August 12, 2010

                Love is an act of the
                    will —

                God gives us a free will
                God commands us to love
                Love is a choice

                Do you have a physical pain —
                    a chronic pain —
                    a pain that won't go away —

                What of pain in the heart caused
                    by wounds — you did not
                    heal

                Chronic pain — when others do nothing to
                    you and you with your chronic pain
                    reach out like a wounded dog
                    in the street —

                What will a bleeding wounded
                    dog do if even a doctor
                    of vet approaches —

                They will attack them —

                People who are wounded and hurt
                    can attack innocent others —

                Love is a choice —
                Forgiving is a choice —
                Asking for healing is a choice —

                Little babies are so cute — such a gift
                despite the abortions — God still
                give precious babies to many
                loving couples —

                    Kindness
                    Love
                    Love is a choice

                    Love is an act of our will —
                    We can choose love or hate —
                        indifference —

                We can lose someone because of death —
                    we can lose someone's love who
                    betrayed us —
                We can love those still alive and with us today

                Or we can treat those with us
                    with anger as we act out our
                    bitterness due to old wounds
                    and betrayals — We must
                    move from woundedness to
                    healing and loving with those God
                    gives us today to live with.

                Little babies hands
                Little babies feet
                Jesus was a little baby —

                God gives us the sacrament of
                    baptism —

                A sharing in His life —
                Our task is to live a holy life —
                Not to fear
 

1. 1 John 4: 17-21

2. 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.

                God gives us our vocation to
                    love Him —
                    to love others
                    to be more perfected ourselves —

                What a gift we are — if we live
                    as a gift to the world —

                Love —
                God wants us to love

                God knows how short our life is —
                    God wants us to love —

                We can learn all this "stuff"
                    and never learn to love —

                We are to turn our wills over
                    to God —

                God wants us to love
                    loving is an act of the will —
                    Love is a choice

                My writings - my gifts given from
                    God — Fr. Carter's writings are
                    Gifts from God —

                Fr. Carter said the Blue Books were
                    as much his as mine —

                    Family life is the opportunity
                to learn to love
                to give our hearts to others
                to die to selfishness —
                to be strong like Mary in our
                    vocation —

                Mary lived her vocation serving
                    God —

                Mary said 'yes'

                Love — a smile of love —
                    doing God's will because
                    we love Him —

                We want to love Him

                Little children need to know
                    about love —

                God has called us to help renew
                    the Church and the world
                    in the Shepherds of Christ

                Affection
                Affection for God

                Loving the souls Jesus died for —

                Little children want to
                    feel secure —

                Mary: Oh my children help me —
                    Oh my children help me for the
                        little ones —

                    So cute you are my precious
                        soul —

                    I love you so much

                R. We feed babies, we care for
                    babies, we love babies —
                God loves us like His little babies —

                Thank You God for Your love —
                Thank You for our friends

                Remember all those moments
                    of love —
                    hold onto them with
                    affection —

                Joy at a beautiful flower —
                A moment —
                Life is so short —
                Why ignore these moments —
                God gives us our life —
                God created us —
                We were uniquely created —
                God loves us so much —

                Only God can satisfy the
                    craving we have
                    inside —

                God alone can satisfy us —

                If we go to heaven - we
                    will have the beatific
                    vision and the fullness of
                    life.

                Song: Live This Day

                When we are dying it will
                    be too late to come
                    back and relive the
                    moments we said
                    'no' to living in happiness —
                    we said 'no' to God's will —

                    When we die if we serve
                God we can go to heaven —
                God wants us to pray —
                God wants us to have faith —
                God wants us to believe in miracles
                God is with us —

                God wants us to be His
                    witnesses of hope in
                    the world —

                To pray to Our Lady —

                Out of suffering — God can bring
                    great light — depending
                    how the person suffers —

                Mothers were called to carry
                    babies and to love them —

                Mary is our spiritual Mother —
                Little babies are so dependent
                    on love —

                God called us to love —
                Love is a choice —
    

                We will have pain —
                We are to live rooted in God —
                We will all die —

