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April 12, 2016

Acts 7: 51 - 8: 1

'You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do. Can you name a single prophet your ancestors never persecuted? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Upright One, and now you have become his betrayers, his murderers. In spite of being given the Law through angels, you have not kept it.'

They were infuriated when they heard this, and ground their teeth at him.

But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand. 'Look! I can see heaven thrown open,' he said, 'and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.' All the members of the council shouted out and stopped their ears with their hands; then they made a concerted rush at him, thrust him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses put down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul. As they were stoning him, Stephen said in invocation, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' Then he knelt down and said aloud, 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them.' And with these words he fell asleep.

Saul approved of the killing.

                R. Stephen spoke strongly for Jesus, they
                were infuriated and stoned him to death.
                Stephen was buried and men cried over his
                death. Saul was trying to destroy the Church.
                Saul was imprisoning the Christians and
                killing them.

The infant Church grew despite it was being
persecuted.

Sing: I Am the Bread of Life

Sing: Church of God –

Sing: How Great Thou Art

R. The Apocalypse Movie was around 90 AD –

It centers around John.

Oh my God, I love You so much –

The Christians would not recognize the divinity
of the Emperor and thus were persecuted –

John was imprisoned at Patmos and
so were many others.

The movie shows many scenes from the book
of Revelation.

Around 34 AD Stephen was stoned to death –

Paul was converted around 35 AD –

Peter and Paul were busy doing the work
of Jesus.

Peter was rescued by an angel from
prison.

Acts 13: 47-48

For this is what the Lord commanded us to do when he said:

    I have made you a light to the nations,
    so that my salvation may reach
        the remotest parts of the earth.’

    It made the gentiles very happy to hear this and they gave thanks to the Lord for his message; all who were destined for eternal life became believers.

R. Baptism of the Gentiles –

Late 40's and 50' Paul traveled on his journeys.

2 Corinthians 11: 24-28

Five times I have been given the thirty-nine lashes by the Jews; three times I have been beaten with sticks; once I was stoned; three times I have been shipwrecked, and once I have been in the open sea for a night and a day; continually travelling, I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from brigands, in danger from my own people and in danger from the gentiles, in danger in the towns and in danger in the open country, in danger at sea and in danger from people masquerading as brothers; I have worked with unsparing energy, for many nights without sleep; I have been hungry and thirsty, and often altogether without food or drink; I have been cold and lacked clothing. And, besides all the external things, there is, day in day out, the pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.

R. 58 Paul was arrested and imprisoned

60-61 Paul went to Rome

1 Timothy 4: 6-8

If you put all this to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus and show that you have really digested the teaching of the faith and the good doctrine which you have always followed. Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales. Train yourself for religion. Physical exercise is useful enough, but the usefulness of religion is unlimited, since it holds out promise both for life here and now and for the life to come;

R. Peter and Paul thought to be martyred
around 65 AD – Peter crucified upside down –

About 95 Gospel of John and Revelation written

End of century

About 100 John died - very old –

Matthew 3: 16

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.

                R. The Holy Spirit helps us to have zeal to spread this
                    Good News and do this work for
                    growth in the Church –

We need to pray to the Holy Spirit to focus on this
growth needed –

To have fire in our hearts like the early
Apostles –

                Jesus told us in Blue Book II we needed fire in
                    our hearts –
                    We need the fire of His love in our
                        hearts to do this work –

Look at how the Church spread –

It is still there –

We need to pray – Jesus told us to pray

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                R. God sent Mary in Clearwater to help us
                    spread this message.

R. We need the Holy Spirit filling us to do this work –

We must pray for the Holy Spirit to work in
us and others –

                We look at the courage of the Apostles –
                    Many were martyred –
                    They were fearless to do this work –

                We need the fire in us to spread this
                    Good News –
                    the fire of the Holy Spirit –
                    the gifts of the Holy Spirit –

Fortitude to do the difficult because
it is God's will –

Love of God so deep in our hearts –

To take Fr. Joe's book all over the
earth –

To take the Shepherds of Christ prayers all
over the earth.

To say the Holy Spirit prayers ourselves and
spread them to the world.

