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August 4, 2011
August 5th Holy Spirit Novena
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Today's Readings
Numbers 20: 1-13
The Israelites, the whole community, arrived in the first month at the desert of Zin. The people settled at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
There was no water for the community, so they banded together against Moses and Aaron. The people laid the blame on Moses. We would rather have died, they said, as our brothers died before Yahweh! Why have you brought Yahwehs community into this desert, for us and our livestock to die here?5Why did you lead us out of Egypt, only to bring us to this wretched place? It is a place unfit for sowing, it has no figs, no vines, no pomegranates, and there is not even water to drink!
Leaving the assembly, Moses and Aaron went to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. They threw themselves on their faces, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them. Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said, Take the branch and call the community together, you and your brother Aaron. Then, in full view of them, order this rock to release its water. You will release water from the rock for them and provide drink for the community and their livestock.
Moses took up the branch from before Yahweh, as he had directed him. Moses and Aaron then called the assembly together in front of the rock. He then said to them, Listen now, you rebels. Shall we make water gush from this rock for you? Moses then raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the branch; water gushed out in abundance, and the community and their livestock drank.
Yahweh then said to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe that I could assert my holiness before the Israelites eyes, you will not lead this assembly into the country which I am giving them.
These were the Waters of Meribah, where the Israelites laid the blame on Yahweh and where, by their means, he asserted his holiness.
Psalm 95: 1-2, 6-9
Come, let us cry out with joy to Yahweh,
acclaim the rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving,
acclaim him with music.Come, let us bow low and do reverence;
kneel before Yahweh who made us!
For he is our God,
and we the people of his sheepfold,
the flock of his hand.If only you would listen to him today!
Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as at the time of Massah in the desert,
when your ancestors challenged me,
put me to the test, and saw what I could do!
Matthew 16: 13-23
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. Then he gave the disciples strict orders not to say to anyone that he was the Christ.
From then onwards Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to rebuke him. 'Heaven preserve you, Lord,' he said, 'this must not happen to you.' But he turned and said to Peter, 'Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because you are thinking not as God thinks but as human beings do.'
Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Other Christian Virtues
If humility is truth, and therefore allows for the proper recognition of my gifts, it also necessitates my admitting to the evil within me. This is also part of the truth. This truth also must be acted upon; for Christian humility not only allows me to admit that there is evil in me, but it also tells me that as a creature of God I should conform myself to His will and strive to eradicate and control the evil as far as this is possible. In summary, humility allows the Christian to evaluate properly both the good and evil in himself.
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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
Given June 20, 2011
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Agony in the Garden
(1) R. Jesus sweat blood in the garden
His grief was so great
Beyond anything we could imagine
(2) R. The Apostles slept
Peter, James and John
Jesus told them to Watch
Jesus told them to Pray
(3) R. Judas was the betrayer
Jesus told them at supper
Judas was a betrayer of Jesus, Jesus who
loved Him so much
(4) R. Jesus was sold for 30 pieces of silver
Judas kept the purse
(5) R. Jesus in so much anguish He sweat
Blood
Jesus did not give into His fear
Jesus did the will of the Father
(6) R. People have a free will to do God's
will or their own
Jesus prayed to the Father
The devil wanted Jesus to give into His fear
Jesus gave His all in love
(7) R. Jesus prayed:
Matthew 26: 39
... My Father, he said, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it.
(8) John 3: 16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.
(9) R. The devil wants souls for hell
Jesus came our Savior
Jesus is the Savior of the world
We can resist doing our selfish will against
God's will, if we follow in Jesus'
footprints we serve God the Father
we do God the Father's will
We resist temptation
(10) R. Judas betrayed Jesus
Judas was sneaky
Judas hid his evil design from
the other Apostles
Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss
Judas betrayed the Son of God with
a kiss
The Apostles were afraid
They saw what they did to Jesus
Do we abandon Jesus for our
selfish disobedience to God's will?
