Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

August 20, 2015

August 21st Holy Spirit Novena
 Scripture selection is Day 1 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for August 21st are Luminous.

 

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                August 20, 2015

                    From Blue Book 16 - August 20, 1997

                R. Jesus appeared to me on
                the cross in golden light
                transfigured and
                His message was from
                God the Father
                "This is My beloved Son in
                    whom I am well pleased –
                    listen to Him"
 

                Jesus: My Movement exists to bring
                love and peace to this world.
                Love is giving one's heart – but
                to give one's heart they must seek
                to be healed of bad behavior
                patterns of the past, cycles
                in relationships learned as a
                child in a dysfunctional home
                that could have been a war zone. These
                relationships need to be studied by reflecting on
                relationships in one's present life, that may have
                caused themselves and others to suffer from
                survival behavior learned in the past,
                to deal with dysfunction.

                    Children are victims of a home
                situation where dysfunction is
                forced by parents who were
                taught by those before them how
                to relate.

                    I am love. I give the baby in
                the womb a gift to husband
                and wife and they are to bring
                up that child in love and peace,
                teaching them about how to
                relate to others in the world.
                Relationships are taught in the home
                of origin to children who are learning
                about security and peace and
                joy and happiness.

                    God the Father gives to the child -
                life and the parents have the awesome
                gift to co-create that child with
                God.

                    Many children learn fairness
                in the home, being accountable
                for their actions, responsible
                for their actions, their actions
                playing in trust with mom and
                dad and other siblings. Children
                are taught to communicate and
                work things fairly, with the
                siblings in the family. Children
                are taught to love their brothers
                and sisters, to work in union with
                them, to work in relationships
                that build community and family,
                to really know that people in this
                little circle care for them –

                    A family is to reflect the
                love of the Trinity – like olive
                plants around the table.

                    Mom and dad are the teachers. The
                dad should be a symbol before the
                children to show them how to
                relate for life-long relationships –
                Children are taught to be honest
                in their dealings with others.
                Children should be taught there
                is a moral code.

                    I have given you the holy family.
                God the Father is the perfect Father
                and Mary is your Heavenly Mother.
                A child is to learn to grow in
                relationships of love and unity
                with others in and outside the
                family. Relationships outside the
                family are important to help the
                person in future life. A man is
                to model his life after My life –
                A man and woman are to teach
                the child they are a child of God
                and that God loves them because
                He loved them into existence.
                Relationships are why you are
                here –

                To grow in your relationship with
                God for all eternity – to grow
                in your relationship with others
                and relationship with oneself –
                to be truthful about yourself –
                to love yourself as a child of God –
                to know you can bring people
                into your inner circle of
                relationships and be trustworthy
                yourself and be able to trust
                others, work with others for
                greater unity –
     

Mark 10: 2-12

Some Pharisees approached him and asked, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?' They were putting him to the test. He answered them, 'What did Moses command you?' They replied, 'Moses allowed us to draw up a writ of dismissal in cases of divorce.' Then Jesus said to them, 'It was because you were so hard hearted that he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female. This is why a man leaves his father and mother, and the two become one flesh. They are no longer two, therefore, but one flesh. So then, what God has united, human beings must not divide.' Back in the house the disciples questioned him again about this, and he said to them, 'Whoever divorces his wife and marries another is guilty of adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another she is guilty of adultery too.'

   

                Jesus: A person who lived in a battle ground
                where they could not trust people
                in the family, where dad or mom
                demanded perfection and hurt the
                child needing to learn trust and
                acceptance and love – can live
                a hurtful life with self and others
                until they look at what they were
                taught in their homes that
                was a rule, but not the right
                rule to help the person grow
                in acceptance and love of themselves,
                and others and of God. Also
                in the individual person is a
                disposition of that individual that
                must be developed in a way
                of fruitfulness and love as a
                servant of God, as one who works
                in their uniqueness to grow and
                be disciplined to do the work God
                wants them to do in the building
                of the Kingdom of God – to have
                gratitude for what others and God
                have done for them is justice.

