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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 president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.

January 26, 2018

R. Jesus said:

"I am the way, the truth and the life"

Jesus is truth –

Satan is the Father of lies –

                A person that loves Jesus lives in
                    the truth –
                    as it says in the scriptures –
                    "The truth is in you"

God gives us the 10 Commandments to
live by –

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.

R. God must be first in our lives.

Jesus said

We do everything – all our actions
for the Honor and Glory of God.

We will be judged on how we lived.

We are to love God first
and love our neighbor as ourselves.

We are to live in the truth.

We are to serve God in the building
of the Kingdom of God.

                We are to be witnesses before
                    men of the God that lives
                    within us.

                We will be judged on how we put God
                    first in our lives,
                    how we loved God,
                    how we loved our neighbor as
                    ourselves.

We will be judged on our good deeds –

The scriptures tell us how we are
to live.

We are to live with the Word alive
in our hearts –

God is light and in Him is no darkness.

                We have been given a free will to
                    follow the plan of God or
                    to reject His plan and show Him
                    we disregard obedience – we can
                    respect God – dishonor God –
                    put our sinful desires before God –
                    even constantly in impudence
                    parade before God as we disobey
                    the commandments –

Fr. Carter says being unloving to
others in sinful.

We are to respect others and treat
them with dignity and respect.

Being more and more alive in God is
seen in the person.

What does the life of God in a person
look like –

                A person alive in Him is an
                    instrument for God – an
                    instrument of His love –
                    They are other focused –
                    the person that loves God is
                    taking that love - out to others –

God has a purpose for our lives –

From the Priestly Newsletter

Cardinal Newman said

                    "... everyone who breathes, high and low,
                    educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman,
                    has a mission, has a work. We are not sent
                    into this world for nothing; we are not born at
                    random. . . God sees every one of us;
                    He creates every soul, He lodges it in
                    a body, one by one, for a purpose. He needs,
                    He deigns to need, every one of us.
                    He has an end for each of us... we are
                    placed in our different ranks and stations, not to
                    get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to
                    labor in them for Him, as He rejoiced to do His work,
                    we must rejoice in ours also."
                                    (Discourses addressed to mixed congregations)

                R. In Hebrews we see that we are to
                    discipline ourselves. We are
                    accountable before God and
                    responsible for God for our
                    actions.

Hebrews 12: 4-7, 11-15

In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of bloodshed.

Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are addressed as sons?

    My son, do not scorn correction
        from the Lord,
    do not resent his training,
    for the Lord trains those he loves,
    and chastises every son he accepts.

Perseverance is part of your training; God is treating you as his sons. Has there ever been any son whose father did not train him?

Of course, any discipline is at the time a matter for grief, not joy; but later, in those who have undergone it, it bears fruit in peace and uprightness. So steady all weary hands and trembling knees and make your crooked paths straight; then the injured limb will not be maimed, it will get better instead. Seek peace with all people, and the holiness without which no one can ever see the Lord. Be careful that no one is deprived of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness should begin to grow and make trouble; this can poison a large number.

R. God is kind and forgiving to the
contrite of heart.

                Bishop Sheen says the real tragedy
                    is for the man who denies
                    sin and fails to admit his
                    sin and ask for forgiveness.

                Life is a life of relationships –
                    We are to love God, first, with
                    our whole heart, our whole soul,
                    our whole being –

We are pilgrims on a journey –

This is the road to eternal happiness –

We are in route –

We are on a journey to our real
home that is everlasting –

                The more a person loves God and
                    lives by His commandments
                    and His Word – the more He
                    is growing as God intended of Him –

                God created us in the image and likeness
                    of God –
                    like I said yesterday –
                    a child can look like his father –

We are to be more and more spiritually
in the image and likeness of God –

Our goal is to be filled more and more
with this Christic image –

The Lord's kindness is everlasting
to the upright of heart –

A sinner must go to God and ask
for forgiveness –

                This week in the reading – we read
                    about David –
                    David told God he was a sinner
                    and begged for forgiveness and
                    he was a King –

He begged for forgiveness because
he was guilty of grave sin –

David knew sin before God was
foolish –

               We beg God for forgiveness of
                    sin – We don't parade
                    in impudence before
                    God and deny the sin –

Psalm 32: 1-7

[Of David Poem] How blessed are those whose offence is forgiven,
    whose sin blotted out.
How blessed are those to whom Yahweh imputes no guilt,
    whose spirit harbours no deceit.

