August 16, 2015
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August 16, 2015
R. Healing is a process. If a man
burns his skin – how deep is it –
how will he heal the blisters and
the skin that needs to be healed –
it takes time.
Man has a wounded human nature –
he was taught by men with generations,
of generations of how to make things
work with other men and God and how to
love himself. Babies are taught the
rules in that house. We are here to
die to those unwanted tendencies,
behavior patterns and defects in our
character to be able to relate in
unity with God, with others and with
ourselves. To see through the pure eyes
of God, the vision He has for us. To
live communally in mind and heart
where it is love that permeates all our
relationships so we can come to what
God wants of us.
...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.
R. An old car was in a wreck and it
had dents and was pretty much a mess.
Next door to the man with the old car
was a "body man" his job was refurbishing
cars that had been wrecked. The man
with the wrecked vehicle didn't want
any help fixing his own car.
God has a vision for our lives. We
are here to live for the honor and glory
of God. We are to seek the vision of God
and hope to one day be with God in
the beatific vision eternally, to share
in His life – to be full of life eternally
in heaven. Did you hear – dead in
sin – dead –
The world is struggling with dead – So
many deaths in shows, murders, seeing
the instantaneous murders in shows is
shocking to a gentle soul. And yet we
know for brute power and aggressiveness
of men – there were about 66,000,000
lives lost in World War II. We can study this
war and see the mind of Hitler and others
that lied to gain power for themselves at
the expense of killing others, with the most
brutal deaths.
God intends us to grow – to live – to be
likened to Him, to die to selfish ways that
need healing and to live the resurrected
life.
A man can be full of self and take
classes how to sell himself before
others, Actors, Actresses take classes
how to act.
But God gives us His Word, the Sacraments,
He wants men to be one in Him. This doesn't
take a mask like the person learning to
act – all focused on himself –
It takes a man with a heart like
Jesus, dying to pride and anger and
jealousy and envy – A man not focused
on himself, but on God – being an
instrument of God, taking off the
mask, living in a pure heart consecrated
to Jesus and Mary – being in one mind
and one heart in love with the body
of Christ and dwelling in love in
the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
The more one is wounded, selfish,
caved-in, jealous, envious, prideful,
the more he is full of self. God intends
us to grow – to let go of our hateful,
prideful, envious, jealous hearts –
to come to a place of healing – of
loving, of order under Him, of
being under God, in the right place
with God, of having the vision of God.
God takes man and woman from
different homes to build a family and
gives them an act of love they share
to show love physically between
husband and wife. Women carry
babies in their bodies and babies
nurse at the breast. God intends
love of husband and wife in
married love – different than
love of father for daughter,
son for mother, brother for brother –
this love is not a sexual attraction
like the love of husband and wife.
All these relationships are learned
in a family and God has a plan
built in how they are to be.
God's will is we learn to love in
our families and we learn to love others
outside the family and we see love of
God, others and ourselves through
God's eyes.
We learn trusting others in love
outside our families. We have a
lifetime to learn to love.
What is in the negative tapes
about oneself that a man plays
all day – year in and year out
in his head?
How is the interior life becoming more
and more like the purity of the Virgin
Mary? In baptism we receive a sharing
in God's life. Man's knowing and loving
capacity is elevated. Man can with
the grace given by God (since love is
a theological virtue) love on a supernatural
level, can perform God-like acts
as he is filled more and more
abundantly with God's grace – His
life in us.
A man that has lived his life under
a mask, not working and trusting others
outside his family, hurt in love and
not healed, can force unwanted family
tendencies on others so he doesn't
have to change. Behavior patterns such
as – "I am perfect, I don't want any
correction, I want to rule, my way
is the way, I am not wounded,
I do not need to change – all I need
is to rule and I can operate"
Any man, you would think, could
get along with himself and his
rules – The trick is - seeing the vision
God wants and doing it His way –
A man who uses punishment to
enforce dysfunction and then shuts
down a place can be so blind
because he ruled with an iron
hand from his own vision which
was not the vision of God at all.
We are here to see the vision
of God and to seek it and to live
according to it. To put aside trying
to be the power and the glory ourselves,
to realize that we all need interior
healing and to seek correction God
is giving us – not punish those
around us to rule because we
don't want to change.
