Today's Readings
2 Kings 24: 8-17
Jehoiachin was eighteen
years old when he came to the throne, and he reigned
for three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was
Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. He did
what is displeasing to Yahweh, just as his father
had done.
At that
time the troops of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on
Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon advanced on the city and his
generals laid siege to it. Jehoiachin king of
Judah-he, his mother, his retinue, his nobles and
his officials – then surrendered to the king of
Babylon, and the king of Babylon took them prisoner
in the eighth year of his reign.
The latter carried off
all the treasures of the
Temple of
Yahweh and the
treasures of the palace and broke up all the golden
furnishings which
Solomon king of
Israel had made for the
sanctuary of
Yahweh, as
Yahweh had
foretold. He carried all
Jerusalem off into
exile, all the nobles and all the notables, ten
thousand of these were exiled, with all the
blacksmiths and metalworkers; only the poorest
people in the country were left behind. He deported
Jehoiachin to Babylon, as also the king's mother,
his officials and the nobility of the country; he
made them all leave
Jerusalem for exile
in Babylon. All the men of distinction, seven
thousand of them, the blacksmiths and metalworkers,
one thousand of them, all the men capable of bearing
arms, were led off into exile in Babylon by the king
of Babylon.
The king of Babylon
deposed Jehoiachin in favour of his paternal uncle
Mattaniah, whose name he changed to Zedekiah.
Psalms 79: 1-5, 8-9
National lament
God, the pagans have
invaded your heritage,
they have defiled your holy temple,
they have laid
Jerusalem in ruins,
they have left the corpses of your servants
as food for the birds of the air,
the bodies of your faithful for the wild beasts.
Around
Jerusalem they have
shed blood like water,
leaving no one to bury them.
We are the scorn of our neighbours,
the butt and laughing-stock of those around us.
How long
will you be angry,
Yahweh? For ever?
Is your
jealousy to go on
smouldering like a fire?
Do not count against us
the guilt of former generations,
in your tenderness come quickly to meet us,
for we are utterly weakened;
help us,
God our Saviour,
for the
glory of your name;
Yahweh, wipe away our sins,
rescue us for the sake of your name.
Matthew 7: 21-29
'It is not anyone who
says to me, "Lord, Lord," who
will enter the
kingdom of Heaven, but the
person who does the
will of my Father
in heaven. When the day comes many
will say to me,
"Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, drive
out demons in your name, work many miracles in your
name?" Then I shall tell them to their faces: I have
never known you; away from me, all
evil doers!
'Therefore, everyone who listens to these words of
mine and
acts on them
will be like a
sensible
man who built his
house on rock. Rain came down, floods rose, gales
blew and hurled themselves against that house, and
it did not fall: it was founded on rock. But
everyone who listens to these words of mine and does
not act on them
will be like a
stupid
man who built his
house on sand. Rain came down, floods rose, gales
blew and struck that house, and it fell; and what a
fall it had!'
Jesus had now finished
what he wanted to say, and his teaching made a deep
impression on the people because he taught them with
authority, unlike their own scribes.
R. Jesus strengthen me now with Your
grace to be as You want me to be –
forgive my sins, which are many –
I live to serve You God, I love
You so very much.
I unite all my actions with the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Dear Father,
I offer my day to You, united to the
Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally
made present, I pray united to Jesus, in
the Holy Spirit with all the angels and
saints and the souls in purgatory –
through the powerful intercession of
Our Lady of Clearwater, Our Lady of Fatima
in the Americas.
I pray for peace in the world. I
pray for unity and love and giving
of men to God.
I pray for men to not live in denial
of their offenses against God and others,
but to go to God and pray for forgiveness
of the wrongs committed against each
other in pride, anger, jealousy, envy,
slothfulness, gluttony and lust.
I pray for men to know the love of God.
That God loves them so very much and
they use the writing God has given through
my hand to know God really loves them so
much.
I pray men change their lives living
according to God's will in love, being
accountable and responsible for the
ways they chose to walk in darkness
and offend God and others.
I pray for my soul and all souls
Jesus died for and these children that
Mary cries out for us to reach.
Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
Mary:
I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I
saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My
Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I
suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and
give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this
message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I
stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried
for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How
do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I
appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject
me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored.
The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you.
Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and
I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart
was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this
day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold
back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to
help my children. You are my children of light.
end of Mary's Message
R. I pray for special intentions –
I pray for the priests, the Church and
the world, as You have asked of us
in the Shepherds of Christ.
I pray for men to love You with their
whole heart, their whole soul and
their whole being.
I pray for us to know, love and serve
You, Lord.