I said not a word, but my bones wasted away
    from groaning all the day;
day and night
    your hand lay heavy upon me;
my heart grew parched as stubble
    in summer drought.

I made my sin known to you,
    did not conceal my guilt.
I said, 'I shall confess
    my offence to Yahweh.'
And you, for your part, took away my guilt,
    forgave my sin.

That is why each of your faithful ones prays to you
    in time of distress.
Even if great floods overflow,
    they will never reach your faithful.
You are a refuge for me,
    you guard me in trouble,
with songs of deliverance you surround me.

Ephesians 1: 17-18

May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit of wisdom and perception of what is revealed, to bring you to full knowledge of him. May he enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see what hope his call holds for you, how rich is the glory of the heritage he offers among his holy people,

                R. The devil tears apart, destroys,
                    hates, creates chaos, confusion,
                    operated in lies, lies and
                    more lies, is pompous before
                    God and he tempts men to
                    sin and deny it –
                    making right - wrong and
                    wrong - right as they lie in pride.

God brings together –

                God offers the sinner forgiveness,
                    but they must set the record
                    straight with God –
                    beg for a clean heart –
                    ask to be forgiven for sin –
                    Discipline oneself and show
                    real sorrow for sin with a
                    firm purpose of amendment –

                    God offers us the light – He strengthens
                us to help us choose good over evil –
                He wants us in heaven with Him
                eternally and calls us to living
                to know, love and serve Him
                in the truth.

Jesus is our Savior and we need
to be saved.

Christ is the same yesterday and
today. He does not change.

Colossians 1: 15-20

He is the image of the unseen God,
the first–born of all creation,
for in him were created all things
in heaven and on earth:
everything visible
    and everything invisible,
thrones, ruling forces,
    sovereignties, powers—
all things were created through him
    and for him.
He exists before all things
and in him all things hold together,
and he is the Head of the Body,
that is, the Church.

He is the Beginning,
the first–born from the dead,
so that he should be supreme in every way;
because God wanted all fullness
    to be found in him
and through him
    to reconcile all things to him,
everything in heaven
    and everything on earth,
by making peace through his death
    on the cross.

R. Jesus came to the earth –

He is the Light of the World –

A star shown above His
manager –

A sign from the heavenly Father –

Hebrews 12: 18-19, 21-24

What you have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing fire, or gloom or total darkness, or a storm; or trumpet-blast or the sound of a voice speaking which made everyone that heard it beg that no more should be said to them.

The whole scene was so terrible that Moses said, 'I am afraid and trembling.' But what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival, with the whole Church of first-born sons, enrolled as citizens of heaven. You have come to God himself, the supreme Judge, and to the spirits of the upright who have been made perfect; and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to purifying blood which pleads more insistently than Abel's.

Psalm 48: 2-4, 9-11

towering in beauty,
    the joy of the whole world:

Mount Zion in the heart of the north,
    the settlement of the great king;
God himself among its palaces
    has proved himself its bulwark.

For look, kings made alliance,
    together they advanced;

We reflect on your faithful love, God,
    in your temple!
Both your name and your praise, God,
    are over the whole wide world.

Your right hand is full of saving justice,
    Mount Zion rejoices,
the daughters of Judah delight
    because of your saving justice.

1 Kings 2: 1-4, 10-12

As David's life drew to its close he laid this charge on his son Solomon, 'I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong and show yourself a man. Observe the injunctions of Yahweh your God, following his ways and keeping his laws, his commandments, his ordinances and his decrees, as stands written in the Law of Moses, so that you may be successful in everything you do and undertake, and that Yahweh may fulfil the promise which he made me, "If your sons are careful how they behave, and walk loyally before me with all their heart and soul, you will never want for a man on the throne of Israel."

So David fell asleep with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. David was king of Israel for a period of forty years: he reigned at Hebron for seven years, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three. Solomon then sat on the throne of David, and his sovereignty was securely established.

