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March 18, 2010

March 19th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for March 19th are Joyful.

  
Prayer Service

March 19, 2010 - 6:20pm

Please come and pray.

 

March 18, 2010

                R. Dear God —

                    I love You so much — I am sorry
                    for any way I may have acted
                    out hidden unfinished relationships
                    that were painful and caused me
                    anger and bitterness that were never
                    healed and I may have acted in
                    anger and abuse to others in
                    my present life —

                    Heal my heart, oh Jesus,
                    Heal me of anger hidden in my
                        heart from painful
                        unhealed relationships

                Jesus: Let go now

                Hear the voice of Jesus —

                Forgive those who hurt you in the
                    past —

                Ask for forgiveness of those you
                    have hurt — tell God you are
                    sorry for any person you
                    offended unjustly — acting out
                    anger and unfinished business
                    on innocent others —

                Ask the Holy Spirit fill you with light
                    to know your sins of pride,
                    making "Being right a god"

                Is being right, justifying yourself —
                    more important than doing
                    God's will in love —

                Who is your god —
                    false gods —

                affection, being right, being 'smarter'
                    than everyone else —
                    being better, richer, prettier than
                    everyone else — so you don't
                    want anyone getting ahead
                    of you —

                Stalling when others need to do God's work —
                    so you can have power — over
                    others —

                Loving is having a heart like Jesus —

                Would Jesus treat people like you do?

                Are your unloving ways blocking
                    the work God wants done to
                    help souls get to heaven?

                Would you like God to judge you
                    and treated you as you judged
                    and treated others?

                Are you loving like Jesus?

                R. Dear God, I am heartfully sorry
                    for my unloving ways — have
                    mercy on me — please help those
                    I have offended and hurt with
                    my sin of anger, pride, jealousy,
                    envy, greed, lust, gluttony,
                    slothfulness —

                Dear God please forgive me for
                    sins of commission and
                    omission — I am sorry

                I want my relationship with You
                    to be better

                As I drove to China, I saw a man shaking his
                    fist at another driver going the
                    speed limit —

                Yesterday I saw a man carried out of a steak
                    house to an ambulance —

                Coming home from China on the 13th a man
                    by my house was killed by a hit and
                    run driver

                Oh God — we are sorry for our sins —

 

                    In understanding more the Heart of
                Christ — we say we are sorry for our
                sins —

                    Like one who hurt us in a relationship —
                We say we are sorry and bring them flowers —
                our breach is healed — our relationship
                renewed —

                Sing: Give Me Your Heart oh Jesus

                The prideful person comes with a
                    hard heart — a hard nose — "I did
                    no wrong" they say and yet they have
                    offended God and hurt their relationship
                    with God and need to repent to
                    heal that breach —

                    In understanding the Heart of Christ
                and how we have offended Him and coming
                in love — asking for forgiveness and mercy —
                we then become closer in love with
                Jesus and there is a soft loving union
                in understanding how it is more
                deeply with God and us —

                Sing again — Give Me Your Heart oh Jesus

                Deeper love in the Heart of Jesus —

                Mending our relationship more and more
                    with God —

 

                God has called us to grow in deeper and deeper
                    intimacy, to be so one with Him —
                    this is in preparation for our
                    relationship with God in heaven —

                The human race has sinned — this ruptures
                    the relationship with God and with
                    each other —
                    Satan wants this rupture with God and
                    others —

                Satan said "I will not serve You, God"
                                (the fallen angels)

                God created us to love Him
                God created us to serve Him
                God created us to love each other —

                This is why we were created in the image
                    and likeness of God — to love —
                    God is love —

                So God has given us the Shepherds of Christ to
                    love our priests and love the Church and
                    love the souls —

                We give our lives praying for the priests,
                    the Church and the world —

                We help make reparation —
                    We understand the human race has
                        sinned —

                    We are so sorry for offending God —

                    We love God who is deserving of
                        our respect and love

                    We tell Him —
                        God we're sorry for the sins of
                            the human race —

                        Help us God to do Your work

                        We want to please You God
                        We love You so much

                        We want Your mercy —
                        We depend on You —

                        We give You our lives —

                Jesus died for our sins —
                    We are carrying out the
                        mission Jesus began —