                    The virtue of faith, hope and
                love are implanted in the soul
                in baptism. Faith helps the person
                see through the eyes of God the
                plan of the Heavenly Father – to
                live in relationships according
                to the Heavenly Father's will –
                to be able to have unity with
                God: Father, Son and Holy
                Spirit and unity and love
                and peace with other men, while
                developing more and more in the image
                of God in one-self.

                    You were created to love and to
                learn to love others living the
                Commandments you were given
                from God.

                    I am the way, the truth and
                the life – to bear false witness,
                to lie about things as a habit –
                to tell others what you want them
                to think to make an impression
                you feel like making – even though
                it is false will have consequences,
                besides driving yourself from
                unity with God, others and self.

                    A person is responsible and
                accountable for their actions before
                God. You were commanded in the
                Greatest Commandment – to love
                your God with your whole heart,
                your whole soul and your whole
                being and love your neighbor
                as yourself. Love is a theological
                virtue and a man must pray for
                the grace to love. The more one loves
                likened to Me – the more he grows
                in happiness. You were created to love –
                to learn to give in love – to live
                your whole life giving and receiving
                in love with members in your
                family and outside your family.

                    I am love, to be in the image
                and likeness of God you must
                love. You were created for loving
                relationships. Because a person
                may have grown up with untrustworthy
                persons, they have a life-time
                to work on learning how to love –
                to have relationships where you
                trust others and learn to trust
                God deeply and live your life
                in hope, accountable for your
                actions because you want
                to go to heaven for all eternity
                and that depends on loving and
                obeying God – living in loving
                relationships – learning to give
                and receive love from God –
                from others and love of self.

                    Healing takes time – when one
                has suffered trauma – the very
                thing they can refuse to admit
                about relationships where they
                closed down - needs to be looked at.

                    A person can live in denial from
                that place of trauma and shut-down
                and never live, their life can
                become a nightmare while they
                try to live a life with a closed-down
                heart.

                    The heart pumps life to the body.
                The heart and soul of the man, the
                interior life of the man is to
                be active, pure, more and more,
                the heart of the man, pumping
                love in the world – witnessing
                to the love they have for God –

                Jesus: God loves you, My child. I give
                the Blue Books as the Mighty Medicine
                to teach you that you are to love –
                You are to be open to receiving love
                from those trustworthy people in
                your lives – and you are to give
                love – Your life here and
                for eternity depends on this –

                    My Blue Books are to teach
                about love and sacrifice
                giving and receiving love.

 

   

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances. Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth. It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.

Love never comes to an end.

   

                Jesus: God is love
                I give you Myself in the Mass –
                I give you My Body and My Blood.
                I am love –

 

Excerpt from Blue Book 15 - June 1, 1997 Rosary, p. 205-206

R. And He says that the blood represented the blood He shed to give them life. But the blind just saw ordinary blood and were scared to death. It is so hard for me to even get the prayer manuals into a church. It is just an unbelievable feat to even try to start a little prayer group in which we are praying to consecrate our hearts to Jesus and Mary. This is what Jesus wants. Jesus wants us to pray these prayers and to spread this to the far corners of the earth. But I did not realize the power of these prayers or how important they were to Jesus and Mary, until He gave the message on Bloody Friday that said, that He would give special grace when we pray at the hours of 3, 6, 9 and 12 is the most important. And when we pray that He will dress us in His Precious Blood and the more that we suffer then we will be waiting for 3 o’clock to come to pray the Divine Mercy, and to pray these prayers, because we will realize the power of the prayers and how important they are. And then we will be motivated to spread this to the far corners of the earth. Jesus told us in many messages how important the prayers were, how important the Priestly Newsletter is, we pray every hour. But in your heart where else can you go? Does it matter if there’s 2 or 500 people in that Church where Jesus is exposed? That’s where my heart is. That’s where I want to be. If we are tied at the pillar or if we are feeling an immense joy, our heart is with Jesus, whatever it is, it is the will of God that we want because we want God.

