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June 5, 2010

                Thursday's Readings - 9th week

2 Timothy 2: 8-15

Mark 12: 28-34

One of the scribes who had listened to them debating appreciated that Jesus had given a good answer and put a further question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments? Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one, only Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these. The scribe said to him, ‘Well spoken, Master; what you have said is true, that he is one and there is no other. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and strength, and to love your neighbour as yourself, this is far more important than any burnt offering or sacrifice. Jesus, seeing how wisely he had spoken, said, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God.’ And after that no one dared to question him any more.

                When you don't feel good you focus
                    on yourself —

                Love your God with all your strength —
                    hard to do when your strength
                    isn't there

                DISTRACTIONS —

                    Keeping us away from silent
                        time with God —

                    having a headache

                    family making noise —

                All our strength and walk out
                    of chaos and love
                    anyway

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.'

                Look to everyone and love them
                    in the chaos of the world
                    because we love
                    God so much

                Today's Readings
 

2 Timothy 4: 1-8

Psalm 71: 8-9, 14-17, 22

My mouth is full of your praises,
filled with your splendour all day long.

Do not reject me in my old age,
nor desert me when my strength is failing,

As for me, my hope will never fade,
I will praise you more and more.
My lips shall proclaim your saving justice,
your saving power all day long.

I will come in the power of Yahweh
to tell of your justice, yours alone.
God, you have taught me from boyhood,
and I am still proclaiming your marvels.

For my part, I will thank you on the lyre
    for your constancy, my God.
I will play the harp in your honour,
    Holy One of Israel.

Mark 12: 38-44

                St. Paul's last testament to Timothy
                St. Paul telling Timothy in persecution
                    to be faithful to the scriptures —
                    in his role of Bishop — don't
                        water scriptures down

                Jesus taught His disciples about
                    Himself

                    He is simply telling Apostles —
                        Religion is devoted to God —
                        Justice — to do to God what
                            is His due —

                        We come to Church to worship
                            and thank God —

                        The servant going to the Master —

                    Jesus says others do things
                        to receive the praise
                        of others

                Woman with mite does it for God —
                    she gave everything she has —

                We give according to God's will —
                    This is what God has given
                        to me —
                We are to give what we
                    owe to God

                We are stewards of things —
                We are to share —
                Not give everything away
                    we have — or we
                    become part of the
                    problem —

                We give according to God's
                    will —

                We are members of a body —
                If all we do is focus on ourselves —
                    being dominant over others —

                We are seeing selfishly

                We are called to pray together —
                    to see ourselves as one —
                    Not be an independent without
                        change
                    Selling ourselves —

                    We come to Church to praise
                        God — it's about God —
                        It's about giving

                    We learn to give —

                    A 2 year old wants things
                        their way

                When people marry — they
                    learn to live in
                    virtue — to give of
                    themselves —

                To not demand their own way —
                To not be a patsy either — to be as
                    God wants — build a relationship —

                To give themselves as they
                    grow in virtue —

                In learning to love and work
                    together as one in
                    God —

                From the Prayer Manual
 

Holy Spirit Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.

                A person can be in harmony and
                    work with others in love
                    dying to selfish, independent,
                    ways and learning to love and
                    live united to others —

                    A person can be like a two
                        year old and try to demand
                        their way —
                        using controlling methods —
                        to force their behavior
                        on others
                        thinking only of themselves

                Jesus: When I ask, I ask —

                    The 5th has been the Father's
                        Plan for 16 years

                    When I ask, I ask —
                        It is not a game —
                        I call you to do the
                        5th with My messenger —

                    The 5ths are My will
                        Mary appeared everyday from
                        July 5, 1994 - September 5, 1995 —

                God the Father put Mary in Clearwater 

Our Lady of Clearwater Florida - All 5ths
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                Jesus: I asked for what I wanted —

                Everything can be seen for
                    your purpose and not Mine —

                When you see —
                    you see yourself —
                    Turning inward —

                I was beaten
                I was bloodied

                I gave My all for your sins —

                How is your vision —

                Do you see the Trinity and
                    My Plan for the Shepherds of Christ —
                    Do you see your stilted view?

                Jesus: When you are asked to help with
                    the 5th — how did you?