                So cute a little baby —

                Jesus took on flesh and came
                    a little baby

                Love is a choice —

                God calls us
                We are the brides of Christ —
                We are to be holy
                Our life is so short —

                Life on earth is promised
                    to no man —

                We see the witnesses God has given
                    to us in the Old Testament —
                    We see the witnesses in the
                    lives of St. Paul
                    St. Peter - who saw Jesus
                        with his own eyes —
                        who was taught by Jesus —
                        who knew Jesus, the man,
                        who witnessed the miracles of Jesus

                Is not the incarnation such a sign
                    of hope — after all the sin
                    before in the Old Testament and
                    Christ died for us, rose on the third day
                    and gave us the Church —
                    We are offending God
                    Jesus died for us
                    God gave us Mary!! We
                    do not believe and hope and love as we should.

                    A sign of hope, indeed, that
                God came to this earth, that
                Jesus took flesh —

                    We have made money our god
                as Mary said December 19th.

                    Look at how her image and
                these messages are ignored —
                What sign would make anyone take
                notice —

                The head of John the Baptist was
                cut off because of lustful desire —

                The image head being shot off
                with a sling shot.

                Oh God we have offended You
                with our sins and
   

                In not seeing the real sign and
                proceeding because of it in
                greater faith we offend You
                as if it was of no account —

                    Prudence, Temperance are
                virtues — some disobey and act
                imprudently and not temperately
                and when reproved act in
                highest pride and indignation
                to be corrected —

                    Is there such blindness in
                one who is so dull in their
                perceptions and so keen in their
                inward focus they lose sight
                of the world and its beauty that
                surrounds them —

                    A man went out and he bought a
                beautiful house — he then turned
                his focus to the gardens and lakes —
                he was able to even effect the
                skies above with birds that
                sang in the trees of the garden —
                he had some pets, lambs,
                docile beautiful poodles and
                he filled his lakes and aquariums
                with beautiful colored fish —

                    He loved the corals and
                he bought all he could of
                the beauties of
                creation into his domain —

                    Now a jealous neighbor came
                who was condescending — he saw
                the beauty and the man's taste
                and was filled with great envy —
                He was a man of great wealth
                himself, but it was — because
                of the evil of his heart — he saw
                not a drop of his own fortune,
                his talents, his gifts — he saw
                only with the ugliness of sin,
                bitterness, envy that swelled
                in his heart for his kind neighbor —
                He said I will show the man so
                his beauty is destroyed —
                by me —
                I hate him being successful
                and living like a King —
                How dare he have the audacity
                to raise above me —

                    So we think of satan working
                in evil in a man's heart —

                    When God gives him talents to
                do and know all he does — the man
                never even sees what he has —
                nor does he thank God the giver —
                He acts as if he is the proprietor
                of his good — he had it because
                of himself he thinks and he uses
                all he has been given to sin
                in envy and hatred toward
                his brother —

                    The first man of pure heart —
                loved creation and thanked
                God for his gifts — his heart was
                in harmony with the Creator —
                praising the Creator, loving the Creator,
                using what had been given to him —

                    The purity of Joseph to do God's
                will — filled his brothers with
                envy and hatred and they wanted
                to do away with Joseph —

                    "That dreamer" — They as much
                said "ignore your God and his
                gifts, Joseph — get under our feet —
                you can't be chosen — not
                over us"

                    So is the fate of the heart of
                the envious one — Cain hated
                his brother Abel and the jealousy
                raged in his heart to kill him and so
                he killed him because of his
                evil —

                    Condescending — Judas knew
                more than Christ — secretly
                he sold him — Condescending —

                    God is Almighty
                    God created everything from
                        nothing
                    God is love —
                    God is giving to us —

                The man with evil heart says —
                    "No one, my father, included will
                    be above me —
                    I will do my own will —
                    I see through eyes - where I do not
                        serve — I want others to fail —
                    I am hurt and you will pay —
                    I am angry, but I wear a
                        mask and do not have
                        the truth in me

                    My heart enveloped in darkness
                        from my own choice to
                        not love — to hate —
                        to be envious — not to love and serve
                        to want ill for others — not to praise
                        God for his gifts to me" 

                God gives us the wonders of this earth —

                We have a free will to love —
                    or to not love —

                We all have evil in us —
                    to deny the evil in us is to
                    live a lie

                A woman was told to report, to
                    ask, to be doing what she
                    was supposed to —

                Addiction set in
                Disobedience etc.

