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July 29, 2011
July 30th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 3 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for July 30th are Sorrowful.
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Given July 28, 2011 - Evening
R. Do what God says and we will be blessed
God created the seen and the unseen from
nothing
We think we must do things like men,
God wants us to rely on His Might
God does things His way
God can make the sun to shine
God can make lightening
God knows everything
The Spirit of God can come upon a
man and they can see and respond
as they should because they
see clearly how they are to act
God tells us to wait on Him
To do it in Him timing
He gave people babies who were
thought barren
David had might he had strength from God
God can fight the fight for us
We can disobey God because of fear and
then we show our lack of
trust in His Might
We show how we just want it
done on our schedule, our
way
Obedience is paramount when dealing
with God
We can always be focused on ourselves
Will I get a "that away boy, if
I do it"
Why aren't we focused on doing God's
will for His purpose __
Man wants to rationalize things
say its for the best to oneself
then do it our way not God's way
The prophet is shocked because he
knows he is dealing with God
In the course of their journey he came to a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and listened to him speaking. Now Martha, who was distracted with all the serving, came to him and said, 'Lord, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do the serving all by myself? Please tell her to help me.' But the Lord answered, 'Martha, Martha,' he said, 'you worry and fret about so many things, and yet few are needed, indeed only one. It is Mary who has chosen the better part, and it is not to be taken from her.'
R. The man who is disobedient, changes
the plan, God gives him
rejects the plan, rebels and
gives excuses for his disobedience
God doesn't want good ideas and
burnt offerings
God wants obedience
God can give us so much and we
take the job and throw it away
Let the power go to our head and
try to raise above God's plan for
our convenience
David was chosen because Saul couldn't
wait he disobeyed and offered
sacrifices as he rationalized his
disobedience
Saul disobeyed and rationalized what
he did when he disobeyed
to tell himself what was
wrong was right
David was small, and young
God sees the heart
Man sees the outward appearance
God knows a man's heart
Jesus showed us that God the Father
wants obedience
Jesus obeyed the Father's will to His
death on the cross
Would we think the Messiah would
have been born in such poverty?
Would we think that God the Father
would have left His Son suffer
as He did?
We do not know the mind of God
We see with limited vision
Some spend their lives arguing to
be right when they have been wrong
What is important is doing God's will
admitting when we were wrong so
we can seek His Plan and not
our pride to prove we are
right
The more we do our own will for our
pride we see with blinded eyes
We open a door to satan when
we lie
We open a door to satan when we
move ahead because of
impatience
What is God's will always seek it
with all our heart
Do God's will with love Like
Seeking the pearl of great price
Psalm 23
Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
In grassy meadows he lets me lie.By tranquil streams he leads me
to restore my spirit.
He guides me in paths of saving justice
as befits his name.Even were I to walk in a ravine as dark as death
I should fear no danger, for you are at my side.
Your staff and your crook are there to soothe me.You prepare a table for me
under the eyes of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup brims over.Kindness and faithful love pursue me
every day of my life.
I make my home in the house of Yahweh
for all time to come.
R. David was obedient to God
He was blessed
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah,
Moses were obedient to God
God blesses those who obey
Him and keep His ways
We see all through salvation
history the struggle with
the false gods
The Israelites worshipped the
one true God
They laughed at David and His
strength came from God
David slew the Philistine
David was not afraid He relied
on the Lord
The Philistine laughed at
the boy David
David fought for the Lord
David knew his strength
was the Lord's
David was blessed
Psalm 47
Clap your hands, all peoples,
acclaim God with shouts of joy.For Yahweh, the Most High, is glorious,
the great king over all the earth.
He brings peoples under our yoke
and nations under our feet.He chooses for us our birthright,
the pride of Jacob whom he loves.God goes up to shouts of acclaim,
Yahweh to a fanfare on the rams horn.Let the music sound for our God, let it sound,
let the music sound for our king, let it sound.
For he is king of the whole world;
learn the music, let it sound for God!
God reigns over the nations,
seated on his holy throne.The leaders of the nations rally
to the people of the God of Abraham.
The shields of the earth belong to God,
who is exalted on high.
