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September 13, 2003
September 14th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 7 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mysteries for September 14th are the Sorrowful.
An Afternoon with Mary
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Schedule for September
14,
2003
Feast of the Triumph of the Cross
4:00 a.m. - Mass4:37 a.m. - Tell My People read by Father Carter
6:08 a.m. - Songs
6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary7:24 a.m. - Nursing Home #15
8:02 a.m. - Mysteries of Light from November 2, 2002
8:43 a.m. - Sorrowful Rosary March 17, 1995
9:35 a.m. - Messages & Songs October 24, 1995
10:38 a.m. - Mass celebrated by Father Carter July 5, 2000
11:27 a.m. - Stations of the Cross
11:48 a.m. - Mary's Message
11:55 a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union with Jesus
12:00 p.m. - Sorrowful Rosary Aves
12:32 p.m. - Seven Sorrows
12:46 p.m. - Children's Sorrowful Rosary November 2, 1996
1:44 p.m. - Children's Joyful Rosary March 20, 1997
2:31 p.m. - Sorrowful Rosary January 26, 1996
3:48 p.m. - Morning Offering
3:52 p.m. - Mary's Message
3:58 p.m. - A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
4:00 p.m. - Mass
4:37 p.m. - Blue Book Reading
6:20
p.m.
- 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary
7:24 p.m. - Children's Sorrowful Rosary November 2, 1996
9:57 p.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 2 (Suffering: A Source of Life)
10:25 p.m. - Daily Messages August 11-18, 1998
11:55 p.m. - Glorious Rosary April 16, 1995
12:39 a.m. - Mass celebrated by Father Carter May 13, 1998
1:54 a.m. - December 12, 1998 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
2:42 a.m. - Rosary May 5, 2001
3:55 a.m. - Ave Maria & Song from Jesus
4:00 a.m. - Mass
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb
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Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
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September 13, 2003
Messenger: Purity.
We must model our lives after Jesus.
Purity is in the heart.
When the pipes are clogged with debris
they will not work properly.
A person has a body -
if the heart valves are blocked a person
doesn't feel good.
The twelve steps can help some spiritually -
that does not mean all 12 step programs
are right and helpful.
I speak of the 12 steps themselves -
Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol,
that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed,
and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we
were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of His will for us and
the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
September 13, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
Look at the first four steps -
I wish to address these -
Also St Ignatius spiritual exercises can be very helpful
(not that all St Ignatius retreats would help you, it depends on the
priest.)
Jesus has given these writings for this purpose -
to help the soul on the spiritual journey
God has given this Movement and
this way of life to help us.
Also we pray for each other.
We are united praying together for the priests,
the Church and the world.
We are Shepherds of Christ.
He teaches us how to be holy.
He gives us special grace.
13th Promise
Jesus speaks: "I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- July 31, 1994
September 13, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
The person who is on the way of improvement
in the spiritual life -
seeks only the life hereafter as their
main goal
God has given us the promise, that of eternal
life to those who love and serve the Lord -
We cannot ever overlook our interaction with
others.
Sometimes people are sick and may demand
tremendous burdens on another,
through manipulation and fear themselves
they want others to put up with their
ways that are dysfunctional.
We must pray to be doing what God wants
us to. We cannot be enablers to
others. We are always aware of God's
will for me.
Sometimes people are plagued with guilt
and they have truly told God they are
sorry and have gone to confession
and made a good confession and
have tried to make amends when
they could.
Then they must focus on God's mercy
and be thankful for His forgiveness.
God forgives us, even when we have
sinned mortally. If we go to confession
and are really sorry and try to make amends
when possible to the wounded parties then
we are forgiven. Making amends means we
have the intention not to hurt them again,
we may fall into sin again, but we honestly
in our heart now want to do all we can to
not do the sin again.
God forgives the penitent, the sinner
coming and begging for forgiveness with
a contrite heart, God forgives the one going
to confession in mortal sin telling the
priest his heart felt sorrow for his sins.
