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July 18, 2019
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July 19th Holy Spirit Novena |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries |
Pray for Special Intentions, all involved
Please pray for Rita, Jim, Joe, Dan, Fr. Mike,
Mary,
Sanja, Tyler, Madonna, Father's Day Mailing,
all we promised to pray for & want to pray for.
Pray for an important trip.
Please help us.
We printed 21,000 books of Fr. Joe's
homilies
and we are short of funds to pay
for the homily books we send
for the priests weekly homilies Cycle A
Please pray for Dan, Jim,
Blue Books,
Prayer Chapters,
all intentions.
Please pray Fr. Joe's book & cover & all involved.
Prayer for Grace for our Country
Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.
July 18, 2019
Given July 1, 2019
Joyful Mysteries
(1) We have a duty to give love to God.
(2) God can come to the little and humble heart.
(3) Mary was chosen by God to be the Mother
(4) God calls us in life to prepare.
(5) Mary's Message June 30, 2019
(6) July 1, 2019 continues
R. Jesus was conceived in the womb of
(7) God gave us a heart - to be likened
(8) When Mary appears she is so beautiful
(9) God wants us to tell Him we are
(10)
From the Priestly Newsletter Book
III
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. The Holy Spirit And Mary The late
Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of Mexico strikingly
speaks of the ongoing cooperation of Mary with
the Holy Spirit regarding the reproduction of
Jesus within us: "Christian life is the
reproduction of Jesus in souls… "Now, how will
this mystical reproduction be brought about in
souls? In the same way in which Jesus was
brought into the world, for God gives a
wonderful mark of unity to all His works. Divine
acts have a wealth of variety because they are
the work of omnipotence; nevertheless, a most
perfect unity always shines forth from them
because they are the fruit of wisdom; and this
divine contrast of unity and variety stamps the
works of God with sublime and unutterable
beauty. "In His
miraculous birth, Jesus was the fruit of heaven
and earth…The Holy Spirit conveyed the divine
fruitfulness of the Father to Mary, and the
virginal soil brought forth in an ineffable
manner our most loving Savior, the divine Seed,
as the prophets called Him… "That is the
way He is reproduced in souls. He is always the
fruit of heaven and earth. "Two artisans
must concur in the work that is at once God’s
masterpiece and humanity’s supreme product: the
Holy Spirit and the most holy Virgin Mary. Two
sanctifiers are necessary to souls, the Holy
Spirit and the Virgin Mary, for they are the
only ones who can reproduce Christ. "Undoubtedly,
the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sanctify us
in different ways. The first is the Sanctifier
by essence; because He is God, who is infinite
sanctity; because He is the personal Love that
completes, so to speak, the sanctity of God,
consummating His life and His unity, and it
belongs to Him to communicate to souls the
mystery of that sanctity. The Virgin Mary, for
her part, is the co-operator, the indispensable
instrument in and by God’s design. From Mary’s
maternal relation to the human body of Christ is
derived her relation to His Mystical Body which
is being formed through all the centuries until
the end of time, when it will be lifted up to
the heavens, beautiful, splendid, complete, and
glorious. "These two,
then, the Holy Spirit and Mary, are the
indispensable artificers of Jesus, the
indispensable sanctifiers of souls. Any saint in
heaven can co-operate in the sanctification of a
soul, but his co-operation is not necessary, not
profound, not constant: while the co-operation
of these two artisans of Jesus of whom we have
just been speaking is so necessary that without
it souls are not sanctified (and this by the
actual design of Providence), and so intimate
that it reaches to the very depths of our soul.
For the Holy Spirit pours charity into our
heart, makes a habitation of our soul, and
directs our spiritual life by means of His
gifts. The Virgin Mary has the efficacious
influence of Mediatrix in the most profound and
delicate operations of grace in our souls. And,
finally, the action of the Holy Spirit and the
co-operation of the most holy Virgin Mary are
constant; without them, not one single character
of Jesus would be traced on our souls, no virtue
grow, no gift be developed, no grace increased,
no bond of union with God be strengthened in the
rich flowering of the spiritual life. mm "Such is the
place that the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
have in the order of sanctification. Therefore,
Christian piety should put these two artisans of
Christ in their true place, making devotion to
them something necessary, profound, and
constant." 18 18. Archbishop Luis M.
Martinez, The Sanctifier, op. cit. pp. 5-7.
The Visitation
(1) Luke 1: 46-55 And Mary said: My soul proclaims
(2) Song: See the Eyes That Look at Mary
(3) Mary: You must decrease and Jesus
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
Oh Lamb
of God,
Who
take
away
the
sins of
the
world,
come
and act
on my
soul
most
intimately.
I
surrender
myself,
as I
ask for
the
grace
to let
go, to
just be
as I
exist
in You
and You
act
most
intimately
on my
soul.
You are
the
Initiator.
I am
the
soul
waiting
Your
favors
as You
act in
me. I
love
You. I
adore
You. I
worship
You.
