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July 10, 2015
R. We have been given so many gifts in baptism.
If only we would realize this magnificent
gift of sharing in His life. If only we
realized what it meant to have an
elevated knowing and loving capacity –
God has given us this beauty to go
beyond the natural capabilities and
to know and love in this supernatural
way.
Look at the ocean.
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Look at the Sunrise and Sunset
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Look at the baby
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Look at Our Lady of Clearwater
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Now envision as I saw Mary June 5, 2015.
June 6, 2015 - Eve of Precious Body and Blood of Jesus
Month of the Sacred Heart
R. See high, see low –
See as you desire –
Our eyes are a wonderful gift given
to us from God
–
We can open our eyes or close our
eyes –
We can look straight ahead –
look high or
look low –
We can see with our eyes –
We can scan the scene from
right to left –
We can focus on trying to see the
big picture with our eyes –
We can drive a car and see with
other cars moving how to
go in union with them.
We can watch a play at the theater
but if it is boring we can close our
eyes and go to sleep.
We can watch the Mass and see
the priest –
What we see can make us cry –
What we see can help lead us to action –
What we see can help take us from danger
What we see can lead us to a new endeavor –
We can see a new born baby –
We can see a person laid out in a coffin –
We can read and learn with our eyes –
Were not our eyes a gift given to us
by God –
Last night Mary appeared to me in the
Virgin Mary building on the 5th –
She appeared in the deepest –
brightest light I cannot describe or
compare to any light I know –
it was beyond and
It's depth and intensity of light –
I cannot describe
She was beautiful and seeing her
face before me, in the mystical
was –
alive and different – it did not
remain the same –
She had given me messages –
prior to this intense apparition
of celestial beauty – I cannot
begin to describe
The messages will be transcribed and
published –
But then she appeared and she did
not speak at all –
It was the vision –
The vision of intensity – I was so
wrapped in it and could not
say to lead the Hail Marys –
My physical abilities were
numbed as I was enveloped
in her vision before me –
the light beyond description –
the depth so deep and so very
real –
the lady as she was encased in
this celestial aura was
deep in that heavenly vision
a Mother alive in celestial
light –
in the front of the depth while
the light was never exhausted –
behind and around her
A light it seemed deeper than the
ocean and farther than any
sea –
solid and bright with a light
unknown to me
And her beauty in celestial surroundings,
her beauty mystical – beyond anything
I have ever seen –
No breath or depth – no high or low,
no light can be a measure for
the opening to this window of
celestial beauty –
Forever – Forever – God tells us of
heaven –
A foreverness was this vision like
the scripture
1 Corinthians 2:9
"What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualise; all that God has prepared for those who love him;"
R. Did you ever see the sun dance on
the ocean, or a sun dressed
body of water –
There is movement – like nothing
else you know –
When she appeared this vision is
not static or like what we
see with regard its movement –
I see no movement
It is –
Ever changing, beauteous and without
a beginning or an end to what
I am seeing –
It is, I see no change, but it
is alive in beauty and
different entirely that I am
drawn into it and almost unable
to talk, to use my physical
things –
I am in the intensity of this apparition –
in it and it is and it has
depth and light and beauty and is
alive –
I can't describe it at all –
If I can see the sun dancing on a
body of endless water, can I
tell you of it so you can enjoy
the experience and try to describe
the movement, the light, the
depth – the sky that meets
way out in beautiful blue
against the silver waters dancing
in radiant light –
You may identify with what you
have seen of this and enjoy it
with me, but
The vision of Mary –
the living appearance of her –
the light –
the Virgin Mother as she showed
herself in a celestial way
to me –
I cannot even find anything to
identify this with and
Yet it was so real –
so beautiful –
so that it captivated me deeply
to be enthralled in it –
I cannot describe
But I know more of eternity –
that with depth and breath
we do not know or
comprehend –
We are blind to the celestial reward,
relationship with God in intense
purity and unity – eternally –
We are on earth and we measure with
our spoons and ounces, we see
with eyes veiled
And God is beyond and other and
yet He has given us Jesus Christ in
the Eucharist to come to us
and feed the sharing in His life
we have from baptism –
If He spoke now – He would say
reach – reach and reach –
go out and spread the Good News –
Man is so stilted in his ways
and he can be so bolted to the
earth, but we were created
in the image and likeness of God –
created to reach to the heights –
to dig deeply into the Mystery –
to know that the unseen is real –
to not be stifled because we
stand in a cement sidewalk
wrapped in the beauty of our
own footprint –
The footprints we follow are
those of the Son of God for we
were created in His
image and likeness
The seen and the unseen –
Do we see at all beyond
our eyes –
the Mystery of God –
the Mystery of Jesus –
the Mystery of the Incarnation
the Mystery of the sacramental
life of the Church –
the Mystery of Jesus truly present
Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity
in the Eucharist
Reach – Reach – Reach –
See the unseen –
Dig deep into the Heart of Jesus
Beg for the Holy Spirit to fill us with
His gifts to see, to
understand, to know,
to love, to be holy,
to fear God and to be
full of wisdom and council –
This is relationship of us –
human creatures with
the Divine God –
This is about the gift of baptism –
The sharing in Divine Life –
This is about being nurtured
with the Bread of Life
the Eucharist and His Word –
This is about the unseen and
the seen –
This is about preparing ourselves
for the goal of eternal
happiness –
Seeing God face to face –
Being wrapped in the beatific vision –
My people this is about Mary
appearing in the Virgin Mary building
and showing me last night –
her beauty that I cannot
even describe and
when she appeared that
way – she said nothing –
she just took me into
this beauty and I behold her
and what she showed
me and
in the end
R. How can I
draw
this?
