R. God is with us!

                We are to be good!

                Obey God's laws!

                Grow in our relationship with God –

                Grow in our relationship with others –

                GRATITUDE!!

                Lead –

                    We think of Moses and his
                faithfulness to God. He was only
                one man, but he walked by faith.
                Look at his faith – all the way
                to the crossing of the Red Sea.

                    In this last hurricane – we were
                worried about Irma and the water
                they said was sucked out of the
                bay. I know the Jesus and Mary
                water have brought down
                much help in healings and
                spraying with holy water for
                disasters.

                    God gives us the commandments
                for happy and healthy living.
                God created us and we are His
                creatures and we are under Him.
                God wants us to be obedient to
                Him. God has the Plan. God
                made us for a purpose. We have
                to go to God to be fearless soldiers
                in this struggle we are facing.
                God is Almighty – God has all
                the power.

                    We see the saving power
                in God in helping the Chosen
                People be rescued from slavery.
                We see the angel of death passed
                over the homes with blood
                on the door-post –

                    We see the relationship between
                God and His people deepen when
                they were obedient to God and
                how they were dependent on God.

                    We have responsibilities in
                our lives, we are accountable for
                our actions before God. We are to
                bear witness of God's love and
                life in us – in this life and
                make a difference in our
                lives by doing God's will for
                future generations – God gives
                us His law to obey and this is
                how we can attain happiness
                and peace inside. God
                is with us, now. God loves
                us. God takes care of us.

                    We are to love God with our
                whole heart, our whole soul
                and our whole being and love
                our neighbor as ourselves. What
                we do has consequences. We effect
                the Church, the world, others' lives
                by how we act. People should
                see us being witnesses of Christ.

                    We just celebrated the Sorrowful
                Mother Feast and the Triumph
                of the Cross.

                    God helped men at the time
                of Moses. He told Moses to make
                a bronze serpent and put it on
                a pole. The people who were
                bitten by deadly snakes were
                healed when they looked upon
                the bronze serpent.

                    Jesus came and He lived,
                walked the earth, taught,
                worked miracles and died for
                our sins on the cross. Jesus
                is our Savior

                Song: A Song from Jesus

                R. Look at Moses who obeyed
                God – Look at the journey
                of the chosen people –

                    Moses was a just leader.
                Leaders have to say "yes" and
                they are to be pure to help the
                people – Leaders such as
                Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
                Joseph, Moses were acting
                in God's name for the good
                of the people. They gave
                themselves in love – These
                leaders sent by God to us
                doing God's work should be
                respected for their justice and
                loyalness to God acting in
                obedience. Only the devil wants
                to tear down good leaders of God.
                The devil wants to tear - apart –
                destroy and bring down people
                who sacrifice to do the work
                of God.

                    We should see good leaders
                and their qualities and
                learn from men who are
                serving God and building the
                Kingdom of God.

                    We see the bondage of oppressive
                power by the Pharaoh at the time
                of Moses. He used the Israelites
                for slaves because he wanted
                all the power for himself – to be
                honored and worshipped and
                do what he wanted in his palaces.

                    God's love is powerful. When
                we live by God's plan in obedience
                we receive grace to help us to
                heal and do what God wants
                of us.

                    We must co-operate with this
                grace. It is God's plan for us
                to do His will and use our talents as
                He wants. We see God helping
                the people in the Old Testament and we
                know God does not abandon us
                and is helping us today.

                    We must trust God and
                have faith in God.

                R. Here are 2 leaders for us –
                priests who have helped us –
                on their ordination cards it
                says
                    "Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I
                        place my trust in Thee"

                We see the Passover meal and
                the Passover Event and what it
                meant to the chosen
                people of God.

                    We see the sacred meal –
                the Mass and what the
                Eucharist means to us today –
 

                        From the Priestly Newsletter

                R. The Jewish people celebrate
                the Passover today.

                    Moses was a great leader –

                    Moses led them out of Egypt –

                    We see the Mass. We have
                a new Covenant in Jesus Christ,
                our Savior.

                    God chooses us to help
                people. Look at what Moses
                did for the Hebrews –

                    God loved the Israelites –
                We see the plagues God
                sent.

