Given May 10, 2015 - Mother's Day 
 

November 4, 2013

                Man's Goal Eternal Happiness in Heaven and Free Will and Prudence

                R. Our goal must be eternal happiness
                in heaven – to have the beatific vision of
                God –

                    If things draw our hearts from God –
                then our lives are lived farther and
                farther from the goal of our Heavenly Father –
                eternal happiness in heaven.

                    Our hearts and minds are to be so
                focused on God – one with God and
                it is that satan attacks the minds,
                of men to listen to his temptations.

                    God elevates our knowing and loving
                capacity in baptism – In knowing God
                and His love for us our minds must
                be guarded against attacks by satan
                to try to take this great gift – our
                mind from anything but what would
                lead us to our goal of knowing God
                more and more and seeing God face to face
                in eternity.

                God has elevated our loving capacity in baptism
                and He gives us the grace to love – love is a
                theological virtue. If I love God deeply it is
                because God has given me a tremendous grace
                to love Him. The word grace means gift.
                Our hearts were made for God. Our
                hearts were made for love – so God
                gives us the commandment to love –
 

                    A man who is prudent realizes that
                all actions are worthwhile only as they
                ultimately serve the will of our Heavenly Father,
                are done in love and ultimately lead us
                to our goal of everlasting happiness
                with God.
     

                R. If we are not prudent in our
                    actions it leads to great
                    unhappiness.

                Man was created by God and with
                    a craving that can ultimately be
                    satisfied only by God.

                A man can give into desires that he performs
                    without right reason –
                    A man's desires need to be controlled
                        by right reason –
                    A man must learn to discipline his
                        actions – or satan can tempt
                        him with fear with anger, with
                        jealousy, with pride, with envy and
                        an undisciplined man can develop
                        vices of these deadly sins that
                        take him from his goal which
                        is God.

                A man can be questioned why did you
                    deceive people with shrieking
                    your responsibility over and over
                    again of a certain job or task,
                    paying bills and a person can give
                    no reason but – oh I didn't know –

                And they may have hidden the evidence
                    which could point to unveiling
                    evil wanting to punish others for
                    attention, abuse etc. –

                Happiness is achieved by living according
                    to God's will in love –

                Lies, deception against those above a
                    person, confusion, leaves the
                    man performing evil imprisoned
                    in his own destructive desires –
                    it can be for power, control,
                    aggravation, all mounting to anger –
                    jealousies,, pride, envy etc. –

                A man who is prudent uses his
                    actions for pleasing God –

                When questioning a person who keeps
                    using human actions to punish,
                    trick, abuse, deceive others –
                    the question cannot be answered
                    "why did you do it, for it
                        is not rooted in right reasoning"

                The prudent man is happy with his
                    actions because his actions
                    are leading him to God and
                    eternal happiness – FOREVER.

                God gives us freedom to choose how
                    we will act.
                    A person continually loving their
                    brothers and giving others their
                    due – does so from choosing
                    right. Their actions are
                    given to love and serve God, ultimately
                    if they focus on God and His will for them
                    and they operate in love if God is
                    their ultimate purpose.

                Man must be in control of his actions.
                    We are to discipline ourselves and
                    not be led by the passions of
                    anger, the fire of jealousy, the
                    desire to hurt our neighbor because
                    of emotions we give into of envy.

                A prideful man seeks dominance for
                    dominance sake –
                    probably not seeing himself as so
                    special to God or even seeing
                    his role in the Plan of the Heavenly
                    Father – his self concept is very
                    weak and he sees his fellow
                    men succeeding and loving others
                    as a threat to his looking good –
                    The envious man wants to bring
                    the just man down and show him
                    weak – envy is a deadly sin.

                Man has a free will to pray to God for an
                    increase of the virtues of faith,
                    hope and love.
                    Faith helps us believe more and more in
                        God.
                    Faith helps us see through the eyes
                        of God, His plan for eternal
                        salvation for men.
                    A man of hope is one who has before
                        him the goal of eternal happiness
                        and the beatific vision forever in heaven –

                His love for his brothers makes him
                    have hope in his heart for
                    men to attain eternal salvation.
                    Mary appearing and telling me of
                    souls going to hell makes me
                    cry –
                    So I pray the way God has taught
                        us in Shepherds of Christ for
                        the Church and the world –

                Love is a theological virtue.

                God is love.
   

1 John 4: 7-10

My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins.

John 14: 24

Anyone who does not love me does not keep my words.
And the word that you hear is not my own:
it is the word of the Father who sent me.

                R. God has given us the Word to teach us.

                When a man loves he has joy.

                In God all things are possible.

                God intends us to choose to
                    love and serve Him –

                In these times men can become confused
                    because of attacks on authority
                    that once made us feel secure.

                In this scripture Jesus tells us
                    "I have told you this so that my joy
                        may be in you and your
                        joy may be complete."

                Then He says
                    "This is my commandment love one
                        another as I have loved you."

                Then Jesus calls us friends
                Then Jesus tells us He chose us
                Then Jesus tells us we are to bear fruit!

