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September 12, 2015
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September 13th Holy Spirit Novena |
The Novena Rosary
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Blue Book 15 Available
Introductory Price $5.00 plus postage
September 12, 2015
R. The sacraments are signs or symbols
through which Christ acts to give
us His life or increase and deepen
it in us.
John 9
A man was born blind – Christ
used mud and put it over
his eyes and he washed
it off and he saw –
The important part of the sacraments
is Christ acts – Christ chooses
to act in a certain way using
certain things instruments –
The priest, water, bread, wine,
oil –
The blind man put faith in
Christ
Water or bread or wine or
oil cannot do anything
to us by themselves –
but through Christ –
they become an instrument
of Divine Life –
Thus it is important to realize
the sacraments are acts of Christ
an encounter with Christ –
they are not magic or automatic
(like a candy machine)
Their value can be increased
by how God decides to give
grace, but we should
have a holy attitude –
especially believing and
loving as God intends
us to do
God gives grace –
Faith, hope and love are theological
virtues –
God gives the grace –
We respond to His grace –
Fresh air in a room does not depend on
the window, but whether
the window is open –
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in
the graced baptized soul
The Holy Spirit moves as a breathe in the
man that opens to Him and
the Holy Spirit comes in –
The voice of the Holy Spirit is with the
gentle touch –
The fruits of the Holy Spirit are
charity, joy, peace, patience,
benignity (kindness), goodness,
long-suffering, mildness,
faith, modesty, continency,
and chastity.
The Holy Spirit wants to lead us, as a
breathe
He does not come in when a
person is focused on provoking
and manipulating others
in mean and angry pranks –
The soul needs silence and peace
for the Holy Spirit to enter and
rest and work there –
The man addicted to anger and
jealousy and envy and pride –
is not hearing the breathe of the Holy Spirit.
The deadly sins – deaden a man's
perception –- his vision is
distorted –
He holds on – when he needs to
let go and know his
dependence on God for
greater faith, hope and love –
Fr. Carter always told me – we need
relationships of loving and
trusting one another and this
helps us grow in our
relationship with God –
Knowing and loving and trusting God helps
us with intimate relationships
with others –
If a person is not trustworthy
in any relationships with
others – how can they trust
God or even learn about
friendship –
Living with others in family and
friends helps us work on
problems and still live
in love and unity with others –
Living our whole life deciding
"I will avoid problems – so
I can decide what to do
first is wrong"
Jesus: I see this – the man who tries
to do his own will under
authority because he wants –
no problems –
he wants control –
and he hasn't learned about
dependence on God –
nor does he ever even let
the Holy Spirit move in him –
Living in a vacuum against
the people you were called
to work with –
Doesn't work –
God is God –
When a person acts from the
wounded place of their
human nature – they
do not grow and their
advancements do not
last –
Leaders are to be focused on God's
people –
A person closing in – where they
decide, where they do not
open up – where there is
not unity and working
together –
is just that –
a person closing down –
Where do you go - when you
built nothing and you
need help in your old age –
The fool doesn't see tomorrow –
A person addicted to anger can
be enslaved to his darkness –
To know Divine Things, a person
must be pure –
A person is open to the Holy Spirit
who is working in their
life –
Not closed down because they
have found a place in
life where they can
operate, control and
never change their ways!
You either grow or go backward
in the spiritual life –
You don't stay the same.
Purity, love, growth in the
spiritual life comes
from the Holy Spirit working in
a soul – open and knowing
their dependence on God.
A man went to the window
and it was closed. He
then began to talk of the
fresh air circulating through
the window –
What a fool – a window
closed does not have fresh
air coming through the
window.
How can a soul be open
to the Holy Spirit when
it is controlled by anger
and pride, envy, jealousy,
slothfulness – addictions
and selfishness in a stubborn
controlling will?
September 12, 2015
R. In prayer we talk to God –
We need to communicate with
each other –
We need to communicate as a
friend with God.
Without communication in friends,
at home – marriages break up –
A person who is married is
to work with a husband,
and if they have children –
they know children grow
up
Children can react to what went
on in the home by rebelling
against authority life-long –
God intends us to communicate
and to work with each other –
Parents teach the children about
how men and women get along –
A person can learn from their home-life
that they should be truthful
and at peace, they should be
fair, they should trust
relationships and make friends –
We are being taught at home - how
to obey authority, about structure
about friends, about trust, about
life –
In one home the people communicate,
there is celebration, people feel
respected, people feel safe to
unite and go out to the world
and build relationships with
others – it is safe – people are
true to their word – Marriage is
a union that is created by God
and in marriage it is to be
like a small church – growing
in love – working on problems
fairly – learning about authority –
learning boundaries about themselves –
nobody has a right to touch a
child sexually – it is against
their boundaries –
boundaries are taught in families
to children – to children about
how brothers and sisters are
to treat each other – boys treat
girls –
Yes the home has a big function
that influences a person in
life –
People can then marry – we can see
that many times children that were
not taught right – give the parents
a lot of problems when they
grew up.
People learn about feeling
secure in families – a person
can feel secure from their
home or a person can spend
their life trying to get lost
power back from others – never
making relationships – never
being accountable for their behavior –
seeking negative affection – every
day if they can get away with
it – turning upside down and
destroying relationships every
place they go – HIGH MAINTENANCE –
How can such a person
trust God – learn to make relationships
with God if they see other people
as an enemy?
