August 11, 2016
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August 11, 2016
R. Because of the wounded
human nature you must
pray to be obedient to
just authority from God –
The devil tempts people to
disobey God and be willful –
The devil can then work in
this.
It is supernatural to be able
to be obedient to just
authority under God and
with this, one is doing
God's will – the best plan –
with God's direction and help –
Why would one cut off the
power coming from God –
the direction coming from
God and follow their own
willful way which is
rejecting God's will and
following what satan
is telling them to do
in willfulness.
Giving into the willfulness
of the wounded human nature.
A car runs on gas –
If it runs out of gas
it doesn't run –
God is life –
Jesus is the way, the
truth and the life –
We need God –
Life is in Him.
Being obedient takes lots of
grace and discipline to
want to be obedient –
Many religious take the
vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience. The Franciscans
wear 3 knots to remind
them of their vows. Fr. Carter
took his vows most
seriously – he would
never disobey his superiors –
his bishop –
priest must obey their
bishops –
That is how power works –
God has all the power and
it comes from God –
When a person is willful
they do what they want –
they break that chain
of authority – when they
are under authority
under God –
They break the chain of
authority coming
from God and put
themselves on top –
A Shadow Government in
religious orders operates
like this Fr. Mike told me –
The superior is placed under
God with authority and a
person under the authority –
could be second in charge
tells the leaders under them
to keep secret what they
tell them to do and demand
they obey them – absolutely.
They put themselves as the
authority – undesignated –
demand silence of those
under them – don't tell the
real authority and demand
obedience to them.
The main authority is then
left out and watch the cards
fall – unable to correct things
because no one admits the
truth – there are secrets and lies –
What a mockery for any
religious organization that
is showing the world it is living
under God and instead
lives in lies and secrets –
deceits and hypocrisy.
Our nation was founded on –
one nation under God – how
offensive to God when men
disobey the commandments of
God and do not live as God wants them to live.
Power comes from God –
People who want power to do
satanic ways use Godly
things to establish their rule.
Jesus calls them hypocrites –
God commands we love.
God commands we do what we
do for His honor and glory –
It can be asked of our
actions – do we do this
for the honor and glory of God –
If "yes" we are basing our
actions on God –
serving God –
loving God –
doing them for our
eternal salvation –
A person that gives into the
deadly sins has habits –
like gutters – gutter
balls when bowling go
down the gutter –
If we did a trench and
pour water near it – the water
will follow the trench –
Habits are like this –
One who is not focused on love
on obedience to God – but
has habits of disobedience
and envy, jealousy, hatred –
goes right to the trench –
that darkness becomes habitual
and leads to unhappiness because
God created us for Him –
Giving into the deadly sins
and not repenting or trying
to change bad habits
"become us". We become
angry because we
distance ourselves from
God – who is love –
We reject God who is
love and choose darkness –
hatred –
Hell is total
absence of God forever –
Hell is total despair –
In baptism we receive the
virtues (good habits) of faith,
hope and love –
A person of despair
is miserable. Judas
despaired – He did not
ask for forgiveness
and mercy –
People who give into
the deadly sins become
blinded – their right
reasoning twisted –
Satan can easily keep
leading them to deeper and
deeper darkness and rebellion
and disobedience.
Obedience to God's will
takes grace, we have a
wounded human nature –
We must pray to God
to be obedient to Him
and beg for that grace –
Want obedience to God and
bend the stubborn heart and will!
God has the Plan –
He created us –
He wants us to be
more and more in His
image and likeness –
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.
R. Deadly sins are
pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust,
gluttony,
and sloth.
A person who gives into the deadly sins becomes
darker and darker inside because they distance
themselves further and further from God.
They feel angry inside because it is against
what brings us life.
God has given us baptism – this gives
us a sharing in His life.
This opens up the supernatural world
to the person –
Life is in Him –
God intends us to follow in His footsteps –
to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
Jesus came and He wants us to love.