 

p. 109

R. We see this, Our Mother, Our Lady of Grace, in statues and pictures in which the grace is symbolized by the rays coming forth from her hands.

end of excerpts

     

                Jesus: You are to grow in the Christian life
                as response to God's love given to you –
                You are to participate in My life of love –
                Your knowing and loving capacity is
                elevated in baptism. You are to know
                life in the Holy Spirit and know Mary's
                life in your life as your Heavenly
                Mother – you are brothers and
                sisters in My family.

                    I want relationships of love
                in My Movement – dwelling in
                Our Hearts of love – growing in
                greater purity in Our Two Hearts.

                    You are to seek full Christian
                maturity in the spiritual life – this
                is a life of living your vocation
                in love with God and others and
                with oneself – living in truth –
                trusting – receiving love and
                giving love –

                My Peace I give you

Luke 24: 5-6

...But the two said to them, ‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive? He is not here; he has risen...

 

                Jesus: I am Risen, I died a brutal death
                for you – Come out of your tombs –
                A man can live his whole life on
                a Merry-Go-Round called Denial –
                making himself his god – trusting
                no one and so afraid to lose control
                he never lets go or learns to live
                in love –

                Why are you looking for the living
                    among the dead –
                    I have risen –
                    You live the paschal mystery of
                        death/resurrection.

                Mary appeared at Fatima and she
                    called for conversion and
                    reparation –
                    I give you My Body and Blood!

                I died and I rose –
                My body was glorified –
                I feed you with Myself –
                I am a God of structure –

                    I operate in order
                    Satan wants disorder –
                    Forcing disorder brings darkness
                        and suffering, a man
                        lives in a tomb - shut down –
                        closed-in, stiff-necked

                    A man closed-in, wants control,
                        he is not living –
                        his biggest fear that shut
                        him down must be healed.

                Look at the consequences of being
                    witnesses of a community
                    of love - the attraction – attracts
                    people –
 

January 5, 1997

Jesus:  Open yourself, Oh Jerusalem, your time is come you will be a light to the people in darkness, many will walk whence you come and the earth will be shakened and the light will come across a dark sky and enlighten their minds.

Oh stiff-necked people, you are so stiff in your ways, let the spirit envelope you and lead you on your way.

A country of stiffs, a people of planning and prodding, of deliberating and wondering—you lack faith, Jerusalem, you lack faith in God.

Oh walk naked into the cold night, you are cold in your hearts and naked in your clothing—I cloth you with glory, I light your face with light, but you turn your cheeks to the darkness and stay stiff-necked in your hearts. Oh cold and dark hearts, reach for the light that you may know the glory that awaits the sinners and enlightens their minds.

end of excerpt

 

                Jesus: Your journey here is to live the
                resurrected life. You are accountable
                for your actions. You are to learn
                to live under authority in order –
                be disciplined – give and receive
                love from the heart –

                I am to be worshipped – that means the
                    spirit fills you in giving love
                    together in community prayer –
                    You are praying to God – not
                    selfish and thinking of yourself –

                Prayer is the lifting of one's heart to God –

                Don't hang onto the past –

                R. God has called us to live as He
                    wants us today –
                    growing in the light –
                    children grow and get older
                    old men can settle in and
                        get stiff-necked –

                Jesus has Risen –

   

           From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

"What I say to you in the dark, tell in the day-
light; what you hear in whispers, proclaim
from the housetops." (Matthew 10:27)
  

Jesus Has Come to Give Us Life

Jesus: "This is the day celebrating My Resurrection (Easter). The day of newness of life. I am Lord and Master. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Tell My people to come to Me if they wish to experience life in abundance. I want to give all an ever greater share in the life of My Resurrection. Without Me you cannot be happy, nor have peace, nor have real joy. Tell My people to surrender to Me more and more. The more they do so, the more they will experience My love, wisdom, power, peace, joy, happiness, mercy, and goodness. Within My Heart My people will find these riches. I am Lord and Master! Please listen to My words."

Reflection: Through His life, death, and resurrection, Jesus has come to give us life, and to give us this life in abundance.

When we were baptized, we were incorporated into Christ and His Church. When we were baptized, we received the life of sanctifying grace. This life is a created sharing in the life of the Trinity. Truly, we are called to live a God-like existence according to the teaching and example of Jesus! It is our duty and our privilege to develop our life of grace—our Christ-life—through our participation in the Mass, through the reception of the sacraments, through prayer, and through all other good works. Indeed, we are called to love God and neighbor more and more.

