R. My body is weary, my head feels faint, but I go to the chest of my beloved Spouse and I lay my head on His wound. I enter into the great abyss of His love through the wound in His side.

I see the need to pray for priests and sisters and the faithful as never before. I see myself and how far I am from Him and how close I want to be. I see my offenses against my Lord. I long to be more and more like Him. I want to be beautiful for my beloved Spouse. What the world thinks is beautiful is of no concern. I want to live in Him. I want my soul white and pure. My soul is marred with daily offenses against my beloved God. I want Him so much. I don't want to offend Him.

I see as never before the great dignity and honor He gives to His creatures and His great love for them. I feel chills to know I am betrothed to Him, my beloved Savior. He is the Bridegroom of my soul.

My spirit is alive, my energy endless. I will not tire for I am married to the Almighty God. He is my beloved Spouse. I travel and speak on His behalf to tell this world of His endless love. I pray for grace for myself and others that He will speak through me and use me as His instrument. However He uses me is my delight, for my life is for Him and Him alone. My body may feel weary, my heart is on fire with burning love for my beloved Prince, my King, my Prophet, my Savior, my Beloved, my God!

I become one in the sacrifice as I unite to Him at every moment. As He is sacrificed, I am sacrificed with Him and I offer myself, imperfect and unworthy, to the Father for my sins and the sins of this world.

I honor You. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. I am in awe to unite with my beloved God. Who am I that I unite with the Divine God? My strength is in You for when I am weak, I am strong. When I fall to the ground with exhaustion, I rise up with the cross on my back for I am living in Him. I am living His life in my life, carrying out His life, death, and Resurrection in my life.

He is my Strength. He is my God. He is my All. Unto Him I lift my soul. I pray that He will accept this unworthy sacrifice, that I will unite ever more deeply to my beloved Spouse, and I will be His little flower, fresh and beautiful before the throne. I pray the Spirit transforms me more and more. I am weak, and I am a sinner. He is strong, and He is the Almighty God. It is in Him I am made whole, and it is in Him, I live. It is in Him I exist. It is in Him, I love.

Take me, work in me, for I love You with my whole heart, but I am so weak, but in You, I am strong. In You, I can live in the Father's will. I am but a baby. Let me die to myself at every Mass and be stripped bare of my sins. As I unite in the sacrifice with my crucified Lord, I become one in His wounds. I unite my unruly spirit to Him.

If bread and wine is changed into Your Body and Blood, You can change me from my sinful ways more into Your image and likeness.

I am burned in the furnace of His Heart. My debris is burned away more and more. At each Mass, I die more and more to my selfish and prideful ways. I am united to the sacrifice. In Him, I am made more pleasing to God. I am unworthy. I have so many impurities. (I am weak in my self - only in You am I anything!) Take me, and do with me as You desire. I am Yours, Lord. In You, I live, I breathe, I am. Make me more and more like You.

 

 

October 31, 1995

HALLOWEEN

R. I went with Joe's class to a concert. The kids were so bad on the bus. They talked about the devil at the concert.

I realized the intense need for children to receive the messages of God's love. I felt intense suffering for the children and cried for the children of the world. I was suffering for the little children. I felt so sick because Jesus is rejected and forgotten in the tabernacle! I cried under the crucifix for a half hour. I am so weak right now, I don't want to move.

I am suffering for Mary's little lost children in the world, suffering and experiencing heartache for the neglect of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Today is Halloween. I had intense suffering for the loss of little children parading around as little devils. They do not even know God!

 

November 1, 1995

I LOVE JESUS TO LOVE ME

R. Jesus was condemned to death.
Jesus carried His cross.
Jesus fell the first time.
Jesus sees His Mother.

I will not have peace until I look at my foes with love. I must see their loving deeds. Focus on the good they have done for me. See the good in the person. See the reflections of God's life within them, the deeds they have performed that were loving.

Satan wants me to see the ill deeds of others. He talks in our heads and tries to get me to focus on how I have been wronged. I will, with the grace of God, see the beauty of God reflected in them and try to respond with love to them, try to understand their position, try to thank God for the gifts given to me.

My greatest gift is my union with Jesus. Such gifts I have been given by my beloved Spouse. He is a Divine Person. No person can compare even a speck to my relationship with my Divine Lord. He is God; creatures are creatures. I will cherish the love I share with Him, my Savior, my Lover, my God, my All.

The key that makes us His disciples is our love for each other. If I am making myself right and others wrong, I am not focusing on the love given from God.

I must love. I must beg the Holy Spirit to direct my heart in the ways of love.

The Apostles were filled with the love of God from the descent of the Holy Spirit. When filled with His love, we share our joy with others. His way is love. We must love one another and trust in Him. Our advancement in being like Christ is to advance in love. We must rely on the Holy Spirit to fill us with the burning fire of God's love.

Dear Holy Spirit, You are my Friend. I love You so much. I adore and love You. The Holy Spirit is a ball of fire. He is Love.

The Father is love. God created us because of His goodness.

God is our goal. True happiness is achieved only in Him.

I love the Holy Spirit so much. He is my very, very deep Friend. Our goal is to love God. Jesus left a sacrifice in which He is victim and priest. We must give ourselves to others as Christ gave Himself.

 

November 2, 1995

THE YOUTH WILL SPREAD JESUS' LOVE TO THE WORLD

R. Jesus is alive this day!

Jesus: My precious youth, children of My Father, loved so dearly by My Mother. I died and gave My Blood for you.

This day I cry out to you My precious youth, you are blinded by the sin in this world. I am tender and kind in Heart. I come to you with My Heart shining and glistening in light, adorned in a brilliant yellow haze, I came as a victim dripping with blood, I bear the wounds of bloodshed for you My precious little hearts.

I am alive this day in the Holy Eucharist, I come, I am Jesus, I rose from the dead, I want to fill you with My life. I want to feed your starved souls. Envision My glorified wounds - see them glistening in light. I am the Light of the World. Death has no power over Me.

You should not fear, My beloved youth, I am alive, guarding you, I love you so much, come to Me. Stay away from evil. Do not give into satan. Satan wants to steal your heart and take you to everlasting doom in the fires of hell.

You are living in a very sick world. Babies are murdered. People give into satan and many in the world do such evil!! Many men's hearts are very cold and filled with such vile deeds.

Look at the murders today, look at the abortions, look at the sins of the flesh, the hatred, the lies, the deception, the disrespect for one another.

