Given July 8, 2016
 

John 3: 16-18

For this is how God loved the world: 
    he gave his only Son, 
    so that everyone who believes in him 
        may not perish 
    but may have eternal life. 
    For God sent his Son into the world 
    not to judge the world, 
    but so that through him 
        the world might be saved. 
    No one who believes in him 
    will be judged; 
    but whoever does not believe 
        is judged already, 
    because that person does not believe 
    in the Name of God’s only Son. 

                    From May 18, 2005 message

                           Prayer for these 17 days —

                               Dear God help me to be other focused —

                               Help me to be a source of joy.
                               Help me to thank You for the gifts
                                   You have given me.

                               Help me not to block the work
                                   you have called us to do by
                                   focusing on myself —

                               When pilgrims come, help me
                                   to have grace to spread
                                   the message You have
                                   called me to spread.

                               Dear God help me to be holy — to see
                                   I am a little link in the big
                                   chain, a single link to help
                                   lead the world into oneness
                                   and love. When I focus on
                                   myself and do not do the work
                                   of being a light and I am
                                   to talk to pilgrims I can
                                   miss an opportunity to spread
                                   your love, through the materials,
                                   prayers, letters of love, consecration,
                                   morning offering You have asked
                                    me to spread.

                               Dear God thank You for calling me to
                                   be an apostle, (handmaid, servant
                                   etc.) help me to do Your will.

                R. We ask you to pray with us for the
                priests, the Church and the world.

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                R. We are trying to send Fr. Joe's
                book cycle A to deacons. We
                are including in all our prayers
                for priests, prayers for deacons.
                Please pray with us and help
                us reach deacons with Fr. Joe's
                homily book Cycle A –

                R. Please pray for us. Please help us.
                We will soon begin the
                retreat in China, Indiana
                before the exposed Eucharist –
                Praying for the priests, the
                Church and the world –

                Please help us spread the Blue Books
                to all the people –
                to open and use to grow in
                deeper intimacy with Jesus –
                Please help us –

                Be an Apostle of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
                Praying for the priests, the
                Church and the world and
                deacons
                for 2 hours a week in
                adoration –

                Here is the message Jesus
                    gave Fr. Carter.

                R. We are working on Fr. Joe's 10 book
                of homilies –
                We are almost done –
                Will you please pray for this
                and help us.
                We are about ready to send
                    to print –

                    Fear of God, a gift of the Holy Spirit
                is a fear that we do not want
                to be separated from God.

                    We love God so much we do
                not want to offend Him and
                have separation with Him.

                    We would never want to rebel
                against God our Beloved.

                    We know our proper
                place with God. We would
                not give into the deadly
                sins because we love God so
                much and do not wish separation
                with Him due to our sins and
                offenses against God.

                    We do not give into disordered
                actions, inspirations we think
                or feel that would offend God
                and hurt our neighbor or the
                community and hurt relationship.

                    The person of holiness recognizes
                the evil in themselves and is
                immensely sorry for their sins.
                It is a gift of the Holy Spirit to see
                how awful sin is and how
                it offends God, who is all good
                and hurts others.

                    We pray to the Holy Spirit to renew
                the face of the earth.

                    We pray to the Holy Spirit to Come
                to us and fill us –

                    We pray to the Holy Spirit to move
                in us so we are as God wants
                us to be.

                    We pray for strength to
                avoid temptations. We want
                intimate unity to God and
                we cling to Him.

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                R. The gifts of the Holy Spirit help a person
                to obey the will of God – to be
                strengthened to do the will of God.

Because of that, I want to make it quite clear to you that no one who says ‘A curse on Jesus’ can be speaking in the Spirit of God, and nobody is able to say, ‘Jesus is Lord’ except in the Holy Spirit.

 

                R. We have a free will to cooperate
                with God's grace or refuse Him.

                    The incarnation goes on in us –
                We ask Jesus to be so one with us
                that we can say as St. Paul –

                R. We are to love –

                    We are to give –

                    We are to be as Christ wants
                us to be in this world – opening
                our hearts to be moved by God –
                to see as we see through the
                eyes of faith – we see through
                the Father's eyes – God's plan
                for us in this world –

                    God has a plan for us –

                    God created us to help in the
                work of eternal salvation by
                being a witness before men –
                by living a holy life, by
                being all that God wants us
                to be.

