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August 6, 2008 - The Transfiguration of the Lord

August 7th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 5 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for August 7th are Luminous.

       
 

China Retreat

August 10, 11, 12, 13

  

There will be Mass in China
on the 11th, 12th & 13th

 

Rita will be in China

at 12 noon on the 10th.

Exposed Eucharist

Please come and pray.

 

 

Given August 5, 2008 - 3:40am

 

 

Daniel 7: 9-10, 13-14

            While I was watching, 
        thrones were set in place
        and one most venerable took his seat.
        His robe was white as snow,
        the hair of his head as pure as wool.
        His throne was a blaze of flames,
        its wheels were a burning fire.
        A stream of fire poured out,
        issuing from his presence.
        A thousand thousand waited on him,
        ten thousand times ten thousand
           stood before him.
        The court was in session
        and the books lay open.

        I was gazing into the visions of the night,
       when I saw,
           coming on the clouds of heaven,
       as it were a son of man.
       He came to the One most venerable
       and was led into his presence.
       On him was conferred rule,
       honour and kingship,
       and all peoples, nations and languages
           became his servants.
       His rule is an everlasting rule
       which will never pass away,
       and his kingship will never come to an end.

   

2 Peter 1: 16-19

When we told you about the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we were not slavishly repeating cleverly invented myths; no, we had seen his majesty with our own eyes. He was honoured and glorified by God the Father, when a voice came to him from the transcendent Glory, This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour.  We ourselves heard this voice from heaven, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

So we have confirmation of the words of the prophets; and you will be right to pay attention to it as to a lamp for lighting a way through the dark, until the dawn comes and the morning star rises in your minds.

   

Luke 9: 28-36

   Now about eight days after this had been said, he took with him Peter, John and James and went up the mountain to pray. And it happened that, as he was praying, the aspect of his face was changed and his clothing became sparkling white. And suddenly there were two men talking to him; they were Moses and Elijah appearing in glory, and they were speaking of his passing which he was to accomplish in Jerusalem. Peter and his companions were heavy with sleep, but they woke up and saw his glory and the two men standing with him. As these were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, ‘Master, 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 he was saying. As he was saying this, a cloud came and covered them with shadow; and when they went into the cloud the disciples were afraid. And a voice came from the cloud saying, ‘This is my Son, the Chosen One. Listen to him.’ And after the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. The disciples kept silence and, at that time, told no one what they had seen.

   

                    I see in trying to do the prayer services — God
                has called me to pray deeply on the days of retreat —
                openly singing His praise, through the Word and
                Psalms and filled with great love for Him —

 

Shepherds of Christ

Priestly Newsletter 2000 Issue 3

    

The Father's Will for Us - Our Source of Peace

  • In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you,’ and, after saying this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Lord, and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’ (Jn 20:19-21).

The world needs peace. Individual nations need peace and families need peace. The Church needs peace. Each of us individually needs peace. We must work for peace through prayer, fasting, and other Christ-like activities.

And just what do we mean by peace? St. Augustine says peace is the tranquility of order. God has put order into His creation and this order must be respected and promoted if peace is to prevail. To the extent that the human family lives according to God’s will—lives according to the order or the plan God has established for creation—to that extent does peace exist in the various segments of human society. To the extent there are violations of God’s plan, of His will, to that extent peace is absent.

If we are to be instruments of peace, we ourselves must be at peace. Our personal peace is that tranquility of order which results from our doing God’s will. The more we are united through love with God in the doing of His will, the more we experience peace.

Sometimes the sense of peace we experience is so strong that we can "feel" it pulsating throughout our being. These are periods of what we may call the experience of extraordinary peace. This type of peace usually is not an everyday occurrence.

Most of the time we live immersed in a more subdued kind of peace which results from our daily attempts to do God’s will in love. It is that peace which is a welcome and sustaining companion as we walk the path of everyday life with its usual assortments of joys and disappointments, successes and failures, laughter and tears.

