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                June 28, 2016 - In the Month of the Sacred Heart

                R. In the daily readings in these days of ordinary
                time we continue with the words in the
                first readings of the Old Testament Prophets. In
                the 16th week we hear from Micah –
                God is judging the nations of being
                unjust and unkind and selfish.
                He speaks in the psalm about correction
                and discipline. In the Gospel we hear
                about Jonah who spent 3 days and 3
                nights in the belly of the whale and
                Nineveh converted. We have the
                Gospel, the Word of God. What gifts,
                indeed, we have been given. We are
                given the Bread of Life – the Word and
                the Eucharist.

                Sing: I Am the Bread of Life

                    We see things from God's perspective –
                How can we become so closed to listening
                to God and His words that tell us we are
                to live righteous lives as He has
                commanded us.

                    God sees all we do. God sent the
                prophets to speak to the people –
                the prophets tell the people as God
                wants them to – put aside your evil
                and deceptive ways, you are fools, you
                are given these gifts from God – Walk
                in righteousness, work as you should
                for eternal salvation – be not deceiving
                in your ways, but believing in the
                word God has given to us. God has
                called us to be disciplined in our
                ways and to be loving in our hearts.

                    God calls us to love, no matter
                how we tell ourselves we have
                suffered and deserve to be punishing
                and angry and rebellious –

                    God makes it clear – we are to
                grow in love, discipline our thoughts,
                mature in our ways to be more and
                more pure.

                    We can lie to ourselves and make
                excuses for ourselves, but God calls
                us to be positive and to walk in joy
                in His footprints, to be witnesses,
                living in Christ before men.

                    We must control our negative
                emotions, rid ourselves of pride
                and anger and jealousy, envy, slothfulness,
                gluttony and lust – we know what God
                is telling us – why make excuses for ourselves
                and lie about our ways to those on their
                knees begging us to change –

                    Like willful children before the Master,
                some perfecting what is insolence
                and rebellion like the habit they acquire,
                they bring down darkness on themselves
                and walk before the Master parading
                that insolence that offends the good
                God who is love and gives us so
                bountifully in love –

                    Oh creatures of impudence if you
                could see the unseen, the Master's
                eyes watching the pride filled heart –
                ranting and raving before God – are
                you, when you know clear well the sin
                of impudence and rebellion strutted before
                God is so ugly in His eyes.

                    The creature waltzes to the tune of
                impudence and the eyes of God watch
                the one created by Him display such
                rebellion.

                Jesus: Lies I tell you, I watch lies
                and deception from some – who know
                full well and say yes to their impudent
                ways – Oh that a stone was tied around
                their neck for their example and disharmony
                before Me and others –

                    Look at yourself as I see you –
                you impudent ones – I call you to
                witness and I watch your ways that
                turn the good ones I send away because
                you are fools – fools parading before the eyes
                of God in insolence – who can control
                you? With your free will and gifts I
                have given you – this is how you
                return the days of your lives to Me –
                I call you to love, to kindness, to
                purity, to the building of the Kingdom
                and you refuse correction when you
                are so impudent – you fight My
                prophets and plan to trick them while
                you lay in your beds –

                    Should you see through the eyes
                of God the destruction you have
                caused by your evil ways with
                your rebellious lies. I watch you,
                in love, and you return rebellion
                to Me, strutting before Me like a
                proud peacock of your impudent ways –
                as if I do not know and do not see you –
                who are you fooling –

                    Let your eyes peel that you would
                see yourselves as I do when you rebel
                against My ways – you know clearly –
                Dialogue, wasting My time given to
                other men to do My work –
                Stop now before it is too late – I am
                a just God and such impudence
                I will throw the book at you –

                    Weep for yourselves angry ones –
                I sent you a rose garden, commanded
                you to love God and others and you
                waltzed your darkness day after day
                before My eyes with your free will –

                    Who could correct you or stop you –
                you retaliated using My works in
                punishment to show your indigence
                more deeply.

                    My gifts I give to the world, that
                men will know the love of My Heart.
                My gifts are a treasure, you have
                treated My gifts like trash for your
                anger.

                    I send the men to tell you to stop it
                and you refuse any correction –
                Why do you weary Me and hold onto
                your anger – the anger you have is
                from long ago and you are to love –
                to be purified – to walk in light –

                    The rule is quite clear – it is to love –
                to be loving –

                    You walk in front of Me and you
                wage war on those I send to discipline
                you – instead you insist no one
                will change your angry heart and
                the ones I send you waste their
                time waging war, after war, after
                war because of your anger and
                darkness.