What a glorious life has been given to us! In a spirit of thanksgiving, and together with Mary our Mother, let us always strive to know Christ more intimately, to love Him more ardently, and to follow Him more closely, so that He will always bring us to a closer union with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit.  end of excerpt

 

                R. We are to see Christ in our
                    neighbor – not look on
                    others as enemies –
                    Pray for unity

                Do we recognize Jesus in our
                    brother starving to death –
 

Luke 24: 30-32

Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?’ 

   

                R. Recognizing the Risen Lord means
                    we don't live in the
                    deadly sins of pride, anger,
                    jealousy, envy

                We live in faith – seeing through
                    the eyes of God, believing –
                    We live in hope – We are on a
                    journey like Jesus after He rose
                    showed us –

                The road to Emmaus

                    We live the life of resurrection –

                We live in Him –

                Our hearts are burning in us –

                We don't seek with negative
                    behavior patterns to force
                    our dead-weight on others.

                God is alive

                Jesus says:

                    I'm alive, I'm alive,
                        I'm alive –

                R. How are we with strangers?

                Are we open –

                Look at Emmaus – they offered
                    to eat with Jesus –

                Eating is a big thing to Jesus –

                It is sharing together
                It is loving –
                It is "wasting time" with God and
                    others –

                We are here to be converted, to
                    be like Christ –

                Dear God teach me to put aside
                    narrow behavior patterns –
                    negative ways –

                Jesus: People can seek control with
                    passive-aggressive ways –
                    not be accountable for their
                    actions –
                    taking responsibility for the
                        damage they have done
                        in the journey of others
                    and attacking passively –
                        aggressively saying –
                        I will hold out what they
                        need to force them to do
                        whatever I want –

                Some people make havoc
                    so they cause the disorder –
                    they refuse to obey under
                    authority – this causes disorder –

                People who were abused can seek
                    so much control they won't
                    stop it – so they will never
                    be held down again –
                    the fear of being held down makes
                        them "crazy" about never
                        being under –
                        always controlling at any
                        cost –

                    they can hold-out needed materials
                        to punish and force
                        their dysfunction in
                        disorder and abuse on others –
                        Disorder in structure brings
                            chaos and utter pandemonium –
                            nobody wants to go
                            there

                        FRIGID

                Not loving

                They use Power - Plays

                They want Drama

                They want others to act in their
                    acting-out dysfunction
                    that is unhealed –

                They are victims forcing others
                    into their broken lives –

                A man invites a person into
                    their boxing ring by
                    withholding what they need –
                    then when they go in because
                    they need what the other holds
                    back – they have them in their
                    poisonous web of dysfunction –

                I am the way, the truth and
                    the life –

                There are consequences for sin
                    and hatefulness –
                    besides the person adds to
                        the pot of darkness
                        in the world - negativity –
                        where they could have
                        added love and peace,
                        light and joy and
                        let the Holy Spirit work in
                        their hearts - instead
                        of the darkness of sin –

                I command you to love
                    God, others and yourself –

                These unloving traps are
                    against God – who is
                    love and given so much
                    to you –

                Jesus: I have risen –
                        Abide in Me –
                        I give you a Banquet of love!

   

Luke 24: 36-47

Jesus appears to the apostles

They were still talking about all this when he himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you!’ In a state of alarm and fright, they thought they were seeing a ghost. But he said, ‘Why are you so agitated, and why are these doubts stirring in your hearts? See by my hands and my feet that it is I myself. Touch me and see for yourselves; a ghost has no flesh and bones as you can see I have.’ And as he said this he showed them his hands and his feet. Their joy was so great that they still could not believe it, as they were dumbfounded; so he said to them, ‘Have you anything here to eat?’ And they offered him a piece of grilled fish, which he took and ate before their eyes.

