We will be praying in the Church in
China, IN 11:00 to 2:00
for Mary Ann O'Brien's Funeral
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

We love you Jim and Mary Ann

Please Pray for Fr. Joe & Bob, Sanja
     

Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.  

August 23, 2021

Jesus: Your lives are to be lived where all
your actions are those of reaching to
God to serve Him.

    My life was lived and I showed you
how I served My Father, by doing
His will – living His plan.

    What good does it do a man to gain
the whole world and lose his soul?
How have you lived as the servant God
called you to be to build My kingdom
in this troubled world?

    Mary shows you how she lived
"The perfect handmaid of God". Mary's
whole life was a life of humility of
serving God and living in the Father's
will.

    Your life is important in how you
lived to die and rise in living the Plan
of My Father in heaven.

    When sufferings arise you must
relate to them properly to serve your
heavenly Father, to learn obedience
and surrender to God's will. You will
experience sufferings in your lives,
affected by sickness, feeling as a
failure, enduring loneliness,
not feeling loved etc. Passive suffering
one cannot control, but must endure
can help one in growing in the life
of resurrection.

R. In living the pascal life of
death / resurrection one is living
more the self-lessness needed to
grow in greater love. This selflessness
should be in our life in all we do.
To put oneself as the center and
reason, for why we act at the expense
of others is to wear a blind-fold in the
spiritual life. We must have at our
center to respond as Christ wants us
to in our lives – this is exercising
self-less-ness.

    God commands us to love Him
first with our whole heart, our
whole soul and our whole being and
love our neighbor as ourselves.

Jesus: How can one grow in love when
the center of it all – all their actions
is focused on themselves. True life
is lived in living My life as the
center of why you act. Living in
the Father's will. Exercising ways
of loving God and others more and more
every day. Being kind – Obedience
is at the root of obeying God's
will. A person that really doesn't
want anyone telling them what to
do is exercising how not to grow in "obedience".
You live the death - resurrection in how
you pray to have a deeper experience
with me in your relationship with Me
in life.

    Suffering when lived properly can
lead to new life. The saints suffered,
many of them, the dark-night of the
soul – only to grow ever deeper in
their union with God.

    Prayer should always lead a
soul to greater unity and purity.
It can unite you ever more
deeply to God: Father, Son and
Holy Spirit.

    Prayer should help to unite
people in love of God. Satan hates
prayer – he tries to stop prayer
through drama and division and
distraction.

    How do you die in prayer – one way
to give God your constant attention –
not have other things going on.
Discipline in prayer – what is your
focus?

    You can grow in the virtues as
you pray. Faith, hope, love,
humility. I give you grace to help
you deepen your life in these virtues
when you pray for this and apply
yourself as such.

Song: Your Presence Pervades My Soul

Jesus: Suffering when endured properly
    always brings greater life.
    Dying and rising with Me in your
    prayer life.
    Prayer leads to greater life if
    done properly, it helps you
    in your relationships of love
    with God and others.

R. The Holy Spirit guides us in our lives in
living the Father's Plan for our lives and
helping us grow in our relationship
with the Father, as His little child.

    The Holy Spirit guides us in Christ
and leads us to deeper union with our
heavenly Father. To grow in holiness
we must be able to discern the spirits
and hear the voice of the Holy Spirit,
guiding us in our lives.

 

This Rosary is dedicated to Mary Ann Obrien.

Luminous Mysteries

The Baptism of Jesus

1. Mark 1: 9-11

It was at this time that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptised in the Jordan by John. And at once, as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit, like a dove, descending on him. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.’

2. Jesus is the Light of the World.

3. Jesus is God's servant –
    the Lamb of God.

4. Jesus comes to set the captives
    free.

5. Jesus is to establish
    justice in the world.

6. Jesus is God's perfect servant.

7. Satan said, "I will not serve."

8. The Father tells us at the
    Baptism of Jesus –
    Jesus is not just the perfect
    servant –
    Jesus is introduced by the
    "This is My beloved Son in whom
        I am well pleased."