R. Saul was jealous of David
David was confident
When we want to promote the Kingdom
of God we rejoice at those
doing God's will
The vain man is jealous because
he is focused on himself
his performance, he is
envious of the man doing
God's will and having victories
God wants fruit for the vine
There are men who betray others
or betray husband, wife, friend, God
They are not true to their word
they can not be trusted
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is trustworthy
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus we place our
trust in Thee
One man can deceive another and
when one tries to stop that the
evil person can use justice and good
principles to defend evil acts
This is using good to defend evil
how sick is that a paradox
A person who is rebelling against
God can fight and lie if they
think their evil could be stopped
or brought to the light
A person who becomes evil can feel threatened
by people doing good
for evil and good, work against one another
If a man is doing evil, he will most assuredly
try to knock out those doing
good for their lives can feel as threats to
their goal of doing evil
A person doing good doesn't want
to get in a confrontation with
the one doing evil
God can raise His hand against
the evil man
David was faithful to Saul
Saul hunted David and wanted
him killed
David was attracted to Bathsheba
David committed
adultery
David put Uriah (Bathsheba's husband)
in the heat of the battle
Uriah was killed
Bathsheba then was carrying
David's child
Nathan confronted
David because
he sinned
David was punished by the Lord
2 Samuel 12: 1-6
Yahweh sent the prophet Nathan to David. He came to him and said:
In the same town were two men,
one rich, the other poor.
The rich man had flocks and herds
in great abundance;
the poor man had nothing but a ewe lamb,
only a single little one
which he had bought.
He fostered it and it grew up with him
and his children,
eating his bread, drinking from his cup,
sleeping in his arms;
it was like a daughter to him.
When a traveller came to stay,
the rich man
would not take anything
from his own flock or herd
to provide for the wayfarer
who had come to him.
Instead, he stole the poor man's lamb
and prepared that for his guest.David flew into a great rage with the man. 'As Yahweh lives,' he said to Nathan 'the man who did this deserves to die. For doing such a thing and for having shown no pity, he shall make fourfold restitution for the lamb.'
R. David and Bathsheba's
son died
David was given
so many gifts
and he sinned
2 Samuel 12: 7-10, 13
Nathan then said to David, 'You are the man! Yahweh, God of Israel, says this, "I anointed you king of Israel, I saved you from Saul's clutches, I gave you your master's household and your master's wives into your arms, I gave you the House of Israel and the House of Judah; and, if this is still too little, I shall give you other things as well. Why did you show contempt for Yahweh, by doing what displeases him? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword, you took his wife to be your wife, causing his death by the sword of the Ammonites. For this, your household will never be free of the sword, since you showed contempt for me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to make her your wife."
David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan then said to David, "Yahweh, for his part, forgives your sin; you are not to die.
1 Samuel 16: 1, 6-7, 10-13
Yahweh said to Samuel, How much longer do you mean to go on mourning over Saul, now that I myself have rejected him as ruler of Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have found myself a king from among his sons.
When they arrived, he looked at Eliab and thought, This must be Yahwehs anointed now before him, but Yahweh said to Samuel, Take no notice of his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him; God does not see as human beings see; they look at appearances but Yahweh looks at the heart.
Jesse thus presented seven of his sons to Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these. He then asked Jesse, Are these all the sons you have? Jesse replied, There is still one left, the youngest; he is looking after the sheep. Samuel then said to Jesse, Send for him, for we shall not sit down to eat until he arrives. Jesse had him sent for; he had ruddy cheeks, with fine eyes and an attractive appearance. Yahweh said, Get up and anoint him: he is the one! At this, Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him, surrounded by his brothers; and the spirit of Yahweh seized on David from that day onwards. Samuel, for his part, set off and went to Ramah.
Guiding Light - Cycle A
Homilies by Fr. Joe Robinson
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4th Sunday of Lent - March 2, 2008
– (1 Samuel 16: 1b,6-7,10-13a, Ephesians 5: 8-14, John 9: 1-41) Sight is a wonderful gift, but what we see with our mind and heart is even of greater value. God helps us to see clearly. We have examples of that inner vision in all of today’s readings. Our first reading takes us back 1000 years before Christ when the prophet Samuel had to choose a king from among the sons of Jesse of Bethlehem. They all had the dignity and physical characteristics of potentially good leaders, but God knew who would make the best king. Paul tells us we have been enlightened by Christ and in the gospel we hear how a man born blind not only had his eyes opened by Christ but his heart, whereas those who claimed to be able to see were blinded by arrogance.INTRODUCTION
Guiding Light - Cycle C
Homilies by Fr. Joe Robinson
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Christ the King - November 25, 2007
INTRODUCTION: When the first king of Israel, King Saul, was killed in battle, the southern part of Israel chose David as their king. The northern part chose Ishbaal, King Saul’s son, to be their king. Ishbaal was inept and after seven years of chaos, the northern tribes turned to David and asked him to rule them also. This is where our first reading comes in. David was a successful leader and, in spite of some serious misbehavior, was viewed throughout Jewish history as an ideal king. The Jews always hoped for another king like him. When a king assumed his office, he was anointed and thus the ideal king the Jews longed for was often referred to as “the anointed one.” The Hebrew word for this is “Mashiah,” or as we say it: “Messiah.” When Mashiah is translated into Greek we have “Χριστός.” So when we call Jesus “Christ” we are in effect saying Jesus, the King. Christ’s kingdom is not an earthly one, as St. Paul tells us, but it is eternal and a sharing in God’s own authority and power.
