Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

October 10, 2015

October 11th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is 
Day 7 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for October 11th
are
Joyful.

  
 
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 October 10, 2015

                R. Dear Holy Spirit please help me in the
                    uncertainties of life – Dear Holy Spirit please
                    heal me, body, mind and soul –
                    help me to live my life to serve God,
                    help me to be greater one in serving
                    God according to the Father's will in love –
                    Holy Spirit set my heart on fire for love of You –
                    Holy Spirit strengthen me in all I do to do the will
                        of God – in the Plan of our Heavenly
                        Father –
                        Come to me now and possess
                        my soul –
                        Holy Spirit enlighten me now –

                Dear God hear my prayers –

                Jesus: You, I have chosen as a messenger to
                deliver this message. The letter is a
                message from God – praying to do it to
                please God to send the message God
                wants to send, because it is so
                important to souls –

                R. I remember the messages from 24
                years ago.

                Jesus: My child, open your heart and be
                alone with me, now I am your
                precious Jesus and I have chosen
                you to write letters of My love
                to all. Let go now and focus on
                God and how God loves you.

                    Realize how short life is and every day,
                every moment is given to serve God
                and to love. You open your heart and
                you meditate on the Annunciation –
                it reminds you of how God is calling
                you to His Plan to help in the work
                of redemption – to say yes to God's plan
                and to be blessed for your obedience
                to God.

                    Obedience to God, to those over you –
                makes sense. If you believe in God,
                the Almighty, if you see God as the one
                who rules and you are under Him –
                you see clearly that you need to
                seek His will and to love to obey Him –
                He is first in your life, He is running
                things – you are in His plan – but
                people have a free will and they
                deviate from God's Plan and do their
                own plan, many times directed by satan –
                There is a spiritual battle and you
                can obey God or disobey God.

 

Luke 11: 15-26

But some of them said, ‘It is through Beelzebul, the prince of devils, that he drives devils out.’ Others asked him, as a test, for a sign from heaven; but, knowing what they were thinking, he said to them, ‘Any kingdom which is divided against itself is heading for ruin, and house collapses against house. So, too, with Satan: if he is divided against himself, how can his kingdom last?—since you claim that it is through Beelzebul that I drive devils out. Now if it is through Beelzebul that I drive devils out, through whom do your own sons drive them out? They shall be your judges, then. But if it is through the finger of God that I drive devils out, then the kingdom of God has indeed caught you unawares. So long as a strong man fully armed guards his own home, his goods are undisturbed; but when someone stronger than himself attacks and defeats him, the stronger man takes away all the weapons he relied on and shares out his spoil.

‘Anyone who is not with me is against me; and anyone who does not gather in with me throws away.

'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.'

 

                Today's Readings

Joel 4: 12-21

'Let the nations rouse themselves
    and march
to the Valley of Jehoshaphat,
for there I shall sit in judgement
on all the nations around.
Ply the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe;
come and tread,
for the winepress is full;
the vats are overflowing,
so great is their wickedness!’

Multitude on multitude
in the Valley of Decision!
For the Day of Yahweh is near
in the Valley of the Verdict!

The Day of Yahweh

Sun and moon grow dark,
the stars lose their brilliance.
Yahweh roars from Zion,
he thunders from Jerusalem;
heaven and earth tremble.

But Yahweh will be a shelter
    for his people,
a stronghold for the Israelites.

'Then you will know
    that I am Yahweh your God
residing on Zion, my holy mountain.
Jerusalem will then be a sanctuary,
no foreigners will overrun it ever again.’

C: THE GLORIOUS FUTURE
OF ISRAEL

When that Day comes,
the mountains will run with new wine
and the hills will flow with milk,
and all the stream-beds of Judah
will run with water.
A fountain will spring
    from Yahweh’s Temple
and water the Gorge of the Acacias,
Egypt will become a desolation,
and Edom a desert waste
on account of the violence
    done to the children of Judah
whose innocent blood
    they shed in their country.
But Judah will be inhabited for ever,
and Jerusalem
    from generation to generation!
'I shall avenge their blood
    and let none go unpunished,’
and Yahweh will dwell in Zion.

