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June 5, 2015

June 6th Holy Spirit Novena
 Scripture selection is Day 6 Period I.

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                June 5, 2015

                Jesus: The night, the day. Today you see the gift it
                is to go to bed at night and to see that
                I give you rest. To be one with Me in all
                you do, to allow the Spirit of God to
                control your hearts and to serve God
                in all you do.

                    I am the way, the truth and the
                life – I call you to live in the truth
                in your hearts. I am absolute truth.
                I call you to be alive – to live in
                this holy mystery, to be one in Me
                in all you do.

                R. Dear Jesus, we thank You for Your
                gifts given to us. Dear Jesus, we pray
                the world will open their hearts to know
                You, to love You, to serve You. We give
                ourselves to You, today and always.
                Come to us Lord and Possess our
                souls.

                Jesus: I have made you to love, to give
                to others this wonderful gift of
                your life and to live in obedience
                to the Father's will. I have made you
                to make this moment in your
                life to be a moment to serve
                God and to give your all to the
                building of the Kingdom.

                A man went out – early in the morning
                and it was still dark – but his hopes
                were to get an early start, to work
                hard and to do his chores needed
                to live that day. Do you know how
                many people labored before you to
                live, just to live by starting this
                way - everyday – and they worked so
                hard before you have all the modern
                conveniences you have, just to
                live, just to survive, just to take
                care of their family –

                    How is your barometer of life?
                Have the life you have been given,
                the conveniences you have,
                the way you can have more
                time and freedom – has it made you
                soft? Are you more free to give love?
                Has it made you see your brothers
                with eyes of love and unity?
                Does the bitterness in the man's heart
                closed down and fearful make
                him happy – or does he labor to
                protect his addictive, closed down
                days – in which he is driven
                away from real life of love in
                his heart to serve his numbness
                and fear?

                    Enslavement comes when a soul
                closes themselves off from others
                in fear. Being alive means you are
                not controlling – God that gives
                you life is in you and God is the
                Master, whom you serve.

                    Do you serve God with your
                whole heart, your whole soul,
                you whole being? Do you live
                saying, Jesus I put my trust in
                you? Do you really live?
                Do you live death/resurrection,
                dying to selfishness and rising
                in God's Plan for you?

                    Have you practiced love in
                all things from these writings –
                Love, sweetheart, is unity –
                Love gives freely to promote the
                good of others.

                Love is ready to serve God and His
                will for you in your life.

                Love is living –
                Love is giving –

                Love is seeing the beauty of
                    a new day, as a gift given
                    by God and watching it
                    unfold as He works in
                    your heart and your lives.

                The deadly sins make you feel dead
                    inside.

                The man stuck in anger, sees
                    darkness –

                I am the way, the truth and the
                    life.

                A man loving God is plugged
                    in – His Heart is beating –
                    He has life flowing in his
                    veins, He is motivated by
                    that love – alive in him –

                Love finds the way –
                Love knows truth –

                Love is pumping with the Spirit
                    of God filling His life –

                Love – Love – Love –

                Love finds a way –
                Love builds –
                Love raises up –

                Love gives and doesn't count
                    the cost –

                Love is not like a man making
                    his own footprints in cement
                    and being stuck because
                    it hardened while he was
                    trying to imprint his
                    footprints there –

                Love is the gift of self given –

                Selfishness is the man who
                    is closed down –
                    full of fear –
                    making his plans –
                    afraid to be with others –

                God has a plan –

                    You are under the plan of
                        the Father –

                    Have you reported and are
                        you serving Him, His
                        way?

                    Are you putty in the hands of
                the potter?

                    Have you sent Him and
                everyone away – so you can
                be alone with dark thoughts
                of deadness –

                    I am God –

                    I am the way, the truth
                and the life –

                    Do not press down with clenched
                fist – relax and let the Holy Spirit
                come and bring you peace.

