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June 23, 2015
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June 23, 2015
R. Dear Jesus, I offer You all I do today.
Soon the dark night will pass and the light of day like a person opening up the store for a new day, the dark of night will peel away and the morning light will come.
Jesus You are always there - at every moment, with me, to be with me in the day - I am not alone.
Today is the day You have made and when I go to bed tonight I can never live this day again.The opportunities You bring, to do Your work today, are before me.
Help me to serve You and to let You operate me to do Your holy work.Come Lord, fill me now with Your life in me.
Holy Spirit sanctify me, dwell in me, enlighten me, help me to be docile to Your touch, Please bless the work of my hands today.Fear is a big way the devil tries to block what God wants us to do this day.
We can fear all kinds of things.
We can fear health, we can fear acceptance, we can fear we will be made fun of, we can fear nobody will hear us,
we can fear we are too tired or we can fear we are too fat or thin, we can fear that we won't have what we need, we can fear others will not accept us, we can fear...Isn't that the way the media works to try to get us to give in.
Jesus, I give You myself to use for Your day today operating in me, I want to serve You, Come and dwell in me now.
Come Holy Spirit help me to be an empty vessel ready to be filled.
Mary, my mother, walk by my side.
Mary, my Mother, I come to dwell in your Immaculate Heart - take me to the Heart of Jesus.
Come to me Lord and possess my soul.
I offer everything I do all day united to the Mass.
I offer all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings to You Lord, united to the Mass for the building of the Kingdom of God, for the priest, the Church and the world.
I offer my day for my private intentions, I offer my day for my family and the Shepherds of Christ members and needs.Come to me Lord and possess my soul.
Sing: Come Holy Ghost
Sing: Come to me Lord and Possess my Soul
I love you God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - come dwell in me now.
I adore You, I worship You, I love You, I thank You, God. Amen.
I surrender God in love to do Your will today.
Help me to love.
Dear Heavenly Father help me to see through your eyes.
Guardian Angel
"Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen."
Given June 22, 2015
Abram was very rich in livestock, silver and gold.
Lot, who was travelling with Abram, had flocks and cattle of his own, and tents too. The land was not sufficient to accommodate them both at once, for they had too many possessions to be able to live together. Dispute broke out between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and those of Lot. (The Canaanites and Perizzites were living in the country at the time.) Accordingly Abram said to Lot, 'We do not want discord between us or between my herdsmen and yours, for we are kinsmen. Is not the whole land open before you? Go in the opposite direction to me: if you take the left, I shall go right; if you take the right, I shall go left.'
Looking round, Lot saw all the Jordan plain, irrigated everywhere -- this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah-like the garden of Yahweh or the land of Egypt, as far as Zoar. So Lot chose all the Jordan plain for himself and moved off eastwards. Thus they parted company: Abram settled in the land of Canaan; Lot settled among the cities of the plain, pitching his tents on the outskirts of Sodom. Now the people of Sodom were vicious and great sinners against Yahweh.
Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had parted company from him, 'Look all round from where you are, to north and south, to east and west, for all the land within sight I shall give to you and your descendants for ever. I shall make your descendants like the dust on the ground; when people succeed in counting the specks of dust on the ground, then they will be able to count your descendants too! On your feet! Travel the length and breadth of the country, for I mean to give it to you.'
So Abram moved his tent and went to settle at the Oak of Mamre, at Hebron, and there he built an altar to Yahweh.
Psalm 15: 2-5
Whoever lives blamelessly,
who acts uprightly,
who speaks the truth from the heart,
who keeps the tongue under control,who does not wrong a comrade,
who casts no discredit on a neighbour,
who looks with scorn on the vile,
but honours those who fear Yahweh,who stands by an oath at any cost,
who asks no interest on loans,
who takes no bribe to harm the innocent.
No one who so acts can ever be shaken.
Matthew 7: 6, 12-14
'Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls in front of pigs, or they may trample them and then turn on you and tear you to pieces.
'So always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the Law and the Prophets.
'Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and many take it; but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Song: I Am a God of Justice
R. Abraham let Lot choose –
Abraham was very generous –
God took care of Abraham –
God made a covenant with Abraham
Abraham was tested –
Abraham would be the Father of many nations.