                For My 5 Wounds — My hands
                    and feet were nailed to the
                    cross —

                    Through My Pierced side —
                        the Church was born —

                For the 5 Blasphemies —
                    I have sent My messenger to
                        the 5th for 16 years and
                        My Mother and I appeared —

                My 5ths are the Plan of My
                    Father — for My
                    5 Wounds —
                    for the 5 Blasphemies against My Mother

The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

February 22, 1995

1. The Prophecy of Simeon
Mary, Joseph and the child Jesus went to the temple. Simeon, the prophet, inspired by the Holy Spirit, met them and told Joseph and Mary of the great sufferings of Jesus and Mary. He told Mary that a sword would pierce her heart. From that point on, Mary ever remembered the prophecy of Simeon whenever she beheld her child. When she looked at His little body, even as an infant, she knew He would suffer. Every time she clothed Him and watched Him at play, her heart was torn in her chest as she knew what He would suffer. And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

 

2. The Flight into Egypt
Joseph was told by the angel to flee. Joseph, Mary and the child Jesus had to flee because of what might happen to Jesus. They had to pack for a long stay. The child Jesus was so small! They left on their journey, hearts full of fear, trying to protect Jesus. They were forced to flee into Egypt.

 

3. Jesus Is Lost, In the Temple
Imagine the sufferings in Mary's heart when she realized the child Jesus was not with them. Think of how it would be to lose your child and not know where he was or if anything happened to him. With sorrow in their hearts, Mary and Joseph returned to Jerusalem to look for the child Jesus. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary!

4. Jesus Carries His Cross
Song: See the eyes that look at Mary, her tender infant child. See the child's Heart beat so tenderly, the Savior of the world!
See the eyes of Jesus and Mary as they met on Calvary. Mary's Heart knew Jesus' Heart so well! From the first moment of conception and throughout His life, Mary was so connected with Jesus and now she peered into His eyes. The crown of thorns adorned His Head! Blood ran down His face! A heavy cross on His back! Wounded, His whole body covered with bleeding wounds! And her whole life flashed before her, the life that she had spent with Jesus. This was the beloved child that she had held in her arms when Simeon told Mary that 'a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!'

 

5. Jesus Dies on the Cross
Mary stood under Jesus' cross as He was put to death. The child that she had held in her arms as Simeon prophesied, And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary! Now Jesus is dead on the cross! He gave His flesh, He gave His blood so that we might be with Him forever in heaven. He held not back. He gave His all. He calls out to us this day to see through the eyes of His mother as she appears and calls out with a Heart of great love, "Return to the love of my Son! He is with you this day. He remains with you, no less present than the day that He hung on the cross, in the Eucharist. He longs for you to come and be with Him. He is in your brother. How can you not love your brother when Jesus died for your brother?"

Her Heart was pierced with a sword. His Heart was pierced with a lance. What came forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the church. He lives with us this day in the Church. He gives to us His sacraments, the source of His life! He gives to us the Sacrament of Penance whereby any sin that we commit can be taken away through the priest. He wants us to be so close to Him! He gives us everything to be close to Him. But we see with such limited vision only those things that are right before our face, when the true reality is that which we don't see with our eyes, the reality of the invisible divinity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in the consecrated Host! This is reality! This is our life! This is our power! This is God! And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

6. Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
If we ever doubted for one second that we were loved, we could visualize the picture of Mary as she sat beneath the cross with the lifeless, battered, bruised and bloodied body of her Son in her arms, the same child that she held when Simeon prophesied her suffering. He gave His last breath. He gave the last beat of His Heart. He gave His all! This is the way He complied with the Will of the Father. He came to show us the way. He died in perfect peace. To His death He was in peace because He knew the Father's love. The Father loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son for love of us! The Spirit descended upon the Virgin Mary and the Word was made flesh! The love of the Two Hearts! Such immense love beating for us!

In all love there is suffering. Her Heart was pierced with a sword. His Heart was pierced with a lance. And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

7. Jesus Is Locked in the Tomb
And now Jesus, His body lifeless, is locked in a tomb! What cold reality for Mary to realize that His body is now gone! A stone separated her from her Son!

He gave His last breath! He gave the last beat of His Heart for love of each one of us! And she comes to us this day with her sweet, beautiful voice and she asks us to go to her Son and love Him! How can we refuse Jesus who spread His arms and gave His life for each and every one of us? How can we not trust Him when He loved us so much that He allowed them to tear His flesh, to crown Him with piercing thorns and, lastly, to hang Him on a cross? He truly gave His life for us! He, truly God, is with us this day, the same as the day He died on the cross, in the tabernacle! And we take it so lightly! Death has no power over Him! Locked in the tomb for three days, He rose triumphant on the third day as He had foretold. He comes to give us life. He gives us the sacrament of Baptism that initiates us into His life, that makes us children of God and heirs of heaven if we remain in the state of grace. He asks two things: love of God and love of one another! He came to show us the way and His way is love. To His death on the cross He loved each one of us! He calls out to each one of us here today to be His soldiers, to march on a world that has forgotten God, that has forgotten what it is like to love! It is a battle to live in this world. But the battle is won with hearts that are filled with His love, empowered by the grace and might that He pours out in the Eucharist. He calls out for us to come to the Eucharist and to the tabernacle and be fed with His very flesh and blood. To feed on Divine Life, the greatest nourishment, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God! This is the love He gives. This is the love He asks us to share.