                And then Jesus tells us to ask the
                    Father in His name and He will
                    give to us.

                WOW –

                Pretty clear isn't it –

                Last week Jesus said

                    "I am the vine and you are the branches'

                Jesus calls us to intimate love –
                    but we must be rooted in Him (in the vine)

                A man disconnected to the vine is
                    like a branch disconnected
                    to the vine
                    "He withers and dies"

                We see in the first reading how even
                    though Peter was Jewish –
                    the vision he had instructed
                    him how to deal with the
                    new Gentile converts –

                Peter did it God's way and so
                    many Gentiles were converted –
                    Peter didn't have a
                    plan opposed to God from
                    his own desire to hold on to his
                    ways of Jewish tradition –

                Peter opened the door to the Gentiles as
                    he was instructed by God to do.

Acts 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48

                R. What good does it do us to hold onto
                    our static ways when God
                    tells us to open our hearts
                    to His Plan –

                Don't you wonder why a man holds
                    onto desires that come from
                    an unbridled desire that
                    makes no sense in right reason –
                    when God is so good to us –

                We are being tested in fire by God –
                    We have a free will –
                    A man can say in opposition to
                        God's will "I do what I want –
                                When I want
                                How I want"

                It's interesting to me how some hold
                    onto unforgiveness of people
                    who abused or hurt them,
                but take no responsibility or accountability
                    for all the fallen soldiers
                    they took out in the battle
                    to hurt others for no reason
                    but they were angry or
                    jealous or prideful or
                    envious –

                Man must learn to use his freedom to
                    serve God –
                    our eternal life depends on
                        how we choose, with our
                        free will, to obey the commandments,
                        obey God's will
 

Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997

Scriptural Reflections

In all this Mary offers an example. Selfishness was totally foreign to her. She did not belong to herself. She belonged to God. She was not closed in upon herself. She was completely open to God. When God spoke, she listened. When God pointed the way, she followed. She realized that life is not a process a person masters by carefully mapping out one's own self-conceived plans of conquest, but a mystery to be gradually experienced by being open to God's personal and loving guidance.

Selfishness, then, did not close Mary off from God's call. Neither did fear. God asked her to assume a tremendous responsibility. He asked her to be the Mother of Jesus. Mary did not engage in a process of false humility and say that such a great role was above her. She did not say that she did not have the proper qualifications for this awesome mission. Briefly, she did not waste time looking at herself, making pleas that she was not worthy, telling the angel he had better go look for someone else. No, Mary did not look at herself. Her gaze was absorbed in God. She fully realized that whatever God asked of her, His grace would accomplish. She fully realized that although she herself had to cooperate, this work was much more God's than hers.

Mary's words, then, truly sum up what is the authentic Christian response at any point of life, in any kind of situation: "I am the handmaid of the Lord," said Mary, "let what you have said be done to me".

                R. Man is in control over his own acts –

                Man has a free will –

                We have a lifetime to choose to
                    love and serve God –

                We have a lifetime of free
                    choices –

                The devil is the great opposer –

                The devil wants the person to
                    block God's will for them –

                God gave us a free will to choose
                    His will or reject His will
                    and serve satan.

                The devil wants a person enslaved
                    to vices.

                We see the Bible story of Moses
                    and the enslavement of
                    Israelites!
 

21 Years Ago

Meditations on the Rosary

May 10, 1994

The Sorrowful Mysteries

1. The Agony in the Garden.

Jesus: My agony, I knew full well every blow, every wound, the crowning, the crucifixion. I saw My Mother’s suffering. I knew all that would happen. I sweat Blood. I suffered so much mental anguish for you, beloved one, for you. I said, "yes" to all I knew would follow, "yes" for you, knowing how you one day would love Me too! Oh, how I love you. Will you say "yes" to the suffering I send to you? Will you say "yes" to loving My beloved ones? Say, "YES" to Me today. I loved you so!

2. The Scourging at the Pillar

Mary: I am the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I love you with my tender Heart. I heard the blows they gave my Son. I scarce could look up. I heard the blows, the awful blows. My Son stood in silence while they beat Him.

Jesus: All the whipping, all the brutality, the blows covered My entire Body. I bled profusely. I stood in My own Blood. These were My beloved ones who beat Me. They tore My flesh until it hung from My Body and they laughed at their handiwork.

Do your brothers persecute you and say mean things to you? Do as I did, respond with love. Pray for their conversion. Live to help them get to heaven.

3. The Crowning with Thorns

Jesus: Think of someone you love very deeply yelling awful accusations at you. How, how it wounds your heart. My child! I sat there while they crowned Me with thorns and hollered awful accusations at Me. They were My beloved ones. Yet they stood there spitting at Me and hollering awful things at Me. Those who I dearly loved mocked Me and insulted Me and hurled their ugly hatred and lies at Me. I accepted all they did with a bleeding Heart and forgave them and loved them still.

Oh, you do not know suffering. This world is wounding My aching Heart. People are indifferent and hateful. They mistreat one another and are proud of their actions. Pray for your beloved persecutors. Don’t hate them. Act as I did toward those who tore My flesh and mocked Me. They were so engulfed in darkness. They did not know what they were doing.

