August 3, 2011

                R. The world doesn't know
                    the way God loves —

                Foolish love —

                Trusting God —

                Jesus comes to teach us how to love —

                The Blue Books teach us about this love —

                Generous love —

                God loves you and me when its
                    raining, sunny, hot and cold —

                Faith —
                We believe —
                God's unconditional love —

                There is something bigger than me
                                            God's love —

                Proclaim the Gospel today —
                    Love Foolishly
                    Reach out —

                We really want to see clearly —
                    Say a person told us we could
                    get contact lenses and our
                    vision would be so great —

                We would want these lens and
                    we would want no hassle —

                We have diseases because of
                    original sin —

                Our eyes are not perfect —
                    when I was young I wore
                    glasses — then my eyes changed

                When I was teaching early 90's one eye
                I used to see far — the other eye I used to read
                with — this was good for teaching —
                As we grow older our eyes
                keep changing — Both Fr. Carter
                and my brother had a cataract —
                We see that our eyes can have
                this cataract and cloud our vision —
                Fr. Carter had to hold the Mass Book
                real close until he got his
                Cataract surgery in both eyes —
                Then (he had 2 cataracts) he said "oh I see so clearly"

                Because of original sin we have
                    distorted vision — we see God and
                    others and ourselves imperfectly —

                We know that what God is —
                    is what is reality —
                    His Plan is truth —
                    He is all good —

                In the end we want the beatific
                    vision in heaven to know God —
                    to love God — to be full of grace in heaven —

                God is giving us a chance to
                    correct our imperfect, distorted
                    vision - more and more —

                The more we are one in Him —
                The more filled with Him — His life
                    in us — filled more and more
                    with His grace —
                    the more clearly we see —
                    less distortedly —

                In the Blue Books God gives us
                    His love —
                    He tells us about His love
                    He tells us about Himself —
                    He helps us in His letters
                        to have the right vision —

                The more we give into anger,
                    seeking dominance for dominance
                    sake, jealousy, envy, slothfulness,
                    lust, gluttony, greed —
                    the more our vision gets
                    more distorted —

                We can be blinded by vices
                    that become habits we
                    give into —
                    habits like self-centeredness —
                    trying to raise above those God
                    put over us —

                For years men were seen as over
                    women in society, home etc. —
                    yet Jesus chose Mary as His
                    Mother —

                If because of our fathers teaching us,
                    or men teaching us, or
                    society teaching us — we
                    think men are over women —
                    men can have this habit
                    of trying to rise above
                    women — competition — getting
                    a woman under them —

                But if God chose a woman —
                    like Mary — Queen of Peace —
                        Mother of the Church —
                        men will have problems really
                        enjoying Mary and how
                        God is working in her to
                        Mother all of us —
                        to be a model for us as
                        the Immaculate Heart —

                    Mary is conceived without sin —
                        from the moment of
                        conception, Mary was
                        conceived without sin —

                Mary is our model —

                God works in structure —

                This competition that is growing
                    in the world to beat our
                    brothers because we have
                    to be better than everybody
                    else is from
                    the wounded human nature —
                    seeking dominance for
                        dominance sake —

                Recognizing our talents God gave
                    us and using them as God
                    intends to help build God's
                    Kingdom is humility —

                Humility is truth —

                Jesus is meek and tender of heart —
                    Meek means not combative — 

Matthew 5: 3-10

How blessed are the poor in spirit:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are the gentle:
they shall have the earth as inheritance.
Blessed are those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those
   who hunger and thirst for uprightness:
they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
they shall have mercy shown them.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
they shall be recognised
   as children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted
   in the cause of uprightness:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.  

                Jesus: The water comes and it waters the
                    earth —

                I give and some are so ungrateful
                    for all they are given —

                I give to you such gifts
                My love — Each other —

                I hear the grumbling from the
                    world —

Numbers 13: 1-2, 25-14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35

Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, 'Send out men, one from each tribe, to reconnoitre the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites. Each of them is to be a leading man of the tribe.'

After forty days they returned from reconnoitring the country. Making their way to Moses, Aaron and the whole community of Israel, in the desert of Paran, at Kadesh, they made their report to them and the whole community, and displayed the country's produce. This was the report they gave: 'We made our way into the country where you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey; here is what it produces. At the same time, its inhabitants are a powerful people; the towns are fortified and very big; yes, and we saw the Anakim there. The Amalekites occupy the Negeb area, the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites the highlands, and the Canaanites the sea coast and the banks of the Jordan.' Caleb called the people round Moses to silence and then said, 'We must march in immediately and take it; we are certainly able to conquer it.' But the men who had been with him said, 'We cannot attack these people; they are stronger than we are.' And they began disparaging to the Israelites the country they had reconnoitred, saying, 'The country we have been to reconnoitre is a country that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there were of enormous size. We saw giants there too (the Anakim, descended from the Giants). We felt like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.'

The whole community then cried out in dismay, and the people wept all that night.