Abraham trusted God
Abraham had faith –
Abraham let Lot choose –
Lot chose fertile land, with
much water – rich land
Lot was more focused on wealth than
on holiness –
Abraham sought, always, the will of God.
Lot chose for himself –
Sodom and Gomorrah were where
Lot chose –
Sodom was filled with wickedness –
Abraham was a person of faith –
Abraham did God's will
Lot was worldly –
Abraham was blessed for following God.
Lot was punished.
Sin upsets the order God wants.
Humanity needs intimacy with God.
Jesus gives us the Blue Books
R. God has a plan for us –
God intends us to grow in the
spiritual life –
Mary is our model for the poor
banished children of Adam and Eve.
Sing: Holy Is His Name
Sing: A Song from Jesus
Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
R. Dear God, I thank You for Your gifts to me –
Dear God I praise You –
Dear God fill my soul with Thee –
Sing: Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Dear God: increase in us the virtues
of faith, hope and love –
I looked at the sky and I saw the great
openness and
I saw the ocean and I saw its
wideness.
R. I knew more the wonders of my God –
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I believe in the seen and unseen because He has given me the grace to know Him ever more deeply – |
 November 4, 2013 |
John 1: 23
...A voice of one that cries in the desert:
Prepare a way for the Lord.
Make his paths straight!’
R. In the world I can focus on His message
to Fr. Carter to pray these prayers,
I can see My beloved God in
images before me as the Most
Loving Sacred Heart and
I adore Him, I thank Him and I love Him
and seek to return to Him my faithfulness
with my life – given –
What a gift to live –
God has taught us the meaning of life –
God has taught us the meaning of love –
God has taught us about gratitude –
We are indeed grateful for His love.
Jesus is our Savior
Song: A Song from Jesus
R. God is light –
Let there be Light –
Call – Response –
God is all good –
We are responsible for our actions –
Sin hurts others –
God gives us a Covenant –
God shows us His willingness
to bring good for evil –
Story of Adam and Eve
This is to be a world of love and
obedience to God
God is with us
God wants peace and friendships and love
on this earth –
The devil wants selfishness disharmony,
division, isolation, pain –
John 20: 19-21
...He said to them, ‘Peace be with you,’ and, after saying this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Lord, and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you...
R. This is our journey now!
Reflect on the way to Emmaus –
Do we recognize the Risen Lord
in our lives – now –
Are we blind –
Is the Scripture so much a part of
our life?
Dear Jesus, my hope is in You –
I love and trust You –
Come to the Eucharistic table and be fed –
Do we lack faith - like Thomas?
John 20: 24-28
Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, ‘We have seen the Lord,’ but he answered, ‘Unless I can see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you,’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving any more but believe.’ Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’
R. Jesus has Risen –
Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord –
R. Jesus feeds us with the bread of Life –
the Word and the Eucharist –
I thank You God for Your gifts to me –
help me to grow in faith, hope and love.
Sing: Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Sing: Holy Is His Name
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
We place our Trust in You
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The Body and Blood of Christ
June 10, 2007
INTRODUCTION – (Gen 14:18-20; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Luke 9:11b-17) Today we celebrate our faith in the Eucharist as the Body and Blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Today’s first reading takes us back about 1850 years before Christ. Abraham’s nephew Lot had been captured by some local tribes and Abraham set out to rescue him, which he did. On his return, he passed by Salem, which is Jerusalem today and he was met by Melchizedek, who was both king and high priest in that area. They didn’t believe in separation of church and state in those early days and it was not unusual for the same person to be both king and high priest. Melchizedek offered bread and wine to Abraham. This act of eating together signified the creation of a bond of enduring friendship and mutual protection. Many of the early fathers in the Church saw this gesture as a foreshadowing of the Eucharist.St. Paul describes the institution of the Eucharist in his letter to the Corinthians. The language he uses indicates that this is a tradition that is authentic and reliable. He received it from the Lord and he is handing it on to the Corinthians as he has received it. Receiving it “from the Lord” does not necessarily mean that he received it directly, but that it is an essential part of the gospel that has its origin in the teaching and the life of Jesus Christ.
