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April 6, 2008
April 7th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period II.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for April 7th are Luminous.
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April 10, 11, 12, 13
Mass April 10, 11, 12
April 6 2008
Glorious Mysteries
1) Mary: I am Mary your Mother and my Son has
given you the Shepherds of Christ Movement to
help renew the Church and the world.
2) Mary: I appeared at Fatima telling little children
of the importance of consecration
to Our 2 Hearts.
I am the Queen of Peace.
The Father sent me —
3) Mary: Now I appear Our Lady of Clearwater,
Our Lady of Fatima in the Americas
to help the Church and the world in
spreading this consecration.
4) Mary: What you do not know is the Father
sent me with this plan for world
peace and love, entrusting the peace
of the world to me, Mary, your Mother.
5) Mary: You live your lives in the Pascal Mystery
of death/resurrection —
You must die to your ways of discord
if you are to do the mission of God the Father
to help bring about oneness, unity,
love, harmony. This accord is
in the hearts of those we called
to live in selflessness, doing their
work as God the Father wants in harmony,
following structure, living in
absolute trust —
trusting in God —
Men can be used by satan who
spreads discord through them —
to tear down the Plan of the Father
for peace and unity — God has told you what
to do — Men are pressed on by satan
to prove they are right and for their own
vain glory.
6) Mary: Resurrection — Jesus came forth with
glorified wounds — to renew the Church
and the world — your wounds are healed,
you stay rooted in the truth, never
veering from this. You do not reduce
God's work to working out your
unfinished, emotional business.
7) Mary: When a man sees through the eyes
of God — he is seeing the big
picture —
satan gets a man full of discord —
angry - envious - jealous - hateful
he works against the Father's Plan
for the devil — he is combattal,
he delays necessary work — he presses
on others for emotional control —
need I say more
I cry for the ones wanting to correct
things and dealing with someone
who sees everything their own way.
8) Jesus: A man had 2 sons —
The one squandered his treasure and
returned in rags —
Who can argue with God —
God makes His plan clear —
others act in desolation while the devil
counsels them —
If a spiritual director tells them
how the devil is working — the devil
presses on their pride and they block
any attempts to unveil the workings
of satan —
A spiritual director is the devil's
enemy — The devil will use every weakness
in an individual to keep the control
by appealing to their wounds, jealousies
pride, envy, lust, anger, pride —
A person working for the devil goes from
bad to worse, he becomes more
proficient working in darkness against
a clear plan for promoting God's
work — his venom is to prove he is
right when he has in fact usurped
authority and cut himself off from
the vine —
9) Jesus: A person in desolation is counseled
by the devil as is
a person in consolation counseled
by an angel of light.
10) Jesus: Seeking dominance for dominance
sake — stepping on the head of
authority — giving power to
the ones underneath and making
the structure like a house
with termites for they have
stole the power, done all they could
to weaken authority and empowered
those under over the authority — the
structure is upside down — the
second in command in charge and
all step on the head.
I was crucified for the sins of such men —
who their life-long hurt others
because they are angry and are wounded
severely. In an attempt to endure their
horrific situation they project their
wounded scenarios on others and begin the
play of abuse — working and working
in a cycle that becomes sicker every
day.
Satan aggressive -- advances -- becomes
darker, darker, darker — I am Light —
My ways are truth, harmony, peace,
love, joy, selflessness and serving
God for His honor and glory building
the Kingdom of God — promoting
unity in community, family, wherever
they are involved. They are "other"
people — seeing the vision of the Father —
promoting life, love and peace — where
as wounded other progresses to selfish
darkness.
Ascension
1) R. Jesus took the disciples out to a
town near Bethany and ascended into
heaven.
2) Jesus: Why do you give into satan when the
Victory has been won. I died for
your sins.
What happens if a man is so caught
up in satan's lyre that because
of pride, and 'saving face' — he never
looks at himself — he sees the faults
of others — he sees himself 'superior',
'without error' he says — he is 'invincible',
he thinks — aggressively moving ahead
in pride, punishing others for his
heart of stone.
3) Jesus: I rose and My wounds were glorified —
I remain in the Eucharist —
I give you Myself to eat —
You eat My Body
You drink My Blood
You become one in Me —
To the man who is stuck in pride
and male dominance he sees only
his perfection — he must guard
his face with lies and deception —
because in fact he is not perfect.
4) Jesus: What are you hiding from — I know
every thought you have — I am God.
5) Jesus: Satan wants power — he presses on people
in a way to appeal to their pride and wounds —
a person giving into satan will
progress more deeply from darkness to
darkness — they become blinded,
angry, seeking dominance at all
costs, upsetting structure — working
to promote confusion, disharmony,
and telling untruths which they
argue are true — the devil is deception —
he only masks truth later to turn to deception.