                We understand our relationship more
                    with God

                    We are the creature
                    God is the Creator

                Understanding our relationship more
                    and more with God —

                This helps open ourselves in greater
                    oneness with God —

                Oh God — A contrite heart create in
                    me —
                    Let me be cleansed more and more of
                        my sins —

                Let my relationship with You be
                    ever deeper —
                    heal my heart so I am so one
                        with You

                Oh God: I am sorry for all the sins of
                    my past life —
                    I am sorry for how I have
                        offended You and others
                    I am sorry with all my heart
                        how I have hurt others
                        with my sins —

                Oh God please forgive me —

                Help me to be holy —

                Oh God I know sin hurts my relationship
                    with You and others —

                    When I act unloving I hurt my
                        relationship with You and others

                    Help me to heal in my heart from
                        past wounds of self-righteousness —
                        help me to heal from my sins —

                    Help me to see my offenses against
                        you and others and
                        to be sorry for my sins —

                    Help me to obey authority — those
                        doing God's will over me —
                        and not give into pride and
                        seeking dominance for
                        dominance sake —

                Oh my God — forgive me for all my
                    sins of my entire life —
                    I want to be holy and
                    I want to serve You —

                I want to help make reparation for the
                    sins of the human race —

                I beg for Your mercy on the human
                    race —

                I thank You God for the priests and the
                    Church

                I thank You God for Your gifts to me —

                I thank You God for baptism

                I thank You God for the Eucharist

                I unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,
                    through the intercession of Mary,
                    with all the angels and saints and

                    I pray dear God —

                    I beg to help make reparation for the
                        sins of the human race —

                    I beg for holy priests, I beg to
                        love the priest, the Church
                        and the souls You died for —

                Song: Give Me Your Heart Oh Jesus


 

                    We can see what ordinary bread is
                to human life and we see how the
                Eucharist is so important to supernatural
                existence.

                    The depth to which we can go in our
                understanding of the mystery and
                union with God is "limitless" and
                "spiritual".

                We live out the Pascal mystery of
                death-resurrection — the dying to
                ourselves not likened to God to live
                the life of resurrection in our lives
                and to bring that life of resurrection to
                others.

                Dying to the selfish ways of existence —
                    the tendencies to the flesh —
                    Pride, Greed, Envy, Wrath, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth

                    to live in the freedom of being
                    more Christ-like
                    Who gave Himself as a sacrifice
                        for our sins
                    Christ who rose on the 3rd day —

                Let us ponder that the Divine Almighty
                    God took on flesh
                        Word-make-flesh —

                And let us ponder the resurrection of
                    Christ from the dead —
                    His glorified body —

                Because of the fall of Adam and Eve
                    man was made to die and to
                    suffer here —

                We see in this writing in Romans 8: 1-13

Romans 8: 1-13

Thus, condemnation will never come to those who are in Christ Jesus, because the law of the Spirit which gives life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. What the Law could not do because of the weakness of human nature, God did, sending his own Son in the same human nature as any sinner to be a sacrifice for sin, and condemning sin in that human nature. This was so that the Law’s requirements might be fully satisfied in us as we direct our lives not by our natural inclinations but by the Spirit. Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God’s Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But when Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is alive because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has made his home in you, then he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.

    So then, my brothers, we have no obligation to human nature to be dominated by it. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the habits originating in the body, you will have life.

   

  

                From Response to God's Love

Incarnationalism and Transcendence (excerpt)

Incarnationalism is that Christian perspective which sees the material world to be deeply involved in the redemption of Christ. Humanity has been redeemed, and so also has the world. Earthly realities, consequently, must be taken seriously. It is the Christian's role, in fact, to help bring the redemption of mankind and the material world to completion. Incarnationalism, then, stresses the correct use of the world rather than renunciation. The Christian needs the material, the visible, the tangible aspect of creation in order to go to God. In essence, Christ has conquered completely and is the head of both humanity and the entire universe. The Christian must increasingly promote Christ's reign by a positive involvement in the world, an involvement that aids in the ongoing Christianization of the temporal order. According to incarnationalism, then, involvement with the world, not flight from it, is what is necessary.

