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                June 7, 2016 

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus we place our trust in Thee.

                R. The devil is jealous that man could go to the extent
                of being able to have life eternal.

                    The devil is real.

                    In today's world we see the constant struggle between
                good and evil for mankind.

                    God has called us to spread the Good News.

                    God has told us in this Movement of His unfathomable
                love for man.

                    God is the Creator –

                    God so loved the world He sent His only begotten
                Son.

                    We are to live with the desire and love in our
                hearts to build the Kingdom of God in our actions.

                    How have we contributed to that with our lives?

                    It is a great calling and we are commissioned in
                baptism to spread the Good News.

                    Can you think about how God loves His creation –
                Can we meditate on the sacrifice of Jesus so mankind
                can someday be able to go to heaven?

                    But heaven is a reward. We are to say "yes" to
                God and love and serve God to be able to receive
                this reward.

                    It is God's plan we have a free will and we show
                Him we want to do His will and love Him and our
                brothers or we can reject His will for us, be
                opposed to God's will, be prideful like Eve in the
                Garden and disobedient to God's will.

                    When we oppose God's will - the conflict is
                in us. It leads us further and further from the
                light, from what God intends and then we don't
                feel good, because God created us for Him - to be
                united to Him.

                    We can never be completely happy in this life.
                Happiness is found in God – our goal is God.

                    We were meant to be possessed by God in the beatific
                vision in heaven – we cannot be completely happy
                until we go to heaven, but heaven is a reward
                promised to those who love and serve the Lord.
                God's design is we have a free will and we can
                serve God and love God and love others or we
                can reject God.

                    The sad thing is the more a person gives into
                the deadly sins, pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust,
                gluttony, and sloth – the more blind they
                become in seeing what they need to see to love
                and serve God as they are called by God to do.

                    Yes, heaven is a reward for those who love and
                serve the Lord.

                    Yes, the devil is real and he hates. He hates
                God and he hates us and he is the father of lies –
                He wants to take souls to eternal damnation –
                so he tempts them, deceives them lying and lying,
                appealing to man's pride and anger, hatred,
                envy, slothfulness, jealousy, lust, gluttony –
                Satan wants to bring the man down –
                addiction to sex, giving into pleasures of food
                and drink to access, anger – bring a man
                down –

                    Praying to God for an increase of faith, hope
                and love – Going to God for greater love with
                Him and love for others – raises him up –
                He becomes more one with God – he is filled with
                light – He is more that ideal self God wants
                him to be.

                    He must discipline his actions, he doesn't
                disobey what God wants him to do – He says
                'yes' to God, 'yes' to love of God and others –
                His eyes are focused on Jesus. He sees through the
                eyes of the heavenly Father – The goal of his
                actions is eternal happiness. He loves
                serving God, His beloved, and building His Kingdom
                and he doesn't want to ever offend the God he
                loves with the slightest sin.

Psalm 23: 1

Luke 1: 46

                Mary said

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;

                 R. The devil is real and he wants men to walk in darkness –
                    he wants them to be prideful and challenge
                    what God wants him to do. He wants men to
                    have a bad attitude, to argue –

                    They can be so self-enclosed they do not even see
                others and the calling God is making to them –
                to be a witness before others –

                    The devil comes like a thief to block all
                the plans he can for the building of God's Kingdom.
                He presses on a person to be unloving and
                hateful, when they should show God how
                grateful they are to love Him and serve Him –
                because God is first in their life –
                God is their beloved – It is reason enough to
                serve God in love –

                    The devil presses on the person to give in and
                say 'no' to God. It is a turning in – not
                seeing the chance to witness with their
                life before God and men – how important
                God is to them.

                    The man of God is not turned in –
                Their attitude is not turned in – in challenging
                and rebuttal for the sake of serving satan
                and disobeying God – the man who loves God
                has eyes that are turned out – seeing what
                God wants him to do and to be before
                God and others –

                Turning out –

                Seeing through God's eyes –

                Saying 'yes' to God!