Second Sunday of Lent
March 4, 2007
INTRODUCTION – (Gen 15:5-12, 17-18; Phil 3:17–4:1; Luke 9:28b-36) Almost 4000 years ago, God made awesome promises to a man named Abram about how he would inherit much land, would have so many descendants they could not be counted, even how the whole world would be blessed through him. Abram had no evidence that these promises would ever be fulfilled. He asked God for some assurance that they would. So God gave Abram a special sign. It may seem complicated to us but it would have been easily understood by Abram. It was the way people made covenants or contracts in those days. The ritual of cutting an animal in half and walking between the halves was a symbolic way of saying “may the same thing happen to me as to this animal if I am unfaithful to my word.” God is often represented as fire, and in this experience only God moved in-between the two halves of the animals. This indicated that God was not asking Abram to promise anything. God asked only for Abram’s trust.
Second Sunday of Lent
March 12, 2006
INTRODUCTION – (Genesis 22, 1-2. 9a. 10-13. 15-18; Romans 8, 31b-34; Mark 9, 2-10) Our stained glass window here in the sanctuary is an illustration of the story in our first reading of Abraham ready to sacrifice his son. Recall how God had made many promises to Abraham, promises that Abraham had to wait many years to see fulfilled. Among those promises was that he would be the father of a great nation. However, it wasn’t until he and his wife Sarah were very old that his son Isaac was born. Several years after Isaac’s birth, Abraham sensed God calling on him to offer up his son as a human sacrifice. Human sacrifice was not unusual at that time. Abraham loved Isaac. Just as an aside, this is the first time the word “love” appears in the bible. Besides his love for his son, Isaac was the fulfillment of all the hopes and promises God had made with Abraham. What could Abraham have thought? Did he displease God and God was canceling his promises? How could he kill his own son? But how could he disobey this God who had never let him down? I might point out a couple of interesting facts. Mt. Moriah is believed to be in Jerusalem, the very spot where King Solomon would build the Temple some 800 years later. As you know the Temple had a history of being destroyed and rebuilt a few times. The beautiful mosque called the Dome of the Rock now stands on that spot. It was built by followers of Mohammed in 690 A.D. It’s the golden dome you often see when you look at a picture of Jerusalem. It is an issue over which the Jews and the Moslems are fighting today. The more conservative Jews want to tear it down and build a new temple in its place. The Moslems are determined not to let that happen.
Second Sunday of Lent
February 17, 2008
INTRODUCTION – (Genesis 12: 1-4a, 2 Timothy 1: 8b-10, Matthew 17: 1-9) Sin is a reality of life. We heard about that last week with the story of Adam and Eve. Grace, too, is a reality of life. St. Paul tells us God wants all people to be saved, which implies he will give each person sufficient grace for salvation. God’s ways are often hidden from us, but his saving work became visible and a part of the history of the world with his call to Abraham. Abraham came from Sumer, a settlement near modern day Kuwait. He and his family migrated to Haran, a city in the northern part of Syria, near Turkey. Eventually he heard God’s call to leave his kinfolk behind and move to the land of Canaan, modern day Israel. He left behind a prosperous commercial area to settle in a land that was still relatively primitive and undeveloped. Abraham made the long and difficult journey at the tender age of 75 along with his wife, Sarah, who was 10 years younger. God was telling them, not only to pack up and move to an unknown territory, but to start a family there as well! It was a pure act of faith on the part of Abraham to follow God’s call and to believe in the blessings God kept promising him, promises we hear in today’s first reading.
From Blue Book 7 June 23, 1995
Sorrowful Rosary on Feast of the Sacred Heart The Sorrowful Mysteries Before the Blessed Sacrament The Agony in the Garden 1.
R.
Put yourself in the presence of the Almighty God and feel this presence so deep within your soul. Make a spiritual communion.Jesus:
Focus on My presence with you at this moment.R.
Deeply, the presence of the Almighty God is here and in this room before the exposed Eucharist. The same Jesus that walked the earth, the same Jesus that hung on the cross, the same Jesus that was carried in the womb of His Mother, is in this room, truly present in the consecrated host. The busy world goes on around us as we hear the rumble of the cars, and within this church, the Son of God is present no less present than the day He walked on the earth two thousand years ago. And we sit here and we soak in the rays, the rays of His life that He is imparting to us. Special gifts given to us for coming and being with Him. The Almighty God, how can we be in the presence of the Almighty God in His Divinity and humanity and not receive special gifts, special graces, a saturation in our soul of His life in us and the gift of His Divine Love. Let our hearts burn within us as we realize more and more through this rosary that God is here and giving us great gifts.2.
