I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.

I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able,  to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

Prayer for Grace for Election and our Country

March 10, 2024

March 23, 2024

Prayer for Sick and Caregivers at Home

R. Dear God,
I pray Heavenly Father with all my heart,
in the Name of Jesus, united to the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit,
with all the angels and saints and souls
in purgatory, through the powerful
intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater
to come to my aid now.

My loved one is very sick and he (she)
needs your help, God.
Outpour Your grace for me in this time
of need to have patience and wisdom to
deal with this now.

I give this sickness up to You, my God.
Please help me in dealing with this and
helping them in doing the right thing
and dealing with this.

I surrender this problem to You, my
Divine God.

Please send Your angels to help me.
Spread us all with the Precious Blood of
Jesus, cast the devil into the fires of hell,
dear Holy Spirit come to my aid.

I consecrate my home, ourselves to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, Thank You.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my
trust in Thee.
Child Jesus of Good Health, help us.
St. Joseph, Patron of a Holy Death
come to our aid.
Amen.

 

March 5, 2024

Mysteries of Light

The Baptism of Jesus

1. Mark 1: 9-11

It was at this time that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptised in the Jordan by John. And at once, as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit, like a dove, descending on him. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.’

2. Jesus: The Father has a Plan.
    He created us because He loves us
    and wants us in heaven with Him
    one day.
3. Jesus: You have a free will to obey
    My Father’s will and live in love or
    do your own will and be unloving.
4. The Baptism of John the Baptist
    was a Baptism of Repentance.
5. Jesus: I am the Good Shepherd, I
    laid down My life for My Flock.
6. Jesus: The hired man sees the
    wolf coming and runs away.
7. Jesus: I am the Good Shepherd I
    know Mine and Mine know Me.
8. The voice of the Father was heard,
    “This is My beloved Son in whom
    I am well pleased.”
9. The sky was thrown open and the
    Holy Spirit was seen in the form
    of a dove.
10. Dear God:
    Life is so fragile. We live the life,
    death and resurrection of Jesus in
    our lives.

    You are our Creator, God.
    We are Your creatures.
    Help us to die to those ways in our
    lives not like Jesus, so we can rise in
    Him.

    God, please help me to do Your will
    in love.
    Help me to live virtuously and to
    discipline my will to follow Your will.

    I am sorry for my sins of rebellion
    doing my own will.
    Amen.

    God is a God of miracles.
    Miracles are normal to God.
    We receive the supernatural virtues of
    faith, hope and love in baptism.

 

The Marriage at Cana

1. John 2: 1-10  

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. And they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the feast had all been used, and the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus said, ‘Woman, what do you want from me? My hour has not come yet.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’  There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water,’ and they filled them to the brim. Then he said to them, ‘Draw some out now and take it to the president of the feast.’ They did this; the president tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—the president of the feast called the bridegroom and said, ‘Everyone serves good wine first and the worse wine when the guests are well wined; but you have kept the best wine till now.’ 

2. Eve disobeyed God, she wanted to
    be equal to God.
3. Jesus in the marriage of Cana referred
    to Mary as "woman".
    Mary is the "New Eve"
4. Mary is the perfect handmaid of the
    Lord.
5. Water was turned into wine at the
    wedding of Cana.
6. In the Mass, bread and wine is changed
    into the Body and Blood of Jesus.
7. This is a miracle.
8. At the foot of the cross on Calvary,
    Jesus referred to Mary as "woman"
    as He gave us Mary for our spiritual
    Mother.
9. Jesus is the "New Adam" and Mary
    is the "New Eve”.
10. Prayer is love.
    Mary has powerful intercession.

 

Building the Kingdom of God

1. John 18: 36-37

Jesus replied, ‘Mine is not a kingdom of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my men would have fought to prevent my being surrendered to the Jews. As it is, my kingdom does not belong here.’ Pilate said, ‘So, then you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘It is you who say that I am a king. I was born for this, I came into the world for this, to bear witness to the truth; and all who are on the side of truth listen to my voice.’

2. God is love, to build the Kingdom of
    God is to build the Kingdom of love.
3. Love gives for the good of the other.
4. Building the Kingdom of God has to
    be dependent on God, the focus is
    on God and God’s will.
5. God calls us in our vocation to spread
    the Good News - the Good News is
    about God.
6. We were created to know, love and
    serve God and thereby attain our
    eternal salvation.
7. God created us in love, He is the
    Creator, we are the creatures.
8. The first commandment tells us God
    must be first.
9. The greatest commandment is this:

Matthew 22: 36-40

'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'

10. Jesus: Oh precious one, spread the
    Good News of the love of My Sacred
    Heart.
    I am love. I am the New Adam and
    Mary is the New Eve.
    Eve disobeyed God. Eve wanted to be
    equal to God.
    A person living to help others and
    building My Kingdom is obedient to
    God. They seek to know God.
    They live a virtuous life. They have
    supernatural virtues of faith, hope,
    and love.
    They are humble and prudent and just.
    They live in loving obedience to
    My Father’s will.
    They don’t base their lives on their
    will, their focus, they are dying to the
    imperfections in their behavior and
    rising above, living in My image and
    likeness, witnessing to God before
    others, growing in love.