Transcendence is that Christian perspective which emphasizes the spiritual aspects of Christ's kingdom. This perspective treats of those dimensions of our life in Christ that are beyond the material, the visible, the sense-perceived. This perspective also stresses the fact that the life of grace, in its fundamental reality, is a participation in the transcendent life of God. The transcendent perspective points out that although this life of grace has its very real beginnings here below, it will have its completion only in eternity. This is why, according to the transcendent perspective, we are always exposed to a certain restlessness, a certain sense of incompleteness. No material acquisition, no accomplishment, however great its significance, no personal relationship, even of the greatest intimacy can fully satisfy us, can bring us complete happiness. In the very act of possessing all of these, we are always transcending the present acquisition, the present accomplishment, the present success, the present joy that emanates from this or that personal relationship. We immediately crave more fulfillment, more happiness. This is our transcendent spirit crying out for the complete fulfillment and happiness that can only be satisfied by absolute being, God himself; and, according to God's designs, it is only in eternal life that he will communicate himself in such an intense fashion that our thirst for the infinite will be fully satisfied. Rahner describes our transcendent desire for the infinite in this fashion: "Man can try to evade the mysterious infinity which opens up before him in his questions. Out of fear of the mysterious he can take flight to the familiar and the everyday. But the infinity which he experiences himself exposed to also permeates his everyday activities. Basically he is always still on the way. Every goal that he can point to in knowledge and in action is always relativized, is always a provisional step" (Foundations of Christian Faith, p. 32). Consequently, the transcendent attitude reminds us that to a certain extent we are pilgrims in exile.

The transcendent attitude also reminds us that, although the Christian life must be respected in its incarnational dimensions, it ultimately rises above any particular incarnational structure that might be in vogue in any particular age of the Church. Also stressed by the attitude of transcendence is the fact that the life of grace has, as one of its thrusts, the desire for a more intimate union with the transcendent God as he is in himself. Involvement with the world is necessary, but the proper precautions must be taken so that the transcendent aspect of the Christian's life is not smothered by a false type of incarnationalism. Finally, there must be a certain degree of prayer, solitude, and renunciation in the life of any committed Christian.

Incarnationalism and transcendence, because they are such fundamental realities, are found in any and all of the various areas of the Christian's existence.

    end of excerpt

 

                Rebelling against God's Plan is foolish —

                Look at Adam and Eve and how we
                    were punished and wounded because
                    of their sin —

                God intends us as members of the human race
                    to make reparation for the sins of
                    the human race —

                We live the Pascal mystery of
                    death-resurrection — dying
                    to our impure ways to be
                    more like Christ —

                    We as members of the mystical body
                of Christ are united to the Masses
                going on around the world —   

               
  

                From Response to God's Love

Liturgical Participation (excerpt)

                Fr. Carter says

       In Jesus' sacrifice, the same five elements occur, although not exactly in the same order. There is the interior offering; Christ as priest offers himself to the Father in love for the purpose of adoration, thanksgiving, petition, and satisfaction for sin. This interior offering is then externalized at the ritual of the Last Supper. The victim, Jesus himself, is immolated upon Calvary. The Father gives a miraculous sign that he accepts Jesus' sacrifice through the resurrection. Finally, there is the sacrificial meal at the Last Supper.

       Because the first element of Jesus' sacrifice is the most important—the interior dispositions of his human will—let us expand a bit upon it. Jesus' offering of himself was a total offering, wondrously diversified in its rich completeness. It was an offering that contained the entire life of Jesus; although Jesus' sacrifice became formalized only at the Last Supper and upon Calvary, it nevertheless embraced his entire life. The offering, or sacrifice, of Jesus contained, then, his teaching, his healing the sick, his acts of kindness to the poor and the ignorant and the unimportant, his patient training of the apostles—all this and more was included. Jesus' offering also included his personal relationships with Mary, Joseph, Lazarus, and others; it embraced, as well, his thrill at the beauty of nature, the simple joys shared with friends, his welcoming the children who loved to come to him, the enthusiasm and zeal that buoyed him as he went about his Father's business. Moreover, Jesus' sacrifice included his endurance of the unpleasant side of the human condition—the pettiness and meanness of some, the hardness of heart he often encountered, the ugly selfishness that bursts forth and often mars the beauty of the person and that, ultimately, put Jesus to death.

