Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing          

April 30, 2014

May 1st Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for May 1st are Glorious.

 
Days of Prayers
May 2nd - May 5th Florida Retreat

May 10th - May 13th China Retreat

May 15th - Mass in China
 

Package for Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II will be canonized April 27th.

Here is a wonderful DVD about his life.

12" Statue of Sacred Heart of Jesus with glass
CD of Live Rosary from Blue Book 13 October 13, 1996 –
    1st 13th - Fr. Carter leads this live rosary
Blue Book 12
Karol Movie
Pictures of Our Lady of Clearwater 8 x 10 and 4 x 6

Hard copy of October 13, 1996 Rosary
We will include this special rosary with this offer.

$100 plus postage
while supplies last

This is a limited time offer.
These statues may become scarce in the near future.

  

Bible Bash/Fatima Package for May
 

11" Fatima
Statue with
image glass

Your choice of ONE
Bible DVD - Joseph

Or Moses DVD

8x10 picture of Our
Lady of Clearwater

Or David DVD Or Esther DVD Or Abraham DVD Or Jacob DVD

$50 plus postage
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Package for the month of Mary and First Communion     

     
  The Song of Bernadette
DVD       OR
The Miracle of Our
Lady of Fatima
DVD

11" Fatima
Statue with
image glass

Blue Book 12

8x10 and 4x6
pictures of Our
Lady of Clearwater


plus CD of October 13, 1996 Rosary
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Special First Communion Rosary with Image Center

in a gift box

white     blue     red

and an 8 x 10 picture of Our Lady of Clearwater
and a 4 x 6 picture of Our Lady of Clearwater

$10 plus postage

 

 

Original Image Rosary

8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box

$40 plus shipping

 

 

                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.
                    For our Publisher and 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 & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Tom & 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,
                    Ed, Jimmy, a special couple.
              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.

 

 

                April 30, 2014

                R. Dear Jesus,

                    We want to offer everything we do today to God.
                We unite all we do to the Masses going on around
                the world and we see a bright new day in which
                to serve You and how You have taken care of
                us and blessed us so much.

                    Let us see the beauty of all that God has
                created and thank God for giving us all
                He has given to us.

                    Dear God we thank You for helping us to
                see our gifts in being so united in our hearts
                to our brothers, of being one in You, our
                beloved God.

                    We pray for unity in the hearts of men. That
                people who are baptized will see what a gift
                baptism is – that we share in Your Divine
                Life and that draws us closer to each other
                in this life we share in You.

                    Holy Spirit please come into our hearts
                as we go through these days of Easter and
                help us to be filled more and more abundantly
                with Your life in us. Help us to grow
                in this unity with our baptized brothers –
                living our lives united to the Mass and offering
                up all we do trying to live our lives as
                the Father wills us to do. Dear God, we
                surrender our lives to You.

                    The 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.

 

                R. God loves the world. God created the
                world. God wants unity amongst men.
                God gave us all these gifts. God gave us
                each other. God gave us Mothers and Fathers in
                our physical life and Grandmas and
                Grandpas and Sisters and Brothers
                and God gave us life. God has blessed
                us. God wants us to know love in the
                family – the family meal, the home where
                the heart is – God gave us the world.
                God gave us the beauty of the earth, the
                sun during the day and the night for
                sleeping. God gave us food, fish, and
                vegetables. God feeds us.

                    And God gives us this sharing in His life
                in baptism. And God gives us the Eucharist
                daily to feed this life. Jesus remains truly
                present in His Divinity and humanity in the
                Eucharist, in the consecrated host – waiting
                for us to come and to be with Him. God is
                so good to us.

                    We have our physical life and the food
                to keep us healthy and we have the
                spiritual life – God gives us Himself
                in the Eucharist to nourish this life.

                    Unity in Him. To me I feel the unity God
                gives us in my heart. This profound unity
                with my brothers through baptism and
                we are one in Him. We are members of
                the body of Christ and Christ is the head.
                I know unity and strength and perfection – the
                more I know Him –
                Unity – Unity – Unity in God, the way
                God wants us to be.

                What ordinary bread is to man's natural
                life, the Eucharist is to man's spiritual
                life.