Occasionally, very deep suffering may enter our lives. It is during these times that we need special determination to preserve ourselves in a basic peace of spirit despite the very significant pain. One may wonder how a person can be at peace amidst the experience of great suffering. St. Francis de Sales in one of his writings—and I have not been able to locate the exact place—offers an analogy which I think is very helpful. He asks us to picture an ocean body of water at the time of a violent storm. The surface of the water becomes extremely turbulent. Francis asks us, as we use our imagination, to descend beneath the surface of the water into its depth. What do we find? The more deeply one descends away from the turbulent surface, the calmer the water becomes. Likewise, says the saint and doctor of the Church, should it be with us during times of profound suffering. Although the surface of the spirit may be very agitated, one can still maintain basic peace of spirit by going deep down to one’s center where God is more directly experienced. Here the person experiences a calm, a basic peace, although the suffering remains.

If we are trying to do God’s will in love, God intends us to be at peace. The more we conform to God’s will, the more we are living according to the order He intends for us. In turn, the more our lives are in harmony with the order established by God, the more we experience peace—peace being the tranquility of order. The more we ourselves live in this manner, the more fit instruments we become for promoting God’s order and consequent peace throughout the various segments of society.

  • St. Dominic was an outstanding witness to the peace of the Lord: "Dominic possessed such great integrity and was so strongly motivated by divine love, that without doubt he proved to be a bearer of honor and grace. He was a man of great equanimity, except when moved to compassion and mercy. And since a joyful heart animates the face, he displayed the peaceful composure of a spiritual man in the kindness he manifested outwardly and by the cheerfulness of his countenance."14

  • Shortly before he was to die from cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.

"But we know that spring will soon come with all its new life and wonder.

"It is quite clear that I will not be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a different way…

"What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."15

 

      

 

  • St. Teresa of Avila, one of the three women doctors of the Church, tells us how the spiritual life is summed up in loving conformity to the Father’s will:

"All that the beginner in prayer has to do -- and you must not forget this, for it is very important -- is to labor and to be resolute and prepare himself with all possible diligence to bring his will in conformity with the will of God. As I shall say later, you may be quite sure that this comprises the very greatest perfection which can be attained on the spiritual road."16

Again she states: "...love consists ... in the firmness of our determination to try to please God in everything." 17

NOTES:

14. "From the Various Writings of the History of the Order of Preachers," as in The Liturgy of the Hours, Catholic Book Publishing Co., Vol lV, p. 1302.
15. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.
16. St Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle, translated by E. Allison Peers, Doubleday and Co., "Second Mansions", p. 51.
17. Ibid., "Fourth Mansions", p. 76.

       

                    When God gives me insight into His mysteries
                and I write about it I can be seen as a rival
                among some who do not understand how important
                it is to God to live deeply praying united for the
                priests, the Church and the world.

                    I deliver a message to help to bring renewal
                to the Church and the world — a message from Jesus
                and Mary from Their Hearts of love for peace
                for man and yet I can be looked on as a
                rival, jealously — I beg God for grace and ask others
                to honor God, we are singing His Word, the Psalms —
                reading the Word and homilies, focusing
                always on the Mass, intimacy with God and
                the mysteries of the Rosary —

                    We too can treat God like a rival — instead
                of being in the will of God — we can try
                to fight His will for us and we live a
                life of disharmony —

                    Order is found in following Christ —
                    In being in one mind and one heart with
                    God — satan wants man filled with
                    foolish pride opposing God's Plan for us

                Listen to the Words of Pope John Paul II — this
                    excerpt taken from Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletter
                    2000 Issue 3

 

Priestly Newsletter 2000 Issue 3

Pope John Paul II instructs us: "The Church, as a reconciled and reconciling community, cannot forget that at the source of her gift and mission of reconciliation is the initiative, full of compassionate love and mercy, of that God who is love (see 1 John 4:8) and who out of love created human beings (see Wisdom 11:23-26; Genesis 1:27: Psalms 8:4-8)…He created them so that they might live in friendship with Him and in communion with one another.

