Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing          

September 21, 2014

September 22nd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for September 22nd are Joyful.

  
 
Pray for Dan, Blue Book 14,
Fr. Joe's homily book, &
for a really special intention.

   
 

                September 21, 2014

 
        Excerpt from Response in Christ, by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. p.

       1) Interior Oblation

The first duty of man is to surrender himself to God out of love. This fact flows from the truth that God is the Creator and man is His creature. Man, if he is ideally to fulfill his creaturely role must respond as perfectly as possible to the loving demands of His Creator. God asks that man give himself completely to Himself. This is only proper since everything that man has, whether of the natural or supernatural order, has been given to him by God. Man, in turn, perfects himself by developing these various gifts according to God's will or, in other words, by giving himself completely to God. Man's gift of self to God is centered in loving conformity to the divine will. Consequently, one can understand why the will with its decision-making capacity is the crucial faculty in man, a point emphasized by contemporary thought.

     Man directs himself to God by the virtue of religion. This is not to say that this particular virtue ranks above the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. These are the most excellent, since they unite man directly to God. We are merely stating that the virtue of religion directs all man's actions to the honor of God.6

     This virtue consists especially in acts of adoration, thanksgiving, petition and reparation. These interior acts can manifest themselves in many ways, but they are especially expressed through sacrifice. Here, then, we have the first constituent element of sacrifice: man's interior offering of himself to God. This giving takes place chiefly in man's will, under the guidance of the virtue of religion. This first element of sacrifice is of prime importance, for it deals with interior dispositions. This importance can be recognized concretely in the history of religion. For example, the Jewish people were convinced that the principal value of sacrifice was centered in the dispositions of the people.7

6. St. Thomas Aquinas, S.T., II-II, q. 81, a. 4, ad 1.
7. Cf. S. Lyonnet, "La Sotériologie Paulinienne" in Robert and Feuillet, Introduction à la Bible, Vol. II (Tournai, Belgium: Desclée, 1959), p. 874.

 

                R. Peace is flowing like a river –

                Wanting God's will in our lives –

                Learning to love and to live in peace –

                Peace is found in having an interior
                    life rooted in God –

                God calls us to be alone with him during
                    the day –
                    We follow in the footsteps of Jesus –
                    We need alone time with God –
                    Jesus would go away to pray –
                        to pray to His Heavenly
                        Father –
                    So He taught us to pray –

The Our Father

    Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

   

                R. I found the message God has given since
                    1993 of spending one hour before the
                    tabernacle daily – brings down so
                    much grace for us and for the world
                    and those we pray for –

                When we go before the Blessed Sacrament –
 


 

                R. Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and humanity
                    the same as when He walked the earth –
                    the true presence of Jesus.

                    In baptism we receive a sharing in
                His life. This life is nourished especially
                by the Eucharist. The Bread of Life –
                is the Eucharist and His Word –

                    We are filled more and more with His
                life in us. The more He is in us the                   
                more it is He who operates in us –
                We see through His eyes –
                We act through His Heart –
                We need to be so one in Him –
                The Eucharist and the Word is the
                    Bread of Life –

                What is life?

                Life is being alive in Him –
                Having Him more and more alive in us –
                Being filled with His grace –
     

 

Jeremiah 20: 7-9

You have seduced me, Yahweh,
    and I have let myself be seduced;
you have overpowered me:
    you were the stronger.
I am a laughing-stock all day long,
they all make fun of me.
For whenever I speak, I have to howl
and proclaim, ‘Violence and ruin!’
For me , Yahweh’s word has been the cause
of insult and derision all day long.
I would say to myself,
    ‘I will not think about him,
I will not speak in his name any more,’
but then there seemed to be a fire
    burning in my heart,
imprisoned in my bones.
The effort to restrain it wearied me,
I could not do it.

 

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 28, 2011

INTRODUCTION – (Jeremiah 20:7-9) Our first reading from the prophet Jeremiah goes back to 600 B.C. It sounds as if Jeremiah thought that when God called him to be a prophet, it would be an easy job. But the people who heard God’s message only hated Jeremiah for what he preached. They ridiculed him, threw him in jail and even tried to kill him. We hear him complaining to God, “You duped me! You tricked me, God!”

