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July 10, 2004
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Retreat in China begins night of the July 9th.
Anyone doing the retreat should report
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July 11th, 12th, ending on the 13th
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July 10, 2004
Jesus speaks: I am Light.
Satan is darkness.
In this retreat I call you to self-
examination — so your pipes
will be open for love —
loving Me —
loving yourself as a child
created by God
loving others
Open your hearts —
Be docile to My touch
Let My grace fill you
Pray for healing
Pray for light —
Pray from the depth of
your heart for grace.
I am the Ultimate Mystery —
You must want to know Me —
Satan gets you focused on
yourselves —
Satan wants you with
clogged pipes —
Pray to the Holy Spirit
Say Dear God,
I come the poor banished child
of Eve. I want to deeply live
in you. I want to intimately
be one in this community
Shepherds of Christ —
help me this first day to see the
big pieces of furniture in
my life that block my loving
union with You and others.
Give me grace.
Holy Spirit fill me.
Dear God help me to keep You
as the One on the throne
of my heart —
to do all things for
Your honor and glory and
not for vain glory —
Dear God help me to see my
faults — hidden things
I do that keep me from
intimacy with You and
others ——
Dear God —
Help us in this community —
to be united with this
special oneness for this
mission.
Dear Holy Spirit flood
us with grace
Dear God help us to be
loving —
Please God heal our
hearts ——
help us to be truthful,
humble
and holy
and give ourselves entirely
to You.
Dear God help us to do Your will,
Help the Newsletter to go
around the world.
One mind, one heart
intimacy — allowing oneself to be
vulnerable — to open up —
to connect
Open up your heart
3 loves — love of God
love of self
love of others
Open —
A little old man never looked in
the mirror — after 20 years
a child came to him and showed
him a mirror —
The man was shocked — he had white
hair, a long beard and he had wrinkles all
over his face.
A man was married — he carried all
this baggage from his childhood — all
the rooms in the house were so
cluttered his new bride could not
walk to get to the kitchen table
or the bed.
He held onto all his baggage
like his most desired treasures.
There must be an open pipe
line to connect in intimate relationships
and to Me.
James had separated from his wife —
he never forgave her — he carried
that unforgiveness into every intimate
relationship he tried to have. He
was controlling in everything he did —
little problems were never handled
directly — it could block everything
that had to happen because he
put his own controlling mode on
everything. Asking James to help carry
a box of books meant getting hurt by
the games he played. He wanted to
hurt and control.
A person who is in one mind and one
heart — leans in — heads in — to accomplish
the task and tries to make it happen.
A person with a lot of baggage can
play ring-around-the rosy and never
sit down. Their joy is in the control —
they seize the opportunity to be needed
then they dump wheel barrows of manure
in the pipes of those who try to
accomplish a God given task. In
their pipes are clogs that are dense —
how can one ever unite intimately with
one who has never gone through some
self-examination of their debris.
Institutions can be like this, families —
schools, work — where all want to
accomplish the task, see the vision
accomplished and others because of
baggage, walls-thick in their pipes,
block the job at every turn — manipulating,
doing the work of satan, stalling,
trying to lead emotions, jobs for
the sake of control.
When power is lost in one situation —
some may spend life long trying to get
power back from other women or
other men.
Forgiveness is the issue.
Self-examination of conscience.
How does a clogged pipe operate?
Here is the head — here is the heart —
here are the senses —
Mary Lou had a clogged windpipe —
she died.
The intimacy I have given to get the
Blue Book Messages and other
messages — come from an
open pipe line.
When given a job, when interacting
with others, when loving ——
To work efficiently there must be
an open pipe —
My pipes were always open.
On the way to Calvary My pipes were open —
My thoughts of you.
The devil comes and talks in
some peoples head and they focus on
that — they give into that — they
become crippled, stagnant — filled
with debris, filler
It is necessary to pray to the
Holy Spirit — to let God fill
you.
Clogged pipes do not flow.
Mary Lou had so much baggage
from hurt relationships —
Like a laborer shoveling dirt
from a pile — she dumped wheel-
barrows of dirt on every one she
met.
When Mary Lou left the person
then had to spend days shoveling
away the dirt she left.
What is the situation.
FORGIVENESS
SELF-EXAMINATION
praying for grace —
Satan talks in the head —
you will not have deep intimate
relationships with Me and others
if you continue to play —
self-defeating games —
Some never trust —
Some never open up —
They have 5 mile walls around
them, protecting their wounds —
but the soul was created for
love and intimacy —
Who can remove the 10 foot walls
you put around your heart —
so you hope you never get
hurt again and
I say to them —
Who will fill your cry for love —
you don't even open to Me?