I give my heart to You Jesus –
I give my heart to you Mary –
I consecrate the United States and all in it, to
the Sacred Heart and Immaculate
Heart in as far as I am able.
I consecrate the world to the Sacred Heart and
Immaculate Heart in as far as I am able.
I pray for our country and this upcoming
election.
R. I ask the Holy Spirit to come and to fill the
hearts of all in the Shepherds of Christ
with His love and His light –
I surrender to You, God, to do all I
can as co-founder of this Movement
22 years ago – to carry out the
mission the best I can that
You gave to Fr. Carter and to me –
I beg for Your help –
I beg for funds and grace –
I love You God, I love You, please
help me, help us, we are poor
banished children of Adam and Eve.
And He came to comfort me in my distress –
As I gazed on the beauty of the earth and
the gifts He gave us, I cried because of
ingratitude and the ugliness of sin,
of lies, of denial and division –
The family of God should be just
that – a family of love – brothers and
sisters under God – consecrated to the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the Holy Spirit.
It should be a loving family with
respect and love given to each other.
It should be that men are true in
their hearts – that they are
trustworthy - under God –
It should be that men live to know,
love and serve God –
Not men filled with pride for their glory,
but men filled with faith in God – seeking
the will of the Father, the vision of God
and living in a strong belief in Him,
His love for us. God is so real and He
loves us so much. Jesus showed us,
He died for our sins so we could
go to heaven some day.
Jesus rose to victory –
God gives us a sharing in His life
in baptism –
We know God supernaturally –
We love God and others supernaturally –
We want to strip ourselves of
the ugliness of sin –
We want the truth –
We don't give into bad habits of
lies – so we are liars – using
lies to try to manipulate others –
offending God with our lies –
We walk naked before God, so we can
see our offenses against God
and others and ask to be forgiven,
making reparation for our sins.
We work with others and we see
what is wrong that hurts
relationships with God and
others and we pray to God to
help us to change and be holy –
No man is an island and he must
walk hand-in-hand with
those God sends him to work with –
he is to walk in love, in
the light, in truth – being trustworthy
and obedient to those over him –
learning how to obey as God intends
us to do, being faithful to God,
to our vocation God calls us to.
We can have bad habits or good habits –
If a man is truthful in things – he
has the habit of truthfulness.
If a man is not truthful over and
over again – he has grooves
in how he operates –
he quickly goes to lies and
deception.
When a man is truthful he is
close to Jesus who is the
way, the truth and the life –
When a man lies and it is a
habit – he turns away from
God and with that comes darkness
and confusion.
The goal man wants for his actions is
happiness. Man is happy only
if he pursues truth. His
actions should be good actions.
God is Absolute truth –
We seek life eternal in our actions –
We use right reasoning –
We are not engulfed by anger
and pride that shade our
actions so we do not even
use right reasoning.
Anger is a passion – it can blind
a man of right reasoning –
It can be a fire inside where
a man feels injustice has been done
to him and with revenge he wants
someone to pay.
Anger can be passed down from
generation to generation. Parents
can teach children to be angry,
dark inside by how they are forced
to live with angry parents –
hollering and telling them they are
guilty for the parent's anger.
So a child learns this is what life is.
Blaming others for their anger and
darkness inside and trying to
manipulate others from survival
tactics they practiced day after
day as a child. When they should
have been learning about being
loving, working through problems,
being in the light and fairness –
they could have learned competition,
bitterness, games etc.
Matthew 7: 15-20
‘Beware of false prophets who
come to you disguised as sheep but underneath are ravenous
wolves. You will be able to tell them by their fruits. Can
people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? In
the same way, a sound tree produces good fruit but a rotten
tree bad fruit. A sound tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a
rotten tree bear good fruit. Any tree that does not produce
good fruit is cut down and thrown on the fire. I repeat, you
will be able to tell them by their fruits.
R. Our past president would always
say – the fruit (the children) don't
fall far from the tree.
Isn't that the truth –
Jesus says
I am the vine, you are the branches –
But if a fig tree is withered and bears
no fruit it can be cut down –
Do we expect God to put up
with sin and darkness and
hatred for 1000 years while
we are angry and fight to hurt others
with anger from the past to blame
them for our anger.
Man is on a journey, hopefully to
eternal happiness and the vision
of God.
R. If we drive our car in the wrong direction
we don't get to our destiny –
God calls us to love –
God calls us to see the light –
God calls us in the family of God –
We are social beings –
We are here with each other –
When a man starts out on a journey
he uses his intelligence to
get to his destiny –
he must have the right information
to get to his destination –
In the spiritual life
We need a goal – eternal happiness
and we need right reasoning to get there.
