for you to know times or dates that the Father has decided by his own authority, but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'
As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their sight.
2. R. Jesus took the Apostles out to
a place near Bethany and
He ascended into heaven –
3. R. God is the ultimate mystery –
Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.
The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.
At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.
R. yet Jesus took flesh –
4. R. Jesus came to teach us about
Himself –
Jesus gave us the Word –
Jesus came and showed us –
Jesus walked among men –
Jesus called men –
5. R. They followed Jesus –
Jesus was the leader –
Jesus says:
Come follow Me –
6. From Response in Christ - Chapter 5, p.103
Yet, as we have seen, the Christian life has not only an incarnational dimension; it has also a transcendent dimension. This is the way Christ has structured Christianity. He entered this world in human form to raise man and his world to a new level of existence, to a share in the transcendent holiness of God. Consequently, the Christian is being disloyal to Christ and the world if his incarnational involvement is not opened towards transcendence. To the extent that the secular and the incarnational are cut off from the transcendent, to that extent they will wither and die as regards their true existence. The great Protestant theologian, Paul Tillich, tells us this. He says the secular tends to resist self-transcendence. In proportion to this resistance, there is a resultant emptiness and meaninglessness observable in the secular caused by its severance from its source of life, the infinite.5
5. Cf. Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, Vol. Ill (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), p. 248.
7. Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 5
Every Christian must blend into his Christian existence incarnationalism and transcendence. To refuse to do so is to refuse to assimilate properly the mystery of Christ.
8. R. God calls us in our vocation –
It is a call and our response
to God's call –
We will be happy the more we
surrender and let God
run our life –
God is with us, now –
9. R. I met a woman the other day and
I said (it had rained and stormed)
"It turned out to be a nice day
after all" –
She said –
"Every day is a good day when you
have Jesus"
10. Song: Go - Go - Go
The Descent of the Holy Spirit
1. Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus
From the Lectionary
Pentecost Sequence
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
Come, within our bosoms shine!You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;In our Labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill!Where you are not, man has naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill!Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away;Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sev'nfold gift descend;Give them virtue's sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
2. 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.
3. Luke 24: 49
'And now I am sending upon you what the Father has promised. Stay in the city, then, until you are clothed with the power from on high.'
4. Sing: Come Holy Ghost
5. Sing: Spirit Song
6. Sing: Lord Send Out Your Spirit
7. Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord
8. Sing: God's Love
9. R. Our life is like a book
that is unfolding before
the Father –
He has a plan for us –
but we must open up
to His will and
do what He wants of us –
10. R. Open - Open - Open –
Come Holy Spirit, Come
The Assumption
1. Sing: Hail Mary Gentle Woman
2. Sing: Immaculate Mary
3. Sing: Holy Is His Name
4. Sing: See the Eyes that Look at Mary
5. Sing: I Am Your Sacred Heart
6. Sing: Teach Me to Love with Your Heart
7. Sing: O Holy Mary
8. Sing: The Angel Gabriel
9. Sing: Ave Maria
10. Sing: Little Baby Hands and Feet
The Coronation
1. Sing: Hail Holy Queen
2. From August 9, 2000
R. Oh, there is not one so fair as thee, my beloved Mother Mary.
Of all the maidens that God could have chosen it was you, oh shining Star of Heaven.
Oh Mary, Mother of us all.
She doth appear as a wonder so fair indeed,
A permanent sign of God's love.
A Woman clothed in gold.
One that glistens with the radiance of a golden tone,Her beauty dancing in the sunlit hours of every day.
In morning splendor, in dancing light at noon day as the sun glistens on her rainbow glow and at night she has appeared on special dates in golden splendor and light.
Would you quote the Scripture for Mary so fair.
"Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth." (Revelation 12: 1-2)
Would you see her as she appeared in little villages in the 20th century, tucked in hills and out of the way places.
If you missed these enormous signs from heaven, of one so fair, she appears there clothed in the golden sun of the day, reflecting her radiant beauty painted by the hand of the Father. She is His chosen maiden so fair.