Relationship is learned and
passed down from the family tree –
How do the men think about women
in the family?
Did the dad respect the wife?
Was there love between them
given in the family?
Did people really teach the
children about loving God
and communicating to God
in a particular family?
Were people taught about
boundaries, authority,
working together, love,
respect?
Was the person taught - not to
respect their brothers and
sisters, but be in competition,
allowed to pull jealous
and envious pranks –
Life is a learning process –
Learning about relationships
with God and others –
God commands us to love
that means we are to try to
get along with each
other in relationships.
A person also has a basic disposition,
are they this type of person or
that type of person, but we
all have tendencies toward
the deadly sins because of
original sin –
A person that spends their life seeing
only their own world, so they
don't have to change and
forcing their plan on others, has
not learned to let go and
live by God's will –
A person is to learn to love, to get
along, to seek truth, to be
really more and more like
Jesus –
In dysfunctional homes there can
be many secrets – how people
play out games: passive-aggressive
to manipulate others
In religious communities – there are
to be communities – not to
where any person underneath
can use the job, needed things for
the development of the Church
as a weapon to try to force
their learned behavior from
the past on others –
Religious communities have
a superior and structure
and the nuns, brothers or
priests – live by the rules
of poverty, chastity and obedience –
usually all 3 –
there must be chastity and
obedience to the superior –
there is to be structure –
not where individuals do what
they want at the bottom of
the structure steps and
force their way to be obeyed
by those over them –
That place is utter pandemonium
and will not grow in
order or holiness where
an institution has no authority
and people manipulate from
underneath authority –
When there is structure, rules,
and love there can be growth –
In loving God and others in
families, religious orders,
marriage – people are working
together – happy to be with
each other – praying together –
there is a goal of giving respect
and love and fairness –
There are rules –
There is authority –
There is love –
There is hope of eternal life
for oneself and for others
in the family and community –
There are people that are true –
on the outside they do not
wear a mask for secrets
and manipulation they
engage in – in the inside –
There is honesty –
Look at Christ - who went to
His death – almost bare –
He was stripped of His
garments –
People in dysfunctional families
can be taught to harbor
secrets –
What goes on in the house?
A person who is accountable
to God – doesn't act
different when no one
is looking – they know God knows
their heart and sees their actions
even if nobody else does –
Jesus paid a big price to come
and teach us about Himself –
We see a real picture of Jesus
in the Gospels –
People who are true - don't
lie – don't manipulate –
God is absolute truth –
We are to be a blessing
to others and living to
spread honesty and truthfulness
in our dealings with others –
the greatest commandment is –
Matthew 22: 36-40
'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'
R. When we love God - we know
presence – we increase in
our knowing God's presence
in us –
We want to be more and more in
the image and likeness of God –
God gives us communion – to
help us unite with Him and with
others –
We are in the family of God at
Mass – we unite in a
very deep way –
God wants all men to go to
Mass – especially on Sunday –
3. Remember to keep holy the
Sabbath day.
We go in love –
We give ourselves on the Lord's
Day - in love –
God commands us to keep holy
the Sabbath Day –
Religion is not just between
God and me – it
includes our brothers –
We spend time in loving
affection with God alone –
in prayer
We spend time in loving
affection with God with
our brothers –
Both are necessary and support
each other –
Matthew 18: 19-20
Prayer in common
'In truth I tell you once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I am there among them.'
R. Prayer should include
1) adoration
2) contrition - sorrow for sin
3) thanksgiving
4) supplication
We must have faith in our
prayers –
God will hear us –
God will answer us according
to His will
God is a Father who loves
us and hears our
prayers and helps us –
We are to love God with our
whole heart, our whole soul,
our whole being –
Love is giving
When we love God we want
to give this love to God –
The person who wants to know
God's presence will
pray often –
We can know how the Blessed Virgin Mary
is right by our side,
praying with us –
God wants us to work
together –
God expects us to be
united to the Blessed Virgin Mary
and the angels and
saints and pray with
them –
Special
$10.00 plus shipping
Blue Book 15
One of the following DVD
Picture of Our Lady of Clearwater 4X 6
Prayer Brochure
Give the gift that keeps giving.
6 different Blue Books for $30.00 including postage
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Books available in limited supply for this sale.
The more you use the Blue Books and
become one with Jesus – more
intimate with Jesus –
the more your lives are a blessing and
everything you do in life can help
to bring down great grace for the world
because of your being so
one with Jesus.
Guiding Light Homily Book Series
Fr. Joe’s Books
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4 for $20 plus postage of $5.95
These books can be given to:
1) All Priests
2) Good for Music Ministers
3) Good for DRE's
4)
Good for Deacons
5) Good
for Principals of Schools
6) Good for Teachers
7)
Good for Mom and Dads
Given March 21, 2014
R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 15 and cover and all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
The Wedding Rosary
Crystal Image Rosary
$40 plus shipping
Original Image Rosary
8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box$40 plus shipping
In Spanish with the Imprimatur
Also we are ready to print
5000 copies of the
Parents and Children's Rosary Book
in SPANISH.
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Tell My People $5.00
Response to God's Love $8.00
Response in Christ $8.00
Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur
$2.00 plus postage
New Mass Book with Imprimatur
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New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage
Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage
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$6.00 plus postage
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