Life is about correction, change,
growing in the image and likeness
of God. Being docile to the Holy Spirit
leading us in this vision of God –
filling us more abundantly with the grace for
greater faith, hope and love, and cooperating
with this grace so we can say as
St. Paul
...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.
R. Life in Christ
The Christ-life
Christ paid a big price for our salvation –
Jesus died to give us new life.
Jesus took flesh – came as a little
docile baby –
The man who thinks about himself
and raising himself up to
be okay among men because
he wears a mask is
masking what needs to change
interiorly with taintedness
in the heart.
Mary said at Fatima that the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive
to our supplication –
We are the poor banished children of
Adam and Eve –
If we tell ourselves we have arrived
and live our lives to implement
our program of pride and anger
and jealousy and envy –
we have stopped living –
These are deadly sins.
They distort our vision of God,
of others and ourselves.
The right hand of God is struck
with power –
Who has all the Power?
God is All - Powerful.
Even Christ suffered tremendously
because of those who were mean
and who would not listen – they
didn't care what they did to
seek their own tainted ways.
Deadly sins are deadening –
they dull the man, they are
bad habits – A man sees himself
and others under him and if they
raise up he can stand on their
head.
A man (by a man, I am meaning
man or woman) can loose his power
and then find another in which
he tries to always keep under
him – so he can act out all
the power he lost in his life on his
victim he holds down.
A man can play a game in
a pool, dunk another, hold
them down and then let go
eventually. To me this is an
unholy game.
Why would a man play tricks
on others and then reveal his
deviousness with important
documents – POWER
What is in the hidden heart –
when one decides they call the
shots and take over the authority
when it isn't theirs to have and
then tells all of those under them
to not tell the authority.
[DISORDER]
God will judge us – we are
accountable for our actions
and responsible for how we
lie, (are untruthful) cover
things up – deny dialogue,
hold out as punishment.
Fr. Joe has said a few things
in short morning Masses –
about anger – when a person
is angry they are to pray to
get over it. Anger is a deadly
sin. He said the person that nurses
it – holds out to hurt others,
won't get over it, usually
has been abused in the past
and many times sexually abused
that needs to heal. A person that
uses anger as punishment to
force their power and carries
a title, and has a
responsibility is acting Bishop
Sheen says.
When a person is to do something
and it is God's will and
they do nothing: they are acting,
they are choosing to not do what
God wants. Playing games with
God is a bad thing to help grow
in the interior life.
When a person reads the Word
of God, it isn't a show
so men think they are dynamic
and go "Oh isn't he good"
Reading the Word of God
at Mass is to come from a
man, pure in his interior
offering, focused on the honor
and glory of God and the
Word is a two-edged sword
in which he is so one
with God delivering his Word –
focusing on God –
loving God –
letting the Holy Spirit use him as
an instrument to be
as St. Paul says
...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.
R. Life in God
Faith is seeing through the
eyes of God –
This Movement is about dying to
self and being pure and
holy like the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
This Movement is about relationship
with God, with others,
with oneself.
This Movement is about growing
in the vision of God, about
praying to love supernaturally
like God – in a pure
disposition in our hearts –
filled with the love of the Holy Spirit –
burning up in the delivery of Mass
where one's interior disposition
is more and more pure as we
die to our selfish, unwanted
ways, bad behavior patterns
and rise to purer ways, humility,
love, joy, sincerity, trust
in God.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my Trust in
Thee
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my Trust in Thee
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my Trust in Thee
R. Confessing our sins and begging
God for mercy.
Lamb of God
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
Jesus: Do you see the blindness of the
man doing deeds with a heart
of stone. He is far from Me.
Effectiveness without affection
of heart is not like Me –
He used My work for his own
dysfunction and he closed
the house.
My dear man do you see a
house divided does not stand?
Who follows the line when a man
is cold in their hearts and
calls themselves holy?
Love is like a bubbling brook –
it doesn't need to make a
statement – it is.
A pure heart is – it's not a
farce, one who wears a
mask is a fool –
You are here to give honor
and glory to God –
to use God's work to give
honor and glory to yourself
makes Me sick!
Like a man thinks he can fool God.