                    We see in John's Gospel the Multiplication
                of the loaves and the fish. (Chapter 6: 1-15)
                and the Bread of Life Discourse (Chapter 6: 22-59)

                We see John's description of Christ's discourse
                    on the Eucharist is preceded by Christ
                    feeding the multitude in the multiplication
                    of the loaves of bread. What ordinary
                    bread is to man's natural life, the Eucharist
                    is to man's supernatural life.

                Fr. Carter in Response in Christ states –

 

 

 

Excerpt from Response in Christ - pp. 104-106

    Incarnationalism is that Christian perspective which sees the created world to be deeply involved in the redemption of Christ. Yes, man has been redeemed, but so also has man's world. It is man's part to bring this redemption of mankind and the material world to its completion. Incarnationalism stresses correct use of the world rather than its renouncement. The Christian needs the material, the visible, the tangible part of creation in order to go to God. Also, human values are seen to be goods in themselves. Christ has in essence conquered completely. He is the king of all men and the whole universe. The Christian must more and more insure His reign over the universe by a positive involvement in it. Involvement with the world, not flight from it, is what is necessary.

    Transcendence is that Christian perspective which emphasizes the more obviously supernatural aspects of Christ's kingdom. This perspective also treats of those aspects of our life in Christ which are beyond the material, the visible, the sense-perceived. Stressed is the fact that the life of grace in its fundamental reality is a participation in the transcendent life of the Trinity. The transcendent perspective points out that it is true that this life of grace has its very real beginnings here below, but that it will have its completion only in eternity. The Christian is, to some extent, a pilgrim in exile. The life of grace, it is true, must be respected in its incarnational dimensions, but ultimately it rises above any particular incarnational structure which may be in vogue in any particular age of the Church. This life of grace has as one of its thrusts the dynamism which makes the Christian 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. There must be a certain amount of prayer, solitude and renunciation in the life of any committed Christian. These, then, are truths which the perspective of Christian transcendence stresses.

    Incarnationalism and transcendence, because they are such fundamental realities, are found in any and all of the various areas of the Christian's existence. We will now consider some of these, always striving to show how the two characteristics are simultaneously present and should be balanced as the situation demands.

end of excerpt

 

                R. We see ourselves tossed and turned in the
                    storm of life and we see Jesus
                    walking on the water – telling us
                    to not be afraid, but to have
                    faith in Him. We must have faith and pray
                    with confidence in the storms of life –
                    Jesus is with us. Jesus can 'still' any
                    storm and help us to safe harbor.

                    In the Shepherds of Christ, God calls us to live this
                vocation seriously by praying for the
                Church and the world. We are to be united
                with our brothers in the world and as
                members of the mystical body, love others
                as Christ wants us to love them. Jesus
                died for all – Jesus wants us loving
                one another and praying for all –

                I love Fr. Carter's description of the 3 stages of
                    the Church. 

     

Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

e) Relationship with Members of the Church

There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.

The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.

The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.

This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."14 And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.

The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.15 The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."16

The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.

Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.17

 


NOTES:

 14Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
 15
Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
 16Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
 17Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.

  

                    R. We see this profound unity and we unite with
                    the saints and angels, the souls in purgatory
                    and we pray united with all of us.

                Jesus: In these retreats I call all to be united in their
                    hearts – united as one praying for the priests,
                    the Church and the world.

                    Those who come and listen to the retreats come
                    to be united in prayer and love, interceding
                    to God for these intentions. Being
                    united as a family, praying fervently in Our
                    Hearts for the priests, the Church and the
                    world. Praying with faith and confidence
                    in this Mission, God the Father has called
                    in all the messages He has given –
                    the messages He sent Me to Fr. Carter to deliver
                    and to My messenger in God's Blue Book –
 

                R. I love Blue Book 11 because I really see how
                    God enlists our help in the work
                    of redemption –

 

                From the Blue Book 11

                Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

     In schematic outline we have discussed the manner in which the baptized Christian extends his Mass to his daily existence. As he so lives out his Mass, he is becoming more Christlike. He becomes a more perfect priest and victim for his next participation in the eucharistic sacrifice.42 The beautiful cycle which the Mass contains lies exposed before us. As part of this cycle the Christian is intimately involved in the process of continued redemption. The Mass is the center of the Christian life: ". . . the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all her power flows."43

42. For a current treatment of the varied richness of the Eucharist, cf. J. Wicks, "The Movement of Eucharistic Theology" in Chicago Studies, Vol. 10 (1971), pp. 267-284.
43. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 10.

