Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

June 18, 2016

June 19th Holy Spirit Novena
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Day 7 Period I.

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                Given June 16, 2016 

                In the Month of the Sacred Heart

                R. Dear God give me the grace to write
                for You today.

                Jesus: The world is bleeding and My
                Movement is to reach the far
                ends of the earth to help renew
                the Church and the world.

                    The life of a child is so precious,
                but think of the souls going to
                hell with the evil in the world.

                    I call out to spread My
                Movement and to do as I ask
                because you love God, you love
                souls –

                You see yourself as the Spouse
                of Jesus.

                People who call themselves by
                vocation as the Spouse of Jesus
                are to be in love with God,
                so much to love to serve
                their beloved –

                People who love someone else
                give love to the other –

                    It is far better to love than to
                hold onto anger and darkness,
                power and control.

                    I have all the Power and when
                you love, you have My Might and
                My Power behind you.

                    Satan brings false power –
                there can be a nervous energy
                that comes from one stirring the
                pot, but they are not in their
                heart. Love is kind, Love
                finds a way, Love is not
                argumentative to start a fight,
                love respects authority –
                love knows no bounds,
                love knows one's place.

                    Your life is lived to grow
                in relationship – to learn to
                give and take and work to
                bring fruit to the table –

                    Only a fool holds on to the
                darkness, stirs the pot and
                when the light tries to get through
                to build My Kingdom – they
                stomp on it –

                    Their daily dish is darkness
                and their hearts seek power
                for themselves and not light –

                    I am the way, the truth and
                the life.

                    Those who live in Me – live
                to love – walk in the light –

                R. Life is about working together in
                relationships with God we do His will so
                we don't hurt our relationship with Him
                and if we do sin, act unloving to God
                and others. We tell God we are sorry, with
                a firm purpose of turning away from that
                which caused us to sin and making
                reparation for the damage it causes –
                because hurting the Plan of God, hurting
                others in meanness and selfishness
                and not mending the fence destroys
                relationships.

                    God has made it men and women are
                to marry and if they have children they
                must work together raising the children
                for the sake of their relationship in union
                with God, for the sake of the children
                and teaching them about justice and
                fairness and rules and obedience
                and most of all in teaching them
                about love –

                    Love helps everything grow –

                    God gives us a heart and He wants us to
                grow in relationships and love. God commands
                us to love Him first and our brothers as
                ourselves. Love is kind and love works to
                resolve difficulties in an attempt to be
                fair and just and to help people to be
                able to grow, to work together in this Plan
                of God.

                    Abuse is used when a person is not loving
                and opposes God's will and uses games,
                power, whatever to act out darkness.

                    Inside of us there can be more and more
                light, the more we try to work in relationships
                with God and others. Relationships take work.
                Relationships with God comes in going to Him –
                loving Him, working with God and His plan
                for our life – Day in and day out – like a
                relationship that grows interiorly and as we
                work in love with others – seeing the beautiful
                gifts God has given us, thanking Him, depending
                on Him in great suffering, abiding by His
                rule of love when others are mean and
                try to hurt us.

                    Jesus shows us love and shows us how
                much He loves by His giving for our sins
                to His death on the cross. Jesus shows us
                His love in the Resurrection. God gives us
                a sharing in His life in baptism where we
                can know and love supernaturally –
                where He elevates our knowing and loving
                capacity. Where He gives us the gift of faith
                to see through the Father's eyes His plan
                for us, where we can believe in God
                and His ways even when we don't see Him.
                Why would anybody shun relationships with
                God when it is God's plan?

                But a person can be so settled in and they feel so
                dark inside from pushing God and others
                away – it is just a habit, it is from
                the temptation of the devil to be mean and
                to want control and to stir the pot – look
                for drama and attention and control men
                in anger and jealousy and envy and
                pride.

                    I watched a television series and there was the
                contrast of a man who loved, was a faithful
                friend and married a faithful loving wife.

                    There was a man who married the x-girl
                friend of the nice man. This man was evil –
                in secret he manipulated events - ordered others
                to cause good men mishap and even death –
                All so he could have power.

                    He had a hard jaw, was suspicious even
                of his own wife and he hated. It was
                brought out – his whole life was centered
                in meanness, tricks, evil and hate –

                    He had lots of secrets with men he used under
                him to force his dirty work and manipulate
                lives. His jealousy and hatred for the good man
                grew despite all efforts of that man and
                his wife to help people – to have peace – to
                be faithful – to be a friend –
                    the evil guy went behind the good man's
                back getting things to fail for the good guy – anybody
                that was his friend, related to him etc.

                    It the end the evil man's wife died young
                and he was left bitter, angry and he had
                nothing but his anger and his power forced on
                innocent others.

                    Some people had not money for food and
                he didn't care – he tried to have them arrested
                for doing something wrong to get food to feed
                their children, when he hurt their jobs
                through some maneuver and took their
                money and their mortgaged homes –
                he owned the bank and he wanted to rule
                EVERYBODY – make all banks go out
                of business, all places of work fail unless
                he owned and controlled everybody and they
                were under his power –

                The question is – if you raise to the top through
                    cheating and hurting others –
                    when you get there what will you do –
                    continue in power evil habits of making
                    others suffer while you just get
                    darker and darker –

                We see Our Lady of Fatima who came and
                    gave the direction about Conversion,
                    about the Two Hearts, about
                    repentance and sacrifice –
                    and she warned if we ignore her
                    we would have World War II.

