Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

January 11, 2016

January 12th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is 
Day 9 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for January 12th
are
Joyful.

 

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                Given January 10, 2016

                R. God is light and in Him there is
                no darkness.

                    The light of God is seen in a
                man as he lives virtuously.

                    The Holy Spirit is God – He is love
                He comes and works in us to live
                virtuously – to fill us with the fire
                of God's love.

                    The Holy Spirit comes and fills
                us with light – He enlightens our
                minds, He makes our soul more
                and more holy – He sanctifies us.

                    Come Holy Spirit enlighten our minds
                and sanctify our souls. Holy Spirit, come and
                possess my soul. Work in my heart.

                    Fill me with Your gifts to be
                more perfected in my soul.

                    Come Holy Spirit and fill the hearts of the
                faithful with the fire of God's love.

                    In God there is order. We see
                the beauty of the Virgin Mary –
                Espoused to the Holy Spirit. Everything
                has its proper place when it is
                in order as God desires.

                    God has a plan for us and for the world.
                God created us with a purpose.

                    God the Father so loved the world He
                sent His only begotten Son.

                    God the Father gave to us the Virgin
                Mary, conceived without sin, to be
                the Mother of His Son and our Mother.

                    Mary is all holy and perfect
                to be the Mother of God.

                    Mary is the perfect handmaid
                of the Lord.

                    Mary, the most perfect
                woman of the human race,
                Mary is our model.

                Mary is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit.

                    Mary shows a religious how to be
                a Spouse of God.

                    Every religious should model
                themselves after Mary.

                    Jesus told Fr. Carter to call the
                Servants and Handmaids:
                Servants and Handmaids of the Good Shepherd.

                What dignity God confers on us –
                What a calling by Jesus for these
                special people called to serve
                God as Servants and Handmaids
                of God, what dignity, what honor.

                God is the highest – above –
                And Mary the highest human creature –
                Mary shows us how God loves us –
                We are loved –
                We are raised up –
                We have dignity and honor.

                In Baptism we recognize we are
                    sons of God. We thank God
                    for loving us so much.
                    God is Divine
                    We are human –

                In baptism God gives us a sharing
                    in His life –

                    Our knowing loving capacity is
                elevated so we can love and
                know on a supernatural level.

                    The devil is hate –
                    The devil is darkness –

                    The devil wants men to rebel
                against God and be going down –
                not reaching up.

                    The devil tempts with the
                deadly sins –
pride, greed, envy,
                wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth

                    If man gives into the deadly
                sins and makes them a common
                practice and does not seek to
                change his ways of jealousy
                and anger, pride and envy, slothfulness –
                he becomes more and more full of
                darkness inside –

                    His attitude is pride – to
                raise himself up – to not know
                his place –

                    As soon as he talks to others
                his way can be in competition
                with men, with God – he
                argues for his position above
                men – he is not meek and
                gentle in heart like the Heart of Jesus
                he is combatal – seeking darkness
                and disorder –

                    The more he sees his brothers,
                not in love, but as enemies he
                challenges, he can see in jealousy
                as a habit, in envy and wish
                to bring the good man down –

                    This is darkness, this can be
                such a habit it is a way of
                life for the man in darkness.

                    He does not love, but rebels
                in competition and if he does
                not stop he becomes more
                distorted in his thinking – not
                knowing his place, living in
                disorder.

                    And his own darkness makes
                him angry, his own pride
                he denies makes him angry –
                he is opposing God's law of
                love and friendship and
                brotherhood.

                    Man has a free will – he
                can continue in pride – like
                Eve in the Garden and when
                a man sees men with jealous
                eyes and envy he is fidgety inside –
                to promote himself.

                    My God my God my heart
                rests in Thee.

                    I give You myself and ask You
                to come possess my soul.
                I call to be loving more and
                more and seek to be more and more
                as our model Mary – perfect
                handmaid of the Lord.

 
  

Luke 1: 46-55

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.

 

 

                Given January 10, 2016

                R. Hope –

                The enemy of hope is despair –
                but the person who sees their
                brothers with envy and jealousy
                and acts in pride and slothfulness
                is not focusing on the hope of
                eternal salvation –

                for the person with hope seeks their
                    eternal reward and desires
                    to help all others to achieve
                    their work in God's plan and
                    also have eternal salvation –

                Loving is giving what God wants us
                    to give for the good of the other –

                God is all good, God is all merciful –

                Judas despaired –

                Judas was full of pride –

                Satan wants a man to seek a place above
                    God or equal to God as satan used
                    when he tempted Eve in the Garden.
                    Eve wanted to be equal to God.