                R. We see the miracle of the crossing
                    of the Red Sea.

                The Chosen People were slaves
                    in Egypt and wanted to
                    be freed.
                    God sent Moses. Moses
                    was a great leader.

                Today we still must obey
                    the commandments God
                    gave to Moses.

                God hears our prayers –

                The people prayed to God at the time
                    of Moses and God heard them
                    and sent Moses.

                God used Moses. The people had
                    to respect God using Moses
                    or they would not have
                    been freed.

                Moses had to say "yes" –
                Moses obeyed God –

Exodus 4: 5

'Thus they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.'

                R. We have a mission in this vocation
                to help in the renewal of the
                Church and the world. Not
                only now, but for the future.

                    We cannot treat human
                beings as slaves or objects
                for our own desires. We must
                be Christ-like to others – to
                servants –

                    We were all created in the
                image and likeness of God!!
 

Exodus 14: 13-14

Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid! Stand firm, and you will see what Yahweh will do to rescue you today: the Egyptians you see today you will never see again. Yahweh will do the fighting for you; all you need to do is to keep calm.’

                R. God saved them!

                    God helped the Israelites to be
                freed from slavery –

                    God saves. Jesus is our
                Savior – Jesus saves
                us from the slavery of sin –
                but we must obey God and
                co-operate with the graces
                God gives to rescue us and
                help us to be set free – We must
                do our part –

                    We see the slavery of the
                Israelites – do people dark in
                sin and not changing see how they are
                acting like the slaves under the
                Pharaoh.

Look at the movie Moses –                 and see the slavery                 of the Hebrews.

                    How do men look who just
                keep being hateful, hurting
                people, serving satan – living
                in secrets to trip people up
                and destroy – Do such people
                see their enslavement at their
                own hands to satan?

                    God is so good. God freed
                His chosen people. God gives
                us the ability to ask for forgiveness
                and mercy with a contrite heart –
                but we can act like the Pharaoh
                holding on to sin and darkness
                here on the journey of life and
                ignoring the plagues we may
                suffer to lead us home to Him.
                The Pharaoh was obstinate!

                    Jesus came and died and rose!
                Death / Resurrection – the
                Pascal mystery.

                    The Resurrection is Victory.
                Victory for us from sin and
                death –
 

In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first–fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first–fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

 

                Song: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.

-Mass Book, December 27, 1995

Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our new president as he takes office. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.

                R. God's love is everlasting it
                never goes out – like the
                burning bush –

                    It is never consumed! 

                Watch Movie Moses TONIGHT

                R. God fills us. We receive the
                sacrament of baptism – a
                sharing in God's life and
                He feeds that life with
                Himself – the Word and
                the Eucharist is the bread
                of life –

                At the time of Moses – God led
                    them in the desert and
                    they were hungry and thirsty and
                    Moses had to deal with this.

                God calls us to an ever
                deeper relationship with Him
                until, hopefully, we go to
                heaven and are full of His life
                in heaven.

                    Jesus came and He showed
                us how to live the 10 Commandments.
                We are to grow in our image
                and likeness of God – we
                are to prepare, on this journey,
                for our everlasting life
                with God in heaven
                possessed by God.

Prayer for Union with Jesus

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

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

    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. We love God and praise Him –
                we ask for the grace to be
                filled more and more abundantly
                in Him –

                    And we are thirsty until
                we get to heaven – we are
                not satisfied here!!!

                    When we suffer like they suffered
                we should learn that God helps
                us prepare for eternal life
                in suffering.

                    Jesus gives us the Church –
                    Jesus gives us baptism –
                    Jesus gives us the Scriptures
                    Jesus gives us the Eucharist 

                R. The chosen people suffered – they
                had to be in the desert 40 years,
                40 days and nights and they suffered
                hunger and thirst –

                    Does this remind us of our
                life here?

                    We must trust and
                love and prepare here
                for heaven –

                    This is not the end –
                We are members of our Father's
                    family –

                    God has used water to bring
                purification – Water in baptism –
                water when He flooded the
                earth –

                    CLEAR - WATER

                R. We see how God saved
                His chosen people by the
                waters of the Red Sea –               

                From the 3rd Sunday of Lent

John 4: 4-42

He had to pass through Samaria. On the way he came to the Samaritan town called Sychar near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, ‘Give me something to drink.’ His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘You are a Jew. How is it that you ask me, a Samaritan, for something to drink?’—Jews, of course, do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus replied to her:

    If you only knew what God is offering
    and who it is that is saying to you,
    ‘Give me something to drink,’
    you would have been the one to ask,
    and he would have given you living water.