We are earthly and
He is heavenly and
yet He wants to reveal
secrets of Himself to
us and have an intimate
relationship with us –
Mary wants a personal relationship
with us –
She is our spiritual Mother –
Open your eyes and your hearts to
God and to our Mother at Our Side
end of excerpt
R.
See the moon shining on a lake
on a moon light night –
How much greater is the gift
God gives to us in baptism –
beyond the beauty of what is natural.
Man is going down in many cases
of his appreciation of what God has given.
We need to reach beyond to know
God deeper and deeper – to prepare
for heaven –
Let us focus on the gift
of baptism on our soul –
We see the imperfections of the deadly
sins – how man is out of order
when he sins – how Eve raised
herself and wanted to be
equal to God –
Come Holy Spirit Come enlighten the
minds of us to see the gifts You
give us and to seek this –
From July 3, 2015 Rosary
5. Mary: Empty out your trash can before it is too late. I am Mary, the Queen of Peace.
Today's Readings
Genesis 46: 1-7, 28-30
Jacob leaves for Egypt
So Israel set out with all his possessions. Arriving at Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. God spoke to Israel in a vision at night, ‘Jacob, Jacob,’ he said. ‘Here I am,’ he replied. ‘I am El, God of your father,’ he said. ‘Do not be afraid of going down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. I shall go down to Egypt with you and I myself shall bring you back again, and Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.’ So Jacob left Beersheba. Israel’s sons conveyed their father Jacob, their little children and their wives in the waggons Pharaoh had sent to fetch him.
Taking their livestock and all that they had acquired in Canaan, they arrived in Egypt—Jacob and all his offspring. With him to Egypt, he brought his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.
Joseph welcomes them
Israel sent Judah ahead to Joseph, so that Judah might present himself to Joseph in Goshen. When they arrived in Goshen, Joseph had his chariot made ready and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as he appeared he threw his arms round his neck and for a long time wept on his shoulder. Israel said to Joseph, ‘Now I can die, now that I have seen you in person and seen you still alive.’
Psalm 37: 3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40
Bet
Put your trust in Yahweh and do right,
make your home in the land and live secure.
Make Yahweh your joy
and he will give you your heart’s desires.Yod
The lives of the just are in Yahweh's care,
their birthright will endure for ever;
they will not be put to shame when bad times come,
in time of famine they will have plenty.Samek
Turn your back on evil and do good,
you will have a home for ever,
for Yahweh loves justice
and will not forsake his faithful.Taw
The upright have Yahweh for their Saviour,
their refuge in times of trouble;
Yahweh helps them and rescues them,
he will rescue them from the wicked,
and save them because they take refuge in him.
Matthew 10: 16-23
Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be cunning as snakes and yet innocent as doves.
Missionaries will be persecuted
‘Be prepared for people to hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues. You will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as evidence to them and to the gentiles. But when you are handed over, do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes, because it is not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you.
‘Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will come forward against their parents and have them put to death. You will be universally hated on account of my name; but anyone who stands firm to the end will be saved. If they persecute you in one town, take refuge in the next; and if they persecute you in that, take refuge in another. In truth I tell you, you will not have gone the round of the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.
R.
We see Joseph united to
his father –
They embraced each other and cried –
Think of how wonderful it would
be to be united to God in the
beatific vision.
One Year before Mary appeared in Clearwater
20 Years Ago
Excerpt from the Mass Book
T
HE EARTH STOPPED AND TOUCHED HEAVENI long to unite in the deepest union with Him in the Eucharist. I long for the Mass. I long for Thee, oh God. My every moment, I join as I did to You December 15 under the cross, where I felt Your presence. You whisked me away, and I was totally absorbed in that moment of celestial union with You. For that time, I existed only in You, in the deepest union, and I was in this moment existing in You. The earth stopped, and I touched the heavens, all my bodily cares were existent in You. I existed in Your Divinity, my being was in You. There was no desire or wish or wanting, for in that moment, I had all I wanted in You. I was satisfied and wanted nothing but to remain in that embrace. You were the Being, and my being existed in You, but I was only as I was in You - merged in You, knowing and being in Your Divinity and being so full as to feel complete in myself.