God wants us to be humble. We can
become spiritually prideful. We think we
are above everyone and God is going
to take us right to heaven, but in our
hearts we maybe thinking we are better
than everybody else.
Our attitude, over all attitude, must be
to love. We must put on love as it
says in the Scriptures.
Colossians 3: 12-15
As the chosen of God, then, the holy people whom he loves, you are to be clothed in heartfelt compassion, in generosity and humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another; forgive each other if one of you has a complaint against another. The Lord has forgiven you; now you must do the same. Over all these clothes, put on love, the perfect bond. And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, because it is for this that you were called together in one body. Always be thankful.
September 13, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Put on love =>
This implies as act of the will -
We will to love.
Spiritual pride is a "killer" and it wounded Jesus -
in all things the Scripture says to
"walk humbly" - how do we walk?
humbly.
God wants us to have peace inside.
The devil is there to try to affect people
who honestly confess their sins and are
truly sorry for them and intend to try to not
sin that way again.
In confession we pray for grace to be humble,
we pray for grace to help us look at our
ways and model our lives after Jesus.
Here is the Scripture from yesterday's Mass.
Luke 6: 39-42
He also told them a parable, ‘Can one blind person guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? Disciple is not superior to teacher; but fully trained disciple will be like teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the great log in your own? How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take out that splinter in your eye," when you cannot see the great log in your own? Hypocrite! Take the log out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter in your brother’s eye.
September 13, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
The priest at Mass made a big point
about removing the 2x4 out of our
own eye and if we didn't we couldn't
see the splinter in our brother's eye.
The peace of the soul, lies in truthfulness, -
but not giving into the temptation of satan
to try to get us caught up in guilt when we
have confessed our sins.
We have a relationship with God.
Its sort of like one who courts before
marriage. We want to learn to love God
deeper, but God says "you must love your
brothers, I died for your brothers and I
love them, I gave My life for them" and one
may say - "God I love you, but I feel
hateful toward so-in-so
and God says, "You may not have
to spend time with that person (if it is
not God's will we do), but in your heart you
must have love."
Our peace lies in love. It may be a
process of forgiving our brothers who have
hurt us and people in certain situations
businesses, communities, may have to tell
someone who will not change and are
disturbing everyone else and continuing
hurtful behavior toward others to leave a place
of communal work.
But always in the heart of the one firing
someone is the love of God, love for others
and the responsibility to do God's will in
all things, especially when we are a
leader in authority.
Love is paramount.
A mother having a wayward child may have
to use certain measures, but addressing
problems may be very necessary to the
home life.
Always we must live in balance -
We want those under to be living
according to God's will -
Letting someone tear the family
apart because of temper
is not a good thing.
God is our guide -
All of us must walk humbly -
All of us will face Jesus and we can't
be spiritually prideful -
we don't have to give into the devil
that wants us to sin, the devil may
try to plague us with giving
into guilt and when the person
goes to confession, the devil may seem
as if he is waiting outside to try again to tempt
the person after the sin has been forgiven
by the priest.
The priest is a gift given to us from God,
but we must walk humbly.
God works through the priest -
The priest brings us the sacraments -
We have this tremendous gift in the
priest - he has the power to
forgive sins - but we tell God
we are sorry and we don't want
to sin again.
We may sin again, but we are trying not to.
We recognize the sin.
We truly want to not sin again.
We beg for God's grace.
The devil is the master of lies. He talks in
peoples heads trying to keep them in a
constant state of unrest. He wants
us focused on ourselves, He wants us to
feel isolated, he wants us to think people
are thinking things they aren't even
thinking.
If we think we are above others, then we
have to worry about this "stuff", if our
intention is to serve and love God and
serve others as He calls us to do in
His work, then we don't have to give
into this thinking "I am up" "you are
down" "You did this to me" "You are
thinking this about me"
The priest is there to help us, when we go to
confession and blame everyone else, it is
a wonder - if we are confessing our sins
or somebody else's sins, - according to us.