                    Know God is with you now
                in all you do feel His presence
                with you – Let go, experience
                His life in you –

                A man set out on a journey
                and he prepared things for
                his trip – he was so weighed
                down after a few minutes he
                did not have energy to go the
                distance so he said, what
                can I shed to go further, my
                baggage has stopped me dead
                here –

                And so he looked at his things
                and he didn't want to leave
                any baggage behind –

                    Will the man ever reach
                his destiny when his baggage
                has weighed him down and he
                can't carry it?

                Is the baggage more important
                than the destiny?

                In the end  – you take nothing
                with you – not even
                your toothbrush –

                    Your hearts are to be hearts
                of love – You are to have a
                deep loving relationship
                with God and others

                    I laid down My life for
                you, My precious one – so
                you could live – so you
                could seek and find eternal life
                with Me in heaven –

   

John 1: 14

The Word became flesh, 
he lived among us, 
and we saw his glory, 
the glory that he has from the Father 
    as only Son of the Father, 
full of grace and truth.

 

                Jesus: I loved you so much, I took
                on a human nature and came
                in the womb of the Virgin Mary through
                the power of the Holy Spirit –

                Your life is a precious gift given
                    to you by God – to love and
                    serve God – the way God
                    wills you to be –
     

John 1: 18-23

John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son,
   who is close to the Father’s heart,
who has made him known.

The witness of John

This was the witness of John, when the Jews sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’ He declared, he did not deny but declared, ‘I am not the Christ.’ So they asked, ‘Then are you Elijah?’ He replied, ‘I am not.’ ‘Are you the Prophet?’ He answered, ‘No.’ So they said to him, ‘Who are you? We must take back an answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?’ So he said, ‘I am, as Isaiah prophesied:

    A voice of one that cries in the desert:
    Prepare a way for the Lord.
    Make his paths straight!’

   

                Jesus: I am God, I came to you –
                I remain with you today –
                I came to you a baby –
                I want your love –
                I am love –

                Can you ponder the unfathomable
                    mystery that God, the Son of God,
                    took flesh out of love for you?

                I am truly present, Body, Blood
                    Soul and Divinity in the Eucharist –
                    no less present than when
                    I walked the earth –

                I am God –

                    I give you a sharing in My life
                in baptism. God the Father, Myself and
                God the Holy Spirit remain in you in
                a special way when you are
                baptized and remain in the state
                of grace.

                    Harken to Me – live your life
                as the Father desires – let go
                of your control and your
                ways you close down –
                My child what are you
                saving yourself for –

                This is reality

                    "I am with you, today"

                I am your friend, I love you,
                I want you to know Me, I want
                to dwell deeply in your heart.
                I am the Sacred Heart.

                    I have given My Movement, Shepherds
                of Christ – to this earth to lead men, in love,
                to the depth of My Heart – to
                know Me – to know My life in them –
                I am the way, the truth and the life –
                I am your Savior.

                    I paid a big price for your sins –
                so you could be with Me in
                heaven and help others to be with
                Me –

                    My Mother begged you on
                May 5th to pray for her children,
                ready to die in sin – and
                lose their souls – Those
                refusing My gift and
                living in mortal sin – condemn
                themselves –

                Oh My people have you not
                understood –

                I give to you this gift –
                I died for you –
                I rose on the 3rd day –

                Through My pierced Heart the
                    Church was born –
                    The gift of this sacramental
                    life given in the Church –

                Oh My people, men are hungry to
                know this gift I give –
                Men are thirsty –
                Do not hold back the Mighty Medicine
                I ask you to give to those I
                died for –
                I have given and given Myself to you –
                I give you the Bread of Life –
                I give you the Holy Eucharist –
                I give you My Life –

  

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

   

                Excerpts from the Priestly Newsletter 1999 - Issue 4

The Eucharist

  • Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church’s universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, ‘in this clean oblation’ He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS. XXXV, 232-233)11

                11. Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS, XXXV, pp. 232-233.

 

The Church and Reconciliation

John Paul II instructs us: "Sin is ... a wound inflicted upon the Church. In fact, every sin harms the holiness of the ecclesial community. Since all the faithful are in solidarity in the Christian community, there can never be a sin which does not have an effect on the whole community. If it is true that the good done by one person is a benefit and help to all the others, unfortunately it is equally true that the evil committed by one obstructs the perfection to which all are tending...