    Jesus’ faithfulness to his mission would bring him suffering too, but Jesus did not complain or feel duped. He was well aware of what was going to happen. In today’s gospel, we hear him warning his disciples ahead of time.

HOMILY – (Matthew 16:21-27) I don’t know where I saw this and I’m not sure who said it, but some wit said: “If anyone should doubt whether this is truly the land of promise, they should show up around election time.” Politicians promise all the good things they will do for us. You would never hear a politician say, like Jesus did in today’s gospel, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.”

    Most of us are like Peter in today’s reading. We arehappy to hear about the peace, love and joy that our faith can bring us, and it can, but we don’t want to hear about the cross. If you remember last Sunday’s gospel, Jesus asks the Apostles, “Who do you say that I am?” Peter makes a profound act of faith when he says, “You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Savior). You are the Son of the living God.” Then Jesus told the Apostles what being the messiah would involve. He would suffer greatly, be killed and on the third day be raised. Peter objected. He didn’t want to hear any of that negative stuff. Jesus refused to back down from Peter’s objections. On the contrary, Jesus predicted suffering for his followers too, “whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.”

    Jesus used some of the strongest language in rebuking Peter that we hear anywhere in the gospels: “Get behind me, Satan.” He wasn’t saying Peter was an evil person, he was saying Peter was doing the work of Satan, being a tempter, trying to talk Jesus out of his mission, part of which involved rejection and suffering. Jesus knew the Scriptures and the history of God’s people better than Peter and he knew what happened to prophets whose mission was to preach God’s word, such as Jeremiah whom we hear in the first reading and John the Baptist, Jesus’ cousin, who had just been beheaded by Herod. We cannot be too critical of Peter, however, for we have the advantage of hindsight and we know that what Jesus went through had a happy ending with the resurrection. Jesus’ being raised on the third day would have been beyond Peter’s ability to comprehend. It would have been too much for us to understand, too, if we had been there.

    Jesus said “whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.” It’s a wonder that anyone decided to follow Jesus when he talked like that. The cross, whether it was a wooden one as it was for Jesus, or some other form of martyrdom, has been real for many of Christ’s followers throughout the centuries. For those like us who are not in immediate danger of being persecuted for our faith, carrying the cross involved the day to day effort to overcome our selfishness and to love God with our whole heart and soul, mind and strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves. The cross is for most of us, as St. Paul says in today’s second reading, (Romans 12:1-2) “offering ourselves as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.”

    Jesus came to establish God’s kingdom, a kingdom where God would “wipe away every tear from our eyes, where there would be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain” (Revelation 21:4). Jesus didn’t come to us to tell us it is good to have to suffer, he came to bring us a better world; he healed the sick, he drove out demons, he told people to help the poor. Suffering for its own sake is never any good. It’s a reasonable thing to do what we can to try to alleviate it. But there are some crosses, some sufferings we cannot avoid. They are part of our journey to God. There are also those crosses we may have to bear that are part of our responsibility or our vocation of caring for others, crosses that sometimes parents have to endure, or religious or missionaries or adult children of aged parents, or they are the crosses that are part of our jobs like teachers or firemen or service men and women or whatever; those are the crosses that bring us closer to our Lord who carried a cross for us.

    When we come to Mass we recall Jesus’ love for us and the sacrifice he made for us. It is especially here that he gives us the strength to follow him and to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, our spiritual worship. Amen.

 

                R. Jesus was a martyr

                Crucifixion was one of the most terrible
                    deaths –

                Nobody enjoys suffering –

                The people heard Jeremiah's message and
                    they hated Jeremiah –

                Jesus shows us in this Gospel that
                    we are to follow Him –
                    Jesus suffered too –

                Jesus in this Gospel warned the
                    disciples they would be rejected.

