August 19, 2005

                                There was a closeness to God. St. Ignatius
                            talks of the triple colloquy in the
                            spiritual exercises as given from Our Lady
                            to him.

                                In all the writings and all the experiences
                            God has given to me, there is that deep
                            intimacy with the Persons of the Trinity
                            and my ever growing oneness with Mary
                            my spiritual Mother.

                                It is not as if I know all, I am only
                            scratching the surface, growing in my oneness
                            with God, the Almighty God, the Supreme
                            Being.

                                My crosses many times are the gifts
                            that lead to great blessings, knowledge,
                            love ever deeper with God and others.

                                In the pain of the cross and His
                            bitter passion God knew the glory of the
                            resurrection.

                                Are we blind to see, why the Son
                            of God would show us the beauty of His
                            little baby body and show us how
                            battered His body was in the bitter passion
                            and death on the cross. Is there not a
                            lesson in this alone -- the Son of God
                            allows the body to be beaten, so scourged,
                            whipped, wounded, crowned unmercifully
                            with thorns in the head.

                                To me there is a lesson in this, the
                            lesson of the Savior's wounded body,
                            the lesson of the martyred saints,
                            the lesson that the body is corruptible
                            for ourselves here below.

1 Corinthians 15: 35-58

Someone may ask: How are dead people raised, and what sort of body do they have when they come? How foolish! What you sow must die before it is given new life; and what you sow is not the body that is to be, but only a bare grain, of wheat I dare say, or some other kind; it is God who gives it the sort of body that he has chosen for it, and for each kind of seed its own kind of body.

    Not all flesh is the same flesh: there is human flesh; animals have another kind of flesh, birds another and fish yet another. Then there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; the heavenly have a splendour of their own, and the earthly a different splendour. The sun has its own splendour, the moon another splendour, and the stars yet another splendour; and the stars differ among themselves in splendour. It is the same too with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable; what is sown is contemptible but what is raised is glorious; what is sown is weak, but what is raised is powerful; what is sown is a natural body, and what is raised is a spiritual body.

    If there is a natural body, there is a spiritual body too. So the first man, Adam, as scripture says, became a living soul; and the last Adam has become a life–giving spirit. But first came the natural body, not the spiritual one; that came only afterwards. The first man, being made of earth, is earthly by nature; the second man is from heaven. The earthly man is the pattern for earthly people, the heavenly man for heavenly ones. And as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so we shall bear the likeness of the heavenly one.

    What I am saying, brothers, is that mere human nature cannot inherit the kingdom of God: what is perishable cannot inherit what is imperishable. Now I am going to tell you a mystery: we are not all going to fall asleep, but we are all going to be changed, instantly, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. The trumpet is going to sound, and then the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed, because this perishable nature of ours must put on imperishability, this mortal nature must put on immortality.

And after this perishable nature has put on imperishability and this mortal nature has put on immortality, then will the words of scripture come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin comes from the Law. Thank God, then, for giving us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    So, my dear brothers, keep firm and immovable, always abounding in energy for the Lord’s work, being sure that in the Lord none of your labours is wasted.

August 19, 2005 message continues

Jesus speaks:         Oh you foolish ones, you miss the
                            lesson in the Gospel --

                                Sing:   Unless a Grain of Wheat

                                Sing:   Now We Remain

                                Sing:   I am the Bread of Life

Jesus speaks:          You miss the lessons I so sweetly
                            teach you.

                                Eve wanted to be equal to God.

                                You miss the lessons of the Bible.
                                You miss the simplicity of My Word.

                                You do not study My parables as you should
                            and references to nature, seeds, trees, water,
                            fountains of life.

                                I am schooling you in these messages.
                            I give you the thunder and the rain and
                            the dark clouds and the moon and
                            the sunlit days that you might study
                            and know more about your Creator.

                                The world is so focused on their
                            bodies, a snarly snake of the devil is
                            in so many ways that people act in
                            My churches, you miss the intimate
                            love affair I desire with My people.

                                I give you My Church as a family.
                            I am the Bridegroom, she is My bride.
                            My children are bred and fed on My love,
                            on My own flesh and blood.