How blind is the man who lies
before God and doesn't think
God knows his heart –
How uninformed is he of
the Might of the All - Mighty.
Why lay your swine before the
King when they are slimy
and ill - kept –
Bring gifts of gold, frankincense
and myrrh to lay before
the King of Kings –
Oh you blind man – you are so
high up in your pride – you think
you can fool God with your
foolish impurities.
I am the God of Justice –
I know the workings of your
hearts –
A man proclaiming himself
Supreme is a fool –
He is under the influence
of the evil one –
You can be wretched in your
deception and you are
throwing away your days
on earth – made to grow
more and more in My image and likeness.
Pride, anger, jealousy, envy are
far from Me.
I am the way, the truth and the
life.
Your battle ground in My camps
in not unseen by the
eyes of God.
The man who lives to fight those
I send as My witness –
fights with Me –
Fool, Fool – Fool
Today's Readings
Proverbs 9: 1-6
Wisdom has built herself a house,
she has hewn her seven pillars,
she has slaughtered her beasts, drawn her wine,
she has laid her table.
She has despatched her maidservants
and proclaimed from the heights above the city,
'Who is simple? Let him come this way.'
To the fool she says,
'Come and eat my bread,
drink the wine which I have drawn!
Leave foolishness behind and you will live,
go forwards in the ways of perception.'
Ephesians 5: 15-20
So be very careful about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless people. Make the best of the present time, for it is a wicked age. This is why you must not be thoughtless but must recognise what is the will of the Lord. Do not get drunk with wine; this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit. Sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs among yourselves, singing and chanting to the Lord in your hearts, always and everywhere giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 6: 51-58
I am the living bread
which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread
will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give
is my flesh, for the life of the world.’Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ Jesus replied to them:
In all truth I tell you,
if you do not eat
the flesh of the Son of man
and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh
and drink my blood
has eternal life,
and I shall raise that person up
on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh
and drinks my blood
lives in me
and I live in that person.
As the living Father sent me
and I draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me
will also draw life from me.
This is the bread
which has come down from heaven;
it is not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread
will live for ever.
Jesus: You are what you eat –
I give you My Body and Blood
to eat –
I take you to the altar of
sacrifice –
But your interior disposition
must be pure –
a man feasting on deception
and pride is not in
union with Me.
They came to the altar of the Lord
like a hypocrite – not knowing
their place and
one more time they prided themselves
on seeking dominance for
dominance sake and
I cried to them
wake up you fool –
the road is easy to go,
but your stubborn heart
wants no one over yourself –
So you come as a king and
I say I am the King and
you say: "No man is
above me –
I am Supreme, my God" –
And I say – you are a sinner
and need to make repentance –
I have called My 5th and
13th for repentance –
Your world is exploding and
you have not come to My
altar to pray, but to
prove yourself again –
Do not deceive your own
heart – I tell you My
ways and you argue
with God's Plan –
then you want to be reconciled –
My ways are quite clear –
You don't listen at all –
you are the King on your
throne and you say:
"I will have no one above
me – all men are under
my feet" –
Silly man study the commandments!
I am love and somehow you
missed it and your heart
is cold and what you do is like
what happened at World War II –
he built a palace around
him –
he killed babies and all
to honor himself
I have warned and you sit
on your throne on My
warning –
The men will suffer and
the earth will be
cleaned –
I tell you to listen to this
message and do what I say and
you come with anger
to prove your anger
isn't anger!
May 13ths are for reparation
for 66,000,000 killed
And I warn and tell you
what to do –
Call people to come
Spread the prayers to
Nursing Homes, School Children,
Priests, Married Couples,
Families –
The Virgin Mary building is to
call the world to come
to the Queen of Peace
to pray –
Mary has appeared Queen of Peace
in Clearwater for 19 years –
Do you come in peace
to My centers to
spread My message?
