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July 20, 2016
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July 21st Holy Spirit Novena |
The Novena Rosary
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Please pray for Cole.
Pray for special intentions.
Pray for Dan & Melanie, Mary W, Jimmy,
Fr. Joe, Mary, Catherine, Blue Book 17.
Please pray for funds & grace.
Pray for
Father's Day Mailing,
Fr. Joe's new book, a special couple.
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Given July 15, 2016
22 Years Ago
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)
R. We need to pray – we need to grow in
holiness – we need to be united
and to all focus on doing what
God is calling us to –
From the back of Response in Christ
Fr. Carter says "The Christian life essentially
consists in God's loving self-communication to
us with our response to Him in love.
God gives us a sharing in His life in
baptism. This life is nourished by the Eucharist."
"Each Christian has a peculiar contribution to
make in the shaping of the secular city. No
one else can fulfill YOUR role, because no
one else is the uniqueness which YOU are."
"Father Carter offers reflections on how
to deepen one's relationship with God:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We find our
individual worth and path through our
Catholic faith."
R. The devil attacks us by making fear,
surprises, trying to get a person "off guard"
so they see the unpredictable happening and
then rise in fear.
Knowing that place inside of deep union
with God – dwelling in Jesus' Sacred Heart gives
us strength to deal with the unpredictability
of life.
God is with us, but we must spend
time with Him and focus on His presence
with in us.
I want to know deeply that presence
of God – deep in my heart.
We need to pray now with holy hearts
for our would.
Jesus gave us these prayers through
Fr. Carter, 22 years ago.
Jesus promised if we pray these prayers
He will take us deeper into His Heart
and Mary's heart.
Knowing that place of refuge inside of
us – deep in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
is our strength, our peace.
The world wants to keep taking us - out
of our hearts – being busy, where
we don't stop and focus on God,
Being at peace in loving our fellow
man –
Learning the lessons that count –
dealing with one - another, being
united in love – serving God
because we love Him so much –
we are driven to spread the
Good News because it is
SO GOOD – So Good –
Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
NINE Christian Hope
...The Christian, then, is called to have a deep concern for the secular. Provided his secular involvement is accompanied by the previously discussed dimensions of the cross and transcendence, there is no reason why the Christian should not feel at ease with the secular and rejoice in his relationship to it. Because of his relationship to Christ, who in His humanity is at the center of the created order, the Christian should realize that he has a special, vital affinity for involvement with the temporal order in all its various dimensions. The manner in which this affinity is implemented will depend upon one's basic vocation and the personal graces attached. Yes, even the cloistered contemplative is called to be involved with the secular through the means available, such as prayer and sacrifice.
All of us have to be convinced that we are shaping our eternal destiny within the context of the secular city, the life of this world. God has given us no other milieu. Within this secular city we are shaping our eternity by giving ourselves in various ways to the service of man and his world. We thereby are shaping our eternity by helping to shape the eternity of the entire temporal order.
Each Christian has a peculiar contribution to make in the shaping of the secular city. No one else can fulfill your role, because no one else is the uniqueness which you are. What are the various contributions to be made to the building of the city? Some contributions are obviously highly spiritual – a priest administering the sacraments. Some contributions are in the area of the material and the physical – the work of a scientist. Some persons contribute to the furthering of the secular city in the neat, peaceful confines of an office.
Others contribute amidst the dirt, the poverty, the disease and the explosive anguish of the inner city. Some are asked to contribute, seeing little or no visible results of their efforts. Others are blessed with the consolation of observing the visible fruits of their labors. Some must labor surrounded with almost insurmountable difficulties. Others work at the building of the city almost unimpeded by any such obstacles.
There are many Christians performing many different tasks amidst many different circumstances. The common element in all this is that each Christian is helping Christ draw man and his world closer to Himself. It can be a painfully slow process, and the world in its historical evolution has at times seemed to be going away from Christ rather than toward Him. In all this we have to have faith that our effort in Christ does make a difference, whether that difference is apparent or not.
Christ, despite the suffering in His life, rejoiced greatly in the accomplishment of His work. Let us also, despite the pain and the effort and the suffering involved, rejoice greatly in the Christian task allotted to each of us. Let us realize that such rejoicing mingled with suffering is part of the death-resurrection involved in evolvement of the secular city. Just as death-resurrection was present in the life of Christ, just as it is present in the life of the Church and each Christian, so it is present in the evolving world order. Through the process of pain and effort and suffering we believe that the world is slowly but surely being more perfectly inserted into newness of life, into Christ's Resurrection. Through our Christian hope we desire to make our contribution to hasten the process. As we so labor with Christ we look ahead to the hour at which Christ will bring to completion His redemptive work. Then, as all becomes subject to Christ in perfect harmony, hope or expectation will be fully realized in regard to the entire universe. Let us recall the words of St. Paul: "After that will come the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father. . . . And when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subject in his turn to the One who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all." (1 Co 15:24-28).
TEN Christian Love
1. Our Need to Love and Be LovedChristianity is fundamentally a life of love. The Christian is one who opens himself to God's love, and responds with a love of his own. The Christian also realizes that his life is not only a love relationship with God, but also a going out of his self-centeredness to other human persons in various forms of Christian love. Finally, the Christian is one who realizes that in one way or another he needs the love of others and is willing to open himself to this love.
The Church, the People of God, must increasingly give witness to these multiple dimensions of Christian love. To the extent that the Church fails to do so, to that degree does she fail to be a faithful continuation of the Incarnation. For the Incarnation is above all a manifestation of love, and this in various ways. First of all, Christ is the tangible and irrevocable expression of God's determination to communicate Himself in love to men: "Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life." (Jn 3:16).
Christ is also the visible expression of mankind's response to God's love, for as man, Christ made this perfect response in love to His Father. Further, Christ is the overwhelming concretization of what it means to love one's fellowman. Finally, He is the visible manifestation of one who perfectly opens Himself to receiving love from others.
We Christians, the People of God, must continue these various manifestations of love contained in the Incarnate Word. By our lives we must give witness to the fact that we have opened ourselves to God's loving self-communication, and that we are responding to that love with all that we are. We must give evidence that we want to give ourselves to others in a life of loving service, and that we are open to the love which others graciously extend to us.
It is of prime importance that all forms of loving, human relationships flourish in the life of the Church. Examples of such relationships are those found in marriage and family life, religious life and other friendships. These relationships not only witness to our willingness to love others and be loved by them, but they are schools for such reciprocal love. These relationships increase my capacity to love others and increase my openness in receiving love. Furthermore, these various interpersonal relationships help me to be open in receiving God's love and responding to it. However, if these relationships are to be fully authentic, they themselves must be rooted in our love relationship with God....
end of excerpt
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R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
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 17 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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