Messenger:           To make your bodies a god is to
                            focus wrongly on them.

                                Jesus tells us about His body in the
                            rosary.

                                Jesus took on a little body so sweet
                            and pure and perfect.

                                He was taken to the temple
                            when He was twelve and we are
                            aware of His young body.

                                He was transfigured before the Apostles.
                                His body in brilliant light.

                                We see His body beaten, wounded, abused
                            to the point of death.

                                And then we meditate on His glorified body
                            after the resurrection, glorified wounds, beauty
                            of His body as He ascended into heaven.

                                In reading the passage in 1 Corinthians 15, we
                            can understand more because of what
                            Christ showed us because of His own body.

                                It is so very wonderful that Pope John Paul II
                            gave us the Mysteries of Light to meditate on in
                            the rosary.

                                We meditate on the miracles of the Divine
                            God.

                                God is a God of miracles.

                                Now let us think of this -- our bodies
                            like a covering, our spiritual faculties
                            within us. Do we not see how the body
                            can die (drop off) and the soul can move
                            to another place. Do we not see how our
                            knowing and loving faculties are not things
                            we touch and the love within us goes with
                            us for all eternity. Does it not make sense
                            that a heart filled with bitterness, impurity,
                            pride, anger, jealousies, serious sinfulness,
                            thievery, even murder, if unrelented,
                            would not be able to go to heaven.

                                We come on this earth as babies, no one
                            to my knowledge comes out at age twelve,
                            it is a short time to develop these ways of
                            loving God and one another. What we think,
                            what we love with, what we "will" with to
                            follow or not follow God's will is not "matter".
                            The "matter" falls to the ground corruptible
                            and the soul moves on hopefully to a
                            higher place. Mary, our spiritual Mother,
                            has told us we must pray the rosary.
                            Today there is such a focus of exercising
                            the body, taking care of the body. Should
                            we not be equally or even more concerned
                            with spiritual exercises?

                                Can we not understand how we have
                            matured in the spiritual life will help us to
                            have a greater maturity in loving for all eternity
                            and thereby having greater fullness of life
                            in God.

                                Christ cries out to us in the Blue Books
                            to grow in our relationship with Him, with
                            the Father and the Holy Spirit.

                                In advancing in the spiritual life, we are
                            preparing ourselves for a deeper relationship with
                            God for all eternity. If we are capable of
                            varying degrees of intimacy with God here
                            below, while we are on earth, why do we
                            not understand that the degrees of relating
                            with God and experiencing the fullness of
                            life for each individual soul will be varied
                            and depend on our relationship with God
                            and others in loving union here below.

                                It is truth with which I speak,
                            directed by God, that our loving capacities
                            vary. We are saturated with His life,
                            His grace, in varying degrees.

                                I had a very "hard dream" yesterday.
                            I usually do not have "hard dreams."
                            I dreamt I had a can with a snake and
                            I brought it into a house connected to a
                            church. It was not dark wood nor light
                            wood, but a wood in-between that covered
                            the whole place.

                                Jesus has made it clear to me that
                            He is the Good Shepherd, the One Who
                            lays down His life for His sheep. The
                            hired man runs away, abandons the sheep.

                                He has made it clear to me that one
                            who kills their baby in abortion selfishly,
                            for their own freedom, is just that, selfish.

                                But I have seen satan manipulate the
                            situation when others give in to feelings,
                            selfish feelings, that originated by satan
                            pressing on them through memories, jealousy,
                            anger, envy. Impurity in actions gives satan
                            a doorway to manipulate events.

                                Habitual negative thinking or actions
                            motivated by selfishness, pride, etc. can
                            be a way satan can continually attack an
                            institution.

                                Many Marian institutions have folded.
                            We are at battle, in war with the devil,
                            when we join a particular army for Christ to
                            help souls. Marian groups start out for this
                            purpose. Shepherds of Christ is for this
                            purpose. The churches now suffering with
                            mergers in which several parishes share
                            a priest, must be made aware of how
                            satan will use this situation tempting
                            people with impure intentions to ultimately
                            lead to the closing of the church.

