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December 2, 2014

December 3rd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period II.

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                Given November 29, 2014 

John 1: 1-18

In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
   except through him.
What has come into being in him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.

A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
   through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.

The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept him.

But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believed in his name
who were born not from human stock
or human desire
or human will
but from God himself.
The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
   as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.

John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
‘This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.’

Indeed, from his fullness
    we have, all of us, received—
one gift replacing another,
for the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth have come
   through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son,
   who is close to the Father’s heart,
who has made him known.

 

                Jesus: Do you feel trapped and you don't even admit it
                    to yourself?

                Resistance to one's calling is a big part of the
                    slovenly way some do their work –
                    They want to be in control.
                    They have their own plan.

                Time is needed to be alone with God, but
                    I have called you to a specific mission –
                    so you talk to yourself why you
                    don't do it.

                My Father called Me to sacrifice – life is a
                    sacrifice. You need each other, but when
                    one refuses and demands their own timing,
                    their own way and they have a particular
                    mission they do - do – they have a hook in
                    the works and stop the smooth flow of
                    unity and love that could be, because of
                    their selfishness and control.

                I came to this earth and I showed you I did
                    the Father's will despite any person
                    around me – Read the message of April 25, 1994
                    in Blue Book III on the Father's will.

     

          From Blue Book 3

Picture of the Sacred Heart of JesusI Call You to Do My Will-Do You Answer?

April 25, 1994

R. I can't judge what His Will is for me by your behavior. I have to decide what He is calling me to do by whatever He is saying to me. If the whole world does one thing but He is telling me something else, I have to do His Will. You have your commands to follow from Him; I have mine.

If you choose to do something, but He tells me to do something else, I cannot get angry at you. I must love you where you are and pray for you. I am not the judge; I am not the jury; I am to spread His love. Always love nothing short of how He loved all. He did not condemn. He spoke about love; He spoke the truth. He is the Way, He is the Life, He is the Truth. His truth He makes known to us in His word, in our hearts, in these letters. I can choose His way or my own way. His ways He makes clear.

It is up to me to choose my will or His Will. Doing His Will is His Will. Many times it is not doing what I like at first, but He knows exactly what I need. Doing His Will is the way to live in harmony. He knows all things. Do I pick and choose and do my will or His Will? I know what He is calling me to do. Maybe I don't like it.

Writing these letters will not make me popular. Many do not want to love as He asks, give up their food, give up their pleasure, love everyone, even people they don't want to love, stop getting angry, get rid of self. "Oh," you say, "what fun is that?"

end of excerpt

  

                Jesus: A man was told a hundred, two hundred times what
                    he was to do –
                    two hundred times he didn't do it –

                It is his way to do it his way, his timing,
                    come and go as he pleases –
                    would you put him in charge of an
                    organization?

                I call and have taught about unity –
                The Father's Plan is communication and unity –
                To be united, to be trustworthy, to communicate.

                I have communicated to you here –
   

Isaiah 52: 13-53:12

Look, my servant will prosper,
will grow great, will rise to great heights.

As many people were aghast at him—
he was so inhumanly disfigured
that he no longer looked like a man—
so many nations will be astonished
and kings will stay tight–lipped
   before him,
seeing what had never been told them,
learning what they had not heard before.

Who has given credence
    to what we have heard?
And who has seen in it
   a revelation of Yahweh’s arm?
Like a sapling he grew up before him,
like a root in arid ground.
He had no form or charm to attract us,
no beauty to win our hearts;
he was despised, the lowest of men,
a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering,
one from whom, as it were,
   we averted our gaze,
despised, for whom we had no regard.
Yet ours were the sufferings
    he was bearing,
ours the sorrows he was carrying,
while we thought of him
   as someone being punished
and struck with affliction by God;
whereas he was being wounded
    for our rebellions,
crushed because of our guilt;
the punishment reconciling us fell on him,
and we have been healed by his bruises.
We had all gone astray like sheep,
each taking his own way,
and Yahweh brought the acts of rebellion
of all of us to bear on him.
Ill–treated and afflicted,
he never opened his mouth,
like a lamb led to the slaughter–house,
like a sheep dumb before its shearers
he never opened his mouth.