She appears daily, she is there by day and beneath the black shadows of night, she does not slumber, but calls to her children of light to come through her golden doorway and let the light of Christ shine in their souls.
She appears one so fair, by day and sometimes by night clothed in radiance and golden, her garment hemmed with glistening sunlight. She once appeared to a few and her visits fleeting in remotest places, she remains a Woman Clothed with the Sun, the sun dancing on her garments of rainbow color on a busy, busy corner for all to see, in the state of the sun, sunny Florida. She is a Woman painted by the brush of God.
And do you know the wonder of one who calls the children far and wide, to hear the voice of her Son, Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock.
Mary, the heavenly maiden, to call them home to His Heart.
Oh, of one so fair, do we not boast and praise our God and thank Him for such a wonder.
Oh, to Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth, we cry, help us to do what you asked for at Fatima and help us in our mission of telling the world of your Son's desire to spread His Movement so men will be Shepherds of Christ.
3. From August 11, 2000
Walk in the TRUTH
Messenger:
The blue of the sky we cannot capture exactly.
The white of the snow.
The color of the smoke of the geyser.
Do we not see the fire of the stars, the light of the sun, the denseness of the black night. It is the creation of God and we cannot describe it exactly as it is.
God speaks:
Oh, open your eyes, men, and see the softness of the skin of the baby, the intricacies of a human ear, the complexities of a human eye and the master mind of the Creator in the function of a human heart.
Oh, blind men, those who are so prideful, bow to God your Creator. See with the eyes of faith.
It is I who paint the hills with My mystical wand. It is reality. So, too, the things you do not see, they are real. It is your perception that is off. God Is and He is Divine and you cannot create as I do.
Get off your pedestals and live in reality. I am Supreme, you are under Me, but I elevate you to such heights.
Oh, men of the earth, worship God your Creator, be humble, live in the truth. If you are intelligent it is because of My grace and My goodness.
Huffy little men. Let Me see you produce the beauty of a sunlit field, from sun to flower. My men, you are limited, you are human, you are My creatures and I am your God. Recognize Me and live in the truth. Be docile to the hand of God in your life.
Oh, children of the light, hear Me, I am God.
I am the Light of the World.
In Me you live in the light.
Messenger:
My eyes beheld the beauty of the night, the stars, the moon.
My eyes beheld the sunlit day and the wonders of the lake and heard the trickle of the falls. First, faintly, and then as I approached, the sound of roaring water.
Why do men not comprehend the goodness of God? Why do they abuse Him with slang and slanting remarks?
The forest can burst into flame in the heat of the day and what was once a beauteous field, a garden of fruit, a forest of fir trees, can become lands of waste at the hands of the elements or what have you.
A home of lustrous beauty, ravaged by a violent wind of enormous proportion and you cry and then when the reality sets in you say, "Oh, but I have my life and the life of my children."
Oh, what is it that man can be so blind and then when health is taken away from a man, he sees those things that are transcendent, he sees the glory of God and the promise of everlasting life to those who love and serve the Lord.
We do not see and we do not understand the ways of God and yet in it all, He is attempting to lead us to Him, and He gives us the gifts of the universe. He gives us love.
4. John 19: 25-27
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
5. Play Ave Maria
6. Sing: Our Lady of Fatima
7. From Blue Book 14 – January 14, 1997 Rosary
The Assumption of Our Lady
1. R. I saw how vividly the plan of the Father unfolded in the life of Our Lady from the Annunciation to when she was taken into heaven. And I knew how the plan of the Father was so much a part of all of the messages that we were receiving. But until He spoke to me, until I heard the Father, until I experienced in such oneness within my being, I did not realize that this is really the Father’s plan as I do now. The Shepherds of Christ Movement is a major part of His plan for the renewal of the Church and the world. What we do here is pleasing to the Father.
8.
Mary's
Message - from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
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