Given August 31, 2015

                R. God shows us He is Our Father by
                    giving us life –
                    God calls us to live life to be
                        loving, to be in God's image
                        and likeness.

                Every person is called to grow
                    spiritually to progress
                    in sincere self knowledge
                    and to do penance for their
                    sins.

                We are here to work on our eternal life
                    and to help others to get to
                    heaven.

                God gives us living water!

                God calls us to share in His
                    life – to rise above our
                    wounded human nature and to
                    grow in the virtues. God gives
                    us a share in greater happiness –
                    happiness depends on life in God.

                Christ is the new Adam. Christ paid
                    a precious price for the gift He
                    gave us.

                R. Christ came to give us life so we
                    could have abundant life –

                Song: I Love You Jesus

                R. Jesus' miracles were miracles
                    of life! Miracles of health
                    and sight and hearing.

                Jesus is the Bread of Life –

                Jesus is the vine we are the branches
                    life is in being one with
                    Jesus.

                The sharing in His life is
                    supernatural life.

                It comes through union
                    with God –

                God loved us first –

                    Response to God's love –

                    We have a free will to
                        choose darkness or
                        to choose joy, happiness,
                        love in Him.

                We can be in heaven for eternity,
                    it never ends, but we
                    must choose to live
                    by God's commandments –
                    the commandments of love –

                Man is to be obedient to God –

                Learn to be obedient to those
                    under God – over them.

                The Church is to bring us to Christ –

                Christ is the head of the
                    mystical body –

                Jesus Christ is God – the Son of God –
                    Jesus became man – Jesus is
                    a Divine Person with two
                    Natures: a Human Nature
                                a Divine Nature –

                Jesus was born and lived
                    a hidden life for 30 years –

                The Sacred Heart devotion is
                    to show us the Love of
                    the Sacred Heart –
                    pure and perfect love.
 

Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round him, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, keep the tradition of the elders and never eat without washing their arms as far as the elbow; and on returning from the market place they never eat without first sprinkling themselves. There are also many other observances which have been handed down to them to keep, concerning the washing of cups and pots and bronze dishes. So the Pharisees and scribes asked him, 'Why do your disciples not respect the tradition of the elders but eat their food with unclean hands?' He answered, 'How rightly Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites in the passage of scripture: 

    This people honours me 
        only with lip-service, 
    while their hearts are far from me. 
    Their reverence of me is worthless; 
    the lessons they teach 
        are nothing but human commandments. 

You put aside the commandment of God to observe human traditions.

                R. We are to be in the image and
                    likeness of God –

                Jesus is love –
                Jesus taught love –
                Jesus showed us obedience
                Jesus laid down His life for us
                Jesus showed us about loving
                    each other –

                What we do to others –
                    we do to Jesus
 

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

                R. Mystical Body of Christ
                    (1) Union with Christ
                    (2) Union with one another

                We are brothers and sisters –

                We need to treat each other like
                    brothers and sisters –

                God calls us to be united to the
                    Mass – the sacrifice of Calvary
                    sacramentally made present –

                The Church is ONE, HOLY,
                    CATHOLIC and
                    APOSTOLIC –
 

John 17: 20-23

I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
   and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
   you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
   that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

 

                R. Unity in Christ the head!

                Visible unity in Catholic
                    Church – we believe the
                    same truths –

                We have the same sacraments –
                We have the same worship –

                The Holy Father is the visible
                    center of this unity.

                We are united with others
                    in Christ –

                Shepherds of Christ is to pray for the
                    renewal of the Church and the world –
                    UNITY

                We are to ask –

                    What does Christ want of us –

                    We are to follow Christ as
                        closely as we can –

                    Some people who call themselves
                        holy are poor examples of
                        this – they hurt many
                        by being negative witnesses,
                        rebelling against Christ

                A person who loves God – doesn't
                    ask – "how little can I give"
                    We ask what does Jesus
                    want of me – how best
                    can I serve Jesus –
                    how can I be faithful to Jesus –
 

Matthew 16:15-19

'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.'

                Jesus: The Shepherds of Christ was given
                    by My Father to bring unity and
                    love and help renew My Church.

                September 1, 2015

                R. Do you have hope?

                    To see the beauty God created –
                    To see through the eyes of God.

                    Beauty in nature
                    Beauty in a baby's eyes
                    Beauty in a baby's little hand
                    Beauty just watching a baby walk!

                A woman/man would not move and so
                    she/he just got more and more
                    angry and nobody could
                    stop her/his pain and revenge and
                    hatred, but herself/himself –
                    he lived a lie – make his darkness –
                    bring others down!

                Did you ever see the sunshine
                    bridge?

                Did you ever see the
                    sunlit sky of a
                    child's picture –

                Reality is seeing beautiful
                    waters and land and
                    a bridge bringing the
                    lands together.
 

                R. Love builds a bridge

                Love sees beauty –

                Evil is from inside the
                    heart

                Folly tears it down with its
                    evil heart!