I come to fill your soul with My light. To lead you out of darkness and into the light.

I appear with My Burning Heart on fire for love of you. My Mother appears and cries out for the little children abused and mistreated by dark hearts of this world.

You are My children of light. Mary appears to lead you to your rightful home in heaven.

It is through Mary's Immaculate Heart that you will be led to My Burning Heart of love.

Your Mother is forever with you and watching you. You must turn to her, you are her little treasured children.

Oh children of the light come to Me and I will take you to the Father.

Pray to the Holy Spirit to fill you with His life and transform you from fear to fearlessness to stand up for God.

I am forever with you, guarding you and watching over you. Let go of your sinful lives. Come with a heart that is humble, gentle and ready to be filled by My love.

Then you will shine in the darkened world as the children of the light. You will march as the little army of love and many that are in darkness will see My light shine through you.

I love you, I love you, I love you, you are My precious holy children.

Love, Jesus

 

November 2, 1995

JESUS AND MARY WANT OUR LOVE

R. I see the face of Mary and I hear her cry for the little children of the world that will go to hell. Help me to be an empty vessel whereby You use me to spread Your love.

I beg You to give me the books to circulate.

I beg You for the way to spread Your love to the children.

I live for Thee and Thee alone.

Mary is allowing me to suffer her pain as I stood under the cross. It was as if I had the agony of both Hearts. Hers for her little lost children - His for His hungering Heart of deepest love. Jesus longs for the love of His precious ones.

Let me die to myself that I will live in You that You may operate in me to help others to get to heaven. I empty myself and ask You to possess my soul, to do what You want through me for the salvation of souls, to give to me fearlessness to carry out the message of Your burning love.

 

November 2, 1995

Sorrowful Mysteries

The Agony in the Garden

1. Let us put ourselves in the presence of God and put aside all the distractions that are in our minds and think only of Jesus.

2. Kneel with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane and feel the pain that He suffered, the pain and the anguish that He suffered for all of the sins of all men for all time.

3. Jesus and Mary are calling us to come to Their Hearts. Their Hearts are filled with love for us.

4. Buckled over in pain in the garden, we cannot even imagine the anguish in the Heart of Jesus. God is Love.

5. Look at your world this day. See the murder of the little babies in the womb of their mothers. See how many in America have forgotten that God even exists. Our every breath and our every heartbeat depend on Him.

6. Out of greatest love for man, Jesus came into this world a little baby in the womb of Mary. He suffered so, all through His Passion. He loves man so much.

7. Think of how it is when you love someone so much and you are rejected by the person you love. Jesus loved us so much that He came into this world. He suffered all through the Passion. He gave His life on the cross. He is rejected by many of the souls that He came to save.

8. He is alive this day and He gives Himself to us with such love. He is treated with such indifference and such hatred.

9. Let us ask God for the grace to know and love Him more. For to know God is to love Him.

10. Let us pray for the youth of this world, the little children whose hearts have turned to stone at such an early age. Jesus loves them. Even in this dark world, His love is present. He is always with us.

The Scourging at the Pillar

1. They led Him away as a common criminal and they tied Him securely to the pillar.

2. They took harsh instruments and they began to beat His body with such instruments that tore His flesh.

3. See as vividly as you can at the scourged body of Jesus. See Him with the big patches of skin that have been torn from His body. Think of the love that He has for us. He withstood this treatment for love of us.

4. He loves the children of this world. Let the little children come to Him. He wants them to come to Mass, to the Eucharist, and to be so close to Him.

5. We go to the Eucharist and we receive Jesus. Let us open up our hearts and tell Him how much we love Him. We need Him in this world that is so dark. We need His light to shine in our hearts and to shine in our world today.

6. We will be the children of light that shine in this dark world today if we live in Him.

7. Look into the eyes of the scourged Jesus. See His body covered with wounds and blood. See His face covered with scratches and deep wounds. As we look into His beloved, tender eyes, surrounded by the wounds, do we know a little more of His immense love that He has for us?

8. Mary loves the little children of this world. She wants us to come to her. She will lead us closer to her beloved Son.

9. It is in meditating on these Sorrowful Mysteries and thinking about the love that Jesus has for us, that we will realize more and more, how much He truly loves us.

10. We must come to Him and He will give us His abundant love.

The Crowning with Thorns

1. Jesus sat on a mock throne and they pounded into His head a sharp crown of piercing thorns.

2. Think of the wounds of Jesus, all over His body. Now they have wounded His most precious head. Blood ran down His face and into His eyes and into His ears.

3. The blood ran from His mouth from the blows they gave Him to His head.

4. It is hard to be in this world today. Many in the world have turned to sin.

5. Children are laughed at for praying and for saying grace. Many children showing kindness and being nice to each other are made fun of. God wants us to be loving.

6. Jesus wants us to be tender, kind, and loving. The only way to heaven is to love God and to love one another.

7. How cold the world is this day. In order to survive, children are being taught to be cold in their hearts. Children's prayers are so powerful. We join together as children in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. We are praying for special graces from God. We want to be closer to Him. We want to be children of the light. We want to shine in the darkness in the schools. We want to tell the children of America about the God we love.

8. Let us look at the crowned head of Jesus and the face covered with wounds. See His blood. Look at His body, bloodied and bruised. When we are ridiculed and treated unkindly, we must go to His Heart. We must pray for the person that is treating us with cruelty.

9. We have a loving Mother that is forever with us. We are never alone, not for one moment. Jesus is with us. He is guarding our ways and Mary is guarding her little children of light.

10. Song: Little Child

Jesus Carries His Cross

1. A good way to meditate on the Passion is to make the Stations of the Cross. As we stand at the first station, we see how the men around Jesus shouted ugly words at Jesus. They cried out, "'Crucify him!'" (Mk. 15:13) We are ridiculed today for being close to Jesus. Jesus stood. He took all the torture. He is the Almighty God. He suffered for love of us.

2. Jesus is God. He is love. They gave Him a heavy cross that they put on His back.

3. He fell to the ground. His head hit the ground. The cross was on His back. Many times we have to suffer. It is in suffering that we are drawn closer to Jesus.

4. See Jesus and Mary as They look into each other's faces on the way to Calvary. His eyes met her eyes. He saw her sad face covered with tears. She saw His bruised face covered with blood. Jesus and Mary love us so much. They walked this brutal walk to the Crucifixion. They walk with us today. We are never alone. They are always with us. Their Hearts are filled with love.

