February 13th Holy Spirit Novena
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1 John 1: 1-4
Something which has existed
since the beginning,
which we have heard,
which we have seen with our own eyes,
which we have watched
and touched with our own hands,
the Word of life-
this is our theme.
That life was made visible;
we saw it and are giving our testimony,
declaring to you the eternal life,
which was present to the Father
and has been revealed to us.
We are declaring to you
what we have seen and heard,
so that you too may share our life.
Our life is shared with the Father
and with his Son Jesus Christ.
We are writing this to you
so that our joy may be complete.
R. God loves us so much.
Who am I that I am so loved by Him –
Jesus: And I gave you this gift of sharing
in My life thru baptism. You are
precious to Me.
Life is so very precious, My child.
Life is not life, if it is not rooted
in Me.
After you realize that life is a
struggle, will you accept that
and turn to Me?
I am always with you in everything
you do; everything takes greater
meaning in Me. Your life is a
song and you sing to the world –
Song: A Song from Jesus
Jesus: Say this prayer all through the day I have
given it to you –
Prayer for Union
with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my
soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence
with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to
use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all
that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to
die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw
my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling
within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my
life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to
put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as
You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me
from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus
off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the
promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear
to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me
now.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
R. Jesus, the Son of God, took flesh and came
to this earth to tell us about
Himself – Our Savior, Our Brother,
Our Divine Lover
Those who are faithful to God, who do as
God wants will enter heaven –
a lasting city.
Hebrews 4: 1-5, 11
Let us beware, then:
since the promise never lapses,
none of you must think that he has
come too late for the promise of entering his place of rest. We
received the gospel exactly as they did; but hearing the message did
them no
good because they did not share the
faith of those who did listen. We,
however, who have faith, are entering a place of rest, as in the
text: And then in my
anger I swore that they would never
enter my place of rest. Now God's work was all finished at the
beginning of the world; as one text says, referring to the seventh
day: And
God rested on the seventh day after
all the work he had been doing. And, again, the passage above says:
They
will never reach my place of rest.
Let us, then, press
forward to enter this place of rest, or some of you might copy this
example of refusal to believe and be lost.
1 Samuel 8: 4-7, 10-22
The elders of Israel all assembled, went back to
Samuel at Ramah, and said, 'Look, you are old, and
your sons are not following your example. So give us
a king to judge us, like the other nations.' Samuel
thought that it was wrong of them to say, 'Let us
have a king to judge us,' so he prayed to Yahweh.
But
Yahweh said to
Samuel, 'Obey the voice of the people in all that
they say to you: it is not you they have rejected
Everything that
Yahweh
had said, Samuel then repeated to
the people who were asking him for a
king. He said, 'This is what the
king who is to reign over you
will
do. He
will
take your sons and direct them to
his chariotry and cavalry, and they
will
run in front of his chariot. He
will
use them as leaders of a thousand
and leaders of fifty; he
will
make them plough his fields and
gather in his harvest and make his
weapons of
war
and the gear for his chariots. He
will
take your daughters as perfumers,
cooks and bakers. He
will
take the best of your fields, your
vineyards and your olive groves and
give them to his officials. He
will
tithe your crops and vineyards to
provide for his courtiers and his
officials. He
will
take the best of your servants, men
and women, of your oxen and your
donkeys, and make them work for him.
He
will
tithe your flocks, and you
yourselves
will
become his slaves. When that day
comes, you
will
cry aloud because of the king you
have chosen for yourselves, but on
that day
Yahweh
will
not hear you.'
The people, however, refused to
listen to Samuel. They said, 'No! We
are determined to have a king, so
that we can be like the other
nations, with our own king to rule
us and lead us and fight our
battles.' Samuel listened to all
that the people had to say and
repeated it in Yahweh's ear. Yahweh
then said to Samuel, 'Do as they ask
and give them a king.' Samuel then
said to the Israelites, 'Go home,
each of you, to his own town.'
R.
We can see their are disorders of the body.
If we realize there are disorders of the
body, diseases, we can contemplate
sin, a disorder of the soul.