R. Jesus must be our focus –

We live to follow in His
footprints –

To be a Christian – is to
be Christ-like

Our lives are to be lived to be more
and more likened to Jesus –

Song: A Song from Jesus

                R. To be a Christian means we
                    go out to others and treat
                    them as Christ would –
                    being kind and loving –

To be like Christ is to be
empathetic –

To have compassion for others –

                Christ is the Leader we follow –
                    we were created in His
                    image and likeness –

From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

The Holy Spirit

Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"

Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us. end of excerpt

                R. God loves us so much and
                    wants us eternally with Him
                    in heaven –

24 years ago

January 26, 1995

Sorrowful Mysteries

The Agony in the Garden

R. Be with Jesus as He kneels in the Garden of Gethsemane.

R. Be there in the night. Hear the sounds of the night. See Jesus as He kneels in such agony to see before Him all the sufferings that He is about to undergo.

R. With greatest love for each one of us, the Father sent into this world His only-begotten Son.

R. Jesus took on a human nature with greatest love for each one of us. He now kneels in the Garden, His Heart in such anguish. He who is Love sees before Him all the souls from all time who would neglect Him and treat Him so indifferently despite all His suffering and love that His most tender Heart has for each and every soul.

R. Jesus saw before Him all the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite the fact that He suffered and died for love of each soul.

R. The anguish that Jesus suffered in the Garden, the agonies that He suffered to His most Sacred Heart, were far greater than the physical wounds that He would soon bear throughout His entire Passion. For Jesus is Love, with a Heart burning for love of all souls-the souls that neglect Him, the souls that do not even think of Him, the souls that go through their lives, have nothing to do with Jesus, and then are condemned forever and ever to the fires of hell.

R. Jesus remains with us this very day, the same as the day that He knelt in the Garden. He remains with us in His Divinity and humanity. With greatest love for each one of us He longs, He thirsts, He waits for us to come and be with Him in front of the tabernacle.

Jesus' suffering in the Garden was so great that His sweat became as great drops of blood upon the ground.

R. Jesus went to the apostles and asked them, "Had you not the strength to stay awake one hour?" (Mk 14:37) How many times does Jesus ask us this day if we do not have one hour to spend with Him? There are twenty-four hours in a day. But how many times during the day do we say no to Jesus, that we are too busy. And His Heart waits and waits for us. At every second His Heart is an endless, burning furnace of love. Whether we think of Him or not, He is always ablaze, on fire for us, loving us and waiting for us to allow Him to be our constant companion.

R. God, grant to us the grace to know and to love You more so that we can more fully realize that You truly are God-made-man in Jesus Christ, that You come to this earth in greatest love for each one of us, that You long and wait for our love and that You want to give us Your love.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.

The Scourging at the Pillar

Jesus: My Heart is on fire for each one of My precious souls. I long for you to come and be with Me. As I suffered all through My Passion, the greatest agonies were not the agonies that I suffered to My body-the scourging at the pillar, the tearing of My flesh-but the agonies that I endured to My most tender Heart, which is a Heart of love waiting to share with each and every one of My precious souls. Oh, My children, I call out to you this day to spread My love to the world that is in pain. I call out to you to be My soldiers, to spread the love of My Most Sacred Heart to the souls that are suffering and in pain. You are My mighty warriors in a world that is cold and has forgotten God. You must be strong soldiers, for this world will persecute you as they persecuted Me. I send you into the world, armed with hearts filled with My love, to spread My love along the highways and the byways in every corner of this earth and I ask you this day, can you say no?

Jesus: They tied Me to a pillar and they beat My flesh. My once unblemished back was now an open wound. I was full of blood. But My worst agony was the agony that I endured in My Most Sacred Heart, the Heart that gives to you and to souls divine love, a sharing in My life, and is rejected by many, is treated coldly.

Jesus: I loved Judas so dearly and Judas betrayed Me with a kiss. How many of My dear souls come to Me with hearts that are hot and cold. I want you to come to Me with hearts, full of love, that will unite with Mine, that will become one with Mine, that will give to this world My love for your hurting brothers. I ask you this day, "Do not say no!" I am truly Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who was scourged at the pillar for love of your brothers. I ask you to hear the blows that they gave to Me. They are the blows that I suffered for your brother. How can you treat your brother badly when they tore My flesh, and out of greatest love I withstood all this treatment for your beloved brother?

Jesus: I gave My all. I stood there. I was beaten. I was bruised. I was bloodied. I came to show you the way, the way to love. They persecuted Me. I loved those who persecuted Me. I ask you this day to be kind in your heart, to give to this world the love that I want to give to you. I am a burning furnace of endless love. My power never goes out. My love is never spent. Come to My Most Sacred Heart and I will fill your hearts with endless love.