5. When we are ridiculed, let us remember how Jesus was treated.

6. The world tells us that we should look for pleasure. They tell us to put down our crosses. The world says we should not suffer, that we should get rid of our suffering. Jesus came and He walked the walk on the way to Calvary. It is in the sufferings that we receive greater life in Him.

7. Let us carry the crosses that we are given this day and offer them up to the Father. Many souls will be lost and condemned forever to hell. Jesus and Mary want us to pray very hard for all of our brothers that are suffering and in sin.

8. Jesus walked the way to Calvary. The women wept over Him. He said to them, "...Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep rather for yourselves and for your children." (Lk. 23:28) Today we should weep for the children of this world, for they are suffering so much. They are not being told about how much God really loves them.

9. Our prayers as youth are so powerful. Our prayers in this movement are so powerful. Jesus will give us graces when we pray. Jesus loves the children. Jesus and Mary want children to pray. Mary told us at Fatima we must pray the rosary.

10. Let us thank Jesus for the great gift that He gives to us. He has given us a sharing in His life. He gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist. We must treasure each moment that we spend with Him after Communion at Mass.

Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

1. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are the Two Hearts of greatest love. Mary's heart was invisibly pierced with a sword as she watched them nail her Son's hands and feet to the cross.

2. Think of how it would be to have your whole body covered with wounds, and your head crowned with thorns, and then to have nails pounded all the way through your hands and your feet.

3. Jesus held nothing back. He spread His arms. He gave His all that we would know how much He loves us.

4. As He gave Himself on the cross, He gave His all. He gives Himself to us this day in the Eucharist. The Son of God comes to us and enters our bodies. He is as present as He was the day Mary carried Him in her womb.

5. Do we realize how much God loves us, that He gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist?

6. Mary stood beneath the cross and watched her Son. He died before her eyes. She saw Him covered with blood and wounded. She stands by us this day and watches us when we are ridiculed for loving God. She wants us to be the children of the light. She wants us to pray to her Spouse, the Holy Spirit. We must pray for the strength to stand up for our belief in God. So many in the world today have forgotten God exists.

7. At every Mass, let us pray for the grace to unite with Jesus and offer ourselves to the Father. We must try to do whatever He wants us to do. It is in doing His will that we will be happy in our lives today.

8. Jesus hung on the cross. His body was withered. He gave the last beat of His Heart for love of us.

9. His last thoughts were for us. He gave us His loving Mother. She is our Mother. She will help us to follow the way of Jesus. She will help us to get to heaven.

10. He gave Himself. He gives us Himself this day and He gives us His Mother to guide us on our way to everlasting happiness.

Thoughts before the Hail Holy Queen:

Mary loves us with the tenderest motherly love. Many children this day are suffering and are in sin. Some children may go to hell if they continue sinning. Children are being taught such vileness at such an early age. We must pray as we have never prayed before for the children of America. Many do not know of the love of Jesus, her Son. She wants the children to pray. So many children could go to hell if they die today. At Fatima on July 13, 1917, she 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.²²

We must realize that hell is forever. Some children are sinning and do not even care that they sin. Some children's hearts have turned to stone. She wants us, as our Mother, to pray. Children of America, we must pray. On October 13, 1917, Mary appeared to the children, and she said:

I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it every day.²³

Please help us circulate these rosaries to the schools. We must reach the children with the rosary and the consecration.

23. The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, op. cit., pp. 14-15.
 

 

 

 

November 3, 1995 - First Friday

I saw My Intimate Times with Jesus

R. I had such an experience before the St. Louis trip - I loved Him so deeply - He showed me all our intimate moments together and I cried so hard.

Then I saw my sins and asked Jesus to forgive me and help me to give Him great love.

I had the presence of the Almighty God as never before.

 

 

November 6, 1995

ROSARY NOTES

I receive the Holy Eucharist. I realize the presence of God within me.

I feel as Mary felt to know the Child Jesus was within her. I meditate on Christ coming to us in the Holy Eucharist.

Feel as Mary felt to visit her cousin Elizabeth. Partake in Mary's life, carrying Jesus within her.

Mary felt His life move within her. It was through her body we receive His life.

She saw Him on the cross and watched His life leave His body.

 

November 7, 1995 - 5:30am

I Will Help You

Jesus: My dear child - Do not give into satan. I will help you in the battle against satan.

I am your bridegroom, I come to give you peace. Satan wants to divide you from those I have sent you to work with, tear apart relationships that are needed to do this work. Will you give into satan?

You must pray! I love you! What people say about you does not mean it is true!! I will handle those who oppose Me, the enemies to the Father's will that tear apart what I have asked you and Fr. Carter to build.

You are as you are - rooted in Me - not as other jealous people may say. I am giving you abundant grace now.

You must trust Me, you must love, do the Father's will, in love - All your actions in compliance to My Father's will!!

Satan will use others to try to discredit you - You are My messenger. They challenge you and attack you to discredit you. They oppose the Father's will tearing down this gift My Father has given through you and Fr. Carter to the world.

You must now focus on Me and My life with you - I am the bridegroom of your soul, Stay close to Me - They are giving into satan to discredit you - You are My messenger and the co-founder of this Movement, I will do what the Father wants through you as My messenger -

They oppose My wishes to teach the world about My Burning Heart and the Mass.

 

November 7, 1995

FEEL THE PAIN INSIDE

Written at 8:15 a.m., in front of the tabernacle:

R. I love You so much, sweet Jesus. I love the Blessed Sacrament. I love the Eucharist. I love each moment with You - so precious to me, each moment, every special second. I am in tears and filled with such emotion and love for Him.

We see the outside, the body, the wounds of Jesus, but the pain was felt inside, the buckling over in the chest, the sound in His ears from angry men, the scene-all within the body of Christ.

The scene today from the outside-looks that are hollow, that are self-promoting, the looks on the face, the actions, the words spoken reflect the hearts within. The more the heart is like Jesus' Heart, the more the words will be like Jesus' words. How saturated are we in His life? How much do our actions reflect His life within us? Is our life rooted in Him? Do our actions reflect His light, or darkness coming from starved souls? The exterior of the body reflects the life within. A life rooted in Him reflects His life. A life rooted in selfish promotion reflects darkness inside. To be of Him we must die to self and live in Him. The struggles we have experienced have caused us to rejoice in new life.