Forcibly, after sentence, he was taken.
Which of his contemporaries
    was concerned
at his having been cut off
    from the land of the living,
at his having been struck dead
    for his people’s rebellion?
He was given a grave with the wicked,
and his tomb is with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
had spoken no deceit.

It was Yahweh’s good pleasure
    to crush him with pain;
if he gives his life as a sin offering,
he will see his offspring
    and prolong his life,
and through him
    Yahweh’s good pleasure will be done.

After the ordeal he has endured,
he will see the light and be content.
By his knowledge, the upright one,
   my servant will justify many
by taking their guilt on himself.

Hence I shall give him a portion
    with the many,
and he will share the booty
    with the mighty,
for having exposed himself to death
and for being counted
   as one of the rebellious,
whereas he was bearing the sin of many
and interceding for the rebellious.

   

                Jesus: Stiffness comes from men who want to
                    not trust anyone –
                    they want to do it in their way and
                    in their timing –

                Faith is seeing the vision of the Father –

                The whole Second Blue Book over 20 years
                    ago is on surrender.  


 

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

  

                Jesus: A person could walk down into a big
                    hole because it looked interesting –
                    so he did –
                    he went down and down and down and it
                    was very, very deep –

                Soon he wanted to come out –
                    It was dark, very dark, rocky and
                        he went very, very low –

                He saw there was no rocks to put his
                    foot on to get out –
                    Night fall was coming and it was
                    becoming so black he couldn't see anyone
                    around –
                    although he knew others were in there.
 


 

                Jesus: The man knew he was supposed to be in
                    a meeting with other men from his
                    work, but he just decided, as usual,
                    to go wandering and exploring alone and went
                    off, like usual, because he just liked to
                    do his own thing, when he wanted, how he wanted.
                    He thought only of himself and he liked to
                    come and go and show others how he
                    had no strings attached –
                    Then he would show up when he wanted, with
                    a surprise for attention and once again
                    all waited while he showed his plan.

                Well now he wished he had a string from above
                    to hold onto. He was at the bottom of the
                    big rock, mud hole, it was dark, he couldn't
                    see and he tried to find a rock to stand on
                    and crawl up – but he was like a lone
                    soldier suspended in the low ravine –
                    he had put himself in – wandering and
                    exploring when he could have just gone
                    along and done the work needed with the
                    others – he was in the habit of doing
                    the opposite and it was getting worse
                    and worse – how he opposed what
                    would have been easy to do and help through
                    his harmonious participation where he
                    was called to be.

                At long last in the bottom of the hole – he
                    cried "Help, Help, Help me" – he
                    never asked for anybody he should have
                    to help him before –
                    he was too busy proving he was better at
                    doing everything, than anybody else –
                    so he never would show he was to work
                    as a team player –

                A strong man came over from the dark, across
                    the hole and said –
                    don't be afraid, I can help you.

                His love and compassion helped him in his
                    panic.

                Then it showed up as they walked – on the
                    other side of the hole - way over
                    was a door and a drive way.
                    The door was bolted and a truck
                    had driven down the steep driveway –

                The man got out of the truck and was unlatching
                    the door, the nice man took the man
                    over to the door and soon - they were out –
                    the nice man and two women led him
                    around the block to his car –

                His car did him no good when he was trapped
                    in the hole – He loved his car – he could
                    go anywhere and get away from others –
                    It didn't help him when he was
                    trapped in the hole, though, did it.

                His friends from the meeting - were familiar
                    faces and because he was
                    missing had tried to find him and
                    they were there to walk him to his car.

                There are so many ways the Holy Spirit is
                    working in men to work together and
                    do the job of building the Kingdom
                    of God.