6) Jesus: The devil works in secret —
He doesn't want anyone to know what
he is doing.
The person used by the devil thinks deception
and secrets give him power over others
in fact — he is deceiving himself, living
a lie, arguing to protect it, guarding
the workings of satan's fallacious reasoning
in him.
His god is his power over God and
everyone else.
7) Jesus: A just man seeks God as the one in
charge and lives to serve God —
His feet are steadfast —
His path a follower
His love — selfless — lavishly spent
on others
His eyes are open on heaven, the
above — seeing the Father's Plan.
A person changing directions given from
authority
A person with another agenda at
the banquet is the
5th tire to a 4 wheel
vehicle.
8) Jesus: His god is how to be disharmonious
so he can take over and
discredit an important plan.
9) Jesus: A lady had a dinner — her husband
came in dirty shoes, throwing
dirt and clothes, debris about the
house before the guests arrived.
When she asked him to help pick up
his big mess —
He began a fight about her, ran her
down and left the mess before the
guests came —
When they came her dinner was not
as she planned —
he took the focus —
he emotionally attacked her —
and he said he was right —
then he left —
10) Jesus: This is how sneaky the devil works
on a well working plan — to get
control — to ruin and to emotionally
control the situation to make it
flop — then the devil wears a white dress —
appearing as an angel of light and
shouts — "I am so good"
What a fool a man is to be so deceived
by the evil of satan's deception —
I know all you have done to
hurt others — I was whipped
for your sins — I am God.
The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles
1) Acts 28: 16-20, 30-31
On our arrival in Rome Paul was allowed to stay in lodgings of his own with the soldier who guarded him.
After three days he called together the leading Jews. When they had assembled, he said to them, 'Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans. They examined me and would have set me free, since they found me guilty of nothing involving the death penalty; but the Jews lodged an objection, and I was forced to appeal to Caesar, though not because I had any accusation to make against my own nation. That is why I have urged you to see me and have a discussion with me, for it is on account of the hope of Israel that I wear this chain.'
He spent the whole of the two years in his own rented lodging. He welcomed all who came to visit him,
proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete fearlessness and without any hindrance from anyone.
2) Acts 2: 1-4
When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.
3)
4) R. The Apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit.
5) R. They were transformed from fear to
fearlessness.
6) R. The promptings come from the
(1) Holy Spirit
(2) the evil spirit
(3) our own thoughts —
We must discern the spirits
7) Excerpt from March 27, 2008
We are to constantly cleanse ourselves
of our sins to serve God better —
the evil spirit wants us with
troubles, fears, sadness, false
reasoning, scruplesThe good Spirit gives us courage and
strengthWe are to focus on the love of God
focus on His Divine Mysterieshave joy in our vocation
meditate on our salvation
have peace
rest in God
We are not to give into desolation.
Instead we are to focus on God — the light.
We are not to focus on the darkness, division, but
love and service of GodWe must discern where our thoughts
come from, not give into
impulses from the devil —We must have discipline and self control
Ask for help to control dark,
destructive ways,
disobedience to superiors —
changing directions
8) Excerpt from March 27, 2008
Be patient — pray in desolation —
do not act for reliefWe may be tested — must pray —
Wait for God's favors — comforts —
pray in patienceDon't give into desolation
We depend on God's grace in desolation —
pray, read the Blue BookWe must put our trust in God's power
When satan is attacking us — He wants
us to give in —
He presses down —
Why give in when being attacked
by satanA spiritual advisor can see a person
in desolation —
Satan wants the person to oppose
a spiritual direction so
he can keep them under
his mask of trying to get
them to give into him.Satan attacks the weakest place of
our human nature — his
enemy is one who can spiritually
advise usGod fills a soul with spiritual gladness.
The devil is at war for a soul filled
with God — he presses in and
in and tries to get us to get
away from this spiritual
gladness to darkness, anger,
depression, lack of love,
no productivity, crippling.
