May 16, 1998 - Prayer to the Father

My Father,

        With my whole heart I desire to consecrate the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole being for the salvation of souls and that man live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that we may be one in You and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede to You for this cause.

        It is this burning desire within my soul to spread the consecration to the far ends of the earth, that the cries of Your children are cries of glory and honor and adoration, praising God as their God.

        My Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the edge of death. For all eternity they will go to a place. It is not the plot of this soul as it trods this barren land to decide on the edge of death. You created us that we would grow in our oneness with God, that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness to God.

        And so My Father, I pray with every cell in my body for this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I consecrate all the souls of this earth to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of the Mass with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory.

        I beg You Father for mercy.
        I beg You Father for assistance.
        I beg You Father to help us to spread this consecration to the far ends of the earth.

        Please help us. We are helpless little ones coming in the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our wounds and our sins.

        Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite in this sacrifice, sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world at every moment. Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of men.

        Please my Father, help us. Held in the heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of Eve to beg for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by the means of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us whole, that we are one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit united with all the angels and saints, in the heart of Mary. We beg for help for special intentions concerning the Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to give these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help us Father to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be one in You that we act as intercessors to help this world to be turned to God as their God, loving, honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is truly present on His throne.

        We are Your children Father, we implore You to answer our prayer.
        We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank you and we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name. Alleluia

end of prayer to the Father

R. Being a Father is a tremendous responsibility and a great gift.

What a gift, that God gives us a little baby to raise and bring up in this world.

Life goes by very fast
and every day is a new day to enjoy.

God has called us to this great vocation to be more and more as the Heavenly Father wants us to be as parents, mothers and fathers.

In parenting there is responsibility and there is love.
God teaches us about being loving by allowing us to come from mothers and fathers and to
be mothers and fathers.

We must learn to live in the moment and enjoy the time we have all along.

Live in the moment. Parents to
be ready to do the work of parenting God wants to do in us.

Parents were entrusted by God to be parents and we are not perfect.

 

R. We came from imperfect parents –
the world has imperfections –
we have to not be prideful, but loving and obedient to God's will, admit our mistakes, say we are sorry, forgive one another and grow.

We are servants of God the Father who is the Creator.
Parents are given the gift to be part of bringing the child into the world.

We see the faults of Adam and Eve who were given so many precious gifts.

We must be docile and thankful and focus on our love of God first and love of others in the children, in the family, in the society, in the Church, all that God calls us to.

Children cannot drive without a license and under age.
There are rules to protect everybody.

Children were given by God to parents to care for and to help to grow so they can live as adults someday.

Children are children and they need to learn, but many parents need to learn to be better parents
and with God at the wheel they can be better parents as God wants them to be.

We see the scripture of the prodigal son and we know that we are to see the love the Father has for the son
even after he squandered his inheritance.

We see the love of Saint Joseph for Jesus and Mary.

We see the love of Jacob for his son Joseph.

We see the Holy Family.
and
Marriage is a sacrament.
Marriage is so important to God.

The world is propagated strongly in marriages.

What a gift God gives us all.
We were born from a mother and we had a father that contributed.

There can be so much stress between mothers and fathers.
Tension can be between brothers and sisters.
People can blame anger on parents their whole life.

Let us see the gift God gives us.
God gives us our life.
God brings us into the world with a mother and father.
God created us in His image and likeness.

Wouldn't it be so important to thank Him and live in gratitude instead of fear, anxiety and pain, competition etc.

Parents can become parents, grandparents, great-grandparents.

The first sound of grandma and grandpa may sound funny to the grandpa and grandma, but what joy that can be to watch the babies grow, get teeth, crawl, talk, dance, put life together in the mind of a 2 year old or a three year old.

Watch our grandchildren grow in faith and get the sacraments.

Jesus and Mary give us this program to pray for our families.
Mary gives us the rosary.
Jesus gives us the priest and the Church.

What a gift God gives us.