                Song: I Am a God of Justice

                Jesus: I see your ways, don't ever forget –
                I know the directions I have given and
                so do you and you rebel against
                Me as I watch your impudent
                angry, prideful ways.

                    Do you not see My suffering face,
                suffering for your sins, and My Mother
                stood beneath the cross and cried –
                Why are you so stubborn you won't
                let go of your impudence, but you
                gave little attention to forgiveness,
                being forgiven and loving. Your habits
                have been to not forgive, to control others
                and punishing them with your darkness
                and I watched you walk impudently
                before me with these negative emotions –
                in defiance – when you were so stubborn
                you wanted to destroy others and take
                down My house for your anger and
                retaliation – This you call holiness?
                My precious child - I have given you
                love and you return it with hate
                because you refuse to grow and
                to have a loving heart.

                    Do you not see My face as I
                suffered in love for you –

                    You wage war against Me.
   

Micah 7: 14-15, 18-20

                R. We see how the Jews suffered at
                    the time of Jeremiah because
                    they would not listen.
                    We see they were captured by the
                    Babylonians and when the
                    children returned home after
                    they were released their lands
                    were torn apart and there was such
                    destruction.

                    God gives us our lives and we can
                build homes of love – or we can
                rebel against Him, act disharmoniously,
                impudently and like the Jews who
                returned after the captivity in Babylon
                the grandchildren had destruction to
                return to – their land was a mess.

                Jesus: Oh why do you cause the destruction
                    of your own places when you wage
                    war with the anger in your hearts
                    and when I correct you – you
                    retaliate further to punish and
                    force your ways of impudence
                    before Me –

                Do you not listen to My cries and the
                    cries of My Mother for the children
                    to come – your own grandchildren
                    when anger was your heart and its
                    ways and not love –

                Anger you gave to those I sent as
                    a blessing to you – sent by
                    My Father –

                Do you see the destruction of those
                    grandchildren who returned
                    home after the disobedience
                    of the ones who went before
                    them –

                Anger in the hearts hurt the
                    children to the 3rd and 4th
                    generation –

                You cannot make a silk purse from
                    a sow's ear –

                You build the Kingdom of God with love and
                    kindness and there is growth
                    and happiness –

                Anger and bitterness – holding out
                    and punishment brings wars
                    and destruction –
                    it brings loneliness and
                    you are weak because you
                    do not stand for what makes
                    you strong –

                The strong are strong because they
                    are committed and they follow
                    My ways of love and forgiveness –

                They have the Might of God behind them –

                The fool stands alone and brings
                    war and destruction to his
                    own land –
                    and when I send My messengers
                    to show them their ways –
                    they tear them apart with
                        their willful and prideful ways –
                    "We need no correction - go
                        away and let us to
                        destroy ourselves and our
                        lands"

Psalm 85: 2-8

you take away the guilt of your people,
you blot out all their sin.

You retract all your anger,
you renounce the heat of your fury.

Bring us back, God our Savior,
appease your indignation against us!
Will you be angry with us for ever?
Will you prolong your wrath age after age?

Will you not give us life again,
for your people to rejoice in you?
Show us, Lord, your faithful love,
grant us your saving help.

I am listening. What is God’s message?
Yahweh’s message is peace
for his people, for his faithful,
if only they renounce their folly.

Matthew 12: 46-50

The true kinsfolk of Jesus

He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, ‘Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?’ And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.’

                Jesus: Do all you do for the Lord. Let
                your work bring joy to your heart
                and bring peace and love and joy to
                others.

                    I have called you to love in
                all you do and in living by the
                Father's will.

                    It is love and forgiveness,
                kindness, harmony and peace
                that builds a strong tower so
                the birds can come and sing on
                its roof and the maidens take
                shelter from the rain –

                Who builds in anger puts anger in
                every row of mortar and their
                weight carried on their shoulders
                is bitter anguish and repose –
                not sweetness and love –

                A man can come and smell the
                    flowers in a well-cared flower
                    garden and sit there and find
                    peace and repose.

                And the man of bitter and selfish
                    heart, tears down the same
                    tower he builds and pulls
                    out the flowers that smells
                    so sweet –

                What a fool to tear down your
                    own dwelling because you can't
                    control your stubborn, bitter anger.

                    Oh men of wrath – I give you a
                garden and you tear it apart like
                the men who disobeyed Me and suffer
                their own destruction.
   

                Jesus: Do your job in love, fill the
                    mortar in the fence that
                    fences it with tender love –
                    let every path you walk
                    be laden with the sweetness
                    of doing the job for the honor and
                    glory of God –

                    I watch you – it is your love
                    that delights Me – it is your
                    sacrifice for the Victory of building
                    places of love and repose for the
                    weary –

                    A bull dog was put by the gate
                so no one could come in. At the
                end of the year the person living
                inside the guarded place
                died.