                Presumption is when a man assumes
                    God will give happiness to him
                    when he is sinning.

                God is just, but He is merciful to
                    the sinner contritely seeking forgiveness.

                Bishop Sheen says that sin is sin, but
                    what is worse is the man who
                    won't repent or admit he sins –
                    that is a man thinking God will
                    bless him while he refuses
                    to admit his sin and will not repent.

                God has a plan for us –

                    A man is not, really happy, when he
                    makes habits of projecting his
                    jealousy and anger and  envy on
                    innocent men. When he lives
                    pridefully looking down on others
                    he is doing this to Jesus. When
                    we love our brothers we see –
                    we are loving God whom we don't
                    see.

                When a man is not focused on his eternal
                    life and lives in a darkened state
                    of anger and jealousy and envy
                    and hatred – he doesn't feel
                    good inside – he becomes more
                    angry because he distances
                    himself more and more from
                    God the more he gives into his anger,
                    competition, pride, argumentation,
                    envy, jealousy and it really
                    ends in hating others.

                Fr. Carter calls acting unlovingly
                    against our neighbor – SIN.

                God gives us dignity – In baptism
                    we see ourselves as sons of
                    God, we know God loved us
                    and loves us so much – that
                    Jesus died for us – so we could
                    go to heaven someday if we
                    know and love God and serve
                    Him as He desires.

                A man who is angry inside and
                    full of bitterness – makes himself more
                    angry by sinning against the righteous
                    man more and more. The man living
                    in pride and anger and jealousy
                    and envy becomes more and more
                    bitter by his ugly actions projected
                    on innocent men, when he has
                    no sign of repentance and sorrow
                    for his ways. He is putting himself
                    in constant bondage and walking
                    in darkness instead of living
                    in the light –

                Hell is total despair
                Hell is hate
                Hell is total darkness and
                    isolation –

                This constant living in darkness
                    leads to more and more distortion
                    of the truth – living as a
                    prideful, angry, jealous,
                    envious, slothful person
                    leads to a very unhappy journey,
                    a dangerous journey in the one
                    life we have to show God we
                    want to grow the way He wants
                    us to be.

                    It's like flunking the test on
                        purpose.

                    Why? Why?

                God is so Good –

                God is all powerful –

                    This bitterness toward others grows,
                there are also the deadly sins of lust
                and gluttony – in lust a man is
                not respectful of himself and others.

                    We are here to seek purity in our
                hearts and souls. To make God the
                King of our hearts. Making Jesus the
                King and center of our hearts leads
                us to be loving. We pray to the Holy Spirit
                through the powerful intercession of
                Mary to mold us more and more in
                the image of Jesus.

                The man of presumption just
                thinks God will give him a reward
                even though he was sinful and
                didn't repent. A person who
                mistreats others and punishes
                them for their anger may presumptuously
                think God will still give him
                a reward despite his despicable
                behavior.

                The Holy Spirit gives us gifts –
                like fear of the Lord where we
                don't want to offend God with
                the smallest sin. The man of
                presumption can go deeper and
                deeper into his false hope that
                God will ignore his unrepented
                sins –

                A man of false hope is blinded
                many times, by the fact he falsely
                thinks that he can do anything that is
                sinful and God won't hold him
                accountable and responsible for
                his sins.

                When men lose hope they
                can succumb to violence.
                The darkness becomes ever darker.
                How dark is the darkness of
                living in sin and not trying
                to ever change pridefulness,
                envy, jealousy, anger, slothfulness
                lust etc.

                A person does not stay the same
                in the spiritual life. God calls us
                to holiness, but a person can
                oppose God by living in rebelling,
                unloving hateful ways toward his
                brothers.

                We are to seek the vision of God
                To see the vision of God we must
                have hope of our eternal life
                as a reward for living as God
                wants us to live – according to
                His will in love – and
                hoping for eternal salvation for
                our brothers.

                Jesus paid a big price for our
                sins.

                We must return to the love of God
                through faith and hope!!

                Faith is seeing through the eyes of
                the heavenly Father embracing
                God's plan – seeking the vision
                of God

                We seek true happiness in heaven
                because we live as God commands
                us to live according to the Father's
                will in love

                Hope brings happiness to the
                heart of man.

                God is love and God gives us
                the gift of loving us and
                we are to work for our eternal
                salvation in loving according to His will.

 

     

                Given January 8, 2016

                From Fr. Joe's homily
 

Matthew 3: 13-17

Then Jesus appeared: he came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. John tried to dissuade him, with the words, ‘It is I who need baptism from you, and yet you come to me!’ But Jesus replied, ‘Leave it like this for the time being; it is fitting that we should, in this way, do all that uprightness demands.’ Then John gave in to him. 

