July 15, 2017

                R. We seek maturity more and more in the
                spiritual life. Surrendering giving our lives
                to God. The enemy of the spiritual life is the
                soul enslaved by pride, anger, jealousy,
                envy, slothfulness, lust, gluttony. Advancing
                in bad habits act like channels at the
                top of a mountain. If someone pours water
                from above it will easily go to the ruts.

                    Likewise if a person is loving - they
                have good habits of being loving,
                acting in faith –

                    They live in hope of eternal
                salvation – They increase in
                good habits, virtues, humility,
                prudence, temperance, justice,
                fortitude. They develop good
                habits and the Holy Spirit can gift this
                soul with wisdom, understanding,
                the gift of fortitude, counsel, knowledge,
                piety and fear of the Lord.

                The person then has the fruits of
                the Holy Spirit.

                    They become more mature in the
                spiritual life – more likened to Christ.
                Last night as I was meditating I was
                reminded of the scripture.

                R. God wants to forgive us and give
                us mercy if we come with a humble
                contrite heart – a truthful heart –
                asking to be made clean and
                asking for forgiveness and begging
                for mercy.

                    Mary Magdaline came to the
                feet of Christ. She wasn't a
                sinner that tried to hide her
                sin and say she was perfect
                and lie.

                    St. Paul was acted on and was
                forgiven. He has given us the writings –

                    David sinned and he suffered
                for his sin, but he was a great
                King.

                    We are here to advance in
                the spiritual life. The pope said
                the devil is here – we must learn
                from the Gospel –

                    The devil is sneaky. If a
                person does sneaky things behind
                our back to hurt us they are
                acting in the image of satan.
                The devil is not seen – all he
                does is sneaky –

                    The devil tries to tempts us constantly
                to sin. It takes discipline –
                It takes begging the Holy Spirit to
                dwell in us.

                    A person fighting authority
                after they sinned – trying to
                bring down authority reminds
                me of the Scripture where
                satan tempted the Lord and
                wanted him to bow to him
                after Christ fasted in the desert.

                    If a person becomes more and
                more fighting to always be right –
                fighting rules in unruliness –
                rules that are under God –
                how can they be so blind not
                seeing selfishness, control,
                like a 2 year old – wanting to
                work with no one so they don't
                have to change bad habits.

                    Children are under parents
                and are to be disciplined, taught –
                adults are to know how to obey
                God's commandments, obey just
                authority, obey God's will –
                It is what we are to learn as
                Fr. Carter said

                "Growing in the spiritual life
                is living according to God's
                will in love."

                    We must depend on prayer,
                the scriptures, the bread of
                life – the Word and the Eucharist
                to fight satan.

                    I read on the internet that St. Benedict
                was called to organize some monks
                and since they thought he was
                too strict they tried to poison him –
                He blessed the cup with the sign of
                the cross and it broke into pieces.
                He prayed for mercy and forgiveness
                for them.

                    The devil works easily in the
                slothful, prideful, jealous,
                envious soul who is in the
                habit of disobedience and
                sinning in anger, hurting
                others.

                    Sin makes a person very
                unhappy –

                    pride works in vain glory –
                        haughtiness, selfishness

                    anger in a person makes
                        them quarrelsome, fighting,
                        sneaky tricks, cowardice

                    gluttony - no discipline,
                        eat what you want when
                        you want –
                        eating is to help us sustain life –
                        eating and drinking to excess
                            not caring about your
                            body is being rebellious –
                        giving into temptation to over
                            indulge –
                            used to numb pain –
                            impudence

                    envy – over indulgent love of self --
                        disrespect for others
                        God calls us to love our
                        neighbors –
                        The envious person - not
                            liking himself wants
                            to bring down a person
                            doing good, looking good
                            because they think it hurts
                            their image –

                    sloth - refusal to grow in spiritual
                        direction they need –
                        lazy spiritually

                God loves us so much. We are to
                    have proper self-esteem
                    to see ourselves as created
                    by God and precious to Him.
                    Seeing ourselves valuable
                    in God's eyes. This helps
                    us to have humility –
                    see through God's eyes –

                This gift we have that should
                    be with right reasoning
                    can get out of control in pride –
                    The person is puffed up –
                    their brothers they
                    can see as enemies – they
                    see not through God's eyes
                    but through the deception of
                    satan.