R. Put aside all of the distractions in your world. As if He has lifted the veil and you are on the other side, there is only a conscientiousness of those things of God. The world ceases to be around you and you are taken into the sanctuaries of His Heart and there He will speak to you and tell you of His immense love poured out through His Most Sacred Heart, poured out into your heart and into your soul.Jesus:
I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God and I am giving to you abundant graces to grow more and more in your life with Me. Release yourself and come away with Me. Let go of any distraction that is in your mind and listen to My words of love that I am speaking to you.3.
Jesus: Be alone with Me in the garden. Kneel there next to Me. Do you hear the sounds of the night? Do you think of the coldness? My apostles, they slept. My dear one, will you comfort My Heart this day for all those who have forgotten, who treat Me indifferently in the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, My sacrament of greatest love. On this, My feast, the Feast of the Sacred Heart will you open wide your heart and pour out your love to Me. I long and thirst for this love. I knelt all alone in the garden and My Heart was in such anguish for all the souls that would reject Me and forget Me.4.
Jesus: My greatest agonies were not the agonies that I suffered to My body, My dear ones, but they were the agonies that I felt to My Heart. My Heart longing and thirsting for the love of My precious souls, these were the greatest agonies. I would have suffered more, more wounds, more bleeding for love of you.5.
Jesus: You My faithful ones, you have answered the call, the call that I have made to come and to be with Me. I am truly the Son of God and truly present here. You have come and answered this call.6.
Jesus: I allow you My dear ones to hear My voice and to hear My pleading, for I am God and I wait behind the tabernacle doors in the churches of this world, waiting and longing and thirsting for My precious ones to come and they have forgotten.7.
Jesus: The sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of My greatest love for men, I remain with you this day. I remain in the consecrated Host, no less present than the day I walked this earth. My agony so great in the garden that My sweat became as great drops of blood on the ground, to see before Me all the souls that would be condemned to the fires of hell, despite My suffering and My death. My dear ones, it is your love that you give to Me today that comforted My Heart in the Garden. As I suffered such agony I was comforted by your acts of love given to Me this very night.8.
Jesus: Make reparation to My Heart My dear ones. Come and be alone with Me, I am a God with such love.9.
Jesus: I love, I love, I love. I bid you to open the door to your heart and come away with Me My beloved one. Release yourselves and pray for a special grace to be taken deeper and deeper into My Heart.10. Song:
O Burning Heart, O love Divine, how sweet you are to me. I see the host, I know You are here to love and care for me.
The Scourging at the Pillar
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R. They seized Jesus, and they led Him away and tied Him bound to the pillar. See Jesus as He surrenders and gives so willingly. Think of how we are today, how we are given crosses to draw us closer to Him and how we fight these crosses. Jesus came to show us the way. I see all through His passion the lack of resistance. He knew it was the Father’s will that He be taken and scourged at the pillar, that He was crowned with thorns, that He died on the cross. There was not resistance in His actions. He complied willingly. Think of ourselves, how we resist even things that we know that will bring us to greater life with God. We fight. It is only in complying to the will of the Father, in following His plan that we will have peace and joy in our hearts.2.
Jesus: My Heart is burning and on fire for love of you, burning My dear one. What can I say? How can I tell you, more of My infinite love? You in your feeble mind can not comprehend even the smallest amount of this infinite love. Yet through the grace that I give to you, you delve deeper and deeper into the immenseness of the love I have for you. Release yourselves. Take all of the walls down from around your heart. I truly died and gave My life for you. Can you not trust Me, your God, who went to the slaughter, the little lamb led to the slaughter, covered with Blood, and He gave His last breath. Will you not surrender and let Me fill you with My grace. Come deeply into My Heart. I am Jesus. It is in your surrender that you will know more and more the mystery of My love for you.3.