                    In baptism we receive a sharing
                in His life and God dwells in
                the graced, baptized soul –

                    We are to live – In Him –
                God dwells in the graced
                baptized soul –

                Jesus says
                    I am alive, I am alive,
                    I am alive –

                We know the devil wants to
                    come and he wants to
                    move in souls –
                    he wants to tempt men
                    to give into the deadly sins –
                    which deaden men's hearts
                    and makes them numb as
                    they can become enslaved
                    to these vices –

                We must always ask to be
                    reconciled when we sin –
                    to repair the breach in
                    relationships with God,
                    with others and with the
                    community.

                Now see what a dark place
                    it is to not be reconciled
                    by admitting the wrong we
                    have done and asking for
                    forgiveness –

                    It's like corroded and clogged
                pipes. We recently had some
                plumbing work and the fixtures
                and everything involved was
                corroded – the bolts so corroded
                they broke off and wouldn't
                move.

                    Think of vices – 40, 50 years
                of actions being prideful and
                jealous, envious and angry –
                never bending – just thinking
                of one's own world and living
                in their own self-made prison –
                for opposing God's will that we
                live in love – that we seek
                to be reconciled – that we
                tell the truth about our
                offenses rather than blaming
                and projecting our own self –
                made prison on an innocent
                other –

                    That is like old corroded
                pipes and fixtures that don't move
                and break off if somebody
                wants to fix them –

                Resistance to anyone – anger at
                any one telling them anything –
                greater and greater pride and
                darkness, envy, jealousy,
                anger – A SELF MADE PRISON

                    We have a free will – God
                commands we love God and
                love one another – God gives
                us in baptism a capability to love
                and know supernaturally,
                but we must open our hearts –
                be docile, be submissive –
                be surrendering.

                    Some times habits of stirring
                the pot are so ingrained in a
                person – they just keep wanting
                to start conflict when everyone
                is peaceful and united –

                    God calls us to love, when
                we fail to love and offend God
                and others and the community
                we must ask for forgiveness
                and repair the breach we
                have caused.

                    Life is so short. Life is
                about making relationships –
                working in relationships –
                saying we are sorry –
                carrying for others, being
                nice, men for others –
                solving conflicts in love –
                telling the truth –
                working in harmony according
                to God's will in love –

                    I looked at all the corrosion when
                pipes and things that are needed for
                plumbing are left undone –

                    Things need care – if they
                are important – they need to
                be taken care of –

                    We are here to have hearts
                like Jesus – we need to open
                our hearts and not let 50 years
                of corrosion, unforgiveness,
                unresolved conflicts, untruthfulness,
                anger – stop the heart that
                was meant for love – that
                was meant by God the Father
                to love Him and give honor
                and glory to God.

                In the beginning – God created
                us with a purpose to love –
                to go out – to be witnesses –
                to have tender hearts like Jesus
                and to continue the work
                He began in the world –

                We are pilgrims on a journey –
                Our goal is to go to heaven and
                help others to get there –
                We are to be reconciled with
                God and others and the community
                when we are mean and offend
                them –
                repair the breach –
                ask for forgiveness –
                not let the sun go down on
                    our anger –

                Not become pros blaming others
                    for our corroded pipes
                    we made ourselves with
                    very unloving and dark
                    selfish thoughts –

                God is watching us to see how
                    we love, forgive, work in
                    purity – advance in the
                    spiritual life – having
                    a heart like Jesus –
                    continuing His work here
                    below –

                Working with others in love –

                Bending the stubborn heart
                    and will –

                Melting the frozen
                    Warming the chill –

                God wants to dwell IN US
                God wants to operate IN US

                God wants us to carry on the
                    work of loving – like
                    Jesus who showed us
                    how to go out and
                    love our brothers –