Song: Lord, let me walk that last mile in Your shoes, under the weight of the wood…

Jesus: See in the dim light as I stand at the pillar. See the men with their angry faces, with hatred in their hearts, as they pound at My flesh.

Jesus: When they persecute you and hate you because you are not of this world, you must endure all out of greatest love. My way is always love. I came to show you the way, the way to eternal happiness. It is only in loving one another that you will merit eternal life. I ask you for two things. I ask you to love God and to love one another.

Jesus: Come to My Eucharistic Heart! Let Me fill you with the fire of My love so that it will radiate to all those that you come in contact with. For the power of the Almighty God is a power that cannot be contained. It will radiate from your being to all those you touch.

Jesus: When I walked from the pillar, the earth was marked by My bloody footprints.

Jesus: As the earth was marked by My bloody footprints, I ask you to make a mark on this world, to spread to this world the love of My Most Sacred Heart.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

The Crowning with Thorns

Jesus: My body was battered, bruised and bloodied, and they covered Me with a dirty purple robe that they put on top of My wounds. I held a scepter and they crowned Me with a sharp crown of piercing thorns.

R. Do you know what it is like to get a little splinter in your hand? They pounded into Jesus' most precious head thorns that were thick and piercing until the blood ran down His face, into His eyes and into His ears. His hair was matted. This was truly the King of Kings! The Son of God! And He was crowned with a crown of piercing thorns!

Song: Only this I want, but to know the Lord, and to bear His cross, so to wear the crown He wore…

Jesus: They spit on Me and they hollered slanders at Me and I sat, as they did, in silence.

Jesus: I truly came into this world, the Son of God, to show you the way. As I sat in silence, think of how you respond to those who come to you with hatred in their hearts. My way is the way of love. You must love all your brothers as I have loved.

Jesus: My Father created each and every child-so precious, so unique-with such love that He sent Me into this world.

Jesus: I love you so this day that I would suffer again all that I suffered for you before.

Jesus: With all the love that I pour out to each and every one of you, think of how it is to love so much and to be neglected by so many.

Jesus: Pray to the Spirit to open your heart to the fire of My love.

Jesus: You are blind men! You do not see the love that I outpour to you. You see little incidental things, so close in front of your face, when My Heart is overflowing with divine love. I want to give you a sharing in My life! I give you Myself in the Eucharist. Come for My love. Nothing on this earth can compare to My divine love. I give you the sacrament of baptism thereby I give you a sharing in My life.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love...

The Carrying of the Cross

R. See Jesus with His hands tied, with a look of perfect peace on His face. And see those men who are surrounding Jesus, with their sharp instruments poking at Him with anger and hatred on their faces-such anger and hatred that they condemned Jesus to death on a cross!

R. They gave to Jesus a heavy cross that they put on His most precious shoulder. He carried the weight of the sins of the world on His back. This is the love that He has for each and every man, that He carries the cross with our sins on His back.

R. Jesus calls out to us that He is no less present in the Eucharist this day than the day He walked to Calvary with His cross on His back. And He says to each one of us, "I give you Myself. Why do you run from My altar when I, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, come to you and become one with you, and you run from the Church?"

Jesus: I peered into the eyes of My beloved mother and she peered into My eyes. There was joy at the meeting of the eyes, but such sorrow deep within each of Our Hearts. The knowing of My mother, the knowing of Me, her most precious Son, and how she had held Me and loved Me! I saw her in such suffering! I saw her face with tears. I saw My most precious mother torn so deeply in her Heart. It is the love of Our Hearts for you that has led us to this place. I ask you to spread this love throughout the world. I would truly carry My cross this day for you because I love you so dearly. My children! My children! What more do you want than that God comes to earth and is born a man out of greatest love for you? And you in your limited vision see only in front of your face. You do not come to My altar to receive the life that I want to outpour to you. My children! My children! You are so blind! Pray for grace! Pray for My life, to know and love all that you do not see. You do not see because you do not come to My altar, because you do not spend time with Me!

Jesus: My mother comes to stay, to lead you ever closer to My most tender Heart. I ask you to answer this call, the call of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to be joined ever closer to the Hearts brimming over with love for each and every soul.