                Jesus was preparing them for their
                    vocation - when they walked with
                    Him - they saw how Jesus was
                    treated –

                Jesus kept His eyes on His mission –

                Jesus was one with the Father –

                So He taught us to pray –

                He taught us we needed to have alone
                    time away from the world –
                    He taught us we need to focus on
                        our interior life with God –

                In baptism we receive a sharing in His life and
                    the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in a
                    special way in the graced baptized soul –

                When we don't spend that time with God
                    every day we don't even know we
                    are off –

                We need to sort out the fragmented pieces
                    of our lives from the world with
                    God and discern the Father's
                    will –

                I see a bunch of leaves on the ground –
                    when a big wind comes they can
                    be tossed about – helter-skelter –

                We go to the world –

                We take in things in the world –

                The world is not rooted in God –

                We have to sort out what is good
                    and what we have to discard
                    from the day

                We discern the Father's will –
                We live deeply in the interior life
                    keeping our focus on His
                    truth –

                We don't stay away from the world,
                    (unless God calls somebody to be
                    a hermit –)
                    We are in the world and
                    We have time to be with Jesus –

                Jesus called us to be a certain way
                    in our vocation –

                We are to live the Father's Plan for us –
                We need God to operate in us –
                We live to be what God wants us
                    to be –
                We spend alone time every day with
                    God –

                Here is a message from Blue Book I
                    It is August 28,1993 "Come to My Tabernacle."


21 Years Ago

Picture of the Sacred Heart of JesusCome To My Tabernacle 

August 28, 1993

Jesus:  My precious child, I long to be with you. I am here. You must find a way to be with Me every day in front of the tabernacle. If others distract you, you must find a way.

    Satan is trying to stop My time with you. I am your true love and I long to spend time with you each day. Hold tight to My face. I am here little one. Don't ever doubt that again. My words are simple. They are truth. No one knows My intense love for them. I long for these moments with you. I am indeed here. If you have to come and be with Me during the day, I want these moments with you in front of the tabernacle. I am truly sitting here with you, Body and Soul.

    I am Jesus, Son of the living God. Never doubt Me again. I have made myself known to you, My child. You offend Me so with your doubt and your busyness on other matters. You spend time fuming and fretting and feeling sorry for yourself when I am waiting here to be with you and talk to you. I don't care about other matters. I am very jealous. I want this time every day. You feel so bad inside when you are not alone with Me in church. That is where your comfort comes from. You are so upset inside when you do not spend it here. Don't you know these things? Being home is not the same. I am truly present in the tabernacle. You needn't run anywhere. You have a key to the church. I love you. I don't want to remind you that this is where it all is. I want you to love Me so much you don't even think you can function without time alone with Me in church. Come to Me every day. You do not go a day without food. You can't go a day without time absolutely alone with Me. If you do, it will be a disaster. Have you not felt the gnawing in your heart when you didn't do it yesterday? You crave this time alone and your tears are from not being alone with Him Whom you truly love.

    I am Jesus Christ, Son of the one true God. I have chosen you to write these messages which are meant for all and you are busy-doing what, My child? Did you not cry and feel bad most of yesterday? This is your proof. You knew you wanted to be with Me here so badly you almost drove back out. You have to be alone with Me. In front of the tabernacle is best. I am the living God and I am in the tabernacle. You must be here or you will be so lost inside. Spend time with Me, My child. Nothing else matters. I am the one, true God and you shall not have other gods before Me. I command this because this is how you were created and this makes you most happy. Come to Me all you who labor and I will give you rest. I will give you peace, not as this world gives you peace, but My peace, which only I can give.

    The gift I give to you, My child, is My Son. Would you refuse My gift? He waits for you every day and where do you go-to the grocery?- to do your wash? What do you do, child?

    I am waiting for you. Would you keep Me waiting and turn your back? Is one hour too much for the Son of God? I give you 24 hours. One hour is so little to ask. This is where your peace lies. All else is fruitless.

    Not one day should be spent without one hour of private prayer with Me, preferably in the church in front of the tabernacle. Come to Me My little babies. I want to comfort you. I want to care for you. You are all mixed up with your priorities. I grow tired that you don't listen and tell others of My great and glorious love for all My children. This is your main goal. Pray with Me and spread My intense love for all My children. Yes, and I will give you all you need, child. Quit thinking you have to do other things. You have to be with Me and I will make it all work out. I want all to know of My intense love for My children. I died that you might live, not in this world, but in the world to come. I am the way, the truth and the light. All else is useless if it is not rooted in Me and for My work. Time is very short, little one. Listen to My words. You have wasted enough time. Don't delay. All must know of My love for them. It is in Me that they are made whole. Nothing else matters, My child.

end of August 28, 1994

    

May 12, 2002 message

Jesus speaks:        Comforts - what are your comforts
                                    when I ask you to suffer.

                                Look at My face on the cross    


    

Jesus speaks:         I endured the suffering for you.