 

November 8, 1995

I WANT THE GRACE TO LOVE HIM MORE

R. At the Mass, I am so aware of the miracle taking place through the hands of the priest.

I am in awe. Bread is changed into the Body of Christ.

With all my heart, I know this is truly the Almighty God, in all His greatness. I realized the great Sacrifice offered to the Father at the Consecration - so aware of everything going on and the Sacrifice is the sacrifice of Calvary, now being sacramentally made present there.

I wanted, with all my heart, to unite to Jesus in this sacrifice and make reparation for my sins and the terrible sins of all men against God.

I wanted so much, with such depth, the very deepest union with Him to help make reparation for the awful sins of man against God. (writing this is shallow - my heart burns with such depth, for I cannot describe the way I feel).

I want, so deeply, to love God. I kept asking Him to help me to love Him so much. I am such a little speck, but I know He can help me to give Him deeper love. I want so much to give Him love - great love, and I am so inadequate to love God.

He magnifies my love so I can love Him more - He Who is so worthy of love!

I want to worship Him and adore Him and honor Him for He is so great and worthy of such honor and glory, but I need Him to help me to love and honor and worship Him more for I am such a little speck compared to God.

Had I but Mary's sinless heart, to love Thee more, my dear, precious Lord!

I realized, from before Mass, how deeply I love each Person of the Trinity, to the point of tears, knowing They are all within me, wanting so deeply to unite with Them, and give Them greater love - greater and greater love as little as it is.

 

November 8, 1995

THE PROMISE OF OUR LADY AT FATIMA

R. The promise of Our Lady at Fatima is this:

My daughter, look at My Heart surrounded with the thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console me, and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, go to Confession and receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary and keep me company for a quarter of an hour while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.⁴³

Our Lady of Fatima requested us to carry out the following devotions on the first Saturdays. She promises us the graces necessary for salvation at the hour of death. We must follow the devotion as Our Lady stipulated.

...The practice of the five first Saturdays involves:

1) Going to confession, which may be done from eight days before to 8 days after the first Saturday. Of course, if a person is in the state of serious sin, the confession must be made before receiving Communion.
2) Receiving Holy Communion.
3) Recitation of five decades of the rosary.
4) Meditating for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the rosary.

All of the above [except confession] must be done on the first Saturday of five consecutive months with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart. For those who make the five first Saturdays, Our Lady of Fatima has promised to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation.⁴⁴

43. The Message of Fatima, op. cit., p. 48.
44. Rev. Edward Carter, S.J., Mother at My Side [Milford: Faith Publishing Co., 1993], p. 21.
 

 

November l4, l995 

Sorrowful Mysteries

From a Shepherds of Christ Meeting

Agony in the Garden 

l. R. Let us make a Spiritual Communion and ask Jesus to come to us in a spiritual communion - focus on Jesus' presence in us. Feel ourselves united in such close union with Jesus and know that He is outpouring His abundant love. 

2. R. See yourself kneel with Jesus in the Garden, next to Him, and we see His gentle, loving face and we see the look on His face as He suffered. Jesus knew all of the sins of all men from all time. As we look at our world today, we see the vileness and the hatred and we know that Jesus knelt in the Garden and suffered for the love of all those souls that are in the world today that are filled with such hatred and anger in their hearts. 

3. R. Jesus suffered for all of the children that are being poisoned in their minds this day by the media and all that is being said that is so vile for He loves each and every soul with such love and He saw before Him how the children in this age today would suffer and many not even know His love for them. 

4. R. Mary calls out to us again and again to go to the children to tell the children of the love of Jesus, to be a mother to each child in this world, to take this responsibility upon ourselves to go to the children, to tell the children of the love of Jesus and Mary. 

5. R. We do not see Jesus before our eyes, He no longer walks this earth, but He is alive and so close to us. Jesus is truly present this day in the Eucharist. Jesus is calling out to us to reach out this day to the children of the world, to reach out to those who are suffering and in pain, to give to them His love for we are His faithful ones and He is giving graces to join ever closer to Him. Jesus is asking us to go out to this world and to be loving to all for it is by our love that they will see the Christ that lives within us.

6. Sing: A Song from Jesus

7. Sing: Give me a Heart like Yours

8. R. Jesus took with Him Peter, James and John and they slept. Jesus said to them, can you not watch one hour with Me? No matter how busy our lives are this day, we must find time in our busy schedule to be alone with Jesus for this world is in such a state that we will not act as He wants us to act unless we take time to be alone with Him. 

9. Jesus: You are My apostles that I am sending into this world. You must come to Me and be alone with Me. I am Jesus, I am giving to you great graces of My Divine love. You need to come and to spend time each day alone with Me.

l0. Jesus: I call you to prayer, I call you to sacrifice, I call you to My Heart for I want to be one with you. My beloved ones, every moment of the day I want to operate through you to this world that is hurting and in pain. I am making an urgent plea to you to come and be alone with Me so that I will operate through you all through the day. You must make time to be alone with Me. I am Jesus. I am longing and thirsting and waiting for your love. I love you, I love you, I love you. I am alive and I am with you this day, so close to you, waiting to outpour My gentle love to you. It is by your love that others will know Me. You must love. My ways are love. Always love. To My death on the cross I loved those who persecuted Me, who tore My flesh. 

R. Think of anyone of us in this room, sweating blood. Jesus knelt in the Garden and His suffering was so great that His sweat became as great drops of blood on the ground. You do not know the love in the Heart of Jesus. He was buckled over with such pain in His Heart for He loves each and every soul so deeply and think of how He is treated this day, how He is neglected and ignored. In the Garden His Heart was in such anguish. Feel the pain in your heart.

Jesus: I call out to you. I come to you covered with blood and crowned with thorns. I come to you with this urgent plea to spend your days praying, to spend every moment loving. You are My hands. You are My feet. You, I send into this world. I am Jesus, your beloved Savior. Do you see this world this day? Do you see the state this world is in? I am calling you. This is My plea: to each person here I am begging you, begging you, to unite ever closer to Me and as you unite, you will be strengthened by My strength.

 

Scourging at the Pillar 

l. R. God so loved this world that He sent His only begotten Son into this world and God took on flesh. You cannot comprehend even a little the immensity of God’s love but to ponder the fact that the Almighty God took on flesh helps us understand more the immensity of this love. 