                Team players work as one –

                R. Why would a man be so afraid to trust the
                    people God sent him to work with.

                    The truth is God has a plan and God
                created us and we are to work together
                for the building of the Kingdom –

                The story God has given in the Blue Books
                    are unity – love – obedience to just
                    authority –
                    greater faith, hope, love, humility,
                        prudence, temperance, justice,
                        fortitude –

                No man is an island –

                When he thinks he is equal to God in
                    intelligence he is like Eve in
                    the Garden –
 

Genesis Chapter 3

 The Fall

   Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the snake, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ’ Then the snake said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.’ The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig–leaves together to make themselves loin–cloths.

   The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden,’ he replied. ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked. ‘Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘Why did you do that?’ The woman replied, ‘The snake tempted me and I ate.’

   Then Yahweh God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you of
    all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.’

     To the woman he said:

     I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
     you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
     Your yearning will be for your husband,
      and he will dominate you.

   To the man he said, ‘Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

     Accursed be the soil because of you!
     Painfully will you get your food from it
     as long as you live.
   It will yield you brambles and thistles,
     as you eat the produce of the land.
   By the sweat of your face
     will you earn your food,
     until you return to the ground,
     as you were taken from it.
     For dust you are
     and to dust you shall return.’

   The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, ‘Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!’ So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

 

                R. God created a beautiful, harmonious
                    world and Eve disobeyed God
                    because of her pride –

                The more one gives into pride (seeking dominance
                    for dominance sake) anger, jealousy,
                    envy, slothfulness, lust, gluttony
                    He is like the man in the hole –
                    It gets darker and darker and he doesn't
                        even see –

                The Holy Spirit brings a Guiding Light
                    to us –

                God is in charge

                God is communicating and we
                    don't really listen to Him
                    either when we act this way –

                Hell is full of people who did it
                    their way – who sinned mortally
                    because they didn't want anyone,
                    including God –
                    to tell them what to do –

                The devil tempts men to isolate - make
                    their own rules –
                    even violate the natural law –

                Satan wants souls for hell –

                But he wants confusion, isolation,
                    lack of communication.

                Jesus: Why would a man crawl in
                    a big ravine and keep going
                    deeper and deeper?

 

Message from Ascension Thursday, May 21, 1998

Jesus: (with great emotion)  COME OUT OF YOUR TOMBS, COME OUT I CALL YOU!!!!  I have imparted to you knowledge of myself, transforming your heart and soul to be more likened to mine.

    I give you messages after the reception of the Eucharist for it is then I am most one with you. Put aside the thoughts of burgers and what have you in your minds and listen to Me you earthly beings.

    Come out of your tombs, come out I call to you who slumber and sleep and do not hear the voice of the Mighty One. Your are like the dead that need to be raised. A trumpet horn blaring would not waken a man who is blind from birth. Only the Lord will unlock the minds of the senseless men, so foolish, but oh how I do indeed love them so.

    Come out I tell you, I call you, in your sleepy state with scales in your eyes you do not see. If these scales were removed and a fresh lens graphed on the already existing eye, the men may see then clearly that I speak in these messages to bring about the Reign of My Heart and the triumph of the wailing woman's Heart on the earth.

    I came, I gave the gifts and the world slept. My little ones, the apostles slept in the garden when my hour was at hand.

    Oh my shanty little town, you are stuck indeed, in your ways. You walk the streets as blindmen and I shout to you.

    My earth, come out of your tombs, come out and live a life rooted deeply in My Heart.

R. I was in the cage, it was a prison held on all sides by bars, I cried, I screamed, I felt no way to escape and low and behold I turned and where I had thought I was totally enclosed, a whole wall was not even there and I gaily walked into the free night and the sun followed me as I walked.

Jesus: Your earth is enclosed in a wall of their own making. They have put up walls to enclose themselves. They have traveled around in their little boxes and spit at the freedom that I wished to give them.

    Freedom is in living according to God's will. Freedom is in Me.

    Talk of chains, for you have some. You have bars and are enclosed in your stone or brick houses. A mighty fortress is your dwelling, you think. A mighty fortress is in the walls of My Heart. I am the gateway that leads to freedom. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy One of the Virgin Israel. I am the gateway to heaven. I am God!

R. As I unite with Him in the most intimate experiences in the Eucharist, I become one in His desires and what He wants, I become more as He is. He is the life, He is the resurrection, He is God.

