June 13, 2016
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June 13, 2016
In the Month of the Sacred Heart
R. Do not serve idols, worship yourselves,
worship your pleasures, worship your
jobs, worship other people – You are
to love and serve the Lord first, above
all things and what you do - do for
the honor and glory of God.
Let your hearts be in the light,
Let your vision be that you see through
the eyes of your heavenly Father –
Let all you do be that, that would
please your heavenly Father and
you love God above all else,
you live to serve God and keep
His commands –
Dear heavenly Father You created me to
know, love and serve You and to
love my neighbor as myself – help
me to love. Help me to live to please
You in all things. While I am here
on this earth help me to do the work
You have called me to with courage
and with love.
Let not my foot to stumble on my
path to you.
Let my vision be seen through Your
eyes.
Strengthen me in living as You desire
me to live here and now to help
in the building of Your Kingdom –
to live to be a witness to You –
to live in the Light, heavenly Father,
to never walk in darkness or
cling to the darkness for selfish
pursuits, but to see the big picture
of Your plan for all.
Let me never be put to shame.
Enlighten me of Your ways and Your
plan for my life. Let not the sun
go down or the sun come up any
day that is not a day I lived in
the Lord.
My days are short and yet with
Your Might behind me much can
be accomplished in living my life
for You, as You want me to be.
Sing: Glory Be to the Father
Say Our Father
Say Hail Mary
On this date we thank God for St. Anthony's
Church here and we pray for His
intentions with all our hearts
on June 13, 2016 in the year of
the Lord.
This is the Day the Lord has made
let us rejoice in it.
Holy Spirit come and enlighten our
hearts to follow You in this
vocation – to know You and to
love and serve You to help in the building
of the Kingdom of God –
Enlighten my eyes to see as You want
me to see –
Make my eyes focused on Jesus –
And Holy Spirit lead me with Your guiding
grace on my path to serve
You and live for You.
God is with us now –
To those who open their hearts, He
lives in them and helps them
when they do His will and
walk in His ways –
We are united to the saints in heaven
and praying for the souls in purgatory –
We live united to the Mass and we
offer our prayers today – the 8th day
for the Father's Day Mailing and all
we promised to pray for – and all
the intentions we prayed for these
8 days and for those special intentions,
in thanksgiving for the blessings and
graces received since last May 13, 2016,
the 99th Anniversary of Mary's first apparition at Fatima.
In this month of the Sacred Heart we
pray for help to spread this devotion
to the far ends of the earth –
Dear God help us spread the Consecration
to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
May 5, 1995
Consecrate Your Churches, Home, and Workplace to Our Hearts
Jesus: I want you to consecrate the human race to Sacred Heart of Jesus. I want to be enthroned in all homes, churches, and businesses.
June is the month of the Sacred Heart. I want to be king and center of all hearts. I will keep My promises given to St. Margaret Mary of Alacoque. I promise all this from My most Sacred Heart. Consecrate your chapter to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Consecrate the church or room in which you hold your meeting.
Today is First Friday. I want you to circulate the message I gave to you on consecrating your homes to My Sacred Heart. Make booklets available for people to be able to consecrate their homes and businesses easily. Use the message I gave to you when you consecrated your home.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph. Consecrate all homes and businesses to Our Two Hearts. Tell all to have displayed and honored, pictures of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May and June are the months of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Tell all to consecrate their homes to Our Two Hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On this day, the 5th of May, 1995, First Friday, I request that you spend the next two months encouraging all to do this consecration.
Gather your friends and say the prayers I have instructed you to say. Sing "To Jesus Heart All Burning" and "Immaculate Mary." May these Two Hearts of love give all members of the human race peace, joy and love in their hearts.
R. Jesus said He desires to be honored by men in the Blessed Sacrament.
Jesus: Circulate the Blue Book messages. They promote this devotion. How My Heart is filled with happiness by the souls who come to the tabernacle and sit with Me. I am Jesus Christ, I wait and long and thirst for My precious souls to come. The souls of men have turned cold. I want souls to come to daily communion and be with Me in front of the tabernacle.
Men's hearts have turned cold. They do not know what love really means. I want hearts that are filled with fire for love of God. Men's hearts have turned to stone.
You are to promote devotion to My most Sacred Heart. I want hearts that burn with love for My Heart. It is through Me that you will know the Father's love. I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life.
