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June 13, 2003

Messenger:         I want to write with such depth and insight into the
                                Divine Mysteries, but I feel the knowledge I know
                                is hidden deep within my soul in the deep oneness
                                I have with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary.

                                There were so many images of saints and angels and
                            Jesus and Mary at the trade show in Chicago we
                            attended, but I was told by Jesus, He wanted us there
                            to tell the Catholic stores that Mary appears on the
                             building in Florida - now - today click our web
                            site and see her as she appears at this moment
                            www.sofc.org. This is a gift to all of us and a real
                            calling from Jesus to be more pure like her in our
                            own hearts.

                                Mary is pure, Mary is our model, sometimes we
                            overlook our own sinfulness entirely and focus
                            on our brothers and what is wrong with them.

                                Our mission is given by God to lead to this great
                            Reign of peace promised by Our Lady at Fatima
                            and peace begins in our own hearts.

                                Those who think they don't need anyone else
                            can be deeply misled.

                                I think God is sending signs all over the
                            earth of His mercy and His love, but He is
                            allowing men to do their evil deeds because of
                            their free wills and those evil deeds cause
                            many, trouble, pain, hardship that some of us in
                            wealthy America do not ever taste.

                                Holiness consists in this, being filled with God's grace,
                            loving God deeply in our hearts, making God our
                            Master, being humble and walking hand in hand
                            with our brothers. If we don't act like Christ,
                            how can we call ourselves Christians? God is
                            love and if we are unloving, especially to those
                            closest to us, how can we be a model like Jesus.

                                Sometimes people smile and act so nice to
                            everyone else and those God has given to them to
                            work with they fight for control, suppress
                            them, argue and really act unloving.

                                Love is not words we speak about, love is
                            in us, that desire to be likened to Christ. Letting
                            go of His desires, for us — to please others — isn't
                            love at all. Love is doing many difficult things
                            to stand for the truth and promote His Kingdom,
                            love is loving our brothers in a community, not
                            being "pushy" and thinking we are better than
                            others.

                                Love means thanking God every moment for the gifts
                            He gives us. Not giving into the negative habits
                            of thinking always the worst will happen.

                            Love is being a light to the people.
                            Love is modeling ourselves after Mary.
                            Love is being like little children,
                                a little baby in the arms of Mary.

Matthew 11: 25-27

The good news revealed to the simple
The Father and the Son

At that time Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Excerpt from Tell My People

Spiritual Childhood

Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how I love to enfold you in my arms as my little child! Enfolded in my arms in my maternal embrace, I press you against my Immaculate Heart. I draw you within my Heart. There, through my maternal intercession, I clothe you with Jesus' graces. As you dwell in my Heart, I place you ever more deeply within Jesus' Heart and there the Holy Spirit fashions you increasingly in the image of my Son. As you grow in the likeness of Jesus, He takes you ever closer to the Father.

"Thus, as you grow in the sense of your helplessness without God, the stronger you become in Jesus. Childlike thus becomes strength. The smaller you become in living out spiritual childhood, the taller you stand beside Jesus. Weakness becomes strength, your sense of helplessness becomes spiritual maturity!

"Tell all my children about the wonders of spiritual childhood! Tell them to come to me and I will school them in its ways. How I love all my children! Oh, how I love to exercise my motherhood toward them all!"

end of excerpt from Tell My People

Messenger:         This is not saying we are to ignore big problems in
                                the family or community or workplace or parish,
                                it is to say: we speak the truth — We pray to
                                the Holy Spirit to know the truth and we thank
                                the Father all day looking for the "little miracles"
                                He gives in our lives — instead of giving into the
                                negative thinking of doom and gloom.

                            Oh Lights of Heaven shine on me.
                            Oh Holy Spirit fill me with wisdom and with love.
                            Oh God help us.
                            Please God let us be so one with You to be
                                Mystically married and deeply love You
                                as we serve You to promote Your Kingdom.

Jesus speaks:     The devil tempts many to be jealous.

                                A young woman had an important job for
                            the King and Master. She saw other servants going
                            with each other to serve the King.
                            She became jealous, because she had
                            to stay home. One day the Master told
                            her about the journey of the other
                            two servants — they suffered much to
                            accomplish the journey, weather ailments,
                            creatures of unfriendly ways, loss of
                            sleep, food and the journey was hard
                            on their body and their spirits sometimes
                            felt weak, but they fought to the
                            bitter end to accomplish the task given
                            by the King.

                            At long last they returned home, having
                            accomplished a hard task for the
                            Kingdom at great sacrifice.

                            Her mind had run rampart, giving into 
                                satan, she did all she could from
                                her home-post to tear down the
                                Kingdom —

                            Why after one plants at great sacrifice,
                                does another give into satan and tears
                                down because of jealousy and selfishness.
                                If I call you to one task, why do you
                                have envy for the ones doing My will and
                                whose work was to perform a vital task?

                                Like a "stubborn pouting mule" some
                            give into satan and punish others in many
                            passive-aggressive ways because of bitterness
                            and selfish control.

                                The clock works well, when all the parts
                            work together to make the clock work with
                            precision and give the correct time.

                                If the violinist in a major symphony is
                            always competing with the first violinist —
                            there will be a sour tone to the orchestra.
                            All work together to produce a "heavenly" sound.

                                Let your life be like this. Be in the right
                            place at the right time, the place that the
                            Father will's you to be at and be a humble
                            servant — like Mary

Luke 1: 46-55

                    The Magnificat

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.

June 13, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:       Study these words and when you are tempted
                                to give into satan read the Scriptures
                                1 Corinthians 13.

