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A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
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.
CONSECRATE YOUR HEARTS TO OUR 2 HEARTS
Jesus speaks: My tainted children of Adam and Eve. I am the New Adam. Mary is the New Eve.
1) When you dwell in Our Hearts, your actions are more pure. OUR Hearts are pure and holy.
2) When you dwell in Our Hearts you live more in the Father's will. I am God. Mary did the will of the Father more perfectly than any human person. We always did the will of the Father.
3) When you dwell in Our Hearts you are consumed with love for God and men.
[I am love, My Mother is the Mother of love.]
4) When you dwell in Our Hearts you live more perfected lives.
Oh My children of Adam and Eve, come in the New Adam and the New Eve.
Give your hearts to Me and My Mother.
Live the life of consecration.
Say always:
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.
Messenger:
Can you imagine how our world would be if everybody was doing God's will? It would be the reign of the Sacred Heart!!
AM I DOING MY WILL OR GOD'S WILL?
Jesus speaks: Pray to the Holy Spirit to only do God's will. Pray the Our Father.
September 9, 1999 - 2nd message
Jesus speaks: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. ONE TRUTH, ONE WILL.
Messenger: Love of God, self and others ---
Our mission is to LIVE IN GOD'S WILL ----
We must love one another. This does not mean accepting UNTRUTHS.
WE WORK TOWARD TRUTH.
If it is the plan of the Father to use a certain Movement or Ministry to help souls to get to heaven, think of how I could be held accountable for my jealousy or whatever if I tried to control the situation for my own self gain. This would partially block that endeavor on God's part to reach millions.
Every person must act according to God's will, however it is.
In the Church a holy person can touch so many hearts.
In the world a holy Ministry can affect souls that we do not even know.
It is chain-like.
One person affects another.
If one person prays for the world and gives his life for the Church and the world through prayer and good works, he can affect millions of souls, praying and being deeply united to God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass all day.
We do not like to be as the man who buried His talents in the field. You and I alike affect the lives of so many souls by giving ourselves to God in the Morning Offering.
You and I affect the lives of so many souls by helping others who are trying to give their whole lives in service of others.
When jealousy and self interest get involved in our motives, we may stop so many things, since we have acted not in accord with God's will.
On the other hand, the person who endures unjust persecution and suffers heroically can help to bring down tremendous grace for the sake of the salvation of so many souls.
The bottom line is this, we must want God's will for all with our whole heart and whole soul.
There is a day on which we will be held accountable for all our actions.
We must love all and not try to selfishly get it our way to be on top.
We must open our hearts to God's love. We must do all we can to make things work as He wills.
A teacher in a high school who does not teach properly, and is selfishly motivated "wanting to be smart", "wanting to look cool", can adversely affect the lives of so many people each of his students touches. (They are Mary's children).
No wonder she cries.
For the entire portion of their lives, they affect souls. A teacher, a priest, a parent has a responsibility to help form the young minds in truth.
All we do acts as ripples on a pond. All we don't do affects lives also. All we do against God's will affects souls.
I am not on earth by myself. I am here with the command to love God and love others. I am here to live according to God's will.
God has one will. There is one truth. We are all to live our lives trying to seek it.
God wills that we are united. God wills we act as brothers and sisters. God wills us to be one holy, happy family.
Even the secluded monk, if he is living according to God's will, is united to all in his heart.
We are not allowed to have little places in our hearts where we love some and hate some or block others.
To try to manipulate events so that I can control others' lives which, in turn, will alter the Father's plan, affects the salvation process of many souls.
People who contribute to spreading lies will be held accountable for how they affected souls.
A person on television telling all to abort babies affects people's lives. How many lives do you affect?
Every person is to act as God wills.
All persons will be held accountable for their deeds.
We are to unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass all day and plead for mercy for our souls and all souls of the earth. We have been a sinful people.
Thank God for the Blood of Jesus and His selfless Offering.
We must spend our lives at every second wanting to serve our God as He wills.
Matthew 12:46-50
The true kinsfolk of Jesus.
He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?' And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'
Messenger: Because of my Baptism I have a responsibility to help lead others to God.
If I want to control and be on the top, and cut off others so I get to be on top for my selfish gain, I could affect the lives of millions of souls these others could have touched.
We are one body and what I do affects the lives of my brothers.
Anytime I am not living according to God's will, I can hurt others by my actions.
God wishes all to be living according to His will.
When all have this as their goal, they will live in greater peace and harmony.
Consecration unites the hearts in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Jesus always did the will of the Father.
Because of her great holiness, Mary was greatly conformed to God's will.
In dwelling in Their Hearts we are most likely to live more and more in His will.
What will lead us to the reign of the Sacred Heart when all will live in His will in peace and harmony?
Men living as brothers and sisters according to the will of God.