God is love – Jesus showed us –
Jesus gave of Himself. Love gives of oneself.
Jesus showed us how He gave to others.
The devil wants a person to close down –
to live entrapped inside of oneself in their
self-made prison –
The darkness inside of one wrapped in
deadly sins becomes darker and their
anger for how they have chosen to
rebel against God makes that place
a hateful place to be in.
It can fill up in such dismay and
darkness they want others to suffer
and relieve themselves of their self-
made prison.
It is a place of self-made prison –
It is in rebellion to the light and
life God wants us to have interiorly –
So they may try to punish others –
when they see others filled with light
they are jealous and want to bring
them down –
They may want to escape their self-
made prison by abusing others –
they can find a victim to release their
own dilemma and they decide they want
that person to suffer at their hands –
This relieves themselves for a short time
because they let go onto an innocent other
they try to force to suffer at their hands –
trap in their snare.
The devil is jealous that men can
sin and ask for forgiveness of God
and be forgiven and given mercy
from God because they seek forgiveness
and mercy and can even have eternal
life.
The devil knows he will be in
hell for all eternity. The devil wants
to take souls to hell for all eternity.
Life is in God.
We see the beauty of the world God
has created for us. We can see magnificent
beauty in a little flower by the road
with its intricacies – it will soon be
discarded.
When ever Mary and Jesus appeared
They were full of light. They were so full
of light – I cannot even describe it
or compare it to anything. I cannot
find words or colors to describe
the shades, the beauty, the variations
of color that I saw –
The gold and silver, mirror like
beauty – the way light was shown –
the precision of the intensity of goldenness
or of a mirror like way I saw such
things –
Nor could I explain depth of how
things were shown to me – It was
supernatural –
I was shown mirror like cracks
that indicated intensity and infinity
and beauty my eyes never saw and
nor could I describe any of it.
Recently we went to see the mountains
and lakes and the depths and heights
I could not ever describe – the blue
skies, the clouds that seem to come
out of mountains, but even this does
not compare with the visions I
saw – the supernatural visions
that reach deeper than the sky
and what we see as concrete with
our eyes – it has a mystical quality
I cannot describe and yet they appeared
before me – right before me – they showed
me in our worldly space Themselves
and it was surrounded by a mystical
light and place – indescribable in
our space in this world.
I see the Eucharist at Mass and
when Fr. Carter would raise the host, a see-through
host would come out and go up
after he raised the host – It was in
varying sizes – once I saw the
whole host duplicated above
and come out.
I saw Jesus transfigured the beginning
of 1996 in January several times and
I have seen Him other times transfigured
February 5, 2000 at the building in the
statue outside as they tried to film
me –
But the interior life is inside of us –
knowing the light of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
dwelling in us. Knowing hope and
light and having faith – believing
in Him and love that continues to
grow in us that we just appreciate
all God has blessed us with and
given to us – Love grows – love
expands – love knows no limits –
love is why we live – to give, to
grow in – to see what is to become –
The more a person closes themselves
in a space of darkness – it is
like locking oneself in a closet
with the power out and no windows –
the small space crouches in
and the darkness they want to
escape – in the darkness of the
soul – the deadly sins can become
the way of life to one living with a
diseased will – they are jealous, angry,
envious, they hurt for what they did
to themselves and in pride they won't
even try to see that they can choose
to come out of the hole they have
made. They may want others to suffer
at their hands – suffering is what
they know – self-made darkness –
and pride keeps them so locked in –
jealousy is theirs – they are jealous
and light dispels them.
Who would want to stay locked in
a heart of darkness – so they can
try to make others hurt to relieve
their pain –
The world of darkness –
My dear friends when Mary
appeared at Fatima she showed 3
little children hell – what they saw
they described as such.
Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
July 13, 1917
"During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:
"You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.
"The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. (12)
"To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed....
"But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world." (13)
11. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to
Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN
Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). pp.3-4.
12. Ibid., pp.4-5.
13. Ibid., p.5.
From Fatima Peace Plan — Tan Books p.4-5.