                When it is pride it can become a
                    habit. A person is prideful. It is
                    a bad vice.
                    Pride is the root of all sins.

                    If a person loves God as He
                should he puts God first and
                his life is in proper order –
                A prideful person sees himself
                above God, above others.

                    Man has a desire for food
                and drink to sustain his life
                by right reasoning above the
                animals.

                    Temperance is a virtue
                that moderates these bodily
                desires, taste, touch.
                God has given us these
                desires, but they must be
                moderated. We are to use them
                to glorify God – to serve God,
                to help us save our souls.
                They must be controlled!
                We are not animals – we are
                Temples of the Holy Spirit.
                In baptism we receive a
                sharing of God's life –
                Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell
                in the graced baptized soul.

                    Animals don't have right
                reasoning like men to control
                themselves.

                Temperance is a virtue – We
                are to discipline ourselves!
                Moderation in drinking,
                eating, purity, modesty,
                mildness, kindness,
                humility.

                Humility is truth. Man needs
                    to see in himself the truth
                    about his sins and seek
                    purity.

                    God wants our hearts loving,
                obedient and pure - likened
                to the Heart of Jesus.

                    God wants us to give love –
                to give for the good of the other –
                the person living in the deadly
                sins can hold back more and
                more in selfishness, vain
                glory and can deteriorate in
                secrets to bring others down
                because of their jealousy
                and envy –

                    God gives us as gifts to each
                other – how ugly to use a
                person for our envy and
                jealousy and evil – when
                God is giving us gifts through
                them.

Mark 12:1-12

Parable of the wicked tenants

He went on to speak to them in parables, 'A man planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug out a trough for the winepress and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized the man, thrashed him and sent him away empty handed. Next he sent another servant to them; him they beat about the head and treated shamefully. And he sent another and him they killed; then a number of others, and they thrashed some and killed the rest. He had still someone left: his beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, "They will respect my son." But those tenants said to each other, "This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours." So they seized him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and make an end of the tenants and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this text of scripture:

    The stone which the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;
    this is the Lord's doing,
    and we marvel at it?'

      And they would have liked to arrest him, because they realised that the parable was aimed at them, but they were afraid of the crowds. So they left him alone and went away.

                R. There is this scripture
                how the master sends
                his own son to them and they
                kill him –

                    Jealousy, envy are vices,
                bad habits that grow in
                greater and greater corruption
                in the heart.

                    Vices are like roots
                because they become bad
                habits that lead to dark
                hearts –

                    A garden that is cared
                for is beautiful – leaving
                vices grow in the heart
                becomes greater and greater
                darkness and impurity.

                    The commandments are
                rules given by God and are
                to be obeyed.

                    God gives us our bodies
                to care for. The 5th
                Commandment tells us we
                cannot kill. We cannot
                mistreat our bodies –
                we are to care for their
                needs –

                    Our bodies are to help the
                soul to live the spiritual life –
                Our bodies are to be holy –
                Our bodies are sacred –
                God created us to know,
                love and serve Him.

                    Our soul is to become
                more and more as God wants
                us to be –

                    We are to maintain our
                health – We are not to
                disrespect the health
                of others –

                    We are not to expose our bodies,
                or others' bodies to unnecessary
                danger. If we live in a
                community we give good
                examples of health and help
                others to care for themselves.

                    We are to live in
                love and peace with
                those God has called
                us to live with.

                    We can't decide we
                can be a leader in a
                community and act before
                them in rebellion concerning
                health, eating, drinking
                etc.

                    We do not live in a
                vacuum –

                    Killing babies in abortion
                for our convenience is wrong.
                We do not live in a vacuum –
                What about people who
                try to get others to get
                abortions?