Come
and
possess
my soul
with
Your
Divine
Grace,
as I
experience
You
most
intimately.
(5)
May 16, 1998 - Prayer to
the Father My Father, With my whole heart I
desire to consecrate the whole world to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole
being for the salvation of souls and that man live according
to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that we may be one in You
and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede
to You for this cause. It is this burning
desire within my soul to spread the consecration to the far
ends of the earth, that the cries of Your children are cries
of glory and honor and adoration, praising God as their God. My Father, at this
moment a soul hangs on the edge of death. For all eternity
they will go to a place. It is not the plot of this soul as
it trods this barren land to decide on the edge of death.
You created us that we would grow in our oneness with God,
that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness
to God. And so My Father, I
pray with every cell in my body for this earth. In the name
of Your Son Jesus I consecrate all the souls of this earth
to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the
Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of the Mass
with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory. I beg You Father for
mercy. Please help us. We
are helpless little ones coming in the heart of our Mother,
bleeding from our wounds and our sins. Your Son, Jesus
Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood for the salvation of
mankind. We wish to unite in this sacrifice, sacramentally
made present in the Mass all over the world at every moment.
Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of men. Please my Father,
help us. Held in the heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we
come as the children of Eve to beg for the Reign of the
Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our
love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our
sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by
the means of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us
whole, that we are one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You,
Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit
united with all the angels and saints, in the heart of Mary.
We beg for help for special intentions concerning the
Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to give
these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the
family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help
us Father to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to
us. Help us to be one in You that we act as intercessors to
help this world to be turned to God as their God, loving,
honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is truly
present on His throne. We are Your children
Father, we implore You to answer our prayer.
(6)
Excerpt from Response in Christ
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. e) Relationship with Members of the Church
There
is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different
states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world,
composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its
development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have
the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The
Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those
who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim
Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence,
there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these
members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life
establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we
discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and
the heavenly Church.
The
members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life
in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is
incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them,
and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or
lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to
the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further
purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with
merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The
pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving
the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people
by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to
our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book
of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.
The
members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken
full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith
now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new
strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a
wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in
God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God
reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however,
until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to
the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of
the Trinity experienced here below.
This
life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in
Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this
grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of
Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father
through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision
of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."14
And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to
God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a
completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His
humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with
other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of
the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.
The
heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.15
The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are,
each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem.
Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in
Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God,
will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."16
The
members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until
we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our
behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity.
We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God
to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as
well as from those with whom we dwell here below.
Not
only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the
canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely
proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth
when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees
is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their
diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian
holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous
possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic
assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the
opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert
in the life of the Church.17 NOTES: 14Karl Rahner,
Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
(7)
Excerpt
from Response to God's Love
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. ...
In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate
mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden
from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us
briefly look at this inner life of God.
(8) From the Holy Spirit Novena Healing We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul
and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members
of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of
Christ, and the world.
R. A person must want to be healed,
(9) From the Holy Spirit Novena Prayer for Strength and Light We adore You, oh Holy Spirit. Give us
strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light
and grace, we want to only do the will of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always
in the Father's will. Eternal Spirit fill us with Your Divine
Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your Divine Mysteries. Give us lights, Oh Holy Spirit that we may
know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of the Virgin Mary, to form us more
and more into the image of Jesus.
(10) From the Holy Spirit Novena Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit We long for You, Oh Spirit of Light, we long
to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God. We want to be one with the
Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We want to know the beloved One, the Sacred
Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want
to be one with You, Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.
The Birth of Jesus
(1) From the Holy Spirit Novena Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His
human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be
brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on
in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.
R. Birthing –
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to
the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people
must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit
desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are
docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs
this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My
Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit
leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your
transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the
more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell
them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am
Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the
gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My
people!" Reflection:
The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever
more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus,
the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy
Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each
day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother,
the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of
the Holy Spirit within us. Prayer:
The Annunciation
God wants our hearts to be undivided.
Imitate the humility of Jesus.
of Jesus. Mary was conceived without
sin. Mary is the Immaculate Conception.
There was not a stain of any sin in Mary.
There was no deadly sins in heaven.
He created us in His image and likeness.
God created us in love.
God commands us to love Him with
our whole heart, our whole soul,
our whole being.
Who are we to say to God I won't
give you real heart-felt love.
end of Mary's message
June 30, 2019 12:32 AM
R. This is so beautiful.
Mary’s face is so pure.
So filled with light and love.
So very perfect.
She tells of her Immaculate Heart.
Mary: Oh My sweet children,
I urge you to live virtuously and pray for your country and this
election.
God has allowed me to appear Our Lady of Fatima in the Americas
and given this Movement to spread this devotion to my Immaculate
Heart and my Son Jesus’ Sacred Heart burning with love for you.
The devil is pure hate.
Pray the prayer Jesus gave for your country.