2 Samuel 5: 1-3
All the tribes of Israel then came to David at Hebron and said, 'Look, we are your own flesh and bone. In days past when Saul was our king, it was you who led Israel on its campaigns, and to you it was that Yahweh promised, "You are to shepherd my people Israel and be leader of Israel." ' So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a pact with them in Yahweh's presence at Hebron, and they anointed David as king of Israel.
Guiding Light -
Cycle B
Homilies by Fr. Joe Robinson
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4th Sunday of Advent - December 18, 2005
INTRODUCTION: (2 Samuel 7,1-5, 8b-12, 14a,16; Luke 1,26-38) Our first reading goes back 1000 years before Christ to the time of king David in Jerusalem. You need to recall that when Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt, almost 300 years before King David, God gave the people a special sign of his presence among them. That sign was the Arc of the Covenant. It looked something like this: a box in which were placed the 10 Commandments, a lid of gold and on the lid were two angels. The box was carried by two long poles because no one could touch the Arc. The two angels provided a throne for their invisible God, Yahweh. As Moses and the people moved through the desert and eventually into the promised land, the Arc was kept in a tent. Only designated people, and eventually only the high priest, could enter the tent and offer sacrifice to God. The Arc was still kept in a tent during the reign of King David. David had built himself a nice comfortable palace and he decided it was not right that the Arc, the special sign of God’s presence with his people, was still kept in a tent. So he told his prophet, Nathan, that he would build a temple, a house for God. Nathan said “good idea,” but God said “no.” God said David had shed too much blood in his role as king, so he would have David’s son, Solomon, build the temple after David died. But God was pleased with David’s idea and blessed him. One of the special blessings David received was that David’s line would never die out. One of his descendants would always be king over God’s people. That’s what is meant by the statement that God would “establish a house” for David. For about 400 years this proved to be true. Always the king of Judea was of the royal house of David. When the Babylonians conquered the Jews, that was the end of the kingship. But the Jews never forgot the promise God made to David and always waited for one who would come from David’s family who would rescue God's people from their enemies and restore the kingdom to Israel. Since kings were anointed when they assumed power, the king they looked for was called the anointed one – the Hebrew word for “anointed one” is Messiah, in Greek the word is Christos. In the gospel of the annunciation, the angel Gabriel informs Mary that her son would be the fulfillment of these hopes. “The Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
2 Samuel 7: 1-5, 8-12, 14, 16
Once the king had settled into his palace and Yahweh had granted him rest from all the enemies surrounding him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, 'Look, I am living in a cedar' wood palace, while the ark of God is under awnings." Nathan said to the king, 'Go and do whatever you have in mind, for Yahweh is with you.' But that very night, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan: 'Go and tell my servant David, "Yahweh says this: Are you to build me a temple for me to live in?
"Yahweh Sabaoth says this: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader of my people Israel; I have been with you wherever you went; I have got rid of all your enemies for you. I am going to make your fame as great as the fame of the greatest on earth. I am going to provide a place for my people Israel; I shall plant them there, and there they will live and never be disturbed again; nor will they be oppressed by the wicked any more, as they were in former times ever since the time when I instituted judges to govern my people Israel; and I shall grant you rest from all your enemies. Yahweh furthermore tells you that he will make you a dynasty. And when your days are over and you fall asleep with your ancestors, I shall appoint your heir, your own son to succeed you (and I shall make his sovereignty secure.
I shall be a father to him and he a son to me; if he does wrong, I shall punish him with a rod such as men use, with blows such as mankind gives.
Your dynasty and your sovereignty will ever stand firm before me and your throne be for ever secure." '
1 Kings 3: 5, 7-12
At Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream during the night. God said, 'Ask what you would like me to give you.'
Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very young man, unskilled in leadership. And here is your servant, surrounded with your people whom you have chosen, a people so numerous that its number cannot be counted or reckoned. So give your servant a heart to understand how to govern your people, how to discern between good and evil, for how could one otherwise govern such a great people as yours?' It pleased Yahweh that Solomon should have asked for this. 'Since you have asked for this,' God said, 'and not asked for long life for yourself or riches or the lives of your enemies but have asked for a discerning judgement for yourself, here and now I do what you ask. I give you a heart wise and shrewd as no one has had before and no one will have after you.