You are so enormous, and You surrounded me in a burning embrace, the presence of red fire. I was not little, or "nothing", but existed in this enormous power and being so complete!
I touched eternity, and in that embrace, I knew all the waiting was worth the glory. You enveloped my being, and I was truly merged in the Divine Presence. I was merged in Your being. I existed IN You, with You, in the highest union with You, although I knew I was still distinct from You.
I was fused and absorbed in You, feeling complete and satisfied. To describe this union is far beyond any work of my pen and paper. I pray for the reader of this page to receive the grace to share this experience with Him, I will now live for this union-to be forever merged In Him, to be One in Him, to reach higher perfection as I exist in Him, for He takes the lowly and gives to them a sharing in Himself. He merges with us and we exist in Him. The word "in" - I could write pages about. I long for the deepest union with Him, where I am swept up in the heavenly embrace of the Divine God, and I am IN Him.
This is heaven on earth: to be merged as one with Divinity, although remaining distinct from God, to take our feeble hearts, our lowly status and to unite ourselves with the Divine, Almighty, powerful God and in this union to be meshed with Him, that His power dominates and our humanity reaches its heights of fulfillment in this union, in this oneness with Him.
The word I have looked for is "oneness." I understand some of the meaning of the words "One in Him." Oneness is the word to describe this union of our humanity with His Divinity. The depth to which we could meditate on oneness with God is incomprehensible. In that moment, the earth stood still, and He, my Divine Lover, the Bridegroom of my soul, took me to Himself, and I knew the embrace of the Divine God.
Nothing on the face of this earth can describe our union with Divinity. Oh, good God, that creatures are so ungrateful regarding Your divine love. I am so sorry. Let me help make reparation to Your adorable Heart. Please unite with me now that I may more deeply love Thee.
Oh, Divine Lover of my soul, let me help make reparation to Your adorable Heart for the neglect and indifference against You.
Song from Jesus: I come to you with greatest love. I am your loving Savior. I am your God. I died for you. I come to you this day.
He allowed me to experience such pain in my heart - wanting Him so badly, so many times-and then on Dec. 15, 1995 - He gave Himself to me in the deepest union.
Nothing satisfies the soul but Him. He wants the nuns and priests to love Him. He chose them to spread His love.
Souls are hungry. They will only be fed with His burning love. Priests need to talk about Jesus' love for us from the pulpit. Priests need hearts burning for love of Jesus. This will feed the hungry souls - lip service love doesn't do it.
He is alive today. He is a Person. He wants us to love Him.
end of December 17, 1995
R. Come Holy Spirit fill our souls with You,
with Your gifts –
with wisdom
with love and song –
God is joy –
God has chosen us –
Handmaids and servants are married to God
and that is something!
What a gift –
God has infinite power!
God is Light!
God is Almighty!
God wants to be known –
are you spreading this
gift to the world!
Are you celebrating?
Are you thanking God for Mary's
apparitions?
God deserves worship –
God deserves love –
God deserves song and praise!
We have been blessed, gifted,
loved into existence by God.
Come Holy Spirit Move in us – awaken
love for God deep in our
heart and soul –
fill us with Your grace –
God is a gift giver to us –
do we thank Him for such
a precious gift, as the
gifts He gives us!
We are not to be closed up,
locked shut, afraid to
sing, to stop being frozen –
the love of God impels us
to let go – God is filling
our soul with greater life –
We are to worship Him with a
heart on fire for love of Him –
Love is to communicate with
God, with others, to know
oneself –
God wants this communication
with Him –
heartfelt love
Do you ever see fireworks –
wow –
at amusement parks,
at ballgames they can
do them daily – every time there is
a game –
We owe God – owe God – praise,
honor, devotion, thanksgiving –
Yes, Jesus talks about the stiff –
the caved-in, closed down –
God the Father loved us so much He sent
His Son into the world –
Jesus took flesh out of
love for the souls –
Jesus suffered –
Jesus was treated like an
enemy –
Jesus withstood this in giving love
to us –
If we were created in the image
and likeness of Jesus – how
can anybody disrespect
the exposed Eucharist and
wouldn't they make
reparation to God for all
the abuse, neglect, lack
of heartfelt love before
the tabernacle, at Mass.
Remember to keep holy the Sabbath
day. Satan tempts some people
to skip Church and do nothing but
skip Jesus on Sunday.
