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June 19, 2005

Tobit 3: 7-17

It chanced on the same day that Sarah the daughter of Raguel, who lived in Media at Ecbatana, also heard insults from one of her father’s maids. For she had been given in marriage seven times, and Asmodeus, the worst of demons, had killed her bridegrooms one after another before ever they had slept with her as man with wife. The servant–girl said, ‘Yes, you kill your bridegrooms yourself. That makes seven already to whom you have been given, and you have not once been in luck yet. Just because your bridegrooms have died, that is no reason for punishing us. Go and join them, and may we be spared the sight of any child of yours!’ That day, she grieved, she sobbed, and she went up to her father’s room intending to hang herself. But then she thought, ‘Suppose they were to blame my father! They would say, "You had an only daughter whom you loved, and now she has hanged herself for grief." I cannot cause my father a sorrow which would bring down his old age to the dwelling of the dead. I should do better not to hang myself, but to beg the Lord to let me die and not live to hear any more insults.’ And at this, by the window, with outstretched arms she said this prayer:

You are blessed, O God of mercy!
May your name be blessed for ever,
and may all things you have made
bless you everlastingly.

And now I turn my face 
and I raise my eyes to you. 
Let your word deliver me from earth; 
I can hear myself insulted no longer. 

O Lord, you know 
that I have remained pure; 
no man has touched me; 
I have not dishonoured your name 
or my father’s name 
in this land of exile. 

I am my father’s only daughter, 
he has no other child as heir; 
he has no brother at his side, 
nor has he any kinsman left 
for whom I ought to keep myself. 

I have lost seven husbands already; 
why should I live any longer? 
If it does not please you to take my life, 
then look on me with pity; 
I can no longer bear 
    to hear myself defamed.

    This time the prayer of each of them found favour before the glory of God, and Raphael was sent to bring remedy to them both. He was to take the white spots from the eyes of Tobit, so that he might see God’s light with his own eyes; and he was to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel as bride to Tobias son of Tobit, and to rid her of Asmodeus, that worst of demons. For it was to Tobias before all other suitors that she belonged by right. Tobit was coming back from the courtyard into the house at the same moment as Sarah the daughter of Raguel was coming down from the upper room.

Tobit 4: 1-21

The same day Tobit remembered the silver that he had left with Gabael at Rhages in Media and thought, ‘I have come to the point of praying for death; I should do well to call my son Tobias and tell him about the money before I die.’ He summoned his son Tobias and told him, ‘When I die, give me an honourable burial. Honour your mother, and never abandon her all the days of your life. Do all that she wants, and give her no reason for sorrow. Remember, my child, all the risks she ran for your sake when you were in her womb. And when she dies, bury her at my side in the same grave. 

    ‘My child, be faithful to the Lord all your days. Never entertain the will to sin or to transgress his laws. Do good works all the days of your life, never follow ways that are not upright; for if you act in truthfulness, you will be successful in all your actions, as everyone is who practises what is upright. 

    ‘Set aside part of your goods for almsgiving. Never turn your face from the poor and God will never turn his from you. Measure your alms by what you have; if you have much, give more; if you have little, do not be afraid to give less in alms. So doing, you will lay up for yourself a great treasure for the day of necessity. For almsgiving delivers from death and saves people from passing down to darkness. Almsgiving is a most effective offering for all those who do it in the presence of the Most High. 

    ‘My child, avoid all loose conduct. Choose a wife of your father’s stock. Do not take a foreign wife outside your father’s tribe, because we are the children of the prophets. Remember Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our ancestors from the beginning. All of them took wives from their own kindred, and they were blessed in their children, and their race will inherit the earth. You, too, my child, must love your own brothers; never presume to despise your brothers, the sons and daughters of your people; choose your wife from among them. For pride brings ruin and much worry; idleness causes need and poverty, for the mother of famine is idleness. 

