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April 14, 2014 - Holy Week Monday
Jesus: Controlling ones thoughts
R. Disciplining one's will
Luke 15: 2
and the Pharisees and scribes complained saying, ‘This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable:
R. In the prodigal son parable
Christ welcomed back the sinner.
Jesus healed those seeking forgiveness.
Jesus wants us to admit our sins
and ask to be forgiven.
The devil on the other hand, wants
the person to deceive himself
about the sin, to look as if
he really never sinned.
This will keep the person stuck
for they are enslaved to the
pride of showing not a
sorry son of the Father,
but one of deceit for his appearance
before others.
The father in the prodigal son parable
missed his son and was grateful
for his return.
The other son could be one of us that
says in Luke 15: 2 about Christ
could not be of God because he
welcomes sinners.
Luke 15: 2
and the Pharisees and scribes complained saying, ‘This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable:
R. One thing I saw in the movie, Pope John Paul II,
Karol, he was loving to the
sinners, he loved the person,
he forgave their sins –
even a Nazi soldier who went
to confession, who had a wife and
children, had the courage to stand up
for the truth and so he was shot
and the priest who heard his
confession was shot - dead by the Nazis.
God has given us the prodigal
son parable for a reason.
We can never underestimate the
mercy of God. God is all merciful
to the sinner who comes and asks
for forgiveness.
God knows all things, we are
never fooling God –
He reads the mind and heart –
We see that in His mercy Jesus
forgave Mary Magdalene and she
was under the cross at the Crucifixion
while most of the apostles were
not.
R. We see how St. Monica prayed for
St. Augustine and how much
St. Augustine contributed to
salvation history and the Church
because of his conversion.
God reads the hearts, he knows our
ways and the purity of our
confession, the disposition of
the heart in asking for forgiveness.
Christ came for sinners, and we
are all sinners –
1 John 1: 8-10
If we say, ‘We have no sin,’
we are deceiving ourselves,
and truth has no place in us;
if we acknowledge our sins,
he is trustworthy and upright,
so that he will forgive our sins
and will cleanse us from all evil.
If we say, ‘We have never sinned,’
we make him a liar,
and his word has no place in us.
R. The prodigal son can be the situation in
which we can fall into the one son
or the other.
We all need to be saved.
We all need to repent from our sins.
We all must recognize God's mercy
for forgiveness.
Pope John Paul II was shot by a man May 13, 1981
who was attempting to kill him –
On May 13, 1982 Pope John Paul II
went to the man and told him he
forgave him.
Fr. Carter says - sin is rupture in
relationships.
We are to work on the relationships
in our lives –
Our first relationship is with God –
God is to be the ruler of our lives.
God wants us to love His will.
What we do to others, we do to Him –
we pray to God to forgive our sins
so we will not block His plan
with somebody else.
No man is an island, if we were all
doing God's will there would be
unity and harmony amongst
the brethren. There would be
love as brothers under God.
This is the Plan of our Heavenly
Father –
Matthew 12: 46-50
He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?' And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'
R. Think of the scripture of the prodigal
son.
the Father receives the prodigal
son back home.
We pray for the grace that we know
more and more the mercy of God.
Look at St. Paul and the contribution
that he made.
"Saul, Saul why do you persecute
Me?"
And we know St. Paul had
scales that fell from his eyes.
Remember the blind man scripture
on the 4th Sunday of Lent.
Are we not all like that blind man
and God shows us mercy –
We are praying for God to help us see
where we are blind in our thoughts
where satan is deceiving us and
we give into pride and jealousy and
envy, slothfulness, lust, greed,
gluttony, and wrath.
God is all merciful – He forgives
sinners who want to be forgiven.
Our Lady of Fatima's message centers in
praying for the conversion of
sinners, ourselves included
in our blindness and our
prideful ways.
We are ungrateful for all the gifts
He gives us. In the retreats He called
us to be deeply united and to pray and
sing whole-heartedly in reparation for our
sins and the sins of the whole world –
to pray for grace, while we honored
Him with our love and devotion –
The 13th in China was so powerful –
the unity and love was very strong
and the prayer so powerful. It is
so powerful when we are deeply
united to God and praying in oneness
to Him. The graces flow from this
united, heartfelt prayer.
From this retreat we know more
His presence in our prayer chapters
and in our daily prayers, knowing our
Shepherds of Christ family is united every
day in their lives – praying for the priests,
the Church and the world.
