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October 29, 2006

October 30th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 6 Period  II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for October 30th are Joyful.

     

September 22, 2006

 

Genesis 7: 11-24

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of the month, that very day all the springs of the great deep burst through, and the sluices of heaven opened. And heavy rain fell on earth for forty days and forty nights.

    That very day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth boarded the ark, with Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons, and with them every species of wild animal, every species of cattle, every species of creeping things that creep along the ground, every species of bird, everything that flies, everything with wings. One pair of all that was alive and had the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah, and those that went aboard were a male and female of all that was alive, as God had commanded him.

    Then Yahweh shut him in.

The flood lasted forty days on earth. The waters swelled, lifting the ark until it floated off the ground. The waters rose, swelling higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters. The waters rose higher and higher above the ground until all the highest mountains under the whole of heaven were submerged. The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains. And all living things that stirred on earth perished; birds, cattle, wild animals, all the creatures swarming over the earth, and all human beings. Everything with the least breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out, people, animals, creeping things and birds; they were wiped off the earth and only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. The waters maintained their level on earth for a hundred and fifty days.

 

 

September 22, 2006

Messenger:  The only life that was left after the flood of Noah was on the ark.

I love the litany of the Blessed Mother —
anyway one of the invocations is
"Ark of the covenant"

Mary's spiritual womb is her Immaculate Heart for the poor banished children of Eve.

Life for us is in Christ.
Christ was conceived in Mary's womb.

Mary is the Ark of the covenant.

I love Don Bosco's vision because it is Mary and Jesus (the Eucharist).
That is our mission to spread the consecration to Mary's Immaculate Heart and Jesus' Sacred Heart and focus on the Eucharist.

I love the Eucharist so much.

I really am deeply united to Jesus in the little chapel, but I am one with the Father and Holy Spirit, too, whenever I am close to Jesus in the Eucharist. I know each Person of the Trinity  and know Them deeply as one, and know the presence of the Father and Holy Spirit when I look at the exposed Eucharist.
I know deeply what is going on in my soul with God the Father at Mass and Jesus at Mass and the Holy Spirit at Mass, I know Them as Persons in the Mass, but I always know that oneness of God.

I love God so much -I am in awe of His love for us in His presence with us -in the gift of grace- that sharing in His life given to us in  baptism. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in the graced, baptized soul.

It is so important to stay in the state of grace and to be permeated more and more with God's grace.
I know my life in Him here - my relationship with Him in heaven depends on its depth of my relationship with Him here below - so why isn't every one putting in much time getting to know Him, seeking such deeper union with Him, for we will be close to Him forever if we go to heaven.

If I am in a very deep relationship with God here below I will have a deeper maturity with Him forever-I am more one -more mature-more capable of  loving, more likened to Him and thus I have the fullness of life in my capability of experiencing it in heaven dependent on my oneness with God here below.

But somebody who did not know God as deeply as somebody else can still have the fullness of life forever in heaven , but it's depth would not be as great as a person who had a deeper relationship with God  here below.
We receive so much grace from going to the Eucharist and doing adoration because Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and humanity in the Eucharist.

Fr. Carter said we would fall over if we could see the beauty of our own graced soul.

When I wrote the Mass book I got special grace to write that, but it was against the way I felt to do something physical after communion - I just wanted to be in that ecstatic state of being wrapped in His presence, but Jesus told me to write-I was writing for the Mass book-that was why He let me experience the ecstasies besides His love for me.

I deeply experienced this presence of God  inside of me-nobody even knew.
I was given the gifts in the Mass book to write, Jesus told me. In those experiences God imprinted knowledge of Himself on my soul in knowing Him far beyond words-it is in oneness and knowledge of God in my soul.
He called me  to more selflessness and a greater leap of faith, more suffering, forgiving, loving and always building the bridge even when you don't feel like it. That may mean forgiving another in our heart and praying for them- not harboring anger in our hearts toward any one, Hatred toward anyone-division, ill thoughts.
God wants oneness and harmony in our hearts-even if people do evil-we pray for them-not hate them-maybe we dislike what they did, but we remain pure in heart.

Any way listening to the bible study really helps me understand our human weaknesses and seeing our life is that path of greater perfection likened to Him. He outpours His grace and we reach greater levels of perfection in our soul-

This vision I cannot describe like I desire, it is beyond words.

The fall of Adam and Eve makes things  clear to me that is we are imperfect. We need to love and forgive. God is forgiving to us and if we do not forgive and love we are stuck like in a hole of quick sand.

Vision about these things ever wider is such a joy for my soul. It is ineffable and inexhaustible.

God's love is beyond our human comprehension.

People don't understand Baptism-a lot about this great gift is in the meditations of the rosary in the 6th Blue Book.
I just love God so much and want deeper insight into the mystery. Think of the mystery of God's love-
that the Son of God came to this earth and loved us so much suffered and died for us-
We are so blind.

 

September 22, 2006

Messenger:  Why is it important to ponder the oneness of the Trinity. Pondering this helps me to see the secrets of many things. I see insight into the mystery of God's love.

Pondering the mystery of the Trinity-3 Persons in one God helps us to understand how God wants us to be united as a body.