Jesus healed the guy who lost his ear
Jesus worked miracles
Jesus told them to put away the
sword
The man's ear was healed
When we don't hear, Jesus can
heal our ears
Jesus was led away like a criminal
Mary suffered so much
The Apostles suffered
The men taking Jesus laughed at Jesus, hit Jesus
Jesus knew all these whippings
He would get in the garden
Judas despaired
Judas betrayed the Son of God
Jesus was whipped, mistreated
the men were consumed with hatred
who beat Jesus
They condemned Jesus to death
Jesus' eye was whipped
Jesus' head was whipped
Jesus' body whipped
They arrested Jesus
Jesus was considered a criminal
Jesus was a carpenter
Mary and Jesus loved each other
They were in one heart
Mary took care of Him as a baby
Mary watched Him learn to walk and talk
Mary knew He, her beloved Son, was
arrested
Whipping at the Pillar
(1) R. Oh Jesus we are sorry for our sins
Oh Jesus we are sorry we offended
You with our sins
(2) R. They arrested Jesus, the prophet
They lied about what Jesus said.
Jesus is the King of all Kings
(3) R. Jesus was the innocent Lamb led
to the slaughter
Jesus was whipped for our sins
Jesus was the teacher of love and
They hit Jesus
(4) R. Jesus cured the sick, Jesus drove
out demons Jesus worked
miracles Jesus, the King
of the Jews
(5) R. Jesus was innocent
Jesus is the Son of God
and they whipped Him They hit
His face
He bled Men laughed
They had no shame
All God has given to us
Our life
Our love His love for us
(6) R. We can disobey Him and act as if He
doesn't see our lies, deception,
hurting the Plan of the Father
by disobedience
like disobedient children
We say "no God"
we want to do it our way
(7) R. Like God doesn't see our
deceiving, selfish hearts
The devil is the father of lies
Lies drive us from God
We become more blinded
Saints don't want to offend
God because they love God
Jesus was whipped for our sins
Jesus wore strips for our lies,
our deception, our hiding
when we wronged God and
then tried to make the wrong
we did appear right
further offending God
(8) R. God shed the saving Blood
Jesus, the Son of God
Jesus' Blood was spilled
for us
Watched His blood flow
because of our sins
(9) R. And He was whipped for
our lies
Judas despaired
We can't change God's plan
with our willful ways
We hurt ourselves
We offend God and
We hurt souls
Souls Jesus shed His Blood for
Souls Jesus died for
(10) R. The devil wants us to despair
The devil wants us to say no to God's will
The devil wants us to say "I will not serve"
The devil wants us to hate
Jesus is love
If we are like God
we love
The devil wants us to be unloving
They lied about Jesus' teaching
Jesus the Messiah was
whipped for our sins
He did not sin
Gentle Jesus accused of all
these lies!!
He paid for our deception
and lies with beatings,
with His Blood
His flesh was torn
Jesus is the King
Jesus is the King of Heaven and Earth
Jesus is the way, the truth
and the life
They beat the Lord of truth!
They wanted Barabbas
They passed Jesus to Herod
They punished the Son of God
Jesus who restored sight to
the blind
Jesus who changed water into
wine
Jesus who cast out devils
Jesus who healed lepers
Jesus beaten, bloodied, His
flesh torn
Jesus is crowned with a crown
of thorns
Crowning with Thorns
(1) R. Jesus is the way, the truth and
the life
(2) R. Jesus is the King of all men
Jesus died so we could live
in Him
Jesus paid the price for
our sins with His
Blood
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(3) R. Men hide their sins sometimes and
act like God doesn't know
How foolish!!