Today we end the 9 day retreat
on Holy Monday with my cousin
Fr. Don McCarthy saying Mass.
It was a most powerful retreat in
Florida and in China. We were using
Blue Book 13, and receiving guidance
on discipling our thoughts, as a
message as the main theme – with
independence a second theme.
Here is a message Jesus gave on
independence as I began the retreat.
Excerpt from March 31, 2014
R. So how can such division and disharmony
in
relationships work in today's world?
The very structure of such division
is opposed to unity, harmony, structure which is
God's will.
God wants us to be
like brothers caring for
each other.
Satan has worked in the people to chose
their ways by whether or not
they remain independent of each other –
and this is how they make decisions –
to stay separated, disconnected,
disharmonious and in control –
not observing structure or
obeying authority and
trying to prove the wrong
they do as right –
lying to do it if they have to.
INDEPENDENCE
Everyone
sees disunity – you
wear it like clothes.
R. The retreat is life changing, after
it is over it is up to us to carry what
we learned to the community, to all –
in our lives to live it.
It is not a let down, but a beginning
to bring the gifts we received in the
retreat to our lives and the lives we
touch, as we progress to greater
Christian maturity on our way
to Him, to practice being all He
wants us to be and live our lives
in peace and love.
Satan wants commotion, stimulation,
argumentation, disharmony.
God is blessing us every day helping
us to live holy lives praying for the
priests, the Church and the world
and spreading the Consecration to
the Two Hearts as Mary asked for
at Fatima.
We can say "yes" God and beg
Him for the grace of this retreat to
be a blessing to us and all we
touch and know He will give us
a boost in the Sidney Rosary and
then the next retreat, the 5th,
the 13th is such a blessing and
many are united in
the Daily Message and the Internet prayer.
This Shepherds of Christ is a way of life God
has given us to be Apostles of His
Sacred Heart in the world, in our
lives, but to give our commitment
to help us grow and know we
need more every day. He gives
us the Blue Books and Fr. Joe's and
Fr. Carter's writings. God gives us
the Shepherds of Christ - way of life – the
Mass, the prayers, the hours of adoration,
the instructions, the hourly prayer,
the Morning Offering, the rosary,
the Divine Mercy –
God has taught us how to be humble
Apostles of His Sacred Heart and
children of our Mother Mary.
The prodigal son shows us about
the father and His love for the sinner
and his desire for him to return –
the sinner who was a wayfarer
and wandered off in his independence
of God's will, independence of the family
God intended him to be an integral
part of.
This independence the sinner
seeks is really enslavement when
his life is lived opposed to God's
will and what is first in his life
is not God's will, but "independence".
Where does an old man get, when his
independence has backed him up
against a wall and he has no
friends when he needs help.
We can recall the story of Scrooge
and the different movies and stories
that portray an old miser who
keeps his stash in a barn and
doesn't give the scraps to the
man in need.
What happens when we are
called by God and all our treasures
we horded have to be left behind
to relatives grateful we are
leaving them to them.
There is the saying
"What comes around - goes around"
or something like that –
What is the meaning of life?
We are here for relationships – putting
God first and recognizing we are
dependent to Him. We are here to
be united as brothers and sisters
in the Father's family. We are to
love God with all our heart and love
our neighbor as ourselves.
We are to seek forgiveness and
give forgiveness to others.
We are to live by rules set
by God –
the greatest Commandment concerning
living a life of relationships.
We watched the movie Pollyanna and
she tries to see the good in everything –
she plays the "glad game."
She is the daughter of a minister
who died.
Her aunt she goes to live with wanted
to be "above" everybody and that
was her god. She wanted the
whole town to know she was
"up" and everybody under
her. She used her money to
control this.
It was a beautiful story to see
how love wins out in the end and how
Pollyanna brought unity to the town
with her love and profound "glad"-game.
One woman was so crabby in bed,
running her daughter around, having
a million pills and planning her
casket with the undertaker.
Pollyanna brought her out of that
through beautiful prism shining
in the sun, making quilts for the
orphan bizarre and the woman
changed and was so happy.
Another man, who was all alone
and feared by children came out
of his independence by loving –
thanks to Pollyanna and Jimmy Beam a
little orphan he came to love and
adopted.
Pollyanna had to pay a price for
her love,
but so did Christ –
look at the price He paid to
teach us about love.
St. Paul was murdering Christians
because of his ways. He had St. Stephen
put to death. Look at all St. Paul
contributed and does today in the
Scriptures.