    I become more in Him, His desires are my desires, the Father's Plan is imprinted in my soul during the Mass and the reception of the Eucharist and before the tabernacle. I am transformed immensely in those moments after Communion to being alive in Him.

God the Father: I am God, you are man, I have given My Son Jesus to you to unite your soul to Me. I am the Father, He is the First Born from the dead. Life will abound in heaven and on earth.

    God has visited His people and now He Reigns. He has ransomed them with the Blood of the Lamb.

end of May 21, 1998 message


 

Matthew 22: 36-40

'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'

   
 

                From Blue Book 15

June 5, 1997 Rosary (excerpts)
at Morrow, Ohio

 

The Coronation

1. Jesus: My beloved ones, this is how satan works in your head. At the moment that you are attacked, he tells you that you must worry and you must be concerned and then he plays in your mind thoughts of how others have offended you and how they are plotting to harm you or to hurt you. And then your mind begins to wonder and then your heart is troubled and you feel at once that you must act or that you must share this with another. For you are feeling suspicious and hurt. The impulsiveness that you feel many times is the sign that it is satan. You must quiet your heart. You must quiet your fears. You must give your cares to Me. You must surrender. He works when you are tired and when you are hungry and when you feel unloved. He is there waiting, lurking by your side, coming into your thoughts, planting seeds of division between you and those that you love. His way is to divide you. My way is to bring you into oneness.

2. Jesus: You must practice the discipline to not act impulsively when you are motivated to move ahead. And you feel edgy and agitated. You must continue to do My work for satan will attack you as you are working and you will have to press ahead and it will almost seem as if you cannot move ahead. But this is satan who aims to stop you. And you will feel tired and you will feel like you cannot pick up the phone. And you will feel that you cannot do this job, that it is too hard, that another day maybe, but not today. And there will be call after call. Someone that you must talk to now that will stop you from doing this job. I am telling you that millions of souls will be affected by the work that you do here. And that is why you are being pressed on by satan. You must not give in to his tactics. You must be aware that he is there to distract you, to have some call you to keep you from the job that is at hand. You must focus on one job until it is done. If others call and call you must not answer many of the calls. Set time aside to do the work that I have given to you for I have called each one of you and given you the talents that you need to accomplish this task. Satan will try to do everything to keep you from the mission that I have called you to. You know how it is. There are millions of souls that are at stake and what you do in this movement is crucial to the renewal of the church and the world. You must forever have before your eyes the burning souls of hell for you are helping souls to get to heaven.

 

The Assumption

9. Jesus: Are you afraid My beloved ones? I can look around this room at this very moment and I can see the fear and the frustration within your heart. You must let go of all of the fear that you feel in your heart at this moment. At this moment I am asking you to focus on the love of My Heart, to go to My Heart, this red chamber, this room, and to think of nothing but the warmth of My love and to be alone with Me, to take all of the cares that are inside of your mind and to put them to rest and to focus only on My Divine love, to see My beating Heart, to see the red chamber of My Heart. Release yourselves of all of the problems in your mind and in your heart and to feel only love.

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

1. Jesus: Imperfections, imperfections, you are filled with imperfections. But that which offends Me the greatest is the heart that comes to Me that is haughty. I long for the heart that comes that is contrite and that is loving. I am asking you to put aside your haughtiness and your pride and to come to Me with a heart that is humble, that is gentle, that is loving. I am Jesus. I am asking you to meditate on the mysteries of the rosary.

 

The Assumption

5. R. Do we realize, in a message that I received from Jesus at Easter, how we truly are this family of the Father that will spread out to the rest of the world, in which the rest of the world will be one as a holy, happy family? Do we realize that we are the core and the center of this? That He is really forming us? That He is teaching us? That He has given to us each other that we can be most intimately involved in our hearts with one another. That we do not talk about the socks and the weather and the cars on the road and whatever that we talk about the things in our hearts. The love of God. We talk about things, how we feel. We talk about things and it is very hard when we are talking many times with others because we cannot share deeply, our feelings in our hearts. This is a great gift that He has given to us to help bring about this era of the Two Hearts.