              Unlike Christ's earthly sacrifice, which he and he alone offered to the Father, the Eucharist, by God's gracious design, is also the Church's sacrifice. It is Christ's sacrifice, but it is also ours, for we are priests and victims along with Jesus, the chief priest and chief victim. As Christ's offering of himself is renewed and continued in the Mass, our offering of ourselves is also included. Furthermore, just as Christ's earthly offering included everything in his life, so also the offering that we make of ourselves at the Eucharist is meant to touch all the authentic experiences of our Christian lives. Our friendships, our love for one another, our service to mankind—all this is part of our eucharistic offering. Bearing properly with physical pain, frustration, failure, misunderstanding, boredom, anguish of spirit—this, too, we offer at the altar. To love and be loved by another human—and to be in wonder at this mystery of love—is also a cherished part of our eucharistic offering. To enjoy a meal together, to walk by the seashore, to drink in the morning freshness, to feel the warmth of the summer sun and the invigorating cold of a winter day—this also we offer with Jesus. The Eucharist, then, gathers up what would otherwise be the too-fragmented pieces of our lives and gives them a marvelous unity, a Christ-like unity. The Eucharist permeates these pieces of our lives with the love, the beauty, and the strength of Jesus' own offering and then presents them to the Father under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We see, then, the richness and extensiveness of the eucharistic sacrifice's first element—the interior offering.

        The second element of sacrifice—that is, the external, ritualized offering—is easily recognized at each Eucharist because each Eucharist is a ritual of celebration. We all know that special days of celebration are important for both families and civil society. The celebration of a birthday or a wedding anniversary can do much to lift family spirits. The strictly ordinary is temporarily dispensed with; family members dress up a bit, have special food and drink, and otherwise make the day of celebration different from the usual routine of daily existence. Civil society acts similarly for its days of celebration; business and industry often close down for the day, parades frequently mark the occasion, and special banquets or galas help make the day seem special.

       The Eucharist is the main setting for the celebration of the Christian community. Some liturgies are very special moments of celebration—Easter and Christmas are obvious examples. But daily liturgies are celebrations, too, although obviously on a smaller scale than that of the major liturgical feasts. The daily liturgy can truly be called a celebration because a special event—the Christ-event that is centered in Jesus' death-resurrection—is always being called to memory and sacramentally re-enacted. Furthermore, each liturgy briefly raises us above—notice, we are not saying that each liturgy falsely separates us from—the ordinary setting of our lives. Refreshed by the special setting of the Eucharist and nourished by Christ himself, we are meant to return to the secular framework of life with a deepened desire to live Christ.

       We can easily conclude from what we have been discussing that the externals of the liturgy should not become too commonplace. Certainly the rather rigid ritualism of the pre-Vatican II liturgy is not what we now judge to be desirable. Any celebration, despite the fact that it purports to be something quite different from what the participants daily experience, still must allow the participants to feel at ease with one another and the total situation. The setting of the Eucharist must likewise allow the participants to feel basically comfortable with one another and able to experience a sense of familiar connaturality with the celebration. On the other hand, if the Eucharist is celebration, its setting, its ritual, cannot become so ordinary that its participants tend to lose sense of the specialness of the event. Remember, one of the purposes of celebration is to provide a special type of experience, something quite different from the ordinary course of our lives. Consequently, the liturgy, as sign or ritual, has to achieve a rather delicate balance; it must be enacted in such a manner that we will feel at ease while, at the same time, it still remains something special.

       The balance of ritual also has to be concerned with another factor. Ritual is also meant to be meaningful, that is, ritual is meant to point to the invisible realities of the liturgy in a way that is pertinent and attractive to the participants. The participants, for their part, have a responsibility toward the sign of the liturgy. The liturgy, as sign, presupposes the faith of the participants; no matter how perfect the external liturgy might be, it cannot be really meaningful to one who lacks faith. Conversely, the deeper the participants' faith is, the more meaningful is the liturgy of sign. We can also say that the more mature one's faith is, the better prepared he or she is to bear with possible deficiencies in the liturgy of sign. Persons of mature faith might well decry these shortcomings and take all reasonable steps to better the situation, but they will still love the Eucharist and derive deep meaning from it rather than give up participating in such a treasured event just because the external liturgy might be deficient.

