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July 23rd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 6 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for July 23rd are Luminous.
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for all urgent intentions.
Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
January 2, 1999
Mary speaks: I am Our Lady of Snows. I come to cover the earth with a soft white blanket of my love.
I come to bring peace to the earth. I tell you to let go of the anxiety in your heart and experience my peace and His love.
I am your heavenly Mother. I come to hold you and caress you and take you to my Immaculate Heart
First Reading
The Song of Songs 3: 1-4
On my bed at night I sought
the man who is my sweetheart:
I sought but could not find him!
So I shall get up and go through the city;
in the streets and in the squares,
I shall seek my sweetheart.
I sought but could not find him!I came upon the watchmen—
those who go on their rounds in the city:
‘Have you seen my sweetheart?’Barely had I passed them
when I found my sweetheart
Psalm
Psalm 63, 2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9God, you are my God, I pine for you;
my heart thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
as a land parched, dreary and waterless.
Thus I have gazed on you in the sanctuary,
seeing your power and your glory.Better your faithful love than life itself;
my lips will praise you.
Thus I will bless you all my life,
in your name lift up my hands.
All my longings fulfilled as with fat and rich foods,
a song of joy on my lips and praise in my mouth.On my bed when I think of you,
I muse on you in the watches of the night,
for you have always been my help;
in the shadow of your wings I rejoice;
my heart clings to you,
your right hand supports me.May those who are hounding me to death
go down to the depths of the earth,
Alleluia
Tell us, Mary, what did you see on the way?
I saw the glory of the risen Christ, I saw his empty tomb.Alleluia
Gospel
John 20: 1-2, 11-18
It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,’ she said, ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’
But Mary was standing outside near the tomb, weeping. Then, as she wept, she stooped to look inside, and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet. They said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ ‘They have taken my Lord away,’ she replied, ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’ As she said this she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him.’ Jesus said, ‘Mary!’ She turned round then and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbuni!’—which means Master. Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to the brothers, and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ So Mary of Magdala told the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord,’ and that he had said these things to her.
Jesus: This is the picture I want in My messages. When you read these messages, look at My picture and know I love you. These messages are My words of love for each of you.
Excerpt from Blue Book II - Your Bridegroom Waits for You
February 11, 1994 4:00 a.m.
Jesus: Oh, how I love you. I ache in My heart for your love. You do not know how I ache to behold each of you. Please come. It is in the greatest love that I am locked up in the tabernacle. Come, please, I beg you. I love you. I want you to come. I am Jesus, Son of God and I am waiting for you this very day.
Come to Me and I will give you all you need. I love you. Jesus.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. I place my trust in You.
Messenger:
Oh Jesus I love You so very much, I
see You in my life. I wonder at Your
creation
— Every beauty of this earth
I know is the work of Your hands.
Oh my God You are so good to me and
I embrace every moment and thank you
for your gifts.
But I can see a crown of thorns
in many things just from how unloving
we are to each other, not realizing how
all long to be loved and appreciated and
many times chide remarks are because
of fear and insecurity in your beloved
ones and we stoop to hurt each other
and make others lower than ourselves
and ourselves higher.
We must remember always, sweet,
wonderful Jesus, Your gifts to us. The
gift of You truly present in the
Eucharist and that real joy is really only
found in doing God's will.
Oh God open our closed minds that
we will see Your wonderful gifts and
help us not to focus on the little remarks
others may make, but on what a gift they
are to us and how much we love them.
Let us learn to say thanks and sing
with joy for Your love so freely given
to all
— oh precious, beautiful, Jesus,
how I long for time with You spent
before the Blessed Sacrament
— how
I long for the Mass
—
Oh marvelous gift given to us in
the Mass, the priest, the Church,
the world
—
Let us pray for Your grace to be
grateful and more and more likened to
Your image and likeness.
A bird sits in his nest
— he
calls it home
— even the birdie
goes home and he sings to God
—
Little birdies
— can we call you
wise, I know not of bird-brains,
but I know how little many think
of their true home in heaven
—
A birdie flies in the sky
— walks
on the ground and yet finds his home
—
to us we walk the earth
— fly high
with joys imparted to us by our Savior,
but are we wise about our true home
in heaven.
If we but realized how magnificent
a home the Father has planned for us and
how He wants us to love each other and
live in harmony
— being happy for others'
talents and accomplishments, jealousy,
pride, anger, envy, lust, gluttony,
loathfulness can enter it.