                    Anger against our innocent brothers
                for our own unhealed anger
                inside is sinful.

                Jesus: You are not to try
                to provoke others for your
                own power – It is disgusting
                to watch a person try to
                punish innocent others for
                their own vain glory and power.

                    The more darkness is
                growing in a man's heart it
                is like a great and thick weed.

                    Anxiety from angry people
                acting out has caused such
                suffering, sorrow, grief,
                fighting and quarreling.
                Just authority is to be obeyed.
                Trying to force lawlessness
                in an institution while
                constituents all do their own
                independent way of living,
                disregarding rules,
                structure, authority is
                utter pandemonium.

                It will bring down the house
                for the man's darkness or
                men's darkness engaged in
                hate and anger and
                punishment of innocent
                others –

                    Anger grows in a man in
                pride. A person must seek
                to develop humility and
                pray for help from God.

                    There are times of just
                anger – when anger is
                not a sin –

Ephesians 4: 26

 Even if you are angry, do not sin: never let the sun set on your anger

                Jesus: Anger leads to greater and
                    greater hatred, not love of
                    brother, when it comes
                    from a dark heart wishing
                    power and hurt to their
                    brother.
 

1 John 3: 15

Anyone who hates his brother 
    is a murderer, 
and you are well aware that no murderer 
has eternal life remaining in him. 

                Jesus: Envy is being hateful
                of the good fortune of others
                and wishing them harm.

                Revenge is a desire to injure
                    a person because of one's
                    own anger.
                    A person can have revenge
                    because he believes
                    someone has injured
                    them –
                    It can be imaginary
                    that the person
                    injured them.

                It is wrong when a person
                    projects anger on
                    an innocent other
                    and wants to punish them
                    in revenge. It can be
                    great disorder to get back
                    at an innocent other.
                    It is evil.

                    I call you to forgiveness,
                to love, I call you to
                purity.

                R. We say in the Our Father
                "...forgive us our trespasses
                as we forgive those
                who trespasses against us."

                Jesus: Seeking a quarrel with just
                authority is wrong –

                I give you the Word and Commandments
                to live by.

                Given July 14, 2017

                Jesus: I am the I am. I created you to be
                beautiful - to be My instrument in
                the world. Sin makes you unhappy.
                People may want their independence –
                what extreme do they go to - to prove
                they are right. They can sin and after
                they do – do all they can to prove they
                were right.

                    A person who sins offends God
                and others. They need to be sorry and
                repent for the wrong they did and ask for
                mercy and forgiveness.

                    This is taught to children – to be as
                God wants the family to be, but if there
                were parents who taught children to
                have it their way, to be unfair, to
                be selfish, to not work in love and
                harmony – children learn what they
                are taught and must seek to be
                loving of God and loving their neighbor
                as themselves. People who were severely
                wounded need to heal from those wounds.
                A person can be prideful, jealous, envious,
                slothful, angry, gluttonous and how
                could they be happy giving into this
                program.

                    Finding a place to stay the same
                is to decay more and more spiritually.
                The Spirit of God does not move in
                the man who is locked in their deadly
                sins, deep anger they deny and if they
                keep the same patterned behavior of
                disorder, pride, wanting to prove they
                are right when they are wrong their
                lives become more and more unmanageable.

                    You have a free will to obey My
                commandment of love –

                    Love gives for the good of the other –

                    Love is beautiful –

                I love the person in sin and bid them to
                come and ask for forgiveness and mercy,
                but they must want to change their
                sinful ways.

                    Wanting to be in charge – not trusting
                anyone – always living to prove you are
                never wrong – even when you sin –
                is a death trap. You refuse to listen
                to people who I send in your lives
                and listen to satan tempting you with
                pride and anger and envy – not loving
                God and others as you should, but
                treating those I send as enemies to
                use for your darkness and anger –
                then a person of such evil habits
                can further sin by blaming innocent
                others for their own hatred and
                darkness inside.