end of seven sorrows

                Jesus: You are to focus on going to heaven
                    and seeing through the Plan
                    of God —

                You see through your selfish
                    eyes — you want what
                    you want — which is
                    to control

                I have asked you to obey My will —
                To obey the commandments
                To be obedient to those over you —
                    children to obey parents —
                    Members of the Church to obey
                        the hierarchy

                If every time you are asked to do
                    something — you change it
                    to get your own way — you
                    work against the Plan

                Learning to be obedient — following
                    directions — working together
                    in love according to the
                    Father's will —
                    is the Plan of God for
                    rebellious, willful men —

                You are here to prepare for heaven —
                    In heaven there is perfect obedience,
                        chastity and poverty —
                    If a person forces their control and
                        lives independent — they create
                        big problems —

                    A person can see themselves 

                    When I asked — you can say —
                        let me do it my way —
                        let me control —
                        let me block the Plan —
                        It's all about me
                            pride — control — affection
                            for myself

                Wanting to hurt your brothers because
                    you want control and are
                    angry — this is wrong —

                It is against the 5th commandment
                    to harbor hatred, anger,
                    revenge, punishment on
                    your brother —

                Mary appeared at Clearwater

                        CLEAR - WATER

                    in rainbow color on the 5ths

Genesis 7: 11-24

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of the month, that very day all the springs of the great deep burst through, and the sluices of heaven opened. And heavy rain fell on earth for forty days and forty nights.

    That very day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth boarded the ark, with Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons, and with them every species of wild animal, every species of cattle, every species of creeping things that creep along the ground, every species of bird, everything that flies, everything with wings. One pair of all that was alive and had the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah, and those that went aboard were a male and female of all that was alive, as God had commanded him.

    Then Yahweh shut him in.

The flood lasted forty days on earth. The waters swelled, lifting the ark until it floated off the ground. The waters rose, swelling higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters. The waters rose higher and higher above the ground until all the highest mountains under the whole of heaven were submerged. The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains. And all living things that stirred on earth perished; birds, cattle, wild animals, all the creatures swarming over the earth, and all human beings. Everything with the least breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out, people, animals, creeping things and birds; they were wiped off the earth and only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. The waters maintained their level on earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 9: 8-17

   God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons, ‘I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come, and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth. And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’

   ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.’

   ‘That’, God told Noah, ‘is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.’

                Jesus: My body was beaten
                My body bled
                My head crowned with thorns for your
                    pride and anger —

                I was wounded for your sins —

                Always working on relationships
                1) Acknowledging your sins
                2) Saying you are sorry
                3) Repenting
                4) Making reparation

                I paid the price for your sins —
                    You are to keep union with others —
                    When you were wrong — you admit
                        it — you say you are
                        sorry

                R. I saw a show —
                    A man was given a vision of his
                        life —
                        his son had been killed on a
                            bike at a young age     

                        He always traveled
                        He had a mistress
                        He never said no to going away —

                        The boy was killed while he was
                            away with the mistress —

                        He did what he did because
                            he wanted to —
                            they made it clear —
                            "He chose his actions"

                        He made excuses for himself —
                            they kept saying —
                            you did it because you
                                wanted to —

                When we sin and keep sinning forming
                    vices rather than virtues —
                    it's because we want to —

                When we pray — we are to lift
                    our minds and hearts to God —
                    how can we come to God's
                        altar — time and time again
                        with wounds we inflected
                        on others —
                        without repentance —

                The Mass starts with the penitential
                    rite

                We are to be pure and
                    make amends with God and others —

                First to thine own self be true —

2 Corinthians 1: 18-22

Matthew 5: 13-16

Matthew 5: 17-19

    ‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. In truth I tell you, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, is to disappear from the Law until all its purpose is achieved. Therefore, anyone who infringes even one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be considered the least in the kingdom of Heaven; but the person who keeps them and teaches them will be considered great in the kingdom of Heaven.

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