Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing          

September 19, 2014

September 20th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 7 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for September 20th
are Sorrowful.

  
 
Pray for Dan & Amanda,
for a really special intention.

 

                September 19, 2014

                God Has a Plan

                R. What is in a life? We see diplomas
                of people now gone and how honoring
                they were when they received them –
                How much every day may have
                meant to each of us and yet we
                can make our lives like a
                rat race where we fight to
                the finish to prove to ourselves
                and others – we are good –
                we are okay – people love us –
                Whatever the motive for why
                we do things and we may not
                realize how little we really
                know of life –

                God has give us the day today – where
                are we? What do we have planned?
                Do we have the chance to communicate
                about God and the wonderful plan
                He has for us and how we need
                to live to see ourselves clearly,
                without the facade we like to
                put on – the mask we wear –

                    Are we afraid inside – do
                we live with a plan to implement
                and it is a goal we expect others
                to walk into that is a figment
                of our imagination.

                    Reality is – God has a Plan
                for us and life is worth living –
                only His way He wants for us –
                quit planning and live to please
                others we want to impress –

                Jesus: Take your moments now –
                    live in the moment –
                    seek God's will –
                    live to love –
                    live to work with others
                    I want you to work with
                    for the building of My
                    Kingdom –

                I call you to My table - to feast
                    at My table –
                    to live in love –
                    Relationship is the name
                    of the game –

                R. Living – Loving – Working
                    through the difficulties
                    in life to help us get to
                    heaven –
                    That is the goal –
                    dying to our blind-side
                    where we see what we
                    need to change to be more what
                    God wants us to be –
                    not hiding our blind-side from
                        ourselves!

                A little boy was told every day what
                    to do, but most of the time
                    he did it, but stored up
                    resentment for his parents –

                Another little boy did what he
                    was told because he
                    accepted authority and
                    just wanted to please
                    his dad and mom, anyway

                The first little boy looked mad and
                    sometimes did other things –
                    holding out what they
                    wanted him to do – to try
                    to make them mad and get
                    control of the situation –
                    because he didn't like
                    anybody telling him what
                    to do –

                    When his parents hollered
                    at him – he then became
                    more angry and more
                    determined to hold out,
                    procrastinate, and watch them
                    lose control as his life
                    became a battle of wills
                    with dad and mom –
                    he felt guilty and when he
                    was older – he came back
                    after a failed relationship
                    and as an adult tried
                    to act like he was a well
                    mannered son who had
                    it all together –

                Well Jesus says, he needed to
                    tell his parents he was
                    sorry for how he took the
                    light out of most days
                    thinking about himself
                    and his obstinacies and
                    move on with his life –
                    not trying to prove the past
                    never happened as it did –

                Jesus: Life is for living –
                Life is for gratitude, genuine
                in your hearts, not wearing
                a mask to cover-up your
                sins –

                    Did you ever see a person that
                hordes things –

                    A man horded things in
                a barn – so much nobody
                could use the barn or even
                open the door –

                    Empty out your sins –
                Don't store them in a
                bulging barn which
                cannot be opened for
                fear all the stuff horded
                will go all over the place –

                    Anger is like a can of
                rubber bands – stuffed
                so tight – if you ever
                lifted the lid –
                    the rubber bands would
                explode all over

                    so you have to manage
                the stuffed barn, the can
                of rubber bands –

                    Live your life with a
                corroded artery –

                    That person never lives –
                they have to manage their
                stuffed anger –

                    Addiction is like that too –
                a person addicted to controlling,
                excitement, drink, food,
                anger –

                    Never lives –
                    They live in a secret
                    world lying to themselves
                    about their enslavement –

                    Enslavement to an interior
                affection – St. Ignatius calls it
                inordinate attachment –
                in the Purpose of the Spiritual
                Exercises –

 

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.  p. 11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment

 

                R. The question becomes –

                    Do we live and operate for
                the glory of God – to give
                honor and glory to God –
                Do we have inordinate attachments –

                People who keep themselves shut
                off in a little plan of their
                own that involves a sin
                become trapped, sometimes,
                in their own enslavement,
                    their sick reality – that
                    makes sense of their keeping
                    on sinning to them –

                Thinking becomes twisted as they
                    work their own reality –
                    which is not truth at all –
                    only in their mind –
   

John 14:6

            Jesus said:

I am the Way; I am Truth and Life.