                And then in the darkness - she
                    was indignant at any
                    correction

                Her actions were a 'push-over'
                    for satan
                    if her anger flared - she
                    engaged in some addiction
                    that hurt herself and others —

                But when corrected by those
                    over her — she was indignant
                    that anyone would dare
                    try to shed light on or
                    correct the offense she was
                    doing hurting herself,
                    the institution and
                    others

                And in envy later would see her
                    lost power coming from
                    the correction (she reasoned
                    with her faulty reasoning)
                    and then punish in some
                    form of vindictiveness —

                Satan pressed on her —

                She was his instrument —
                Lions could not get her to respond purely
                    to correction —

                She then defended her position
                    further hurting those over
                    her and those she had hurt —

                Wrath is mine says the Lord

                The evil heart is blinded to its
                    ways
                    pride keeps the evil heart
                        stuck
                    for the devil then counsels the sinner,
                        "no one will uncover your
                        evil work —
                        you must rebel further lest
                        your behavior be corrected and you
                        do the work of God —"

                And so it is —
                    one is addicted, rebellious
                    willful —
                    one then in rebelling against
                    what they should do and
                    operating under desolation —

                See their loss of power as a threat
                    and further rebels —

                Holding ground for satan —
                    So ills they commit now
                    become a battle ground
                    for their pride

                Add this insult they feel to injury
                    and they brood and punish
                    for as long as they can get
                    away with their anger —

                A cycle of abuse

                One that goes longer and longer
                    as satan engineers them
                    and in their willfulness
                    they say
                    "I will not serve"
                    "I will do as I please"

                It is brute condescending where
                    they become isolated in
                    a dark stupor and their god
                    becomes pride — their god
                    wanting to win — wanting to be right —
                    When in fact they are wrong
                    "I am right" they say —

                "My god is winning" they say, when in
                    fact they live for this! !

                Sinning makes us further and further
                    from God —

                This further leads to deeper and
                    deeper misery, blackness

                Because only God makes
                    us happy —

                If we are humble we recognize our sins —
                    Humility is knowing the truth about
                        the good and evil in us —
                    Humility admits the good
                        and evil in us —
                    Humility is truth —
                    the humble person wants to change —

                A person that acts imprudently
                    and without temperance
                    and wants their imprudent
                    behavior to be accepted
                    because of their pride —
                    is working thusly —

                They are first of all not acting
                    in virtue

                Secondly because of the
                    deadly sin of pride —
                    they want what is wrong
                        to be recognized as right
                    and what is right to be
                        recognized as wrong —

                We can see how
                    the virtues help a man
                    do God's will

                Vices are practiced
                    and a man is rebelling
                    against God's will

                A person who carries out willfully against
                    God's will and uses force
                    to force his dysfunctional rules on others —
                    may use brooding and punishing
                    the other to manipulate
                    their way to cause disharmony
                    and disorder —                   
                    They have distorted vision and
                    because of the prolonged
                    rebellion the will can
                    becomes diseased — deeply
                    where they have fallen into
                    vices, habits where they act
                    that lead them further and
                    further from God's will,
                    harmony, order and truth —

                There is society sin — as the abortion —
                    laws the devil tempts them to
                    implement through willfulness and
                    force — They may put bad
                    rules into effect
                    that oppose the very
                    commandments of God —

                Sins become more and more grave —
                    darker and darker —

                Virtuous living helps us to lead lives
                    according to God's will —
                    Like loving, believing, hoping —
                    the other virtues, prudence,
                    temperance, justice,
                    fortitude, humility — lead
                    us in the way to act according
                    to what God wants —

                Loving is an act of the will —

                A person acting in a way opposed
                    to what they should do —
                    after being corrected —
                    and punitive in actions,
                    provoking to get control is acting
                    in a far greater darkness.
                    Their motive is punishing another
                    vindictively for control and
                    anger is with malicious intent