Guiding Light - Cycle A
Homilies by Fr. Joe Robinson
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17th Sunday in Ordinary Time - July 27, 2008
– (1 Kings 3: 5,7-12, Romans 8: 28-30, Matthew 13: 44-52) King David died about 970 years before Christ. His son, Solomon, succeeded him as king of Israel. Today’s first reading is Solomon’s prayer as he begins his reign. He prayed for an understanding heart that he would reign well. Of all the gifts he could have asked for, he valued wisdom more than anything else. God’s commands guide us to wisdom, so in the psalm refrain we praise God for this gift.INTRODUCTION
R. When Our Lord told me to do these
days of reparation He told me to
pray and not to do work on these
days
Leviticus 23: 1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37
Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:
"These are Yahweh's solemn festivals, the sacred assemblies to which you will summon the Israelites on the appointed day:
"The fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, is the Passover of Yahweh; and the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of Unleavened Bread for Yahweh. For seven days you will eat unleavened bread. On the first day you will hold a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work. For seven days you will offer food burnt for Yahweh. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work." '
Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:
'Speak to the Israelites and say:"When you enter the country which I am giving you and reap the harvest there, you will bring the priest the first sheaf of your harvest, and he will present it to Yahweh with the gesture of offering, for you to be acceptable. The priest will make this offering on the day after the Sabbath,
"From the day after the Sabbath, the day on which you bring the sheaf of offering, you will count seven full weeks. You will count fifty days, to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then you will offer Yahweh a new cereal offering.
'But the tenth day of this seventh month will be the Day of Expiation. You will hold a sacred assembly. You will fast and offer food burnt for Yahweh.
'Speak to the Israelites and say:
"On the fifteenth day of this seventh month there will be the feast of Shelters for Yahweh, lasting for seven days. The first day will be a day of sacred assembly; you will do no heavy work. For seven days you will offer food burnt for Yahweh. On the eighth day you will hold a sacred assembly and you will offer food burnt for Yahweh. It is a day of solemn meeting; you will do no heavy work."These are Yahweh's solemn festivals to which you will summon the Israelites, the sacred assemblies for the purpose of offering food burnt for Yahweh, consisting of burnt offerings, cereal offerings, sacrifices and libations, each on its appropriate day,
R. A real disciple is a servant in this
Gospel Matthew 20: 20-28 we see James'
mother asks that John and James
be placed in a certain place
Matthew 20: 20-28
The mother of Zebedee's sons
makes her request
Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came with her sons to make a request of him, and bowed low; and he said to her, 'What is it you want?' She said to him, 'Promise that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your kingdom.' Jesus answered, 'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?' They replied, 'We can.' He said to them, 'Very well; you shall drink my cup, but as for seats at my right hand and my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted by my Father.'
Leadership with service
When the other ten heard this they were indignant with the two brothers. But Jesus called them to him and said, 'You know that among the gentiles the rulers lord it over them, and great men make their authority felt. Among you this is not to happen. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be your slave, just as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'
R. Knowing our place is important
in life
If nobody wants anyone telling them
what to do, there is utter disorder
Power comes from God
We see the structure in how God
created things i.e.
man
animal
plant
etc.
One of my favorite readings is
1 Corinthians 15: 20-28
In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.
R. This tells us that we are to be under
His feet!!
Learning our place is important
in the spiritual life
The first commandment tells us
God must be first in our
life
Jesus asked for these days of reparation
4 in Florida
4 in China
He told me work and meetings were not
to be conducted, especially on
the 5ths and 13ths
He made rules like God gave
them this rule all these years
ago in the 1st reading
When Jesus told me to have meetings on
the 17th of each month beginning
February 17, 1994
The 17th Meetings
every month people would argue with me
Finally on December 17, 1996 Mary appeared
as Our Lady of Clearwater on the Building
Jesus gave me a message when they argued
"I called you on the 17th
if they don't or can't come that is
their doing
I want the meetings I called on the
17ths"
Mary appeared every day from July 5, 1994
to September 5, 1995
I still see those apparitions some very
big ones
I see Mary appear before me in
constant memory of this
Then she appeared Our Lady of
Clearwater for all to see
When Mary told me and Jesus told me
to go to the Holy Spirit Center
every day at 6:30
3 times from July 5, 1994 September 5, 1995
I was late
Mary didn't appear to me those
days
Our Lady appeared on these 5ths in
Clearwater gold and rainbow gold
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R. Many people have been healed physically
and spiritually after going to Florida
on the 5th or China on the 13th
Mary and Jesus promised special healing
graces, physical and spiritual when
I do the prayer services and
rosaries and when people use the
Rosary books
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R. Especially a rosary in a candle service
Mary asked in 1994 and 1995 to spread the
school rosary program to the
children
Then I got this message August 27, 1996
Feast of St. Monica and later
Mary said she wanted this message
played constantly at the Florida
Clearwater site
We need to consecrate our hearts and our
homes to the Sacred Heart and
Immaculate Heart
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