July 13, 1917
THE CHILDREN SEE HELL
"During her appearance in July, Our Lady, in answer to Lucia's plea, promised that in October she would work a great public miracle so that all might believe and know who she was. Again the Mother of God told the children to sacrifice themselves for sinners and to say many times, especially when making a sacrifice, this prayer: "O my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of poor sinners, and in reparation for all the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
As she spoke these words, Our Lady stretched out her hands, and bright rays came forth which seemed to penetrate into the earth. All at once the ground vanished, and the children found themselves standing on the brink of a sea of fire. As they peered into this dreadful place, the terrified youngsters saw huge numbers of devils and damned souls. The devils resembled hideous black animals, each filling the air with despairing shrieks. The damned souls were in their human bodies and seemed to be brown in color, tumbling about constantly in the flames and screaming with terror. All were on fire within and without their bodies, and neither devils nor damned souls seemed able to control their movements. They were tossing about in the flames like fiery coals in a furnace. There was never an instant's peace or freedom from pain.
Looking with compassion at the pale and trembling little ones, the vision spoke to them: "You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace."
end of excerpt
R. We also saw Don Bosco's vision.
R. When Mary appeared to me over and over again
the first 14 months daily –
She cried out souls are going to hell
like rain –
Help me –
Help me reach the children –
If we want healing ourselves, we must
go out to others – in action – in
prayer in love in the heart –
This is the will of God –
To be so one daily in the Morning Offering
united to the Masses going on
around the world – praying for
ourselves and souls – This is love!
The Mass is the sacrifice of
Calvary sacramentally made
present –
When God calls us – we want to be
in the state of grace – we want our
hearts to be ready – we want
to be in the light – living in Him –
this is why we are here to prepare
ourselves in our every action for
our eternal reward –
to be obedient to God's will –
to love – to give – to go out – to live
in the light –
Why would a person choose to rebel
against God and stay in darkness –
Why does a person like the hole of
darkness
We have a free will – God loves us –
Jesus died for us. Heaven is real
and heaven is for lovers –
In working the 12 Steps of
Alcoholics Anonymous a person must
admit their lives had become
unmanageable and only God could
restore them to sanity –
A person who works the 12 steps
wants to do God's will – they are
listening and choosing God's will
not their own – that is the
3rd step –
They want the truth – in the 4th
step they make a fearless inventory –
no place for masks and false
pride to keep them stuck –
And they tell at least one trusted
friend – they let see their soul and
know they need as a friend to
help them –
We also have the priest and confession –
Then in the end they must go out
and help others –
We watched the movie "War Room"
we saw how the lady made
herself available and helped
to change a troubled family –
Wow – that is love –
Watch War Room –
Deuteronomy 30: 15-20
‘Look, today I am offering you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am laying down for you today, if you love Yahweh your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws and his customs, you will live and grow numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the country which you are about to enter and make your own. But if your heart turns away, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them, I tell you today, you will most certainly perish; you will not live for long in the country which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. Today, I call heaven and earth to witness against you: I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, holding fast to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends the length of time that you stay in the country which Yahweh swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give them.’
Sing song: Choose Life
Song: Why Do We Hurt the Ones We Love –
R. Heaven is for real and God has
put us here to honor and love and
serve Him and love our neighbor
as ourselves –
to walk in the footsteps of
Jesus –
to go out and to love –
to see the light and
We were created to be with God
forever in the beatific vision
in heaven –
Heaven is for lovers –
It is a choice –
The devil wants souls to go to
hell for all eternity –
The choice is ours –
We make the choice –
Jesus showed us the way –
He came and gave Himself for us –
He gives us Himself in the Eucharist –
The pride of the devil rejected
God –
Jesus is truly present in His
Divinity and humanity
in the Eucharist.
R. Respecting Authority is a big thing –
Being under God and learning
to serve under just authority
is important.
1 Corinthians 15: 20-26, 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.
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.
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