(4) R. Men beat the raw back of
Jesus blow after blow
tearing His flesh
beating His back
Suffering, Suffering, Suffering
It is 'just' for God to punish us
for our sins our lies
God who is all just
Song: I Am a God of Justice
R. They beat Jesus at the pillar
He stood in a puddle of His
own blood
His whole body a bloody
bath of open wounds
for our sins
Jesus knows the evil in our
hearts the deception,
He paid for it
(5) R. When they beat Him so hard
they beat Him harder
they beat and beat God
they laughed and laughed
Angry men with all their
strengthen and malice
They beat Jesus raw
for our sins
Jesus knows
They beat His Head
His hair matted with
clotted blood for
our pride
His precious Head crowned
with thorns after beating,
after beating, after beating
tearing His flesh
Oh God we are sorry for our
lies, pride, anger
seeking dominance for dominance
sake
gluttony
giving into our will against
the Father's will
lust
luring others into sin
Jesus bore the stripes for all
we did
We beat Him at the pillar
We crowned Him with thorns
We were unloving
We were prideful
Blood from His mouth
teeth in His tongue
What we do to others we do
to Jesus
If we provoke others and laugh
we are doing it to Jesus
When we say we know the truth
and we lie we are lying to
Jesus
We try to rise above Jesus for
satan
We whipped Jesus at the pillar
He was a bloody sponge
Raw and whipped
Crowned with our pride
Obstinacies
(6) R. Crowned for our hatred
Laughed at for our control,
envy and jealousies
our hateful ways
(7) R. Blood, Blood, Blood
Shed for our deception
Our raising over others
Our sins
(8) R. The devil wants us to think
we did no wrong
to be full of vices
not virtue
Oh God You paid for our sins
Oh God, Oh God, forgive our
sins
Oh God (Jesus), help us to be holy and
to do this work spreading
love for the most precious
price that You paid for us
(9) R. "Behold the Man"
Jesus was wrapped in a purple
robe, given a scepter and His
head pounded with thorns
pounded and bloodied
His eyes full of blood
(10) R. God has all the Power
The Crowd yelled:
"Crucify Him"
"Crucify Him"
"Crucify Him"
Should I crucify your King?
"Crucify Him"
The Carrying of the Cross
(1) August 23, 1993 (excerpt)
On His Passion
Jesus: My dear child,
I was condemned to death, death on a cross. They gave Me a big cross and made Me carry it. They stood around and glared at Me. It weighed on My shoulder and I pulled at it until it finally moved. Every step was almost impossible as I dragged it, weighing so heavily on My shoulders.My shoulder felt as if the bones inside would crack and the cross would fall through to the ground. I couldnt drag it any more. I tried, I fell. I fell and its weight fell on Me. A guard hit Me with something sharp. It really hurt because he wanted Me to move, and fast! People were watching on with the show! How dare I fall in the middle of the show! He hit Me again and the blow really stung Me. I got up because it hurt so badly. I tried to walk on.
My Mother was in the crowd. She looked at Me and her face looked red and hurt. Tears rolled down her cheeks like rain and as her eyes met Mine, I was hurt so by her sorrow! She was always by My side, silent and loving. She was My mother of love! She is always there next to you when you suffer.
I fell again and he (the guard) really hit Me. It (the cross) was so heavy that he and I together could barely move it. It seemed as I walked, heavier with the sins of the world heaped on it. My hands were bleeding. Blood ran from the wounds of My thorns and My head throbbed, seeming to make the wounds in My head bleed even more. Some of the Blood was dried, some of it running all over My Body. I had so many cuts and bruises and people watched and laughed!
I am Jesus, Son of the Living God, and they laughed and mimicked Me! Oh, such hardened hearts! How vile can mens heart become? The devils grip is paralyzing and crippling.
The walk was so long up a hill and over rocks the cross had to be lifted over the rocks. My Body was bleeding so badly! My heart was pounding. I knew that the salvation of all men depended on My love. Therefore, I went through such agony.
end of
excerpt
(2) R. They whipped Jesus to get up
A mob followed Jesus
Mary and John and Mary Magdaline followed
(3) R. They whipped Him
He fell all full of blood under the
cross
They whipped Him again and again
(4) R. Mary remembered her little boy
She held Him
She loved Him
She looked into His face
Now she looked into His bloodied face
Jesus could hardly go on
She saw His torn face
covered with wounds and blood
His eyes a bloody mess
They whipped Him to move
(5) R. They didn't give up
It's like the energy in these
men from the devil to
whip the Son of God
(6) R. Veronica wiped His face
Shroud face
April 5, 2001
(7) R. Whipping and whipping Jesus
They made Simon of
Cyrene help Jesus
You help Him!! they said
"Help Him"
The 2 of them could hardly carry
the cross
(8) R. Jesus had washed their feet
Now He was whipped raw
with this heavy cross
laden with our sins
Jesus had celebrated the Last Supper
Luke 22: 19-20
Then he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me. He did the same with the cup after supper, and said, This cup is the new covenant in my blood poured out for you.