    ‘Do not keep back until next day the wages of those who work for you; pay them at once. If you serve God you will be rewarded. Be careful, my child, in all you do, well–disciplined in all your behaviour. Do to no one what you would not want done to you. Do not drink wine to the point of drunkenness; do not let excess be your travelling companion. 

    ‘Give your bread to those who are hungry, and your clothes to those who lack clothing. Of whatever you own in plenty, devote a proportion to almsgiving; and when you give alms, do it ungrudgingly. Be generous with bread and wine on the graves of upright people, but not for the sinner. 

    ‘Ask advice of every wise person; never scorn any profitable advice. Bless the Lord God in everything; beg him to guide your ways and bring your paths and purposes to their end. For wisdom is not the property of every nation; their desire for what is good is conferred by the Lord. At his will he lifts up or he casts down to the depths of the dwelling of the dead. So now, my child, remember these precepts and never let them fade from your heart. 

    ‘Now, my child, I must tell you I have left ten talents of silver with Gabael son of Gabrias, at Rhages in Media. Do not be afraid, my child, if we have grown poor. You have great wealth if you fear God, if you shun every kind of sin and if you do what is pleasing to the Lord your God.’

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:    These are indeed words to read and ponder.

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:    When one is insulting God Our Father knows.

                    God is always with us.

                    Like a hind looking for drink we are
                        always searching for the Lord.

                    Do we realize how we are to act as God wants
                        so others will see our good
                        works and praise our heavenly Father.

                    And so we pray (say slowly)

The Our Father

    Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:    Oh Father we have wronged you —
                        We have worshipped the molten calf —
                        We have sinned by disobeying
                            your commandments —

                        Even when Jesus came to earth and
                            died for us, we have continued
                            to sin so much —

                        Oh Father look on our works of love
                            in the Shepherds of Christ and all our songs
                            at our special events, praising and
                            loving you and Jesus and the Holy Spirit —
                            and have mercy on the earth —
                            WE ARE SORRY FOR OUR SINS —

                        Father we have prayed to You unceasingly
                            for your priests, the Church and
                            the world — outpour Your grace
                            upon the Church and the priests and the world —

                        Bless our priests to have grace to be
                            holy priests —

                            Oh Father, I love the little children of
                                the earth so very much — Oh Father
                                please help us with our work in
                                the Shepherds of Christ so people will begin
                                prayer chapters praying for the priests,
                                the Church and the world.

English

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:  Oh Father please call young men to answer
                        your call to be priests and give them
                        the grace not only to answer but
                        to endure all the trials of their holy
                        seminary life and priesthood.

                     Oh Father help priests today to be holy
                        priests, loving God so much and
                        tell all, especially, the youth about
                        the joys of the priesthood. Modeling
                        themselves for the young men.

                    Sing: A Priest Is a Gift From God

God the Father speaks:   

                        How can I tell you about how
                    gifted you are My precious priests —
                    I love you so very much —
                    Your priesthood is a treasure —
                    All the world should pray for you and
                        the gift given to you.
                    I love My beloved priests so very
                        much.
                    I have given you this gift — the
                        Movement Shepherds of Christ so My beloved
                        priests will have people
                        constantly praying for them.

June 19, 2005 message continues

God the Father speaks:   

                    I have called you —
                    You are My beloved priests.

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:    This prayer was given to me on Mother's Day.   

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:   Today is Father's Day —
                    Today is the anniversary when my mom
                        died June 19, 1952, this was
                        53 years ago. It is Father's Day
                        and the anniversary of my mom's
                        death.

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:    I had a great step-mom a year later.
                    She is still alive and will be 95 this
                        year. When I visited her a few days
                        ago she said she was almost 100,
                        but she was stretching it.

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:    Stress tears us down.

                    Satan attacks through others who are
                        unwilling to work through things
                        peaceably —

                    We must always be learning to choose
                        love — love is the answer —

                    Sing:  Loving and Forgiving

                    We cannot do what we want —

                    Sometimes people have so much pain
                        they eat or drink to numb the
                        pain —

                    We must look inside and try to let
                        go of any anger — always loving
                        like Jesus, working things out
                        to please God and do God's will.

