Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

August 31, 2015

September 1st Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is 
Day 3 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for September 1st
are
Joyful.

 

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                August 31, 2015 

                R. We are to progress in the spiritual
                life in sincere self knowledge
                and in being honest with ourselves –
                willing to tell God we are sorry for
                offending Him in our relationship
                with Him and trying to do loving
                things in our lives. Working with
                others, as God desires, helping them
                bringing union, doing what is needed
                as God wants us to do.

                    Mary responded to God's love
                given to us. Mary sought the
                Father's will – Mary wanted to
                please the Father –

                    The prideful man is usually angry
                helping others – he wants to act tough –
                he is out for himself – he can act
                tough if he gives something to
                somebody.

                    A man who is serving satan –
                acts like he is better than others –
                he thinks, they are lucky he gives them
                the time of day –
                he thinks, who are they, that they expect him
                to come down from his high tower, and
                serve them –

                Jesus showed us what love was
                    all about – He lived to do the
                    Father's will –
                    His whole life a gift given for us –
                    for our sins –

                We are to spend time every day in the
                    examination of conscience –
                    take our spiritual pulse –
                    how have we acted –
                    We are to act like Jesus –
                    Do we try to oppose others who
                        are trying to serve God, for
                        some prideful power and
                        sport of raising up ourselves
                        putting them under us.

                Satan is the great opposer –

                We are to live in harmony and love
                    according to the Father's will –

                Do what God wants of us willingly
                    and in love – acting like Jesus
                    before the Heavenly Father –
                    love is giving according to God's
                    will –
                    doing good, as God desires, with
                        no strings attached –
                    doing good that comes from a
                        pure heart to serve and
                        love God and others –

                We are to purify our minds and hearts –

                Yesterday's Gospel –

                Jesus says: Read this Gospel three times.
 

Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round him, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, keep the tradition of the elders and never eat without washing their arms as far as the elbow; and on returning from the market place they never eat without first sprinkling themselves. There are also many other observances which have been handed down to them to keep, concerning the washing of cups and pots and bronze dishes. So the Pharisees and scribes asked him, 'Why do your disciples not respect the tradition of the elders but eat their food with unclean hands?' He answered, 'How rightly Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites in the passage of scripture: 

    This people honours me 
        only with lip-service, 
    while their hearts are far from me. 
    Their reverence of me is worthless; 
    the lessons they teach 
        are nothing but human commandments. 

You put aside the commandment of God to observe human traditions.

He called the people to him again and said, 'Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into someone from outside can make that person unclean; it is the things that come out of someone that make that person unclean.

For it is from within, from the heart, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within and make a person unclean.'

 

                R. How is the heart inside – is it generous
                    in serving God with our life –
                    Are we glad we are able to do
                    things because we are healthy,
                    have the ability to do it –

                I remember Jesus saying –
                    You will miss it when it is gone!

                Is our attitude - an attitude of gratitude
                    or do we want to punish people
                    and hold them at bay because of
                    an angry heart –
                    Do we think God has no right to
                        expect us to get out of our
                        high tower and serve in
                        our vocation –

                An attitude of service in our vocation
                    in love – giving – wanting to
                    help the other – being unified –
                    being thankful for our health,
                    funds, our ability to build
                    God's Kingdom and give with
                    a generous heart –

   

Prayer from St. Ignatius

Lord, teach me to be generous.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil and not to seek for rest;
To labor and not to ask for any reward,
Save that of knowing
                    that I am doing your will.

 

                R. We examine our conscience to ask
                    for grace to strengthen us
                    against temptation
                    "...lead us not into temptation...
                    as we forgive those who
                    trespass against us"

                Have we stayed deeply united to Christ
                    in our hearts and made
                    greater progress of loving God
                    more and more in our actions
                    toward God and our fellow men?

                We are expected to progress in sincere
                    self knowledge and be honest
                    with ourselves about our
                    sins of being unloving to others,
                    not serving God lovingly –
                    sins of pride, anger, envy,
                    jealousy etc. against our
                    neighbor and against God –
                    making ourselves a god before
                    others – pride – I am better
                    than all of you, we think.

                God has called us. God has loved us
                    first. God has loved us into
                    existence. We are to grow in
                    holiness, to love God and others
                    lavishly – to give where God
                    wants us to give in our lives,
                    our vocation with a generous
                    and loving heart –
                to be a witness before others of
                    Christ who lives in us!

                You are expected to progress in sincere
                    self knowledge of sins that
                    are unloving against others –

                God has commanded us to love Him
                    first with our whole heart, our
                    whole soul, our whole mind and love
                    our neighbor as ourselves –

                Love gives generously to the other –

                    Love doesn't come from an angry
                        heart that holds out in anger
                        before God for those God has
                        commanded us to be under
                        and serve in our vocation –

                Love gives to God in one's vocation –

                    Love gives good example of order
                        and structure because we
                        are accountable to bring
                        Christ-in-us as witnesses
                        before men –

 

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.

 

                R. We must pray to not be influenced
                    by the devil and be under
                    the effects of sin – We are
                    to be holy – show men -
                    love – God lives in us –

                Focus on our intimate union with
                    Christ – 

 

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. The Gospel tells us about Jesus –
                    We are learning about Jesus
                    as we read and hear the Gospel –
                    Jesus is our Savior – Jesus gives
                    us living water to drink!