   

Psalm 97: 1-2, 5-6, 11-12

Yahweh is king! Let earth rejoice, 
the many isles be glad! 
Cloud, black cloud enfolds him, 
saving justice and judgement the foundations of his throne.

The mountains melt like wax, 
before the Lord of all the earth. 
The heavens proclaim his saving justice, 
all nations see his glory.

Light dawns for the upright, 
and joy for honest hearts. 
Rejoice in Yahweh, you who are upright, 
praise his unforgettable holiness.

 

                Alleluia

Luke 11: 28

But he replied, 'More blessed still are those who hear the word of God and keep it!'

 

Luke 11: 27-28

It happened that as he was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, ‘Blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you!’ But he replied, 'More blessed still are those who hear the word of God and keep it!'

 

                Psalm 97: 5

                "Let the mountains melt like wax ..."

                R. Oh God Your path You make clear to us –

                You teach us in the recesses of our soul –

                We seek and we find and
                In it all – it is Your grace working
                    powerfully in our actions that
                    produce the results –

                To me fear is an enemy satan used and
                    like yesterday a priest from the
                    seminary told the children at Mass –
                    When a person keeps doing bad things
                    against God's will – it becomes habits
                    they do – and it is hard for them
                    to do good things – because they
                    keep practicing the bad things –

                The priest was so good – teaching little children
                    to grade 8 – he asked questions of the
                    children based on yesterday's Gospel –
                    He talked about the Gospel and
                    demons and the children gave
                    very good answers –

                These daily readings are teachings in
                    Mass to teach us the truth –
                    The Word is a two-edged sword –
                    God feeds us with His Word –
                    We are to have the Word in our
                    hearts. We live the Word –
                    We are living as God wants –

                Rebelling against the Word – means
                    like the seeds in the Sunday Gospel
                    that fell on rough ground and took
                    no root at all.

                Jesus: Meditate deeply on the Word at Mass
                    and open your heart to live the
                    Word. I am life, I come that you
                    will have life abundantly –
                    I am the giver of life –
                    I want to give you the fullness of
                    life in eternal life –
                    Why would a man turn from this?
                    This takes faith, My children –
                    If a man has a closed heart and
                    lives to control everything –
                    his path is his own concoction"
                    bad habits are hard to break, but
                    why did the person choose bad things
                    against God's instruction when
                    they could have – easily chosen
                    to live UNDER God, according
                    to God's Plan –

                You must learn to let go – more and more
                    and more to God – to live the Word
                    of God – to be fed at the table of
                    God –

                    It isn't you who, control a supper
                    when one invites you to the Feast –
                    the person holding the feast gives to
                    you and you receive and eat and
                    enjoy –

                How do you attend Mass?

                I call you to the Banquet of the Lord.

                You are fed at My table!

                I give you the Liturgy of the Word –
                    You ask the Holy Spirit to fill you to
                    help you to live the Gospel in
                    your lives –
                    to learn from the Gospel

                So if the seed falls on cement, does it
                    produce flowers –
                    the children would say –
                    "No" . . . .

                If the seed falls on sand and thistles
                    and rocks – does it produce
                    flowers –

                The children would say –

                    No –

                Who is in charge when you go to
                    Mass?