So many bad habits
— habits of
negativism that we do not even need
—
when we are so richly blest.
Oh why such negativism when
God loves us so much.
Jesus speaks: Wear the
smile of love
—
Shout with joy to the King
—
Live praying for your persecutors
—
Live to love God with all your
heart, all your soul and all your mind.
Reach for the heights of heaven.
Love your brothers like brothers.
Pray for peace and oneness in the
world.
Pray for peace —
Your prayers united to the mass can be
so powerful.
July 22, 2006 message continues
Jesus speaks:
Quit moping around
—
A mop is usually not too pretty
—
It serves its purpose to clean up
dirt
—
Let your face radiate My love
—
let it sparkle with love
—
Be a light in the darkness
—
Be a radiant beautiful flower
in a briar patch
—
You decide —
At times of the year children
can wear costumes, they
can put on different things
and they look different with
the costume
—
You need no costume
—
let My radiant light shine
from your eyes
let your face reflect My peace
Clean the debris from your heart
Let your heart be a warm cozy
place
— full of love.
Why let old cob-webs from
thoughtless remarks from
others create a cloud of
dust and debris in your heart
when it can be happy, filled
with the joy of love and forgiveness
—
warmth and sweetness and love.
The devil can press on someone so they
give into him
— he wants them to
think isolating thoughts
—
think people are talking about them
thinking they are "odd" or
dumb.
The devil works in thoughts that are
lies, trying to divide and rob
the joy from a heart,
create division and
leave a person covered with doom
and gloom.
Fight those isolating thoughts.
Say the Prayer for Union
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
July 22, 2006 message continues
Jesus speaks: Live to love —
Do not give into negative thinking —
Be grateful
Live to do God's will —
Love your vocation —
Serve others
My Movement is to spread the burning
light of My love to the World —Focus on My Pierced Heart
I suffered for your sins.
I died for you.
I love you so much.
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Homily by Fr. Mike
Hey, Rita. The building down in Clearwater - You got it free, right? You don't have to pay a dime for it, is that correct? No way, right? No way, it's not correct.
I look out and - what about the houses and homes that you all own. They were all given to you, right? You don't have to pay a dime for them? No way, right?
Are there any cars amongst us? Do any of us own cars? We all got them free, right? Yeah, right.
What about, what about the shoes on your feet? Were they free? I mean, okay, even if they were a gift some Christmas, were they free to the person who gave them to you then?
All things in life, then, are things we have to pay for to get them? I think that our lives kind of teach us that. And I think, sometimes, that idea then spills over into our spirituality, and our concept of faith.
That there's a startling proclamation, a tremendous bit of good news that is given to us today in the Gospel, which of course means Good News.
"Without cost, you have received."
Let's think about that for a second. I want to ask a question. Without cost, you have received. What is it that Jesus is referring to? I think that He is referring to what the disciples have received. They have received the Good News. They have received Christ in their life. They have received salvation.
"Without cost, you have received."
So, this is the question. How much does it cost to get salvation? How much does it cost to be a member of the Church? How much does it cost to receive?
What do you think?
You know, it's interesting. When I have asked a similar question of people who are away from the Church, or people who are struggling being in the Church because of an issue akin to this, these are some of the answers I get.
"Well, the Church wants, well, 10% of everything I make or maybe even more, because they talk about a sacrificial gift. It's too costly." They don't need that. Ever heard someone say that to you before, or heard other people talk about that?
Or here's another one. "You know what? They just want all of my time up there at church. It costs too much to be a member of the Church."
Or if you have people that have incredible talents, you know like builders or plumbers. It's true, they get tapped on a lot. "Hey, do you think you could fix this?" And so they will say, the cost is too much. The cost is too much.
Or here's another one I hear: "The cost for salvation is my life! I gotta give my life! It's too much." Or here's a great gripe I hear: "You know, in order to be a Catholic, in order to be a disciple of Jesus, I gotta give up my freedom. Costs too much!"
But Jesus says, "Without cost, you have received."
It's very important that we ponder these words, and allow them to take deep root in our hearts and in the depths of our souls, and to capture our minds. Because it will transform our lives as God wants them to be transformed.
"Without cost, you have received."
All that we have, all that we are, even the salvation and its completeness that we long for in the glories of heaven, all of it is gift. We have done nothing to merit it, nor is there anything we can do to merit it. It is pure gift given to us. No payment needed. Without cost, we have received.