                The 5th commandment takes on
                    a wide range of sin —
                    from killing and aborting babies —
                to a lesser degree —
                    wishing harm and punishing
                    another because of
                    the evil we wish to do to others
                    we believe deserve it or have hurt us —

                Sin is sin and we are accountable
                    for personal sin —

                A person who habitually uses silence,
                    holding back, willful behavior
                    disobeying after being corrected
                    is as Fr. Mike said
                Doing it because they want to —

                They will to do this rebellious way
                    of acting —

                When God has given us the Blue Books
                    we see what God writes of
                    how we are to act in
                    loving —

                Here is the beginning of Blue Book V.

Ezekiel 12: 1-12

The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows, 'Son of man, you are living among a tribe of rebels who have eyes and never see, they have ears and never hear, because they are a tribe of rebels. So, son of man, pack an exile's bundle and set off for exile by daylight while they watch. You will leave your home and go somewhere else while they watch. Then perhaps they will see that they are a tribe of rebels. You will pack your baggage like an exile's bundle, by daylight, while they watch, and leave like an exile in the evening, while they watch. While they watch, make a hole in the wall, and go out through it. While they watch, you will shoulder your pack and go out into the dark; you will cover your face so that you cannot see the ground, since I have made you an omen for the House of Israel.'

    I did as I had been told. I packed my baggage like an exile's bundle, by daylight; and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with my hands; then I went out into the dark and shouldered my pack while they watched.

    Next morning the word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows, 'Son of man, did not the House of Israel, did not that tribe of rebels, ask you, "What are you doing?" Say, "The Lord Yahweh says this: This prophecy concerns Jerusalem and the whole House of Israel who live there." Say, "I am an omen for you; as I have done, so will be done to them; they will be deported into exile. Their prince will shoulder his pack in the dark and go out through the wall; a hole will be made to let him out; he will cover his face, so that he cannot see the country.

Matthew 18: 21 - 19: 1

Then Peter went up to him and said, ‘Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?’ Jesus answered, ‘Not seven, I tell you, but seventy–seven times.

‘And so the kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents; he had no means of paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt. At this, the servant threw himself down at his master’s feet, with the words, "Be patient with me and I will pay the whole sum." And the servant’s master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and cancelled the debt. Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow–servant who owed him one hundred denarii; and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him, saying, "Pay what you owe me." His fellow–servant fell at his feet and appealed to him, saying, "Be patient with me and I will pay you." But the other would not agree; on the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt. His fellow–servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him. Then the master sent for the man and said to him, "You wicked servant, I cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me. Were you not bound, then, to have pity on your fellow–servant just as I had pity on you?" And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt. And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart.’

Jesus had now finished what he wanted to say, and he left Galilee and came into the territory of Judaea on the far side of the Jordan.

                We see God is with us today allowing
                    so many little babies to be born
                    to loving parents despite the
                    terrible sin of abortion —

                We 'hope' we see this as a sign of
                    God blessing us! !
                We hope by the sign of Our Lady of Clearwater
                In the messages God gave Fr. Carter in
                    Tell My People - We are hopeful —

                We HOPE!

                - Because of the flowering and
                    growing holiness of our priests
                    and the love for the Church and
                    adoration and we pray for this.

                We see how the Angel of Death
                    passed over the houses
                    with the blood on their
                    door posts —

                And we see how God has given
                    us the Church and
                    the Mass and the priest —
                    Jesus remains with us
                    truly present - in His
                    Divinity and humanity in the
                    Eucharist

John 13: 1-5

Before the festival of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father, having loved those who were his in the world, loved them to the end. They were at supper, and the devil had already put it into the mind of Judas Iscariot son of Simon, to betray him. Jesus knew that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was returning to God, and he got up from table, removed his outer garments and, taking a towel, wrapped it round his waist; he then poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel he was wearing.