Yahweh then spoke to Moses and Aaron and said:  'How much longer am I to endure this perverse community muttering against me? I have heard what the Israelites mutter against me. Say to them, "As I live, Yahweh declares, I shall do to you what I have heard you saying. In this desert your dead bodies will fall, all you who were counted in the census, from the age of twenty years and over who have muttered against me.

For forty days you reconnoitred the country. Each day will count as a year: for forty years you will bear the consequences of your guilt and learn what it means to reject me." I, Yahweh, have spoken: this is how I swear to treat this entire perverse community united against me. In this desert, to the last man, they shall die.'

Psalm106: 6-7, 13-14, 21-23

                        Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.

                    Sing refrain

                Jesus: Why do you smite a good and generous
                    God, when I give you these
                    writings to teach you My ways —

                Because the human race has
                    offended God — you should
                    pray ever more to appease
                    your God and pray for grace
                    for the priests, the Church
                    and the world —

                Pray as you have never prayed before —

                Thank Me for what you have been
                    given in the Virgin Mary Building,
                    in the Movement as a gift —
                    in the writings —

                So little thanks is ever given for
                    the Blue Books,
                    the Prayers,
                    the Teachings
                    China,
                    Clearwater —

                Read the 1st reading again —

Numbers 13: 1-2, 25-14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35

Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, 'Send out men, one from each tribe, to reconnoitre the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites. Each of them is to be a leading man of the tribe.'

After forty days they returned from reconnoitring the country. Making their way to Moses, Aaron and the whole community of Israel, in the desert of Paran, at Kadesh, they made their report to them and the whole community, and displayed the country's produce. This was the report they gave: 'We made our way into the country where you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey; here is what it produces. At the same time, its inhabitants are a powerful people; the towns are fortified and very big; yes, and we saw the Anakim there. The Amalekites occupy the Negeb area, the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites the highlands, and the Canaanites the sea coast and the banks of the Jordan.' Caleb called the people round Moses to silence and then said, 'We must march in immediately and take it; we are certainly able to conquer it.' But the men who had been with him said, 'We cannot attack these people; they are stronger than we are.' And they began disparaging to the Israelites the country they had reconnoitred, saying, 'The country we have been to reconnoitre is a country that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there were of enormous size. We saw giants there too (the Anakim, descended from the Giants). We felt like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.'

The whole community then cried out in dismay, and the people wept all that night.

Yahweh then spoke to Moses and Aaron and said:  'How much longer am I to endure this perverse community muttering against me? I have heard what the Israelites mutter against me. Say to them, "As I live, Yahweh declares, I shall do to you what I have heard you saying. In this desert your dead bodies will fall, all you who were counted in the census, from the age of twenty years and over who have muttered against me.

For forty days you reconnoitred the country. Each day will count as a year: for forty years you will bear the consequences of your guilt and learn what it means to reject me." I, Yahweh, have spoken: this is how I swear to treat this entire perverse community united against me. In this desert, to the last man, they shall die.'

                Jesus: I have called you to this service in
                    the Shepherds of Christ —
                    You belong to Me —
                    You serve Me —

                    How do you serve —
                    You pick and choose —
                    You schedule and
                    You can do what you want and
                    grumble more than you work —

                You think I don't hear your
                    grumbling —         

                You can be bored and for excitement
                    do something that displeases
                    Me — Why do you act in such ways to
                    offend Me and serve satan —

                Are you thanking God for all I
                    taught you about Myself?

                I am your God, you shall have
                    no gods before Me — 

                      1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me. 

                Jesus: Who is on your throne?

                What is important is how is your
                    heart —
                    do you obey for a time, but in
                    your heart you see yourself
                    as over and able to pull
                    your rank when you so choose —
                    then your service to Me is done
                    very impurely —

                How heavily do you want me to
                    weigh your offenses, when
                    your whole life I asked
                    for obedience, but you
                    never really made that
                    commitment with love in
                    your heart —

                I know your heart —
                I read the heart —
                I want obedience in love —
                    not holding on so you can
                    surprise Me with an offense for excitement
                    where you serve satan —

                I know your heart — you do not
                    surprise Me —

                I read your heart —
                I see your love —
                I wrote the book of love —

                Is your heart loving Me and serving Me as you should?

                Don't serve satan and offend God for excitement, power over.

                How you are in your heart is
                    what counts —
                    pure and untainted more and
                    more — model your life after
                    Mary, the sinless one —

                The rain kept coming like in sheets,

                I see your hearts and I want to
                    rain My grace in your heart,
                    but you are to serve and love and
                    seek purity of heart

1 John 4:17-21

Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.  

                Jesus: I died on the cross for your ways you offend God —
                You can be always in control —
                Power is your God —

                I want obedience as a servant of God
                I want reliability as a servant of God —

                You will be judged for your good deeds
                You will be judged for your evil deeds —

                If you have to be over to seek power —
                You should look at Fr. Carter —
                He obeyed

                I obeyed the will of My Father to My death on the cross —
                Look at Saul and his disobedience —
                Look at Esther 500 years later —

                How has your disobedience affected so many —

                Say you are sorry for your offenses against
                    Me and sin no more —

                A man was an abuser —

                He need only stand in position and the person
                    he abused was on the end of the chair —

                Your abuse will not go unrecognized —
                    make recompense and sin no more
                    while you can

Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

e) Relationship with Members of the Church

There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.