2. R. They bound the Son of God to the pillar and He withstood the treatment. He could, at any time, release Himself. He was subjected to such humiliation and torture and willingly He suffered this for love of us but His greatest agonies were not His agonies suffered to His body but the agonies that He suffered to His Heart. 

 3. R. Jesus sings to us this day this song, The Song from Jesus. “I come to you with greatest love.” In the Holy Eucharist He is truly present in His Divinity and humanity and He is ignored and forgotten. Look at the world this day and see how few people think of God. And He says, how few people tell me how much they love me. Let us never fail to not tell Jesus enough our love for Him for He came to this earth out of greatest love for us. We were created to know, love and serve God. The almighty God is so offended by the sins of men and He gives to us such gifts and look how He is treated by His creatures! 

4. R. Look at the scourged body of Jesus. This is the love that He has for us. 

5. Song: A Song from Jesus

6. Hail Mary

7. R. Let us meditate on these mysteries of the rosary and ask the Almighty God to help us to love Him more and more and to give us whatever we need to give the love to Him that is His due. To give Him more and more love. I feel so inadequate to love the Almighty God but with His help I can love Him more. 

7. Hail Mary
8. Hail Mary
9. Hail Mary
l0. Hail Mary

 

The Crowning with Thorns 

l. R. Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts with the fire of God’s love. Impart to us the knowledge and wisdom to know God more and more. 

2. R. Fill us with the fearlessness to go out into this world and to preach the gospel message for this world this day is suffering and in pain and He is crying out an urgent plea to us to go out to tell our brothers, through our actions, of the love of God. 

3. Jesus: My way is the way of love, always love. I am calling you to holiness in your heart, to hold your tongue, to not talk about one another. Satan will try to divide you, My beloved ones. Time is so short and so many souls are at stake. Look into My eyes, filled with blood and My head crowned with thorns. This is the love that I have for My beloved souls. Many will be lost this day. Satan will try to trick you. You must come to Me and spend time alone with Me. In the moments in the night come and talk to Me. I am waiting for you to spend time alone with Me.

4. R. Let us go to the Heart of Jesus. Let us go deeply into His Heart and be bathed by His precious love. Let us focus now on the presence of the Almighty God within us. 

5. Jesus: Why do you talk about one another when you could spend this time telling Me of your love for Me. I long to hear the words from your lips of how you love Me. I loved you, My beloved ones, to My death. It is in your actions this day that you will preach My lessons to this world. 

6. Jesus: To know Me is to love - to love God and to love one another. 

7. Jesus: They spit on Me. They tore My flesh and pounded thorns into My head. I responded, always, with love. You are My hands, My feet, in this world this day. Your face will shine with My light when you come to Me and spend time with Me. I am sending you out into a world that is full of evil. You must spend these moments alone with Me that I can refresh you and prepare you for the work at hand. 

8. Jesus: I am the Almighty God. I can do all things. You must take time to be alone with Me. 

9. R. They whipped Him and they tore His Flesh and they pounded into His head a sharp crown of thorns and the blood ran into His eyes and into His ears and it came from His mouth. This is the love that He has for us. He is the Almighty God. God is all powerful. Look at the vastness of this universe, created by the Almighty God. Each life given from Him and we wonder and we fret and worry and we think that we are in control and He gives to us this sharing in His life in baptism. He wants us to be His instruments in the world.

Jesus: In one moment I can do more than you can do in a million years. I am calling you to prayer and sacrifice. I am calling you to let go - do the Father's will. I am Jesus. I will never forsake you, My beloved ones. 

l0. Jesus: I magnify your efforts and many souls will be touched by what you do. Come to Me and I will give you wisdom to guide you on the way. You are My workers that I am sending out.

 

Jesus Carries His Cross 

l. R. Jesus stood with His hands tied in front of Him and they surrounded Him and they poked at Him and they hollered obscenities to Him and they called out, “crucify Him, crucify Him.” This is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Look how He was treated by those He loved! 

2. Jesus: I came to show you the way. It is in carrying your cross that you will have life in Me.

3. R. See Jesus' body covered with blood and wounds, His head covered with thorns, and they gave to Him a heavy cross that He carried on His back. 

4. R. Think of what it would be like to carry the cross on your back that you knew that you would die on. 

5. R. How we worry about the words of others that hurt us when Jesus carried the very cross that He died on. 

6. R. Jesus was the innocent Lamb led to the slaughter. Jesus carried the cross and when it was so heavy, Jesus fell and the cross fell on Him. Without a word, He fell. 

7. Jesus: How heavy is your cross that you carry this day, the little crosses that I give you to bear? My sweet children, I give you crosses because I love you so much. As you carry this cross you will grow deeper and deeper in your love for Me. 

8. Jesus: I died on the cross but I rose on the third day victorious. 

9. Jesus: Surrender to Me, surrender and let go. You cannot do it on your own. I am calling you, My beloved ones. Come to Me and let Me lead you on your way. You must pray and surrender. You cannot accomplish the work that I am sending you on your own. It is only in a deep union with Me that the work will be accomplished. You must pray and surrender for I am aiding you in this endeavor. 

l0. R. And He fell, His chin fell on the ground, and when Jesus got up He looked into the eyes of His beloved Mother, Mary. It is through Mary that we will be aided in our efforts to spread the love of God throughout the world. Jesus promises that if we pray the rosary Mary will aid us in all of our needs and if we promote this rosary she will help us on our way. We must ask her to help us, to do the plan of the Father. It is the Father’s Plan and we are His servants. We are not doing this on our own. We are doing it with the help of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit and the Blessed Virgin Mary. We must surrender and allow Them to lead the way and to work in us.

 

Jesus Dies on the Cross 

l. R. See Jesus and see them with their hammer and their nails. They put the nail in the palm of His hand. They lifted the hammer high and they pounded the nail in His hand. Focus on the fact that He is the Almighty God, all powerful, in control of all things and He subjected Himself to this treatment for love of us. Could we allow them to put the nails in our hands and pull back the hammer and continue if we had the power to stop it?

 2. R. Mary knew that she would suffer. From the time of Simeon she knew how she would suffer. Knowing in her heart all those years, she stood beneath the cross and she watched her Son as He was put to death. 