"God is faithful to His eternal plan even when man, under the impulse of the evil one (see Wisdom 2:24) and carried away by his own pride, abuses the freedom given to him in order to love and generously seek what is good, and (instead) refuses to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when man, instead of responding with love to God’s love, opposes Him and treats Him like a rival, deluding himself and relying on his own power, with the resulting break of relationship with the One who created him. In spite of this transgression on man’s part, God remains faithful in love.

"It is certainly true that the story of the Garden of Eden makes us think about the tragic consequences of rejecting the Father, which becomes evident in man’s inner disorder and in the breakdown of harmony between man and woman, brother and brother (see Genesis 3:12 ff; 4:1-16). Also significant is the Gospel parable of the two brothers (the parable of the ‘prodigal son’; see Luke 15:11-32) who, in different ways, distance themselves from their father and cause a rift between them. Refusal of God’s fatherly love and of His loving gifts is always at the root of humanity’s divisions.

"But we know that God…like the father in the parable (of the prodigal son), does not close His heart to any of His children. He waits for them, looks for them, goes to meet them at the place where the refusal of communion imprisons them in isolation and division. He calls them to gather about His table in the joy of the feast of forgiveness and reconciliation.

"This initiative on God’s part is made concrete and manifest in the redemptive act of Christ, which radiates through the world by means of the ministry of the Church." 13

NOTES:

13. Pope John Paul II, as in Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, pp. 140-141.

      

                    I seek to explain what my heart knows is
                truth and the truth so real in me at times it
                seems that knowing this reality in my heart and
                soul as I do that little else even matters and yet
                that which seems so clear to me — seems unable
                to grasp by others and I flounder to express
                the ineffable which seems clear to me —
                so clear at times in my soul.

                    Oh God the Holy Spirit, let me reach for insight
                ever further into Your marvelous design —
                when I scampered to write You came to my
                aid to help me write about Your Divine
                truths and yet they seem so simple and
                yet so profound — so clear and yet so
                deep I can never see much at all — as
                looking in a glass I may see the bottom,
                but in looking into Your Divine Mysteries
                I never see a bottom — I only experience
                the thirsting of a fuller life in Thee —

                    I stand as one on a pinnacle of a big hill
                and yet I see myself at the bottom looking up
                and seeing very little at all.

                    I see the sunset and I see Your magnificence —
                and when I reach to take it in my arms are left
                empty and soon, very soon, it goes under
                the horizon and feels I lost it altogether.

                Reaching and widening my vision only to
                see how little I see at all —
                and yet as I speak, I feel I talk to
                mannequins in this world where others do
                not live, but are as dead men without
                life at all —

                    Life is in You
                   
                    Fullness in beholding ever deeper a
                        mystery —

                    Reaching out, cupping it in my hand-
                        only to find —
                        I cannot hold anything at all

                    The lights transform my soul, but the
                        intensity of the revelation like lightening
                        on a dark night
                        It shoots across the sky and as we look —
                            we see, but a glimpse of the reality
                            of the tree tops, roof tops — electric
                            wires and it is gone in a flash —

                Gone with me, not forever, for I am changed
                    and my vision made wider and clearer, but
                    I grope to understand more —
                    I shout God — like one looking at the
                    lightening — why did you tease me God —
                    I reached out and like sand falling through
                    my fingers — soon my hand which was
                    once full of sand — left empty, but
                    God I was changed inside from holding
                    the handful of sand

                Lift my face — so it shines to know You
                    ever more — I look as one humbly —
                    groping just to stand among these men —
                    some stiffs and know it alls and I want
                    to shout of Your glory, but I am like
                    the sleeping person — unable to shout
                    in their sleep — even though they see
                    what is coming that will harm us and leave
                    us empty —

                Oh God outpour Your mercy, despite our
                    sins — when night comes we sing Your glory —
                    when day comes — the sun so bright we
                    do not even see and take notice — we
                    go inside to look at plaster walls and
                    protect ourselves from the light that
                    could fill us

                We run down roads that lead nowhere —
                Like steps that go up to nothing, when there
                are steps that go to high places of comfort
                and cease to go there.