    And when Jesus had been baptised he at once came up from the water, and suddenly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And suddenly there was a voice from heaven, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.’

 

                R. Jesus is Divine

Jesus is God –

                We are not divine

                God gives us a sharing in His life
                    in baptism –

                Washing with water is
                    associated with washing away dirt.

                Baptism is washing away
                    original sin.

                You are God's children now.

                The Holy Water in Church is to
                    remind us of our baptism
                    Scripture says: a person must be born
                    again to enter the Kingdom of God.

                Baptism means we are
                    marked for God –

                Kids may say in high school –
                    nobody asked us about baptism –

                And Fr. Joe would say –
                    nobody asked you to be born –

                When we say Our Father –
                    we remember – we are special and God
                    wants us to live holy lives.

                We are God's child.

                Jesus is our Savior –
                    no person can save us –

                Jesus is our Savior –
                    Jesus hear our prayer –

                Jesus, Savior hear our prayer –

                Thank you Lord we can join together –
                    we are to be united –
                    You asked us to love one another –

                We make this prayer in Jesus' name –

                Dear God outpour Your
                    love and grace on us –

                Touch us with Your love and Your peace Lord.

                Dear God You are life –
                    Outpour Your grace and love upon us.

                Dear God – You want us holy –
                    You are the God of all creation –
                    help us to live as children of Our Father

                We offer our lives as a sacrifice to God –
                    live as God's children – in obedience
                    to the Father's will –

                Lifting up our hearts and being
                    an example and this before God.

God is light. God is love –

                We were created in the image and likeness of God -

                Mary said
                My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my
                    spirit rejoices in God my Savior.

                The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary,
                sacramentally made present. God gives us the Mass,
                the sacraments, the font of His life.

                Jesus gives us His Body and Blood to feed this life
                    we received in baptism –

                Oh God let us adore You –
                    as the Kings adored Christ –

                Our life is to be lived to adore Jesus.
                Humbly we receive the body and blood of Jesus.
                We are united with the Holy Spirit all day and the pope and
                    priest and all members of the mystical body of Christ.

                We pray the Our Father as Jesus taught us to pray
                    calling God Our Father, we are special

Jesus takes away the sin of the world –
We are not worthy to receive Him

                Dear God cloth us in light –
                    lead us from the darkness

                Bath us in Your marvelous light –

God Your love is constant –
    You are love –

                We want to be children of the light –
                God give us Your gifts for all our needs –

                Bath us in light God
                Holy Spirit come - come and dwell in us.

                Holy Spirit give us the vision of the Father –
                Open the font of Your grace –

                We are made in the image and likeness of God –

                God, fill us with light
                God give us what we need

                God we want You to operate in us in Your Might.

                We are the salt of the earth –
                Share life – help us to be merciful,
                full of justice and peace.

                I just want to be one with Jesus, to know His presence in me –

                Oh God Your presence is so good I long for Thee, God.

                God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all –

                God is light –

  

Holy Spirit Novena

Daily Novena Prayers

Opening Prayer

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit. We come to You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in the perfect, sinless heart of Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting ourselves to her holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory.

Prayer for Holy Spirit

We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.

Protection by the Blood of Jesus

We pray that the Blood of Jesus will be spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement, that we will be able to move steadfastly ahead and be protected from the evil one.

Healing

We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.

Prayer for Strength and Light

We adore You, oh Holy Spirit. Give us strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light and grace, we want to only do the will of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always in the Father's will.

Eternal Spirit fill us with Your Divine Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your Divine Mysteries.

Give us lights, Oh Holy Spirit that we may know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of the Virgin Mary, to form us more and more into the image of Jesus.

Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit

We long for You, Oh Spirit of Light, we long to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God. We want to be one with the Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We want to know the beloved One, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want to be one with You, Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.

Prayer to Be One in Jesus

Let us experience life in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...." Let us live, united to the Mass, all through the day being one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this elevated state of oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You, we love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and thank You, our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

We seek to be one in God, to live and dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on earth, to experience life in the all perfect, pure, sinless heart of our Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to be united to Jesus as the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered to the Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world to help in the salvation of souls.

Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts

Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.

Leader: Send forth Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All:  And You will renew the face of the earth.

We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.

Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.

Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts

We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.

Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit

Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God.

Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs for us.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is wrong.

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.

 

   

                Given January 8, 2016

                Jesus: My way is the way of light, of unity, of forgiveness,
                of being responsible for wrongs done to others
                in unloving ways.