So we pray:
OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME --
THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.Song: Oh, I am a Child of God
WE ARE BROTHERS IN HIM.
Jesus speaks: Today, begin the day with the Morning Offering. Make every moment of your life a sacrifice united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to help save souls. I love you, you are all brothers in Me.
I am Jesus, Son of the Living God - Come and live in Me.
Messenger: When we try to control others' lives against God's will, it adversely affects our own process of salvation and that of others.
Recite the Divine Mercy.
How to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Begin with:
Our Father..., Hail Mary..., The Creed.
On the five large beads:
Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity
of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ in atonement
for our sins and those of the whole world.On the ten small beads:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us
and on the whole world.Conclude with repeating three times:
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One,
have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Messenger: Do you see the ants working in an ant hill? How would it be if they were all fighting and hurting one another?
Wouldn't you just say, "Why don't they work together?"
God looks from above, does He see the selfish ones pushing their way to try to get ahead or does he see all working as He wills? This is not to say if we are chosen for a mission that we step back and don't do what He says in order to lead souls to Him. The Blessed Virgin did God's will.
Luke 1:46-55
The Magnificat
And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love
--according to the promise
he made to our ancestors--
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
Messenger: It is God's plan for us to love God and love one another, to help all to develop their potential as children of God, to live in harmony as one, holy family.
Jesus speaks: My people --
Pray to not be selfish and prideful. Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus, so that you see with wide vision your responsibility to help lead souls to heaven.
You must act according to the Father's will.
Luke 19:11-27
Parable of the pounds
While the people were listening to this he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to show itself then and there. Accordingly he said, 'A man of noble birth went to a distant country to be appointed king and then return. He summoned ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds, telling them, "Trade with these, until I get back." But his compatriots detested him and sent a delegation to follow him with this message, "We do not want this man to be our king."
Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Father Edward Carter
"It is well to begin by observing a phenomenon of our culture concerning love: Many persons who choose marriage say they do so out of a desire to be loved. Notice, they say that they marry out of a desire to be loved, not to love. In fairness to these persons, perhaps we should presume that they realize they in turn must also offer love. Yet, is it not revealing that they explicitly mention as the reason for marrying a desire to be loved? Could there be a close correlation between this phenomenon and the extraordinary high divorce rate that prevails in our culture? If it is common that both partners enter marriage more from a need to receive love than from a desire to give it, do we have to look further for the reason to explain why so many marriages are plagued with various degrees of unhappiness?"
"We should realize that all of us are in danger of falling into the above temptation. Whether we are married people, celibates in the priestly and religious life, or single persons in the world, all of us have to be aware lest we be more concerned with receiving love than in giving it. God wants us to receive love, and we have a need to receive love; however, we must not allow this legitimate desire to degenerate into a morbid preoccupation whereby we always enumerate all the different ways that others should be manifesting love toward us, while, at the same time, we ourselves might be guilty of neglecting numerous opportunities for loving them. If our main concern is to love others rather than to be loved by them, I think we will more often than not be surprised at the love others show us over a lifetime. Nonetheless, even in the event that we might feel slighted in this regard, our vocation as Christians is eminently clear: We ourselves must continue to love even when it is extremely difficult to do so, thus following the example of Jesus who loved even those who nailed Him to the cross.
"As maturing Christians we should be assimilative individuals. In various ways, we must be able to absorb from others, not in an artificial way that does violence to our uniqueness, but in a manner that actually enhances our uniqueness. Our wonderful privilege is to assimilate ever more and more the truth, the goodness, the beauty of God himself by, among other ways, realizing that God is variously reflected through all the human persons he has created. Just as we are created in God's image -- and thereby are reflective of his perfections -- so also are all others. When all humans are true to God's designs, all do indeed provide various opportunities to one another for personality growth. All of us, I am sure, can recall more than one instance in which we felt especially inspired to become better persons because we have encountered certain individuals.
"The preceding discussion easily leads us to another trait that should characterize our dealings with others -- namely, we should be evocative persons. By what we are and say and do, we should evoke, or call forth for further development, the truth, the goodness, and the beauty that is inherent in each human person. When we encounter others, we should want to aid, not hinder them in their quest for personal growth. We are evocative persons in various ways: by offering appropriately affirming words of encouragement and commendation; by simply being kind to others; by wanting sincerely to share others' joys and sorrows; and by helping others realize that they are unique individuals with a unique mission to fulfill. These and other ways -- which, again, should all be infused with appropriate love -- are constantly available to us; collectively, these ways are a constant reminder to us that we can be evocative personalities not only on rather rare and so-called special occasions, but also on the special occasion of every day, for, indeed each day is a precious gift from God.
Q: How can we join in greater unity as a family through praying together daily? When can we set aside a special time to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers and the rosary as a couple, as a family?
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