                                In that moment of greatest pain -
                                     say, I am identifying with Jesus
                                     in this suffering.
                                     I will endure it.
                                     I will seek greater purity.
                                     I will accept my sufferings with joy.

                                 Where can you go?

                                 Why do you reach for a quick fix,
                                     a comfort food, something to
                                     take away the pain.  

Jesus speaks:         Accept the little trials I ask you
                                     to bear and say "Jesus may release
                                     great grace for my enduring this."

                                Oh I love you to love Me. Focus on My love for       
                                    you today.

                                    Thank your God in heaven for 
                                the gifts you have.

                                    Many times you must let go
                                of things. Some of the people
                                you love move on to heaven.

                                    You are to focus on Me and My
                                    love for you.

                                    I want your love. I want you
                                    to grow in love.

                                    (When people are sick, many times 
                                        they need to go to the doctor. 
                                        Jesus is not telling us to ignore signs 
                                        that tell us we must go to the doctor. 

                                      There are many times we complain and 
                                        do not except suffering as we should. 
                                        He refers to this. There are many times 
                                        when we must act and are suffering. 
                                        We must pray for discernment.)               

                                    end of excerpt from May 12, 2002

 

                September 21, 2014 continues

                R. We must pray for discernment

                God is calling us in our vocation to be something
                    He wants us to be –
                    Our peace is found in being whatever
                        that is God has called us to in
                        obedience and love and working
                        under God's plan –
                        like Jeremiah –
                        like Jesus –
                        like Peter –
                        They did the Father's will –
                        Mary was obedient to God –
                        She loved the Father's will –
                 

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

 

                R. Here is a little story Fr. Joe told –

                He said the Spirit is like the wind –
                    you don't see the Spirit, but the
                    Spirit is there - like the wind –

                Sing: Come Holy Spirit

                Jesus tells us He will not leave us orphaned –

                We know the Holy Spirit dwells in our graced, baptized
                    soul in a special way –

                The Holy Spirit is the Inner Master,
                                                Inner Teacher – 

 

                The Spirit of Truth –
   

                R. Fr. Joe said the sisters in grade school
                    taught him –
                    The sister told him to say 3 Hail Mary's
                        every day for his vocation –
                    Fr. Joe said he wanted to be a farmer, an
                        artist etc. –
                    He kept getting the idea he needed to go to
                        the seminary –
                    He thought he would give it a year –
                    So then he stayed 2 years
                    So then he stayed 3 years
                    So then he stayed 4 years

                Then one day he was in chapel and
                    he saw so clear, as if lights were
                    turned on –
                    all doubt was gone in the seminary
                    chapel –

                He asked for a sign – if he wasn't to be
                    a priest he would flunk out –

                Instead his grades got better –
                He said when lots of priests were
                    leaving the seminary he knew
                    God wanted him to stay –

                Fr. Joe said last week –
                    when he was a child he had asthma
                        and there wasn't drugs, etc.
                    He said he missed two weeks of
                        school every year because of
                        his asthma –

                My mom told him to meditate on
                    the passion when he couldn't
                    breathe and then he did it
                    and he could breathe better –
                    it helped him – so all
                    through his life –
                    when he had to suffer – he meditates
                    on the passion and it really helps –

 

                From Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

The Christian's Personal Uniqueness (excerpt)

       Because of the uniqueness of each Christian's existence, he or she presents Christ with a unique opportunity. Each Christian has the vocation to offer Christ his or her humanity so that Jesus can re-incarnate himself in a new way. Jesus wants to continue his redemptive work through the not-to-be-repeated newness that is each Christian's uniqueness. To the extent that an individual Christian offers his or her humanity to Jesus, he or she has a unique opportunity to continue the redemption—an opportunity that no one else can offer him or her. Likewise, to the extent that an individual Christian fails to offer his or her humanity to Christ, Jesus loses the opportunity that is this Christian's uniqueness.

       Each of us, consequently, no matter what his or her occupation or status in life might be, has both the great privilege and the great responsibility to properly utilize his or her life according to God's Christic design. No one else can fulfill your unique mission, and, in turn, you cannot accomplish the unique mission of another. At times we can become somewhat fearful or anxious about the task that God has entrusted to us as we more deeply realize what it demands. ...