6. R. And so you go out and you say I do not understand. They do not speak about the things that I want to speak about. And my heart feels so cold.

Jesus: I am forming you, My apostles to carry My love into this world. It is in praying with your heart, it is in being in your heart, it is in loving with your heart that you will spread this devotion of My Heart to the world.

7. R. What if we went to church and the priest got up and the priest said, "Jesus loves you so much. Pray to Jesus. He is longing for your love at this moment. He will give Himself to you in the Holy Eucharist. You are offering yourself up to Jesus and Jesus will outpour His love to you and you will feel His Divine love within your heart." This is what Jesus wants of our world. The world is blind. He has given to us this great gift. This great grace to know Him most intimately in our hearts. He has given to us one another to share this love in our hearts. We must focus on the glass being half full and not half empty. We must look around at each other and love each other in all of our imperfections, to love the little quirks and the personality that irritate us many times. For in a family there is love and He is using us to be His family, His little heart beating in this world.

                end of excerpts


 

14 years later in Clearwater,
Jesus delivered this message.

 

June 5, 2011 Rosary (excerpt)

transcribed live from a tape

Clearwater, Florida

Sing: I come to you with greatest love

Jesus: And I come to you and I give to you so many great blessings. And I want you to know that I am very, very close to you now. Let go. Surrender. Let Me outpour My love to you. Do not be afraid for I am God, child.

Our Father

Jesus: Settle down, for I want to take you into a place of peace, where I can touch your heart, and you will know Me more deeply than ever before in your life. But you must let go and surrender and let Me fill your heart now. Now. Now. Now. But you are busy child, even in silence, as I want to touch you and move in your heart, you are busy in your minds, and thinking so many things. Have you not learned after all these years, how to surrender? How to let go? How to come to that place, that special place, dwelling deeply in My Heart? Knowing the presence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit within your graced, baptized soul. Oh sweet one, you are so busy about so many things, when indeed you miss some of the finest treasures.

3 Hail Marys

Jesus: And now let Me speak to you of fear. For the Apostles knew fear in the upper room. It can grip you like a cold hand, and you give into it. When I am guarding and watching you and I am with you now. So many things you allow to parade in your mind, when you can only live and do one thing at a time. Busy, busy, busy, busy, ah child. Why so busy?

    Come now away with Me into My Heart. Think of nothing but the love of God, that God dwells within you child. What keeps you from Me is your busy, busy mind. After the reception of the Eucharist, I want to touch you in a deep way, at the Mass, at the consecration - I am giving to you a grace — busy, busy, busy. Oh child, you will all go out of this life in the same way, when the time comes, when the Father is ready for you to leave. Surrender now. Let Me control your life. Know that the Father has a plan for you, that the Father has given to you all the talents to accomplish great things in the building of My Kingdom. But your busy-ness gets in My way.

    Why so busy child, busy planning, and planning what the Father has planned, and your planning is of your own making. Busy, busy - bzzzz like the bees. Come to Me at Mass. Busy, busy, busy. Will you let go now? Are you planning the next thing? Have you planned tomorrow? How about tomorrow night? How is your schedule? Pull out your calendar or your cell phone or wherever it is that you keep your busy things. Busy, busy, busy. Can you write Me into that calendar? Can I have that little space there? Oh no that's when you wash the dog! — ah-ah — I should have known much better.

The Resurrection

1. Jesus: Planning and prodding, wondering what comes next. Have you planned the day that you will leave the earth? Why not? Do you think you can ignore it? Do you know that, that is a reality? If you really know that that is a reality, that there will be that day when you will leave the earth, have you planned for that? Have you really planned to say when I leave the earth, this is going to end up happening. I am going to be made accountable for what I did here – just like paying your bills — and I know that I'm going to be okay.