Secrets — the devil works in secrets —
many tell themselves lies —
that block intimacy with Me
and others —
They lie about the truth —
They create problems in their
present life with those
around them in an attempt — one
last time to work out old
wounded relationship problems
on new innocent partners.
Psychology
Recovery
LOVE
Forgiveness
Holiness
Truth
Truth
Truth
Sing: Battle Hymn of the Republic
A person with problems looks into
the mirrored faces of others, they
don't hide in their head, and
isolate so they can write the script.
Intimate relationships require
openness. The Blue Book writings
tell you truth —
Many write their "own truths"
which is not real truth at all.
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. pp. 141-146
313. RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
IRules for understanding to some extent the different movements produced in the soul and for recognizing those that are good to admit them, and those that are bad, to reject them. These rules are more suited to the first week
314. I. In the case of those who go from one mortal sin to another, the enemy is ordinarily accustomed to propose apparent pleasures. He fills their imagination with sensual delights and gratifications, the more readily to keep them in their vices and increase the number of their sins.
With such persons the good spirit uses a method which is the reverse of the above. Making use of the light of reason, he will rouse the sting of conscience and fill them with remorse.
315. 2. In the case of those who go on earnestly striving to cleanse their souls from sin and who seek to rise in the service of God our Lord to greater perfection, the method pursued is the opposite of that mentioned in the first rule.
Then it is characteristic of the evil spirit to harass with anxiety, to afflict with sadness, to raise obstacles backed by fallacious reasonings that disturb the soul. Thus he seeks to prevent the soul from advancing.
It is characteristic of the good spirit, however, to give courage and strength, consolations, tears, inspirations, and peace. This He does by making all easy, by removing all obstacles so that the soul goes forward in doing good.
316. 3. SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION. I call it consolation when an interior movement is aroused in the soul, by which it is inflamed with love of its Creator and Lord, and as a consequence, can love no creature on the face of the earth for its own sake, but only in the Creator of them all. It is likewise consolation when one sheds tears that move to the love of God, whether it be because of sorrow for sins, or because of the sufferings of Christ our Lord, or for any other reason that is immediately directed to the praise and service of God. Finally, I call consolation every increase of faith, hope, and love, and all interior joy that invites and attracts to what is heavenly and to the salvation of one's soul by filling it with peace and quiet in its Creator and Lord.
317. 4. SPIRITUAL DESOLATION. I call desolation what is entirely the opposite of what is described in the third rule, as darkness of soul, turmoil of spirit, inclination to what is low and earthly, restlessness rising from many disturbances and temptations which lead to want of faith, want of hope, want of love. The soul is wholly slothful, tepid, sad, and separated, as it were, from its Creator and Lord. For just as consolation is the opposite of desolation, so the thoughts that spring from consolation are the opposite of those that spring from desolation.
318. 5. In time of desolation we should never make any change, but remain firm and constant in the resolution and decision which guided us the day before the desolation, or in the decision to which we adhered in the preceding consolation. For just as in consolation the good spirit guides and counsels us, so in desolation the evil spirit guides and counsels. Following his counsels we can never find the way to a right decision.
319. 6. Though in desolation we must never change our former resolutions, it will be very advantageous to intensify our activity against the desolation. We can insist more upon prayer, upon meditation, and on much examination of ourselves. We can make an effort in a suitable way to do some penance.
320. 7. When one is in desolation, he should be mindful that God has left him to his natural powers to resist the different agitations and temptations of the enemy in order to try him. He can resist with the help of God, which always remains, though he may not clearly perceive it. For though God has taken from him the abundance of fervor and overflowing love and the intensity of His favors, nevertheless, he has sufficient grace for eternal salvation.
321. 8. When one is in desolation, he should strive to persevere in patience. This reacts against the vexations that have overtaken him. Let him consider, too, that consolation will soon return, and in the meantime, he must diligently use the means against desolation which have been given in the sixth rule.
322. 9. The principal reasons why we suffer from desolation are three:
The first is because we have been tepid and slothful or negligent in our exercises of piety, and so through our own fault spiritual consolation has been taken away from us.
The second reason is because God wishes to try us, to see how much we are worth, and how much we will advance in His service and praise when left without the generous reward of consolations and signal favors.
The third reason is because God wishes to give us a true knowledge and understanding of ourselves, so that we may have an intimate perception of the fact that it is not within our power to acquire and attain great devotion, intense love, tears, or any other spiritual consolation; but that all this is the gift and grace of God our Lord. God does not wish us to build on the property of another, to rise up in spirit in a certain pride and vainglory and attribute to ourselves the devotion and other effects of spiritual consolation.