       At this point, however, many will object that the above examples highlight the lives of persons who have achieved outstanding recognition in the external order of things and have commanded great public attention. People who voice this objection often say that their own lives are so mundane, so hidden, so incapable of making headlines. Surely, they continue, this rather too ordinary kind of life makes little difference to Christ, to the Church, and to the world. Surely it does not much matter whether a person living this kind of existence fulfills his or her God-given mission. At first glance, many of us would tend to agree with this reasoning, a reasoning that is really the exact opposite temptation of what we considered when we likened ourselves to Jeremiah. In that context there was a question of being tempted to do nothing because we feared the greatness to which we were called; in the present context, however, it is a question of being tempted to do nothing because we think we really have nothing to contribute. Yet, as we begin to reflect in mature faith, we soon see the fallacy of this objection. We realize that great external accomplishments or a life that attracts public attention do not, in and of themselves, make that life great and truly worthwhile. If a Christian life that is characterized by notable external achievement is truly great and meaningful for mankind, we know that it is so because the external achievement has sprung forth from an attitude of deep faith, hope, and love. This, then, is the ultimate answer to the above objection—every Christian's life, no matter how ordinary it might be in its external framework, can be tremendously important and can make an outstanding contribution toward the work of ongoing redemption as long as it is increasingly consistent with God's will.

end of excerpt

    

 

 

                Given April 20, 2009 - My Mom's birthday

 

John 3: 1-8

There was one of the Pharisees called Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews, who came to Jesus by night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher; for no one could perform the signs that you do unless God were with him.’ Jesus answered:

    In all truth I tell you,
    no one can see the kingdom of God
    without being born from above.

Nicodemus said, ‘How can anyone who is already old be born? Is it possible to go back into the womb again and be born?’ Jesus replied:

    In all truth I tell you,
    no one can enter the kingdom of God
    without being born
       through water and the Spirit;
    what is born of human nature is human;
   what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
    Do not be surprised when I say:
   You must be born from above.
    The wind blows where it pleases;
   you can hear its sound,
   but you cannot tell where it comes from
      or where it is going.
   So it is with everyone
      who is born of the Spirit

    

                    We are to walk as a "new man"
                that is what Easter is all about —
                to have the newness of life of living
                more the life of resurrection and
                bringing that life of resurrection to others —

                    To accomplish this we are to make
                a change in our ways to walk in
                the newness of life —

                    We may have gone to Church etc. —
                but the condition and motive of the
                heart is what matters.

                    When Jesus went to the cross — He
                went purely — He did the Father's will
                perfectly — He was consumed with conviction
                as a runner running a race —

                    We pray God give us a willing spirit
                to run the race for You — not to be
                held back because of bitterness and
                anger and self-pity, but to follow
                in Your footsteps to love and serve
                You for Your holy purpose —

                    What is the will of God for my vocation
                today? How can I purely do the job?
                What keeps me from doing the job with
                a pure spirit of love and furthering
                His Kingdom. What motive do I have
                for serving God — My motive should be
                for His honor and glory — for love of
                My Master — how can I make recompense
                to God for pitying myself and acting
                bitter — avenging others when I should
                have just served Him in my vocation —
                with great love for Him and others as
                He desires —

                Do I realize only in serving Him, in
                    living our lives as a sacrifice, an
                    offering will I be happy —

                    Pope John Paul II said — know what
                God wants and do it —

                    St. Therese showed us her little
                way of love — We are to love God for
                loving Him — We are to honor Him because
                He is God — We are to be on fire for
                love of Him as our best friend and when
                we have a friend we love — we try to
                give Him what He desires — Jesus wants
                this personal love —

                    Loving the Father and giving to Him
                as a good little child of the Father —
                Being a person who thinks they control
                everything may fail to see themselves
                as a little child - created by the Father —
                to love and serve God — to see themselves
                under another in authority is a grace
                which is necessary to grow in the
                spiritual life.

                    We must live for the Father's will as
                a small child pleasing daddy — we
                seek it — we run our lives by
                seeking the Father's will and living by
                it — It is our ruling stick.