hatred, divisionGod wants us to love
God wants us to have harmony
9) Excerpt from March 27, 2008
A person who is disobedient to the
authority makes disharmony,
division with the authority —
then the devil tempts them through
pride, seeking dominance,
to deny their error, lie to themselves
and cause further disharmony through
their lie about their disobedience.Satan tempts men in their weakness
to act for dominance over
women authority rather
then obey the rules.God wants to act on our soul with His
favors if we ask Him —
God will not act
in a dark, sinful,
selfish, disobedient heart.We seek God and beg for grace and receive
Him with a humble spirit —
unless He chooses to do
something to us like He did
in St. Paul's blindness
with a special grace.The Holy Spirit acts in light and doing
good, forgiveness, harmony,
peace, obedience —the devil wants the soul to
do evil and to perish and be dark.The devil comes at first as an
angel of light (a good idea)
then he works later in his
evil ways to try to deceive
the soul and lead them to evil.In the beginning the evil one lures
through acting like it is for a good
deed — then lures the soul into
disobedience and darkness once he
can get them to give into his
crafty scheme.We MUST see the action —
beginning, middle and end —
Not get on automatic pilot and
say —"Oh a good work — lets go and
then disobey as we commit
sin and give into an evil act or
one against God's will"
10) Excerpt from March 27, 2008
We must discern our thoughts
beginning, middle and end —
All 3 must be right to be from
the Holy Spirit — but if dark
in the middle then it is from
the evil spirit.Look at our reasoning —
How we were to do something,
but the devil came said
"Oh do this good act" but
in the end we didn't do
what we were told to do or
needed to do and instead didn't
do God's will —We were lead astray by a good
deed that was not what
God wanted us to do.The good Spirit moves like water
on a sponge — the bad one
is harsh, violent, sneaky,
lying, deceptive —
Rain on a stoneSome go from bad to worse, day after
day — they keep control that
is not theirs — they won't
let go. They rationalize incorrectly
"I'm right" "I disobey authority"The devil can come looking like it is
consolation from the Holy Spirit,
and in fact it is from the angel of darkness —
the person may rationalize
"oh now I am seeing lights,
getting messages" —
just because lights are present,
the devil can lure through false signs and messages.If signs and messages have error or are
opposed to God's way, the commandments, the Word,
the Church, we know they are not from God.
We must discern messages and lights.Lights and messages are never opposed to God's ways,
the commandments, the Word, the basic teachings
of the Church (Catechism etc.)
Assumption
1) R. Mary was conceived without sin.
2) R. Mary is the Mother of our Christ-life.
3) R. Mary is the Mother of the Church.
4) R. The Holy Spirit works in the Heart
of Mary forming us more and more
in the image of God.
5) The Holy Spirit
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
6) Jesus Has Come To Give Us Life
Jesus: "This is the day celebrating My Resurrection (Easter). The day of newness of life. I am Lord and Master. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Tell My people to come to Me if they wish to experience life in abundance. I want to give all an ever greater share in the life of My Resurrection. Without Me you cannot be happy, nor have peace, nor have real joy. Tell My people to surrender to Me more and more. The more they do so, the more they will experience My love, wisdom, power, peace, joy, happiness, mercy, and goodness. Within My Heart My people will find these riches. I am Lord and Master! Please listen to My words."
Reflection: Through His life, death, and resurrection, Jesus has come to give us life, and to give us this life in abundance.
When we were baptized, we were incorporated into Christ and His Church. When we were baptized, we received the life of sanctifying grace. This life is a created sharing in the life of the Trinity. Truly, we are called to live a God-like existence according to the teaching and example of Jesus! It is our duty and our privilege to develop our life of grace—our Christ-life—through our participation in the Mass, through the reception of the sacraments, through prayer, and through all other good works. Indeed, we are called to love God and neighbor more and more.
What a glorious life has been given to us! In a spirit of thanksgiving, and together with Mary our Mother, let us always strive to know Christ more intimately, to love Him more ardently, and to follow Him more closely, so that He will always bring us to a closer union with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
7) Revelation 12: 1-6
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.
8) Sing: Immaculate Mary
9) 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.
10)
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
The Coronation
1) Sing: Hail Holy Queen
2) From the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Queen of angels,
Queen of patriarchs,
Queen of prophets,
Queen of apostles,
Queen of martyrs,
Queen of confessors,
Queen of virgins,
Queen of all saints,
Queen conceived without original sin,
Queen assumed into heaven,
Queen of the most holy rosary,
Queen of families,
Queen of peace,
3)
4) R. Mary is all pure.
5) Mary Our Mother
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to come to My Mother. From the cross, as I was suffering indescribable agony, I gave Mary as spiritual Mother to the world. My great love for My people prompted Me to do this. I am Lord and Master, and I want My people to come to My Mother and their Mother. If you wish to be close to Me, come to Mary. Consecrate yourselves to her. In this way you will grow into the closest union with Me. Through her Immaculate Heart, you will be drawn more and more into My own Heart. It is My desire that you allow My Mother to place you within My Heart which loves you with an unfathomable love! This is My wish—that you come to Me enfolded by Mary's mantle, cradled in her arms, pressed against her Heart."
Reflection: It is God's will that we approach Jesus in union with Mary. Enough said!
end of excerpt from Tell My People
6) The Tears And Sorrows Of Mary
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have given you a great devotion to my sorrows and tears. Tell my people about this devotion. Tell them I promise great blessings to all who say seven Hail Marys each day in honor of my tears and seven sorrows. Included in my promise is that of granting special assistance at the hour of death. At this moment, all who practice this devotion will see my face."