Oh my children I warn you unless you pray, you will suffer more
than you could ever imagine.
Help me spread this devotion to Our Two Hearts and this prayer
now.
Unless a sufficient number of people consecrate their hearts to
my Immaculate Heart and Jesus' Sacred Heart you will not have
peace in your hearts and peace in the world.
Your Heavenly Father has allowed me to appear here and in
Clearwater.
Oh children it is a warning and a gift I give you.
Please listen to me and help me.
Satan has tempted some to turn their hearts to darkness, hatred
and to stone.
Some refuse to give anything but pride, jealousy and envy,
treating God and all others as hateful enemies.
Oh children Our Hearts are pure love.
Give love.
Give yourselves in love.
Love God’s will, obey God. Don’t rebel against God who loves you
so much.
You have a duty to love God.
You were created by God to love Him.
Don’t listen to Satan.
He wants to destroy, tear apart, divide.
God calls you to build up His Kingdom in love, in joy, willingly
in great happiness, as servants of the Almighty God.
God loves you so much.
God is your Father.
I am your Mother.
Oh children, be holy, sanctified, loving, kind and pure.
Love one another, love God.
Thank you for responding to my call.
I love you,
I am your mother, Mary.❤♥
Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is the Divine Seed.
The more Jesus is in us, the more
we bring forth fruit for the
Kingdom.
to Mary and Jesus and bring forth
love as we are rooted in love.
The heart is a seed to produce
good fruit. God is love –
Mary is filled with light and love.
sorry when we sin. Many do not
repair the breach – they deny
sin, hate, anger, pride,
jealousy, envy, slothfulness –
These are the deadly sins –
They come from giving into
satan –
This drives us away from God
living in the deadly sins
and leads to darkness.
Happiness is in God.
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
must increase.
(4) A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
I beg You Father for assistance.
I beg You Father to help us to spread this
consecration to the far ends of the earth.
We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank
you and we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we
Praise Your Name. Alleluia
15 Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
16Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No.
48.
17Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.
The
Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of
knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent
expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise,
from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in
a perfect act of loving.
At the destined
moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed
himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also
become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God
becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself,
about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He
tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in
the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life
through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through
Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through
the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness,
that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to
his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond
price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in
you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we
admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to
make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).
to be healed.
A person in pain can decide they
will not ever look at the pain,
it was painful enough the
first time.
Wounds from the past, from
relationships in love, need
to be brought up, dug out
and dealt with – like a
cancer, unless to do so
would hurt the person
worse - like a child etc.
From Tell My People
by Fr. Edward J. Carter,
S.J.
The Holy Spirit
(2)
Priestly Newsletter Book II -
September/October 1997
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".
(3) From Pre-Blue Book
June 1, 1992
Mom died in June 1952
R.
Dear Jesus,Help me to know Your will –
Jesus You are my best friend –
I love You so much Jesus –
I can talk to You –
Help me, Jesus
I love my family so much Jesus.
Help me in everything
You comfort me
I will not be afraid
In raging waters You are here –
with Your rod and Your staff –
You love and comfort me –Jesus:
I am your God, Rita, Rita,
you are My beloved child, I will
comfort you, I have blessed you
in oh so many ways with all
I have given you and I will help
you, I will not leave you –
You must do My will –
In suffering you are led to greater
life in Me –
I will be with you with My rod
and My staff.Guarding you –
Giving you rest –Though you trod in raging waters –
I will be there –
I will comfort you,
I will bring the light to you,
The darkness bright –
I will send My light into your eyes –
I will send My light
I will send My healing,
I will put you on the right path –
I am your God –
trust Me.I am He who comforts you –
Do not be afraid –
though you walk in the
dark valley, know I am with
you lighting your way –
You are My child –
Oh child – know I am with you,
know I light your path –
I am your God –
feel the breeze –
I made it for you –
the beauty of the earth –
I made for you –
Feel My presence in the moment.R.
Mary my Mother come to me –
mother me – Help me to know your
precious Son and do His will – though
I walk in the valley of darkness,
you are there with the light –Jesus says:
Cling to Me – hold My hand –
Know Me –
Oh you, beloved of My Father –
Love all that I send to you as
the Father intends.
I put you into My strength
Like dipping you in My
machine – you are made strong.Little girl, walk your path, you
are not alone, feel My hand,
know My love –
you are in My care –Little girl, walk your path
you are not alone, feel My
sun light – warm and good –
you are not alone –Little girl, walk with Me,
tell Me your troubles too –
I am there to listen as no
other can do –Little girl walk your path,
you are the one I know,
sweet and kind and always
there for others.Little girl walk your path,
skip if you feel the need,
slow down and stop –
look at the earth –
study some “dumb old weed”.Little girl walk your path,
open your heart to love –
to love one another –
That is all you need do –
Love God and love others as yourself –Little girl walk your path,
turn your life over to Me
if I watch out for the leaves –
do you think I would not
watch out for thee –Little girl walk your path,
looking to others, but
God knows and you know that
you are to be one with God first –R.
