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| August 18th Holy Spirit
Novena Scripture selection is Day 6 Period 1. |
The Novena Rosary Mystery for August 18th is Glorious. |
We're going to have a big
Sidney Rosary on August 28, 2001
It's the 7th year anniversary
of when the 1st Shepherds of Christ core chapter started!
August 17, 2001 - very early morning
Messenger: The song of the soul
For it isn't in the words spoken, but what
is in the heart for which I speak.
It isn't that every moment even in deep union
with God may be a celestial moment of
bliss, but a moment to touch and
unite deeply to Him.
In the moments of greatest suffering we
can be deeply united and this gives
joy to the soul.
Look at the moments Christ endured the
sufferings on the cross, but His
union was so deep, so consumed
with deep love in His Heart.
I am consumed with the deepest love
in my heart, the more I become
one in Him, the deeper my love
in my Heart.
For I exist in Him deeper and deeper.
And I can cry in sorrow for I may feel
so much pain and
I may look for an earthly reason
here below for my pain.
But the desire is so deep within me
for oneness with my Divine God
for completeness in Him, that
anguish is the constant state
of my soul.
To describe it as anguish may not
please those of theological learning,
but to write the story of my
soul and the depth to which
I experience love is so far, so
far indeed beyond expression
in words.
He was consumed with love so deep in
His anguishing Heart, He proceeded
to the hill of Calvary,
mounted the cross
and poured Himself out so
completely for love of men.
The perfect sacrifice—
God-made-man giving Himself
in love for souls.
I give myself more and more as I advance
in the ways of loving.
My depths of loving becomes even
greater with each Eucharist
I attend.
My union with God and all men now
so deep in my heart.
My depth of union with God—Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit is what
I sing!!
I feel this connection so deep in my
soul now.
I am consumed with love for God.
Consumed with love for My Beloved—
Wed in the deepest union with God.
My soul so united so intimately to all
Three Persons and I know Them
and the flutter in my soul, I feel,
it is joy in loving God deeper and deeper.
I hear the song of the morning, the little
birds chirp in the trees, the sounds
He has made for me today.
A spray of light steals across a darkened
sky and I see the magnificence
of the one I am wed to—My Divine
God.
He is this magnificent and more—
for the light changes in the sky by
His command.
A symphony of nightly creatures seize
And the sounds of morning, the sweetness
of the birds chirping in the trees
come with the light.
My ears are pleased, as are my eyes, but
the real satisfaction is inside, in
my heart.
I am consumed with love for God and all
His creatures as I exist in a depth
in my soul in Him, as I unite
so deeply to the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit—My Divine God—
I am mystically married to Him.
I dwell in the Heart of Jesus.
I am united to My Maker.
He is My Bridegroom.
My Heart is consumed with love
for Him and every soul of the
earth and
I KNOW HIM, MY GOD, IN A DEEP
INTIMATE WAY.
Oh the power of the heart.
The power to be so united,
to connect so deeply to
God, and to all His creatures.
I remember moments of ecstasy in the
Mass of being so satisfied,
so one in Him.
My thirst for the Eucharist is so great
for it stretches my soul deeper and
deeper to be united to God.
Please do not fault me for the way I
speak of the mystical life.
Do words ever exist to explain any of
it or the depth of love I feel in
my heart.
The love in the heart is beyond words.
The love is so deep and yet
it is inexhaustible for us earthly creatures
here below.
My desire is to be possessed by the
Divine God, My Maker, for all
eternity.
There is always more for me with God, there is
always a deeper way for me to love,
there is always a greater purification
and perfection for me here below.
There are always great moments of
intimacy even in the dark night
of the soul, there is a hope of
a deeper love to come soon, of the
love with Him for all eternity.
I write as best I can and I want to dig so
deep into my heart and write of the
depth, the place of love that
never ends, that exists that is
ever deeper.
LOVE—in so many ways and we can't
judge others and their love by what
comes from their mouths, for the
heart is so many faceted and the
way one gives must be weighed
against their words.
Love is a mystery.
I love so deeply My God.
I want to be quiet and just be so one
in Him.
I want to feel that deep union
in my soul to Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I want the quiet moments I have with
God when He wakes me and in
the quiet night it is me and
Him and I know the reality
that God is real and He
loves me so much.
The Father is real, the Son is real,
the Holy Spirit is real and I
am wed to my God.
The morning steals across the sky and
this experience of my deep union with
Him at this quiet moment
remains in my memory, so deeply
planted. I touch Him, I experience
Him so deep in my soul and I love
Him so much.
And in these moments the depth of my
love for all others floods my soul
and I am consumed with joy.
No matter how frustrated things may get,
and they do for the devil wants us
to give into things and give up—
The reality of knowing God more and more is my
joy.
We are on a journey.
We are here to be more perfected in our
love relationships with Him and all
others.
He floods My soul with grace.
I experience Him most deeply.
I know there is even deeper ways to know
Him.
My heart craves to be more and more
filled by Him.
My joy is in this.
My depth of love for God and others
ever increases.
My learning experience of love
continues.
It is a fabulous journey.
I see Him carry His cross.
I look into His eyes.