Reflection: Listed below are the seven sorrows of Mary. Let us each day recall these sorrows as we pray the seven Hail Marys as Our Lady requests.
The prophecy of Simeon.
The Flight into Egypt.
The loss of Jesus in the Temple.
Jesus and Mary meet during the way of the cross.
Mary witnesses the crucifixion of her Son.
Jesus is taken down from the cross and laid in Mary's arms.
The burial of Jesus.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
7) Children Of Mary
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how often I have embraced you! How often I have told you how much I love you! How often, at your request, I have held you in my arms as my child. You have told me you realize how helpless you are of yourself, but how strong and secure you feel dwelling in my heart and Jesus' Heart. Your sense of your littleness and helplessness endears you to me all the more. I take you ever more securely to my maternal and Immaculate Heart. Tell all my people of the riches you have found within my heart. Tell them how I place you within my Son's Heart. Tell them that, because of my motherly action, you are now more closely united with Jesus than ever before. Tell my people to come to my heart and draw forth similar riches. Tell all my little ones that Jesus, Who is Lord and Master, bids me to lead all to His Sacred Heart. The more my little ones dwell within my Immaculate Heart, the more I place them within Jesus' Heart. Oh, how I love all my little ones! How I love to bring them to the Heart of Jesus!"
Reflection: Again, let us remind ourselves that we live in the Age of the Two Hearts. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are inseparable. The more we dwell in Mary's heart, the more she places us within Jesus' Heart. Within these Two Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions us more and more in the likeness of Christ, and the more we become like Christ, the more closely He unites us to the Father.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
8) Mary, Model And Teacher Of Love
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have led you to greatly increase your prayers and sacrifices for others. I have often reminded you of my teaching at Fatima—that many souls go to Hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. My Immaculate Heart longs that all my little ones be saved. Tell my little ones that they must love their neighbor through prayer, sacrifices, and other ways, too. All should learn from me. My Heart is symbol, not only of my great love for God, but also of my tender love for all my little ones. Imitate my love for God and all my children. If you love Jesus and me, this means you also love all of God's children. Jesus died for all. You cannot exclude anyone from your love.
"My Heart is the perfect imitator of the Heart of my Son. I will teach you how to love the Father and all mankind after the example of Jesus. All my little ones, I long for you to come to my Heart so I can teach you the ways of love! I love you so much! Come to my Immaculate Heart. Pressed against my Heart, I will hold you in my arms. I will clothe you with my motherly and protective mantle. As I hold you close to my Heart, I will teach you the ways of love!"
Reflection: In the above message, our dear mother tenderly reminds us that the following of Jesus is summed up in love of God and neighbor.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
9) Mary As Our Mediatrix
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have given you a profound conviction of how necessary it is to realize I am your motherly mediatrix with Jesus. I have been appointed by the Triune God. Constantly remind all my little ones of this great truth! The more my little ones give themselves to my maternal and Immaculate Heart, the more I bring them to the Heart of Jesus!"
Reflection: Some mistakenly think that Mary "gets in the way" of their relationship with Jesus. How far from the truth is this erroneous attitude. Mary's role in our salvation has been willed by God. Enough said!
end of excerpt from Tell My People
10) Mother Of Our Christian Virtues
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I wish all my children to come to my Immaculate Heart each day. I cooperate with the Holy Spirit in helping all my little ones to grow in the life of the Christian virtues. As my children dwell within my maternal Heart, the Holy Spirit leads them along the path of the virtues. Faith, hope, love, prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance, humility, chastity, and the other virtues take deeper root in the hearts of my children. Above all, the queen of the virtues, love, increasingly rules the lives of my little ones.
"I am ever at the side of my children to help them grow in the life of the virtues. As I do so, I place them more deeply within the Heart of Jesus, the source of growth in all the virtues. The Holy Spirit, then, desires that my children dwell both within my Heart and Jesus' Heart. Within Our Hearts He clothes you with growth in the life of the virtues. The more you dwell in my Heart, the more ready you are for my placing you deeply within the Heart of Jesus where the Holy Spirit clothes you more and more with the splendor of all the virtues. Thus you grow in the likeness of Christ, and Jesus unites you more closely to the Father."
Reflection: Since Mary is our spiritual Mother, she has a special God-given role in helping us grow in the life of the Christian virtues. As she tenderly and lovingly leads us in the life of the virtues, she is our great model in how to follow Christ. She lived the Christian virtues perfectly. She is so eager to help us increasingly put on Christ through a more dynamic living of the Christian virtues, especially the virtue of love.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
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