We should enjoy the moment as it comes.

We need to forgive our parents - not carry anger life long and punish others.

Song: Live This Day

Song: Why Do We Hurt the Ones We Love

 

From a Lenten Homily, March 24, 2000

Live in the Moment

    Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.

end of Father Carter's homily

 

Jesus: Life goes by on this earth really fast
 

enjoy it.

 

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-11

There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven: 

A time for giving birth, 
a time for dying; 
a time for planting, 
a time for uprooting what has been planted. 
A time for killing, 
a time for healing; 
a time for knocking down, 
a time for building. 
A time for tears, 
a time for laughter; 
a time for mourning, 
a time for dancing. 
A time for throwing stones away, 
a time for gathering them; 
a time for embracing, 
a time to refrain from embracing. 
A time for searching, 
a time for losing; 
a time for keeping, 
a time for discarding. 
A time for tearing, 
a time for sewing; 
a time for keeping silent, 
a time for speaking. 
A time for loving, 
a time for hating; 
a time for war, 
a time for peace. 

    What do people gain from the efforts they make? I contemplate the task that God gives humanity to labour at. All that he does is apt for its time; but although he has given us an awareness of the passage of time, we can grasp neither the beginning nor the end of what God does.

   

R. Little girls and boys grow up.

 

 

Song: Little Child

 
 

Galatians 2: 19-20

...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.

 

Genesis 22: 15-18

The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from heaven. "I swear by my own self, Yahweh declares, that because you have done this, because you have not refused me your own beloved son, I will shower blessings on you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies. All nations on earth will bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed my command.

 

R. We see the genealogy in the scriptures, Joseph came from the House of David.

 

 

R. Mary addresses us as her children!!!

 

 

R. Jesus came in a Family to teach us.
Jesus teaches us about His Heavenly Father.

 

John 17: 20-23

I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
   and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
   you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
   that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

 

R. Think of this scripture.
 

Luke 2: 48-50

They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, ‘My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.’ He replied, ‘Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ But they did not understand what he meant.

 
 

 

                R. We pray for the priests

                    the Church and the

                    world

                    8 days a month –

                    2 hours beginning at 6:20 every day –

                Happy Father's Day to all our

                    priests

                We need to pray for our

                    priests               

                R. Fathers are so important to the
                    Church

                Fathers are so important to
                    the family

                R. Thank You God for Father

                Song: A Priest is a Gift from God
 

John Chapter 17

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:

Father, the hour has come:
glorify your Son
so that your Son may glorify you;
so that, just as you have given him
   power over all humanity,
he may give eternal life
   to all those you have entrusted to him.
And eternal life is this:
to know you,
the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I have glorified you on earth
by finishing the work
that you gave me to do.
Now, Father, glorify me
with that glory I had with you
before ever the world existed.
I have revealed your name
to those whom you took from the world
   to give me.
They were yours
   and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.
Now at last they have recognised
that all you have given me
   comes from you
for I have given them
the teaching you gave to me,
and they have indeed accepted it
and know for certain
   that I came from you,
and have believed
   that it was you who sent me.
It is for them that I pray.
I am not praying for the world
but for those you have given me,
because they belong to you.
All I have is yours
and all you have is mine,
and in them I am glorified.
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you.
Holy Father,
keep those you have given me
   true to your name,
so that they may be one like us.
While I was with them,
I kept those you had given me
   true to your name.
I have watched over them
   and not one is lost
except one who was destined to be lost,
and this was to fulfil the scriptures.
But now I am coming to you
and I say these things in the world
to share my joy with them to the full.
I passed your word on to them,
and the world hated them,
because they belong to the world
no more than I belong to the world.
I am not asking you
   to remove them from the world,
but to protect them from the Evil One.
They do not belong to the world
any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth;
your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world,
I have sent them into the world,
and for their sake I consecrate myself
so that they too
   may be consecrated in truth.
I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
   and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
   you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
   that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