I know it, I used to think about the Father and the Son, there was such a power if I focused on the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, even greater fullness
-God intends us to be one, rooted in the truth, in the body of Christ,-in our religious communities, in the family. The Trinity being the most perfect community.

But in understanding or pondering more deeply the presence of the Trinity we can understand the great love affair that is in the Mass between us and God - we understand more deeply.

For I do not unite only to Jesus in the Mass-I am one in the holy sacrifice united to Jesus. I unite in the Holy Sacrifice and offer myself to the Father and I deeply love my beloved Father in the Mass,
In recognizing Jesus' gift of Himself to us in the Mass and I unite with this offering. I give myself-selflessly in the Mass. It is a deep act of love given to the Father. I feel this oneness with God all the time.

I am continuingly becoming more one with God all the time - I am giving myself, especially in this act of love in the Mass and united to the Mass all day.

The Mass is the ultimate in giving of myself united with the sacrifice of Jesus for me now here below. It is the heights of union with Father, Son and Holy Spirit for me at Mass. God gives Himself to me and there is always a harmonious oneness that cannot be described-but I seek to explain it here for the sake of clarity to explain the mystery of oneness with God (betrothal) at Mass and the awareness of relationship with each Person of the Trinity as I experience it in the Mass.

For me everything in the Holy Spirit and that denotes a fullness of God's love I cannot describe but makes the union with God so full -in being aware of the Holy Spirit and His action in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I see the action of the Holy Spirit all through the Mass especially the consecration.

But I know all these things in my heart and it is not an act of thinking,
like baking a cake -
it is my relationship with God and the oneness I know in my love of Yahweh -love union with God-
Marriage- mystical union-and then for me
it is the oneness with all the souls of the earth-permeated in the deepest love -identified with Christ who gave Himself for His precious souls
oneness with all the angels and saints-
oneness with the souls in purgatory-
But the fullness God paints on my soul in the act of love of Jesus giving Himself to me at Mass, I am one with Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary.

Oneness with the whole Church-
oneness as the body of Christ-
COMMUNION WITH GOD AND HIS PEOPLE-
one, but many, but one in the mystery of Christ.

I never am not aware of the Father so deeply all through the Mass-the one I deeply love and am petitioning to, honoring, loving giving myself to, praising uniting to-

but my relationship with the Father is one with Jesus and so intimate with Jesus as the bridegroom of my soul-
The Father I do see as the Creator, Jesus my Spouse more directly, my Father-my Father-and the Holy Spirit my friend for deepest action permeating the whole thing making it one.

I pondered the unity of the ecstasy December 15,1995 for sake of explanation, but in trying to explain the rapture of the Trinity and how I knew the presence of God -

I knew oneness of Father ,Son and Holy Spirit and I also knew the connection with Mary my mother in that ecstasy.

Mary is like a doorway to the Heart-
She opens the way to the Heart of Jesus and in that lies-deeper love indescribable in words-

tender love with the Divine God.

In going to her Immaculate Heart and dwelling there I can offer a more pure sacrifice and love God more tenderly.

My actions at Mass are of emptying myself
giving myself, I give my action from my life
trying to serve God-
that is why I sometimes cry at the consecration because-I live for Him and I empty myself in love there as the host is raised-offering my feeble attempts with the holy Sacrifice of Calvary Sacramentally made present-there on the altar.

None of this is analyzed - It is me as I progress more and more in loving God and the angels and saints, souls in purgatory and the souls of the earth at Mass.

My life is spent as a process of growing in the spiritual life and my relationship with God
but the summit is my expression of giving myself at Mass and receiving this gift of God's love as He outpours Himself to me at Mass.

It is a process- He is the initiator- I am the soul waiting His favors -as I wrote in the prayer for intimacy with the Lamb.

The Divine Bridegroom gives Himself to me at Mass and I partake more fully-always as I advance in my relationship with God.

The Mass is the summit of my love union with Him and His love union with me and my love union with everybody else-angels and saints and souls in purgatory-

And this is oneness
dynamism
Not to be discussed or studied like a text book-it is the story of my soul as He reveals His love to me in the Mass.

Giving

Offering

Loving

Praising

Petitioning

Purity

Action from our Hearts

The summit of oneness
and I unite to this Holy sacrifice all day.
I am united as a member of the body of Christ-how deeply I participate in offering my life in accordance to God's will in love is a process of living life to the full in helping in the work of salvation.

United to the Masses going on around the world.

Pray for our priests-
the devil wants to discredit our priests, the Church-we are foolish to not love the Church and the gift of the priest.

It is the hand that feeds us-like cutting off the hands that feed us because of giving into tempers and untruth-it is ignorant to not recognize the fountain of life-given to us sinful creatures in the Church

In the Church lies my love to unite in such oneness with God and all others.

It is the summit of unity

In a war it is intelligent to attack the weapons

In this spiritual battle -the devil has attacked our ammunition and we some of us- so deceived- filled with ignorance-help to tear down our own ammunition and not recognize the gifts given for our battle

What more can I say

Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass-when I say this I get special grace.

 


  

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.

-God's Blue Book, December 27, 1995

 

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

   

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.

 

 

 

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