Jesus: I fell under My cross. The weight was so heavy! I did not give My cross up. I willingly carried this cross for love of you!

Jesus: It is in living in the Father's Will that you will be the happiest. To My very death I followed the Will of the Father.

Song: See the eyes that look at Mary, her tender infant child. See the child's Heart beat so tenderly, the Savior of the world.

R. See through the eyes of Mary. She peered into Jesus' eyes on Calvary. See through the eyes of Mary as she comes and appears to us this day to tell us to see her through her eyes the love of her precious Son, Jesus Christ, to see that He truly walked to Calvary, that He was truly scourged and crowned with thorns and that He did it for greatest love of each of us. And He calls out this day for us to come and be with Him and to spread His love to this world.

Song: She rocked Him as a baby. She fed Him as a child. She heard Him call Her name out in the night. She helped Him take His first step and she cried when He said His first words. I wish they all could see through a Mother's eyes.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus on the Cross

R. See the little hands of Jesus. See the little feet of Jesus as Mary holds Him as a baby. And now she stands and watches as they pound nails through His most precious hands into the cross. The anguish in her Heart so deep! And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, Oh Mary!

R. Mary does not bear the wounds, the blood, as Jesus does. But Mary's Heart is torn to see her beloved Son, battered, bruised and bloody, and now hanging on the cross!

R. Be there! The sky has turned dark as Jesus hangs for three agonizing hours on the cross. His body is humped over. He is so weak! He gives His blood. He spreads His arms. He gives His all for love of each and every one of us. He truly gives His flesh. He gives His blood because He loves us so much! He was born a human! He was born on bare wood in a stable and now He hangs on a cross!

R. His blood was spent so that we could inherit eternal life.

R. As He gave His life on the cross, so He gives us His life this day in the Eucharist!

Song: I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me shall not hunger and who believes in Me shall not thirst. No one can come to Me unless the Father beckons. And I will raise you up, and I will raise you up, and I will raise you up on the last day.

R. He gave the last beat of His Heart. He gave His last breath. He gave His all. His hands were punctured with nails. His Head was pierced with thorns. He gave the inside of His body as well as the outside of His body! And He asks us, in greatest love, to surrender ourselves to Him. For He truly gave His all for love of us. If He loved us so much that He gave His body, His blood, His all for each and every one of us, would He not give us from His abundance this day? He comes with such letters of love to tell you that He is truly Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and in your midst this day in the Eucharist, waiting for you to come and be with Him, for He truly loves with a Heart of divine love. He gives us a sharing in His life through baptism. He wants so much to share Himself with us!
Jesus: Come to Me, My children, and I will give you My divine love, a sharing in My life through baptism. I love you so dearly! I call out to you this day to come for My love and to give this love to the world for it is only through you that the Father's plan will be realized. For a heart fixed on the love of God can move a mountain. I am asking you to live in the Father's Will, to spread My love throughout the world. If you say no, this world will suffer. You are My chosen ones, each and every soul. Come! Be filled with the love I pour out to you. Love your fellowmen. Love your brothers when they hate you and persecute you. Love them as I loved those who put Me to death. I ask you this day to open your hearts and rid yourselves of all impurities, to pray to the Spirit to sanctify your hearts, to clean out the debris of hatred and anger, and to come to My tabernacle with a heart that is open and pure so I can fill you with My divine love. For it is in your uniting with Me that I can operate from you and love this world as I so desire. This is My call to you this day. Can you say no? See Me hanging on the cross. This is how I loved you!

R. Mary stood under the cross and she saw Her beloved Son as He took His last breath.

R. She calls out to you this day. She is calling! She is calling each and every soul that He gave His life for to know His love. For it is only in this love that you will find what your soul craves.

R. And they gave to Mary the lifeless body of her precious Son. As she held His baby body tenderly in her arms, she-so weak!-now holds His lifeless body in her arms, covered with blood.

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October 29, 2016



R.
Please spread blessed holy water

(You can also mix Jesus and Mary water

with your blessed Holy Water if you have it.)

in your yard, around your house,

in the state you live in.


    And ask God to bless your state


Ask God to bless the United States

Pray all prayers through the intercession of

Our Lady of CLEAR – WATER.

Ask the Lady of CLEAR - WATER

to help with the blessed water.

Mary has appeared to me for 22 years,

in Ohio and Florida.}}