                Why does man have rivalry with Your
                    will, Oh God

                Why does man choose such disorder
                Why God
                Why haven't we studied the rivalry of
                    Adam and Eve with You and saw the fate
                    of such sin —

                Why does man fight Your order?
                Why does man fight Your commandments?
                Why does man fight YOU —

                Oh Divine Savior could we meditate on
                    Your precious life in the rosary —
                    to discipline our minds and let your
                    life live in us

                Satan is the enemy of our thoughts —
                    trying to fill our heads with isolation
                    and discord —
                    filling us with unreal thoughts that will
                        never happen and WE GIVE INTO SATAN

 

Priestly Newsletter 2000 Issue 1

Prayer and Self Identity

Here are words which unite prayer and one’s quest to grow in an awareness of one’s self-identity. "Since the only real identity we have is our relationship with God in Christ — we are in God’s image mediated by Christ — we grow in achieving true self-identity through growth in the awareness that each of us is a unique reflection of God, that we live by His life —indeed, we participate in his life through grace...

"Prayer plays a profound role in achieving self-identity. In the loving quiet of prayer God reveals both Himself to us and us to ourselves. These aspects are intimately connected. As God communicates knowledge concerning Himself, He also gives insight into ourselves, we who are in His image. As prayer grows, this insight concerning God and ourselves deepens. We become more aware of what is involved in living by the life of God, in living according to the divine image, in living a Christ-like existence. All these expressions point to the same reality — that we are finite expressions of the infinite, and each of us uniquely so, and that growth in self-identity means an increased lived awareness of this sublime truth.

"When this awareness reaches a certain consistency, we have arrived at a change in consciousness. This stage of the spiritual journey is of the utmost importance. If one goes forward after this change in consciousness, one’s life will never again be the same. One has achieved a new way of comprehending the answer to the mystery of human existence.

"Before this change in consciousness occurs, even the committed Christian can ask at times, ‘Is this all there is to life?’ This question can nag at the human heart even as one enjoys significant accomplishments, experiences the joy-dimension of the human condition, and feels a sense of love and security emanating from personal relationships.

" ‘Is this all there is to life?’ For the Christian, this question and the manner in which he or she confronts it, is of critical importance. It is not as though the Christian who faces this existential challenge has not previously possessed the key to life’s mystery. The vision of faith has already provided this key. The vision of faith, however, operates on different levels. The more spiritually mature person, the one further advanced in prayer, has a better grasp on how to live the mystery of life than does one less spiritually advanced...

"Confronting properly, then, the haunting question ‘Is this all there is to life?’, will lead to this deeper Christian existence which will manifest that, yes, indeed, there is more to life than one had previously known. If one follows the lead of grace, if one grows in the life of prayer and consistently lives on the level where the Christ-like self is dynamically operative, one will never again be haunted by the feeling that life is not yielding a sufficient sense of fulfillment." 17

NOTES:

17. Edward Carter, S.J., The Mysticism of Everyday, Sheed & Ward, pp. 44-46.

      

                I looked and I did not see —

                My ears were opened to the noise and yet I
                    heard more the clamor of disorder
                    from within and without —

                When I reached for a sunset — my glance
                    left me with the dark night and the wonder
                    I knew was but a breath written on
                    my soul

                I am like a lightening rod —
                    there is that outside of me
                    and there is that within me

                And yet there is You my God and Your everlasting
                    glory so real to me, so alive in me —

                I am in the pocket of my God
                    held close to His endless Heart of love
                    I am here, but I am in Him
                    I am there but I am in Him
                    My reach here is not one I hold, but like
                        fleeting moments of sunset and
                        lightening