I love the rain on a warm
dark day – to hear its calm
pitter, patter – There is something
about rain, that makes me
feel that nothing else matters –
It helps me let go.
When it’s warm outside and
the rain comes there is
comfort in sitting out
under and when it is cold
there is pleasure in
listening to rain on the roof –I think I may not always
feel the pleasure in the rain,
I feel today, but in quiet
moments of my life that
is when the rain has gain.I love to listen, I love to just
be in the moment –
if I only take the time –
it is precious moments like this
God has given us the rain.After my mom died at 5, I would
sit by the window at the Carson
house upstairs and stare at the
rain drops as they fell and changed
on the window. They were so
beautiful and it comforted my little
heart thinking of the rain drops and
the mystery of life and death and mom
who died of cancer when I was so little
and left 5 children motherless.
Serenity is mine.
(4) From Pre-Blue Book June 1992 - For healing R.
I offer You my pain for the sake
of souls –
Please come into my heart and dispel
all hate, anger, “poor me” and replace
with Your healing power of Your love,
please wash me with a bath of
pure water and fill me with
Your grace – help me enjoy my
present moments –
I have this moment and I let go
and give it to You Jesus –
Jesus I want to cry –
Help me let go of the pain –
Let go – Let go, Cleanse me
with Your precious blood –
drip Your precious blood on me –
on the person or persons who
offended me –
all in the past
ancestors who taught any way that
have been passed on to me.
Bathe our families in Your blood –
(siblings)
all relatives –
neighbors –
school mates
old relationships (people involved)
people at Church
people at work
people in the United States
The Church and the world –
God have mercy on the human race
for we have sinned.
Help me to let go – to love – to forgive.
Jesus:
Let go, Let go – let go.R.
I surrender to Thy will,Bathe me in the bath of spring water –
Jesus:
My dear child –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 in 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.
Jesus:
I am your strengthRecognize your pain –
Don’t stuff it
Forgive
Let go – Embrace your pain and Let go.
Be loving and be likened to Me
If one person upsets you –
you cannot give into that –
you must think of your mission,
do the Father’s will –
otherwise the devil can provoke you
with one individual and
Live to love.
You indeed are My child.
I will watch over you.
See the lilies of the field how
they grow
and who watches over them –
You are My child –
Much more precious than
all of these
I have bathed you in My Blood
I will bring you to a special place
of ownership of the land –
I am your rock
I am your stronghold.
You don’t go alone –
Express the pain – then let go –
Forgive - love
I love you.
I know your pain and your joy –
I have taught you in suffering –
I have led you to joy.
The Pain and the Joy.
You are loving and giving –
Let go of tension –
You know I love you.
You are precious to Me.
I have chosen you.
I love you with such love –
See the ocean.
Hear the waves.
I know your pain –
Let go to My hands –
Be My Heart to the world
Be My hands.
Love your brothers in the world –
Be My love –
My Heart beating in the world –
Be Me to your children
Be their loving mother.
I am He who comforts you
Be not afraid
though you walk in raging waters –
I will be there with My rod and
My staff and
I will hold you up –
You are held up by Me –
I will love through you –
I have put you on this earth today –
I love you, I love you, I comfort you,
I am He who is your bridegroom.
I love you in a special way –
Cling to Me
I will be there with you.
I am your Power source.
I love you,
Jesus
(5) From Pre-Blue Book June, 1992 Jesus:
of blame and hatred. Open your heart to
the fire of My love.
For I was hungry and you gave Me to eat –
naked and you clothed Me, I am your
God, I am your refuge and your rock –
you are My child and I love you –
Be attentive to My call –
Do the Father’s will
I am guarding you, I love you so much.
I know your hurt and pains, you
are to forgive and love –
It is in forgiveness you find peace,
happiness and joy –
Love the unloving –
Pray for those who persecute you.
R.
Oh Father You made us so beautiful andJesus:
Respect human life.R.
We are called to love –Jesus:
LOVE ONE ANOTHERR.
Jesus, Jesus, my rock,My Lord and My God – I love You –
I give You my heart, I give
You my soul –
God teach me to love – Show me
I LOVE YOU – GOD!!
Jesus:
I was spit on, mocked, hated,I know all your pain –
I am with you in all your trials –
I have been with you, your whole life.
Trust Me.
Turn to Me.
I love you, forever.
R.
I turn my life over to You, Jesus –Jesus:
My dear child, I am He who comforts
(6) From Pre-Blue Book June 5, 1992 Jesus:
Turn to Me – though you pass
through raging waters – I am with you –
I speak to you here – I love you –
I will not leave you orphaned –
I will always comfort you.
My child – hold on – to Me
I will show you your path at the time –
take no action – I will work in your
life – you are My precious child,
you are plugged into Me –
feel the gifts I give you now –
feel the intensity of My presence
with you, feel My love.