R. I meditate being with Jesus, seeing Him scourged. They took their instruments and beat Him and tore His flesh. I want to be beside Jesus and comfort His Heart for all the souls that have forgotten, when He suffered so much for love of us. I want to be with Jesus for all the times that I have chosen others things before Him and He waited patiently and lovingly and unconditionally for me to return to Him. Jesus, Jesus, my love, help me to love You more and more.4.
R. Meditation: I see before me a man tied to the pillar, His body unmarred, and I see men striking Him with instruments that tore deeply into His flesh, and made Him bleed. The wounds, the wounds that are so wide and open, wounds far beyond our comprehension, so deep. So vile the deeds of these men. I meditate on this, being there with Jesus, I envision Jesus this way. How could I help but love Him deeply for He suffered for me, He suffered for my sins. He suffered and He died that I might share in His life today. He gives me an abundant sharing in His life. I sit before the exposed Eucharist. I know His love so deeply. The Almighty God is here in this room. If He removed the veil we could scarcely see. The world is blind, the world does not see. The ball games are packed and everyone is attentive to all of the functions of this world, and the Son of God waits and waits out of greatest love in an empty church. The same Jesus that was scourged at the pillar is here present in the consecrated Host and we do not see.5.
Jesus: My Heart, My dear one, is an endless abyss of burning love. Do you see My Heart? Do you see it open and on fire for love of you? Picture in your mind, My hand to the side of My heart as I expose to you, My Sacred Heart, on fire for love of you.6.
Jesus: Carry this picture with you in your mind. My hands on either side of My Heart and My Heart ablaze, surrounded by burning, beaming light of white and yellow hues...on fire for you.7.
Jesus: It is this burning love, this is the reason I surrendered without resistance as they tore My flesh and beat Me. This is burning love, for when you love, truly love, you give. You do not count the cost, you give. I love you My dear one, with the most perfect love. I am love. I gave My all for love of you.8.
R. Think of the little wounds you receive on your body, and think of the gaping wounds on Jesus’ body.9.
R. He came to show us the way. He came, He gave His all. He died on the cross that we would have life abundantly. He imparts to us this sharing in His life. He gives us a sharing in His life in baptism. He feeds this life with Himself in the Eucharist, as we sit here in front of the exposed Eucharist. The more we are saturated in this life, the more deeply we know Him. God feeds us with the Bread of Life, the Eucharist and His Word.Jesus says:
I am alive, I am alive, I am alive.10.
R. His love is not a lip-service love, it is the love that He gave His Flesh and His Blood, that He was scourged mercilessly at the pillar. This is the love that He has and the love He wants from us, our hearts that are on fire for love of Him. So that when we hear the Word of God we are filled. The love of which He speaks is beyond our comprehension. It is an inexhaustible source. He wants deeper and deeper and deeper love, so that when we receive Him in the Eucharist we scarce can breath to receive the Almighty God within our being.Song:
Come give us life abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee.
The Crowning with Thorns
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R. Meditation: Envision the thorns pounded into Jesus’ precious head. You see Jesus sit there. Jesus does not resist what they are doing to Him. They spit on Him and holler at Him and He accepts all that they give to Him.2.
R. He shed His Blood for us.3.
R. The thorns pressed deeply into His skull. Think of this, think of what a pin prick feels like. Can you imagine what it is like to have thorns pounded into your skull around your entire head? Jesus, thank You for wearing this crown for love of me.4. Song:
Crown Him with Many Crowns5.
R. Crown of thorns.6.
Jesus: My dear one, if you follow Me you will walk the road of persecution and ridicule. I am Jesus, the Almighty God, they crowned Me with thorns and beat My body.7.