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                R. We received grace in Baptism and Confirmation –
                God gives us a sharing in His life in Baptism –
                Divine life –

God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in the graced
baptized soul –

We need the Holy Spirit working in us –
The Spirit of God moving in us

We need fire and desire to do this
with all our heart –

Look at the lives of the Apostles –
Look at the lives of the Saints –

We must be docile to the touch of the
Holy Spirit –

Pray the Novena with all our
heart

We have to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit
not be dry and inactive –

                We are permeated by love of God
                    and others and ourselves as the Holy Spirit
                    fills us –

                God is all powerful –
                    He can draw us to do good and avoid
                        evil –
                    We must want to be moved –
                    Abandon ourselves to God and His
                        plan and will for us –

Let the Holy Spirit move in us –

Not be stiff-necked, rigid and
controlling –

Isaiah 11: 2-3

On him will rest the spirit of Yahweh,
the spirit of wisdom and insight,
the spirit of counsel and power,
the spirit of knowledge
and fear of Yahweh:

Sirach 1: 16, 18

The fullness of wisdom is to fear the Lord;
she intoxicates them with her fruits:

The crown of wisdom is to fear the Lord
she makes peace with health flourish.

Galatians 5: 22-23

On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self–control; no law can touch such things as these.

Matthew 5: 3-12

How blessed are the poor in spirit:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are the gentle:
they shall have the earth as inheritance.
Blessed are those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those
   who hunger and thirst for uprightness:
they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
they shall have mercy shown them.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
they shall be recognised
   as children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted
   in the cause of uprightness:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and
speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven; this
is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

                R. God outpours His grace to us –
                    we live the virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit
                    we produce the fruits
                    and the beatitudes

Song: We Have Been Told

Jesus says – I am the Vine
You are the Branches

God is the Gardener –

Eve sinned – she ate the fruit –

                We live in the virtues and gifts –
                We have baptism and confirmation –
                We are fed by the Eucharist –

                We have a sharing in Divine Life
                    from baptism –
                    That is something –
                    Jesus paid a big price for this –

Ephesians 3: 20-21

Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory be to him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.

                R. Doing the difficult with courage. Does it
                matter if we lift a pebble or a boulder,
                what matters is doing God's will, but we must
                say – God wants me to do something so we do it.
                Putting off and putting off until the bad wall
                falls in or the roof caves in, is ignoring the
                signs given and there is deterioration which is
                going on when signs are given and ignored.

                    When we see that a rotting floor can
                soon give way and someone can fall through –
                can we see when a person gives into a weak will
                and allows satan to operate through temptation
                in their lives.

                    Fools rush in where angels fear to go, but
                there are fallen angels with great intellects
                that work to tempt men to give into their
                hatred and disobedience before God.

                    The Bible in Genesis in Chapter 3 tells us
                about the fall of man. We see how God
                prepared His people to bring Jesus, the Savior,
                the Son of God into the world to save the
                fallen race.

                    Satan has knowledge that can penetrate
                the man and tempt him, using memory and
                senses, his thoughts and imagination.

                    God in baptism has given us a sharing
                in His life, our knowing and loving capacity
                is elevated. God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
                dwell in our graced, baptized soul. We can
                be filled with the Holy Spirit, the gift of
                God's presence, God's grace,
                we can supernaturally love and know God
                supernaturally. The devil hates us. The devil
                will go to hell eternally. God has given us
                the sacraments – God has given us
                Baptism, the Eucharist, Confession –
                God loves us so much –
                The devil hates us. The devil is a liar, a deceiver.
                The devil is jealous and envious of man.
                    Hell is a place of no love –
                    Hell is a place of absence of God forever.
                    Hell is real.

Prudence

                    A man with age and working with people,
                using his natural abilities can learn to be
                prudent. He, through experiences, can learn
                what is prudent.

                    But God gives to us the infused virtues of
                faith, hope and love in baptism.
                We need to be in the state of grace to receive the
                help we need to be supernaturally prudent. God
                wants to direct and help a man to attain eternal
                happiness and live in love according to the Father's
                will. The Holy Spirit can fill us with His guidance and
                grace to help us to be prudent and just and
                temperant and have courage to do the difficult
                we must do, to do God's will and to do things in the
                time and the way that is right according to
                God's plan –

                    We can pray for supernatural prudence for
                it is a gift from God, where by in natural
                prudence a man may develop this in age in
                trying to do what is right and good in life.