We go to confession to confess our sins.
At the beginning of every Mass we
have a tremendous opportunity to tell
God we are sorry for our sins.
We are trying to be pure, telling
God we are sorry so we can offer
a holy sacrifice at Mass.
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is
awesome.
We come, we tell God we are sorry
for our sins and we come to offer sacrifice.
We unite to the sacrifice of Jesus.
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the sacrifice
of Calvary, sacramentally made present
in the Mass. We offer sacrifice to the Father
in the Holy Spirit.
We want our sacrifice to be holy.
Genesis 22: 1-14
It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. ‘Abraham, Abraham!’ he called. ‘Here I am,’ he replied. God said, ‘Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall point out to you.’
Early next morning Abraham saddled his donkey and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He chopped wood for the burnt offering and started on his journey to the place which God had indicated to him. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. Then Abraham said to his servants, ‘Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I are going over there; we shall worship and then come back to you.’
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering, loaded it on Isaac, and carried in his own hands the fire and the knife. Then the two of them set out together. Isaac spoke to his father Abraham. ‘Father?’ he said. ‘Yes, my son,’ he replied. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?’ Abraham replied, ‘My son, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering.’ And the two of them went on together.
When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven. ‘Abraham, Abraham!’ he said. ‘Here I am,’ he replied. ‘Do not raise your hand against the boy,’ the angel said. ‘Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me your own beloved son.’ Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. Abraham called this place ‘Yahweh provides’, and hence the saying today: ‘On the mountain Yahweh provides.’
Hebrews 4: 14-16
Since in Jesus, the Son of God, we have the supreme high priest who has gone through to the highest heaven, we must hold firm to our profession of faith. For the high priest we have is not incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us, but has been put to the test in exactly the same way as ourselves, apart from sin. Let us, then, have no fear in approaching the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace when we are in need of help.
Hebrews 5: 1-10
Every high priest is taken from among human beings and is appointed to act on their behalf in relationships with God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins; he can sympathise with those who are ignorant or who have gone astray, because he too is subject to the limitations of weakness. That is why he has to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people. No one takes this honour on himself; it needs a call from God, as in Aaron’s case. And so it was not Christ who gave himself the glory of becoming high priest, but the one who said to him: You are my Son, today I have fathered you, and in another text: You are a priest for ever, of the order of Melchizedek. During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to the one who had the power to save him from death, and, winning a hearing by his reverence, he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his sufferings; when he had been perfected, he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation and was acclaimed by God with the title of high priest of the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7: 17-21
For he is attested by the prophecy: You are a priest for ever of the order of Melchizedek. The earlier commandment is thus abolished, because of its weakness and ineffectiveness since the Law could not make anything perfect; but now this commandment is replaced by something better—the hope that brings us close to God.
Now the former priests became priests without any oath being sworn, but this one with the swearing of an oath by him who said to him, The Lord has sworn an oath he will never retract: you are a priest for ever;
Revelation 1: 4-8
John, to the seven churches of Asia: grace and peace to you from him who is, who was, and who is to come, from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the First–born from the dead, the highest of earthly kings. He loves us and has washed away our sins with his blood, and made us a Kingdom of Priests to serve his God and Father; to him, then, be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen. Look, he is coming on the clouds; everyone will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the races of the earth will mourn over him. Indeed this shall be so. Amen. ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 1: 17-22
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead, but he laid his right hand on me and said, ‘Do not be afraid; it is I, the First and the Last; I am the Living One, I was dead and look—I am alive for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of Hades. Now write down all that you see of present happenings and what is still to come. The secret of the seven stars you have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lamp–stands, is this: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp–stands are the seven churches themselves.’
Revelation 2: 7
Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches: those who prove victorious I will feed from the tree of life set in God’s paradise."