August 17, 2001 message continues
Messenger:
I see LOVE.
I see inexhaustible love.
I see depth far beyond anything I
can imagine.
I see God, consumed with love for
souls, mounting the cross.
August 17, 2001 message continues
Messenger: I see Him mount the cross.
I see Him give Himself to the
bitter end.
I see Him die!
August 17, 2001 message continues
Messenger: I see the Eucharist
I see God give Himself to Me.
I see My Maker,
My Divine God,
I am consumed with love for Thee.
This is reality.
We live for this.
God is real.
We cannot even fathom the gifts
God has for us in everlasting life if
we love and serve Him.
GOD IS REAL—alleluia—
He is My Maker.
I am married to God.
The lights of heaven
Shine a little ray
Through the beauteous clouds
I know that beyond
There is a place called
Heaven and it waits
For me.
For I love Him and I want
to be with Him
Wrapped in His embrace
forever.
And I will see the face
of God and live.
The pains, the aches,
the cancers, even the
body that withers and
dies, cannot stop
the reward promised
to those who love and
serve the Lord.
Alleluia—God is so
Good to us.
God is love.
The more I know Him
the greater my
capacity to love.
My God—
Thank you for your
love and your Son
Jesus who gave
Himself for
love of
Me.
August 17, 2001
Messenger: There is such power in the hands of the priest.
God is so good to us, He remains with us
through the hands of the priest in the
consecrated host.
The Mass is so powerful.
A young boy just graduated from high school died
of cancer. Father Mike spoke of spiritual
joy.
Messenger: At funerals I feel so close to heaven.
The deceased one, in this case, a young
boy has passed on. It was so sad, but
the joy was felt in the Mass.
I have children myself and I love them so
deeply, I felt the pain of the
suffering parents.
This funeral was especially beautiful
and the homily was so beautiful
for all who heard it.
I just feel so many things that seem to
be inexpressible in words.
It is really what is in our hearts that is so
important. Father Mike said, "Kevin's love for
us will remain in our hearts forever, and our love
for him goes with him to heaven."
(Kevin is the boy who died.)
Although the deceased moves on our love can become
deeper, our love more pure, our love more
one with them and with God.
In the dark clouds we can see a silver lining
if we look closely. We can experience
joy in death.
I see the sun shine, the light of day glistens,
the hours of our lives tick away as a
clock wound tight and wearing down.
Some of our clocks tick faster than
others.
We just do not know when God will call us
from this earth.
Our love goes on and on. The
love we give here are seeds planted
that live on and on in the hearts
of those we touch.
One funeral so powerful as this can effect
someone for the rest of their lives. The Mass
was so powerful.
I would like to quote from the Sidney rosary
about the Blood on the Rose. (this will follow soon)
I want to talk about the deep love I feel
for God and all souls.
When someone dies like this we can
learn to love them in a deeper
way as they move on to the
next life. It can help us grow in our
love of God and all others.
I remember Father Carter's words all the
way up to his death "Our hearts are
merged."
He went off to die without all his Shepherds of Christ
friends.
I see Jesus dying on the cross.
Many of his apostles were not there.
Jesus loves the time between 12:00-3:00 on
Friday, He wants us to be united to Him
in a special way if we can.
The funeral of the young boy was so powerful
and a great gift.
Outside the church, people move about.
They are busy on this sunny day.
We see the reality that life here
on this earth is not forever
as we gaze at the casket and
know the body of young boy is in there and
his life here has ended.
So many hearts were touched by this most powerful
Mass and the words of Father Mike
so connected to Kevin and his family and
being the holy priest of God he is.
He is so aware of so many children
who have died from Children's Hospital
in the 17 years he was chaplain
there and still is.
He sees so very much and knows so
much about death, and life
here and the life hereafter.
Who can write about a child dying? How do we
handle death? It is a process, a process of surrender
of putting it in God's hands
of surrendering to God's will.
God allowed Father Willig and Father Carter to
die. He allowed many of our Shepherds of Christ friends
to die, Don and Mary Ann and others.
So many have died and we hope have gone to heaven.
If they did go to heaven, we can
unite and pray and ask them to help us.
Now I want to unite with all the popes in heaven
and all other clergy and pray through
their powerful intercession for this Movement
Shepherds of Christ and for the priests here on earth and
for the Church and the world.
This funeral was so powerful and the seeds
planted here will live on and on in
their hearts as so many grow in
a deeper love union with God.
Kevin may pass on but his memory and his
love will live on and on in their
hearts, and he will help those
here by the seeds of love he planted
while he was on earth and the love
he has in the life hereafter.
Father Mike said Kevin had spiritual joy
through his illness.
Father Mike said he gave him his last
rites right before he died.
Please pray for a special intention for someone
for healing (a young man with cancer).
We can whine and complain.
Time here on earth is really short.
Seeing the death of a young one with cancer
and the sorrow of their family may
make us realize how many gifts
we have.
We must be grateful to our God and show
Him lots of gratitude and love.
God the Father loved us so much He
gave us His only begotten Son,
Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
God is our Father and He loves us so much.
God first loved us.
August 17, 2001 message continues
Messenger: God loved us so much He died for us.
July 5, 2001
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