Last instructions to the apostles

Then he told them, ‘This is what I meant when I said, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets and in the Psalms, was destined to be fulfilled.’ He then opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘So it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that, in his name, repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

 

                 Jesus: Let the Good News live in
                    your life. Satan drags
                    some down with their
                    darkness and they try to force
                    others into their dysfunctional,
                    unloving ways –

                I am love –

                R. Spread the Good News
                    Jesus has Risen

                Jesus: I am the way, the truth
                    and the life –

                Spread My Good News to the
                    world
                    Pray for faith, hope and love

                Have faith -

                Act in love – I am love!

                I have risen

                My Mystical Body is suffering

                Hear the cries –

                They need My Blue Books

                Sing: My Lord and My God

 

John 21: 3-13

Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fishing.’ They replied, ‘We’ll come with you.’ They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night. When it was already light, there stood Jesus on the shore, though the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus called out, ‘Haven’t you caught anything, friends?’ And when they answered, ‘No,’ he said, ‘Throw the net out to starboard and you’ll find something.’ So they threw the net out and could not haul it in because of the quantity of fish.  The disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord.’ At these words, ‘It is the Lord,’ Simon Peter tied his outer garment round him (for he had nothing on) and jumped into the water. The other disciples came on in the boat, towing the net with the fish; they were only about a hundred yards from land. As soon as they came ashore they saw that there was some bread there and a charcoal fire with fish cooking on it. Jesus said, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught.’ Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore, full of big fish, one hundred and fifty-three of them; and in spite of there being so many the net was not broken. Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples was bold enough to ask, ‘Who are you?’. They knew quite well it was the Lord. Jesus then stepped forward, took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish.

  

                Jesus: I have risen!

                    I am alive!

                    Do you recognize Me?

                R. Jesus makes them fish –

                Jesus gives us a feast today –
                    He gives us His body and
                        blood to eat –

                Sing: I Am the Bread of Life

                Jesus: I have Risen

                    I am alive

                    Do you believe?

                R. Jesus ascended into heaven.


 

 

Luke 24: 50-53 

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. They worshipped him and then went back to Jerusalem full of joy; and they were continually in the Temple praising God.

 

 



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Holy Spirit Novena

Daily Novena Prayers

Opening Prayer

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit. We come to You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in the perfect, sinless heart of Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting ourselves to her holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory.

Prayer for Holy Spirit

We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.

Protection by the Blood of Jesus

We pray that the Blood of Jesus will be spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement, that we will be able to move steadfastly ahead and be protected from the evil one.

Healing

We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.

Prayer for Strength and Light

We adore You, oh Holy Spirit. Give us strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light and grace, we want to only do the will of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always in the Father's will.

Eternal Spirit fill us with Your Divine Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your Divine Mysteries.

Give us lights, Oh Holy Spirit that we may know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of the Virgin Mary, to form us more and more into the image of Jesus.

Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit

We long for You, Oh Spirit of Light, we long to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God. We want to be one with the Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We want to know the beloved One, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want to be one with You, Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.

Prayer to Be One in Jesus

Let us experience life in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...." Let us live, united to the Mass, all through the day being one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this elevated state of oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You, we love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and thank You, our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

We seek to be one in God, to live and dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on earth, to experience life in the all perfect, pure, sinless heart of our Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to be united to Jesus as the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered to the Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world to help in the salvation of souls.

Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts

Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.

Leader: Send forth Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All:  And You will renew the face of the earth.

We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.

Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.

Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts

We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.

Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit

Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God.

Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs for us.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is wrong.

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

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Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.F

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

   

                Sing: I Am the Bread of Life

                Jesus: I have all the power –

                    I am God Almighty –

                R. Remember the discussion of Jesus
                    when He was on trial about
                    Power –

                Men trying to use Power over Jesus are
                    out of order and
                    this is disorder –
                    no light – consequences
                    God has all the power

                Jesus: I am the way, the truth and the life –

                    I have risen

                R. Mary lived in absolute
                    obedience to the Father's
                    will –

                She loved the will of the Father

                Mary had complete courage
                Mary had complete obedience

                The way to conquer the earth
                    is with love

                God is love

                What is happening when an organization
                    spreads by the sword?

                Jesus means Savior
                Jesus is the Savior of the world –
                Jesus is God with us
                Jesus saves us from our
                    sins

                A man who tries to save men
                    by himself is off!