Jesus: For how can a man prosper when
he is held down in a great disease
of the body. In these times, a man
can give his attention to his soul
and spend time in the suffering
turning one's heart, especially,
to Me.
I am the way, the truth and the life
and I allow men to suffer. Men
must seek to be purified. As a person
with a grave disease of the body
cares for himself wishing to be well,
so a man with vices and sinful ways,
must put away these bad habits to
prepare himself, to prepare his
soul for God and seek a heavenly
reward, the fullness of life given
for all eternity in heaven.
Man was made for Me. I fashioned him
in My own image and likeness, I
gave him so many gifts – the Father's
Plan unique for his soul. Oh that
he would learn to love Me for which
God created him. God created an individual
soul for His honor and glory and gave him
a free will that he would freely choose
to love God with his whole heart, his
whole soul and his whole being
and man can throw back in God's face
his plan and oppose God's will and
act in grave disorder, rebelling against
Me, a good and loving God –
God the Father: Oh that you would hear this song –
"I don't know how to love Him, but
my life is His and I give it as
an obedient child seeking their
heavenly reward and favors of their
Father."
Jesus came to teach you about love –
In studying Jesus and His ways you will
live a life of love and sacrifice.
I love you, so very much, My precious
little child, My wonderful creation –
I created you in the image and likeness
of God.
I love you with love far beyond your
comprehension,
I am God the Father, your heavenly
Father –
I am attentive to your cries –
I created you for a purpose, many
oppose My Plan for them and in
misery for their own disobedience
rebel against their brothers in
hatred and sin. You are unhappy
when you oppose My will for you and are
very unhappy, darkened and miserable
in habitual sins that you hold onto
like trophies.
The man hugging his sins can be
so envious of the brothers he is to
love. Envy is like a snake around your
heart. A man of envy has sorrow for
the good the righteous man does and
wishes him harm. He is selfish and
not seeing himself as a blessing from
God and so the snake and chain in
his heart, he sees through envy at
the good his brother accomplishes.
How would your heart feel with a
snake of envy around it? A man consumed
with pride is miserable and seeking
a goal against God's will. He wants to
fill himself and pad his cell and sees
his brother as his enemy.
Satan wants to take your heart and
bind it with pride and envy and lust
and jealousy. You are then choking
in a dark closet of sin, miserable,
envious, hating your brother.
Jesus: A man had a choice, two doors –
Door A was a Paradise of love and caring.
Door B a place of anger, and darkness and
hatred and isolation.
You have a choice, which one will you
choose – What do you want for
eternity – to go home obeying the Father's will –
or
to go around like a vagabond searching and
consumed with hate – alone, angry
hating and hating and hating – an eternity
of hating.
Prepare your hearts for home –
Prepare your hearts by loving every day,
every minute, every second.
"Prepare in the wilderness a highway for the Lord"
Mark 1:3
Matthew 2: 1-12
After Jesus had been born at
Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, suddenly
some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east asking, ‘Where is
the infant king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose and have
come to do him homage.’ When King Herod heard this he was
perturbed, and so was the whole of Jerusalem. He called together
all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, and
enquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him,
‘At Bethlehem in Judaea, for this is what the prophet wrote:
And you, Bethlehem,
in the land of Judah,
you are by no means the least
among the leaders of Judah,
for from you will come a leader
who will shepherd my people Israel.’
Then Herod summoned the wise
men to see him privately. He asked them the exact date on which
the star had appeared and sent them on to Bethlehem with the
words, ‘Go and find out all about the child, and when you have
found him, let me know, so that I too may go and do him homage.’
Having listened to what the king had to say, they set out. And
suddenly the star they had seen rising went forward and halted
over the place where the child was. The sight of the star filled
them with delight, and going into the house they saw the child
with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they did him
homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of
gold and frankincense and myrrh. But they were given a warning
in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own
country by a different way.
R. When Jesus healed – he would say
first "Your sins are forgiven"
The disease of the body shows us
a little of disorders of the soul.
A man was clogged with sin, with bad
habits and unforgiveness, his heart filled
with hatred toward his brother.
How is your body when it is clogged?
How is your heart when it is clogged
and the vessels are not operating
because of being clogged –
How is a man who rebels against
his own body?