Healing is a process. A man who
decides he can transform the
world like him and acts
like what happened in
Word War II is a good example
of how corrupted things
can be –
The murder of the innocent
babies, the selling of
baby's body parts –
what is left
I am God and I know all
things
Pray and Cleanse your hearts
so you can offer a
holy sacrifice –
You are full of self and
lying to yourself
about order
You can sit on your
throne and on My message
and the world is about to explode –
It's like blocking the Fatima
message –
At Fatima 66,000,000
were killed –
You fool
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)
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20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 16, 2009
– (Proverbs 9:1-6; Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58) The ninth chapter of the book of Proverbs speaks of two women – not real women but both are symbols: one is the symbol of wisdom and one the symbol of foolishness. Thus they are named Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly. Each is pictured as the owner of an inn, and both are busy inviting people to stay at their inn and partake of the meal they have prepared. Those who share the hospitality of Lady Wisdom are rewarded with joy and an abundance of life. Those who accept the invitation of Dame Folly are walking into a trap that will result in death. We hear in today’s first reading only the first part of chapter nine in Proverbs: the invitation of Lady Wisdom. The columns that are part of her house symbolize stability, while the number seven symbolizes perfection.INTRODUCTION
HOMILY
– I want to start off with something I’ve been wanting to tell all of our people for a long time: Thank you for being here today. It is always a wonderful experience for me to pray with you. I know that three-fourths of you come from outside of Northside, so you are here because you want to be here. I am grateful for your faith, your prayer and your presence. I am grateful every Sunday, even if I don’t say it. Today we hear in the gospel one of the most important reasons why we are all here, to be fed by the body and blood of Christ. It is food that promises life eternal.Before I talk about today’s gospel, I want to say a little more about the first reading from Proverbs. The book of Proverbs was written as an instruction for young people, to guide them as they mature. It stresses education, selfdiscipline, prudence, honesty, good moral character - all of which lead to wisdom. Folly is not just silliness but is a lack of self-control and self-discipline, a conceited attitude, laziness, irreverence, living only for the moment. As I said earlier, wisdom and folly are symbolized in the book of Proverbs as two women calling out to people, especially the young, to partake of the banquet they offer – the first leading to life, the other to the grave. We only heard about Lady Wisdom in today’s first reading. Her message is “come, eat of my food and drink of the wine I have mixed! Forsake foolishness that you may live.” The words obviously apply to today’s gospel where Jesus tells us in a variety of ways that we must eat of the food and drink he offers us (his own body and blood) that we may have eternal life. Coming to him is the way to a wisdom which is beyond this world. Prudence uses the term “fool” to describe a person who can help themselves by choosing the path to wisdom but chooses otherwise. We tend to think of a “fool” as a person who can’t help themselves - a person who is mentally limited, who sees things superficially. We call a person “wise” who can see beyond the obvious. We all know that wisdom involves more than innate ability; it is that. It also has to be developed through education, instruction, self-discipline and hard work. When you of people like Socrates, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, musicians like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, artists like DaVinci and Michelangelo. One of the first categories of wise people who came to mind when I was thinking of people who see beyond the obvious, the inventor, there are many: Edison, Bell, Geo. Washington Carver, Whitney, Madam Curie, Gutenberg, Einstein, Jonas Salk, Galileo, Morse. I can’t overlook our own former parishioner and alumnus of St. Boniface School: Dr. Thomas Fogarty. His name you will find under famous inventors alphabetically listed right above Henry Ford and Ben Franklin. I also cannot overlook some of our own parents and grandparents who might never be famous but who were sources of wisdom for us. These were all people who were not only bright but who worked hard to see what was not obvious to others and who made our life in this world better, safer, easier, healthier, more productive, more fulfilling, more beautiful.
Jesus is telling us there are some things we cannot see on our own, even some things that are not obvious even after he tells us about it. If we allow ourselves to be guided by his word, it will make our life more wonderful and it will be forever. He invites everyone to come to him to be enlightened. Without his light our vision will be limited to what we can figure out on our own. With his light we see further – into eternity. A shortcut to this wisdom he offers us is the Eucharist.
I hardly need to explain today’s gospel. It could not be more clear: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.” The Eucharist is not just a one-time event, any more than eating a one time healthy meal will make us healthy. The Eucharist is a way of life by which we allow ourselves to be constantly nourished with Jesus’ body and blood. “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.” And he “will have life because of me.” Amen.
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The more you use the Blue Books and
become one with Jesus – more
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the more your lives are a blessing and
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to bring down great grace for the world
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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.
11) Blue Book 15 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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