9. God gives us a sharing of His
    life in Baptism.

10. We can be filled more and more
    with His grace, but we
    will not be full of grace
    until we go to heaven.

    Mary is full of grace.

 

The Marriage at Cana

1. John 2: 1-10  

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. And they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the feast had all been used, and the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus said, ‘Woman, what do you want from me? My hour has not come yet.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’  There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water,’ and they filled them to the brim. Then he said to them, ‘Draw some out now and take it to the president of the feast.’ They did this; the president tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—the president of the feast called the bridegroom and said, ‘Everyone serves good wine first and the worse wine when the guests are well wined; but you have kept the best wine till now.’ 

2. Jesus performed His first
    public miracle at Cana.

3. Jesus changed water into wine.

4. At Mass we receive the
    Body and Blood of Jesus.

5. Bread is changed into His
    body.
    Wine is changed into His
    Blood.

6. Jesus says
    "This is My Body."
    "This is My Blood."

7. The Mass is the sacrifice of
    Calvary, sacramentally
    made present.

8. So much grace is outpoured
    in the Mass.

9. We eat His Body and drink
    His Blood.

10. Jesus is truly present
    in His humanity and
    Divinity in the
    Eucharist.

 

The Kingdom of God

1. Matthew 23: 31-39

So! Your own evidence tells against you! You are the children of those who murdered the prophets! Very well then, finish off the work that your ancestors began.

Their crimes and approaching punishment

‘You serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape being condemned to hell? This is why--look-- I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some you will slaughter and crucify, some you will scourge in your synagogues and hunt from town to town; and so you will draw down on yourselves the blood of every upright person that has been shed on earth, from the blood of Abel the holy to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. In truth I tell you, it will all recoil on this generation.

Jerusalem admonished

‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often have I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you refused! Look! Your house will be deserted, for, I promise, you shall not see me any more until you are saying:

Blessed is he
   who is coming in the name of the Lord!’
 

2. Jesus is the Good
    Shepherd.
 

John 10: 11-15

I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
   for his sheep.
The hired man,
   since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
   and runs away,
and then the wolf attacks
   and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
   because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.

3. Many of the religious
    leaders can lead the
    people away from
    holiness.
    Jesus calls priests to be
        Good Shepherds.

4. Jesus is Chief-Shepherd
    of the flock.

5. July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of Shepherds of Christ Associates:

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

6. 1 Corinthians 15: 20-28

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. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

7. Jesus will turn the Kingdom
    over to the Father.

8. The individual person, the
    world and the Church
    are in the state of
    becoming more and more
    in the image of Jesus.

9. We see Christ the King –
    a shepherd,
    the risen Lord
    and judge of all nations.

10. Christ is priest, prophet
    and king.

 

The Transfiguration

1. Mark 9: 2-8

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus, ‘Rabbi,’ he said, ‘it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and from the cloud there came a voice, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.’ Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.

2. God the Father recognizes
    Jesus
    "This is My beloved Son,
        in whom I am
        well pleased –
        Listen to Him."

3. Moses and Elijah appeared talking to Jesus.

4. God's law and God's teaching
    will triumph to the end.

5. God is to be all in all –
    Ruler of heaven and earth.

6. Jesus performed miracles,
    calming the storms, healing
    the sick, raising the dead,
    feeding a group of a few
    thousand people from
    5 loaves and 2 fish.

7. The transfiguration is
    a miracle –
    Jesus was transfigured
        before them –

8. In the resurrection we
    see Jesus come forth
    in glory from the
    tomb.

9. Jesus was seen in
    great light in
    the transfiguration
    and the resurrection.

10. Jesus appeared to them after
    the resurrection and
    they could see His
    glory.

In the transfiguration
    they were awe struck
    to see Jesus appear
    as He did –

 

The Institution of the Eucharist

1. Sing: I Am the Bread of Life

2. From the Mass Book - October 15, 1995

    Mary said at Fatima

"...God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war will end. But if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the reign of Pius XI."³¹

31. The Whole Truth About Fatima, op. cit., p. 182.

3. A Prayer Before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.

-Mass Book, December 27, 1995

4. From the Mass Book - January 2, 1997 (excerpt)

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

"The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."