                Song: A Song from Jesus


 

                R. Whenever we sin - the only way out
                    is to admit it and try to make
                    up for the wrong we did - to tell
                    God and others we are sorry –

                Think of all the blind writings in the
                    Gospels, the leprosy writings
                    wanting healing from God – we
                    offend God when we sin – when
                    we are unloving – God is love!

                We see the blindness of the Pharisees –

                Jesus is the Light –
                Jesus is the way, the truth and the life!
                Jesus is the healer –
                Jesus healed –
                Jesus rose Lazarus from the dead!

                This is the Good News – we are commissioned
                    in baptism to spread the Good News –
                    to be witnesses to the Good News –
                    to live our faith before men in
                    joy and thanksgiving –
                    not in pride and anger and wear
                        a crucifix

                The Rosary helps us meditate on the
                    Life of Christ – the lives of Jesus and Mary –

                    Prayers is essential if we are to
                find God. If you want a friend – you
                communicate, build the relationship –
                are truthful, develop trust – give
                love.

                    If we want love with God – we
                need to have a relationship – pray
                and spend time with Him –
                communicate with God as our
                friend – our best friend –

                    If we want friendship with
                God we have to talk to Him –
                go to Him in prayer with a
                loving heart – communicate
                thankfulness, love our needs.

                    Love is giving – it comes
                from the heart willing to open up
                and relate with another – it's not
                closed down, isolated and divided –
                trying to close a door on people
                before they even walk in the room –

                Jesus: I knew a friend I called to love
                and they were like a bulldog at
                the door – they guarded the door
                to ward off any passage and
                love – they were so angry from
                being this way – they lived their
                life hurting people I sent to
                them – trying to hurt them –
                then being angry –

                    I knocked on their door and
                they said – Go away Jesus – I am
                mad –
                They were guarding the door like
                a western movie afraid of the
                enemy – ready with a gun –
                they were the keeper of that
                door –

                to them it meant freedom to
                what –
                not live –
                not love –
                to lie about their actions of
                    deceiving themselves and
                    hurting others?
                BLIND, BLIND, BLIND
 
 
 
                Jesus: I am the way, the truth and the
                    life.
 
                R. God first loved us –
 
                It is our response to His love –
                We have a free will –
 
                God calls – we are to answer
                    His call –
 
                Your response is up to you.
 
                One motive in the heart –
                    to open up to the call of God –
                    You are convinced it is
                        the way, the truth
                        and the life –
   
                God is all good –
 
                When we do good according to God's will
                    we turn toward God –
 
                When we do our own will and choose
                    evil – we turn away from
                    God –
 
                Our happiness depends on union
                    with God –
 
                Our quest for happiness depends
                    on our union with God!
 
                Prayer is important –
 
                The lifting up of one's mind
                    and heart to God –
 
                An open heart –
 
                We have been given the Bible –
                The Bible is the Word of God –
                The Bible is a two-edged sword –
                The Bible is the Living Word of God –
                Pray before you read the Bible –
 
                There is order in the world –
                God created the universe
 
                Jesus: You were created to rest in Me.
 
                You seek happiness –
 
                Happiness is found in Me –
 
                I want you with Me forever
                    in heaven –
 
                I came to give the Gospel to
                    you – the Good News –
                    the News of Salvation – I am your Savior –
 
                I offer you everlasting happiness –
                    lasting happiness –
 
 
Acts 5: 40-42

and they had the apostles called in, gave orders for them to be flogged, warned them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them. And so they left the presence of the Sanhedrin, glad to have had the honour of suffering humiliation for the sake of the name.

Every day they went on ceaselessly teaching and proclaiming the good news of Christ Jesus, both in the temple and in private houses.

 

 
                Jesus: Happiness is rooted in God –
                    love of God – love of others as
                    yourselves!
 
                Happiness is found in knowing
                    Me and My love for you –
                    I love you, I love you, I love you.
 
                To have happiness you must
                    die to self and live more and
                    more in Me –
                    death/resurrection –
 
                A person who is seeking revenge is
                    a very unhappy person – you
                    are to be thoughtful of others,
                    forgiving enemies, avoid temptation
                    and unloving ways.
 
                R. How is your concept of God?
 
                A little boy was drawing a picture
                    in art class –
 
                The teacher asked –
 
                "What are you drawing?"
 
                He said, "A picture of God."
 
                She said, "Nobody has seen God
                    and knows what He really
                    looks like."
 
                The little boy said, "When I get done you
                    will know."
               
 
Colossians 1: 15-20

He is the image of the unseen God,
the first–born of all creation,
for in him were created all things
in heaven and on earth:
everything visible
    and everything invisible,
thrones, ruling forces,
    sovereignties, powers—
all things were created through him
    and for him.
He exists before all things
and in him all things hold together,
and he is the Head of the Body,
that is, the Church.

He is the Beginning,
the first–born from the dead,
so that he should be supreme in every way;
because God wanted all fullness
    to be found in him
and through him
    to reconcile all things to him,
everything in heaven
    and everything on earth,
by making peace through his death
    on the cross.

 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... 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-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.

    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. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

 

                R. We are the children of God the
                    Father –

                The Father gave us life

                We are in the family of
                    God the Father –

                God is love –

                Sing: Glory Be – 3 times

                Say Our Father
 

The Our Father

    Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

 

 

 

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                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.
               
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                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
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               22) Funds and insurance.
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               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.

 

 

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