                    From what I saw of the TV series no one
                could have touched that man's heart – he walked
                in deeper and deeper darkness and his
                actions gave way to greater and greater
                evil deeds. His jaw was stiff and it was
                all about his power.

                    The other man was a friend to so many
                men – always helping the ones in need
                and he had lots of friends because
                he stood for what is right –

                    When the series ended I saw how many people's
                lives suffered throughout the whole show as
                the man who was evil and walking in darkness
                carried the thread that wove disaster for so
                many as he operated in secret behind their
                backs manipulating and hating.

                    In contrast the man and his wife of goodness
                showed how they built up so many men's
                lives and families and home and communities –
                how many people were helped by him –
                how the wife lost her own baby to sickness
                because she helped a family in need that was sick.

                    The man and his wife who was a real friend
                and happy and an instrument of light was
                guided by love and what was fair and
                just and he helped people because he had
                a big heart.

                    What I saw at the end of the series is
                how many people suffered at the hand
                of one selfish man who operated his
                selfish kingdom on power and hatred and
                how destructive to so many people were
                the deeds he did in darkness and hatred.

                    We see Mary's warning at Fatima and how
                they ignored her – we see the destruction
                of 66,000,000 lives at the hand of Hitler.

                    We know through salvation history – we
                can follow Jesus, walk in the light –
                work in relationships – obey His commandments
                of love.

                    Or we can find a nitch – raise to the
                top – seek power and be run by hatred
                and watch so many lives be hurt by
                our life when God commanded us to love.

                    We should have learned a big lesson in
                World war II with Hitler. We were warned by Our
                Lady of Fatima, we were told what to do.

                    Men who seek power in an unlawful way
                stepping on people's heads, punishing others,
                using their job to make others be
                under them keep walking in greater and
                greater darkness and what happens to a
                man who walks in darkness with a
                heart of hate.

                    God is all just. God will judge us rightly.
                God has commanded us to love Him with our
                whole heart, our whole soul, our whole
                being. God commanded we love our neighbor
                as ourselves.

                    God has all the power – If we want
                to do a work for God we must obey
                authority because God works in order,
                in structure, He demands men to
                be under others and to be a leader has a
                great responsibility under Him and
                to effect others' lives as a leader we are
                to be like Christ –

                Christ died for our sins –
                Christ wants unity among men –
                Christ is love –

                We have a choice to learn how to be under
                    God's feet, to live in justice, to be
                    sorry for sins, to work with others in
                    the light building the Kingdom of God.
                    to try to make sure we are on the top –
                    we control everything –

                We make others subject to us while
                    we are unjust in what we do –

                And we can walk in pride –
                    like many men in salvation history –
                    who have now died and went
                    somewhere depending on what
                    they did here in obeying God and
                    being sorry for their sins and begging
                    for mercy –

                A man in darkness with a dark heart,
                    angry and jealous and seeking
                    power for power sake to rule
                    in hatred can hurt all he touches.

                A man in light – working on his relationship
                    with God – working in earnest with
                    others can build a kingdom of light –
                    he walks in the light –

                That is why Mary appeared in Clearwater
                    to build up the people of
                    the earth walking under Jesus –

                Who can get inside a heart a measure
                    how light or dark it is?
                    Only God.

                What does it profit a man to gain
                    the whole world and lose
                    his soul?

                God puts us in relationships with
                    others to learn to love – to work
                    in love for the building of the Kingdom
                    of God –

                How many times in the scripture it
                    speaks of hard hearts,
                    of folly,
                    of the darkness –

                The blind do not see –

                A man chooses his path and when
                    he chooses darkness – a great
                    grace may be given to get him
                    to change –
                    like St. Paul –
                    but man has a choice and when
                    he is given opportunity and grace
                    from God to make reparation
                    and change –

                He can choose his darkness and power
                    and refuse the grace given –

                We can never live the days of our
                    lives again –

                When we go to bed they are gone –

                And God will judge us on how
                    we loved and lived and
                    served Him in love –

                Heaven is for lovers –

                We have a responsibility to spread these
                    prayers giving devotion to the
                    Two Hearts of love –

                People can have all kinds of energy to
                    fight when they walk in darkness –

                To provoke others and to see them
                    fall when they want power –

 

Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. P.60-61
 

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human nature

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

window at a former Jesuit Seminary

137. FIRST PRELUDE.   This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.

138. SECOND PRELUDE.   This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.

139. THIRD PRELUDE.   This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
   

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

140. FIRST POINT.   Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.

141. SECOND POINT.   Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.

142. THIRD POINT.   Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.

   The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
   

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

143.   In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.

144. FIRST POINT.   Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.

145. SECOND POINT.   Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .
   

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

 

                R. God is light and in Him is no darkness –
                God is love.

                We have a free will – to learn to obey God
                    and walk in love and obedience
                    and getting along

                Or run our own show
                    and want men under our feet –

                When a man raises to the top by
                    darkness –
                    the darkness doesn't stop –
                    the hatred doesn't stop –
                    over a life-time how many
                        lives were torn apart by
                        men seeking power with
                        hatred in their hearts –

                God is love –

                God must rule so we have His Might
                    behind us –

                God has all the power –

                Heaven is a reward promised to
                    those who love and serve
                    the Lord.

               

 

 

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