 

                R. Thinking that is misdirected
                can paralyze us from living
                in the truth –

                    To live in the truth –
                we must seek our plan
                in God's plan – not the
                other way around where
                we have a plan –
                we think up –
                We start forcing things to
                    happen to implement
                    our plan –

                And we disregard that others
                    live in a world of
                    free will also –

                The person living God's will
                    will bump heads and be
                    at war with the person
                    having a plan of their own –

                It is WAR –

                The devil doesn't want people
                    all living in harmony
                    according to God's will –
                    In one mind and one heart
                    in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary –

                Such a place where people all
                    live under God's plan
                    in one mind and one
                    heart would bring
                    peace to the world –

                Mary said this at Fatima –
                    unless a sufficient number
                    of people give their hearts
                    to Jesus and Mary we won't
                    have peace in the
                    world –

                God is first –
 

The Ten Commandments

  1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
  2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
  3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
  4. Honor your father and your mother.
  5. You shall not kill.
  6. You shall not commit adultery.
  7. You shall not steal.
  8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
  10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

 

                R. Did you ever see a cart
                    before the horse – 

 

                R. This picture is wrong
                    the cart doesn't
                    go no where –

                God has the plan –

                We follow God's plan –

                We are the servants of God –

                This brings peace! 

 

                R. Judas had his own plan
                    behind Jesus' back –
                    Judas didn't listen –
                    Judas saw himself
                        as the lead –
                    Judas betrayed Jesus!

                Even after Peter sinned
                    and denied Christ –
                    Jesus made Peter the
                    first pope!

                Mary's message of Fatima

                    Reparation for offending
                        the Hearts of Jesus and Mary –

                    Conversion –

                If we want peace in the
                    world – we have to give
                    our hearts to
                    Jesus and Mary –

 

Luke 11: 24-26

'When an unclean spirit goes out of someone it wanders through waterless country looking for a place to rest, and not finding one it says, "I will go back to the home I came from." But on arrival, finding it swept and tidied, it then goes off and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and set up house there, and so that person ends up worse off than before.'

 

Acts 1: 1-5

In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven. He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days he had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God. While at table with them, he had told them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for what the Father had promised. 'It is', he had said, 'what you have heard me speak about: John baptised with water but, not many days from now, you are going to be baptised with the Holy Spirit.'

 

2 Corinthians 12: 11-18

I have turned into a fool, but you forced me to it. It is you that should have been commending me; those super-apostles had no advantage over me, even if I am nothing at all. All the marks characteristic of a true apostle have been at work among you: complete perseverance, signs, marvels, demonstrations of power. Is there any way in which you have been given less than the rest of the churches, except that I did not make myself a burden to you? Forgive me for this unfairness!

Here I am, ready to come to you for the third time and I am not going to be a burden on you: it is not your possessions that I want, but yourselves. Children are not expected to save up for their parents, but parents for their children, and I am more than glad to spend what I have and to be spent for the sake of your souls. Is it because I love you so much more, that I am loved the less?

All right, then; I did not make myself a burden to you, but, trickster that I am, I caught you by trickery. Have I taken advantage of you through any of the people I have sent to you? Titus came at my urging, and I sent his companion with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Can you deny that he and I were following the guidance of the same Spirit and were on the same tracks?

 

1 Timothy 6: 1-10

All those under the yoke of slavery must have unqualified respect for their masters, so that the name of God and our teaching are not brought into disrepute. Those whose masters are believers are not to respect them less because they are brothers; on the contrary, they should serve them all the better, since those who have the benefit of their services are believers and dear to God.

The true teacher and the false teacher

This is what you are to teach and urge. Anyone who teaches anything different and does not keep to the sound teaching which is that of our Lord Jesus Christ, the doctrine which is in accordance with true religion, is proud and has no understanding, but rather a weakness for questioning everything and arguing about words. All that can come of this is jealousy, contention, abuse and evil mistrust; and unending disputes by people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, and imagine that religion is a way of making a profit. Religion, of course, does bring large profits, but only to those who are content with what they have. We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it; but as long as we have food and clothing, we shall be content with that. People who long to be rich are a prey to trial; they get trapped into all sorts of foolish and harmful ambitions which plunge people into ruin and destruction. ‘The love of money is the root of all evils’ and there are some who, pursuing it, have wandered away from the faith and so given their souls any number of fatal wounds.

 

2 Peter 3: 1-10

My dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to you, trying to awaken in you by my reminders an unclouded understanding. Remember what was said in the past by the holy prophets and the command of the Lord and Saviour given by your apostles.