                Jesus saves us from
                    what happened in
                    the Garden –

                Mary said at Fatima, Fr. Carter said, until
                a sufficient number of people consecrate
                their hearts to Jesus and Mary we won't
                have peace in the world.

                Mary said Bishops need to consecrate
                    their dioceses to the Sacred Heart
                    and Immaculate Heart.

                When we are one in the Sacred Heart and
                    Immaculate Heart there will be more
                    people living according to the Father's
                    will in love.
                    UNITY

                Members of the mystical body of Christ
                    united to the Mass, so deeply
                    one in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

                The Church is the greatest,
                    one body in Him, with
                    Christ the Head, One
                    in the Mass, the Mass
                    is the sacrifice of Calvary
                    sacramentally made present.

                We pray 24 hours a day from
                    our Church in China,
                    Indiana for the priests, the
                    Church and the world.
  


 

                R. Please help us spread the
                    prayer chapters.

                God makes the rules

                Man seeks independence
                    from God –

                Man tries to turn right to wrong and
                    wrong to right –

                Man the more he gives into the
                    deadly sins of pride,
                    anger, jealousy, slothfulness,
                    lust, gluttony, envy –
                    has a distorted vision of
                    God, others and oneself.

                Faith helps us see through
                    the vision of God!

                God wants harmony, not fighting
                    challenging, combat,
                    division –

                This Movement exists for the
                    love of the Two Hearts –

                The devil wants man to seek
                    independence of God.
 

Acts 1: 8

but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'

 

                R. What could be better than
                    God who walks with us.

                God came to show us how
                    to have life –

                Jesus took flesh!
   

1 Corinthians 2: 12

Now, the Spirit we have received is not the spirit of the world but God’s own Spirit, so that we may understand the lavish gifts God has given us.

 

                R. Timothy is warned about false
                    teachers who have pride,
                    quarreling, greedy, envious

                Timothy is to be faithful – to hold onto
                    sound doctrine

                We as leaders are to match with
                    our lives these writings or we
                    are hypocrites!

                A sick man loves controversies –
                    Saint Paul says
                    from this comes
                    envy, slander, evil
                    suspicions, twisted minds,
                    we need the truth

                God is love –

                Jesus is the way, the truth and the life –

                Jesus had enemies –

                People who wanted power over
                    Jesus – people who wanted
                    to hurt Jesus because they
                    were afraid of losing power –

                Jesus told us we would be hated for
                    His name sake

                Some of our greatest enemies
                    can be those in our
                    own household –

Matthew 10: 34-36

'Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword. For I have come to set son against father, daughter against mother, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law; a person's enemies will be the members of his own household.

 

                R. Judas was the keeper of the money –
                Judas was secretive behind
                    Christ's back

                Judas thought he knew
                    more than Jesus (pride)
                    (greed) (seeking dominance
                    for the sake of dominance)

                Judas betrayed Jesus

                How can we call ourselves holy –
                    when we smile to those
                    outside our family –
                    and hate those God has called
                    us to live and work with.
 

                Peter was corrected but he
                    was humble of heart –
                    Peter was the first pope –
                    chosen by Jesus

Matthew 16: 13-19


Peter's profession of faith; his pre-eminence

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, 'Who do people say the Son of man is? And they said, 'Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.' 'But you,' he said, 'who do you say I am?' Then Simon Peter spoke up and said, 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.' Jesus replied, 'Simon son of Jonah, you are a blessed man! Because it was no human agency that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my community. And the gates of the underworld can never overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven: whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.'

 

                R. God has a way of getting our
                    attention –
                    He wants us in heaven –

                Jesus – perfect goodness

                    Did you ever have a dream, trying to get into a building and
                the door won't open, the lock is stuck and an attacker
                is coming. Then you can wake up and know it was
                a dream – or you can try to lock a door from within
                while an attacker is coming – again and you are trying
                to scream to get help and then wake up to find you
                couldn't scream because you were sleeping –

                    Every once in a while I would have these dreams
                from the back door at my childhood house. The summer
                kitchen in the back of the house was all glass and sort
                of out of the way, so I guess I thought if an intruder
                came that is how he would try to get in.