       The third element of sacrifice, immolation, touches Christ and us because we are both victims in the eucharistic offering. The immolation of both Jesus and us is, obviously, an unbloody one. Traditionally, the immolation of Jesus has been seen in the separate consecration of the bread and wine. Moreover, the very words of consecration manifest Christ as being in the state of victimhood.

       Our immolation in the Eucharist is a mystical one. Summarily, we become victims with Christ by conforming our wills in love to the Father's will. Conformity was the essence of Christ's sacrifice, of his victimhood, of his immolation; a similar conformity must therefore be found in the victimhood and immolation of Christ's members. This mystical immolation is a lifelong process; each Eucharist that we participate in should mark a growth in our victimhood. As true Christians, we should desire to die more and more to all that is not according to God's will so that we might rise to greater life with Christ—both here upon earth and in eternity. Jungmann strikingly portrays the situation: "Every sacrament serves to develop in us the image of Christ according to a specified pattern which the sacramental sign indicates. Here the pattern is plainly shown in the double formation of the Eucharist; we are to take part in His dying, and through His dying are to merit a share in His life. What we here find anchored fast in the deepest center of the Mass-sacrifice is nothing else than the ideal of moral conduct to which the teaching of Christ in the Gospel soars; the challenge to an imitation of Him that is ready to lose its life in order to win it; the challenge to follow Him even, if need be, in His agony of suffering and His path of death, which are here in this mystery so manifestly set before us" (The Mass of the Roman Rite, p. 146).

       We have said that the fourth element of sacrifice refers to God's acceptance. If sacrifice is to have its desired effect, it must be pleasing to God. That the Father always accepts the eucharistic offering is certain, for the principal priest and victim is Jesus himself who is always supremely acceptable to the Father. What is more, the Father always accepts the subordinate priesthood and victimhood of the People of God, for even though the Eucharist may be offered through the sacrilegious hands of an unworthy priest, there is always a basic holiness in the Church that is pleasing to God. Because of this holiness, the Father always accepts the Church's sacrificial offering, for each Mass is the sacrifice of the whole Church and cannot be fundamentally vitiated by the basic unworthiness of any particular member or members—even if that member is the officiating priest.

       What do we say concerning the Father's acceptance of the sacrificial offering of the individual Christian? Such an offering will be acceptable in proportion to the Christian's conformity in love to the Father's will. Again, Jungmann has words for us: "It follows that an interior immolation is required of the participants, at least to the extent of readiness to obey the law of God in its seriously obligatory commandments, unless this participation is to be nothing more than an outward appearance" (Roman Rite, p. 146).

       The last element of the eucharistic sacrifice, the meal, is, obviously, a very important part. The Eucharist as meal is a rich reality. It is the sign of Jesus' complete self-giving and, consequently, a sign of Jesus' fathomless love for us. This sign actually contains what it signifies. In the Eucharist, Jesus comes to us in his entirety. There is no holding back on his part; his boundless love for us results in boundless giving.

       If the Eucharistic meal is a sign of Jesus' self-giving, it is also a sign of our self-giving. In receiving divine food, we pledge ourselves to a deeper God-like existence. We pledge that, in love, we will strive for a more radical giving of ourselves to both God and others. Each eucharistic meal that we participate in is a new opportunity for a more perfect assimilation to Christ and his mysteries, especially the mysteries of death and resurrection. Each eucharistic meal that we participate in increases our responsibility to live Christ, that is, to more fully incorporate the Gospel ideal in all that we do.

       The fact that our participation in the eucharistic meal is a sign of our self-gift not only to God in Christ, but also to one another leads us to a consideration of the communal aspect of the meal. The eucharistic meal is a great sign and cause of our unity in Christ. Rahner maintains that "insofar as everyone participates in the same meal of Christ, who is the giver and the gift at the same time, the Eucharist is also the sign, the manifestation and the most real actualization of the church insofar as the church is and makes manifest the ultimate unity of all men in the Spirit, a unity which has been founded by God in grace" (Foundations of Christian Faith, p. 427). We are therefore to receive the one and same Christ, the implications of which are far-reaching. In receiving the one and same Christ we are actually pledging ourselves to unity both among ourselves and with all mankind. We are pledging ourselves to uproot from our hearts those attitudes that work against the building up of community in the Church and in the world. We are pledging ourselves to look upon others with a sense of respect, love, and even wonder as we marvel at how God's love has created and redeemed each one, at how the blood of Jesus has salvifically touched each one. Our participation in the eucharistic meal truly pledges us to these ideals. We, for our part, must ask ourselves whether we are actually assimilating these ideals. We must ask ourselves whether we are allowing the Eucharist to transform us into more loving and concerned persons, persons less and less influenced by forces that disrupt and tend to weaken and destroy communal unity.