God gives us laws, commandments
we need to follow to get to heaven –
Matthew 22: 36-40
'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus
said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the
greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You
must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments
hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'
R. When we drive a car we have to
obey the stop signs etc. –
the rules for speed etc. –
railroad signs etc. –
There are consequences for ignoring
the signs when we drive –
We live with others in this life –
we have to work with others
for eternal happiness –
we don't try to remove
ourselves from interaction
with others to do our own
thing – then chase others out of our space –
Men don't make rules based on their
own individual wants in
a family, in a community –
in the country –
Men work as a unit together
seeing the needs of all members
in the family, community etc. –
The rules of being isolated and
hating others to live one's
life alone and out of
sync working with no one
is not God's plan –
God says –
I am the vine – you are the
branches –
And He died on a tree –
He died for our sins of hatred,
anger, envy, jealousy,
pride, slothfulness,
gluttony and pride.
Jesus paid a big price for
the sins of men –
He paid with His body and
blood –
He died because of our
sins
To work together as God wants
there must be peace and
harmony and love –
A man addicted to darkness doesn't
work in the light –
he keeps turning every thing producing
fruit to
barrenness
he sees in darkness
he wants darkness
he can try to manipulate and
force isolation and darkness
To try to attain happiness and
light – men work together
loving and seeing good
and truth together –
Men of light seek actions that
produce good and are in the truth –
The devil is the father of lies
Man is here to grow in the image
of God –
God is absolute truth
God is absolute goodness –
Happiness can only happen
when we want the common
good for men – the
whole family – the whole
community
Evil is found in those whose
hearts are jealous of their
brothers, who are unjust to
others and lie about their
deeds and try to force a challenge,
argumentation – over what –
they argue to make right → wrong –
they argue to make wrong → right –
This is not right reasoning
This is not truth
This is not good –
Lying can become a habit and
a person quickly can lie
because they have pride –
It isn't thinking about the
common good of anybody –
it is evil, deception from
satan –
And just like a person works to always
tell the truth so they quickly
respond with the truth –
The person who lies repeatedly to
manipulate things in darkness –
quickly lies and changes
their lies and keeps it going
because they worked to have
habits where they lie, tell
falsities and manipulate
others in darkness –
This is evil and it turns men's
hearts away from God and
from true happiness.
Jesus: The fool is the man who lies to himself
about his sins. He denies what
he needs to – to reconcile his
relationship with Me and others.
It is about relationship –
The fool sins – then lies to himself
and tears apart relationships
by not rectifying the wrong
he committed to keep the
relationship operating in
truth and love –
It's like this – a man comes in
the night and tears up your
grass – then at day light
he acts like he did nothing –
A man may accidently drive his car
over your grass and apologize
and ask to try to fix what he
can –
Or a man can intentionally just
hurt another man's grass to
start a war –
and then act like he did nothing.
Then he does it over and over again
and acts like he did nothing.
Repeated acts of hatred and then
denial of the sins he
committed and more tricks –
This man is far from the truth and
his actions of injustice repeatedly
become him –
he easily pulls tricks on others
and easily refuses to make
any notice of what he did –
He is provoking men he was
commanded by Me to love and
when he does it over and
over again –
it is an evil game that
becomes a habit – he
does quickly –
It is the repeatedness of these
actions that I paid for the most –
The man of pride who lies and
is not accountable before
God or men for deliberate
evil he does to harm his
brothers –
the second offense is in the
repeated actions of the
sinner that has some
sadistical pleasure he
receives in his sometimes
secret pranks.
But the joke is on him –
for the evil is so intentional and
is so habitual that the devil
quickly moves him to
perform evil acts – repeatedly
he gives in quickly and
with the expertise of hurting other men –
How dark is the heart?
Peter quickly denied Me because
he was afraid and he
repented of his sin –
But Judas was sneaky, his pride
consumed him – he saw
himself first among men
as a man of recognition
for his pride –
He repeatedly plotted against
the will of God –
He repeatedly manipulated
with others what was
against My wishes –
He was quick to sell the
Son of God for 30 pieces
of silver –
To plan to betray the Son of God
with a kiss –
The fool who keeps at their sin and
works at it becomes quick
to lie and to sin and give
into satan – this leads to depression
and darkness, hardness of heart –
the person has less and less feelings,
they are numb –
But the man who is trying to
perform good acts, tell the
truth, be obedient – works
at this and he is quick to
do the right thing that leads
to happiness –
This man is living in the
light –
I call men to be alive –
To live in My love –
To have passion in giving and
helping others –
To be on fire for love of God –
To have an attitude of gratitude –
To know the truth and to seek
the truth and to always
be truthful –
I am all Powerful
I am God –
I have given you My rule
to live by –
Give the gift that keeps giving.
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