Let your souls be filled with My
grace. God lives in the graced,
baptized soul. I want to dwell
in you and make a home in
you –
Live a holy life that you will be
able to enter eternal rest
in your heavenly home.
Your words Lord, are spirit and life (J4:24)
Psalm 19: 8-10, 14
The precepts of Yahweh are honest,
joy for the heart;
the commandment of Yahweh is pure,
light for the eyes.
The fear of Yahweh is pure,
lasting for ever;
the judgements of Yahweh are true,
upright, every one,
more desirable than gold,
even than the finest gold;
his words are sweeter than honey,
that drips from the comb.
May the words of my mouth always find
favour,
and the whispering of my heart,
in your presence, Yahweh,
my rock, my redeemer.
R. Saul is anointed by Samuel, but
Saul disobeys –
Such an honor given and he turned
against God, Saul disobeyed God,
Saul is an example of how
disobedience ended in mayhem.
Jesus: The sick and the sinners need healing
from God –
The proud man sees himself as
autonomous, he has no need to be
healed, he thinks. He sees himself
right when he sins against
Me, a good and loving God.
Priests are gifts I give you –
Priests are anointed.
Priests are to be faithful to their office.
Pray, as I have directed Fr. Carter, for your priests.
Pray for the Church and the world.
Spread these prayer chapters in different
languages all over the world –
I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock.
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of Shepherds of Christ Associates:
"My beloved priest-companion, I intend
to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the
movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the
renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the
chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument
for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds
of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will
use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate
Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the
members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be
deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to
My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J.
Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994, feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The
Jesuits)
R. Saul rejects what Samuel tells him –
What God expects of Saul was his
obedience to God.
We are to be dependable if we
work for God, obedient and
trustworthy. Saul was not.
1 Samuel 15: 16-23
Samuel then said to Saul, ‘Stop! Let me
tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.’ He said, ‘Go
on.’Samuel said, ‘Small as you may be in your own eyes, are you
not the leader of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you
as king of Israel. When Yahweh sent you on a mission he said to
you, “Go and put those sinners, the Amalekites, under the curse
of destruction and make war on them until they are exterminated.
Why then did you not obey Yahweh’s voice? Why did you fall on
the booty and do what is wrong in Yahweh’s eyes? Saul replied to
Samuel, ‘But I did obey Yahweh’s voice. I went on the mission
which Yahweh gave me; I brought back Agag king of the Amalekites;
I put Amalek under the curse of destruction; and from the booty
the people have taken the best sheep and cattle of what was
under the curse of destruction only to sacrifice them to Yahweh
your God in Gilgal. To which, Samuel said:
Is Yahweh pleased by burnt offerings
and sacrifices
or by obedience to Yahweh’s voice?
Truly, obedience is better than sacrifice,
submissiveness than the fat of rams.
Rebellion is a sin of sorcery,
presumption a crime of idolatry!
‘Since you have rejected Yahweh’s
word, he has rejected you as king.’
Psalm 50: 8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
It is not with your sacrifices
that I find fault,
those burnt offerings constantly before me;
I will not accept any bull from your homes,
nor a single goat from your folds.
But to the wicked, God says:
What right have you to recite my
statutes,
to take my covenant on your lips,
when you detest my teaching,
and thrust my words behind you?
You do this, and am I to say
nothing?
Do you think that I am really like you?
I charge you, indict you to your face.
Honour to me is a sacrifice of
thanksgiving;
to the upright I will show God’s salvation.’
R. We are to be zealous in our vocation, for
God has a unique purpose for our life.
Why would we rebel against Him.