 

Given November 21, 2013

Jesus: I call you to live your lives as devout members of the mystical body of Christ. I have given these writings that men will realize that they are to live united deeply to the Mass going on around the world. Your lives, given as an offering, a sacrifice every moment in union with the Mass going on around the world. Your life, a sacrifice, offered to the Father, in union with the Mass in oneness with Me, in the Holy Spirit through the intercession of the Blessed Mother with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory.

    Your lives given as members of My mystical body can help to bring down great graces for the priest, the Church and the world.

 

Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

"How does the Christian help Christ redeem the world? (Henceforth the term "world" is to be understood as including both rational and nonrational creation.) As previously stated, the Christian helps Christ redeem the world by reliving Christ's mysteries. The same "events" or mysteries which accomplished the objective redemption further the subjective redemption also. Since at the heart of Christ's mysteries are His death and Resurrection, it is especially these that the Christian must relive. As the Christian dies mystically with Christ through loving conformity with the Father's will, he rises with Christ to an ever greater share in the Resurrection, in the newness of life, in the life of grace. As the Christian in this manner relives the paschal mystery of Christ, he is accomplishing not only his own redemption, but he is also, in a mysterious yet real manner, helping Christ redeem the world."

                    end of excerpt

 

                R. Love is the gift of self –

                Love means sacrifice –

                Our vocation is giving oneself in love,
                    if married in a family, if a
                    religious –
                    Giving our lives united to the Mass, the
                    Sacrifice of Calvary is so important.

 

 

 

   

                R. Christian life is Response to God's love –

                Call – Response

Response in Christ
 

Response to God's Love
 

    

                R. Response to God's love means we follow
                    Christ. Christ gave Himself –
                    Christ sacrificed, Christ carried
                    the cross.

                Dear God help us to want to please You –
                    to give our lives united to You in
                    the Morning Offering – to serve
                    You, God, in love!

                Please increase our faith God!
                Help us to love!
                Every good thing comes from You!
                Thank You God, increase our faith!
                Thank You God, help us to love from
                    our heart, not be selfish!

                You, Oh God, are all powerful, please
                    increase our faith!

                Put in our hearts a desire to please
                    You, Oh beloved God.

                Help us to love!

                Love can be painful, even though our
                    hearts are burning with love for
                    men.

                God has given us these prayers


 

                    R. to pray for the priests, the Church
                    and the world –

                Help me to spread these prayer chapters –

                Here is a message I received from Mary 2 days ago –

 

November 4, 2013

 

                Message from Mary April 28, 2014

                Mary: Jesus asks you to pray these prayers He gave in the
                    Prayer Manual with Devotion to Our Two Hearts –

                Please, as your Heavenly Mother, I beg you to listen.
                God the Father allowed me to appear on the glass in
                    Clearwater, as Our Lady of Clearwater.

                A vandal broke the image face of the image glass –
   


 

                Mary: Jesus promises great grace to those who pray these prayers.
   


 
 

                Mary: As your Heavenly Mother – you will have special gifts
                    of healing, spiritual and physical, when you pray
                    these prayers before my image.

                We give to you these gifts and ask you to put the statues
                    with the image glass in your homes and Churches
                    and schools.

                I am Mary your Mother.

                On this day April 28, 2014,

                Please consecrate your homes and your churches and
                    yourselves to the Sacred Heart and my Immaculate Heart.

                I ask all bishops to consecrate their dioceses
                    to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart for peace
                    and love in this world.

                Ask your bishops and priests to begin the
                    Prayer Chapters Jesus gave to Fr. Carter –
                    20 years ago –

                20 years ago –

                Look at your world –

                We give you these gifts and you do not hear.

                Please listen to me – I am Mary, your Mother –

                Come to my Site in Clearwater April 28, 2014.

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                Mary's Second Message April 28, 2014

                Mary: I am calling you to come to the building in
                Clearwater, Florida to pray to God for the
                peace of the world.