3. R. Stand beneath the cross with Mary and feel the agony in her heart, the suffering, the pain. Weep as Mary wept under the cross. All of the emotions in her heart. Jesus suffered for so many souls that would throw away these graces that He won. Mary knew in her heart her beloved children that would go to hell despite His suffering. Stand beneath the cross with Mary and in your heart experience the anxieties, far beyond any expression of yelling, a buckling over in your chest, pain that cannot even be expressed, that she suffered under the cross. Her heart, her chest, buckled over in pain. Could she scream and express the agony? Could she cry tears? Could you express the agony of watching your son die as Jesus died?

    Mary is appearing and she is calling out and her call is the same call for the children of this world that will be lost to the fires of hell. I see her face. I feel her pain and I weep her tears. There is nothing, nothing, I can do alone to answer this cry of our Mother. I am a messenger. This message is for you. If you were in this room, the message is that I have seen Mary and heard the cries for the children that will go to hell. We must reach the world with these messages of His love. Mary is calling out to us. We are the creatures God created. He created us in His goodness and love. God created us out of His goodness and love and Adam sinned, and Jesus came, the New Adam, Savior of the world. Look how the creatures are treating God this day and Mary comes and says, “Look - you have to stop this - you are offending God. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer” and we ignore, ignore and ignore this. I have seen Mary, when she is crying out how the children will go to hell. This is a message for you from your Mother Mary to spread these messages to this world. If you are here, you are hearing these words because you have been called and you have responded. The message was delivered to me, it is given to all of you.

See Jesus as He hung on the cross, His head crowned with thorns, the nails pounded into His hands and feet, His body withered. He cries out , “I love you, I love you, I love you. Will you deliver this message to this world today for many souls will go to hell and I am the Almighty God and I am speaking here. Will you respond?” Will you help me with this message for this message is not my message, it is the message from Jesus and Mary for this world, not for this room alone, for this world. I am one person, you are one person and the message has been delivered from My lips but from God to you. From Mary, with her heart, crying out and the urgent plea of your beloved Jesus. See Him as He hung on the cross. 

4. Sing: Crown Him with Many Crowns 

5. Jesus: I love you, I love you, I love you. This is an urgent cry from Me to you. My beloved faithful ones. Will you carry this message to this world - the world that is suffering and in pain for the bloodshed in this church will continue until the messages of My love are transmitted among the members. You see the world. I am giving to you great graces to know My presence in your hearts. Will you help Me to spread My love to this world for many souls will be condemned to the fires of hell. Time is so short, here today and gone tomorrow and all that feeds the stalking soul is the love of God, not sex, nor money, nor the vileness that goes on this day will feed the souls. Will you go into this world and spread My love? I am Jesus, I am crying out to you. 

6. Jesus: Busy, busy, busy. You are busy. How many souls this day would go to hell if they died at this moment? This is My plea to you, to help Me spread the messages of My love. 

7. R. Jesus raised high on a cross - on a hill and He breathed His last breath and He gave the last beat of His Heart and He died that we could be saved. 

8. Jesus: I call you to love. I died for each and every soul. It is by your love that you will witness to Me in the world. Purify your hearts. 

9. R. See Mary under the cross and in her arms the lifeless body of her Son, His arms draped over her arms and His feet and legs draped over her, His head hung back and her red, covered face looking at her beloved Son and Mary is appearing over and over and over again and calling to us to think about the children of this world and to tell them about the love of her Son. So many children are in sin this day, Mary's children with little, hard hearts that are becoming harder each day as they go to the world and are not nourished by the messages of God’s love but are being fed a daily dose of poison. Let us pray the rosary every day and ask Mary to help us to promote this rosary so that we can reach the children with the messages of God’s love, with the rosary, with the Eucharist, with the burning Heart of Jesus, and with the Mass. 

10. Jesus: Does it make your heart cry to see a 10 year old child that is hard in heart and mistreating another child? My way is love - I call you to spread this message for the members in the Church will continue to suffer until the messages of My love are transmitted.

    Pray to the Holy Spirit to sanctify your hearts. I call you to holiness and to love. My way is always love. Let your mouth and your tongue be pure for you receive Me in the Holy Eucharist with the same mouth. I remain in your heart for a short while after the reception of the Eucharist. My dear ones, I am giving to you great graces and gifts of My love. I will support you in all of your efforts to spread the message of My love to this world. I am Jesus. This is an urgent plea to you this evening to come to My Heart and I will fill you with My love and you will go into the world as a light shining in the darkness.

 

November 19, 1995

Glorious Mysteries
 

The Resurrection of Our Lord from the Dead

1. Walk with the women as they walked to the tomb and feel how they felt when they saw the stone had been rolled back outside of the tomb.

2. Jesus told them many things, but they did not understand.

3. Mary Magdalene was crying. She saw a man that she thought was the gardener. It was Jesus. She was so overjoyed to see her beloved Jesus.

4. Jesus is alive this day and He is with us. He is truly present in the Holy Eucharist. He dwells within our hearts in a special way when we are in the state of grace.

5. Picture in your mind the glorified body of Jesus. See His glorified wounds. See Him, glistening in white, and surrounded in light.

6. Look into His face and see His love. See the light surrounding Him. See the tenderness in the face of Jesus.

7. In all of the struggles, in all of the darkness in the world this day, Jesus is alive. If we focus on Him, we can feel His presence within us, for He never leaves us.

8. Picture the body of Jesus hanging on the cross. Think about Him being locked in the tomb. On the third day He rose victorious. Death has no power over Jesus.

9. He came to this earth. He suffered and He died that we would share in His divine life. He came to give us His life. We become partakers in His life.

10. Our humanity is raised to such heights when we share in His divine life.

The Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven

1. Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He gave the to them the power to baptize and to forgive sins.

2. He promised to send the Holy Spirit to descend upon the Apostles and to fill them with all of the courage that they needed to go out to spread the Gospel.

3. "Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven." (Lk. 24:50-51)

4. Stand in the field below with the Apostles and the Virgin Mary and feel in your heart the excitement, the awe, the confusion to see Jesus as He ascends into the clouds.

5. He lives this day and He wants us to know His burning love. He came to this earth. He put on a human body because He loves us.

6. The Apostles were a sorry lot. They were filled with fear. They did not understand the words of Jesus. They were filled with self. They were always worrying who would be first. Jesus ascended into heaven and promised to send them the Holy Spirit to fill their hearts with the fire of God's love.

7. He no longer walks the earth, but this day He lives in this world in the Holy Eucharist and He is truly present. He lives in our hearts.