All that matters is how you love Me and one another. Love those who hate you. My way is a hard way. You pick up your cross. When they hurt you and holler at you, look to heaven and praise the Lord for the trial. It is in suffering you are drawn closer to My precious Heart. I shed My Blood for you. I suffered for you. Will you not suffer when I ask you to?

4. The Carrying of the Cross

Mary: I scarce could stand to walk the way with Him! I was so sick at what they had done, but I wanted to be with my Son. I walked by the grace of God.

Jesus: My suffering was intensified by the sorrow and suffering of My Mother. My eyes met hers and I saw her red, teary face. All they did to Me, but to watch My beloved Mother suffer! She heard the cross as it thumped up the hill. The sounds were so loud and at the sight she had to look away.

Stand by Me and walk this road to Calvary. Listen and see My beaten Body. Hear the jeers of the crowd. Hear the thumping of the cross. Listen when it falls hard on Me and I can scarce go on any more. Walk with Me and be there. Then, think of your little crosses I ask you to carry. Do not put them down. Accept them for Me. It is in your crosses you are drawn closer to Me. I endured all this suffering for deep and ardent love of you and I would do it today for you alone.

5. The Crucifixion

Mary (May 25, 1994): As tenderly as I beheld my beautiful Son in my arms with such love, I watched His death on the cross with such anguish. My Heart was torn apart by the sight of Him hanging in such pain. I scarce could stand. I was held up by my beloved John. Joy and pain, the pain to behold Him and His suffering and the joy to know your salvation was won through His Blood.

Such lamenting. I could not cry deep enough for the anguish I felt. His Blood was spent. His life was given. He did this, my child, for love of you. I am your Mother. I love you, my precious ones. I love you as I love my beautiful Son, Jesus.

I am Mary, your beloved Mother. Call to me. I know your sufferings. I will comfort you. I suffered for love of you. You are so precious to us. Live in the love of my Son. He is with you this day in the Eucharist. I am Mary, your Mother. Thank you for responding to my call.

Jesus: The crucifixion. How do I tell you that I died for you? Do you even know I would do it today, just for you? They nailed My beautiful hands and feet to the cross. Big gigantic nails they pounded into My precious hands. Such hard hearts. They pounded the nails through My feet. Blood squirted out and they continued. Such hardness of hearts. Look at your hands, My child. Would you allow someone to nail them to a cross? Would you withstand this torture for love? This is My love for you. It is the love that made Me lay down My life for you.

I call you to surrender. Open your arms as I did when I died on the cross. Let all your worldly possessions drop around you and you will experience the joy of being free, of being united to Me, of letting go and of knowing that I, God, tend to your every need. To My death on the cross I loved you, and I love you this way this very day. Let go and give it all to Me. I will care for you far better than you could for yourself. I am God and I love you more than you can love yourself.

R. Jesus is dead, hanging on the cross, arms outstretched. His feet are not even on the ground. He is hanging by nails on a piece of wood. What do we hold on to? He wants us in midair, in total surrender.

Jesus: Oh, little ones, how you squander your possessions. How you hold on to people. How you won’t let go. See Me in total surrender. I gave My very life for you. What do you hold on to, My little ones? Little bits and pieces you give to Me and you hold tight to your lives. All will go up in smoke and only the things of God will remain. Not one pair of shoes do you take with you. Only your love, given to God and to others!

(end of rosary meditations)

                May 11, 2015

                R. Relationship with God

                    Total Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus –

                    We repent of our sins –

                    We seek healing of the family tree –

                    We want forgiveness for our sins –

                    We want to give forgiveness to others –

                    We turn to Jesus –

                    We want to improve our relationship
                        with Jesus –

                    Must beg for forgiveness –
                        genuinely want it with all our heart –

                    Love is relationship

                    Love is unity

                    Love is caring for the other

                    Jesus loved us to His death on the
                        cross –

                    We pray for healing for our children,
                        relatives –

                    Release us from stubbornness in
                        our families –

Holy Spirit Novena

Daily Novena Prayers

                Sing: Veni Sanctus Spiritus

                Sing: He Has Anointed Me

                Pray for our relatives where there
                    was baptism, but no
                    funeral Mass

                Repentance from unforgiveness in
                    the family tree –

1 Corinthians 6: 15-16

Do you not realise that your bodies are members of Christ’s body; do you think one can take parts of Christ’s body and join them to the body of a prostitute? Out of the question! Or do you not realise that anyone who attaches himself to a prostitute is one body with her, since the two, as it is said, become one flesh.

                R. We pray united to the Mass
                    for healing of our family tree –

                Jesus shed His Blood on Calvary
                    for sins in our family tree –
                    secrets –

Sirach 44: 10-12

But here is a list of illustrious men 
    whose good works have not been forgotten. 
In their descendants they find 
    a rich inheritance, their posterity. 
Their descendants stand by the commandments 
    and, thanks to them, so do their children’s children. 

                R. We are your children, Heavenly Father,
                    in need of healing and great help –

                R. Mary help heal us

                All angels and saints help us to heal.