                    Our goal for our actions are to be those which
                lead us to eternal happiness in heaven – in
                right reasoning we discern our actions and
                we seek God's will – living according to God's
                will in love.

                Supernatural prudence is a gift from baptism –
                A man must stay in the state of grace to
                be supernaturally prudent. It is a gift from
                God given to the graced, baptized soul seeking
                to do what God wants us to do.

                We must seek to live in love!
                We obey the will of God!
                We live by the Commandments of God.
                We pray for the gifts of the Holy Spirit –
                    Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel,
                    Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety and
                    Fear of the Lord

                We must be submissive to the touch of the
                Holy Spirit guiding us on our path and we
                live by His guidance. We seek the vision of God –
                We seek actions that will lead us to eternal happiness,
                We do not give into sense pleasures that oppose
                God's will – we live a disciplined life and
                ask God the Holy Spirit to strengthen our will and
                to help us not to be weak-willed. We live in God.

                    We have a lot of self-talk that goes on
                many times before actions – after actions are
                repeated and repeated they can be habits.
                These can be good habits or virtues. Or they
                can be bad habits or vices –

                    The imprudent man wants no counsel, he
                thinks he can depend on himself, when in fact
                the counsel he may use for his actions can be
                the temptations of satan, the evil spirit.

                    The Holy Spirit wants to work in the soul, counseling
                him to see God's will and to do it in love of God
                and neighbor and self. Sin is really not
                loving oneself.

                    A man of imprudence can give into his
                sense driven feelings and quickly and without
                forethought or discernment. He can be a man
                of weak or diseased will –

                    "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"
                God intends us to have the goal of eternal salvation
                before us in all our actions and to use right reasoning.

                    Thus a man would never punish others because
                of their pride and jealousy and envy and
                selfishness. A man who is trying to do his
                actions according to God's will is seeking
                to serve God and others and does not want to
                offend God by the smallest sin.

                    We have used the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
                many times. In these Spiritual Exercises there are
                rules for discernment. It is believed Mary, Our
                Spiritual Mother dictated these Spiritual Exercises
                to St. Ignatius.

In the Spiritual Exercises we see the fundamental principle –

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12

23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.

R. and the purpose

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment

R. The rules for discernment are very good guides
to help us to discern our actions.

4 days before his death

                R. Sometimes people who give into the deadly
                sins can be so gripped by anger, they refuse
                to even see how destructive the emotion is
                when they are tearing down what they need to
                build up for their own vocation.

                    Satan is a devil and he tempts people to
                give into angry ways of hurting others, themselves
                and the vocation they are called to.

                    We have been asked by Jesus to unite on 5ths
                and 13ths in community prayer. We have Masses
                during the retreats. So much grace can be
                outpoured in this prayer before the Eucharist,
                during Mass when praying together for the
                Mission God has given us.

                    But the devil can use this opportunity
                to get a person isolated, focused on themselves,
                jealous, envious, prideful, angry and block
                this needed opportunity for great grace to be
                outpoured, as Jesus said would happen.

The Eucharist is such a gift –

Community prayer on the 13th can help
to bring down great grace for the priests, the
Church and the world.

     The devil is crafty – he tempts people to use
                passive-aggressive actions to fool themselves
                when they are passively using their actions to
                attack and divide, destroy, tear down
                and hurt others –

Actions are to be performed in charity.

Actions are to be performed to promote the
good of the one loved.

                Seeking to pursue the good of worldly
                    desires is not prudence. One must
                    seek God's will in love, with right reasoning.

Our actions are to be guided by the goal of
eternal happiness.

The goal is –––––> eternal happiness.

Seeking the Vision of God.

                Man can seek those things that come from
                    the world, the flesh and the devil –
                    this is imprudence.

                A prudent man performs his actions
                    because His ultimate goal is
                    to be led closer to God.

Imprudence brings unhappiness –

The prudent man is free of inordinate desire
he could be addicted to –

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment

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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.}}