I'm going to ask you a couple of questions, then. What did you do, how much did you pay for your life, and how much do you continue to pay to have it now? Nothing. It's a gift, a gift from God.
Did you eat today? Will you eat later today? What did you pay, in order for the seed and the animal to grow, which will nourish you? Nothing. You can't do it, God does it. It's a gift from God to us.
Salvation. What did you do to merit salvation?
It's not true, what you're thinking, it's not true. Jesus says, in describing this He says, "You know what, there was a servant. And the servant does exactly what the master wants him to do."
You know what Jesus says about that servant? He's useless. He's useless, he's only done what he's supposed to do. And so when we do what God wants us to do, what are we doing? We're only doing what we're supposed to do! We're not doing anything extra!
When do you normally give someone a merit, a reward? Or as we used to call it when I was working as an engineer, an "Atta boy" or an "Atta girl", "Keep up the good work." Are they not normally given, and indeed, are given when we have done something over and beyond what we're supposed to be doing? That's what merit is about. That's what reward is about.
But when we do what God wants us to do, all we're doing is what we're supposed to be doing, nothing more! We can't go around, "Waaah! Look at me! I did such great things today for God! And now, you know what, God owes me." Wrong, it's not true. We've only done what we're supposed to do.
So we're not useless in the sense of, well you know, we didn't do good. But we're useless in the sense, that we haven't done anything more than we are supposed to do, and need to do.
And so salvation, also, is a wondrous gift from God. "Without cost, you have received." It's been given, and it has been accepted. And all of that, in the giving, and in the accepting, it is done without cost. In the giving and in the accepting, it has been done without cost. What you have received, you have received without cost.
Now think about this along the terms of our human relationships. Think of those people in your life, and I'll think about the people in my life, that really are incredible givers, if you will, in your life - in my life. You know the kind of people I'm talking about. Those people where it's like, wow, if that person wasn't in my life, my life would not be rich, it wouldn't be full. It wouldn't be complete.
And when we think about those people in our lives, what we recognize is they're giving to us and we're receiving those gifts from them, right? It's true, isn't it? And it's not just the matter that they're giving us gifts like material gifts, it's the matter of sharing life, and enriching our life with their presence, most of all. And that's what salvation ultimately is, it's God's presence in our lives.
So when we think about our human relationships, about those people who enrich our lives like that, what is our normal response in those relationships? Don't we want to reciprocate as best we can? Aren't we pulled into the relationship in such a way that we give back, in the way that we can give back, out of gratitude? I think that's what happens, and we do it not expecting anything back. Because we have recognized how incredibly enriched we have been by that person's life, in our lives.
"Without cost, you have received. Without cost you are to give." This, my dear friends, is what stewardship is about in our lives.
Many times we get the proverbial cart before the horse. We think stewardship is about funding projects, like paying for a building in Clearwater. We think that stewardship is about putting in our time, so that the Newsletter gets out. We think stewardship is about using our talents, so the grotto gets built and the plumbing gets put in. That's not what stewardship's about.
Stewardship is a way of living. It's a matter of recognizing that without cost we have received, that everything that we are, we have, everything that we hope to have, is gift from God. And that our God loves us so much, that God will continually, always and forever uphold us and provide for us - through the gift of, yes, material goods, but also through the gift of friends. And most of all through the gift of spiritual goods that are poured into our lives, like this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - the gift beyond price, so we can't pay for it.
And when we realize, indeed, that without cost we have received, and that means everything, that it moves us to that point of gratitude so we do things out of thanksgiving. We do things to express how much we are grateful to God.
We live our lives in accord to God's Word, according to God's plan, according to the commandments of God - not because we're fearful of condemnation, and not because we're earning our salvation, but because we are grateful to God and we want to live in accord with the God Who loves us and saves us, out of thanksgiving.
And the reason why we reach into our pocketbooks, and give of our time, and give of our talents, is for the same reason - out of gratitude.
And yes, for some of us it takes on another dimension. It's a matter of giving of our time and our lives in such a way, that they are dedicated in a unique way, in religious life and priesthood. But still lived out of thanksgiving to God, Who has given us all that we have, including life and breath, and salvation, as gift.
And so on this day, let us take some time to ponder more deeply, so that our lives might be transformed more completely. Let us the ponder the fact - without cost we have received, so that we might be invigorated to live our faith-lives in every aspect of our living, in a way that without cost, we give.
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