(9) R. The procession to Calvary
was a journey He endured
for our sins for love
of us
(10) R. Jesus was stripped
Jesus was laid on the cross
Jesus nailed to it by
His hands and feet
Sing: Little Baby Hands and Feet
R. In this passion and death Christ
endured extreme suffering
The people wanted His Blood
And His Blood He shed
He was mocked, whipped raw,
crowned with thorns
Jesus' message:
". . . love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute
you"
Jesus was abandoned by His
Apostles and friends
Jesus, the most tender Heart
suffered for us
Jesus is the Good Shepherd
Jesus laid down His life for
His sheep
His whole body torn to
shreds
The Crucifixion
(1) June 26, 1995 - The Pain - Naples, Florida
R. He spread His arms, He gave His all, Jesus, the Son of God, the greatest sacrifice, He gave Himself entirely for the good of all men. He opened His arms, He died on the cross.
His arms were covered with blood, His arms so weak and filled with pain, wounded. His arms, the pain shot up His arms and the final blow to each arm a nail through each precious hand.
All the agony He experienced, all the pain, and the crown, to each arm, a nail hammered into the hand.
All the nerves cut and severed by the nail, the pain shooting up His precious arms, the final blow given to His most precious members.
The legs that carried Him, that carried the heavy cross, the legs that were forced and cajoled, that continues to Calvary - the legs weakened, skinned, bleeding, beaten, burned, the legs that knew patience and perseverance, the legs connected to a sore foot that was rubbed and gashed and bleeding, the members of Jesus, filled with such pain and exhaustion, now is crowned with the final glory. The nail that was driven into the foot, the pain shot up this already weakened leg, covered with blood and wounds and pain, the final blow, the nerves severed by the hammered nail.
A blow to each hand, a blow to each foot, a blow to the head, a stamping that pressed down and continued in excruciating pain.
Jesus: They numbered all My bones. They gave Me vinegar and gall to drink. They gave Me a cloth to wipe My blood-covered flesh.
What did they give to Me? Love is giving, My dear ones. How many of you are wounded when you are not given things by your brothers you love?
My members were in such pain, the pain shot up My arms. My legs were so weak I could scarce move them. I was filled with pain within them.
To all who watched, they saw a man, weakened and covered with blood and wounds. They did not see the pain inside that shot up My legs and arms, the nerves inside My body that sent signals of deep pain to My central nervous system. They did not see the nerves inside sending pain signals everywhere.
The final blow being to each hand and foot, the severing of My nerves by the blunt and rusted nails.
An arm extended. A final blow. I beheld a nail pounded into My hand and the pain shot up My arms, unbearable to a human mind.
Do you know of the pain within My body? Signals sending messages of deep pain everywhere. I knew all of these sufferings in the garden. So great were the sufferings to My mind, I sweat blood.
My flesh was covered with wounds. My arms were stretched from their sockets. My body was beaten and bleeding, every inch of My body covered with deep wounds. But, My loved ones, you miss the depth of My love. My wounds were so deep, but the final wound, the pounding of the nails in My hands and feet, a severing of the nerves, an ending of the deepest pain, to experience even deeper pain, beyond your human comprehension, it was done to the Almighty God, a Divine Person, I suffered the final blow to each member.
The pounding in the hands and feet, the crown to each member, and they numbered all My bones. My nerves a network of pain running throughout My entire body.
The pain within the body, the pain recorded in My loving head, the pain sent by a network of nerves in My body, now records the final blows, the nails in the hands and feet, the pain being recorded from every thorn that pierced My skull, every gash to My body, the pain, the pain, the pain - a network of signals and pain, running through My body and the final hour, the pains recorded on the cross, arms outstretched - a surrendering to all pain. I surrendered to a body laden with pain.
You focus on your little problems, your little aches and pains. You discuss them and show the world your pin pricks and sufferings.
Do you want to know holiness and love? They gave Me vinegar mixed with gall. This was their offering. They gave Me a cross. They crowned My head with a crown of thorns.