The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.

The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.

This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."¹⁴ And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.

The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.¹⁵ The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."¹⁶

The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.

Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.¹⁷

 

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NOTES:

 ¹⁴Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
 ¹⁵ Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
 ¹⁶Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
 ¹⁷Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.

                Jesus: If you are like Christ you are trustworthy —

                A woman went to the dentist and every time
                    she went he drilled her tooth —
                    She was afraid to go to the dentist for
                    she was afraid of his "predictable"
                    behavior

                A man in a hotel came in every night
                    and dropped his shoe over head —
                    The person beneath waited for the
                        second shoe —

                So as you give — so you shall receive
                    yourself —

                I called you to love and
                to ask for forgiveness for your sins —

                Don't keep sinning as one with the
                    power —

                I have all the power —
                Be pure and gentle of heart —
                Be thankful for My gifts to you —
                Be loving —
                Perform your gifts in love —

                The unpredictable after a long service
                    by smiting Me is not My delight —

                Be true to your love —
                Be true to your heart —
                Be likened to your God —
                Be trustworthy

                The sins you committed are to be
                    repented for and not to do them
                    again —

                I see the heart —

                You will be judged on your purity and impurity
                    of heart —

                I am God —
                I am trustworthy and true —

                Seeking dominance with an
                    ill deed for boredom
                    displeases Me and hurts your
                    soul —

                It is not likened to My Heart of love —
                    Repent and sin no more —
                    Spread no more poison —

                Lest you poison yourself and those
                    you should have loved
                    with your scarlet red sins —

                I am a God of Justice

                Sing song: I Am a God of Justice

                Jesus: I have forgiven over and over to
                    those who come with a
                    humble heart and seek mercy —

                Don't test Me

                Be pure of heart —

Psalm 51

Have mercy on me, O God, in your faithful love, 
in your great tenderness wipe away my offences; 
wash me clean from my guilt, 
purify me from my sin. 

For I am well aware of my offences, 
my sin is constantly in mind. 
Against you, you alone, I have sinned, 
I have done what you see to be wrong, 

that you may show your saving justice when you pass sentence, 
and your victory may appear when you give judgement, 
remember, I was born guilty, 
a sinner from the moment of conception. 

But you delight in sincerity of heart, 
and in secret you teach me wisdom. 
Purify me with hyssop till I am clean, 
wash me till I am whiter than snow. 

Let me hear the sound of joy and gladness, 
and the bones you have crushed will dance. 
Turn away your face from my sins, 
and wipe away all my guilt. 

God, create in me a clean heart, 
renew within me a resolute spirit, 
do not thrust me away from your presence, 
do not take away from me your spirit of holiness. 

Give me back the joy of your salvation, 
sustain in me a generous spirit. 
I shall teach the wicked your paths, 
and sinners will return to you. 

Deliver me from bloodshed, God, God of my salvation, 
and my tongue will acclaim your saving justice. 
Lord, open my lips, 
and my mouth will speak out your praise. 

Sacrifice gives you no pleasure, 
burnt offering you do not desire. 
Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit, 
a broken, contrite heart you never scorn. 

In your graciousness do good to Zion, 
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. 
Then you will delight in upright sacrifices,
—burnt offerings and whole oblations—
and young bulls will be offered on your altar.

                Jesus: God must be first in your life

                The devil wants you to seek power —

                Do God's will and with love

                Why do you serve Me and expect
                    an earthly reward —

                Just do it for your God, in love —
                    God is to be first in your life —

                Say: Create in me a clean heart, oh God

                Make your focus a pure heart —

                Not bad sinful, self-centered,
                    power seeking, fearful
                    habits —

                Say in God we trust —

                Do what you do for God and love
                    your work for the King —

                The devil is a deceiver —

                Be predictable — doing God's will —
                    Trustworthy
                    Truthful —
                    Loving —

                Fr. Mike told Rita —
                    Accountable for your sins —
                    Repenting for your sins —
                    Responsible for your sins —

                Don't lie about your sins —

                A husband or wife bored in a marriage
                    can be a play ground for satan —
                    In love they will honor
                    their commitment and be
                    strong against satan —

                If you do not live your vocation
                    and do it in love —
                    you are an open door to satan —

                        23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

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

                Jesus: Children bored can get into a lot
                    of trouble —

                Today your children are bleeding
                    in their hearts

                Mary warned them —

 

Mary's Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

end of Mary's Message

Mary by day July 5, 2000

by night July 5, 2000

                Jesus: When you are tired
                    satan can work on you —

                When you are hungry
                    satan can work on you —

                Be true to your heart —

                Seek to be like Mary —

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.