Today is the only day you can live –
tomorrow this day will be gone –
have the gifts of this day –
I am He who comforts you –
Lean on Me,
I am all powerful,
I want what is best for you –
You are never alone
I dwell in you.
Serenity Prayer
“God grant me the serenity to accept the
things I cannot change and the courage
to change the things I can and the
wisdom to know the difference.”
Jesus: Let go to Me.
Do not be tense, or fearful –
Let go of fear
Everything in your life put in
My hands.
I love you, Jesus
(7) Humility
Jesus came a tiny baby.
From Pre-Blue Book
My Mom died June 19, 1952.
40 Years Later
June 20, 1992
R.
I want to help a soul who is sufferingHelp us God to spread Your love –
Help people to tell the truth and come
out of denial – hurting others –
Give people Your light Oh
Holy Spirit –
Oh God have mercy on the human race.
Jesus:
Oh My child –Do good to those who persecute you –
I am your God
I am your strength
I am ever constant and ever
vigilant, in all your struggles
I come with My peace and My love
and My forgiveness.
I am He who comforts you,
Oh beloved of My Father,
Cling to Me – Pray for mercy –
you are beloved – you are blessed –
you are in My Heart – now Feel peace.
I am the Lord thy God, I run
the show, you are My child
and you must know I have
all the power.
I am your Savior.
If someone is unloving – you must
be ready to still do My work for others –
I am your strength.
You are to give and to love and to
forgive and be holy.
You were created in the image
and likeness of God –
Do God’s will.
I am He who comforts you –
I am your strength –
I am your fortress –
I am Jesus and I really love you.
I am gentle and meek of Heart –
I am alive –
I live in your heart
Do not be afraid, I come to nurture
you and I am always before you,
child –
You are kind and humble of heart –
I know your gentle and kind ways –
Strive always to do My will –
Cling to Me –
I know you, Rita, blessed
child of My Father –
You are dear to My Heart – always –
Your heart is to be kind, merciful
I love you so much.
I am God-made-Man.
I am kind and gentle of Heart
I know you and the
desires of your heart.
You grow to be stronger in your
trials –
Make your children’s lives calm and
simple, happy –
These are days to long remember
I give you peace and tranquility –
I go with you with My peace and love.
I go with you with My peace and love.
I shower you with the wealth of
My love and drive the devil
far from you –
Let My waters wash you so you
are ever purer –
You are free – feel this washing,
you have been washed, I am
with you, and I go with you in
love and with peace.
Cling to this thought, “you are
never alone” –
utilize every moment of this week –
pray for healing
be in harmony with the people
in the family.
They will know your peace.
Go in My love and peace.
(8) From Pre-Blue Book June 29, 1992 - After Communion R.
You come to me, Body, Blood, Soul
and Divinity. You have come into my
humble heart, I am a sinner, I
am sorry, work in my heart to love
You and others more. I want to love and
do Your work – to love others as You
desire.
Jesus:
Open your heart and let Me comeR.
Jesus I give You my will and my life –I hold Your cross today and I ask You
to cast the devil into hell, by Your
precious Body and Blood. I
pray for me and my family
and the Church and the world –
God I pray that Your Blood will
be spread on us –
Let Your love change us –
Dwell in me –
I let go, I let go.
Jesus:
My child listen to My voice –Love your
children – love to lead
others home to My Heart –
Know My love – My truth and
My strength –
live your day in friendship
with Me and others –
You have a
choice to love or
not to love.
Be open, Be loving
I love and comfort you –
I am your love –
Open now your heart –
Be holy –
I outpour My clean and bountiful
water over the wounds
of your heart –
I want you to love with a
heart that is pure
so you can deeply know Me
and understand My mysteries –
R.
Wash away my iniquities my Lord soJesus:
I fill you with My Divine love –R.
Take me Lord – I give myselfThank You, God, for the persons You
send to me to comfort and love and
support me when You know
I am in need –
Oh God I cried out to You in my distress
and You heard my cry – You came
to the aid of my heart, You
answered my call – God –
You rebuilt my shattered
hopes and my fallen
dreams – you put a
new song in my mouth – and filled me
with the flowing grace I thirsted
after – You took the tattered and
torn heart and You rebuilt the
scars with Your rebuilding kit,
I sit loose and wait for Your words
to be poured over me as to
knock me over and know my path
is only directed by Your words.
Hold me, care for me, replenish
me, comfort me, I then in turn
can help others who are tattered and
torn to know Your healing and
vibrant love –
Oh sing a song of love of the Savior
A song of His most bountiful gifts –
Let not your tongue be quiet –
Jesus is the Savior
He loves us this much!!!
Jesus says:
I am the Light.
I am the candle that never flickers.
I am the candle that never goes out
but shines to others because
I am on fire for love of you
and My precious souls –
My Heart is an endless burning
fire for you and My precious souls –
My fire never goes out –
Live in Me.
