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July 9, 2019
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July 10th Holy Spirit Novena |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries |
China Retreat
July 10th - July 13th
Mass July 10th - 12 noon
Prayer Service follows.
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 9, 2019
R. Happiness is in God.
R. God loves us so much –
God has given us these love letters to
tell us about His love.
God loves each one of us personally.
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit love us.
Knowing God's love really makes us happy.
God created us and loved us into existence.
God is the source of love –
God is our goal.
We received this Prayer.
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. 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.
Song: Prayer for Union with Jesus
(refrain)
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.
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. (refrain)
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.
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.
(refrain)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.
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. (refrain)
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. (refrain)
R. God gave us baptism and baptism elevates
our knowing and loving capacity.
We were created in the image and
likeness of God.
We were created to know, love and
serve God and to love our neighbor
as ourselves.
God gives us the Commandments.
These are His laws for us. If we
follow the Laws of God we can
be happy.
Jesus loves us so much. This is what
we learn especially in reading
His letters of love. We are to read
them and know He is talking to us.
R. Jesus came and lived 33 years here.
He loved us this much to know Him
and learn from Him about God and
God's love for us.
Jesus gave us the Church and the
sacraments, the priest, the
Mass – the sacrifice of Calvary
sacramentally made present.
Jesus is the Victim and Priest.
God gives us a sharing in
His life in Baptism and
feeds us with His Body and Blood.
Jesus remains with us today truly
present in the Eucharist, Body,
Blood, Soul and Divinity –
no less present then when He
walked the earth.
God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
love us so much.
We learn about each Person of the
Trinity and Their love for us.
We learn about our goal to go to heaven
eternally, to be united to God for all
eternity in the beatific vision.
God put a desire in us to be happy,
to be loved –
God must increase, we must
decrease –
There is nothing so boring as to be
so self-focused to think of oneself
24/7.
We are to dedicate our lives, actions,
thoughts to the greater glory of God.
We must give ourselves – Love is giving
oneself for love.
Jesus gave Himself for us –
God teaches us – love takes giving
ourselves and from this we
have joy.
Joy comes in really loving God and
others as ourselves –
We are called to praise, adore, love
and honor God.
Say the Apostles Creed – meditate on every word –
Apostles Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell; on the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven; and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.
R. We must know God more and more to love
Him. We seek to know God.
Genesis 1: 26-27
God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’
God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus
John 14: 16-17
I shall ask the Father,
and he will give you another Paraclete
to be with you for ever,
the Spirit of truth
whom the world can never accept
since it neither sees nor knows him;
but you know him,
because he is with you, he is in you.
Sing: Come Holy Ghost
Holy Spirit Novena Daily Novena Prayers Opening Prayer In the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear Father, we come to You in the name of
Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit. We come to
You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in
the perfect, sinless heart of Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting
ourselves to her holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the
souls in purgatory. Prayer for Holy Spirit
We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit
on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on
the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to
fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help
bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We
pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the
Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world. Protection by the Blood of Jesus We pray that the Blood of Jesus will be
spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement, that we will
be able to move steadfastly ahead and be protected from the evil one. 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. 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. 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. Prayer to Be One in Jesus Let us experience life in the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am
alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...." Let us live, united to the
Mass, all through the day being one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this
elevated state of oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You,
we love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and thank You,
our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary We seek to be one in God, to live and dwell
in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on earth, to experience life in the all
perfect, pure, sinless heart of our Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to
be united to Jesus as the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered
to the Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the
world to help in the salvation of souls. Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts,
inflame all people with the fire of Your love. Leader: Send forth Your
Spirit and all will be reborn. We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy
Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.
Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You
soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel,
Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord. 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. Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant
or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God. Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs
for us. Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and
to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will. Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your
commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love
them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know
the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is
right and what is wrong. A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul 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. First Period 1. Romans 8:14-17 2. Romans 8:5-9
3. 1 John 4:12-16 4. 1 John 4:17-21 5. 1 John 4:7-11 6. Acts of the Apostles 1:1-5 7. Acts of the Apostles 1:6-9 8. Acts of the Apostles 1:12-14 9. Acts of the Apostles 2:1-4 Second Period 1. John 14:21-31 2. John 17:11-26 3. I Corinthians 15:20-28 4. Revelation 3:1-3,12,16-19 5. Revelation 5:9-14 Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength,
honour, glory and blessing. Then I heard all the living things in creation-everything that lives in heaven, and on
earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, crying: To the One seated on the throne and to the Lamb, be all praise, honour, glory and
power, for ever and ever. And the four living creatures said, 'Amen'; and the elders prostrated themselves to
worship. 6. Revelation 7:14-17 7. Revelation 12:1-8 8. Revelation 14:1-7 9. Revelation 21:1-10 Scriptural quotations are taken from
The New Jerusalem Bible,
Doubleday & Co.
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.
From the Lectionary
Pentecost Sequence
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
Come, Father of the poor!