                    The Eucharist lives in my soul —
                        My longing for the Mass Adoration
                        HIM, HIM, HIM truly present and with
                        me in the Eucharist

                I see as in a mirror

                I see golden light as in the vision of
                    March 26, 1996

                I see cracks of reality —

                A smoke screen —

                A person unaware that Mary appears
                    before me and sees their reality and I
                    cannot even tell them so they believe —
                    that Mary is here — now — consumed
                    in light before me

                Like a man returned from the dead in a fiction movie and
                    men do not hear or see him —
                    I speak and see Mary and I am looked
                    upon as one who is crazy

                Even after she appeared every day for
                    14 months at an old seminary which
                    was Mt. St. Mary's and then the
                    book with Rainbow from these
                    visits left the printer — the same
                    day December 17, 1996

 

shipped from the printers
December 17, 1996

Mary appeared
December 17, 1996

 

                The Rosary Meditations are the handbook of
                    Clearwater — Why do you not see
                    with your own eyes

           

  

                See and don't see

                Rivalry instead of peace
                Rivalry with God's Plan

                To me that is a prescription of failure
                Look at Adam and Eve

                Cain slew his brother

 

Ephesians 4: 17, 20-24

So this I say to you and attest to you in the Lord, do not go on living the empty–headed life that the gentiles live. 

Now that is hardly the way you have learnt Christ, unless you failed to hear him properly when you were taught what the truth is in Jesus. You were to put aside your old self, which belongs to your old way of life and is corrupted by following illusory desires. Your mind was to be renewed in spirit so that you could put on the New Man that has been created on God’s principles, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

 

Psalm 78: 3-4, 23-25, 54

we have heard and know,
what our ancestors have told us
we shall not conceal from their descendants,
but will tell to a generation still to come:

the praises of Yahweh, his power,
the wonderful deeds he has done.

Even so he gave orders to the skies above,
he opened the sluice gates of heaven;
he rained down manna to feed them,
he gave them the wheat of heaven;
mere mortals ate the bread of the Mighty,
he sent them as much food as they could want.

He brought them to his holy land,
the hill country won by his right hand;

 

Exodus 16: 2-4, 12-15

And the whole community of Israelites began complaining about Moses and Aaron in the desert and said to them, 'Why did we not die at Yahweh's hand in Egypt, where we used to sit round the flesh pots and could eat to our heart's content! As it is, you have led us into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death!'

Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Look, I shall rain down bread for you from the heavens. Each day the people must go out and collect their ration for the day; I propose to test them in this way to see whether they will follow my law or not.

'I have heard the Israelites' complaints. Speak to them as follows, "At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will have bread to your heart's content, and then you will know that I am Yahweh your God."'

That evening, quails flew in and covered the camp, and next morning there was a layer of dew all round the camp. When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the desert was something fine and granular, as fine as hoarfrost on the ground. As soon as the Israelites saw this, they said to one another, 'What is that?' not knowing what it was. 'That', Moses told them, 'is the food which Yahweh has given you to eat.

 

John 6: 24-35

When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into those boats and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus. When they found him on the other side, they said to him, 'Rabbi, when did you come here?' Jesus answered:

In all truth I tell you,
you are looking for me
not because you have seen the signs
but because you had all the bread
   you wanted to eat.
Do not work for food that goes bad,
but work for food
   that endures for eternal life,
which the Son of man will give you,
for on him the Father, God himself,
   has set his seal.

    Then they said to him, 'What must we do if we are to carry out God's work?' Jesus gave them this answer, 'This is carrying out God's work: you must believe in the one he has sent.' So they said, 'What sign will you yourself do, the sight of which will make us believe in you? What work will you do? Our fathers ate manna in the desert; as scripture says: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' Jesus answered them:

In all truth I tell you,
it was not Moses
   who gave you the bread from heaven,
it is my Father
   who gives you the bread from heaven,
the true bread;
for the bread of God
is the bread
   which comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.