God pours out His grace in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is the greatest gift when God gives Himself to us.

We share with God His life, given to us abundantly in the Mass.

He gives Himself to us, and we give ourselves to Him. The great love affair between God and man: His Holy Mass.
 

5. From the Mass Book - October 12, 1995

THE MASS

The Mass is a great act of love. The sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present. In the Mass, Jesus gives Himself completely to us and we give ourselves completely to Him.

May the sacrament of His love draw us closer in love with one another. It is in the reception of the Eucharist that we unite so deeply in Him and in His love. So, too, I unite with every person. Every difficulty I have with others seems so minute, for I can unite with them in Him.

Each person in my life, I love so much more dearly because I have united in deepest union with my God. Each member of my family, of my life, that I unite with socially, becomes so dear and close to me in Him. He has united in deepest union with my heart. Now I must go forth and carry this love to all those I interact with.

I feel so sad for my sins and the sins of the world. I see how often I fail, all through the day. I beg Him for forgiveness and mercy for myself and for the sinful world. I want to help make reparation to His adorable Heart for the sins of man.
 

6. From the Mass Book - October 12, 1995 continued

I pray, in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, that the petitions in my heart ascend upward to the Father, united in this Holy Sacrifice, in the Holy Spirit, with Mary, the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory. I pray with all my heart for mercy, mercy for the sins of ungrateful men.

The Mass is so beautiful. We unite in the mystery of His love. We ask forgiveness for our sinful ways. We offend Him in thought, word, and deed, what we should have done and failed to do. I beg the heavenly Father for forgiveness and remission of these sins. We beg mercy for us and our sins.

We are fed by His beautiful Word. We are touched by this Living Word of God. We ask the Father to give us what we need, and we unite with all present in this Sacrifice, in these prayers. In one heart, we lift our hearts to the Father and pray for our needs.

Let us share in the Divinity of Christ Who humbled Himself to share in our humanity.

Wash away our iniquities. We offer ourselves with the bread and wine that will soon be the Body and Blood of Christ. May the Lord accept this sacrifice for the praise and glory of His name for our good and for the good of His whole Church.

Lifted high on the cross, He gave Himself. We join with all the angels and saints.
 

7. From the Mass Book - October 12, 1995

THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

I realize the great offenses against God performed by myself and sinful men. I want to help make reparation to His adorable Heart, wounded by the ingratitude and indifference of men. My heart cries out, realizing the great gifts we are given and how Jesus is ignored and treated with such disrespect and irreverence by men.

What a prayer of unity of His faithful ones to join in the Sacrifice and become one in Him, offered to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with Mary and all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory. We unite in each prayer at the petitions with our whole hearts, and our prayer together ascends to the Father.

"Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us." We beg, beg for mercy for the men this day offending God. I see His pierced Heart - a fountain of mercy and love, pouring out on the world as we unite in our most fervent prayer from our hearts.
   

8. From the Mass Book - October 12, 1995 continued

Prayer:

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, we place our trust in Thee. Let us unite with all the faithful throughout the world and offer this, our sacrifice, to the Father, with the deepest, fervent love, petitioning that He outpour His graces and mercy on ungrateful men.

Let us thank and praise Him for this great gift of Himself, ignored and forgotten so often by sinful men.

Let us unite in one heart fervently loving God and beg the Father to unite this world in love. Let us live always according to the Father's will as little children, always obeying Him and depending on Him for everything.

I join with the priest, in such oneness, with these prayers to the Father. May this be taken to His holy Throne and may the Sacred Heart of Jesus reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary triumph in the hearts of the faithful throughout the world.

Joined in such oneness in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we offer to the Father one sacrifice. We unite in Jesus and offer ourselves to the Father. The Mass is so powerful!
 