Father,
I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see my glory
which you have given me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
Father, Upright One,
the world has not known you,
but I have known you,
and these have known
that you have sent me.
I have made your name known to them
and will continue to make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me
   may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
June 15, 2008

HOMILY – Here are a few things you will never hear fathers say:

1) Well, what do you know, I’m lost. It looks like I’ll have to stop and ask for directions.
2) Here’s a credit card and the keys to my new car – go crazy!
3) Your mother and I are going away for the weekend– it would be a good opportunity for you to have a party.
4) No son of mine is going to live under my roof without an earring – now quit complaining about it and lets go to the mall to get one.
5) Why do you want to go and get a job this summer? I make plenty of money for you to spend.
6) Father’s Day? Aahh – don’t worry about that – it’s no big deal!

Happy Father’s Day to all who nurture and guide others to success in this life and into the next. Jesus’ father-like love for us is demonstrated in today’s gospel. He had pity for the crowds. The Greek word here for “pity” is a mouthful: It’s the word that gives us the English word: spleen. It means Jesus was emotionally moved in the depths of his being. The people had no leadership. They were suffering. They were like sheep without a shepherd. Here was the One who could give them direction and healing. But he needed help. Too many people were in need. So he chose twelve among his followers who would work closely with him, bringing encouragement to the hopeless, freedom to those whose lives were controlled by evil, healing to those broken down by disease. All they needed was to open their hearts and minds in faith to the message of Jesus.

Jesus is the real healer, the only savior, our source of hope and life and holiness. When the gospel tells us he gave authority to the twelve, it was the authority to act in his name and by his power. Whenever one who has been delegated is acting in his name, it is really Jesus who is present and is at work. I say this all the time whenever I do a baptism. I don’t have power personally to give divine life to an infant. I have the authority to do so because it was given to me, but it is Christ in whose name I serve. It is Christ who is really doing it. I always illustrate this with the gospel of Jesus healing a blind man by putting mud on the man’s eyes. The mud brought healing because of the action of Jesus and the faith of the man who was blind. When I baptize, I tell people I’m kind of like the mud. Jesus is just using me to do what he wants to do: bring light and life to the one being baptized. St. Augustine illustrated this idea in a dramatic way by saying it wouldn’t matter if St. Peter were here doing the baptism, or St. Paul or Judas; it is Christ who is baptizing.

This principal that the sacraments are the actions of Christ carries through all the sacraments. It is Christ who forgives sins in the sacrament of reconciliation speaking through the words of the priest; it is Christ who is the great high priest offering acceptable sacrifice to the Father at Mass. That’s one of the things that makes the Mass so special. It’s not just our private prayer. It is our sacrifice of thanksgiving offered to the Father in union with Jesus’ sacrifice of himself. He is both the priest and the victim and we are blest to share in this perfect sacrifice. It is Christ who gives the Spirit in confirmation, Christ who unites a man and woman in marriage to grow in love and to share in the work of creation by bringing new life into the world. It is Christ who ordains deacons, priests and bishops to serve God’s people in his name. It is Christ who touches us with his healing love in the sacrament of the sick.

Today we hear about Jesus’ pity, his a word without a good English translation. He had deep feelings for those who suffer and that’s why he gave us the sacrament of the sick. St. Mark tells us specifically, and St. James too, that oil is to be used in this healing. Of course, God expects us to use whatever gifts he has given us to find healing: a healthy diet, exercise, a good doctor, etc. Prayer is one of those gifts and should be used in combination with whatever resources we have and should not just be a last resort. “I guess all we can do is pray.” It may be a last resort, but it should be a first resort too. I anoint practically everyone I visit in the hospital. I believe in the power of this sacrament. The primary purpose of the sacrament is for sickness and only secondarily does it prepare a person for death. I thought that today’s gospel would be a good lead into the sacrament of the sick which I will offer after Mass today. Let’s pray it will bring healing to those who seek it.