'Sir,' they said, 'give us that bread always.'
Jesus answered them:

    

Matthew 7: 7-11

‘Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. Everyone who asks receives; everyone who searches finds; everyone who knocks will have the door opened. Is there anyone among you who would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread? Or would hand him a snake when he asked for a fish? If you, then, evil as you are, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

 

Psalm 27: 1-4, 8-9, 13-14

Yahweh is my light and my salvation, 
    whom should I fear? 
Yahweh is the fortress of my life, 
    whom should I dread?

One thing I ask of Yahweh, 
    one thing I seek: 
to dwell in Yahweh’s house 
    all the days of my life, 
to enjoy the sweetness of Yahweh, 
    to seek out his temple.

Of you my heart has said, 
    ‘Seek his face!’ 
Your face, Yahweh, I seek; 
    do not turn away from me. 

Do not thrust aside your servant in anger, 
    without you I am helpless. 
Never leave me, never forsake me, 
    God, my Saviour.

This I believe: I shall see the goodness of Yahweh, 
    in the land of the living. 
Put your hope in Yahweh, be strong, let your heart be bold, 
    put your hope in Yahweh.

 

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.

   

Psalm 115: 3-8

Our God is in heaven, 
he creates whatever he chooses. 
They have idols of silver and gold, 
made by human hands. 

These have mouths but say nothing, 
have eyes but see nothing, 
have ears but hear nothing, 
have noses but smell nothing. 

They have hands but cannot feel, 
have feet but cannot walk, 
no sound comes from their throats. 
Their makers will end up like them, 
and all who rely on them. 

   

                We have a free will
                We walk toward God or
                We can walk away from God.

 

Priestly Newsletter 2000 Issue 3

Priesthood

Pope John Paul II speaks to his brother priests: "In a certain way prayer is the first and last condition for conversion, spiritual progress and holiness. Perhaps in the recent years — at least in certain quarters — there has been too much discussion about the Priesthood, the priest’s ‘identity’, the value of his presence in the modern world, etc., and on the other hand there has been too little praying. There has not been enough enthusiasm for actuating the Priesthood itself through prayer...in order to confirm the priestly identity. It is prayer that shows the essential style of the priest; without prayer this style becomes deformed. Prayer helps us always to find the light that has led us since the beginning of our priestly vocation, and which never ceases to lead us, even though it seems at times to disappear in the darkness. Prayer enables us to be converted continually, to remain in a state of continuous reaching out to God, which is essential if we wish to lead others to Him. Prayer helps us to believe, to hope and to love, even when our human weakness hinders us.

"Prayer likewise enables us continually to rediscover the dimensions of that kingdom for whose coming we pray every day, when we repeat the words that Christ taught us. Then we realize what our place is in the realization of the petition: ‘Thy kingdom come’, and we see how necessary we are in its realization."

And here are further words of John Paul II to priests: "Dear brothers: ...you who have put your hand to the plough and do not turn back, and perhaps even more those of you who are doubtful of the meaning of your vocation or of the value of your service: think of the places where people anxiously await a priest, and where for many years, feeling the lack of such a priest, they do not cease to hope for his presence. And sometimes it happens that they meet in an abandoned shrine, and place on the altar a stole which they still keep, and recite all the prayers of the Eucharistic Liturgy; and then, at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation a deep silence comes down upon them, a silence sometimes broken by a sob... so ardently do they desire to hear the words that only the lips of a priest can efficaciously utter... So deeply do they feel the absence of a priest among them!... Such places are not lacking in the world. So if one of you doubts the meaning of his Priesthood, if he thinks it is ‘socially’ fruitless or useless, reflect on this! 44

44. Pope John Paul II, Holy Thursday Letters to My Brother Priests, edited by James P. Socias, Scepter Publications and Midwestern Theological Forum, pp. 38-40.

      

                Song: A Priest is a Gift from God

 

English

 

                HELP ME DO WHAT GOD WANTS

 

   

 

 

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2000

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Spirituality Handbook
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Tell My People
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Tell My People

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