Offer a holy hour for the indifference, ingratitude, and sacrileges committed against Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the Sacrament of His greatest love.
R. He promises great graces to those who give reparation to His Sacred Heart and who tell others about offering reparation to Him.
end of May 5, 1995
Sing: Glory Be
Sing: Give Me Your Heart oh Jesus
Sing: I Am Your Sacred Heart –
R. Holy Heart of Jesus, shower
Your blessings on us and help us
to spread this devotion to Your
Most loving Heart. In the Name
of Jesus we pray and we spread His Blood
on all the earth –
Dear Holy Heart of Jesus spread Your
grace on the whole Church and the
whole world - today – we pray for
this shower of Your grace and
blessings on the priests and
hierarchy, on the Church and the
world, on us, our families and
all our needs.
Outpour Your grace so we can
do this – give us what we
need – Oh heavenly Father
hear this prayer to spread devotion to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus all over the world –
to spread these prayers and these
writings so men will love and
serve God their whole lives.
Let the earth open up their hearts
to God – Let them rejoice in Him
and stoop to serve Him in all
things.
Holy Spirit guide our steps to do this
work You have called us to.
We pray for the next homily book
of Fr. Joe's and the Prayer
Chapters You asked us to begin –
Help us – give us funds and grace
to do all You ask of us.
We adore You heavenly Father –
we love You, our beloved Sacred Heart,
we ask You Holy Spirit come and fill
us with love –
We adore You and love You God:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, help us, let us
never be put to shame, we offer ourselves
to You in this work to help build
Your Kingdom. We unite these
prayers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass –
Hear us God, we put our trust in
You, we are sorry for offending You,
please forgive us and have mercy
on us and the human race. Help
men to live by Your will, heavenly
Father. We put our trust in the
Sacred Heart of Jesus. We want to live
in You and for You.
Protect us from danger, help us
in suffering, give us health
of mind and body. Amen.
We pray for the priests, the
Church and the world and the Father's
Day Mailing and all intentions on this retreat.
Sing: Oh Lord hear our prayer –
Sing: Glory Be
Sing: How great Thou Art
Sing: Holy God we Praise Thy Name
R. Shine Your light upon us here, dear
God and let Your light shine
on the whole world –
We pray for an abundant outpouring
of Your grace –
Shower us now, as we place
our hopes and trust in Thee –
Sing: Glory Be
Sing: Give Me Your Heart oh Jesus
Sing: Come to me Lord and Possess My Soul
Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
November 4, 2013
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Luke 1: 46-55
And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997
In all this Mary offers an example. Selfishness was totally foreign to her. She did not belong to herself. She belonged to God. She was not closed in upon herself. She was completely open to God. When God spoke, she listened. When God pointed the way, she followed. She realized that life is not a process a person masters by carefully mapping out one's own self-conceived plans of conquest, but a mystery to be gradually experienced by being open to God's personal and loving guidance.
Selfishness, then, did not close Mary off from God's call. Neither did fear. God asked her to assume a tremendous responsibility. He asked her to be the Mother of Jesus. Mary did not engage in a process of false humility and say that such a great role was above her. She did not say that she did not have the proper qualifications for this awesome mission. Briefly, she did not waste time looking at herself, making pleas that she was not worthy, telling the angel he had better go look for someone else. No, Mary did not look at herself. Her gaze was absorbed in God. She fully realized that whatever God asked of her, His grace would accomplish. She fully realized that although she herself had to cooperate, this work was much more God's than hers.
Mary's words, then, truly sum up what is the authentic Christian response at any point of life, in any kind of situation: "I am the handmaid of the Lord," said Mary, "let what you have said be done to me".
Deuteronomy 4: 39-40
‘Hence, grasp this today and meditate on it carefully: Yahweh is the true God, in heaven above as on earth beneath, he and no other. Keep his laws and commandments as I give them to you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and live long in the country that Yahweh your God is giving you for ever.’
R. Let our hearts be fixed on Your
Heart, oh God –
Let us not walk as blind men, but
walk Your ways.
May 16, 1998 - Prayer to the Father
My Father,
With my whole heart I desire to consecrate the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole being for the salvation of souls and that man live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that we may be one in You and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede to You for this cause.
It is this burning desire within my soul to spread the consecration to the far ends of the earth, that the cries of Your children are cries of glory and honor and adoration, praising God as their God.
My Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the edge of death. For all eternity they will go to a place. It is not the plot of this soul as it trods this barren land to decide on the edge of death. You created us that we would grow in our oneness with God, that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness to God.
And so My Father, I pray with every cell in my body for this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I consecrate all the souls of this earth to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of the Mass with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory.
I beg You Father for mercy.
I beg You Father for assistance.
I beg You Father to help us to spread this consecration to the far ends of the earth.Please help us. We are helpless little ones coming in the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our wounds and our sins.
Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite in this sacrifice, sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world at every moment. Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of men.
Please my Father, help us. Held in the heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of Eve to beg for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by the means of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us whole, that we are one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit united with all the angels and saints, in the heart of Mary. We beg for help for special intentions concerning the Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to give these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help us Father to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be one in You that we act as intercessors to help this world to be turned to God as their God, loving, honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is truly present on His throne.
We are Your children Father, we implore You to answer our prayer.
We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank you and we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name. Alleluia end of prayer to the Father
R. Dear God hear our prayer we
pray –
Sing: Oh Lord hear our Prayer
Sing: Answer When I Call
Sing: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
R. Oh come deliver us Lord –
Open Your lighted path, lest
we stumble and fall in
the darkness down here –
Let men's hearts be as You
want them to be –
Isaiah 30: 19-26:
Yes, people of Zion living in Jerusalem,
you will weep no more.
He will be gracious to you when your cry for help rings out;
as soon as he hears it, he will answer you.
When the Lord has given you the bread of suffering
and the water of distress,
he who is your teacher will hide no longer,
and you will see your teacher with your own eyes.
Your ears will hear these words behind you,
'This is the way, keep to it,' whether you turn to right or left.
You will hold unclean the silver platting of your idols
and gold plating of your images.
You will throw them away like the polluted things they are,
shouting after them, 'Good riddance!'
He will send rain for the seed you sow in the ground,
and the bread that the ground provides will be rich and nourishing.
That day, your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
Oxen and donkeys that work the land
will eat for fodder wild sorrel,
spread by the shovel-load and fork-load.
On every lofty mountain, on every high hill
there will be streams and water-courses, on the day of the great slaughter
when the strongholds fall.
Then moonlight will be bright as sunlight
and sunlight itself will be seven times brighter
-like the light of seven days in one-
on the day Yahweh dresses his people's wound
and heals the scars of the blows have received."
R. I rejoice in Thee, my God –
bring joy to my soul –
Hear my prayer, oh Divine Redeemer –
Song: A Song from Jesus
R. Oh God You are Mighty – help us
we beg You today,
June 13, 2016 –
Hear our prayer
Sing: Oh Lord Hear Our Prayer
Sing: Glory Be –
Let there be a rich harvest
on this earth –
Let men's hearts adore and love
the Sacred Heart of Jesus –
Sing: To Jesus' Heart All Burning –
Oh God, Let us never to be put to
shame –
Help us to not choose a dark
road to walk, but walk
by Your light –
Alleluia, Praise the Lord
Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord
R. Oh God, Let us never to put
to shame –
Alleluia
Dear God help us to see –
help our unbelief –
We pray for greater faith, hope
and love –
Dear God preserve our community –
help us to grow in servants
you call to do this work
here in China,
here in Florida –
Sing: China Song
R. We put the Blood of Jesus on all the
people we prayed for –
Protect us from the evil one –
Help us on our path –
We consecrate the Hearts of all these
people to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate
Heart in as far as we are able.
We cast the devil to the fires
of hell.
And we beg for an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit on all of
us, on all we prayed for
these 8 days – hear us
Oh Lord –
Shower Your grace on us –
Amen – Alleluia
Amen – Alleluia
Amen – Alleluia
Let the hearts of men that are
hard - melt like wax
on a hot day –
Let the hearts of men, be
hearts of love, living
in the Lord –
Let their eyes see the light
and their eyes stay focused
on the Sacred Heart of Jesus –
Let ears hear and listen to
this message of Our God –
Alleluia Praise the Lord –
God has visited His people –
Let their hearts be soft and supple
Let them rejoice and sing of
His glory –
Alleluia Praise the Lord
Walk in His ways –
Sing and play music on the harp –
God is with us –
We pray a powerful prayer –
united in Him –
Alleluia – Alleluia –
Alleluia
Amen.
Sing: Let Heaven Rejoice
Sing: Holy God
Sing: Come Holy Ghost
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R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 17 and cover and all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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