                    All that survived was the
                bull dog – Soon he died too for
                he had no one to care and feed him –
                the old woman who took care
                of him was no more.

                    Open the gates that people
                can come and draw water at
                the well and know My miraculous
                healing I give – sweetness and
                refreshment.

                    A man came to see a place
                that was to be a place of love
                and joy dedicated to the Lord –
                when he arrived people fought
                and hated one another –
                eventually only one was left
                with a bull dog at the fence –
                Is it any wonder there was no growth?

                    Sisters were called to pray for the
                Church and the world – to sacrifice
                their lives in love for the sake of
                others –

                    Once there were sisters all over
                the earth praying and now where
                have they gone.

                    The prayer is needed more than
                ever before –

                    So I give to you this – Will you
                tell My people My Message to
                call people to pray now when
                your country needs such prayer –

                    Why do you have energy for
                bitterness and fighting and none
                for this message to reach My
                people?
   

22 Years Ago

                Jesus: Do not give into disgust
                and haughtiness, bitterness –
                let your heart be a heart of
                love building up others with
                My Message of love.

                    Spread My Blue Books –
                My people are bleeding and they
                need to know My love –

                    Let your work be work for
                the honor and glory of God –
                this brings strength and love
                and joy –

                    Convents have closed and
                the sisters are gone or few –
                The world is not less in need
                of prayer, but more in
                need of love and prayer, of
                strength and joy.

                Jeremiah 628 BC
   

Jeremiah 1: 1, 4-10

The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests living at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

The call of Jeremiah

 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:

    ‘Before I formed you in the womb
        I knew you;
    before you came to birth
        I consecrated you;
    I appointed you as prophet to the nations.’

    I then said, ‘Ah, ah, ah, Lord Yahweh; you see, I do not know how to speak: I am only a child!

    But Yahweh replied,
    ‘Do not say, “I am only a child,”
    for you must go to all to whom I send you
    and say whatever I command you.
    Do not be afraid of confronting them,
    for I am with you to rescue you,
    Yahweh declares.’

    Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, and Yahweh said to me:

    ‘There! I have put my words
        into your mouth.
    Look, today I have set you
    over the nations and kingdoms,
    to uproot and to knock down,
    to destroy and to overthrow,
    to build and to plant.’

                R. Let us sing of the salvation
                    of our God –

                Sing: For You Are My God

Matthew 13: 1-9

                Jesus: Let all your actions be focused
                on your eternal life. When you
                are in trials and difficulty
                do not give into the darkness,
                but turn your eyes to Me –
                identify your suffering with Mine.

                Pray Thus –

                    Heavenly Father - help me –
                    I love You, I depend on You now –
                    Trust in My strength – be men
                    of prayer and dependence on
                    God – Let your motives for
                    acting be pure

                    I am the Divine God – you
                are human – turn to Me and
                My Might

                    Do not give into fear –
                Let love and prayer – faith
                in God, rule your life –

                You can turn to God and have
                    strength –

                Or turn to darkness and give
                    into satan –

                Reach for the heights – do not take
                    the elevator down, down, down –
                    but control, and discipline yourselves -
                    you have a choice to be as
                    God calls you to be or
                    to give into satan and bring
                    darkness and destruction
                    upon your spirit.

               Jesus:  Life is not life if it is
                    not rooted in God –

Matthew 13: 10-17

Why Jesus speaks in parables

Then, the disciples went up to him and asked, ‘Why do you talk to them in parables?’ In answer, he said, ‘Because to you is granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but to them it is not granted. Anyone who has will be given more and will have more than enough; but anyone who has not will be deprived even of what he has. The reason I talk to them in parables is that they look without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding. So in their case what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah is being fulfilled:

Listen and listen, but never understand!
Look, and look, but never perceive!
This people’s heart has grown coarse,
     their ears dulled,
 they have shut their eyes tight
 to avoid using their eyes to see,
     their ears to hear,
 their heart to understand,
 changing their ways
     and being healed by me.

‘But blessed are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear! In truth I tell you, many prophets and upright people longed to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it.

                Jesus: We see in the lives of the saints
                how they endured the cross –
                Even during World War II we see how
                they were able to help others
                even in such dire conditions –
                for example Maximilian Kolbe.

Shepherds of Christ Priestly Newsletter 2006 #2

Jeremiah 3: 14-17

                Jesus: When the seed is planted it
                must be on good soil.

                    So too the Word must be planted
                in hearts that are open to God
                and loving Him.

Jeremiah 7: 1-11

                        23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

                            Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God 
                        our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, 
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment

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