"Reconciliation with God is also reconciliation with the Church, and in a certain sense with all of creation, whose harmony is violated by sin. The Church is the mediatrix of this reconciliation. It is a role assigned to her by her Founder, who gave her the mission and power of forgiving sins. Every instance of reconciliation with God thus takes place in an explicit or implicit, conscious or unconscious, relationship with the Church".15

15. Pope John Paul II, as in The Pope Speaks, 37/5, 1992, 305, as in Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, p. 149.

                     

Dying for Others--Every Day

Jesus tells us: "No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends." {Jn 15:13}

In rarer moments of heroic reflection, we perhaps have dreamed of sensational ways through which we may be called to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters in the human family. For most of us, however, such opportunities will probably never occur--and we should not lament. Our courage could well be far less in a real situation than it is in the inflated proportions of dream-like musings. Most people perform much better in the less heroic atmosphere of everyday sameness. Yet each day, usually so ordinarily similar to both the one which has preceded and the one which will follow, offers constant opportunities for the laying down of our lives for others. If these daily opportunities are less sensational than the more heroic occasions, they are much more numerous, and, therefore, much more consistently present as possibilities for serving others.

Dying daily for others means many things. It means curbing those persistent selfish tendencies, which, if left unchecked, gradually narrow our vision so that we hardly think of anyone but ourselves. Dying daily for others means working at being kind and patient--seemingly little things, but immensely important in maintaining a spirit of harmony. Dying daily for others means fidelity to our work, even though this fidelity must be expressed amid negative feelings such as discouragement, laziness, boredom and disinterest. Dying daily for others means these and many other things, some of which we all share in common, some of which are peculiar to each one’s uniqueness. One of these common elements is this: dying for others in daily and varied fashion is an expression of our present concern while at the same time it increases our capacity for future love of others.

 

Colossians 1: 15-18

He is the image of the unseen God,
the first–born of all creation,
for in him were created all things
in heaven and on earth:
everything visible
    and everything invisible,
thrones, ruling forces,
    sovereignties, powers—
all things were created through him
    and for him.
He exists before all things
and in him all things hold together,
and he is the Head of the Body,
that is, the Church.

He is the Beginning,
the first–born from the dead,
so that he should be supreme in every way;

 

The Theology of Consecration

A. Boussard gives an extremely fine and concise sketch of the theology of consecration: "By the Incarnation, in and of itself, the Humanity of Jesus is consecrated, so that in becoming Man, Jesus is ipso facto constituted Savior, Prophet, King, Priest, and Victim of the one sacrifice that was to save the world. He is the ‘Anointed’, par excellence, the ‘Christ’ totally belonging to God, His Humanity being that of the Word and indwelled by the Holy Spirit. When, by a free act of His human will, He accepts what He is, doing what He was sent to do, He can say that He consecrates ‘Himself’. In Christ, therefore, what might be called His ‘subjective’ consecration is a perfect response to the ‘objective’ consecration produced in His Humanity through the Incarnation....

"Through Baptism Christians also are consecrated and ‘anointed’ by the power of the Spirit. They share, in their measure, in the essential consecration of Christ, in His character of King, Priest, and Prophet...

"With Christ and through Christ they are ‘ordered’ to the glory of God and the salvation of the world. They do not belong to themselves. They belong to Christ the Lord, who imparts His own life to them...

"The vocation of those who have been baptized is to ‘live’ this consecration by a voluntary adherence--and one that is as perfect as possible--to what it has made of them. Living as ‘children of God’, they fulfill subjectively their objective consecration; like Jesus, they consecrate themselves. This is the deeper meaning of vows and baptismal promises, together with the actual way of life corresponding to them. The baptismal consecration is the fundamental one, constitutive of the Christian. All consecrations which come after it presuppose and are rooted in it..."17

17. A. Boussard, as in Dictionary of Mary-, Catholic Book Publishing Co., pp. 54-55.

 

Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
 and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

"Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!

"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."

 

 

 

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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!
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                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
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