                    Sing:  Loving and Forgiving

                    Singing is a special prayer to God.

                    We at Shepherds of Christ thank God 
                        for all ourHoly Priests - we call 
                        Father - and all they have done to 
                        serve us.

                    Dear God the Father
                        We thank You for being Our Father —
                        We love You so much —

                    Dear Heavenly Father
                        Thank You for all the Fathers
                            in the world.
                        Please help them to be more
                            holy like you.

                    Sing:  This is the Feast of Victory

Excerpt from Response to God's Love, 
   by Father Edward Carter, S.J.

1 The Mystery of Christ and             Christian Existence

   ...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. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

      

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:    Look how Jesus talks about the Father
                        here 

  

   

John 17

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:

Father, the hour has come:
glorify your Son
so that your Son may glorify you;
so that, just as you have given him
   power over all humanity,
he may give eternal life
   to all those you have entrusted to him.
And eternal life is this:
to know you,
the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I have glorified you on earth
by finishing the work
that you gave me to do.
Now, Father, glorify me
with that glory I had with you
before ever the world existed.
I have revealed your name
to those whom you took from the world
   to give me.
They were yours
   and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.
Now at last they have recognised
that all you have given me
   comes from you
for I have given them
the teaching you gave to me,
and they have indeed accepted it
and know for certain
   that I came from you,
and have believed
   that it was you who sent me.
It is for them that I pray.
I am not praying for the world
but for those you have given me,
because they belong to you.
All I have is yours
and all you have is mine,
and in them I am glorified.
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you.
Holy Father,
keep those you have given me
   true to your name,
so that they may be one like us.
While I was with them,
I kept those you had given me
   true to your name.
I have watched over them
   and not one is lost
except one who was destined to be lost,
and this was to fulfil the scriptures.
But now I am coming to you
and I say these things in the world
to share my joy with them to the full.
I passed your word on to them,
and the world hated them,
because they belong to the world
no more than I belong to the world.
I am not asking you
   to remove them from the world,
but to protect them from the Evil One.
They do not belong to the world
any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth;
your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world,
I have sent them into the world,
and for their sake I consecrate myself
so that they too
   may be consecrated in truth.
I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
   and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
   you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
   that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

Father,
I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see my glory
which you have given me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
Father, Upright One,
the world has not known you,
but I have known you,
and these have known
that you have sent me.
I have made your name known to them
and will continue to make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me
   may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.

 

The Work of the Son

John 5: 19-30

To this Jesus replied:

In all truth, I tell you,
by himself the Son can do nothing;
he can do only
    what he sees the Father doing:
and whatever the Father does
    the Son does too.
For the Father loves the Son
and shows him everything
    he himself does,
and he will show him
    even greater things than these,
works that will astonish you.
Thus, as the Father raises the dead
    and gives them life,
so the Son gives life to anyone he chooses;
for the Father judges no one;
he has entrusted all judgement to the Son,
so that all may honour the Son
as they honour the Father.
Whoever refuses honour to the Son
refuses honour to the Father
    who sent him.
In all truth I tell you,
whoever listens to my words,
and believes in the one who sent me,
has eternal life;
without being brought to judgement
such a person
    has passed from death to life.
In all truth I tell you,
the hour is coming—
    indeed it is already here—
when the dead
    will hear the voice of the Son of God,
and all who hear it will live.
For as the Father has life in himself,
so he has granted the Son also
    to have life in himself;
and, because he is the Son of man,
has granted him power
    to give judgement.
Do not be surprised at this,
for the hour is coming
when the dead will leave their graves
at the sound of his voice:
those who did good
will come forth to life;
and those who did evil
    will come forth to judgement.
By myself I can do nothing; 
I can judge only as I am told to judge, 
and my judging is just, 
because I seek to do not my own will 
but the will of him who sent me.

  

June 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:    What a beautiful passage and
                            tribute to Our Heavenly Father

                        

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