Revelation 2: 11
Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches: for those who prove victorious will come to no harm from the second death."
Revelation 2: 17
Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches: to those who prove victorious I will give some hidden manna and a white stone, with a new name written on it, known only to the person who receives it."
Revelation 2: 26-29
To anyone who proves victorious, and keeps working for me until the end, I will give the authority over the nations which I myself have been given by my Father, to rule them with an iron sceptre and shatter them like so many pots. And I will give such a person the Morning Star. Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."
Revelation 3: 5-6
Anyone who proves victorious will be dressed, like these, in white robes; I shall not blot that name out of the book of life, but acknowledge it in the presence of my Father and his angels. Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."
Revelation 3: 12-13
Anyone who proves victorious I will make into a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and it will stay there for ever; I will inscribe on it the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which is coming down from my God in heaven, and my own new name as well. Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."
Revelation 3: 20-22
Look, I am standing at the door, knocking. If one of you hears me calling and opens the door, I will come in to share a meal at that person’s side. Anyone who proves victorious I will allow to share my throne, just as I have myself overcome and have taken my seat with my Father on his throne. Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches." ’
Revelation 4: 11
You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honour and power,
for you made the whole universe;
by your will, when it did not exist,
it was created.
Revelation 5: 9-14
They sang a new hymn:
You are worthy to take the scroll
and to break its seals,
because you were sacrificed,
and with your blood
you bought people for God
of every race, language, people and nation and made them
a line of kings and priests for God,
to rule the world.In my vision, I heard the sound of an immense number of angels gathered round the throne and the living creatures and the elders; there were ten thousand times ten thousand of them and thousands upon thousands, loudly chanting:
Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed
to receive power, riches, wisdom,
strength, honour, glory and blessing.Then I heard all the living things in creation—everything that lives in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, crying:
To the One seated on the throne
and to the Lamb,
be all praise, honour, glory and power,
for ever and ever.And the four living creatures said, ‘Amen’; and the elders prostrated themselves to worship.
Revelation 6: 15-17
Then all the kings of the earth, the governors and the commanders, the rich people and the men of influence, the whole population, slaves and citizens, hid in caverns and among the rocks of the mountains. They said to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us away from the One who sits on the throne and from the retribution of the Lamb. For the Great Day of his retribution has come, and who can face it?’
Revelation 11: 3-14
But I shall send my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lamps in attendance on the Lord of the world. Fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies if anyone tries to harm them; and anyone who tries to harm them will certainly be killed in this way.They have the power to lock up the sky so that it does not rain as long as they are prophesying; they have the power to turn water into blood and strike the whole world with any plague as often as they like. When they have completed their witnessing, the beast that comes out of the Abyss is going to make war on them and overcome them and kill them. Their corpses lie in the main street of the great city known by the symbolic names Sodom and Egypt, in which their Lord was crucified.People of every race, tribe, language and nation stare at their corpses, for three–and–a–half days, not letting them be buried, and the people of the world are glad about it and celebrate the event by giving presents to each other, because these two prophets have been a plague to the people of the world.’
After the three–and–a–half days, God breathed life into them and they stood up on their feet, and everybody who saw it happen was terrified; then I heard a loud voice from heaven say to them, ‘Come up here,’ and while their enemies were watching, they went up to heaven in a cloud. Immediately, there was a violent earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed; seven thousand persons were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors, overcome with fear, could only praise the God of heaven. That was the second of the disasters; the third is to come quickly after it.
Revelation 11: 19
Then the sanctuary of God in heaven opened, and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake and violent hail.
Revelation 12: 1-18
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron scepter, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.
And now war broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had led all the world astray, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him. Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, 'Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word to which they bore witness, because even in the face of death they did not cling to life. So let the heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, disaster is coming-- because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that he has little time left.'