                    The Heavenly Father wishes men to come
                and to pray for this peace and to go away
                with the prayers and images of my Immaculate Heart
                and Jesus' Sacred Heart for your homes and Churches
                and schools.

                    May is the month of Mary –

                    I ask you to spread this devotion to my
                Immaculate Heart and Jesus' Sacred Heart as I asked
                for at Fatima.

                    God has given you a great gift in allowing
                me to appear in Clearwater. Why do you
                ignore this gift?

Mary by day
July 5, 2000

by night
July 5, 2000

                Mary: Spread these prayer chapters praying
                for the priests, the Church and the world.
                Please as your Heavenly Mother – I ask you
                to listen.

                On July 2nd, 1996, Fr. Carter appeared as a pillar
                of light and you were given this message
                July 4, 1996.
 

July 4, 1996

   This message was received before a live statue of the Sorrowful Mother after Communion.
   Message from Jesus: "Peace will abound when nations, churches, families and individuals are consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
   "Fr. Carter is a pillar of light to the dark world. This is the explanation of the photo. It is through him, I will turn darkness to light. Circulate this message with the picture. Encourage all to consecrate their hearts to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to join the Shepherds of Christ Chapters, and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement to pray for your Church and your world. This is My Movement for renewal of the Church and the world, based in consecration, joining your every act to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying the rosary, and making reparation to Our Hearts, especially on First Fridays and First Saturdays. It is through your prayers and sacrifices many souls will be helped to be saved. Grace will flow from those whose hearts are consecrated to Our Hearts and the fire of My Love will light up this darkened world."
   As you look at the picture, you see Fr. Carter's arm and hand on your left. This picture of Fr. Carter was taken July 2, 1996 at the Tuesday Shepherds of Christ Meeting at Tom Arlinghaus' Farm.

   

                Mary: Please listen to me.

                I am Mary your Mother –

                Spread these prayer chapters

                Pray the prayers yourselves

 


   

November 4, 2013

 

                Mary: Pray often this prayer given
                    October 13, 2003.

 

Commitment Prayer

    I want to be an Apostle of
        the Sacred Heart for the
        Shepherds of Christ Movement.

    I thank God for His gifts to me
       and I want to serve and love
       God in this Movement.

    God help me to do Your will
        always and help me to spread
        this message and these prayers
        to the world. Help me to spread
        Your peace.

    Help me to be an instrument of
        love.

    Outpour your grace to me for
        this vocation in the Shepherds
        of Christ Movement.

                                                               October 13, 2003

   

                Mary: Please as your Heavenly Mother –

                Listen to my request –

                For the Peace of the World –

                Please listen –

                end of excerpt
 

 

                R. Love is like a burning fire and it is painful!

                Jesus shows us this

 

Romans 12: 1-2

I urge you, then, brothers, remembering the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, dedicated and acceptable to God; that is the kind of worship for you, as sensible people. Do not model your behavior on the contemporary world, but let the renewing of your minds transform you, so that you may discern for yourselves what is the will of God – what is good and acceptable and mature.

   

Matthew 16: 21-27

From then onwards Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to rebuke him. ‘Heaven preserve you, Lord,’ he said, ‘this must not happen to you.’ But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because you are thinking not as God thinks but as human beings do.’ Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will anyone gain by winning the whole world and forfeiting his life? Or what can anyone offer in exchange for his life? 

    For the Son of man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward each one according to his behavior.

   

                R. God wants us to be honest and loving, to
                    seek His Kingdom, not give into
                    selfishness and envy and self
                    promotion and pride –

                We need to be corrected and live by God's
                    laws, be honest, not lie when we
                    have done wrong because of pride and
                    focusing on how we look before
                    the eyes of men –

                But focus on how we look before
                    the eyes of God –

                We must be willing to accept correction
                    form spiritual guides over us.
   

Ezekiel 33: 7-9

Son of man I have appointed you as watchman for the House of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, warn them from me. If I say to someone wicked, "Evil- doer, you are to die," and you do not speak to warn the wicked person to renounce such ways, the wicked person will die for this guilt, but I shall hold you responsible for the death. If, however, you do warn someone wicked to renounce such ways and repent, and that person does not repent, then the culprit will die for this guilt, but you yourself will have saved your life.

