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August 22, 2002 - Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Spirit Novena Scripture selection is Day 7 Period II. |
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August 22, 2002
Messenger:
The Eucharist is such a gift to me. I want
to be with Him so deeply in this presence, my
heart burns to be given this great gift from
God. My life is His.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Oh God I treasure Your gift to me. I treasure
the Eucharist and I do not want the presence I feel
to ever end.
I long for completeness with God in
heaven, to be possessed by Him, to be
so united to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger: Oh my God You are so good
to us and Your
presence with me now burns so deeply
in my heart.
Heaven is real, the gift God gives
us in the Eucharist is real.
1 Corinthians 15: 54-57
A hymn of triumph. Conclusion
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.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
This is what I long for, for this deep union
with my Divine God.
I know Him in my heart, I know His
presence and to write about this -- words
do not exist.
Our priests are so precious to us.
The Mass is the center of my life.
I do all I do for His honor and glory to
praise Him and love Him and be
more deeply united to Him.
Oh my eyes are always on Thee, always
on the reward, promised to those who
love and serve God, Father, Son and Holy
Spirit.
Oh within the walls of His most Sacred
Burning Heart lie our refuge.
How to describe it?
Words do not exist for this most glorious
state of being so deeply united
to God.
Oh and the reality of this is awesome.
God is real.
The Father is so real to me and I love Him.
Jesus, the Son of God is so real and
I love God so very much.
The Holy Spirit is real to me, Oh
Holy Spirit fill my heart with
the fire of God's love.
So many holy priests and holy people
have passed on and now enjoy the
benefits of the heavenly reward.
Excerpt from Priestly
Newsletter 1998 Issue 4
Shortly before he was to die from cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.
"But we know that spring will soon come with all its new life and wonder.
"It is quite clear that I will not be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a different way...
"What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found--God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."33. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Fr. Carter worked so hard for souls
and to spread the devotion to the
Sacred Heart. Now I can see him,
as I did in that vision December 18, 2000 3:00AM
clothed in white, this was the day he died at 7:10PM.
Excerpt from July 21, 2001 message
Messenger: I saw Father Carter dressed in white
and I saw
how much I have to struggle here below
doing God's work and I wanted
Fr. Carter to be in heaven.
tend of excerp
August 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger: Oh God I love Thee so much.
Oh God I adore Thee and I
give you myself.
Oh God pardon us,
Oh God have mercy on us.
May 16, 1998
My Father,
With my whole heart I desire to consecrate the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole being for the salvation of souls and that man live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that we may be one in You and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede to You for this cause.
It is this burning desire within my soul to spread the consecration to the far ends of the earth, that the cries of Your children are cries of glory and honor and adoration, praising God as their God.
My Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the edge of death. For all eternity they will go to a place. It is not the plot of this soul as it trods this barren land to decide on the edge of death. You created us that we would grow in our oneness with God, that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness to God.
And so My Father, I pray with every cell in my body for this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I consecrate all the souls of this earth to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of the Mass with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory.
I beg You Father for mercy.
I beg You Father for assistance.
I beg You Father to help us to spread this consecration to the far ends of the earth.Please help us. We are helpless little ones coming in the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our wounds and our sins.
Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite in this sacrifice, sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world at every moment. Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of men.
Please my Father, help us. Held in the heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of Eve to beg for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by the means of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us whole, that we are one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit united with all the angels and saints, in the heart of Mary. We beg for help for special intentions concerning the Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to give these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help us Father to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be one in You that we act as intercessors to help this world to be turned to God as their God, loving, honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is truly present on His throne.
We are Your children Father, we implore You to answer our prayer.
We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank you and we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name. Alleluia
end of prayer to the Father
August 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Today is the Feast of the Queenship of
the Blessed Virgin
"The queen stands at your right
hand arrayed in gold." (Psalm 45:10)
(From GIA Publications, Inc., Sunday's Word Year
A)
Luke 1: 46-55
The Magnificat
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.
Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6, 10Then the sanctuary of God in heaven opened, and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake and violent hail.