                    I am love – if you have seen
                dark most of your life and refuse
                in independence to listen to anyone
                but yourself and satan, you will
                go down the road he leads you
                with giving into the deadly sins.

                    People need healing when they
                hurt their bodies. A person hurt
                as a child, in other
                relationships need healing, direction,
                changing bad patterned behavior –

                I command you to love –

                Are you a light –

                Are you full of love –

                Is there beauty in your relationships
                    you have with others outside
                    your family system –

                Or do you choose to shut down
                    and let no one in – trust
                    no one – control and I say
                    this –

                If your life is lived serving
                    satan in pride and anger,
                    being right, never learning
                    obedience and discipline –

                Who can reach you when you force
                    others by your stubbornness,
                    actions, punishment to
                    be defiant and rebel against
                    authority –

                When you disobey just authority –
                    you disobey Me.

                I am the I am.

                I am Divine –

                I am Almighty –

                I give to you, your life to love - to
                    give to serve –

                To love with your whole heart –

                To trust, to surrender and let the
                    Holy Spirit come and possess your soul.

                Satan is deception, darkness, he
                    wants independence, punishing
                    your brothers – not loving
                    them.

                Love comes from God –

                You are to be instruments of love –

                The man in control, shutting down
                    has no room in his heart
                    for God –

                He won't let go and satan comes
                    and he lets him in and
                    listens to him.

                Satan is hate –

                Satan wants souls for hell –

April 3, 2017

A Prayer for Grace and Holiness today
A prayer to work in love and holiness
 

John 16: 23

"If you ask the Father anything in my name,
    He will give it to you"

R. God wants our unity – we ask for this
    unity – that the Spirit of God fill
    us and help us to be holy –
    that we do not hold onto any of the deadly
    sins that block us from this unity –
    that the Holy Spirit can work in our souls,
    so we can be His instruments of love
    and peace and joy among our brothers.

We pray this heavenly Father in the name of
    Jesus who said ask in my name and
    it will be given to you.

    Let us experience the joy of unity and love
    on a supernatural level and know You
    our beloved God – more and more supernaturally.
    We want our hearts to be sanctified in
    our love and work so we are holy and
    pleasing to You God.

Come to us Lord and possess our soul.

We want to walk as God intends us
    to walk today in the plan of God,
    in the work He has called us to do today.

We know that we must cooperate with the grace
    You are giving us – now and today to
    bring unity and peace and love to this
    day as we serve to do the work – You are
    calling us in our vocation to do.

Dear Heavenly Father, hear our prayer,
    in the name of Jesus, we pray,
    we ask, heavenly Father for these
    graces necessary this day to
    bring peace, love and joy to
    our relationships and work – as You
    work in us.

    We seek perfection in our souls to be holy
    souls likened to You – in work
    and in play – to be holy in prayer –
    we invite You Holy Spirit to be
    the Guest of our soul.

We seek order in our lives, not disorder.

We beg for the virtues of faith, hope, love,
    prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice,
    and humility. We seek to be obedient
    to the will of God and live obedient to
    the will of God in love.

Come Holy Spirit Come into our hearts. Transform
    us from fear to fearlessness to serve
    You as You desire in our lives.

Help our actions to be for the glory and honor
    of God with the goal of these actions
    to one day be in heaven with Thee,
    our beloved God.

Heal our hearts and our bodies – Help
    us to have health of body now in
    this work you call us to do.

Instill in us a desire to want to only
    do the will of the heavenly Father
    and to walk in holiness and love.

We pray all these prayers heavenly Father,
    united to Jesus, in His name for
    grace and holiness today and always.

Help us to live by right reasoning in
    our lives – to have the truth
    in our every thought and to live
    in order as You operate in us
    in unity and love.

Come to me Lord and possess my soul.

We seek order in our lives – Your order
    to love in us, to help us to act as
    You desire, to have the thoughts
    that are in right reasoning and in
    Your order, Lord.

Give us the grace to use our faculties
    to love and serve You and do
    Your work.