Even suffering, physical and struggles
has its place in God's Plan –
If we follow Christ, we will have
to suffer, identify in His
suffering on the cross –
Christ suffered for our sins. We too
suffer and it can help bring
down many graces for
the Church and the world –
Hebrews 6: 10-20
God would not be so unjust as
to forget all you have done, the love that you have for his
name or the services you have done, and are still doing, for
the holy people of God. Our desire is that every one of you
should go on showing the same enthusiasm till the ultimate
fulfilment of your hope, never growing careless, but taking
as your model those who by their faith and perseverance are
heirs of the promises. When God made the promise to Abraham,
he swore by his own self, since there was no one greater he
could swear by: I will shower blessings on you and give you
many descendants. Because of that, Abraham persevered and
received fulfilment of the promise. Human beings, of course,
swear an oath by something greater than themselves, and
between them, confirmation by an oath puts an end to all
dispute. In the same way, when God wanted to show the heirs
of the promise even more clearly how unalterable his plan
was, he conveyed it by an oath so that through two
unalterable factors in which God could not be lying, we who
have fled to him might have a vigorous encouragement to
grasp the hope held out to us. This is the anchor our souls
have, reaching right through inside the curtain where Jesus
has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a
high priest for ever, of the order of Melchizedek.
R. God has made a covenant with His people.
We are to thank God with all our heart
before others, showing witness to God.
God is loving and merciful, to those
who are faithful to Him, He
outpours mercy –
God is forever mindful of us and
forever mindful of His Covenant.
We see Saul's revenge –
He disobeyed God and
David is anointed and Saul
wanted David killed –
Saul became evil in his ways –
Saul wanted to block God's Plan
despite his disobedience,
he wanted to kill David –
Envy is sorrow over the
man doing good.
Saul wanted David killed –
Saul wanted David to fail –
The envious man wants the good
man to fail because of their
own sin.
The envious man is self-centered.
Rather than rejoicing at his
calling from God and helping
God in living his vocation
with a pure heart –
He wants failure for the man doing
good and
He sins against himself disobeying
God's will for him and
trying to block God's will
for the righteous man.
God's desires
to complete
a good work in us.
The evil man, the envious man
wants to stop the good work
and help the evil to prevail,
serving satan and not God.
This makes the evil man dark
inside and miserable!
David struck Goliath down with
his sling – God was behind David –
Saul was so envious!!
This envy and anger and jealousy
destroyed Saul in the end!!
Jesus: Making satan your master
produces a bad end.
I know the desires of your
heart.
They wanted to kill Me for all
My good works given to men.
Mark 3: 1-6
Another
time he went into the synagogue,
and there was a
man present whose hand was
withered. And they were watching him to see if he would cure him on
the
Sabbath day, hoping for something
to charge him with. He said to the
man with the withered hand, 'Get up
and stand in the middle!' Then he said to them, 'Is it permitted on
the
Sabbath day to do good, or to do
evil; to save life, or to kill?' But they said nothing. Then he
looked angrily round at them, grieved to find them so obstinate, and
said to the man, 'Stretch out your hand.' He stretched it out and
his hand was restored. The
Pharisees went out and began at
once to plot with the Herodians against him, discussing how to
destroy him.
R. Do we oppose God or are we living
under Him –
From the Priestly
Newsletter Book III - 2000 Issue 3
Pope John Paul II
instructs us: "The Church, as a reconciled and reconciling
community, cannot forget that at the source of her gift and mission
of reconciliation is the initiative, full of compassionate love and
mercy, of that God who is love (see 1 John 4:8) and who out of love
created human beings (see Wisdom 11:23-26; Genesis 1:27: Psalms
8:4-8)…He created them so that they might live in friendship with
Him and in communion with one another.
"God is faithful to His eternal plan
even when man, under the impulse of the evil one (see Wisdom 2:24)
and carried away by his own pride, abuses the freedom given to him
in order to love and generously seek what is good, and (instead)
refuses to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when man,
instead of responding with love to God’s love, opposes Him and
treats Him like a rival, deluding himself and relying on his own
power, with the resulting break of relationship with the One who
created him. In spite of this transgression on man’s part, God
remains faithful in love.
"It is certainly true that the story
of the Garden of Eden makes us think about the tragic consequences
of rejecting the Father, which becomes evident in man’s inner
disorder and in the breakdown of harmony between man and woman,
brother and brother (see Genesis 3:12 ff; 4:1-16). Also significant
is the Gospel parable of the two brothers (the parable of the
‘prodigal son’; see Luke 15:11-32) who, in different ways, distance
themselves from their father and cause a rift between them. Refusal
of God’s fatherly love and of His loving gifts is always at the root
of humanity’s divisions.