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.
Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, 'Salvation and power and empire forever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ,...'
1 Corinthians 15: 20-27
In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first–fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first–fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him.
Genesis 3: 9-15, 20
But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden,’ he replied. ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked. ‘Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘Why did you do that?’ The woman replied, ‘The snake tempted me and I ate.’
Then Yahweh God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this,
Accursed be you of
all animals wild and tame!
On your belly you will go
and on dust you will feed
as long as you live.
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head
and you will strike its heel.’The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live.
The Queen stands at your right hand
arrayed in gold (Psalm 45:10)(From GIA Publications, Inc., Sunday's Word Year A)
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Hosea 6: 3-6 Let us know, He will come to us like a
shower, What am I to
do with you, Ephraim? |
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Message from Mary
on the way to Sidney
Excerpt from August 20, 2002 message
Mary speaks:
"Oh America
Land
of Plenty,
I
appear to tell you to pray.
Oh
America,
you
have so many riches,
but
you will not help me.
Oh
in the dark night
do
you see the candles shining bright,
it
is a candle that tells the world,
the
love of Jesus is alive in the
hearts
of those who pray and answer
my
call.
Oh
hear me, giant coastlands,
the
waves flow in and out
heralding
a light
to
those in darkness.
A
light house shines to a darkened
world.
It
is the light coming
from
the Sacred Heart
of
my Son Jesus. He calls
His
people to come under
His
rule. He is their King.
He
calls them beneath
His
throne and
I
stand the Queen
before
her children
a
Queen of Peace to
a
darkened world
in
pain and suffering."
end of excerpt from August 20, 2002 message
August 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks:
Oh giant coastlands
Mighty and loving is your God.
I mount my throne and
my children come beneath my feet.
I am the queen.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks: I am
your mother and
I
love you so.
from Tell My People
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how often I have embraced you! How often I have told you how much I love you! How often, at your request, I have held you in my arms as my child. You have told me you realize how helpless you are of yourself, but how strong and secure you feel dwelling in my heart and Jesus' Heart. Your sense of your littleness and helplessness endears you to me all the more. I take you ever more securely to my maternal and Immaculate Heart. Tell all my people of the riches you have found within my heart. Tell them how I place you within my Son's Heart. Tell them that, because of my motherly action, you are now more closely united with Jesus than ever before. Tell my people to come to my heart and draw forth similar riches. Tell all my little ones that Jesus, Who is Lord and Master, bids me to lead all to His Sacred Heart. The more my little ones dwell within my Immaculate Heart, the more I place them within Jesus' Heart. Oh, how I love all my little ones! How I love to bring them to the Heart of Jesus!"
Reflection: Again, let us remind ourselves that we live in the Age of the Two Hearts. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are inseparable. The more we dwell in Mary's heart, the more she places us within Jesus' Heart. Within these Two Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions us more and more in the likeness of Christ, and the more we become like Christ, the more closely He unites us to the Father.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
August 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks again:
Oh giant
coastlands
Mighty and loving is your God.
I come, I appear in Clearwater, Florida
to take you to the Heart of my Son Jesus.
Oh my children, that you would love
Him. He is the Divine God
and He loves you so very
much.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks:
Oh my children, many of my little ones
cry in pain and the older ones
suffer too.
Oh my children will you not pray for
them. Oh many are starving physically.
Oh my children many are starving
spiritually, oh my children
beg your God for mercy and
forgiveness.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks: I
stand as the queen before my children
and they come to me and
I take them to the Sacred Heart
of my Son Jesus.
Oh giant coastlands,
oh children of Mary,
I am your Mother,
Why do you not recognize me
or hear my call when I call
you to come to my bosom
that I could caress you and
take you to Jesus?
Jesus has a Heart filled with
Divine Love to give you.
Jesus gives you Himself in the
Eucharist.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks:
Oh children, I call to you,
I love you so much, I want
you to be with Him forever
in heaven.
Oh my little babies, please
hear me.