8. He tells us not to fear for He is here in our every breath and our every heartbeat. He is guarding us, for He loves us so much that He gave us His life that we would share in His divine life.

9. We are His apostles today. We must spread His love to this world.

10. We are doing His work. He wants us to be one in Him. He wants to act in us. We must put aside our selfish ways and be like Him. He wants us to give love to all.

The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Mary

1. The Apostles were afraid and they had locked themselves in the upper room. There was a gigantic wind. There appeared over their heads parted tongues of fire. They were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues as the Holy Spirit prompted them to speak.

2. When we are in the state of grace, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit dwell within our hearts in a very, very special way.

3. It is the Holy Spirit that transforms us more and more into the image and likeness of Jesus.

4. It is the Holy Spirit alive within us that is constantly leading us on our way to be closer and closer to God. He is in our hearts when we are in the state of grace. He wants us to tell Him of our love for Him.

5. The more that we tell the Holy Spirit how much we love Him, the more our hearts will burn within us for love of the Son and the Father.

6. Holy Spirit, alive in our hearts at this moment, how we love You. We want to be close to You. Fill us with the burning fire of God's love in our hearts.

7. It is in the pure and tender heart of Mary that we will love Jesus ever more. Holy Spirit, mold us in the heart of Mary to be more and more like Jesus.

8. The Apostles were so filled with the Holy Spirit that they went out and so many were converted. They were locked in prison and they got out of prison singing songs of great joy, for their hearts were filled with the fire of God's love.

9. Let us experience the life and vibrancy of God's love within us. As Satan tempts us and tries to drag us down, let the Holy Spirit lift us up for we will be propelled by the love of God.

10. Song: Come Holy Spirit

The Assumption of Mary into Heaven

1. Jesus gave to us His Mother under the cross. Mary guards us and protects us in everything that we do. She loves us with the tenderest motherly love, with a personal motherly love.

2. She loves us and wants to lead us to the Heart of her Son through her heart.

3. How close Mary is to the Heart of her Son. She lived with Him. She cared for Him. She carried Him in her womb. She gave Him His life through her milk. She watched Him as He walked His way to Calvary. She stood under the cross. She watched Him as He ascended into heaven. It is through her heart that we will know the Heart of Jesus more and more.

4. Mary's heart is sinless. Mary is conceived without sin. Mary loves the Father with the deepest love. She loves her Son, Jesus. She loves her Spouse, the Holy Spirit. It is in going to the heart of Mary, loving the Father, loving the Son, and loving the Holy Spirit through her heart that we join ever closer to the Almighty God.

5. How Mary waits for us, stands by us, stands by our beds as we sleep, as a loving Mother caring at every moment about our life in God.

6. We are never alone for Jesus and Mary are with us, guarding us and caring for us. She cares for her little children in this world.

7. The angel appeared to Mary and asked her to be the Mother of God. She always did the Father's will and she was taken into heaven. The Father has a plan for us. If we follow His will, we too will go to heaven someday.

8. Mary is the highest human person. In recognizing the great love that Jesus has for His Mother, we realize the love that He has for us.

9. He loves His Mother so much that He wants His Heart venerated next to her heart.

10. Mary is our spiritual Mother. She loves us more than any earthly mother.

Mary Is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth

1. Heaven may seem so far away for children in this world, but Mary wants us to always have pure hearts and always be ready to meet our Almighty God.

2. Do we realize, children, that one mortal sin can keep us from heaven forever and ever?

3. We must be ready at all times to die and we must remain in the state of grace. Sin offends God Who loves us so much.

4. We think that God is so far away and He is so close. We look at the sunlit day and the star filled night and we see the wonders of the Almighty God. He is present this day and in our midst.

5. He has all the power. Our every breath depends on Him. At any moment, we could be taken from this world. We must be ready to meet God. If we love and serve God and keep His commandments, we will be in heaven forever and ever.

6. At the Holy Spirit Center, in Norwood, Ohio, the beautiful stained glass windows depict Mary as she is crowned by Jesus. The Father and the Holy Spirit are close by. This is the love that the Almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have for Mary. Mary, a human person, is crowned Queen of Heaven and Queen of Earth. We do not realize the immense love that God has for us. We are His creatures.

7. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit dwell within our hearts in a very special way when we are in the state of grace.

8. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, the glory that God has ready for those who love and serve Him.

9. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love each other perfectly. Out of Their great love, They created man. It is so foolish to not love, for God loved man so much that He came to this earth, died, and rose that we would share in His life. No person will get out of this life without dying. It is so foolish to not be prepared to meet our Maker.

10. We know not the day nor the hour. We are called to purify our hearts. We must give our hearts to Jesus and Mary. Jesus loves us with the most tender love. He wants to be so close to us. We must give ourselves to Mary. Her heart is pure. We are sinners. We can get closer to God through Mary's pure heart. Jesus gave us His Mother to mother us.

Thoughts before the Hail Holy Queen:

Mary will teach us the way to love. She will help us love the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We must open our hearts to love. We must love God and one another.

 

November 30, 1995

Joyful Mysteries

The Annunciation

1. Jesus loves us with a Heart that is filled with burning love. See the picture of Jesus with His white tunic and red robe and the children under His feet. He loves to teach the children about His love. He wants the children close to His Heart. The Angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and asked Mary to be the Mother of God.

2. This is a mystery that the Almighty God came to this earth and was conceived in the womb of a human person. Let us think about this.

3. The sin of Adam and Eve was passed on to all people for they were our first parents. The Blessed Virgin Mary was born sinless. Jesus was incarnate in her womb through the power of the Holy Spirit.

4. The Baby Jesus was formed in the womb of His Mother. We are formed in the spiritual womb of our Mother Mary. We must pray to the Holy Spirit to change us into the image and likeness of God.

5. As we mature in our spirituality, we become more and more like God. We were created by the Father in His own image and likeness.

6. The Child Jesus grew within the womb of Mary. How graced was the womb of Mary? We say in each Hail Mary, "Hail Mary, full of grace." Within her womb, she carried the Son of God.

7. If we looked at Mary and we saw Mary carrying the Child Jesus in her womb, we would just be in awe. But Jesus comes to us in the Eucharist and we carry this presence within us. He is no less present when we receive Him in the Eucharist than He was in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

8. He says to us, "Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart," (Mt. 11:29) God came to this earth in the womb of the Virgin Mary and He remains with us this day in the Holy Eucharist. He gives Himself to us.