                    I call people to commitment in their vocation
                and those being called to a vocation put their
                hands in the hands of others. So the person
                who is a leader is to be growing in holiness
                to give a good example to those under them.
                They have a responsibility to God to be growing
                more and more in My image and likeness. I
                paid the price with My life to teach you
                about holiness. My Mother, the perfect handmaid
                of the Lord, showed you in love and perfection
                how to be. She loved, she gave, she loved the
                Father's will – she was sinless.

                    When you consecrate your hearts to Jesus
                and Mary – you give yourselves to Our Hearts,
                to be led, to walk in holiness, to live in love,
                to live in love according to the Father's will –
                to build for the souls, I died for,
                I laid down My life for the souls. I
                gave My all for the souls, I give Myself
                now to you in love in the Eucharist.
                I am the Good Shepherd, I laid down My
                life for the flock. Yes the man who is selfish
                doesn't give in love for the souls, he
                lives in anger, and darkness, jealousy,
                envy and pride and he gives less
                and less from his heart. He is of such
                a disposition he doesn't want to – give
                and take – with anybody. He can live his
                life building walls to be alone and
                the more he gives into jealousy, the more
                he begins to hate his brothers. A way of life
                can be a way in which a person lives
                in jealousy and envy and anger and
                pride – expecting others to make them happy –
                so they try to force others in relationships
                that are slavishly dependent and dark.
                They can be a person who does not give, but
                hurts others and expects others to go down
                to their darkness by unloving acts, but
                they use things as force to make others
                go to their way – they take what is dear
                to them, what they need to do God's will, survival
                things and then try to control what they need
                to force their ways –

                    holding out – a child can hold their
                breath at such an early age so parents
                don't put them to bed, to get their way
                they pout, when they become adults they
                can be very isolated – looking for a
                place to not change and continue their
                dark, childish ways.

                    I call leaders to lead in holy ways,
                a person has a responsibility with leadership
                to grow more and more as I showed them –
                to grow in love – to maintain order and
                structure – to love means to give for the
                good of the other – so they can grow to be
                holy – so the men together can work for
                the building of the Kingdom of God

                Trust is a big thing among dysfunction –
                the devil tempts the person to not work
                by trusting anyone and fear of
                abandonment keeps them trying to
                keep someone in a relationship that is
                dysfunctional and slavishly dependent.

                    I have called you to the light – Only in
                living in love with others are you raised
                up. A person that trusts and loves no
                one life long – has all kinds of ways
                they use to keep themselves that way.

                    They are not a leader to show
                people love. Who wants to come and
                be wrapped in a web of unloving
                ways from darkness.

                    Hell is total darkness, total isolation –
                you were created to be lifted up – to have
                new life – to learn to lay down your lives
                in the building of My Kingdom.

                    To lead others to the light – to work
                in unity and love in Our Two Hearts
                of Pure and Perfect Love.

                    A person who wears a title, a
                person who wears a habit and tells
                the world they are a person of Christ, the
                Spouse of Christ is to be a person
                living to be more and more like Me –
                Giving is where I laid down My life
                I love for the souls –

                I gave My all –

                I loved the souls to My death –
 

John 10: 11-15

I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
   for his sheep.
The hired man,
   since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
   and runs away,
and then the wolf attacks
   and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
   because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.

 

                Jesus: So when you die and stand before God –
                you are prepared in love, love of God,
                love of oneself, love of others to enter
                the Kingdom of Perfect love –

                Jesus taught you to pray:
                "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"

                Do you know a leader has a bigger and
                bigger responsibility to teach love and
                advance in My image and likeness?

                Being in the dark is like a blind man –
                    he is in the dark and can't see –
                day long – he can't see – and he has to
                make do in the darkness –

                    No man can call himself a Christian,
                Christ-like and live in the darkness
                of self-enclosure, bitterness, unforgiveness,
                envy, jealousy, remorse, despair,
                anger, pride, slothfulness.

                    Your role in life is to live to be
                Christ-like. Religious were called
                by Me to be My Spouse – that isn't
                a "Me and them" relationship – they become
                more selfish and call themselves leaders,
                wear a habit and fight with authority
                and disobey.

                    I called religious to be examples –
                live in holiness, be willing to die for
                the souls – love their brothers.

                    What a paradox – to live in
                darkness and call oneself a leader
                for Christ –

                I am the Good Shepherd –

                I died for My flock –

                I laid down My life for the souls –

 

Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997

Scriptural Reflections

In all this Mary offers an example. Selfishness was totally foreign to her. She did not belong to herself. She belonged to God. She was not closed in upon herself. She was completely open to God. When God spoke, she listened. When God pointed the way, she followed. She realized that life is not a process a person masters by carefully mapping out one's own self-conceived plans of conquest, but a mystery to be gradually experienced by being open to God's personal and loving guidance.