                R. We can say yes –

                Mary said at Fatima

                    CONVERSION –
 

                R. TRUST and TRANSFORM
                    GUIDING LIGHT

                Living in the Light –

                If you never changed the
                    burned out bulbs
                    pretty soon there is no light –

                Even burned out bulbs need
                    to be changed –

                Corroded bolts break off
                    and don't move –

                God wants us to be open
                    and let love flow
                    in our hearts –

                God wants us to mend the
                    fence when it is
                    broken – not build
                    wall upon wall in
                    unresolved conflict with those
                    God has called us to work
                    with because of pride and
                    anger and hatred caused
                    by our own corrosion –

                The person that is transformed
                    by Jesus can do the work
                    Jesus calls him to –
                    the work Jesus calls us
                    to can glorify our heavenly
                    Father who created us.

                    We go to the Heart of Mary – she
                takes us to the Heart of Jesus and
                He takes us to our heavenly
                Father who created us –
                We live more and more
                perfected – IN HIM –
                God the Father created us
                to be lovers –
                We are as God the Father
                intended –

                The devil wants people to
                    OPPOSE what God wants.

                The devil lies and tells them they
                    need to be INDEPENDENT –
                    they need their place above
                    everybody –
                    that is pride –

                LIKE EVE in the Garden –
                    she wanted to be
                    equal to God –

                EVE disobeyed God
                EVE was out of order
                EVE didn't know her place!

                God is love –

                Let us think of this
                    infinite love – we cannot
                    even fathom –

                Let us open the doors to
                    the love of God –

                Ask God to lead us into
                    loving SUPERNATURALLY

                In baptism our knowing and
                    loving capacity is elevated –
                    We have the capacity to
                    know and love supernaturally
                    but we must go to God for this –
                    We must be led by God –
                    We must be open, surrendering,
                    asking God to come –
                    Not be hard in heart –
                    corroded like old bolts –

                God loves us so much – God
                    wants us to continue
                    in the world – with the
                    heart of Jesus – to
                    continue the work of
                    Jesus of love –

                Why would we oppose the plan of
                    the Father for us –
                    from the beginning of our life

                Sing: From the Day you Were Born
 

Through Him, With Him, In Him

 

                R. We do all we do for the honor
                    and glory of God –

                 

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, 
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12

                        23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

                            Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God 
                        our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.

   

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, 
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment

    

Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. P.60-61
 

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human nature

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

window at a former Jesuit Seminary

137. FIRST PRELUDE.   This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.

138. SECOND PRELUDE.   This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.

139. THIRD PRELUDE.   This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
   

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

140. FIRST POINT.   Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.

141. SECOND POINT.   Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.

142. THIRD POINT.   Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.

   The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
   

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

143.   In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.

144. FIRST POINT.   Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.

145. SECOND POINT.   Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .
   

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

    

                R. We have the Mass – the sacrifice
                of Calvary, sacramentally made
                present –

                    It is about God –
                        honoring God
                        praising God
                        loving God
                        being God-like –
                        glorifying God  by our
                        Christ-like actions.

                Our hearts are to rest in God –
                    in love – living in peace
                    and harmony –

                Asking to be reconciled to our
                    brothers –
                    making reparation for our
                        sins –
                    with a firm purpose of
                        amendment not sinning
                        again –

                Jesus calls us to meekness
                    of heart –

                Not combatal –

                Jesus' Heart is tender and meek
                    and loving

                Jesus gives us Himself in the
                    Eucharist so we can
                    be so one with Him –
                    so we can love as
                    Jesus loves in us –

                Eucharist means thanksgiving –
                    Giving thanks to God and
                        carrying this love out
                        to others for receiving
                        Him –

                Christ lives in us –

                We are to be CHRIST-LIKE –

                They know we are Christians
                    by our love –

                We live in the light –

                We are Christ to one another –

                We are formed more and more
                    in the image of Jesus –

                We want to be formed more
                    and more in the image
                    of Jesus by the Holy Spirit.

                God gives us a sharing in His life
                    in baptism.

                We put on Christ –

                We live the Christ-life –
                We live in love –

                Love is the habit in us!!

                Our hearts were made for love!

                Jesus has given us His Blue Books.

 

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