   

                R. If we love our neighbor we don't
                    wrong them. Correction is necessary
                    even though it may hurt.
   

Romans 13: 8-10

    The only thing you should owe to anyone is love for one another, for to love the other person is to fulfil the law. All these: You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet, and all the other commandments that there are, are summed up in this single phrase: You must love your neighbour as yourself. Love can cause no harm to your neighbour, and so love is the fulfilment of the Law.

   

                R. Genuine love means a willingness to
                    accept correction from those
                    over us and
                    as leaders to correct as God
                    wants us to in love –

                A leader who does not take correction
                    will be a weak leader to correct honestly,
                    because denying himself the right to
                    be corrected – he is tainted in himself
                    and will not be honest with those
                    under him –

                A weak position –

                Love of brothers means respect for
                    God's laws and willingness
                    to do all that God wants because
                    we love God and others and we are
                    honest to our brothers in love.

                We are not deceiving ourselves with
                    pride with regard to how
                    truthful we are about our
                    faults before God.

 

Matthew 18:15-20

'If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: whatever the misdemeanour, the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain the charge. But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a gentile or a tax collector.

'In truth I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

'In truth I tell you once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I am there among them.'

 

Philippians 3:20-21

But our homeland is in heaven and it is from there that we are expecting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transfigure the wretched body of ours into the mould of his glorious body, through the working of the power which he has, even to bring all things under his mastery.
 

John 11: 17-27

   He said that and then added, ‘Our friend Lazarus is at rest; I am going to wake him.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Lord, if he is at rest he will be saved.’ Jesus was speaking of the death of Lazarus, but they thought that by ‘rest’ he meant ‘sleep’; so Jesus put it plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead; and for your sake I am glad I was not there because now you will believe. But let us go to him.’ Then Thomas—known as the Twin—said to the other disciples, ‘Let us also go to die with him.’

   On arriving, Jesus found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days already. Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died, but even now I know that God will grant whatever you ask of him.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’ Martha said, ‘I know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said:

   I am the resurrection.
   Anyone who believes in me,
      even though that person dies, will live,
   and whoever lives and believes in me
      will never die.
   Do you believe this?

  ‘Yes, Lord,’ she said, ‘I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.’

 

Wisdom 3: 1-9

Destinies of the good and bad compared

But the souls of the upright are in the hands of God, 
and no torment can touch them. 
To the unenlightened, they appeared to die, 
their departure was regarded as disaster, 
their leaving us like annihilation; 
but they are at peace. 
If, as it seemed to us, they suffered punishment, 
their hope was rich with immortality; 
slight was their correction, great will their blessings be.
God was putting them to the test 
and has proved them worthy to be with him; 
he has tested them like gold in a furnace, 
and accepted them as a perfect burnt offering. 
At their time of visitation, they will shine out; 
as sparks run through the stubble, so will they. 
They will judge nations, rule over peoples, 
and the Lord will be their king for ever. 
Those who trust in him will understand the truth, 
those who are faithful will live with him in love; 
for grace and mercy await his holy ones, 
and he intervenes on behalf of his chosen.

 

                R. God wants all men to be saved –

                God has given us these prayers through
                    Fr. Carter.

                We are called in this vocation to pray these
                    prayers.

                They are so powerful!

                We are called in this vocation to spread
                    them to others –

 

John 6: 37-40

Everyone whom the Father gives me
   will come to me;
I will certainly not reject
anyone who comes to me,
because I have come from heaven,
not to do my own will,
but to do the will of him who sent me.
Now the will of him who sent me
is that I should lose nothing
of all that he has given to me,
but that I should raise it up
   on the last day.
It is my Father's will
that whoever sees the Son
   and believes in him
should have eternal life,
and that I should raise that person up
   on the last day.

 

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 

               
                R. Spring brings new life –

                The ground is so beautiful with green
                    grass and flowers –

                Think of how the people would be
                    if their hearts were turned toward
                    conversion and loving God and others –

                We pray to God as His servants for
                    peace on this earth –

                Sing: Let There Be Peace on Earth

 


 

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