You, of comforters the best;
In our Labor, rest most sweet;
O most blessed Light divine,
Where you are not, man has naught,
Heal our wounds, our strength renew; Bend the stubborn
heart and will;
On the faithful, who adore
Give them virtue's sure reward;
All: And You will renew the face of the earth.
Meditations Nine Days
All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God; for what you received
was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back into fear; you received the Spirit of
adoption, enabling us to cry out, 'Abba, Father!' The Spirit himself joins with
our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God. And if we are children, then we
are heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we share his suffering,
so as to share his glory.
Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human
nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And
human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to
life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it
does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural
inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural
inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed,
anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
No one has ever seen God, but as long as we love one another God remains in us and his
love comes to its perfection in us. This is the proof that we remain in him and he in us,
that he has given us a share in his Spirit. We ourselves have seen and testify that the
Father sent his Son as Saviour of the world. Anyone who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son
of God, God remains in him and he in God. We have recognised for ourselves, and put our
faith in, the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God
and God in him.
Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement fearlessly,
because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but
perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has
come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. 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. Indeed this is the commandment we
have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.
My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is
a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is
love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the
world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved
God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved
us so much, we too should love one another.
In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the
beginning until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the
Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven. He had shown himself alive to them after his
Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days he had continued to appear to them and tell
them about the kingdom of God. While at table with them, he had told them not to leave
Jerusalem, but to wait there for what the Father had promised. 'It is', he had said, 'what
you have heard me speak about: John baptised with water but, not many days from now, you
are going to be baptised with the Holy Spirit.'
Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for you to restore the
kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not for you to know times or dates that the Father
has decided by his own authority, but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which
will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout
Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'
As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their
sight.
So from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, they went back to Jerusalem, a short
distance away, no more than a Sabbath walk; and when they reached the city they went to
the upper room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew,
Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot,
and Jude son of James. With one heart all these joined constantly in prayer, together with
some women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from
heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were
sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest
on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak
different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.
Meditations Nine Days
Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and
whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal myself to
him.'
Judas-not Judas Iscariot-said to him, 'Lord, what has happened, that you intend to show
yourself to us and not to the world?' Jesus replied:
Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to
him and make a home in him. Anyone who does not love me does not keep my words. And the
word that you hear is not my own: it is the word of the Father who sent me. I have said
these things to you while still with you; but the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said
to you. Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot
give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me
say: I am going away and shall return. If you loved me you would be glad that I am going
to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you this now, before it
happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. I shall not talk to you much longer,
because the prince of this world is on his way. He has no power over me, but the world
must recognise that I love the Father and that I act just as the Father commanded. Come
now, let us go.
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.
Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like
us. While I was with them, I kept those you had given me true to your name. I have watched
over them and not one is lost except one who was destined to be lost, and this was to
fulfil the scriptures. But now I am coming to you and I say these things in the world to
share my joy with them to the full. I passed your word on to them, and the world hated
them, because they belong to the world no more than I belong to the world. I am not asking
you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from the Evil One. They do not
belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth;
your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, and
for their sake I consecrate myself so that they too may be consecrated in truth. I pray
not only for these but also for those who through their teaching will come to believe in
me. May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also
may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the
glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who sent
me and that you have loved them as you have loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always
see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the
world. Father, Upright One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these
have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to
make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may
be in them.
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.
'Write to the angel of the church in Sardis and say, "Here is the message of the one
who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know about your behaviour: how
you are reputed to be alive and yet are dead. Wake up; put some resolve into what little
vigour you have left: it is dying fast. So far I have failed to notice anything in your
behaviour that my God could possibly call perfect; remember how you first heard the
message. Hold on to that. Repent! If you do not wake up, I shall come to you like a thief,
and you will have no idea at what hour I shall come upon you.
Anyone who proves victorious I will make into a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and it
will stay there for ever; I will inscribe on it the name of my God and the name of the
city of my God, the new Jerusalem which is coming down from my God in heaven, and my own
new name as well.
'...but since you are neither hot nor cold, but only lukewarm, I will spit you out of my
mouth. You say to yourself: I am rich, I have made a fortune and have everything I want,
never realising that you are wretchedly and pitiably poor, and blind and naked too. I warn
you, buy from me the gold that has been tested in the fire to make you truly rich, and
white robes to clothe you and hide your shameful nakedness, and ointment to put on your
eyes to enable you to see. I reprove and train those whom I love: so
repent in real earnest.'
They sang a new hymn: You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals,
because you were sacrificed, and with your blood you bought people for God of every race,
language, people and nation and made them a line of kings and priests for God, to
rule the world.
In my vision, I heard the sound of an immense number of angels gathered round the throne
and the living creatures and the elders; there were ten thousand times ten thousand of
them and thousands upon thousands, loudly chanting:
I answered him, 'You can tell me, sir.' Then he said, 'These are the people who have been
through the great trial; they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the
Lamb. That is why they are standing in front of God's throne and serving him day and night
in his sanctuary; and the One who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.
They
will never hunger or thirst again; sun and scorching wind will never plague them,
because the Lamb who is at the heart of the throne will be their shepherd and will
guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears from
their eyes.'
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon,
and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in
the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red
dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet.
Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground,
and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so
that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy,
the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was
taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where
God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.
And now war broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the
dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of
heaven.
Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had with him a hundred
and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father's name written on their
foreheads. I heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of the ocean or the roar of
thunder; it was like the sound of harpists playing their harps. There before the throne
they were singing a new hymn in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders,
a hymn that could be learnt only by the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been
redeemed from the world. These are the sons who have kept their virginity and not been
defiled with women they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they, out of all
people, have been redeemed to be the first-fruits for God and for the Lamb.
No
lie was found in their mouths and no fault can be found in them.
Then I saw another angel, flying high overhead, sent to announce the gospel of eternity to
all who live on the earth, every nation, race, language and tribe. He was calling, 'Fear
God and glorify him, because the time has come for him to sit in judgement; worship
the maker of heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water.'
Revelation 19: 7-8
let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the time for the marriage
of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress herself in dazzling white
linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds of the saints.'
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first
earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her
husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human
beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be
their God, God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes;
there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the
past has gone.'
Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new.
Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."' Then he said
to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves
victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my
son. But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship
obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of
false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of
sulphur.'
One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came to
speak to me and said, 'Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.'
In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me
Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God.
Revelation 22:20
The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon.
Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
Imprimatur granted by Cardinal Hume.
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.
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, source of all our store!
Come, within our bosoms shine!
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill!
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill!
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
And confess you, evermore
In your sev'nfold gift descend;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
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:
Come, Holy Spirit, fill us with your gifts of wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety, and fear of the Lord. As we dwell in the Heart of Mary, Your spouse, fashion us more and more according to the Heart of Jesus. end of excerpt
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.
"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.
Given
October 29, 2016R. Please spread blessed holy water
(You can also mix Jesus and Mary water
with your blessed Holy Water if you have it.)
in your yard, around your house,
in the state you live in.And ask God to bless your state
Ask God to bless the United StatesPray all prayers through the intercession of
Our Lady of CLEAR – WATER.Ask the Lady of CLEAR - WATER
to help with the blessed water.Mary has appeared to me for 22 years,
in Ohio and Florida.
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Response to God’s Love by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. In this book Fr. Carter speaks of God as the ultimate mystery. We can meditate on the interior life of the Trinity. Fr. Carter tells us about our uniqueness in the Father's Plan for us, how the individual Christian, the Church and the world are in the state of becoming. Imprimatur. $10 |
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Tell My People. Messages from Jesus and Mary (As given to Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.) One of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.'s Synopsis of the Spiritual Life From Jesus to Fr. Carter "On Holy Saturday, 1994, Jesus told me that on the following day, Easter, I would also begin to receive messages for others. Our Lord also told me that some of these were eventually to be published in a book and here is that book." $10 |
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Spirituality Handbook. Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. did 3 synopsis of the spiritual life. The Spirituality Handbook, the Priestly Newsletter 20he Tell My People book. The way of spiritual life proposed to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates is centered in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. All aspects of the spiritual life discussed below should be viewed as means to help members develop their lives in consecration to Christ, the Sacred Heart, and to Mary, the Immaculate Heart. $3 |
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The Spirituality of Fatima by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. The Fatima apparitions and messages received official Church approval in 1930. In giving her official approval to the Fatima event, the Church tells us that what took place at Fatima involving the three young visionaries is worthy of our belief. $5 |
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Priestly Newsletter — 2000 #1 — CD. — Christ is Our Strength — Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. read it the year he died. It is so beautiful. "This brief passage contains one of the greatest lessons of the spiritual life. As we progress along our spiritual journey, we become increasingly aware of how weak we are in our—selves, but how strong we are in Christ. To experience our weakness involves suffering. The degree and kind of suffering can vary. The suffering can include the experience of the classical dark night of the spirit as described by St. John of the Cross. One of the main purposes of the dark night is to make a person keenly aware of his or her helplessness without God." quote by Fr. Carter from the newsletter $10 |
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Shepherds of Christ Holy Spirit Novena Holy Spirit Novena Booklet. In four languages with the Imprimatur with 18 scripture readings for two complete novenas – this very powerful Holy Spirit Novena has prayers for prayers for Protection by the Blood of Jesus, Healing, Strength and Light, To Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One with Jesus, To Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts, and the Word Alive in Our Hearts. All these prayers take about 10 minutes daily recited out loud. $1
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Shepherds of Christ Prayer
Manual Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual. The Shepherds of Christ has prayer chapters all over the world praying for the priests, the Church and the world. These prayers that Father Carter compiled in the summer of 1994 began this worldwide network of prayer. Currently the prayers are in eight languages with the Church’s Imprimatur. We have prayed daily for the priests, the Church, and the world since 1994. Associates are called to join prayer Chapters and help us circulate the newsletter centered on spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and helping to renew the Church through greater holiness. Please form a Prayer Chapter & order a Prayer Manual. |
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Special 12" Holy Family Statue with Glass
Ivory gowns with gold trim.
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White or Ivory gown with gold trim.
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Given March 21, 2014
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.
–) Blue Book 19 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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