                Seeking God's will and following God's
                    will for them brings happiness and
                    peace to the soul –

                Turning in, challenging, disobeying God –
                    brings unhappiness, chaos to the
                    souls and where they go from saying
                    'no' to God is in greater and greater
                    darkness –

                    When a man gets on an elevator going down –
                it usually goes down and down and down –
                the devil wants a man to turn inward, to
                hate – to give a bad witness before others –

                    Man has a free will to not give into satan
                when God is calling him to serve and love
                Him and bear witness before others.

                    Living more and more in greater faith,
                having the vision of God, lifts the man
                up, his heart is more united to God –
                God is light and love and peace in the heart –

                    It may be suffering, but there is a peace to
                love and to serve God as he is called to do.

                    It is being in harmony with God –

                    Living in harmony with God is living
                        according to God's will.

                    Mary is the perfect handmaid of the Lord.

                    Mary shows us she did the will of God and
                        her attitude was she loved doing the
                        will of God –
                        Mary's whole life was to serve God –
                        that is what being a servant and
                        handmaid of God means –

                    Following Mary's example –

November 4, 2013

 

Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997

Scriptural Reflections

In all this Mary offers an example. Selfishness was totally foreign to her. She did not belong to herself. She belonged to God. She was not closed in upon herself. She was completely open to God. When God spoke, she listened. When God pointed the way, she followed. She realized that life is not a process a person masters by carefully mapping out one's own self-conceived plans of conquest, but a mystery to be gradually experienced by being open to God's personal and loving guidance.

Selfishness, then, did not close Mary off from God's call. Neither did fear. God asked her to assume a tremendous responsibility. He asked her to be the Mother of Jesus. Mary did not engage in a process of false humility and say that such a great role was above her. She did not say that she did not have the proper qualifications for this awesome mission. Briefly, she did not waste time looking at herself, making pleas that she was not worthy, telling the angel he had better go look for someone else. No, Mary did not look at herself. Her gaze was absorbed in God. She fully realized that whatever God asked of her, His grace would accomplish. She fully realized that although she herself had to cooperate, this work was much more God's than hers.

Mary's words, then, truly sum up what is the authentic Christian response at any point of life, in any kind of situation: "I am the handmaid of the Lord," said Mary, "let what you have said be done to me".

                R. Satan is smart – he knows how to deceive
                    a man with his temptations –
                    bad habits can become vices –

                God has given us the Shepherds of Christ to help renew
                    the Church and the world –
                    to bear witness to the truth –
                    to live as a witness to God –

                The devil is full of envy and hatred –

                So many times a man projects his hatred
                    and anger on innocent others –
                    So if he is unloving he projects it
                        and blames another for his
                        unloving ways –

                A man can become so enslaved to
                    turning in and conflict – when
                    God calls him to do the work
                    of building His Kingdom – he
                    relentlessly tries to block the work that needs
                    to be accomplished because of a diseased
                    will that has developed.

                    God calls us to walk in the light – to
                have the attitude of love in our heart
                when we are called on to serve Him –

                    A man that wants darkness can only
                endorse his darkness and there can be,
                as a product of this, no growth in true
                love of building the community, built
                on love and service, that God wants
                to establish there –

                    Enslavement is what happens when a
                person is so steeped in the vices that
                they just respond immediately with the
                turning in and darkness.

                    We cannot become a slave to any
                darkness satan wants us to indulge
                in. God is light –

                    The devil wants to degrade a man –
                so he tempts him and wants him to
                give in – walking in darkness away
                from God brings unhappiness; sorrow
                and sin and no matter how man who
                does so blames others – his conflict is
                with God, not serving in love to do His will,
                not seeing and trusting in God, how he is
                called to do.