Sunday is a day to be in the right
place – communication and love
and respect given to Jesus –
adoring Jesus –
worshipping Jesus –
loving Jesus –
Just for love given to Jesus –
God demands relationship
with Him first and others
as ourselves.
We have a duty toward God
and neighbor –
to love them.
Song: I Am a God of Justice
R. It is right and just to give God
His due!
We will be judged on this!
We are to be thankful to our
parents for what they did
for us –
We are to be thankful to the
Church, the priests,
the saints for all they
did.
We are to give in our life to
the future generations
like what was done for us.
We cannot say living life with
a pouty look is in the image of
Jesus. The "poor me" attitude is
not what God wants. The angry
person is not living and loving,
forgiving, being accountable
and responsible.
Actions are to be for good.
Passions are for loving God,
God's will –
Not in anger to pout and tear
people apart and punish
our brother – that's
not the Gospel message –
We are to try to repay
our parents for what they did
for us – which we can't do,
but we are grateful to God
for giving us parents, grateful
to God for all they did for us.
September 4, 2004
As I kneel before the crucifix each day, either before a actual crucifix or one in my mind, let us ask ourselves those questions posed to us by Ignatius Loyola, "What have I done for Christ?" "What am I now doing for Christ?" "What ought I to do for Christ?"
R.
God is Almighty –
God is above us –
God is to be honored, adored.
God is great –
We are to give God glory –
4 Days Before Fr. Carter's Death
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12
23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
R. Trying to be good –
Giving others a good example –
the Shepherds of Christ is to teach
people about God – about Jesus.
Sing:
Glory be to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
This is selfish the
"Me - Me - Me approach"
We should be moving toward
oneness in our relationship
with God, others and loving
ourselves – Created by God!
God never breaks His Covenant!
We saw in the readings all the
way back to Abraham –
how he was blessed –
Abraham was a person of faith –
We see Jacob believed –
We see Joseph and how he was
treated and what he did
because God blessed him.
We are created in the image and
likeness of God –
Wow –
When we are faithful to God
we will be blessed.
A common theme is going
into Egypt coming
out of Egypt –
Famine was bad so they went
to Egypt –
We see God brings good out
of evil –
God is perfect harmony –
A person is to learn harmony,
oneness, communication
with God and others –
A house divided against itself will not stand –
Look at all the division in
families –
divorces –
dysfunctional families –
Man because of the fall of Adam and Eve,
has a distorted vision of
God, others and himself.
God created an orderly, serene
beautiful, harmonious
world –
Because of the sin of Adam and Eve,
blame enters the world –
Loss of personal responsibility –
Grace moves us toward God –
Concupiscence moves a person to sin.
Read Chapter 5 Romans.
God calls and we respond –
Or we can rebel against Him –
We have a free will –
We have a responsibility before God –
Sin has its effects beyond ourselves,
Jesus paid for our sin –
God created the world, the seen and unseen,
out of nothing!
Sing:
Glory be to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Dear God outpour Your
gifts to us –
A person of wisdom – like Betty
knew the value of suffering.
May we see Jesus' Bloodied face
and see Jesus' face of love.
We know even in suffering
there is joy because
it draws us closer to Jesus.
Jesus came and Jesus showed
us He endured pain –
God allows us to suffer
Through the pierced Heart of Jesus
the Church was born –
We see the saints –
God gives us the saints to
follow
The saints were filled with
joy in suffering –
Abraham rejoiced at the
promises God made –
even though it was
for his descendants –
centuries later –
Love for God endures suffering
in joy –
We are to lead souls to the
heart of Jesus –
We are to praise our Creator –
Because of sin there is disorder.
Romans 8: 5-9
Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
R.
We do not have the right
to use creatures in pride
and anger and jealousy
this is disordered –
Jesus wants us to live
ordered lives –
we are to help renew
the Church and the world –
The virtues and gifts produce order.
We see the fruits of the Holy Spirit
charity, joy, peace, patience,
benignity (kindness), goodness,
long-suffering, mildness,
faith, modesty, continency,
and chastity.
Jesus shows us pain –
Jesus shows we will have it –
What is justice
To give what is one's
do.
To be unjust destroys
order and causes many to
be angry.
Being in the right place
at the right time –
Pride puts a person in dominance
for dominance sake –
Anger – held out, against an innocent
other is wrong
Envy – puts oneself about trying to
bring another down for doing good acts.
We owe to God our gratitude for
what God has given us.
A child owes gratitude to their
parents.
We owe gratitude to our parents.
We have a duty to pass on what
others have helped us to have, what
God wants us to pass on to those who
came after us.
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R. Pray for These Things
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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!
4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 15 and cover and all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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