                Mass is a gift I give to you –

                The outpouring of My grace on the
                    world and the Church –

                You are fed at the table of the Lord –

                A man went out to dinner and he
                    was persnickety – he ordered his
                    food – every time and sent it
                    back – another was not
                    kind to the server –

                Will they have a pleasant experience at
                    dinner? How about those dinning
                    with them and serving the meal
                    and paying for the meal –

                Going out to dinner is like a team
                    effort – The server is a
                    part of the process of giving
                    and the person receiving
                    is the recipient.
                    There should be love in everything
                    you do. The eyes of the Lord look
                    down upon you and you should
                    be a witness before all of
                    love and joy and comradery –

                Negative behavior, respect for others,
                    taking down the house, disrespect
                    of authority, controlling and not
                    giving or receiving kindly are
                    bad habits –

       

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.F

    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

   

                Jesus: Mass is the Great Gift, the Royal Banquet
                    I give to you –
                    Mass is so the recipient is so
                        one in the Mass they are
                        a participant and full
                        of love, for such a gift –

                    The Word is a gift given – so
                        the Word lives in your
                        lives –

                You say

                    "Come to me Lord and possess
                        my soul"

                The wise will hear My letter and
                    listen,
                    but the seed that falls on
                    cement bears no yield –

                The heart open and docile to the
                    touch of God receives the gift.

                Did you ever notice how life is
                    letting go more and more to the
                    things you may have once
                    took for granted?

                You remember running and jumping
                    and moving so quickly –

                You remember when things were not
                    so hard to do, because you didn't
                    even have to think about
                    the effort to be at Mass and
                    attend with an open heart –
                    your body was younger and
                    it was easy to go in –

                Letting go –

                    Letting go of friends and family –
                        that die –

                    Letting go of hearing, vision,
                teeth, that may cause trouble –
                like an old car in need of some
                fixing.

                    Letting go of eating whatever you
                want, being able to stay up
                and light the town –

                    Letting go of Grandmas and Grandpas
                of children and grandchildren
                and wanting them to live a prosperous
                holy life of love when you die.

                    Letting go of house and money
                and car and loved ones and not
                even knowing when the angel of
                death may call on your door with
                a dreaded disease.

                    If such uncertainties are yours,
                why would your habits be negative
                to not live every day to be a
                witness for God and live His
                Plan as He asked you – like
                the Virgin Mary – to do your
                part in the work of redemption
                with joy?

                    The wise will hear Me and the
                man with no goal will not listen.
                The goal is eternal life for yourselves
                and for others, to love and to be loved –

                You were created by God for a purpose and
                    I want to be so deeply united in
                    love in your life.
                    This is My letter – to wake up
                    and never waste an opportunity
                    to grow –
                    grow like the seed planted on
                        good ground –
                    grow like the docile child of God –
                    grow and know God is with you
                        now, but you must change –
                        you must seek conversion
                        before it is too late –

                The man settling in – is wasting
                    precious time –

                The journey isn't over until it's
                    over –

                I carried My cross to the hill of
                    Calvary, I mounted it and
                    I died for your sins –

                Your journey is your life – don't
                    put down your cross – I
                    never put down Mine –
                    I did the Father's will –
                    I died for your sins –

                You are the servants of the Lord –

                Listen to Mary
 

Luke 1: 46-55

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.

 

                Jesus: Elizabeth was not half asleep –
                    settled in –
                    in her old age she recognized
                        God –
                    she recognized Mary –
                    she was bearing fruit in
                        her old age –
                        Mother of John the Baptist –

                I was born, I took flesh –
                    I am Jesus, the Son of God –
                    to teach you how to be
                        sons of God –

                What is your program?

                Is it the Father's Plan for your life?

                Are you living to bring unity and
                    love and

                Are you a blessing to know?

                Have you served God?

                Have you supped at the table
                    of the Lord, the
                    Royal banquet?

                Do you ignore the Gospel –
                    instead of living it?

                Be obedient to God –

                I died for you –

                I died and rose so you could have
                    life to the full some day
                    don't waste it –

                I am in that cross today you are carrying –
                    pick it up and rejoice on
                    your journey to Me –

                I am the Son of Justice –

                Do you serve God –

                Do you live to work the
                    Father's Pan?

                Are you seed on good ground?