9. Excerpt from back of the Mass Book

Oh the Mass, the greatest gift of love between God and man. The Almighty God gives Himself completely to us and we give ourselves to Him. The Bread of Life comes to me and outpours His love, His life to me. The sacrifice is God, He is the Lamb of God, and He gives Himself to us. I experience an intense sharing in His divine love. Oh God, open our eyes and give us lights that we may see more clearly the great gift You give us, that we may in this great act of love, give ourselves more completely, that we will worship You and praise You and bow down and adore our most beauteous God. I love You, I love You, oh I love You God, Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Enlighten us that we will treasure this great gift given to us. God gives Himself to man.

10. From the Mass Book - January 2, 1997

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

"The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."

God pours out His grace in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is the greatest gift when God gives Himself to us.

We share with God His life, given to us abundantly in the Mass.

He gives Himself to us, and we give ourselves to Him. The great love affair between God and man: His Holy Mass.

The priest is another Christ to us. It is Christ present, through the priest, celebrating the Mass. We must see Christ in the priest, see Him celebrate the Mass, see His beautiful brown hair, His gentle face, see Him, Our Savior. This Jesus Christ that came was born an infant and gave Himself to His death on the cross that we would share His life. See Him now in the Mass, giving Himself in the greatest gift of all. He gives us His divine love and His divine life.

Oh, we thank You for Your life. We know He died and rose and gave us a sharing in His holy life. His life is now abundantly poured, as a fountain to us, especially in the Mass.

Then we hear His Word. Let the Word of God penetrate our being. Let us feel this Living Word of God. As a two-edged sword, it comes forth with such conviction and love and it penetrates the souls of the faithful with such love. It is food indeed, food for our soul.

He is the Good Shepherd. He speaks to us. He gives us all we want. "There is nothing I shall want." (The Lord is my shepherd; I have everything I need. Ps. 23:1).

He gives us green pastures, and His water pours out and refreshes us. He outpours His grace as a fountain to feed us with His life.

He is a just God, good and kind, all loving, for He is love. We want for nothing for He outpours His love and His life to us in the Mass. We feast on His Body and Blood and are fed with His Word. We become one in Him and He shares Himself with us.

It is through the Mass celebrated by the hands of a holy pries that we will experience the Mass the way Christ intends. These writings are insights which hopefully will help lead you to the spring of life-giving water, the fountain of love and life He outpours in the Mass.

There will be a new earth when men will see with the light of seven suns. They will know God. A people walking in darkness will see a great light. They will no longer be blind, they will be enlightened, they will love God with the greatest love in the Mass. They will feast on His Body and Blood and will be united as one body in His holy Church through His life given to us in the Eucharist.

We will drink copiously from the fountain of grace which He pours out in the Mass. We will be filled with His love, absorbed with the love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and feasting on His divine life.

We see with the vision of God. We partake in such a union with God. We see with the light the Spirit gives to us. The priest celebrates the Mass and we know God with such an intense knowing in this union. We are saturated with His life flowing from the hands of His consecrated priest.

And I look at Him, the priest, and I see Jesus there. I see Him giving Himself to me. I see the new and Holy City. I see with such clarity the great gift that God gives to us in the Mass!

We learn how to love in the Mass, for we unite to God. He gives us such an intimate sharing in His divine love that we carry His love out to the world. In this union we know His loving to an intense degree and we carry this love out to others. We share in an intense way in His divine act of loving. He, Who is Love, gives Himself to us and we are absorbed in His love and we know intensely how God loves. We are filled with love for God and for each other, for, in the oneness He is loving through us. He gives us lights into His loving capacity and we know His loving power in an intensity we did not know before.

We then pray. We offer up our intentions for this Mass. It is now we who intercede to Him to outpour His grace on us and help us with these intentions.

We pray for this reign of peace when the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph and men will fervently love and adore God with burning love. We pray for all souls and the Church and we beg for His help, His love, His grace.

We offer ourselves as a sacrifice. We offer the bread that will become the Bread of Life.

The priest mixes the water and the wine and we realize how His Divinity mixes with our humanity.

We offer the wine that will become our spiritual drink–His Blood.

I give myself to Him and I beg to be cleansed of my sins with the washing of the hands.

"May the Lord accept the sacrifice of your hands for the praise and glory of His name, for our good and the good of all His Church."