      The discussion of the communal aspect of the eucharistic meal reminds us that the entire eucharistic sacrifice is a covenant act. What is covenant? In the context of salvation history, a covenant is an agreement, a bond, a union, a life relationship both between God and his people and among the people themselves. At the Last Supper, Jesus emphasized the covenant aspect of the Eucharist: "During the meal Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to his disciples. 'Take this and eat it,' he said, 'this is my body.' Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them. 'All of you must drink from it,' he said, 'for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, to be poured out in behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins' " (Mt 26:26-28).

       When Jesus speaks of his blood as "the blood of the covenant," we are reminded that blood sealed or ratified the Mosaic covenant at Mt. Sinai. Moses sprinkled blood upon the altar, which represented God, and upon the Jewish people. Because blood was a distinctive symbol of life for the Jews, such an action had a deep significance for them. This action of Moses symbolized the sealing or ratification of the covenant—a new life relationship between Yahweh and the Jews.

       The blood of Jesus has also formed a covenant—the new covenant. In the shedding of his blood, Jesus has established a new life relationship between his Father and mankind. Forming a core focal point of redeemed mankind are the people of the new covenant, namely, the members of the Christian community, the Church. The Eucharist, in recalling and sacramentally re-enacting the shedding of Jesus' covenant blood, is the Church's great covenant act. The Eucharist sustains the life of the covenant, nourishes it, causes it to grow to greater maturity. Through participation in the eucharistic liturgy we should be growing in covenant attitudes—in a sense of community, in a deep love of the Church, in a desire to contribute our share to the building up of this Body of Christ. We should be learning to curb our selfishness because it deadens a dynamic concern for the Christian community and makes us a burden to the brethren. Participation in the Eucharist should also be curbing divisive jealousy, forming us more and more as persons who want to deeply love one another so that it can more often be said of us, "See those Christians, how they love one another." The Eucharist can more radically shape us according to these covenant attitudes if we allow it. We repent concerning the times we have resisted; we rejoice concerning the times we have opened ourselves to the Eucharist's transformative power.

end of excerpt

    

                    God wants us to help make reparation for the sins
                of the world. Oh God I am sorry for the sins of the
                human race — Oh God forgive us, have mercy on us —
                Every time Mass is celebrated we as members of the
                mystical body of Christ are united to all the Masses
                going on around the world —

                    The devil is sneaky — he tempts people for years
                to give into habitual sins — they then hurt their
                spiritual life and the life of those around them —

                    Disharmony to God's will is being a rival to the
                Plan for why God created us.

                    The greatest commandment is to love God with
                our whole heart, our whole soul, our whole being
                and love our neighbor as ourselves — When we are
                unloving — Fr. Carter said this is sinful —

                    The priest, my cousin, talked about if you have
                something with your brother be reconciled before
                you come to my altar — This is important — to
                be reconciled

                    What about a person sinning in Church with
                anger in their hearts — how can they justify blocking
                people and being angry at Church —

                    Anger within is an energy — people who
                provoke others to watch them get angry — who
                stall to make others angry when they are to
                do work and use their work — holding back
                the needed work, information until they make
                others angry are what I believe is slothful —
                This can become more and more advanced —

                The seven deadly sins are:
                    Pride, Greed, Envy, Wrath, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth

                The more one lives in a state of sin, anger,
                    slothfulness, envy, jealousy, disobedience
                    to structure — the more one gives into
                    darkness —

                Where others are growing in love and unity —
                    kindness, harmony, growing in the
                    virtues