                    We see Jesus sweating Blood in
                the garden —

                    "Not My will but Yours, Father"

                We see Jesus beaten

                    "Not My will but Yours, Father"

                We see Jesus crowned with thorns,
                    spit on, mocked

                    "Not My will but Yours, Father"

                We see Jesus carry the cross on His
                    back — the cross with our sins —
                    the cross He fell under —

                    "Not My will, but Yours, Father"

                We see Jesus stripped of His garments,
                    nailed — thru His hands and feet
                    and hanging on the cross 3 hours
                    to His death

                    "Not My will, but Yours, Father"

                Well what about those who are angry
                    inside and act bitter punishing
                    others for their anger —

                When we do not forgive and live with
                    an angry, hard heart — we
                    are miserable and nobody can
                    fix someone who is lashing out
                    in mean active or passive anger
                    for the anger in them

                Jesus is love —

                Jesus loved us so much — no matter what
                    the men did to Him —
                    He did the Father's will — not with
                    anger from the wounds of others —
                    but Jesus did the Father's will in
                    love.

                Fr. Carter used to see himself as a
                    little child in Mary's arms —
                    he would say
                    "I am just a little child in
                    Mary's arms" — Fr. Carter loved —
                    Fr. Carter gave his life for
                    the Shepherds of Christ —

                He was persecuted, but he delivered
                    the messages —

                He did not worry about himself or
                    what others thought of him —
                    he supported every message and
                    he told people they must,
                    to be leaders, live by the rules
                    of the Shepherds of Christ.

                The Blue Books were as much his as
                    mine and he discerned them — lived
                    by them and told the people in
                    the Movement they were to live
                    by them —

                Fr. Carter loved —
                Fr. Carter supported me as leader
                    and messenger.
                Fr. Carter lived by the messages
                Fr. Carter defended me and the
                    messages —

                Fr. Carter spent time seeing what
                    Jesus wanted was carried out
                And he stood behind the building,
                    the Red Rosary book — praying
                    for it every day

                Fr. Carter was pure —
                He did it for Jesus
                He said Jesus told him
                    a little prayer

                If we don't have the right spirit
                    and motive in us our
                    actions will not render ourselves
                    pleasing to what the Father
                    desires

                Help me to see through your eyes God —
                    (not my distorted vision focusing
                    on my selfish ways)
     

Prayer for Union with Jesus

    Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

    

                We are the children of the Father —

                Father give us Your love

                Holy Spirit make us holy —
                    not rebellious —
                    self-righteous
                    selfish
                    acting from our wounded selves

                    Help us to be pure

                Help us to bring about the
                    Reign of the Sacred Heart
                        in this world —

                The meek (not combattal and argumentative,
                    competitive) and tender Heart of
                    love of Jesus —

                God help us to grow in love
                    to be with you in love
                    forever in heaven

                This life is a work table to
                    learn to love and be holy

                    We must become people united to God —
                We are not trying to prove we are over
                others - in competition.

                    We see ourselves uniquely created
                by God and only we can contribute to
                the world as God intends — We uniquely
                love God and others

                    We know we are special
                    We are the Divine Creation of the
                        Father with a purpose —

                A person who does not recognize this may
                    be constantly trying to save - face
                    before people because of shame
                    and guilt from the past or negative
                    tapes they listen to which are
                    because of their distorted vision
                    of themselves, of others and of God —

                We can pray
                    to see through the eyes of God
                    to know with the heart of God
                    and to act as God acts in us —

                We were created for a purpose —
                    as servants of God
                    our whole life should be lived
                        to learn to love —

                    not to focus on making a name
                        and kingdom for our vain
                        purpose here below

                Because of the effects of original sin
                    man seeks dominance for
                    dominance sake —

                    Jesus sweat blood in the garden for
                our sins —

                    The person that lies to themselves
                about their past offenses and never
                took responsibility for this — lives
                a life of wearing a mask —

                    A cover-up to themselves and
                God

                    We can't cover-up anything
                from God — He died for our sins —

                    We must thank Him for His gifts —
                We can pray all through the day —
                thanking God for all He has given
                to us — Sincerely and humbly recognizing
                our unworthiness and God's love and
                generosity toward us

                    Dear God let me see the beauty
                of the ordinary and usual —
                a beautiful flowering tree —
                a love coming from a child's heart as
                    they greet us
                a baby communicating - patty cake —
                    peek-a-boo — turning their head —
                    a smile
                the ocean — time just being with Jesus —
                the exposed Eucharist
                the Mass