Jesus: Think of the pressing down of the thorns on My head. Think of the wounds in My body, wide, open, deep wounds. They covered Me with a purple robe and the wounds burned under the cloak. My greatest agonies were not the agonies I suffered to My body, you look at My body and you see My wounds, and you know a little of the suffering and pain but how do you measure the wounds of the heart? My Heart, an endless fountain of burning love for My precious souls. Look at your world this day, see the sin and the violence. See the mothers that kill the baby within their womb, the precious life created by My Father and they take into their own hands the life of this child. My dear one, I suffered for the sin of men and I ask you this day in this world that is filled with sin to pray the prayers I gave Fr. Carter in the prayer manual to take this vocation seriously. Many have turned their hearts away from God. I ask you to be the light that shines in the dark night, for I am giving to you great graces. I am outpouring My life in your graced baptized soul. I am, My dear ones, giving you the courage to go into this world and to spread the Gospel, to stand firm for souls are at stake. See a soul, at the point of death, about to be in heaven, purgatory or hell. My dear one, you are preaching My love to this world by how you are in your heart. Let Me be one in you, let your every action be one in which you live in Me and through Me and with Me. I will touch this hurting world through you. Life is so short, the dropping of a pin and the batting of an eye and I call out to you this day. If you hear the sound of My voice, you know that I, God am speaking to you. I am telling you, this is a state of urgency. Look at the little children that are being taught such vileness. Will you not come to My Heart this day and give Me great love on this My feast? This is a gift of your heart. Surrender, go out and carry My love into this world. You are My light that will shine in the darkest night for you are powered by the Almighty God and filled with His life. You are My soldiers, soldiers I send into this world fortified with hearts filled with My love.8. Song:
Come give us life abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee.9. Excerpt from
Response to God’s Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God’s fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.
The Father, in a perfect act of self
At the destined moment in human history, God’s self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man’s world. God’s inner self
-expression now had also become God’s outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.10. Hail Mary
The Carrying of the Cross
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R. We know the presence of the Almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in our graced baptized soul. Where Jesus is so are the Father and Holy Spirit. The Trinity is 3 Persons in one God, a mystery. Know the presence of God here with each of us in our graced baptized soul. Let go and let Him work within your heart.2.
R. Satan has created so much confusion and doubt in this world. He is dividing families, dividing churches, dividing prayer groups. He aims at the priesthood in the Catholic Church. The more that we work to spread the love of God, the more satan is there to create division, confusion, doubt, hatred and anger between people that are to love God. If satan presses on people to cause confusion then we can not focus as well on the job at hand, which is to spread the burning love of the Heart of Jesus. Come to the tabernacle and be saturated with His life and His love. Pray to the Spirit to fill us with the courage to go out as the apostles did and to spread this love. This is our cross this day, to know the love of Jesus and to see the world that is suffering and in pain. The more we work, the more we are met with road blocks, but the more we come to the tabernacle we are lifted high up and He helps us. We are saturated with His life, and it is His life operating within us that helps us do His work and solve difficulties.3.
Jesus: To spread the love of God to this world My dear ones, you must be filled with the love of God in your hearts. The crosses that you carry this day, as you work may make it seem hard to spread this love, I am leading you to greater life in Me. Carry your cross without resistance. Carry your cross and know that at every second I am with you and I am guarding you and leading you on your way. I will never abandon you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God and you My dear ones, are doing My work.4.
Jesus: I am Jesus. I am Jesus. I am Jesus. I am alive. I live in your heart. I am truly present in the Eucharist no less present than the day I walked this earth and you are given great gifts at this very moment. Surrender and know the presence of the Almighty God.5.
Jesus: You can deeply experience Me in the interior union, in your heart. Let go and let Me fill you with My grace. It is in a oneness that you know within you. Reach with your heart and your soul. Come to the Eucharist and be joined deeply in this oneness with Me.6.
Jesus: Come to the Mass. Unite in the celebration the Mass with your whole heart, with fervor, with devotion. Meditate My dear ones, on My life. Know that I am present. Focus on My presence with you at every moment.R.
See in the Mass, see Jesus in the priest, the priest who is celebrating the Mass, as he changes bread and wine into the Body and Blood, of Christ.7.
Jesus: I carried the cross on My back. My whole body was wounded and bleeding. My head was crowned with thorns. This is the love, I have for you. Can you not come to the Mass and pray so deeply in purity and love. Every minute that you are there pray from deep within your heart and pray for grace to unite more fully in the sacrifice of the Mass. It is there My dear ones, that I am giving you great graces, this abundant outpouring of My life.8.
Jesus: Veronica wiped My face with a cloth and it was covered with sweat and blood. I gave Myself for love of you. Will you pray with your whole heart, your whole soul and your whole mind? I do not call you to a conversation about love. I call you to love from your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole being.9.
Jesus: I am Jesus, the Son of God. I want hearts that are on fire for love of Me.10.