9. When we are in the state of grace, He remains with us in His divinity. He lives in our hearts.

10. Meditate on the Child Jesus being formed within the womb of Mary through the Holy Spirit and think of His Sacred Heart being formed within her womb.

The Visitation

1. Jesus is a Person and He is alive this day. He wants to be so close to us. He loves us so much. When we are in the state of grace, He lives in our hearts in a very special way.

2. When we are in the state of grace, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit live within our hearts.

3. Mary went to visit her cousin, Elizabeth. When she arrived, the child in Elizabeth's womb leapt for joy at the presence of Jesus within Mary's womb.

4. Should we not leap for joy when we receive Jesus in Holy Communion? He is truly present in His divinity and humanity? He is no less present than when Mary carried Him in her womb.

5. There was such intimacy between Mary and the Child Jesus for Their Hearts both beat in the body of the Virgin Mary. Jesus wants such oneness with us. He wants to be so close to us that all of our actions are performed in union with Him.

6. Carry His presence in your heart with such joy for we are never alone. The Almighty God is in us, longing and waiting for us to talk to Him.

7. Do we realize that Jesus is not far off, that Jesus is a Person, that He is with us, that He is alive, and that He is longing for our love?

8. When we go to Mass, let us meditate on the mystery of God's love for us, that He gave His only Son. He came into this world in the womb of the Virgin Mary, a human person.

9. Let us meditate on the mystery that God took on flesh.

10. We are human persons. He elevates us to such heights. Through Baptism, He allows us to share in His divine life. Let us treasure all the gifts that He gives to us. He gives us the gift of grace which is the sharing in His divine life.

The Birth of the Child Jesus in the Stable in Bethlehem

1. Joseph traveled from house to house to find a place for the Child Jesus and the Virgin Mary. There was not room for them. Jesus was born in a little stable in the town of Bethlehem.

2. This day Jesus is rejected by so many of the hearts that He loves so much. He stands at the door of our hearts and He knocks. He wants to be so close to us and so many send Him away.

3. But He waits, and waits, and waits for He wants us to be with Him forever in heaven. Some of His beloved souls ignore Him their whole lives. He still waits because He loves each soul so personally.

4. If we meditate on this mystery, we see the Child Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger surrounded by cows and sheep. This is the Son of God. He does not come adorned in gold and silver, but He comes in such poverty.

5. He comes and He is laid on wood in Bethlehem and He dies on a bare wood cross.

6. How tenderly He loves each one of us and wants us to talk to Him all through the day.

7. Many mothers abandon their children through abortion in this world today. Jesus promises us that He will never abandon us. "Can a woman forget her baby...Even if these were to forget, I shall not forget you." (Is. 49:15)

8. Let us meditate on the presence of the Almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit dwelling within our hearts at this moment. Think of God within us.

9. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit. We must talk to Him and tell Him of our love. The more we pray to the Holy Spirit, the more our hearts will burn with the love of God.

10. The gift to this world from the Father is the gift of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

The Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple

1. Jesus was taken to the temple by Mary and Joseph to be presented to the Father.

2. They brought an offering of two turtle doves. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was sacrificed on Calvary to the Father. This sacrifice is sacramentally made present at every Mass. What a great gift that the sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present at every moment all over the world. We should unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and offer this sacrifice to the Father, for this is the most powerful prayer that we can offer to our Father.

3. The Holy Spirit led the old man, Simeon, to the Temple and he took the child in his arms and he said, "Look, he is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is opposed---" (Lk. 2:34)

4. And he told Mary that, "...a sword will pierce your soul too-so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare." (Lk. 2:35)

5. Mary, from this point on, had a constant ache in her heart for she knew of the sufferings to come. She knew that many would be saved through the life of her Son.

6. It is through His Son that the Father gives us a sharing in His divine life.

7. It is through His Heart that the sacramental life of the Church is formed.

8. Jesus' Heart was pierced with a lance and what came forth was blood and water. Water is a symbol of Baptism, our sharing in His life. Blood is the symbol of the Eucharist where by we are fed.

9. We are given life and we sustain our lives here through our food. We are given a sharing in His divine life in Baptism. We are fed through His Body and Blood. We are given a greater sharing in His life in the sacraments.

10. Jesus gives us Himself in the Eucharist to feed the life in our souls.

The Finding of the Lord, Jesus, in the Temple

1. When He was twelve years old, the Child Jesus was taken up to the Temple by Mary and Joseph for the feast of the Passover.

2. When it was over, Mary and Joseph left with the caravan not realizing that Jesus had been left behind.

3. When they realized that Jesus was not with them, they returned to Jerusalem in search of Him. Their hearts were in such sorrow for they longed to find the Child Jesus.

4. After searching for Him several days, they found Jesus in the Temple. He was speaking to the doctors and answering their questions and Mary said to Him, "...'My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.'" (Lk. 2:48)

5. He told her that He had to be about His Father's business.

6. Think of the Child Jesus living as a normal little child with Joseph and Mary. Jesus is the Son of God. He humbled Himself. He walked the earth and He lived and grew as a little boy.

7. It is so powerful to pray to the little Child Jesus especially for health.

8. There is such suffering and so many illnesses in our world today, spiritual illnesses. We pray to You, little Child Jesus, to come and to heal this world with the gift of Your divine love.

9. We pray to You, little Child Jesus, to help us to feel Your tender love in our hearts and to know and love You more, to give our love to You freely, and to receive Your love in our hearts, that we may share this love with others in this world.

10. Many in this world today have lost their way. They have wandered far from their source, which is God. God controls their very breath. Let us pray with all our hearts for our brothers that have wandered from the source, which is God. Let us pray that they will receive a grace, cooperate with the grace, and return to the burning Heart of Jesus. He will bathe them in His tender love.

Let us focus on the presence of Jesus with us and realize that we are never alone. He is a Person that is waiting and longing for us to talk to Him, far more than we realize. He truly listens and cares for our every need.

During this season let us see the Child Jesus in the crib. Let us see the star above His bed. He is the Almighty God. We must stay close to Him. We realize that He is within us. He has all the power. He is with us in our struggles and trials. He is as close as our breath and our heartbeat. He wants to help us. He wants to love us and care for us. When we go to the Eucharist, let us thank Him for the great gift of Himself and outpour our love to Him, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.

 

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