                Learning to let go and do God's will is
                the road to happiness. If being in
                charge is the goal, disobeying authority,
                the person has conflict from the get-go –
                not working in harmony with God's will
                for them – knowing their place and letting
                God work in them to help build the Kingdom
                of God –

                    God's ways are not our ways many times –
                When we hold onto that control – we do it our
                way. Some can even pride themselves
                telling themselves God's will is their will.
                It is the other way around –
                We are waiting for God to make His will known
                to us. We are seeking direction from God –
                We are obedient to authority – We have
                commitment to the Plan God wants in
                our life – we aren't always trying to
                push our plan on God and get control
                when we need to listen to what He wants –
                God is the director, we are the souls waiting
                on Him –

                We are learning, we are growing in the
                supernatural life God has given us in
                baptism –

                The man who wants to run things is not
                seeing the gift of allowing God to operate
                in him with His Might.
                He is afraid of the unknown so he tries to
                control it –

                God wants to lift us up – to work in
                faith and hope and love in our life –
                but we must let go to God to have
                Him operating in our lives with His Might.

                God is love –

                The devil is hate and the devil doesn't go
                    on vocation –

                The devil wants a soul to move away
                    from God –
                    You can feel the darkness many times
                    when a person closes in – causes
                    conflict, argumentation, holding out –
                    think of all the energy to take a
                    plan God wants

                And draw out the light through prodding –
                    and working to bring a person of
                    light down –

                Who would want to learn these tricks
                    to try to reduce others to go down
                    in the darkness?

                The devil is real – he wants people enslaved
                    to dark thoughts, turning in, a
                    bad attitude, stopping the work
                    God is trying to accomplish around
                    them.

                Hell is real –

                We have a free will to choose God and His
                    will for us to lift others up as we
                    witness before God and others –

                Or we can be the victims of enslavement,
                    where we turn in when God asks
                    us to promote His Kingdom and
                    only enforce darkness, that which
                    tears down and doesn't build.

                I remember World War II and I watched so
                    much devastation in old films
                    of cities, of homes, of buildings –
                    blown up – in an instant –

                When I see the plan God wants –
                    the building of families,
                    the building of communities –
                    the love of country –
                    the love of neighbor
                    the building up of the Churches –

                We see Mary warned at Fatima, but her
                    message fell on deaf ears –

                This Movement has existed for 22 years –
                    God called servants and handmaids
                    and Apostles to build up a Kingdom
                    of the Love of the Two Hearts –

                This takes seeing through the eyes of
                    God the Father in love –

                Love builds –

                By God's Might things grow –

                God makes the seed grow to a big tree –

                The plastic spoon in the garden is the
                    same 10 years later –

                We must grow in the spiritual life in
                    living according to God's will - in love –

                The deadly sins tear down –
                    the devil is hateful, selfish,
                    angry, envious, jealous,
                    slothful –

                The deadly sins will NOT BRING Growth –

                It takes discipline to do God's will –

                It is a choice to say 'yes' to God with
                    our free will –

                Or to choose darkness and reject God
                    and say 'no' to God –

                We have a free will – to do God's will
                    and love – or to oppose God's will –
                    and do our own will.
               

                June 7, 2016

                R. The opening to one's heart is found
                in the truth – in asking for forgiveness
                for our sins and forgiving those who
                have offended us.

                    Pride, anger, envy, jealousy
                blinds a man more and more –
                the heart becomes harder and
                harder as one chooses to live
                enslaved to the vices of the deadly
                sins.

                    God can bring us to our knees,
                for we are vulnerable under God –
                But we can continue to say
                "no" to God and He can try to
                reach us – in numerous ways
                to help us to be converted, but
                we can reject God and continue
                in pride when great grace may
                be given.

                    We can throw in the face of
                God the grace He is giving to us,
                the way He is trying to reach a
                man with a hardened heart –

                    Forgiveness brings opening
                to our hearts –

                Living in the truth –
                Bondage is in living opposed to
                the truth – in being disharmonious
                to the will of God –

                God wants us in heaven with Him
                forever –

                Jesus showed us the pains of this
                    life should never block
                    the will of God –

                What we have suffered, anger in
                    our hearts, jealousy, bitterness
                    does not determine our
                    actions.