                CONFLICT

                PASSIVE - AGGRESSIVE
 

                R. ῀ Beauty and love ῀

                Open my heart

                    Lord

                Let me see

                    your face

                Seek ye first the

                    Kingdom of God

                Two men looked out prison bars
                    one saw mud, the other stars –

                How does one seeing through
                    God's eyes see

                R. Seeing with Light and Truth

                Gospel of Sunday - read 3 times

Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round him, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, keep the tradition of the elders and never eat without washing their arms as far as the elbow; and on returning from the market place they never eat without first sprinkling themselves. There are also many other observances which have been handed down to them to keep, concerning the washing of cups and pots and bronze dishes. So the Pharisees and scribes asked him, 'Why do your disciples not respect the tradition of the elders but eat their food with unclean hands?' He answered, 'How rightly Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites in the passage of scripture: 

    This people honours me 
        only with lip-service, 
    while their hearts are far from me. 
    Their reverence of me is worthless; 
    the lessons they teach 
        are nothing but human commandments. 

You put aside the commandment of God to observe human traditions.

                R. The Gospel is the Good News –
                The Gospel is the living Word of God
                The Gospel shows us a picture of Jesus.

                Seeing men in the image and likeness of God.

                A person has an image of life in
                    their mind and heart –
                    A man with love in his heart
                        is more likened to Jesus
                        he sees unity
                        he sees people working,
                        praying together, he
                        sees family –
                        he sees babies as sacred gifts from God –

                DISTORTED VISION

                How does a depressed man see

                R. Seeing in darkness – distortedly

                A person that has given into sin –
                    sees darkness
                    sees disorder
                    carries a weight on their back –
                    wants people out of their space –
                    doesn't have love in their hearts
                        for their brothers
                    doesn't see family – sees isolation
                        sees control
                    trying to make, force men in his
                        image and likeness

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
    in the image of God he created him,
    male and female he created them.

                Song: Give Me your heart oh Jesus

                R. Faith

                R. Sees through the vision of the
                    Heavenly Father

                    Love                Compassion
                    Family
                    Light
                    Unity   
                    Forgiveness
 

                R. God is

                    Absolute Truth
                    Divine Wisdom
                    Reality Veiled

                Seeing Divine Glory

                Seeing the Light of our
                    own graced soul –

                Seeing through the eyes
                    of God

                Beauty of a  child –
 

                    Splendor of God

                    Reality –

                R. Humility – like the heart of Mary

                    Mary had no malice –

                    Her actions were centered on God –

                    She was under God –

                    She was sinless –

January 5, 1997
"BABY, BARE BABY, LAID BARE"

R. On January 5, 1997, I was wakened by Our Lord and He was mumbling as He was around my bed as He did on October 8, 1997, when He delivered the "Seedless, Barren, No Fruit on the Vine" message.

I heard Him and He repeated the words over and over again. I had a copy of the all-night message on the floor, I jumped from the bed and began to write around the message, for it was the only paper available and He was speaking very plainly and direct. I wrote this message in the margins of the paper. He kept repeating "BABY, BARE BABY, LAID BARE".

Jesus:  Open yourself, Oh Jerusalem, your time is come you will be a light to the people in darkness, many will walk whence you come and the earth will be shakened and the light will come across a dark sky and enlighten their minds.

Oh stiff-necked people, you are so stiff in your ways, let the spirit envelope you and lead you on your way.

A country of stiffs, a people of planning and prodding, of deliberating and wondering—you lack faith, Jerusalem, you lack faith in God.

Oh walk naked into the cold night, you are cold in your hearts and naked in your clothing—I cloth you with glory, I light your face with light, but you turn your cheeks to the darkness and stay stiff-necked in your hearts. Oh cold and dark hearts, reach for the light that you may know the glory that awaits the sinners and enlightens their minds.

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                R. God shows us His wonder in
                    this world –
                    in children
                    in the skies
                    in the light of day

                God shows us His creation from nothing –

                We are in awe

                God is Infinite Perfection –

                    Absolute Truth –

                We can go to heaven and see God –
                    face to face –
                    know –

                Our heart seeks fullness of life
                    in heaven –

                The depths of God not seen
                    on earth – that was
                    veiled!

                We can know God, as He is
                    in heaven –

                See Him face to face

                Moses went up the Mountain
                    to get the commandments
                    and his face was
                    bright!

                Creatures have defects here
                    on earth – we seek
                    a pure heart –

                God is all just –

                God judges us justly –

                God is all good

                How did we live?
 

           R. Christ
                    knocking on door

                CALL

                Response

                God First loved us

                    We respond to God –
 

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.F

    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. 1991

                Jesus told me
                we were attracted to Him
                    like steel to a magnet –

                But we have a free will

                We can turn our back
                    to God –

                Independence –

                Trying to be in control
                    over God

Revelation 21: 1-8

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, ‘Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God–with–them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.’
 
     Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. ‘Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true." Then he said to me, ‘It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son.  But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.’ 

                R. The Shepherds of Christ is for the renewal
                    of the Church and the world
     

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