Selfishness, then, did not close Mary off from God's call. Neither did fear. God asked her to assume a tremendous responsibility. He asked her to be the Mother of Jesus. Mary did not engage in a process of false humility and say that such a great role was above her. She did not say that she did not have the proper qualifications for this awesome mission. Briefly, she did not waste time looking at herself, making pleas that she was not worthy, telling the angel he had better go look for someone else. No, Mary did not look at herself. Her gaze was absorbed in God. She fully realized that whatever God asked of her, His grace would accomplish. She fully realized that although she herself had to cooperate, this work was much more God's than hers.

Mary's words, then, truly sum up what is the authentic Christian response at any point of life, in any kind of situation: "I am the handmaid of the Lord," said Mary, "let what you have said be done to me".

 

                Jesus: Living 50 years perfecting darkness is
                not being likened to Christ.

               The Church, the world and the individual
                    Christian are to live in the light –
                    to live to be witnesses to the light
                    themselves –

                    A person that has made relationships
                slavishly dependent by force is
                walking in darkness –

                    To grow in virtue one must ask the
                Holy Spirit to possess their hearts and souls –
                They are men of love – so the Holy Spirit can
                come and work in them – work in the
                gifts – bring light to their soul –

                    A man closed down in envy and jealousy
                pride and anger is walking in darkness –
                is usually unaccountable for their
                deeds done to others and in pride listens
                to satan telling them they are above –
                others are down.

                    When I give a grace to a soul, how
                do you reach a soul that chooses
                envy, jealousy, darkness, pride
                life long. Satan is at work in the
                hearts of darkness – A man of pride
                doesn't tell himself the truth about
                his pride –

                It is the Garden again –

                The Shepherds of Christ was given by God the Father –
                where men are to consecrate their hearts
                and lives to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart
                to dwell in the pure and holy Hearts of
                Mary and My Heart and to live
                a life of love.

                Be witnesses to the Word of God
                Be witnesses to the Christ-life within them –

                It is to be built in structure and order –
                where the might behind the women and
                men is to be the Might of God –
                the Holy Spirit moving in light in the hearts –
                renewing the face of the earth –

                It is to be exemplary of the holiness
                    of Mary so I called Servants and
                    Handmaids of the Good Shepherd –
                    Where the love for My Movement
                    was to be where men – laid
                    down their lives in love – teaching love
                    and My way to others – bringing
                    new and vibrant life and light to
                    others.

                    I am the Good Shepherd, I laid
                down My life for My flock. The
                Holy Spirit brings the fire of God's love –
                operating in the gifts of wisdom,
                counsel, fear of the Lord, understanding
                bring unity and love to all men –

                    When you are called to leadership you
                are responsible for bad example and
                trying to force darkness on others –

                    To those much has been given,
                much will be expected – hurting
                others in unloving ways is from
                satan – using My gifts for darkness
                will be seen in how My souls I
                died for suffered –

                I am the Light of the World –

                    A man walking for Christ – walks
                in the light and he is not living
                in darkness, control, anger,
                jealousy, envy, pride –

                    How dark is your dark when
                you have used 365 days to live
                the deadly sins over years and
                years and years.

                    Hell is total isolation and
                darkness –

                What is a worse shame is a man
                sins and then denies it –

                I am a God of Mercy –

                I have called you to be holy –
                to confess your sins with a firm
                purpose of amendment, to turn
                away from those sins and to
                make reparation for your sins –

                This is My rule – The man of darkness
                that gives the example to others, before
                others and calls themselves a leader
                for Christ is hurting the souls –
                I laid down My life for –

                I came
                I gave
                I built –
                I was bloodied
                I died for My precious souls –

                You will be sorry when you continue
                    to call yourself a Christian leader
                    and lead men in your dark ways –

                I am Jesus –

                I have called you to obedience to My
                    way, the will of My Heavenly
                    Father and to love –

                I have called you to make Me
                    the King and Center of your
                    hearts in Consecration –

                Don't be a hypocrite and
                    use Christianity for your
                    pompous pride before men –

                My way is purity –

                So shall you sow – so shall you reap

                Consecration to Our Two Hearts means
                    a life of purity –
                    of dying to your ways unlike
                    Christ and rising to new life
                    in Me –

 

Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

"Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!

"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."

 

                Jesus: If it is of God it will last
                    and you are
                    fighting My Might

 

                    

 

 

 

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