                Our actions must be determined by
                    what is the will of God –
                    keeping our eyes on our eternal
                    goal of everlasting salvation –
                    living in love –

                Love is being more and more like
                    Jesus –

                God is love –
                God is Absolute truth –

                Satan wants to keep men in bondage –

                Satan wants men to choose darkness,
                    and power, to lie and not
                    live in the truth –

                Satan is the father of lies
                Satan is deception –

                Satan wants men combatal
                    and stirring the pot –

                Satan wants men to live to try
                    to prove they are right
                    when they are wrong –

                Their god becomes being right –

                Instead of trying to admit the
                    truth – we are not perfect –
                    a man can live to try
                    to prove he is perfect which
                    is not true – it is a lie –

                Power – men who have lost their
                    power in one situation may
                    seek to prove they have power
                    over others in another
                    situation.

                Unfinished business of deep wounds
                    need to be brought out and
                    dealt with – not act like it
                    never happened and try to
                    keep working out unfinished
                    business on innocent others –
                    Unfinished business will not
                    be healed by acting out on
                    innocent others one's anger
                    and power - over –

                Jesus: Walk in the truth –

                    Be committed in your love of God –
                        to be a servant of God.

                Mary: I am the perfect handmaid of
                    the Lord.

                "My soul doth magnify the Lord
                    and my spirit rejoices in
                    God my Savior."

                My children, God has all the
                    power – why would a
                    man live his whole life
                    in pride –
                    seeking dominance for
                        dominance sake?

                R. Think of how the teachings
                of Jesus have spread. We have
                our responsibility to spread
                the Good News commissioned
                in baptism.

                    A man that is focused on
                himself is focused on power,
                on trying to get anybody out of
                the way that is over them – their
                struggle is not in serving God's
                will and doing what God wants,
                but their struggle is making sure
                they have power where ever they
                have decided to get it back
                for their loss of power in the
                past. Their greatest fear is
                that someone would get over
                them again so they seek power –
                It can be in a particular area
                of their life while they are submissive
                in other situations, but they need
                that power over at least something
                to make up for their fear of losing
                power –

                    A man of forgiveness is examining
                his conscience and forgiving and
                asking to be forgiven. His struggle
                is not with dominance for dominance
                sake. A man who is focused on
                God has their eyes on God and
                wanting to be living in the truth,
                in justice, in fortitude (courage),
                in temperance and prudence.

                    Jesus shows us He loved us
                so much and He shows us about
                forgiveness of our sins –
                He suffered for our sins –
                We must tell God we are sorry
                for our sins –

                    A person can have petty squabbles
                with innocent others to act out
                their own bitterness and conflict
                within themselves with the will of God.

                    God has called us to love.
                God is love – God commands us
                to love Him and love our brothers.

                    When we see all of God's gifts
                and creation, the beauty of His
                gifts given to us we can see our
                own blindness in not recognizing
                such gifts.

                    Jesus tells us the message of
                LOVE. We are commanded to love –
                created in the image and likeness
                of God.

                    Who is in chains – the man
                who loves and gives and promotes –
                the Kingdom of God or the
                man who engages in anger,
                darkness and hatred because
                of the conflict in himself
                with God. The man who lives in
                darkness can carry in his life
                that darkness and the hatred to
                blame others for what is in
                him.

                    God has called us to bear
                witness not to feed ourselves
                into the hands of those in
                darkness –

                    God calls and those who
                love God give in love to serve
                Him. It is a paradox to say
                someone does God's work in
                anger - in fighting – it is
                a paradox to be mad and
                say "I serve God".

                    God calls us to love. God
                sends people to us to help us –
                God has given us His Word to
                feed us. His Word is our truth.