323. 10. When one enjoys consolation, let him consider how he will conduct himself during the time of ensuing desolation, and store up a supply of strength as defense against that day.
324. 11. He who enjoys consolation should take care to humble himself and lower himself as much as possible. Let him recall how little he is able to do in time of desolation, when he is left without such grace or consolation.
On the other hand, one who suffers desolation should remember that by making use of the sufficient grace offered him, he can do much to withstand all his enemies. Let him find his strength in his Creator and Lord.
325. 12. The enemy conducts himself as a woman. He is a weakling before a show of strength, and a tyrant if he has his will. It is characteristic of a woman in a quarrel with a man to lose courage and take to flight if the man shows that he is determined and fearless. However, if the man loses courage and begins to flee, the anger, vindictiveness, and rage of the woman surge up and know no bounds. In the same way, the enemy becomes weak, loses courage, and turns to flight with his seductions as soon as one leading a spiritual life faces his temptations boldly, and does exactly the opposite of what he suggests. However, if one begins to be afraid and to lose courage in temptations, no wild animal on earth can be more fierce than the enemy of our human nature. He will carry out his perverse intentions with consummate malice.
326. 13. Our enemy may also be compared in his manner of acting to a false lover. He seeks to remain hidden and does not want to be discovered. If such a lover speaks with evil intention to the daughter of a good father, or to the wife of a good husband, and seeks to seduce them, he wants his words and solicitations kept secret. He is greatly displeased if his evil suggestions and depraved intentions are revealed by the daughter to her father, or by the wife to her husband. Then he readily sees he will not succeed in what he has begun. In the same way, when the enemy of our human nature tempts a just soul with his wiles and seductions, he earnestly desires that they be received secretly and kept secret. But if one manifests them to a confessor, or to some other spiritual person who understands his deceits and malicious designs, the evil one is very much vexed. For he knows that he cannot succeed in his evil undertaking, once his evident deceits have been revealed.
327. 14. The conduct of our enemy may also be compared to the tactics of a leader intent upon seizing and plundering a position he desires. A commander and leader of an army will encamp, explore the fortifications and defenses of the stronghold, and attack at the weakest point. In the same way, the enemy of our human nature investigates from every side all our virtues, theological, cardinal, and moral. Where he finds the defenses of eternal salvation weakest and most deficient, there he attacks and tries to take us by storm.
end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
July 10, 2004 message continues
Messenger: Dear Jesus
I want holiness. I want to move the furniture from the room.
You know my sins God far better than me.
I am sorry Jesus.
How Did I Treat You Today?
April 15, 1994 12:50p.m.
R. How did I treat you this day, you, very special soul, created by God? You are God's precious child. Were you treated harshly when you were little, or has someone wronged you this very day, or are you sick and suffering? I do not know all the details of your life, but I do know you are a precious child of God and you are my brother.
How did I treat you this day? Did I think how much God loves you and wants you with Him forever in heaven? Did I think about your soul when I saw you hurting? I want to go to heaven and I want to be there with you. You are my brother and I love you.
I knew you were hurting today and I didn't see your soul. I only listened to your angry words and tolerated you and walked away. I made myself right and thought about you with anger. I told others and felt more right and knew you were definitely wrong. I didn't feel good inside. I knew you were suffering. Could I not have smiled and forgotten your anger and prayed for your aching heart? I know you are my brother. I want to be in heaven with you. You needed God's love today. Did I love you for Him or did I walk away?
I want to love like you. The more I know what You are asking me to do, the more I know how truly beautiful a Person You are. Jesus, it is hard to love our brothers when they wrong us. Jesus, it is hard to forgive their misdeeds. Jesus, You forgave those who tore Your flesh. The way to You, Lord, is love and forgiveness!
Jesus: My child, you do not do anything alone. When you come to Me in the Eucharist and in front of the tabernacle, I give you special graces to help you love. I shower you with My love. I fill you with such gifts you cannot receive anywhere on the face of this earth.
Do you, My beloved ones, want to love your brothers? Do you want to know My ways and live in harmony with Me? Come to Me in My Blessed Sacrament and let Me minister to you. The time you spend after Communion is your dearest treasure. Do not run from My altar to get to your world. Stay and let Me bathe you in My beautiful love! I bathe you. You leave with such beautiful love to share with your beloved ones.
I call you to give My love to My hurting brothers. I call you to love them for Me. I call you to minister love to them.
R. How did I treat you this day? Did I treat you with His love? Do I really want to touch you so you will go to heaven? Did I miss a golden opportunity to share God's love with you when you needed it so badly?
How did I preach the gospel to you this day? Do I really love you, my brother?
end of April 15, 1994
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