R. Love of God

                Love of self

                Love of neighbor
 

                This is necessary for
                    eternal salvation.

                Acts of love –

                Love of self – means
                    love of one's soul

                Accountable and responsible
                    for one's actions –

                Making reparation to God
                    for unloving sins
                    done to others –
                    unloving sins done
                        with regard to one's
                        own soul –
                    pride, anger, envy,
                        jealousy, slothfulness
                        in relationships
                        are wrong –
                        deadly sins

                Love of self includes
                    salvation of my soul –

                Relationships with others –
                    is required by the
                    law given by God –

                Love our neighbor
                    Genuinely –
                    helping him when
                        necessary –
                    if it is possible to do so
 

Matthew 5: 44-46

But I say this to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the bad as well as the good, and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked alike. For if you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax collectors do as much?

                R. Sins against charity
                offend God –

                    Hatred

                    Cooperation in evil
                        doing

                We receive the capacity
                    to love and to know –

                Loving is a capacity –
                    it must be developed –

                Loving is being likened
                    to God –

                Human nature is inclined
                    to sin

                Our goal is to grow in
                    full Christian
                    maturity

                To be a saint

                To live to be holy

                To please God –

                Jesus who suffered brutally
                    for our sins

                Jesus: I suffered for your sins –
                    I paid the price –

                    I carried the cross, was beaten,
                bloodied, crowned with thorns,

                    And many, who were to be
                holy, who were given great gifts –
                threw in My face the gifts
                I gave for their pride.

                    Adam and Eve, when they
                had sinned – hid in the
                garden –

                    What is the cover-up of
                the sins in relationships
                you committed in hatred –
                using My gifts for your
                jealous evil-doing –

                    Cover-up –

                    I know all things

                    I suffered for your hatred –

                    I suffered as you used My gifts
                        to do evil-doing –

                Can't you just do what you
                    do for love of God
                    and souls –

                Is it about YOUR GLORY –
                    not God's –

                Some toot their horn so
                    loud – they wake holy
                    men sleeping –

                Some weary the dead in
                    their graves with
                    their hiding hatred
                    sins –

                You cannot bring back one
                    day of your life when
                    you argued and played into
                    satan's traps for your silly pride.
                    I give you an opportunity to
                    do God's will and instead
                    you serve satan.
                    I am watching how you
                    genuinely love and contribute
                    to bringing the truth –

                How you open your hearts
                    to ask for forgiveness
                    of your sins of tearing
                    down relationships for
                    your pride and covering up your
                    sins. Remember Adam and Eve
                    in the Garden –
                    They hid –
                    They had to put on covers

                You will miss the gifts I
                    gave when they are gone –
                    Gifts – so many gifts –
                    and the devil tempted
                    you to use them for evil-doing –
                    to lie to yourself about
                    your pride and anger and
                    sins, instead of making reparation
                    you can continue like a
                    hungry hippo storing up
                    more and more for your pride –
                    Seeking dominance for
                    dominance sake –

                You will not live one hour
                    of your life over again –

                Focus on your greatness –
                    and show Me - this is
                    your god –

                Man does not fool God –

                I know all your sins and
                    cover-up –

                My Mother Mary appeared in
                    Clearwater begging for
                    reparation –

                Reparation must be made
                    for sins –

                Betty prayed in China so
                    many hours for the
                    sins –

                The world is bleeding –
                    this Mission is to begin
                    prayer chapters, I told
                    you to begin for the
                    Church and the world –

 

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                Jesus: Give love to your work –

                Some only engage in negative
                    behavior –

                They do nothing to build up
                    love and community
                    and relationship –

                When it is gone - you will
                    miss it –

                Leaders lead the way they are.

                Leaders are to be Christ-like.

                Fruit does not come from
                    barren bushes –

                And growing in the Christian
                    life begins with change –
                    developing the capacity of
                    love –
                    Growing in relationships is
                        the key to heaven!

                You have so many years to grow
                    in relationships –
                    of God
                    of others
                    of self –

                Fruit does not come from
                    barren bushes

                Nor growth from corruption.

                Only in holiness and unity
                    with God and doing
                    My will can growth
                    come to a shriveling stump –

                When you raise yourself up –
                    you get yourself –
                    are you the model?

                Old cars – grow old!

                When I sent gifts - some
                    stamped on them and
                    squeezed out the
                    wine until they bled –

Wisdom 17: 11

Wickedness is confessedly very cowardly, and it condemns itself;
under pressure from conscience it always assumes the worst.

                Jesus: Prayer is the only answer

                    I can bring down the
                        mighty from their thrones –

                    Prayer is needed

Joshua 6: 20

The people raised the war cry, the trumpets sounded. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a mighty war cry and the wall collapsed then and there. At once the people stormed the city, each man going straight forward; and they captured the city.

Judges 16: 20-30

She cried, 'The Philistines are on you, Samson!' He awoke from sleep, thinking, 'I shall break free as I have done time after time and shake myself clear.' But he did not know that Yahweh had left him. The Philistines seized him, put out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. They fettered him with a double chain of bronze and he spent his time turning the mill in the prison. But his hair began to grow again when it had been cut off.

Samson's revenge and Death

The Philistine chiefs assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god. And amid their festivities they said:

Into our hands our god has delivered Samson our enemy.

And as soon as the people saw their god, they acclaimed him, shouting his praises:

Into our hands our god has delivered Samson our enemy, the man who laid our country waste and killed so many of us.

And as their hearts were full of joy, they shouted, 'Summon Samson out to amuse us.' So Samson was summoned from prison, and he performed feats in front of them; then he was put to stand between the pillars. Samson then said to the boy who was leading him by the hand, 'Lead me where I can touch the pillars supporting the building, so that I can lean against them.' Now the building was crowded with men and women. All the Philistine chiefs were there, while about three thousand men and women were watching Samson's feats from the terrace. Samson called on Yahweh and cried out, 'Lord Yahweh, I beg you, remember me; give me strength again this once, O God, and let me be revenged on the Philistines at one blow for my two eyes.' And Samson took hold of the two central pillars supporting the building, and braced himself with his right arm round one and his left round the other; and he shouted, 'Let me die with the Philistines!' He then heaved with all his might, and the building fell on the chiefs and on all the people there. Those whom he brought to their death by his death outnumbered those whom he had done to death during his life.

                        Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

   What are the supernatural faculties through which my Christ-life expresses itself and grows? These faculties are the supernaturally infused virtues, chief of which are faith, hope and love. These virtues give the Christian the capacity to channel his Christ-life into the various areas of his total existence. Or to put it in a slightly different manner, we can say that these virtues allow the Christian to relate properly to God, man and the rest of creation. They are positive modifications of the person, allowing him to act with various Christian attitudes. The virtues, in turn, are activated by actual grace which affects both our intellects and our wills...

   How does our Christ-life grow? This growth centers around the themes of love. Our Christ-life grows as we open ourselves up to God's love in the sacraments, especially the eucharist. We grow in Christ through the love of God and man which is expressed in various types of meritorious actions performed in the state of grace. We grow in Christ when God in His love graciously answers our prayers through which we have petitioned Him to take deeper possession of us through, for instance, an increase of faith, hope and love. In summary, we grow in our Christ-life through the various dimensions of loving relationships with God and others. Love is all important. The other virtues are important to the degree that they are influenced by love and serve love.