    R. Oh God, I love you so much, thank
    You for Your gifts to me, give me
    the grace I need most to be as You
    want me to be.
 

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

 

The Transfiguration

1. 2 Peter 1:16-19

When we told you about the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we were not slavishly repeating cleverly invented myths; no, we had seen his majesty with our own eyes. He was honoured and glorified by God the Father, when a voice came to him from the transcendent Glory, This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour. We ourselves heard this voice from heaven, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

So we have confirmation of the words of the prophets; and you will be right to pay attention to it as to a lamp for lighting a way through the dark, until the dawn comes and the morning star rises in your minds.

2. Jesus showed the Apostles Himself
    transfigured, they had just seen Jesus
    normal before.
3. God has given many signs and
    miracles in our lives.
    To those with great faith miracles are
    not needed, to those lacking faith no
    sign or miracle is enough.
4. The focus must be on God, some
    focus on God His will and some
    focus on themselves
    and some reject God and give
    themselves the credit.
5. Virtues are good habits that grow
    in a person to make them more like
    Jesus.
6. The deadly sins are sins.
    They are bad habits.
    God calls us to love our brothers.
    The deadly sins come from the
    wounded human nature. They are
    unloving to our brothers.
    The deadly sins are being unloving
    to others.
    They are pride, anger, jealousy, envy,
    slothfulness, gluttony and lust.
7. Jesus: I am the way, the truth and the
    life.
    I am love. You were created to love.

8. John 13: 34-35

I give you a new commandment:
love one another;
you must love one another
just as I have loved you.
It is by your love for one another,
that everyone will recognise you
as my disciples.

9. 1 John 4:20

Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen.

10. Isaiah 53:7-9

Ill–treated and afflicted,
he never opened his mouth,
like a lamb led to the slaughter–house,
like a sheep dumb before its shearers
he never opened his mouth.

Forcibly, after sentence, he was taken.
Which of his contemporaries
was concerned
at his having been cut off
from the land of the living,
at his having been struck dead
for his people's rebellion?
He was given a grave with the wicked,
and his tomb is with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
had spoken no deceit.

 

The Institution of the Eucharist

1. 1 Corinthians 11: 23-26

For the tradition I received from the Lord and also handed on to you is that on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread, and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.' And in the same way, with the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.' Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death until he comes.

2. Self-denial.
    If a person doesn't discipline themselves,
    they can be wild.
    God gives us a sharing in His life in
    Baptism.
    God gives us the commandments to
    live by.
    We are under God, He is Creator, we
    are creatures, we can't demand we
    can do what we want.
2. Man has unruly passions, a wounded
    human nature,
    He must disciple his will and live
    by the Law of God, in love with his
    brothers.
3. We see Judas at the Last Supper. Judas
    was loved by Jesus.
    Judas was sneaky behind Jesus' back.
    Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss for
    30 pieces of silver.
4. When we discipline our lives, our
    virtues deepen, when we refuse to
    obey God and live willfully and
    rebelliously against God's Law, the
    virtues run down.
5. We see Peter wasn't perfect, he
    denied Christ, cut off the ear of the
    high priest’s servant.
    But Jesus made him the first pope.
6. God offers us forgiveness for our sins
    when we are sorry and confess them.
    God is merciful.
    The proud person puts themselves
    before God.
    God wants us to be sorry for our
    sins, sin offends God.
7. The more we realize our dependence
    on God, the more we can grow in
    holiness.
8. Justice is a virtue where we give to
    God and others, what is their due.
    We have a lifetime to curb our
    unruly passions and to grow more
    and more in the image of God.

    Song: I Am a God of Justice

9. When we go to the Eucharist, God
    feeds the life He gives us in
    baptism with Himself.

10. A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.

                                               -Mass Book, December 27, 1995

Colossians 1:24

It makes me happy to be suffering for you now, and in my own body to make up all the hardships that still have to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church,

John 12:24-25

In all truth I tell you,
unless a wheat grain falls into the earth
and dies,
it remains only a single grain;
but if it dies
it yields a rich harvest.
Anyone who loves his life loses it;
anyone who hates his life in this
world will keep it for eternal life.
 

Romans 6:8

But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too.

Luke 24:26

     Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer before entering into his glory?'
 

R. We should ask God to help us to love Him deeply.

John 10:10

    The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
    I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.

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