We ask Him to accept the gifts we want to give Him, we give Him thanks, we lift up our hearts in thanks and praise and we sing out:

"Holy, Holy God, of power and might..." we sing Him praise and thank Him, "Oh, God we love thee so much."

My heart is so filled with such awe. I cry because I love Him so much.

Every word in the Mass, I love. The priest consecrates the Host and changes it into the Body and Blood of Christ. Hear Christ say to us: "This is My Body", "This is My Blood".

Oh, it makes me cry for I am so struck with awe at what happens at the Consecration. I unite in the oneness with the priest, with Christ and with all present, with heaven and earth. I am one in that moment, united in the sacrifice of Christ giving Himself to the Father.

This is the moment when I unite in such oneness with Christ in the purity of Mary's heart. I give myself as a sacrifice. I offer myself to the Father.

The Father looks down and He sees us united to His Son's Sacrifice. It is in this oneness that His grace is outpoured on us, that we die to that which is not like Him and that the Holy Spirit works in the heart of Mary and fills us with His life.

I am in ecstasy as I realize more and more the great gift of love that God gives us in His holy Mass. I am taken to such heights, being wrapped in the presence of God. It is rapture, this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

It is a great gift, experiencing this intense presence of the Almighty God: Through Him, With Him, and In Him.

We pray to the Father the prayer as Jesus taught us and beg, "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

We pray: "For the Kingdom, the power and the glory are Yours, now and forever."

We beg for peace in our hearts. We share this peace with one another. Then we beg of the Lamb of God. I want to get down to the ground and beg for His grace, mercy, and forgiveness for our sins.

Please, God, I see us as a sinful people. I want the grace and mercy to flow abundantly.

He raises the Host and says: "This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, happy are those who are called to His supper."

We respond: "Lord, I am not worthy to receive You, but only say the word and I shall be healed."

I receive the Almighty God in Communion. All I want is Him. Oh, God, I want You, I adore You, I worship You, I love You.

Oh, for this moment when God gives Himself to me. Oh, God, words do not express this time–this intense presence of You within my being. Oh, sweet Savior, I love You!

You share Yourself so intimately with me. You imprint on my soul a knowing of Your Divine Being that is so intimate in this Communion when You give Yourself to me.

Oh, let our hearts be open to His grace that we may know this great gift more, that we will partake more fully in this greatest act of love with Divinity.

He shares Himself with us, the Almighty God, in such oneness. This is the greatest way to bind us with each other, to unite with each other in the Mass and Communion.

And so I sing the love of God, the love of His Mass. I beg you to pray for the grace that He can teach you in these writings about His most intimate love affair with man, the gift of Himself–the gift He gives us in the Mass.

The Holy Sacrifice, the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally-made-present in the Mass when He gives Himself to us with the greatest love!

And what does He ask in return? He asks that we love one another, that we give Him the glory, the thanksgiving, the adoration that is His due as the Almighty God.

He sends us forth with His blessing to share His most intimate love with all. We go forth as other Christs in the world. For He is alive this day and He lives in us and He gives His love to others through us. We act as channels of His life to one another.

The Mass is the richest source of His life. His life flows through the body, the Church, especially through the sacraments and the Mass.

Oh Jesus, from the fountain of life that pours forth from your pierced Heart, give us holy priests whose hearts are consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary to celebrate the Mass–that there is such oneness between the priest and Christ that His grace will flow copiously.

We thirst for the fountain of life pouring forth from the pierced Heart of Christ. It is His life we seek and find in the Church. It is His love we want and we experience the greatest love affair with God in the Mass.

These books on the Mass are accounts of my intimate love affair with our Almighty God. Many experiences were enlightenments I received in the Mass.

I strongly advise all to pray, to say the Holy Spirit Prayer, the consecration prayers, and the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, before Mass.

This book is the journey into the red room, the inner chamber of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the gateway, the pure and Immaculate Heart of His Mother.

It is in the Mass we give ourselves in such love to our Holy God. He gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to Him.

end of January 2, 1997