1 Corinthians 13

Though I command languages both human and angelic—if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all the faith necessary to move mountains—if I am without love, I am nothing. Though I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned—if I am without love, it will do me no good whatever. 

    Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances. Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth. It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. 

    Love never comes to an end. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, they will fall silent; and if knowledge, it will be done away with. For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly; but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will be done away with. When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and see things as a child does, and think like a child; but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with all childish ways. Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face. Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known. 

    As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love.

June 13, 2003 message continues

Messenger:         Did you ever hear of St. Ignatius Spiritual
                                Exercises?

                                Think of all the sins you have committed
                                    in your life and think of how merciful
                                    God is to forgive all our sins.
                                    Huffy, little, arrogant, ways we act.

Jesus speaks:     It is what is in the heart. No one lies to Me
                                when they set a "nasty" trap for their
                                brother and then try to play an innocent
                                role like it wasn't their fault.

                            Think of a trap, a trap set for an animal
                                outside, and a man walks by
                                accidentally and his leg is caught
                                and he is injured.
                                Why would the one setting the trap
                                    try to act like it wasn't he who set
                                    the trap?
                                Why does the child lie when his mom
                                    catches him "red handed" in a
                                    cookie jar after she strongly told
                                    him "No cookies"?

                            Some set traps for others and punish them
                                emotionally and then play the innocent
                                bystander.

                            I read your hearts.
                            You must forgive, you must try to understand.
                            Do you want Me to forgive you?
                            You are all imperfect, I forgive and love you.
                            Do you think you demand perfection of your
                                brothers, but then you can act the way
                                you want and never forgive and then
                                expect Me to forgive you.

                            I want you holy, loving, living in harmony,
                                never fighting, settling differences
                                in love, praying for grace.

                            All through the day when you are tempted
                                to give into negative thinking —
                                look for the gifts your Father has
                                bestowed on you and thank Him.

                            Morning, noon and night —

                            Don't give into negative thinking, complaining.

                            It is easy to give into conversation that
                                condemns other's actions and then
                                you think — he did etc.

                            Look at the good and praise one another
                                and work to please Me.

                            If you were more joyful in Florida more
                                people would come.
                                Somebody that bosses everybody
                                    around may not get a second
                                    chance with the customers.
                                You and your snarly ways.

                                What a gift I give in Florida to the
                                    earth.

                                I give you Myself in the Eucharist.

                                Satan wants you stopped —

                                DON'T GIVE INTO HIM.

                            Today is the day to fast from being willful.
                            Today is the day to fast from negative thoughts.
                            Today is the day to build a bridge of love.
                            My Mother appears for the world and I have
                                called you to the Shepherds of Christ to tell all
                                about her image.

                            Some people are so "uppity".

                                your children are shooting up drugs and
                                    you scrutinize this vision like
                                    you are above it —

                                The neglect of the gift I give in Florida
                                    offends My Heart and you I have
                                    called as servants, please serve
                                    Me with a willing heart of love.

                            I love you so much, I came to this earth,
                                I gave My life for you,
                                Study the crucifix, 

June 13, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:      I shed My Blood for you,

                            I DIED FOR YOUR SINS.

                            I am Jesus,

                            I love you so much.

                            Feel the freedom of flying.

                            Let go of your selfish ways.

                           Everybody knows the old story how they
                                had got pushed out of the lane and turned
                                right and ran into an old friend.

                            I was pushed out of a lane reports an elderly
                                lady and had to turn right, snow and ice covered
                                the street, a car sped from behind me that thought
                                I was too slow.

                                Then the woman proceeded going so fast and
                                    with such force the snow covered
                                    the car in the opposite lane and it
                                    became buried, the ice in the street
                                    rose up and came down with a hard
                                    plop like a big flat cookie and then the
                                    snow buried the other lady.

                            The fast lady just went on and didn't pay any
                                heed to what she had done and the
                                other woman had to literally crawl out of the
                                snow buried car.

                                Is this not like how it is when some
                            people go by so fast leaving a deck of 
                            cards falling behind them, hurting others,
                            just to make it to a bridge game or some
                            such nonsense. 

                                Did you ever think the snow was to slow
                            you down and take notice how some will
                            run over — literally run over their brothers
                            and cover them with their old debris?

                                Is this being Christ-like? Where are you
                            running to? It is My world — You all work for Me.
                            In the end you will see all that hastiness and how
                            you acted. I reveal your whole life to you
                            in the batting of an eye.

                                Did you ever see all the cars that pile up, all who
                            go out the same tollgate on a packed highway. Who
                            engineered the roads I ask? They will bump each other
                            and wreck at the draw bridge. It is not clearly marked. On 
                            the other side of the doors the crowd scurried to what was
                            a big pit.

                            You are so blind and I watch you go your
                                busy ways. Some knocking down their brothers
                                like mush to get ahead, some to get to their
                                manicure.

                            I watch you and the ways you treat one another,
                                I call you to love.

                                Love God and love one another —
                                You will be judged on how you lived
                                    according to God's will in love.

                            I lift you to heights high above and you see
                                with a clarity as never before.

                                See yourself fly over the earth — the cars look
                                    like little specks.
                                    So high above all the people —
                                    Like busy little bees — some sting the
                                        others and push them out of their way.

                            and you hear the people say

                                "Who is the Queen here" —
                                "I want my way" —
                                "Move it"
                                "Beep, beep" — and then I
                                    can stop you in your tracks,
                                    an accident, a cancerous tumor

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

    Shortly before he was to die from cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.

    "But we know that spring will soon come with all its new life and wonder.

    "It is quite clear that I will not be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a different way...

    "What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."³

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Notes:

3. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.
    

end of excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

June 13, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:      Knocking your brothers down —
                                Getting your way —
                                Where are you going?

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