August 19, 2005 message continues

Messenger:            When the table legs become wobbly
                            and it might fall, satan comes with
                            an army of devils tempting people in
                            selfish, jealous, angry ways.

                                Where you may be gentle with a wobbly
                            table, satan is like the pig that huffs and
                            puffs so the house falls down.

                                Now let Me tell you of this dream.
                            Since I held this container with the
                            snake and removed the lid, I knew
                            assuredly the snake was in the church
                            and the house connected. I thought it
                            would be very easy to put the snake back
                            into the container, but in a second he
                            was gone and in his secrecy I could
                            not find him. I looked and looked and
                            began to cry, "Help me find the snake!"
                            The place was full of people, some Shepherds
                            of Christ and others. I must have been
                            the music minister at that church, for
                            a priest came out to say Mass and before
                            Mass he told me he would talk to me
                            Tuesday (to fire me) and settle things
                            with me. Mass started and a jeering
                            crowd of guitarists sang music not
                            like mine, they laughed and were
                            elated I had been fired. When the Mass
                            was over I continued to cry out, "Help
                            me find the snake." I cried and cried out,
                            and as if no one heard me, no one helped
                            me. NO ONE, NO ONE HELPED ME.
                            NO ONE.

                                There was a snake in the church
                            and he was secretly hidden. One of
                            my main helpers stood high on a chair
                            trying to selfishly provoke me but would
                            not listen. By this time I was low
                            on the ground in tears. I could barely
                            verbalize the words, "There is a snake
                            in here." For I was crying so hard,
                            sobbing, low on the floor. Finally,
                            I spotted the snake in the doorway to
                            the church, no one could move in or
                            out for he was on the threshold with
                            a very large prey that had the skin of
                            another snake, checkered-like. It was
                            deflated, it was big, deflated, and looked
                            fake, but the snake held the prey and
                            no one could go in and out of the door.
                            I knew one thing about myself and I
                            have learned this in receiving messages.
                            I don't give up. The hired man runs
                            away, but the Good Shepherd lays down
                            His life for His sleep. In my dream,
                            I was on the floor in tears, I was
                            fired, the huge choir jeered and
                            delighted to see me suffer, the people
                            closest to me did not help. One had
                            raised themselves to a chair trying to selfishly
                            gain an argument, but Jesus has taught
                            me that I am not the hired man. I
                            stay to bitter end.

John 10: 1-21

‘In all truth I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a bandit. He who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out. When he has brought out all those that are his, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice. They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they do not recognise the voice of strangers.’

    Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand what he was saying to them.

    So Jesus spoke to them again:

    In all truth I tell you,
    I am the gate of the sheepfold.
    All who have come before me
    are thieves and bandits,
    but the sheep took no notice of them.    
    I am the gate.
    Anyone who enters through me
        will be safe:
    such a one will go in and out
    and will find pasture.
    The thief comes
    only to steal and kill and destroy.
    I have come
    so that they may have life
    and have it to the full.
    I am the good shepherd:
    the good shepherd lays down his life
        for his sheep.
    The hired man,
        since he is not the shepherd
    and the sheep do not belong to him,
    abandons the sheep
    as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
        and runs away,
    and then the wolf attacks
        and scatters the sheep;
    he runs away
        because he is only a hired man
    and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
    I know my own
    and my own know me,
    just as the Father knows me
    and I know the Father;
    and I lay down my life for my sheep.
    And there are other sheep I have
    that are not of this fold,
    and I must lead these too.
    They too will listen to my voice,
    and there will be only one flock,
    one shepherd.
    The Father loves me,
    because I lay down my life
    in order to take it up again.
    No one takes it from me;
    I lay it down of my own free will,
    and as I have power to lay it down,
    so I have power to take it up again;
    and this is the command
        I have received from my Father.

    These words caused a fresh division among the Jews. Many said, ‘He is possessed, he is raving; why do you listen to him?’ Others said, ‘These are not the words of a man possessed by a devil: could a devil open the eyes of the blind?’

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