We were put here in salvation history –
at this moment by God, to make our
contribution to the unity and love
and helping the world and the Church
and the individual Christian
in the state of becoming more
and more like Christ.
We as the baptized in Christ Jesus
can use God's gifts to help
do this – or to defile God by
unfaithfulness to the calling He
gives us to help build up the body
of Christ and to lift up our
brothers in the world.
Being called in the Shepherds of Christ
is a special calling to give in 7 different
vocations to the building up of the
Kingdom of God by praying as Jesus
told Fr. Carter for the priests,
the Church and the world.
Discipling one's thoughts –
realizing the presence of God:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit in our graced
baptized soul. Allowing God
to be a light in us as we surrender
to living and loving God's will in our
lives. Surrendering to God's will
means living a life of love because
God is love.
Loving is an act of the will – Praying
for the grace from God to grow in
faith, hope and love and cooperating
with this grace is a life-time work –
Let us meditate on the story
of the Good Shepherd who goes after
the lost sheep, the sheep who
have strayed.
The Good Shepherd lays
down His life for His sheep.
John 10: 14-15
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.
R. The Good Shepherd comes in Chapter
10 of John and the blind man
accounting is in Chapter 9 –
Our priests are called to reach out –
our priests hear confessions
and what a miracle that
one confession can be for a
priest to hear a confession
and a man's life changes!!
A priest can hear confession
and a man can confess
mortal sins and make a
good confession and he
can be saved from hell
if he changes his life!
WOW
Christ is in the priest who we go to
confession, binding up our wounds,
seeks us out and
Christ, the Good Shepherd, wants
to bring us home.
R. Christ wants to bring us home and
He does as the Good Shepherd
going after the sheep that
strayed, but He paid
a big, big price for our
sins –
He shed His blood and He
died on the cross –
Through His pierced side, the
Church was born –
water for baptized
blood for the Eucharist.
Christ gives us a sharing in His
life in baptism and
He feeds that life with
Himself!
Christ paid a price for this
gift He gives us in
confession.
Luke 23: 34
..‘Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing.’..
R. We see God's mercy, God's love,
God's forgiveness.
The proud man wants to
deny the truth about his
sin and satan wants
to deceive him through
confusion and distorted
thinking and vision.
Isaiah 1:18
'Come, let us talk this over,' says Yahweh.
'Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
R. When I listen to Mary's message
August 27, 1996 (BB12) received on the
feast of St. Monica) we see how
our heavenly Mother is pleading
for the souls going to hell, her
children.
In hell there is no love, only
hate – on July 13, 1917 - Mary showed the
3 children hell
From Fatima Peace Plan — Tan Books p.4-5.
July 13, 1917
THE CHILDREN SEE HELL
As she spoke these words, Our Lady stretched out her hands, and bright rays came forth which seemed to penetrate into the earth. All at once the ground vanished, and the children found themselves standing on the brink of a sea of fire. As they peered into this dreadful place, the terrified youngsters saw huge numbers of devils and damned souls. The devils resembled hideous black animals, each filling the air with despairing shrieks. The damned souls were in their human bodies and seemed to be brown in color, tumbling about constantly in the flames and screaming with terror. All were on fire within and without their bodies, and neither devils nor damned souls seemed able to control their movements. They were tossing about in the flames like fiery coals in a furnace. There was never an instant's peace or freedom from pain.
Looking with compassion at the pale and trembling little ones, the vision spoke to them: "You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace."
end of excerpt
R. Sin is a horrible thing and
Yet God gives us confession.
God gives us the Mass – God wants
the strayed sheep to return home and
He laid down His life for His sheep.
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of Shepherds of Christ Associates:
"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.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- 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)
R. Many men have a distorted picture
of God.
The prodigal son is a most loving
story of the Father's love, the
loving story of the Good Shepherd
that laid down His life for His
sheep.
Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary."Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!
"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."
John 10: 11-15
I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
for his sheep.
The hired man,
since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
and runs away,
and then the wolf attacks
and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.
R. Jesus knows everything about us –
Jesus knows our every thought – the
intentions of our heart –
Jesus wants us to go to Him in
truth and say we are sorry
how we have sinned and hurt
others in their relationships
with God –
Jesus wants confession of our
soul and asking for forgiveness
and He is all merciful.
Jesus is all just and all merciful.
Jesus is perfect love.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the
life!
Why would we try to deceive Jesus
about our sins?