As soon as the dragon found himself hurled down to the earth, he sprang in pursuit of the woman, the mother of the male child, but she was given a pair of the great eagle's wings to fly away from the serpent into the desert, to the place where she was to be looked after for a time, two times and half a time. So the serpent vomited water from his mouth, like a river, after the woman, to sweep her away in the current, but the earth came to her rescue; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river spewed from the dragon's mouth. Then the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, who obey God's commandments and have in themselves the witness of Jesus.
And I took my stand on the seashore.
Revelation 19: 1-9
After this I heard what seemed to be the great sound of a huge crowd in heaven, singing, ‘Alleluia! Salvation and glory and power to our God! He judges fairly, he punishes justly, and he has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her prostitution; he has avenged the blood of his servants which she shed.’ And again they sang, "Alleluia! The smoke of her will rise for ever and ever.’ Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures threw themselves down and worshipped God seated on his throne, and they cried, ‘Amen, Alleluia.’
Then a voice came from the throne; it said, ‘Praise our God, you servants of his and those who fear him, small and great alike.’ And I heard what seemed to be the voices of a huge crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder, answering, ‘Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun; let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the time for the marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds of the saints.’ The angel said, ‘Write this, “Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb,” ’ and he added, ‘These words of God are true.’
Revelation 20: 9-10
They came swarming over the entire country and besieged the camp of the saints, which is the beloved City. But fire rained down on them from heaven and consumed them. Then the devil, who led them astray, was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their torture will not come to an end, day or night, for ever and ever.
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.’
Revelation 21: 26
and the nations will come, bringing their treasure and their wealth.
Revelation 22: 12-21
Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay everyone as their deeds deserve. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who will have washed their robes clean, so that they will have the right to feed on the tree of life and can come through the gates into the city. Others must stay outside: dogs, fortune–tellers, and the sexually immoral, murderers, idolaters, and everyone of false speech and false life.’
EPILOGUE
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to attest these things to you for the sake of the churches. I am the sprig from the root of David and the bright star of the morning.
The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ Let everyone who listens answer, ‘Come!’ Then let all who are thirsty come: all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free.
This is my solemn attestation to all who hear the prophecies in this book: if anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him every plague mentioned in the book; if anyone cuts anything out of the prophecies in this book, God will cut off his share of the tree of life and of the holy city, which are described in the book.
The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon.
Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all. Amen.
September 13, 2003 message continues
Messenger: God forgives our sins.
The priest is a gift to us.
We must walk humbly.
We are here to love God and each other.
That doesn't mean that we are alone.
God has given us the priest to forgive
our sins and help us.
There are fewer and fewer priests.
God has given us these prayers to
pray for the priests
September 13, 2003 message continues
Messenger: God
has given us this vision and
from this place to promote
prayer chapters and spread
these writings given to me
and Fr Carter.
Mary is the handmaid of the Lord.
We must walk humbly.
Jesus speaks: I give you a parable.
1) A man walked into a trap - how much work
did he get done.
2) A man was tied from his feet to his
thighs with big ropes -
how much work did he get done
What is the goal for the Shepherds of Christ?
I have sent My two witnesses to give
these writings to you.
Look at all the writings to unveil
satan's tactics.
Look at all the prayers to lead you
to greater holiness.
Look at all the writings to lead you
to greater holiness.
What a gift -
union with Me
devotion to My Heart and the
Heart of My Mother
I have given you grace to lead you to
the Bread of Life.
I have given you My Blue Book love letters.
I have called you by name -
you are mine.
Sing: By Name I Have Called You
If you do not answer My call the work
isn't done.
Sing: Answer When I Call
Satan can keep you stuck in your trap.
Satan can work on you to feel guilty. You can give
into him.
So much grace is given to you when you
come devotely to Mass and pray
before the Blessed Sacrament.
You will not get your big reward here.
I give you gifts here, but your real reward
for your life given to Me is in
the life to come in heaven.
I give you gifts.
You have peace inside when you stay rooted
in Me.