R. From this relationship with Me you will know a life that you never deemed possible, I will live abundantly in you. Your life is a journey at Baptism until you, My beloved ones, are taken into heaven.
The Crucifixion
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Jesus: Read the scriptures My dear ones. Read the scriptures with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole being.2.
Jesus: It is there I speak to you. The Word and the Eucharist is the Bread of Life. If you read one passage from one of the Gospels, you will be brought back to your focus of Me.3.
Jesus: I hung on the cross for three agonizing hours. My Mother stood beneath the cross. This is the love that I have for you, that I gave My life, I gave My Flesh and My Blood. I want hearts that are on fire for love of Me.4.
Jesus: Will you help make reparation to My Heart for the souls that have forgotten God?5.
Jesus: Will you help make reparation to My Heart for the indifferences, negligences, and sacrileges committed against Me in the Blessed Sacrament?6.
Jesus: Will you let go each day and consecrate your heart to My Heart and My Mother’s heart? It is through her Immaculate Heart that you are led deeper and deeper into My Heart.7.
Jesus: As I was formed in the womb of the Virgin Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit, you are formed in the spiritual womb, the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary through the Holy Spirit to be more and more in the image of God as the Father intended you to be. It is through Mary’s Immaculate Heart that you will be led to deeper and deeper union and love with Me.8.
Jesus: My dear ones, consecrate your hearts each day to My Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of My Mother. Make this a consecration to Our Two Hearts this day, every day of your life. As you eat and as you sleep that you will give your hearts to My Sacred Heart through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.9. Song:
I Love You Jesus10.
Jesus: The plan of the Father is unfolding. This is to help in the completion of Fatima message. My dear ones, My Sacred Heart will Reign and My Mother’s Immaculate Heart will triumph and there will be this great era of peace Mary promised at Fatima, but many souls will be lost to the fires of hell. I call you to go out into this world to be an example, to spread the love of God that is deep within your hearts. It will radiate from your being. You must come to Me and be joined in deepest union with My Heart. Put yourself in the Heart of My Mother and rest as a little child in her Heart. Ask her to take you into My Heart. There you will dwell and feel secure against the wind and the storm. I am Jesus, I call out to you this day. You are so important to the Father’s plan. Each one of you uniquely created by the Father. Will you answer the call of God the Father? Will you open your heart and join in deepest union with My Heart? All will work if you busy yourself about our love affair. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus on fire for love of you.
For the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and Lent
$10.00 plus shippingBlue Book 14
One of the following DVD
Prayer Brochure
Give the gift that keeps giving.
6 different Blue Books for $30.00 including postage
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Books available in limited supply for this sale.
The more you use the Blue Books and
become one with Jesus – more
intimate with Jesus –
the more your lives are a blessing and
everything you do in life can help
to bring down great grace for the world
because of your being so
one with Jesus.
Guiding Light Homily Book Series
Fr. Joe’s Books
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4 for $20 plus postage of $5.95
These books can be given to:
1) All Priests
2) Good for Music Ministers
3) Good for DRE's
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Good for Deacons
5) Good
for Principals of Schools
6) Good for Teachers
7)
Good for Mom and Dads
Given March 21, 2014
R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 15 and cover and all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
The Wedding Rosary
Crystal Image Rosary
$40 plus shipping
Original Image Rosary
8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box$40 plus shipping
In Spanish with the Imprimatur
Also we are ready to print
5000 copies of the
Parents and Children's Rosary Book
in SPANISH.
Can you help with a donation?
Give the gift that counts.
Give to your priests Fr. Carter's Books plus postage.
Tell My People $5.00
Response to God's Love $8.00
Response in Christ $8.00
Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur
$2.00 plus postage
New Mass Book with Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage
New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage
Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage
Give the gift that keeps on giving!
Give to your priest.
Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage
Get a canvas print of Mary's image
with a sliver of glass and a little
bottle of Jesus and Mary water.
The glass will be fixed behind the
back of the picture.
$200.00 plus postage
Dan called and gave the report to me, when I hung up I saw this rainbow and took a picture for him.
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P.O. Box 627 China, Indiana 47250
Telephone: (toll free) 1-888-211-3041 or (812) 273-8405
FAX: (812) 273-3182
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