Matthew 26: 26-28

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. ‘Take it and eat,’ he said, ‘this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, ‘Drink from this, all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

   

Matthew 26: 21-22

And while they were eating he said, ‘In truth I tell you, one of you is about to betray me.’ They were greatly distressed and started asking him in turn, ‘Not me, Lord, surely?’

                The Blood of the Lamb —

                Shed for our sins —

                Jesus sweat blood in the garden
                    for the deepest sins — the
                    blackest sins —
                    Jesus paid the price for our
                        sins —

                The Apostles — many of the saints —
                    those who followed in the footprints
                    of Jesus and suffered
                    martyrdom and shed their blood
                    for the Church

                How can we be so indulgent to
                    take the Eucharist so
                    lightly when these martyrs
                    show us how they followed
                    Jesus

                When we have spiritual pride and addictions
                    we can think we are so pure and
                    making others "poor boys", sinners
                    under us — this is condescending and not right —

Matthew 22: 16-21

And they sent their disciples to him, together with some Herodians, to say, 'Master, we know that you are an honest man and teach the way of God in all honesty, and that you are not afraid of anyone, because human rank means nothing to you. Give us your opinion, then. Is it permissible to pay taxes to Caesar or not?' But Jesus was aware of their malice and replied, 'You hypocrites! Why are you putting me to the test? Show me the money you pay the tax with.' They handed him a denarius, and he said, 'Whose portrait is this? Whose title?' They replied, 'Caesar's.' Then he said to them, 'Very well, pay Caesar what belongs to Caesar — and God what belongs to God.'

                We see how Jesus handled
                the woman caught in adultery

                Jesus raised Lazarus
                    from the tomb —

                Mary appeared at Fatima
                    she asked for CONVERSION
                    she asked for REPARATION

Third message of angel of Fatima 1916

"Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners." (5)

"Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God." (6)

5. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.2. (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
6. Fatima in Lucia's Own Words, op cit., pp.64-65.

                How can we be so prideful
                    and act as if God doesn't
                    see our sins and

                then on top of this
                    lie when we have sinned
                    instead of begging God
                    to forgive us

                Jesus suffered for our sins —
                Jesus shed His Blood

                Look at the stubbornness of
                    Pharaoh — he even
                    lost his firstborn

                All the plagues —

                How can we be so stubborn and
                    prideful in our sins —

                Jesus paid the price for our
                    spiritual pride and
                    for when we lie about our
                    rebellion to serve Him
                    as He desires and
                    then in pride try to
                    force our rules that are
                    wrong (from satan,
                    dysfunctional rules)
                    on others —

                God is love —

                Jesus is the way, the truth and the
                    life —

                Humility is truth —

Matthew 16: 22-23

Then, taking him aside, Peter started to rebuke him. ‘Heaven preserve you, Lord,’ he said, ‘this must not happen to you.’ But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because you are thinking not as God thinks but as human beings do.’

                God divided the Red Sea
                God gives to us baptism —

                I Believe in God

                I want to love —
                God is love
                God is truth —

                Song: Give me Your Heart oh Jesus

                Jesus washed their feet!!

                They were selling in the temple!

                How has money been used
                    incorrectly for power —
                    to force rules —
                    to force dominance by
                        those who needed to
                        obey God —

Matthew 12: 29-30

'Or again, how can anyone make his way into a strong man's house and plunder his property unless he has first tied up the strong man? Only then can he plunder his house. 'Anyone who is not with me is against me, and anyone who does not gather in with me throws away.

Matthew 5: 17

Mark 14: 10

Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, approached the chief priests with an offer to hand Jesus over to them.

                Moses was given the 10 commandments —

                They made a molten calf and
                    were worshipping the
                    molten calf —

                Who is your god?

                Jesus: I cry oh Israel for
                    you worship yourselves
                    as false gods — I am the
                    King of heaven and earth —

                    Get behind Me satan!