This, My dear ones, is suffering, My beloved souls, I gave My life for and this is their return.
A severing of My nerves, the final blows to all the aches and pains recorded in My nervous system. This was one of the final blows - the rusted nails pounded into My hands.
You will feel little aches and pains in your hands and feet to remind you of this message. Your understanding of the immense pain within will deepen. What was visible to the eye on My battered body was nothing compared to the pains within. I gave My all. I gave My insides, My mind, My Heart, wounded for the love of men.
All functions in the body were stopped.
The final curtain, blood and water pouring out from My Heart, show that all functions of the body had ended.
R. All signals that carried messages of immense pain had ended, the final act of surrender for God to die to this human body and surrender His flesh.
Jesus: And end, a beginning, the water and blood flowed from My Heart, the beginning of My life in the Church, life flowing into your spirit.
R. Come give me life, abundant life. I thirst to be with Thee.
Jesus: My blood was spent. My human flesh and blood offered as the sacrifice, the sacrifice of Calvary is now made present at every Mass.
An end, a beginning, and the grace and life flow through the sacraments in the Church. My life flows to you in the Mass. Mary, the Mediatrix of all grace, stands by the side of the altar and the grace flows from the Father, through My body offered up as a sacrifice in the Holy Spirit, given through the Mothership of Mary to you in the Church.
You stand under the cross with My Mother and you receive the gift given, My Body, My Blood.
R. Man is reconciled with the Father through the Divine Person, Jesus Christ, and you receive His life poured out to you as Calvary is made present in the unbloody sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Do you feel the graces poured out to you at this sacrifice of the Son of God at every Mass? Do you feel the presence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory? Do you feel united as one at the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present upon the altar through the priest? The priest who now puts on Christ and through Him the dispenser of this life given to man.
Jesus: Oh, My beloved ones, love so dearly your priest. Give him such reverence. He is the chosen instrument of God and you treat him with such ordinariness. You are so blind and so dumb in your ways.
And they numbered all My bones. Each nerve carrying a message of My love of mankind, each member in My Church carrying a special message, all united as one working in harmony according to the Father's will, each carrying a message of love to one another.
The body is many members, you are the messengers of My love. Christ is the head. The message does not flow as it should when some are cut off from the Head.
They nailed My hands and feet and My nerves were severed by the nails, such pain, undescribable in words, the severing of My nerves from the body, the severing of many members from the body of Christ.
My Body given for all on the cross, the network of nerves within carrying the messages of My love to all mankind. My body covered on the outside with blood and wounded, the pain recorded within.
Your Church, covered with blood on the outside, the slaughter of innocent babies, the homosexuality, the sins of the flesh, the members that have severed themselves from the source by their sins, but the pain is carried in the nerves inside. The blood of the Lamb shed for each and every soul, the real pain carried within. The life is weakened in your Church because the love of God is so weak in many members. The messages of love are not being transmitted as they should be. Your body shows the wounds, but your pain within is the root of the problems. The pain is from the messages of love that are not being transmitted.
Unless you seek to fill your priests and sisters with the fire of God's love, fill their hearts with burning love for God, your Church will continue to show the marks of the blood shed without. I give to you these letters as a mighty medicine for this world, directed to make men's hearts burn with love of God and love of one another. The rosaries are meditations and messages given from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
These messages will make men's hearts burn with fire for love of God.
You have ignored the importance of these letters.
I send to you the mighty medicine to heal a hurting world.
My priests and religious need these messages. The love of God will be transmitted to the Church from these messages when you circulate these letters.
The devil has blocked the minds of men involved in these messages because of their importance to the world and the Church.
I am speaking to you, the founder, to help to get these messages published and circulated as soon as possible. I give to you a mighty medicine for a sick world.
Read St. Thomas Aquinas about the medicine for the sick Church.
You know what these messages have done for you. I am Jesus. I give to you the mighty medicine for a sick world, for a sick Church, rosaries and letters from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Your Church shows the wounds of bloodshed, abortion, homosexuality, sins of the flesh, murder of little children's minds with sex education in Catholic schools and you hold back the gifts of God's love I am giving to the Church and this world.