    ‘You have no bucket, sir,’ she answered, ‘and the well is deep: how do you get this living water? Are you a greater man than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle?’ Jesus replied:

    Whoever drinks this water
    will be thirsty again;
    but no one who drinks the water
        that I shall give
    will ever be thirsty again:
    the water that I shall give
    will become a spring of water within,
        welling up for eternal life.

    ‘Sir,’ said the woman, ‘give me some of that water, so that I may never be thirsty or come here again to draw water.’ ‘Go and call your husband,’ said Jesus to her, ‘and come back here.’ The woman answered, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You are right to say, "I have no husband"; for although you have had five, the one you now have is not your husband. You spoke the truth there.’ ‘I see you are a prophet, sir,’ said the woman. ‘Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, though you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.’ Jesus said:

    Believe me, woman, the hour is coming
    when you will worship the Father
    neither on this mountain
        nor in Jerusalem.
    You worship what you do not know;
    we worship what we do know;
    for salvation comes from the Jews.
    But the hour is coming—
        indeed is already here—
    when true worshippers
        will worship the Father
            in spirit and truth:
    that is the kind of worshipper
    the Father seeks.
    God is spirit,
    and those who worship
    must worship in spirit and truth.

    The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah—that is, Christ—is coming; and when he comes he will explain everything.’ Jesus said, ‘That is who I am, I who speak to you.’

    At this point his disciples returned and were surprised to find him speaking to a woman, though none of them asked, ‘What do you want from her?’ or, ‘What are you talking to her about?’ The woman put down her water jar and hurried back to the town to tell the people, ‘Come and see a man who has told me everything I have done; could this be the Christ?’ This brought people out of the town and they made their way towards him.

    Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, do have something to eat’; but he said, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about.’ So the disciples said to one another, ‘Has someone brought him food?’ But Jesus said:

    My food
    is to do the will of the one who sent me,
    and to complete his work.
    Do you not have a saying:
    Four months and then the harvest?
    Well, I tell you,
    look around you, look at the fields;
    already they are white,
        ready for harvest!
    Already the reaper
        is being paid his wages,
    already he is bringing in the grain
        for eternal life,
    so that sower and reaper
        can rejoice together.
    For here the proverb holds true:
    one sows, another reaps;
    I sent you to reap
    a harvest you have not laboured for.
    Others have laboured for it;
    and you have come
        into the rewards of their labour.

    Many Samaritans of that town believed in him on the strength of the woman’s words of testimony, ‘He told me everything I have done.’ So, when the Samaritans came up to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed for two days, and many more came to believe on the strength of the words he spoke to them; and they said to the woman, ‘Now we believe no longer because of what you told us; we have heard him ourselves and we know that he is indeed the Saviour of the world.’

John 19: 34

one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out blood and water.

                R. We see the Blood and water flowed
                    out of Christ's pierced Heart –
                    Water for Baptism
                    Blood for the Eucharist.

 
                R. The people complained against Moses
                and were unruly –

                    He was upset and struck
                the rock twice for water –

                    God was not pleased with
                his disobedience – we see this.
                God wanted obedience from
                Moses. God expected obedience
                from the chosen people –

                    God wants obedience
                from us. We are here and are
                to obey His Law –

                    The people were to keep the
                Covenant God gave to them –
                Many worshipped false gods –

                R. Giving into temptation – being
                disobedient to God keeps us
                distant from God and we
                aren't growing in our relationship
                with God when we live in
                sin and deny it!

                    Our goal should be heaven.
                All of our actions are to
                prepare us for eternal life.
                We are here to work on our
                loving relationships with
                God and others –

                    Thank God for all He gives us.
                    He gives us our life and food
                    and drink and each other –

                    God gives us the Church –
                    God gives us the Word
                    God gives us the priest –

We have a free will

to obey God   or to disobey God

                Life is a journey to eternal
                    salvation – we want in heaven!!