                    You and your pride —
                    You enforce rules against
                        mine, so you can
                        control and
                        give your power
                        to the devil —
                        You are a hypocrite
                        doing this —
                    promoting the devil and
                        his works —

                Hear me oh Israel —

                    I am love
                    I am the way, the truth
                        and the life —

                Satan wants you in your pride
                    to betray Me —
                    to seek dominance for
                        dominance sake —
                    and I cry to you to get
                        off My throne and
                    obey your God —

Matthew 26: 26-28

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. ‘Take it and eat,’ he said, ‘this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, ‘Drink from this, all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

                Abraham had faith —
                    he was willing to sacrifice
                        his Son Isaac

                But the angel told him
                    not to —

                You are tested —

                I washed the feet of My Apostles —

                I give you Myself in the
                    Eucharist

                Gifts - Gifts - Gifts and
                    some choose not to love
                    some choose pride —
                    Loving, obedience is an
                        act of the will —

                The burning bush was not
                    consumed —

                    Abraham heard the call
                        of God

                    Abraham answered his
                        beloved God and served
                        God and not himself

                Vices    or    Virtues

                You have a free will
                You are here to obey My
                    commands and
                    Serve Me —

                I sweat blood in the garden
                    and My apostles slept,
                    but it isn't like some
                    of you who brood and
                    carry out your
                    anger — a diseased will —

                The blindness of those angry
                    ones wishing to be
                    right in their spiritual
                    pride — when they
                    need to recognize their
                    pride and condescending
                    heart —

                It is far better for you to
                    receive a jolt and change
                    your ways on this side —

                then to see the other side
                    and work out all your
                    seeds you planted because
                    of your pride and hatefulness —

                I am love —

                I sweat blood for the man who
                    had sinned in such pride and
                    some are too prideful
                    to ever say they are
                    wrong —

                They whipped Me for your pride —
                They crowned My head for
                    your condescending
                    punishment of others —

Matthew 26: 51-52

And suddenly, one of the followers of Jesus grasped his sword and drew it; he struck the high priest's servant and cut off his ear. Jesus then said, 'Put your sword back, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

                    And Peter struck him with
                a sword —

                    Put away your swords —

                    An eye for an eye — you say —

                    I gave Myself for your sins

                R. Jesus was betrayed
                Jesus sweat blood
                Jesus was beaten

                Jesus: They bound Me
                    Your sins are tying you up —
                    Stiff bodies
                    Opposing God's will makes you tense —

                    They condemned Me to death!
                    They mocked Me
                    Even Peter betrayed Me
                    My beloved Peter —

                    Like a common criminal

                    Cain killed Abel
                    Cain wanted his brother dead
                    Cain's envy was in his heart —
                    He willed him dead — ! !
                    Judas hung himself because
                        of his despair —
                    Sin makes you miserable!!

                    I was tried in the courts of men!
                    I was tried and found guilty —

                    My head bloodied for your
                        sins of pride —

                    Blood in My eyes
                    Thorns pounded into My head —

                    Why don't you do what
                        you are to do because
                        you love God?

                    Why do you smite Me?

                    You have offended Me with
                        your sins —

                    Say you are sorry

                    Recognize your sins —

                    Joseph was betrayed by his
                        brothers —

                    Look how you have
                        betrayed Me —

                    I am Jesus, your
                        brother, Jesus —

                    Look at Joseph's brothers

                    So many and
                        poor Joseph —

                    Look at you My brothers
                        how you have put
                        Me to death —
                        how I was beaten by
                            your sins and

                    Still like Joseph's brothers
                        you won't say you
                        are sorry —

                    Joseph was chosen by God —

                    I am Jesus, your brother —

                    What you do to your brothers
                        you do to Me —

                    How you treat each other
                        you do to Me —

                    You have whipped Me and
                        crowned Me with
                        thorns

                    Repent and change your lives

Matthew 27: 55-56

    And many women were there, watching from a distance, the same women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and looked after him. Among them were Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

Matthew 27: 32

On their way out, they came across a man from Cyrene, called Simon, and enlisted him to carry his cross.

 

Luke 23: 27-28

Large numbers of people followed him, and women too, who mourned and lamented for him. But Jesus turned to them and said, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep rather for yourselves and for your children.

Matthew 28: 20

and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And look, I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.’

 

John 19: 25-27

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

 

John 19: 33-34

Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

"Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!

"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."

 

by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.