                Every minute you live is
                    a precious gift to
                    serve God in love –
                    I am God, I will have
                    no gods before Me.

                Your days are numbered –

                Serve the Lord your God
                    with your whole
                    heart, your whole soul
                    and your whole being and

                love your neighbor as
                    yourself.

                I am Jesus, the Son of God –

                This is a letter from Me –

                Re-Publish Blue Book 1, 2, 3

 

                R. What impedes us from God's
                grace?

                    my sins, my attachments –

                Dear God help me to die to those things not
                    likened to You.

                Oh Mary we love you so much –

                Dear God please have mercy on us.

                Oh God help us – pour out Your
                    mercy - Oh God please hear
                    our prayer.

                Mary: Near is the Day of the Lord –

                    Do not ignore your Father, my
                        children – listen to me,
                        I am Mary your Mother –

                    Open your gates, my children
                        your heart must sleep no longer –

                Jesus: I am a just judge – do not
                    close your heart to God –

                Song: I Am a God of Justice!


 

                Mary: Look to the Lord –

                    Glorify your God –

                Close not down your hearts,
                    but open them as children
                    nursing at the breast of
                    their mother.
 

Luke 11: 27-28

It happened that as he was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, ‘Blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you!’ But he replied, 'More blessed still are those who hear the word of God and keep it!'

 

                R. We look to God –

                    God is great indeed –
                    God has infinite power.

                We see the Babylonian exile
                    and we see the Jews were called
                    to rebuild their land.

                We see that Jesus came and He
                    is God – Jesus came to teach
                    us about God –
                    God calls us to help in the
                        work of redemption –
                        to be witnesses – to rebuild
                        our land - NOW –

                Jesus shed His precious
                    Blood for us – so
                    we can go to heaven forever –

                We are fools to ignore this
                    great gift God has given –

                God loves us so much –
                    He remains in the
                        Eucharist – truly present
                        in His Divinity and
                        humanity –

                We are limited in our vision and
                    yet God elevates our knowing
                    and loving capacity in baptism –

                God calls us to develop this
                    capacity and this depends on
                    His grace given to us and
                    our cooperation with this –

                Our lives as they are now are
                    limited – our goal is to
                    be on eternal life in
                    heaven forever –

                God is the Creator we are the
                    creatures – He gave us
                    our life and He has a
                    plan for us –

                 

Excerpt from Fr. Joe’s homily January 20, 2013

This changed bread and wine that becomes Jesus' body and blood will change us. We will become more like him and grow closer to him. Our faith is not a static thing, it is dynamic because the power of Jesus is at work. Later on in John's gospel he tells us, "I came that they may have life, and have it to the full." I think this is one of the most powerful lines in the gospel. If we believe in him and if we let him, Jesus will keep changing us until we come to the fullness of life. Amen.

 

                R. Dear God, increase in us the virtues
                    of faith, hope and love – help
                    us to see the beyond –
                    Dear God - give us greater
                    vision –

                We go to God to know God –

                We are docile to the counsel
                    of the Holy Spirit, we seek wisdom,
                    we seek heartfelt love

                Dear God – we love You –
                Dear God thank You for these gifts –
   

Apostles Creed

    I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell; on the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven; and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

 

                R. Dear God open up to us more and more
                    this vision –
                    help us to see reality as You
                    want us to see

                Dear God You are so great
                    indeed and we love You
                    so much –

                Dear God help us to love and
                    know You ever more
                    deeply.

 

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

 

Matthew 3: 13-17

Then Jesus appeared: he came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. John tried to dissuade him, with the words, ‘It is I who need baptism from you, and yet you come to me!’ But Jesus replied, ‘Leave it like this for the time being; it is fitting that we should, in this way, do all that uprightness demands.’ Then John gave in to him. 

    And when Jesus had been baptised he at once came up from the water, and suddenly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And suddenly there was a voice from heaven, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.’

 

               

 
 

 

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