                Help me not to act like I'm on a
                    "pity-pot" for some injury
                    I believe someone is doing to
                    me because of past anger and old wounds —

                    We can ask God to help us — all
                through the day —

                    We can pray for guidance to help
                        us recognize our blind spots
                        toward any evil we are acting
                        out in our lives —
                        think of the lepers — think of
                        dark spots on our soul

                We beg God to help us — We recognize
                    humbly — we are not the Power —
                    We are imperfect —
                    We rely on God

                Jesus came a helpless baby into
                    the world —

                We can be stuck 'real bad' when we
                    think we are perfect or
                    think we are to fix ourselves —
                    We need to be willing and
                        let God work in us —

                We seek peace, harmony love —

                I am connected to God in my
                    heart — we live to spread
                    the consecration and I am
                    connected with God in all
                    my thoughts —
                    I am the little child of the Father
                    I am under God

                We need to recognize our absolute
                    dependence on God —

                    We are dependent on God —
                    I seek understanding from the Holy Spirit —
                    I come with an open mind
                    I pray for my persecutors

                Did you ever see the poem footprints —

                Surrender to God's guidance
                Don't try to control things I shouldn't
                God is in control

                We pray to be free — to put our
                    trust in God

                We can be a prisoner of our
                    own making because of control

                To be free — we learn to accept —
                We pay a price to live in peace
                    and joy — we surrender our
                    mind and will to God and don't try to
                    control what we should be controlling —
                    We must give our mind and will to God —
                    It is a weakness of the human nature
                    to try to dominate for dominance
                    sake —

                We can be filled with bitterness,
                    self-pity, lie to ourselves,
                    that make our vision of
                    ourselves and others and God
                    more distorted

                Since we don't see real reality as
                    it actually is —
                    Reality is how God sees it —

                Much of our suffering is because
                    of our own actions — Self-inflected
               Negative — run on thinking — blaming
                    others — acting disharmoniously —
                    setting fires to control others
                    for our own power —
                    controlling money and things for power
                    to control people

                We may be an enabler, who will
                    not see our control that
                    is majorly hurting others
                    lives —
                    that we are trying to enforce
                    dysfunction on them —

                We may project pain of the past —
                    divorce, loss of control of
                    children — in transferring
                    that loss of power to trying to control others —

                We can look with a magnifying
                    glass at others and skip the
                    boulder in our eye about ourselves.

                We can think of how we suffer
                    at the hands of others and never
                    never recognize how we make
                    others suffer —

                To much run on thinking — mulling
                    over can make our situation
                    seem worse —

                I can control my own behavior —
                I can recognize my faults —
                I can change my reaction —
                I cannot be envious and try
                    to be even with what others did to
                    me.

                    Many are blind
                    Pray for grace for them

                Think about trying to grow in
                    greater holiness ourselves —

                God help me to accept my powerlessness —
                God help me to focus on my recovery —

                We can make our life more
                    miserable by how we think —

                We can always be feeling cheated —
                    thinking grass is greener elsewhere

                Everybody is imperfect —

                We are to love and work together

                Our parents told us things —

                I remember telling a child she would
                    be a doctor —
                She is a doctor —

                If our parents told us we would marry
                    and live happily ever after is
                    it true

                Children need to cut the umbilical
                    cord to be independent and
                    live as God intends

                If a child grows up and still has all
                    the thoughts about themselves
                    mommy and daddy had — they
                    can be wrong today

                A child may be telling themselves
                    today — they need a rich husband
                    because mama told them that —

                And if they aren't rich — they can be
                    having great unhappiness —

                A person always accusing others
                    for their problems soon has
                    no friends —
                    projection —

                A man expecting a woman to bow
                    or wait on them —

                Resentment is a rebellion in a
                    sense against our own
                    way of life —

                We either have to surrender to
                    our way of life —
                    or quit — because living
                    with resentment — anger
                    discord — hatred is HELL

                end of August 24, 2009

 

February 6, 2004 message

Messenger:        Think how important it is to Jesus these prayer
                                chapters are started by the priests in
                                their parishes around the world.

                            Today is First Friday.

                            9 years ago I got a message to have the 
                                public gatherings on the 5th of
                                each month because of the 5
                                blasphemies against Mary and in
                                honor of the 5 wounds of Jesus.