R.
Dear God – fill me, forgive meI want to spread Your love
Always
The Sacred Heart
On Fire for love of men.
You are the fire that never goes out –
The power that never stops –
Forgive me God –
help me to forgive others and to love.
Make my heart humble –
on fire with Your love –
for I was hungry and You gave me
to eat.
Naked and You clothed me.
I am Your servant.
I am Your handmaid –
Help me Jesus to be strong and love You
so intimately – help me not to
offend You – My precious God –
Your love is filling my heart –
Your Divine love is filling my heart.
I go to You to learn to let go and
love more and more likened to You.
I love You God –
help me to love others as You desire.
Help me to be as You want me to be in
all I do –
To love as You want me to love.
You are my God –
You are the Lord that fills me –
You give me milk and honey –
Jesus:
Don’t listen to satan – My ways are gentle
My ways are true.
My ways are loving as the Father desires –
R.
You call God and I come.Jesus:
You call and I come, I fill youR.
You are my God and You loveJesus:
Live, Love and be happy for I am(9) From Pre-Blue Book
October 5, 1992 - 3:30am
R.
Dear Jesus, Give me Your hand to write this book for you. I am your servant. I want to be Your hand to this world. If you, Lord Jesus, would write a book, what would you say?Jesus:
My dear children,Today I come to deliver a message to each of you. I want to tell you of each person’s dignity, of their beauty and their self-worth. Each child is, oh, so uniquely precious to My Most Sacred Heart. Each child is full of the talents I have given to them. Each person is divinely created by God and given all these gifts to be happy and love one another.
The problem comes when you feel you will be left out. That you will be left by another who has trodden on you and will do it again. I see you all as My most precious children. I watch your every move and know all pain and anguish in your heart. My Heart aches, you have insecure feelings about yourself. I came to this earth I died for you. I felt cold, hungry, lonely on this earth. You need not worry that no one knows the pain and anguish in your heart. God created you with such special gifts and talents. It is important for you to raise above your wound and forgive those who hurt you.
You need only turn your will and your life over to Me and I will guide you in all your ways. I have all the Power. Many are not of My ways. The key to life is to recognize your faults, but still know you are this precious gift of My Father a gift to this world. This world is in need of your strength. Running yourself down, blaming others hurting them can cause you misery and pain. At this very moment, you are the precious creation of God!! You must operate with Me in your heart.
You need not run yourself down. I am with you every day guiding your ways, lest your foot stumble and you lose your way. You will not wander far from your path if every day you keep bringing your focus back to Me. If you dare let Me be at the helm, if you dare to really let Me run your life, I will do with you such wonders that you yourself would be amazed. But you will know with such ease when you did these things that you did not do them alone. You will know My power, moving the mountain, My power chipping at the stone, My power working on your hardest problem and you will be set free.
Oh yes, you will be set free and know a serenity that only comes from letting go and letting Me run your life. To you, My child, I have given all that is good. I made you My holy soldier, My warrior in a world of pain and hatred. You are the light that shines in the darkness, you are the coat to a cold child, you are the smile that warms a troubled and lonely heart. You are the comfort for everyone you meet, because My most precious Heart powers you, smiles through you, understands and loves through you.
Love your fellows for Me. There are so many troubled hearts that need to know My love. I can love through you if you let Me, I can be their friend through you if you let Me. I am He who comforts you and you are he who comforts them. My power is endless, it never runs out, there is not a power failure EVER. In your darkest hour, My light shines in the darkness and I say to you, “Oh blessed of My Father, look at yourself with awe, you are My creation, you are indeed so precious to Me, you are My light to this world, you are My hands and My feet and most of all My Heart.”
Oh, you are My loving Heart, to those who are bowed down, to those who are lost in the darkness, you carry My smile and wear My armor in a world that is trying to tear one another down with hate and ugliness. There is gentleness, there is love, there is hope in you, if you open yourself up to Me. Be My knight to the world, wear My armor. I am your God and I will protect you from the darkness. Plug into My power, be not afraid, I go before you always and you can rest in My arms when you feel weary. You can put your head in My lap and weep, you will know, I am truly with you and you are My light to this world. I created you so special - to cast out fear in the darkness, to clothe the naked, to give hope to the oppressed, to be as I live in you and love through you and you are My smile and I touch My hurting ones through your love.
You are he who loves this world. You must stay plugged into My power-source. This world is hungry for My love. It needs My love, I give to them through you. I am your God and I made you as a gift to the world. You are filled.
Focus on Me and your life will be abundant and whole, joy in suffering, freedom but you can take the knocks because you will know you do not go it alone, but with Me. I love you My precious child.
(10) From Pre-Blue Book
R.
On December 17, 1991, I saw a vision of Jesus’ Heart on fire after communion. He said – I didn’t know how this Heart would lead people to His Sacred Heart.
December 17, 1991
Jesus:
I am Jesus. I have spoken as never before, you will spread My love to all souls on this earth.R.