My arms were weak and wounded but the final blow as the nail put in My hand. It severed the nerves.
The final blow is the bloodshed in the Church, the slaughtering of children's minds in Catholic schools. My children are pure and innocent. They are not being taught messages of God's love, they are being taught messages of sick sex and coldness.
Men's hearts have turned cold. They have been severed from the life of the body. The body is decaying from within. Only with the love of God enkindled in men's hearts will this bloodshed stop.
I beg you to publish and circulate these messages in the Church. I am Jesus. I am giving you the mighty medicine for the world. Your body wears the marks of the bloodshed, only with messages of My on-fire love will it stop.
Mary leads you to Jesus. Never is she the end. The Father has a plan. Mary's messages have led men and will lead men to Jesus. Satan has tried to stop all efforts to publish and circulate these messages. I am the Almighty God. The funds will come when you circulate and publish these messages and rosaries under the Shepherds of Christ Publishing. I am working with the founder and Rita as messenger to renew the Church and the world. Each messenger has a very vital role in the Father's plan. The significance of these messages are being overlooked. You are not studying the messages as a whole and their content. There are five unpublished Blue Books and more than four Rosary Books which I and My Mother have given to this world in the last 14 months. I have also given 15 songs of My love. I am begging you to see to the recording and publishing of this music. I beg you to listen. This is the mighty medicine for the Church and the world to draw men to the burning love of Jesus. Please harken to My call. I will send you the money. You must study and read these messages. This is a fulfillment of Fatima - these messages were given to bring priests to the burning love of Jesus. I am Jesus, your beloved Savior.
end of June 26, 1995
(2) August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues
Jesus: I thought of My intense love for you that many would go to heaven because of My suffering and I continued to the top of the hill. At the top they laid Me on the cross and with a big hammer nailed My hands to it. It was the worst (suffering) yet. My hands were nailed with big nails and the big hammer. Oh, it was unbelievable! Then, as if that werent enough, with a big nail they nailed through both feet.
Then they lifted the cross and banged it into (a hole in) the ground. My shoulders ached from how I hung. My head bobbed and My neck ached and they laughed and said, "Now save Yourself." I hurt so much! I suffered this way for hours which seemed like forever and they glared at Me and laughed! My Mother watched in such agony.
For love of you, to My death I gave you My Body. My child, I shed My Blood and gave you My life that you might be with Me forever in heaven not for a day, a month or a year, but forever with Me in heaven.
I am the true Bread come down from heaven. He who eats My Flesh will have life forever. For the drink I give you is My Blood and food you eat is My Body. Who would lay down his life for a friend? I did, for you. I love you this much, child. Forget about those who reject you. You have My life that I gave you and I give you life eternal.
I am the One true God. I am the Light of life. He who abides in Me will have life eternal, for the drink I give is My Blood and the food I give is My Body. Drink and eat and have everlasting life.
My child, that is all you need to know. Love one another and be good that you may enter into My kingdom.
end of excerpt
(3) R. Jesus suffered and He
did it for our sins
(4) Song: Why do we Hurt the Ones we Love
(5) R. Christ suffered and died on
the Cross of Calvary
(6) R. Christ gave us the Eucharist
(7) R. Christ paid this price for
our sins
(8) R. Christ gave us the Church
John 15: 12-13
This is my commandment:
love one another,
as I have loved you.
No one can have greater love
than to lay down his life for his friends.
(9) John 15: 1-8
I am the true vine,
he prunes
and my Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in me that bears no fruit
he cuts away,
and every branch that does bear fruit
to make it bear even more.
You are clean already,
by means of the word
that I have spoken to you.
Remain in me, as I in you.
As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself,
unless it remains part of the vine,
neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine,
you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me, with me in him,
bears fruit in plenty;
for cut off from me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
is thrown away like a branch
and withers;
these branches are collected
and thrown on the fire
and are burnt.
If you remain in me
and my words remain in you,
you may ask for whatever you please
and you will get it.
It is to the glory of my Father
that you should bear much fruit
and be my disciples.
(10) Song: In My Heart
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.