Hate inside cripples you
September 13, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: WALK
HUMBLY PROMOTING MY
KINGDOM.
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
136. THE FOURTH DAY
A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS
The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human naturePRAYER. The usual preparatory prayer.
window at a former Jesuit Seminary
137. FIRST PRELUDE. This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.
138. SECOND PRELUDE. This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.
139. THIRD PRELUDE. This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
FIRST PART
THE STANDARD OF SATAN
140. FIRST POINT. Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.
141. SECOND POINT. Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.
142. THIRD POINT. Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.
The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
SECOND PART
THE STANDARD OF CHRIST
143. In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.
144. FIRST POINT. Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.
145. SECOND POINT. Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.
146. THIRD POINT. . . .
end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
September 13, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: I AM the KING of KINGS.
MY Priests are so important
to help in the work of salvation
of the world.
From the Message of December 19, 1996
Jesus speaks: And the light shone in the darkness and the darkness grasped it not, but to as many as responded, they became the children of the light and from them His life flowed into the hearts that were cold and dark and slowly, very slowly, the light began to steal across the darkened sky and the moon was covered with blood. The blood was the blood of the Lamb. The blood represented the blood He shed to give us life.
From the Message of December 22, 1996
Jesus speaks: And the moon will be covered with blood. It was the blood of the Lamb and it poured forth on a sinful world to cleanse them of their sin, and I give you My Body and Blood in the Mass and I am ignored.
February 23, 1997
SacrificeWhen I go to Mass I offer a sacrifice. God wants our all. He wants to be first in our life. He asked Abraham to sacrifice his son.
Gen. 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18:
It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. "Abraham, Abraham!" he called. "Here I am," he replied. God said, "Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall point out to you.
When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven. "Abraham, Abraham!" he said. "Here I am," he replied. Do not raise your hand against the boy," the angel said. "Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me your own beloved son." Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from heaven. "I swear by my own self, Yahweh declares, that because you have done this, because you have not refused me your own beloved son, I will shower blessings on you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies. All nations on earth will bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed my command.
The Father gave His Son for us. This is how great the Father's love is for us.
When we go to the altar many times we are suffering. We want something really bad, but we know we love God the most. What the Father asks for us is to offer that which we are so attached to as a sacrifice, united to the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. If we offer this sacrifice to Him, the Father will pour out blessings that will be divine blessings, greater than anything we could have here on earth.
The Mass is the perfect sacrifice we offer to the Father, in which God pours out His blessings and we are one with Him and with all others in a profound expression of love. God shares His divine love with us and we partake in an intense way in His divine loving capacity. In order to become one in Him and to feel His love like this, we must surrender ourselves and be open.
He told Abraham to offer his son. God gave him his son back. He wanted Abraham to love God above all things and people.
Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice to the Father. This is the most pleasing sacrifice to the Father. If He gave His Son Who died for love of us, will He deny us when we unite our petitions with Jesus and offer these at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
He took them to the highest mountain and He was transfigured before them in the greatest light.
Mark 9:2-10:
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus, "Rabbi," he said, "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 to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and from the cloud there came a voice, "This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him." Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.
As they were coming down from the mountain he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves they discussed what 'rising from the dead' could mean.
We go to the altar of sacrifice. The mountain to come, in which so many graces will flow, is the altar of sacrifice where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered through the hands of consecrated priests.
We hear the Father say, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him." He is speaking to us. He is the Word. He is speaking in these messages. He is unveiling the Scriptures and speaking to us in plain talk. This is a great gift He is giving to us.
We are transformed in the Mass. We unite with the greatest sacrifice offered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We have the most perfect sacrifice to offer to the Father when we offer this sacrifice. He gives us great blessings. We die to ourselves, we become white.
We must unite all of our sacrifices to this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being said all over the world. This is the greatest way to magnify all of our offerings - by uniting everything we do as an offering, a sacrifice to the Father in union with His Son.
end of February 23, 1997
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