The vision of Jesus’ Heart on fire I had in the same pew at All Saints Church, December 17, 1991. The heart that is on the Second Blue Book. March 26, 1996, I had in the same pew on the other end of the pew toward the center aisle, the first pew on the right side of the church as I faced the altar.
R.
I was alone in All Saints Church after Mass and Communion, in front of the tabernacle, when I saw the Sacred Heart. It was red around the outside, then a layer of yellow and then the brightest light in the center. I felt heat and it looked like an open furnace.I thought about it all day and it instantly gave me peace and warmth in my heart. This is the purpose of these letters – to draw hearts to the ardent on-fire love of Jesus. I received the following message that day:
“Open your heart to the fire of God’s love. He is ablaze in your heart. He wants to dwell in you and love you and others through you. Love God, yourself and one another and experience the fire set aglow in your heart and experience the warmth of His love.”
December 1991
R.
Please my sweet Jesus, help me, my sweet Jesus.
About December 31, 1991
R.
Please help me my God to know Thy holy will, now Lord Jesus, I am Your child, You know my hurts, You are my God and I place my trust in You, I will follow Your law, show me Your way, nothing is too great for You, I my Lord, place my Trust and my heart in You, You have created me in Your image and likeness. You have lavished me in Your love, with dignity and honor You clothed me, given me rule over all, Your sun and Your moon give me light and guide me in this very night and I am indeed alive with Thy holy presence which I would not have experienced except for this conflict. Thank You for Your love and Your peace. I am Your child, I am blessed and gifted by You. My children are indeed great gifts. You are my light, You are my strength when I am bowed down, You are my hope and my rock, Your sun and Your moon give me light this very night, I will love because others need me. You are indeed my shield, my fortress, my army against the wicked one and You will not be shattered by any attempts to tear me down I will be fortified and strengthened by You and filled. God is as alive in me as me sitting here. I feel His presence, seeing God all in white in eternity His arms outstretched and saying, “My child come to Me for I will give you rest”, I see God and feel His presence in my heart – He is as alive. I see Jesus standing His arms outstretched – saying “Come to Me, come to Me, all who are weary of heart, place your yoke upon My shoulder and I will give you rest” weed out my unrest and when asked, fill me with the peace and joy that only You can give, why go there I know my undying source comes from You my God – my Father, my Savior, my sanctifier and You live in me now – I am Your child, I am blessed, You have carved me in the palm of Your hand. You have called me blessed and holy and You dwell in my heart because I asked You and You come, I am Your servant, I am Yours, God. Bless and keep Your servant forever. I want to love others through You, I want to do Your will, I love You, God.
The Presentation in the Temple
(1) Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter Book 3
19We live out our spiritual lives within the Church. The Church is a multi-splendored reality. Let us reflect upon some of the key ideas connected with the Church.
Henri de Lubac states: "The Church is a mysterious extension in time of the Trinity, not only preparing us for the life of unity but bringing about even now our participation in it. She comes from and is full of the Trinity. She is for us -- in a favourite phrase of Bossuet -- ‘Jesus Christ … communicated’. She is ‘the Incarnation continued.’ She is, as Dietrick Bonhoeffer used to say, ‘the presence of Christ on earth’ --- she speaks with ‘the authority of Christ living and present in her.’… St. Paul applies to her this same word ‘mystery’ which he had first used of Christ. She is after all, the spouse of Christ and his body."
19. Henri de Lubac, S. J., The Church: Paradox and Mystery, translated by James R. Dunne, Alba House, p. 24.
(2) Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter Book 3 The Father's Will for
Us - Our Source of Peace Pope John Paul II
instructs us: "The Church, as a reconciled and
reconciling community, cannot forget that at the source
of her gift and mission of reconciliation is the
initiative, full of compassionate love and mercy, of
that God who is love (see 1 John 4:8) and who out of
love created human beings (see Wisdom 11:23-26; Genesis
1:27: Psalms 8:4-8)…He created them so that they might
live in friendship with Him and in communion with one
another. "God is faithful to His
eternal plan even when man, under the impulse of the
evil one (see Wisdom 2:24) and carried away by his own
pride, abuses the freedom given to him in order to love
and generously seek what is good, and (instead) refuses
to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when
man, instead of responding with love to God’s love,
opposes Him and treats Him like a rival, deluding
himself and relying on his own power, with the resulting
break of relationship with the One who created him. In
spite of this transgression on man’s part, God remains
faithful in love. "It is certainly true
that the story of the Garden of Eden makes us think
about the tragic consequences of rejecting the Father,
which becomes evident in man’s inner disorder and in the
breakdown of harmony between man and woman, brother and
brother (see Genesis 3:12 ff; 4:1-16). Also significant
is the Gospel parable of the two brothers (the parable
of the ‘prodigal son’; see Luke 15:11-32) who, in
different ways, distance themselves from their father
and cause a rift between them. Refusal of God’s fatherly
love and of His loving gifts is always at the root of
humanity’s divisions. "But we know that
God…like the father in the parable (of the prodigal
son), does not close His heart to any of His children.