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
R. Christ really died on the Cross
Christ hung on the cross for
3 hours
Jesus asked us to pray
12:00 - 3:00 on Fridays
before the exposed Eucharist in China
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Cycle "B"
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From the New Cycle "B" Book
Building the Kingdom of Truth
The Eucharist and the Word is the Bread of Life
In
this world with distorted vision we spread this book to you
Focusing on the Word The Word alive in our Hearts
Reflecting on the Word THIS IS TRUTH
The more we live the Word in our lives, the
more we
live Jesus life, death, and resurrection in our lives the
more we know the truth and see more clearly the vision of
our heavenly Father
We have been given the Catholic Church Pillar
of
truth We have been given the Word We have been
given the Commandments
Because of original sin we have distorted
vision Living
in the Word . . obeying the Commandments Living
according to the Churchs teachings helps us to live in the
truth to see more the vision of the Father We know in
this distorted world THE TRUTH! !
We pray the Our Father at Mass We focus on
our
Heavenly Father and His Plan for us We want unity as
children of God
In spreading these homilies and our writings on
the
Eucharist we want men to be fed more and more with the
Bread of Life We want to live in the truth We want to
live in greater faith, hope and love To live in unity
To date 17 years we have circulated
15,000,000
Priestly Newsletters loose and in books from Fr. Carter and
other priests.
We have begun prayer chapters in 8 languages
with the
Church's Imprimatur, around the world, so there is a
network of prayer out there praying for our priests, the
Church and the world
If we have this devotion to the Sacred Heart
and
Immaculate Heart, we are helping ourselves to be more
united in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary as
Mary asked for at Fatima
When we die there will be a network of prayer
around
the world praying for our beloved priests and the Church
This to me is the greatest gift I can give to
my children
and grandchildren in helping more and more our holy
priests We hope people love God and others as they dwell
in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
We pray people love the Church more and more
and
thank God for this precious gift of the Church and the
priest and the Word We pray people live as strong
members of the mystical body of Christ
The world is in so much need of prayer and that
deep
relationship with Mary, Mother of the Church The Holy
Spirit works in that Spousal union with Mary helping us to
do God's will
Thank you for your willingness to answer God's
call in
focusing on the Word and praying for the priests, the
Church and the world with us
May God bless you in your mission of loving and
serving
God and helping to build the Kingdom of God.
May the Light of Christ shine on the earth as we
live
more holy lives in Him and in His Word
We should respond enthusiastically to Christ's
call to
help build up the Kingdom of truth and love, of justice and
that the peace of Christ is spread on this earth.
The Shepherds of Christ Movement
Co-equal purpose
Ministries
1. PRIMARY
MINISTRY - CIRCULATING
PRIESTLY NEWSLETTERS TO PRIESTS ALL OVER
THE WORLD IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH to promote
priestly holiness, Fr. Joes books and other priests books
2. PRAYER
CHAPTERS praying for the priests and
the renewal of the Church and the world using the prayer
manual (in 8 languages with the Churchs Imprimatur).
3. School Rosary Program and Junior Shepherds of Christ Ministry.
4. Nursing Home Ministry.
5. Special retreats and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.
6. Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.
7. Promoting the rosary to all, rosary meditations.
8. Prison Ministry to promote prayer and spiritual renewal.
9. Handmaids and Servants of the Good Shepherd.
10. Audio/Video Departments (priestly newsletters on tape).
11. Prayer books, newsletters, newsletter books, and other spiritual aids.
John 15: 5-6
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains
in me,
with me in him, bears fruit in plenty; for cut off from me you can
do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away
like a branch and withers; these branches are collected and
thrown on the fire and are burnt.
We get our life from Jesus He is the vine we are the
branches A branch cannot bear grapes if it is disconnected
from the vine We cannot do anything without Him
Sing:
Bread of Life
John 17: 21
May they all be one, ...
We want to follow Christ! We are to witness to
Christ!
We are to live in the truth!
Oh God send laborers into the harvest Send
those who
will help us spread the Good News. Send us so many young
and eager priests wanting to serve You
end of excerpt June 16, 2011
R. Mary suffered so
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