    I see your little calendars, your little cell phones, planning out every minute, writing everything down, making sure you don't forget anything. What about this? Did you do something there you shouldn't of? Oh you just told yourself it didn't matter. It wasn't your fault. How about two weeks ago? Ah, that didn't matter either. Do you know about two weeks ago when that happened, that made this happen, that made that happen, that made that happen — but if you would have given love, instead of making that decision, that would have made this happen, and this happen and that happen, and that happen. And right now there would be a lot of really good things happening. But when you chose the wrong path two weeks ago, you told yourself it didn't matter and forgot about the house of cards, that came after that decision. And you are not even thinking today about what's going on because of that decision. But you didn't miss a beat on that calendar.

    Right now, I want you to focus on death and resurrection. On looking into your heart right now and saying - Yes, they told me that. They said oh that was not good that I did that, but instead I got mad and I didn't listen. And then I did it again and again and again and again. And the people that I live with said the same thing that, that really isn't nice, but I didn't listen, because I just didn't want anybody telling me what to do. Do you know, child, that the decisions that you make can hurt your relation with Me and others?

    How is it that you prepare for all of these incidental things, but tell yourself when you know, that the same thing keeps hitting you in the face, by different people saying the same thing, that there is something that needs addressing there. Do you really want to prepare for that day when you will leave, and you want that reward that is promised to those who love and serve the Lord? I call you to be accountable and responsible for those things in your lives, in which you are hurting your relationship with God and with others.

    But it takes faith. It takes love. It takes wanting the purity of the hearts, so that your heart is more and more like the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It takes listening to the Holy Spirit, that is not telling you, like the devil does, you did everything wrong — you either did everything wrong or you did everything right. That's not truth. You did this right and this right and this right and this right, but you need to fix that one there. What you do affects others. If you look at Eve you see that what she did affected everybody after that.

    This is a wake up call. It was a wake up call in these days before the feast of Pentecost to give your heart and your life to God, to quit the controlling, the plans, the prodding, all of the things that you tell yourselves, when you are busy, busy, busy, and not even leaving a little space to be alone, and to let the Holy Spirit move in your heart. To not do the examination of conscience daily, that you will know that you are praising your God, thanking your God, loving your God, checking your spiritual pulse, to see that if you are in desolation, that you are not acting in that desolation, in anger, in provoking people, in jealousies and then telling yourself when you know that the jealousy came over you, the boredom, that you went out and started a little fire. It's called letting go and wanting only God's will in your life.

R. The Resurrection. Jesus died so that we could live more fully His life of resurrection that begins here below. It's not saying now I'm 40, 50 and here I am, and I have arrived. It's saying now I'm getting closer to that day of final departure from the earth, that I need to plan for the most. How is my heart? Have I examined my conscience and see that I caused disharmony where there is to be unity, as a body of people working together, and no matter what, that could never happen, because I give into the old habits of making sure there is always somebody that we should look at. Unity means that all are working with hearts like the handmaid, Mary, preparing for that day of departure from the earth as if it could come tomorrow. Being accountable and responsible for your actions, and more than ever, taking the time to know that place in your heart, where the Father, Son and Holy Spirit truly dwell in the graced, baptized soul in great light.

Jesus: I want to fill you now, so that you will know this place, and that your planning is not that, oh yes that day is coming when I will depart from the life, but I don't ever see myself as doing anything wrong. Why go to purgatory if you can prepare and go to heaven?

2. Jesus: What about the people that are watching you now and saying, this is how they act when they are Christians. But you're not acting as I would act. What about those messages that you give, that should be those where people would say — We know they are Christians by their love — by their love, by their unity, by their desire to give honor and glory to God, to serve God, to do it with a motive of pleasing the Father, not having the ulterior motive of getting affection, or power or riches for oneself, because of feeling left out, or not good enough. Reality is, you are good enough, you were created by God. You are good enough. You sinned, but you are good enough. And you must make amends for your sins. You must tell God that you are sorry. You must act appropriately when you have caused damage to others.

    My child, follow in My footsteps, that you will die to these very ways that can be nooses later, that can block your way, when you want to die and go straight to heaven. Pray for the grace to live more the resurrection in your life. I came forth from the tomb victorious, glistening in white. Child, you are enough. I did it for you. But you sinned. Tell the truth, that you will change the bad habits and thank God for all the gifts that He has produced in this world through you. You were created by God the Father for a purpose – to give, to love, and to be loved by others. Do not give into satan who comes when you are bored, when you are tired, when you are hungry, and like the old choo-choo, comes not with a car of coal, but a car of jealousies, pride, anger and emptiness — searching for his prey.