He waits for them, looks for them, goes to meet them at
the place where the refusal of communion imprisons them
in isolation and division. He calls them to gather about
His table in the joy of the feast of forgiveness and
reconciliation. "This initiative on God’s
part is made concrete and manifest in the redemptive act
of Christ, which radiates through the world by means of
the ministry of the Church."
13 13. Pope John Paul II, as
in Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, pp.
140-141.
(3) Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter Book 3
Life In and
With Jesus (Excerpt) Here are words from
St. Claude La Columbière, one of the great apostles of
devotion to the Heart of Christ. Speaking to Jesus,
Claude says: You share my burdens, Old age or misfortune
will not cause You to abandon me. You tolerate my faults
with admirable patience. Jesus, may I die
praising you!
12
You take them upon yourself.
You listen to me fondly when I tell you my troubles.
You never fail to lighten them.
I find You at all times and in all places.
You never leave me.
I will always find You wherever I go.
You will never be closer to me than
When all seems to go against me.
No matter how miserable I may be,
You will never cease to be my friend.
You are always ready to come to me, if I so desire it.
May I die loving you!
May I die for the love of you.
12. St. Claude de la Columbiere, as published by Apostleship of Prayer, Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus.
(4) Sing: Little Baby Hands and Feet
(5) Sing: Live This Day
Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter Book 3
I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to often disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. When we give in to this tendency we suffer a significant spiritual loss. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And, of course, we are familiar with the term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. Growth in self-discipline should include a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity, as they prepare for death, for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. For those who have this opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus on Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us resolve to grow in that self-discipline which is required to really live in the present with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of God’s grace. To do so is extremely important for proper growth in the spiritual life.
Now is the time. Now is the time to live and to love. Now is the time to become more united to Christ, to be more one with Him. Now is not yesterday; now is not tomorrow; now is today, and today is a gift from the Lord.
(6) Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter Book 3 God gives ultimate meaning
to our lives. God reveals to us how the laughter and the
tears, the work and the play, the pain and the joy, all fit
together. As we live in God, God gathers up what would
otherwise be the fragmented pieces of our lives, and
arranges them into harmonious unity. This unity emanates
from our living according to God’s plan, a plan embodying a
way of existence that leads to an ever greater experience of
the true, the good, and the beautiful. We can put obstacles in
the way of God’s transforming designs, of God’s plan for us.
We can at times say "no" to God’s initiative. We can refuse
to be open to God’s tender, loving touch. We can engage in a
process of self-enclosure. We can determine to map out our
own path to supposed happiness, forgetting that plans for
happiness which exclude God are ultimately plans for
experiencing frustration and emptiness. Briefly, we can act
in an obstinate fashion regarding God’s offer of
Self-communication. At other times, it is not
so much stubbornness which leads us to say "no" to God; it
is fear. We realize that the closer we come to God, the more
God will ask of us, gently but firmly. We fear the white
heat of God’s love. Such episodes along the spiritual
journey are crucial. If we keep pulling back from the
intensity of God’s love, if we keep refusing what this love
wants to accomplish in us and through us, then we will live
on a rather superficial level. We must strive to overcome
whatever attitude prevents us from increasingly giving
ourselves over to God. We must realize that progress in the
spiritual life is measured by the degree to which we abandon
ourselves to God. We must realize that, if we hope to grow
spiritually, we must increasingly allow God to direct our
lives. Let us pray, then, for an
increase in the spirit of abandonment to God. As we live
more according to this attitude, we will experience in
greater measure the warmth and security of God’s love, this
God Who is the ground of our being, the goal of our
existence, the source of our happiness.
Surrender to God
(7) R. God wants us to have a
deep interior life –
this interior life must
be rooted in love –
Love of God.
Love of neighbor.
(8) The Law of God is to love –
The essence of the spiritual
life is love –
We are to love our neighbor as
ourselves –
therefore the Law of God
tells us you can't
selfishly do whatever you
want for yourself and
hate and hurt your
neighbor in malice of
intent –
God's law commands we
love our neighbor
as ourselves
(9) God likes us little and
dependent –
Mary says in the Magnificat
"God did great things
to her"
She tells us of her humility –
humility – She put God
first –
A Prideful person puts themselves
first – FRONT and Center –
(10) Luke 15: 7
In the same way, I tell you,
there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner
repenting than over ninety–nine upright people who have no
need of repentance.
Luke 15: 4-6
‘Which one of you with a hundred sheep, if he lost one, would fail to leave the ninety–nine in the desert and go after the missing one till he found it? And when he found it, would he not joyfully take it on his shoulders and then, when he got home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, "Rejoice with me, I have found my sheep that was lost."
The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple
(1) Mary's Message - from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
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