                A person going deeper and deeper into darkness —
                    projects their anger on innocent others —
                    they need victims so they can provoke
                    them and then when they push and push
                    until finally a climax — a show down
                    occurs —
                    the person addicted to hurting, provoking
                    others — goes into a new phase of
                    how they are right —

                    their habits of provoking become more veiled —
                        they deceive, cover-up their evil ways,
                        anger and —
                        can be constantly proving or trying to
                        prove in their evil ways they are
                        right when in fact they are sinning —

                The devil tries to show right is wrong —
                    and the devil tries to make wrong look right —

                The devil is a liar —

                The devil wants people to lie or do evil and then
                    cover - it - up so they can say "I am right,
                    you are wrong"

                When a spiritual director tries to uncover the workings
                    of satan in this evil — the person engaging in
                    the evil is indignant if they do not have
                    a heart that is trying to improve —

                The devil works more and more in the hard heart
                    which can become enslaved to performing
                    sinful acts with greater deceptiveness and
                    then the ones without contrite hearts —
                    indignant that one would dare try to
                    uncover their evil ways —

                    justifying "I am right - you are wrong" —
                    "I have done no evil they say and they try
                        to prove one trying to stop the evil
                        the wrong person."

                Evil is evil — when one is to do a job and
                    they use the job to provoke and stall
                    and act like they don't even know it
                    is their job — after it being their daily
                    job over years — they are hugging
                    their sin and becoming lost in it —

                Lies are used by those working against a good
                    work that needs to be accomplished —

                A person can become aggressively combatal and
                    deceptive at the same time — by slyly
                    provoking others — they show to the
                    world — the person who has been the
                    victim of serious attacks, subtly
                    by them and they walk away in a
                    white dress, collar pressed and their
                    joy is in upheaval — they accomplish
                    their task of hurting others and this
                    gives them satisfaction — even joy —

                Christ's heart is meek and tender — soft and loving —

                A man engaged in evil and continuing in this
                    path has a harder and harder heart —
                    An uninformed conscience — greater blindness —

                A person in authority — has the power  —
                    God had the power in the Garden of Eden

                A person in authority obeying God's will —
                    does not want a conflict with
                    one under them —

                The devil attacks through the man under
                    a man in charge doing
                    God's will — can be challenged and argued with
                    by a man under one in authority.
                    This combat is disobedience to authority.

                10 people may support the person in authority,
                    but the devil uses a person of weak
                    will and giving into evil to be
                    disobedient, to challenge and to
                    withhold the real story from those
                    over them to make a house of cards
                    falling down —

                A man under authority working with evil
                    in his heart
                    challenges the authority and withholds
                    information, lies about it,
                    stalls with it — using it to
                    provoke to upset a well operated
                    organization

                When lies are used — how deep is the lie?
                When a person lives in sin provoking
                    others — how severe is the
                    tearing up process they engage in —

                The devil wants hatred
                The devil wants deception
                The devil wants lies
                The devil wants to tear apart those building
                    a unit of love —

                People wanting disobedience will create health
                    issues, failure of mechanical works,
                    anything to DISOBEY and be RIGHT about it

                The devil tempted Eve in the garden until he
                    coaxed her to disobey —
                    Adam did too —

                What lesson did you learn in Chapter 3 of Genesis
                    the first book of the Bible?

                And God is a just God and we were punished
                    and the human race all has a fallen
                    human nature because of the sin
                    except for Mary, who was conceived
                    without sin. Jesus is a Divine
                    Person with two natures Human and Divine —

                Jesus, A Divine Person, came because of this sin
                    against Divinity — the sin was so grave —

                    Jesus paid for the disobedience of Adam and Eve
                        and all of our sins.
                    The human race sinned.

                Jesus gives us the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass —

                We are to be making reparation to God, as
                    members of the mystical body of Christ
                    for our sins — for the sins of the
                    human race as a whole —

                    We are to help make reparation to God for
                        sins

                Jesus died for our sins —

                Jesus taught us about the rupture, the
                    relationship that was hurt by
                    the sin of Adam and Eve

                Jesus came and died for the sins of the
                    human race —

                We as members of the body of Christ
                    are to help make reparation for the
                    sins of this world

               

 

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Words of Jesus to Members of
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"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

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- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

 

  

 

  


 

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