I am Mary your Mother and
today on this special Feast of
my Queenship, I call my children
to come to me.
I long to hold you next to my breast
and feed you my milk.
Oh my babies, my Son Jesus waits
for your love. Oh my children
He loves you so much.
Oh my children I am Mary, your spiritual mother,
mother of the human race.
John 19: 25-27
Jesus and his mother
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his
mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his
mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his
mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This
is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
from Tell My People
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to come to My Mother. From the cross, as I was suffering indescribable agony, I gave Mary as spiritual Mother to the world. My great love for My people prompted Me to do this. I am Lord and Master, and I want My people to come to My Mother and their Mother. If you wish to be close to Me, come to Mary. Consecrate yourselves to her. In this way you will grow into the closest union with Me. Through her Immaculate Heart, you will be drawn more and more into My own Heart. It is My desire that you allow My Mother to place you within My Heart which loves you with an unfathomable love! This is My wish--that you come to Me enfolded by Mary's mantle, cradled in her arms, pressed against her Heart."
Reflection: It is God's will that we approach Jesus in union with Mary. Enough said!
End of Tell My People
August 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks: I am the new Eve ---
come to me.
I will crush the head of the
serpent with my heel.
I appear in my image site in
Florida.
August 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks: I appear to lead you to my Son Jesus.
Oh my children, hear me.
Oh my children, I love you so much.
Oh my children, I am Mary your
spiritual mother.
from Tell My People
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I have given you a special experience of what it means to be loved by Me. I have drawn you, through Mary, deeply within My Heart. There you experience a deep peace, joy, and security--all this results from your realizing how much I love you! Tell My people about My great love! Tell them I desire that they come to My Heart. There they will experience the wonders that only My Heart can give. I am Lord and Master. I desire that all listen to My words."
Reflection: We know what a glowing feeling it is to realize that we are loved by a human person--by a friend or by a spouse, for example. Jesus loves us much, much more than any such person can possibly love us! Why don't we, then, allow ourselves constantly to be immersed in the joy which results from realizing how much Jesus loves us?
end of Tell My People
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.
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.
from Tell My People
Jesus: "My beloved priest companion, I and My Mother have given you a consuming desire to spread devotion to Our Hearts. Tell My people about the great riches contained in My Sacred Heart and Mary's Immaculate Heart! Tell My people that they live in the age of the Two Hearts. What I and My Mother said at Fatima has been gradually unfolding. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to Our Hearts. The triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart, foretold at Fatima, is soon to take place. This triumph will coincide with the era of peace for the world which My Mother foretold at Fatima. This great new age of peace for the Church and the world will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart.
"Because this is the age of the Two Hearts, the quickest and surest way to sanctity is through devotion to My Heart and Mary's Heart. Such devotion reaches its highest point in consecration to Our Hearts. Within Our Hearts My people will be clothed with great graces! Their love for God and neighbor will deepen tremendously! They will be fired with a holy and burning desire to love God and neighbor in all their daily activities as guided by the Holy Spirit. Dwelling within Our Hearts, My people will long to help bring back an alienated world to conform to My Father's will.
"My friend, I and My Mother have allowed you to experience in an extraordinary way the riches contained in Our Hearts. Tell My people about these riches! Tell them that I and Mary long for them to come within Our Hearts! I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My words. Come to Our Hearts!"
Reflection: Jesus tells us that we live in the age of the Two Hearts, and that within His Heart and Mary's Heart we receive graces to raise us to great sanctity. What is sanctity? It is doing God's will out of love, and God's will is summed up in love of God and love of neighbor. In the above message Jesus refers to this love of God and neighbor. In the Gospel, Jesus expressed it in this way:
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, "Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?" Jesus said, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also" (Matthew 22:34-40).Sanctity, then, is centered in love of God and neighbor. Thus, to grow in sanctity is to grow in love of God and neighbor. Jesus tells us in the above message that within His Heart and Mary's Heart we find the graces to achieve great sanctity. Dwelling within the Two Hearts, we receive the capacity to become tremendous lovers!
end of Tell My People
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