                    There are all kinds of fear. A person can reflect
                back to old wounds and when something is similar
                go into a stupor and have a reaction, not even realizing
                it, from the past wounds that were threatening from the
                past and act paralyzed in a situation in the present.
                Fear of something can cause someone to flee and the
                problem they are running from can be in their own
                imagination of an upcoming danger – with no truth
                at all –

                    A man can just excuse himself from what he
                is responsible for by telling himself why he should
                leave and go home to be safe.

                    God calls us to do His will. We can make an excuse
                for ourselves why we don't do what God wants us to do
                and don't do it. When we do this, we are acting against God's will –               
                laziness to do work, God is calling us to do, is slothfulness.

                    When a man thinks more of his image before others
                than what God wants, he can tell himself its
                okay to focus on how he looks before others and
                justify not doing his responsibility as a leader –
                or position he holds –

                When God tells us what to do – He has the Plan – when
                men come they fit into that plan –
                A man like a jack in the box comes and doesn't
                fit in at all – he has his agenda and he wants his
                way –

                In a family, in a community, at work, in Church,
                in a parish –
                nobody can just jump in and out and hold a
                position of authority and title without shirking
                their responsibility before God –

                The devil masks a man's actions when he can
                    let days, turn into years, turn into a 20 year
                    period where they operate according to their
                    plan and expect people to just give them the
                    rope of freedom –

                Jesus: Here is how it is, I am not the fool, your days are
                    God's days when you carry a title and keep everything
                    on your schedule – you interfere with souls –
                    My work here is not a jack-in-the-box way you
                    perform –

                You wear the title before God –

                Your example before men causes confusion as you present
                    a lie before them –
                    deception is not of Me –

                No guile or lie is in God

                Wake up before you run amuck –

                The fool - fools himself in the end –

                R. In World War II 66,000,000 people were lost –

                Joseph shows us how he was
                    obedient to God's Plan –
                    He didn't have his own agenda –
                    He wasn't willful

                A man can be so focused on himself
                    he doesn't see

                Me - Me - Me godless approach

                A city divided against itself
                    will not stand

                Abraham obeyed God
                Abraham shows us faith –

                Jesus blessed Abraham's faith
                    and obedience

                When you obey – God gives grace to
                    endure one's vocation

                Jesus died on the cross
                    obeying His Father

                Because Abraham obeyed
                    he promised he would
                    make a great nation –

                We can't cross God –

                Abraham went as the Lord
                    directed

                Abraham wanted to please God –

                Abraham was blessed because
                    of his faithfulness

                God created the world out of
                    nothing –

                God never abandons us

                Jesus took flesh
                Jesus became a man for us –
                Jesus gives us the Eucharist

                Abraham was blessed

                Lot was worldly

                We are preparing for our
                    heavenly reward –
                    We see God preparing His people
                    in the Old Testament for the
                    coming of the Messiah –

                Preparation is a big part of
                    our life –

                Preparing - going to school.

                With the sin of Adam and Eve
                    there was a loss of
                    Personal Responsibility.

                Blame entered the world –

                Grace moves us to God –

                The deadly sins – pride, anger,
                    jealousy, envy, slothfulness,
                    lust, gluttony
                    moves us away from God

                Sin upsets the order of the
                    world –

                Death entered the world

                Disorder

                Work, Suffering because of Adam and
                    Eve's sin

                Christ came and gave Himself –

                New Adam

                Love is Giving

                Jesus worked miracles
                Jesus cured the sick
                Jesus taught us love –

                Christ is our Savior

                Song: A Song from Jesus

                R. Mary is our spiritual Mother
    

                R. God has a plan for us –

                God intends us to grow in
                    the spiritual life –

                Mary is model for the poor
                    banished children of Eve
   

Luke 1: 46-55

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.

 

                Sing: Holy Is His Name

                R. I am strengthened by my knowledge
                    of God –

                I am filled with joy because
                    this is reality

                Dear God, I thank You for
                    Your gifts to me –

                I praise You God, day long,
                    my soul is filled by Thee.                       

               

 

 

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