First of all, do not forget that in the final days there will come sarcastic scoffers whose life is ruled by their passions. 'What has happened to the promise of his coming?' they will say, 'Since our Fathers died everything has gone on just as it has since the beginning of creation!' They deliberately ignore the fact that long ago there were the heavens and the earth, formed out of water and through water by the Word of God, and that it was through these same factors that the world of those days was destroyed by the floodwaters. It is the same Word which is reserving the present heavens and earth for fire, keeping them till the Day of Judgement and of the destruction of sinners.

But there is one thing, my dear friends, that you must never forget: that with the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not being slow in carrying out his promises, as some people think he is; rather is he being patient with you, wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to repentance. The Day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then with a roar the sky will vanish, the elements will catch fire and melt away, the earth and all that it contains will be burned up.

 

 

Novena al Espiritu Santo  English

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Español

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Français

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Português

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Italiano

Novena al Espiritu Santo  Polska

 

Excerpt from November 4, 2001

Jesus speaks:  To those who pray My prayers I
                        promise the following special
                        graces:

                                 - A deeper understanding of the 
                                     Divine Mysteries through fervent
                                     recitation of the litanies.

                                 - I promise a deeper love in your heart
                                     for your God and a deeper love
                                     for your fellowmen.

                                 - Those who pray the prayers fervently
                                    will experience a deep union 
                                    in My Heart and My Mother's heart,
                                    they will be given special insights
                                    into My unfathomable love for men
                                    and experience a thirsting within
                                    themselves to want to help souls
                                    through intercessory prayer and sacrifices.

                                 - They will have a deeper love of the Mass
                                    through this deeper consecration.
                                    [consecration to Their Hearts]

                                 - They will know Me more intimately.

                                 - They will want to live their lives to 
                                    help save souls.

                                 - They will have a deeper love for the priests shepherds.
                                 - They will have a deeper love and dedication
                                    to the Church. (I founded)

                                 - They will want peace on the earth.
                                 - They will want peace in their own hearts.

                                 - You will experience a fearlessness the more
                                    you pray the Holy Spirit Novena prayers
                                    given to you.

                                 - As you meditate on the scriptures you will
                                    understand more fully the plan of
                                    the Father to lead the souls into the
                                    great Reign of My Sacred Heart.

                                 - You and all who pray the Holy Spirit Novena
                                    and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers will be
                                    united in a deep oneness with each other
                                    and the souls of the earth.

                                 - The more you pray these prayers (both sets)
                                    you will live in the truth as you
                                    dwell in Our Hearts.

                                  - You will be given gifts of the Holy Spirit.

                                  - You and your family will be protected by
                                    My Precious Blood and your families
                                    will receive special protection
                                    against satan from fervent recitation
                                    of the prayers. (the Holy Spirit Novena
                                    and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers)

                                 - I promise to take you and the members of
                                    your family in a special way
                                    into My Sacred Heart. I will lavish
                                    you in the fires of My love.

                                 - The priests and the people of the Church and the world
                                    will receive special graces from the fervent
                                    recitation of these prayers. (both sets)

                                 - I will unite My people in a deeper love
                                    from the graces granted from
                                    fervent recitation of these prayers.

                                 - I give these prayers from My image site
                                    in Florida.
                                   I appear there daily as the Sacred Heart.
                                   Some see Me, some do not, but there
                                    is a special presence there.
                                   My Mother appears there for her children.

                                 - In the five years of her apparitions many
                                    souls who have come have been
                                    given special graces of conversion.
                                    Many have been given grace to lead
                                    them into a deeper love union with
                                    God and the Blessed Virgin.

                                 - The image site in Florida has touched
                                    the world.

                                 - I outpour great grace to those who come
                                    to the site.

                                 - There are tremendous graces of healing
                                    granted to all who come.

                                 - People who come rarely leave unchanged.
                                 - The grace granted works in their lives and in
                                    their hearts, long after they have gone.

                                 - A reminder of their visit only need be given
                                    and they experience a memory of
                                    that moment.

                                I ask you to circulate the prayers I have
                                    given, the Shepherds of Christ Prayers 
                                    and the Holy Spirit Novena prayers.

End of excerpt from November 4, 2001

   


 

                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, 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.
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               11) Blue Book 14 cover; Blue Book 13 – 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,
                    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.

 

 

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