  

Mary's Image February 5, 2004

 

Messenger:        Last night the images were so beautiful in
                                Florida and we prayed so deeply for grace
                                and mercy and light for the world.

                            We prayed under the image with all our
                                hearts.

                            There is so much sin in the world — Many
                                do not obey the 10 commandments —

                                    

The Ten Commandments
 

  1.   I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.

  2.   You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.

  3.   Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.

  4.   Honor your father and your mother.

  5.   You shall not kill.

  6.   You shall not commit adultery.

  7.   You shall not steal.

  8.   You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

  9.   You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.

  10.   You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

    

Messenger:        Many do not live by the Word of God.
 

  

                 

 

Novena al Espiritu Santo  English

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Español

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Français

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Português

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Italiano

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Polska

 

Excerpt from November 4, 2001

Jesus speaks:  To those who pray My prayers I
                        promise the following special
                        graces:

                                 - A deeper understanding of the 
                                     Divine Mysteries through fervent
                                     recitation of the litanies.

                                 - I promise a deeper love in your heart
                                     for your God and a deeper love
                                     for your fellowmen.

                                 - Those who pray the prayers fervently
                                    will experience a deep union 
                                    in My Heart and My Mother's heart,
                                    they will be given special insights
                                    into My unfathomable love for men
                                    and experience a thirsting within
                                    themselves to want to help souls
                                    through intercessory prayer and sacrifices.

                                 - They will have a deeper love of the Mass
                                    through this deeper consecration.
                                    [consecration to Their Hearts]

                                 - They will know Me more intimately.

                                 - They will want to live their lives to 
                                    help save souls.

                                 - They will have a deeper love for the priests shepherds.
                                 - They will have a deeper love and dedication
                                    to the Church. (I founded)

                                 - They will want peace on the earth.
                                 - They will want peace in their own hearts.

                                 - You will experience a fearlessness the more
                                    you pray the Holy Spirit Novena prayers
                                    given to you.

                                 - As you meditate on the scriptures you will
                                    understand more fully the plan of
                                    the Father to lead the souls into the
                                    great Reign of My Sacred Heart.

                                 - You and all who pray the Holy Spirit Novena
                                    and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers will be
                                    united in a deep oneness with each other
                                    and the souls of the earth.

                                 - The more you pray these prayers (both sets)
                                    you will live in the truth as you
                                    dwell in Our Hearts.

                                  - You will be given gifts of the Holy Spirit.

                                  - You and your family will be protected by
                                    My Precious Blood and your families
                                    will receive special protection
                                    against satan from fervent recitation
                                    of the prayers. (the Holy Spirit Novena
                                    and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers)

                                 - I promise to take you and the members of
                                    your family in a special way
                                    into My Sacred Heart. I will lavish
                                    you in the fires of My love.

                                 - The priests and the people of the Church and the world
                                    will receive special graces from the fervent
                                    recitation of these prayers. (both sets)

                                 - I will unite My people in a deeper love
                                    from the graces granted from
                                    fervent recitation of these prayers.

                                 - I give these prayers from My image site
                                    in Florida.
                                   I appear there daily as the Sacred Heart.
                                   Some see Me, some do not, but there
                                    is a special presence there.
                                   My Mother appears there for her children.

                                 - In the five years of her apparitions many
                                    souls who have come have been
                                    given special graces of conversion.
                                    Many have been given grace to lead
                                    them into a deeper love union with
                                    God and the Blessed Virgin.

                                 - The image site in Florida has touched
                                    the world.

                                 - I outpour great grace to those who come
                                    to the site.

                                 - There are tremendous graces of healing
                                    granted to all who come.

                                 - People who come rarely leave unchanged.
                                 - The grace granted works in their lives and in
                                    their hearts, long after they have gone.

                                 - A reminder of their visit only need be given
                                    and they experience a memory of
                                    that moment.

                                I ask you to circulate the prayers I have
                                    given, the Shepherds of Christ Prayers 
                                    and the Holy Spirit Novena prayers.

End of excerpt from November 4, 2001

   

 

                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, 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.
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               11) Blue Book 14 cover; Blue Book 13 – all involved.
                    For our Publisher and all involved
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               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
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               15) Donors and members and their families.
               16) Healing of the Family tree.
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                    Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
               18) All who asked us to pray for them.
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                    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.

 

 

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