3. Jesus: Are you tired? You need to get the proper rest. You need to eat properly. You need to know that you are important to the Father's plan. And you need to have a heart that is filled with joy, for you are so special to God.

4. Jesus: The Father created you uniquely special with a purpose. No one can give the love to God or to others that you can give. Focus on this, My child. You are so precious to God.

5. Jesus: Pray to be all that the Father wants you to be, that you will give the unique contribution that He has called you to, in the way you love, in the talents that you have, in the gifts given in unity with others in the helping to build My Kingdom. You have been chosen by God. Say 'yes' to being so special.

6. Jesus: Put aside pride and jealousies and anger. Put aside those things that are traps for you, and remember Eve and her pride in the garden, and how all suffered because of her sin. Pray to the Holy Spirit to help you to see with eyes unveiled, how you are to be more and more in My image and likeness.

7. Sing: And they will know we are Christians by our love, by our love etc.

R. And Christ rose from the dead to show us the victory. The victory is in Him. The victory is in living more the virtuous life. The victory is not giving into the deadly sins or the wounded human nature, or listening to the conversations of satan, telling us that we are not loved by others, and therefore, we should seek to get affections, or power or credit from others to make us feel better. The deal is, we were created by God and He loves us so much, but we are all sinners, and to live that life of resurrection more fully, we must be accountable for our actions. Look at our motives. How are our motives? Are they done because we know it's God's will and we love Him. Or are they done because we are feeling some kind of deficiency in trying to control, trying to fill ourselves up for what we are telling ourselves that is not even the truth, because it's a lie from satan. We are enough. God has called us to His service. Let us move steadfastly ahead and go out of ourselves, and not give-in to those caved-in habits, that the devil wants us to have, self-pity, self-centeredness, when we need to focus on that place, knowing that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell within our graced, baptized soul.

And He says (sing) I will be with you that is my promise. I will be with you forever more. Trust in my love. Give me all your cares for I will be with you forever more.

8. Hail Mary
9. Hail Mary
10. Hail Mary

 

R. Jesus said that I should tell you about this. I remember Merle Carter, that's Fr. Carter's sister. And he told me, he said, Rita, you have to take care of my sister. She really doesn't have anybody. And awhile ago Merle had a stroke and we went to see her, and she just seemed so despondent. And we never know how what we have done can affect others. But God knows what's in our heart.

    And He wants us to love and forgive and to move on. He wants us to walk in His footsteps, and He shows us how He was whipped, crowned with thorns. He stood in a puddle of His own blood at the pillar, as they tore His flesh and He didn't do anything. He did it because of our sins. And we want Him to forgive us for what we have done. He shows us He loved us so much that He allowed His flesh to be torn, His head to be crowned with thorns and He didn't do anything. He took flesh. He died on the cross, hung there for 3 agonizing hours for our sins.

    He knows everything. He knows our motive, He knows why we do what we do. He knows when we are not nice. It's not between me and you and if this happened to me and that happened to you, then who is right and who is wrong. He knows the very nook and cranny of our heart to the greatest detail. It is in that purity in our heart that we are one in Him and thus empowered - empowered - because of our oneness with Him, to serve Him in this world today, that is in so need of our response, that Fr. Carter talks about in the Response in Christ and the Response to God's Love books. So we can put those books all over the world, but we ourselves are not responding in love, because of jealousies, and anger, and unforgiveness, and all of the things that we kind of like close our eyes, look away and say I'm perfect. And then expect everybody else to be perfect while we are not perfect at all, and judge them that way. How can we judge others that they have to be perfect, when we are not perfect ourselves. Do we want God to judge us this way? It's time to sing the song - And They call us Christians by our love.

Sing: And they will know we are Christians by our love etc.

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                    Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple
, Rosie & all involved.
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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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