Give us faith and right reasoning.

Help us to love and be just in our actions.

Help us to seek Your Divine Will and to
    perform those actions, which are actions
    pleasing to You in everything.

Come to us Lord and purify our consciences,
    our souls.

Help us to hope and love in Thee.

We seek heavenly vision – to see
    things through the eyes of
    the heavenly Father and to be
    perfected more and more in doing
    God's will in our lives.

We pray for the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

We pray for this purity in our souls –
    to live virtuously, to be perfected
    more and more and filled with the
    gifts of the Holy Spirit –
    Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel,
    Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety
    and Fear of the Lord 

    and to have the fruits of the Holy Spirit –
    charity, joy, peace, patience,
    benignity (kindness), goodness,
    long-suffering, mildness,
    faith, modesty, continency,
    and chastity.

We do not want the enemies to
    invade our thoughts, our
    actions, our lives –

We pray to give up ugly bad habits of the
    deadly sins –
    pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth

We know on this journey we will
    experience sufferings and joys
    and we accept the struggles
    in life and ask You to help us,
    strengthen us in our lives to
    suffer and rejoice as You
    desire us to do in our lives.

We want to be a reflection of Your
    heavenly love – to be full of light –
    Your light in us. To operate in
    light and not darkness – IN You,
    our beloved God.

We want to follow in the footsteps
    of Jesus in giving love and
    light and unity to those
    we contact in our lives –

         

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

 

April 4, 2017

                R. Dear Holy Spirit please come to me the
                Guest of my soul. Please pour
                into me Your virtues and gifts.

                    Dear Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in me.
                Please fill me with the
                supernatural gifts I received at
                baptism – that they may grow
                ever greater to know and love supernaturally.

                Dear Holy Spirit,

                    Please mold in me more and
                more the image of Jesus in my
                heart and soul.

           From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

                R. Help me to live my life praising
                and loving God in love and
                being as God wants me to be.
                Holy Spirit be the Guest of my soul.
                Come Holy Spirit fill me with the Spirit –
                Let the Spirit of God be in me.
 

John 16:12-15

I still have many things to say to you
but they would be too much for you
    to bear now.
However, when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking
    of his own accord,
but will say only what he has been told;
and he will reveal to you
    the things to come.
He will glorify me,
since all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
Everything the Father has is mine;
that is why I said:
all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.

                Sing: Come Holy Ghost

                Sing: Come Holy Spirit

                R. Let the Light of Christ live
                in my soul. Amen.

                    We see when the Holy Spirit lives
                in us there is cooperation with
                the Plan of God, Our heavenly Father.
                The Holy Spirit brings unity to the soul –
                order in our hearts – direction
                according to and with God,
                our heavenly Father who
                created us in the image and
                likeness of God.

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
    in the image of God he created him,
    male and female he created them.

                R. The Holy Spirit opens our hearts and
                souls to God – so God can dwell
                in us more abundantly.

                    Come to me God and possess my
                soul –

                Sing: 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.

                    We are imperfect – the Holy Spirit
                comes to transform our souls
                more and more in the image and
                likeness of Jesus –

                    Come to me Lord and possess
                my soul –

                    God fills us more and more abundantly
                with His life –

                Sing Song: I Love You Jesus

                R. The Holy Spirit is the Spouse of the
                Virgin Mary – perfect handmaid
                of the Lord.

                    The Holy Spirit wants to transform
                us more and more into the image of Jesus.
                We were created for this –

                    Oh God, we are so grateful for
                the sacrament of baptism and
                the other sacraments. We are
                so grateful for the Eucharist
                whereby, you feed the life you
                gave to us.

                    God gives us a sharing in
                His life in baptism and feeds
                us with the Body and Blood
                of Jesus in the Eucharist.

                Come to me Lord and possess my soul –               

1 Corinthians 3: 16

    Do you not realise that you are a temple of God with the Spirit of God living in you?

                R. We consecrate ourselves to God.
                We give ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.