We go to Jesus to be forgiven and seek
His mercy!
Do we give God the first place
in our lives –
Judgment will uncover the
truth!
We are to deny ourselves and
love God's will – not give
into selfish bad habits
that tear apart relationships
and deny love, God wants
us to give to others He has
put us with.
Did we give generously out of love
to others as Christ showed us,
the Good Shepherd who gave
His life for our sins.
Psalm 23
Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
In grassy meadows he lets me lie.
By tranquil streams he leads me
to restore my spirit.
He guides me in paths of saving justice
as befits his name.
Even were I to walk in a ravine as dark as death
I should fear no danger, for you are at my side.
Your staff and your crook are there to soothe me.
You prepare a table for me
under the eyes of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup brims over.
Kindness and faithful love pursue me
every day of my life.
I make my home in the house of Yahweh
for all time to come.
R. We are to live to put on Christ –
Not be selfish and tell ourselves
"I did all I could"
What does the record of our lives
show?
There are all kinds of ways
people's records in business
are checked –
What about God checking our record
for life how we loved and served Him?
John 10: 1-3
‘In all truth I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a bandit. He who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out.
R. We are to live that our life - record
shows
ETERNITY IN HEAVEN
Serving God
Loving God
Building the Kingdom of God
Loving our brothers as ourselves –
We pray for the grace to see our
faults and to be converted
in the ways we need to change.
Death/Resurrection –
Every day we live - we are writing
our 'pass' to eternity –
We are in charge of this.
We have a free will.
Song: A Song from Jesus
God the Father sent His Son to teach
us the way
4 days before Fr. Carter Died
R. We must see ourselves as we are
before God and the truth of
how we have offended our
God with pride and selfishness
and seek to be as Mary showed us –
Mary - the perfect handmaid of the Lord –
God gives us in the Shepherds of Christ these
prayers to help us be consecrated
to Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock.
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R. We need to see through the eyes of
the Heavenly Father –
love through the Heart of Jesus and
seek the will of the Father as the Holy Spirit
gives us wisdom and transforms us
more and more in the image of Jesus.
Everything we do should be an
expression of our Christ-life –
John 3: 16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.
John 4: 10
Jesus replied to her:
If you only knew what God is offering
and who it is that is saying to you,
‘Give me something to drink,’
you would have been the one to ask,
and he would have given you living water.
‘Sir,’ said the woman, ‘give me some of that water, so that I may never be thirsty or come here again to draw water.’ ‘Go and call your husband,’ said Jesus to her, ‘and come back here.’ The woman answered, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You are right to say, "I have no husband"; for although you have had five, the one you now have is not your husband. You spoke the truth there.’ ‘I see you are a prophet, sir,’ said the woman. ‘Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, though you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.’ Jesus said:
R. God elevates our knowing and loving
capacity in baptism –
The virtue of love is a participation
in God's loving activity and
God is love –
WOW
John 4: 19
‘I see you are a prophet, sir,’ said the woman.
R. We share in God's loving
activity because of baptism –
We receive an elevated loving
capacity – we develop in Him –
with His grace.
Call – Response
Christian life is response to God's love!
Christian life is a participation in God's life!
The virtues are supernatural faculties.
Love
(1) Love of God
(2) Love of self
(3) Love of neighbor
(a) friendship
(b) marriage & family
Faith
- Is a participation in God's knowing
capacity –
Faith and love are the 2 most important
Virtues!
Genesis 1: 27
God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
R. The two most important dimensions
of the human person is
intellect and will.
Intellect allows us to participate in
God's knowing activity!
Will allows us to participate in
God's willing activity!
Intellect and will allows us to
reflect God –
Hope gives us the capacity to desire God!
(1) desire to live the life of faith
(2) trust God –
The desire to possess the vision of faith –
We trust God will help us.
Given March 21, 2014
R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
2) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
3) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
4) People going to Florida and China.
5) Vocations to all 7 categories.
6) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
7) Pray for pope helping us.
8) Blue Book 13 cover; Blue Book 12, Blue Book 13 - all involved.
9) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
10) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
11) Donors and members and their families.
12) Healing of the Family tree.
13) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Tom's wife, Kerry.
14) All who asked us to pray for them.
15) All we promised to pray for.
16) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Rosie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Jeff,
Louie, 2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us.
17) 2 babies and moms.
18) Funds and insurance.
19) Special intentions.
20) Jerry's garage.
21) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
22) Consecrate all hearts.
23) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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