"But we know that God…like the father
in the parable (of the prodigal son), does not close His heart to
any of His children. He waits for them, looks for them, goes to meet
them at the place where the refusal of communion imprisons them in
isolation and division. He calls them to gather about His table in
the joy of the feast of forgiveness and reconciliation.
"This initiative on God’s part is
made concrete and manifest in the redemptive act of Christ, which
radiates through the world by means of the ministry of the Church."
13
In the evening of that same
day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room
where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood
among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you,’ and, after saying
this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were
filled with joy at seeing the Lord, and he said to them again,
‘Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’
(Jn 20:19-21).
The world needs peace. Individual
nations need peace and families need peace. The Church needs peace.
Each of us individually needs peace. We must work for peace through
prayer, fasting, and other Christ-like activities.
And just what do we mean by peace?
St. Augustine says peace is the tranquility of order. God has put
order into His creation and this order must be respected and
promoted if peace is to prevail. To the extent that the human family
lives according to God’s will—lives according to the order or the
plan God has established for creation—to that extent does peace
exist in the various segments of human society. To the extent there
are violations of God’s plan, of His will, to that extent peace is
absent.
If we are to be instruments of
peace, we ourselves must be at peace. Our personal peace is that
tranquility of order which results from our doing God’s will. The
more we are united through love with God in the doing of His will,
the more we experience peace.
Sometimes the sense of peace we
experience is so strong that we can "feel" it pulsating throughout
our being. These are periods of what we may call the experience of
extraordinary peace. This type of peace usually is not an everyday
occurrence.
Most of the time we live immersed
in a more subdued kind of peace which results from our daily
attempts to do God’s will in love. It is that peace which is a
welcome and sustaining companion as we walk the path of everyday
life with its usual assortments of joys and disappointments,
successes and failures, laughter and tears.
Occasionally, very deep suffering
may enter our lives. It is during these times that we need special
determination to preserve ourselves in a basic peace of spirit
despite the very significant pain. One may wonder how a person can
be at peace amidst the experience of great suffering. St. Francis de
Sales in one of his writings—and I have not been able to locate the
exact place—offers an analogy which I think is very helpful. He asks
us to picture an ocean body of water at the time of a violent storm.
The surface of the water becomes extremely turbulent. Francis asks
us, as we use our imagination, to descend beneath the surface of the
water into its depth. What do we find? The more deeply one descends
away from the turbulent surface, the calmer the water becomes.
Likewise, says the saint and doctor of the Church, should it be with
us during times of profound suffering. Although the surface of the
spirit may be very agitated, one can still maintain basic peace of
spirit by going deep down to one’s center where God is more directly
experienced. Here the person experiences a calm, a basic peace,
although the suffering remains.
If we are trying to do God’s will
in love, God intends us to be at peace. The more we conform to God’s
will, the more we are living according to the order He intends for
us. In turn, the more our lives are in harmony with the order
established by God, the more we experience peace—peace being the
tranquility of order. The more we ourselves live in this manner, the
more fit instruments we become for promoting God’s order and
consequent peace throughout the various segments of society.
St. Dominic was an outstanding
witness to the peace of the Lord: "Dominic possessed such great
integrity and was so strongly motivated by divine love, that without
doubt he proved to be a bearer of honor and grace. He was a man of
great equanimity, except when moved to compassion and mercy. And
since a joyful heart animates the face, he displayed the peaceful
composure of a spiritual man in the kindness he manifested outwardly
and by the cheerfulness of his countenance."14
Shortly before he was to die from
cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words
about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving
way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their
leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and
people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for
warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.
"But we know that spring will soon
come with all its new life and wonder.
"It is quite clear that I will not
be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a
different way…
"What I would like to leave behind
is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s
special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we
find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of
times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is
essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within
us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."15
St. Teresa of Avila, one of the
three women doctors of the Church, tells us how the spiritual life
is summed up in loving conformity to the Father’s will:
"All that the beginner in prayer
has to do -- and you must not forget this, for it is very important
-- is to labor and to be resolute and prepare himself with all
possible diligence to bring his will in conformity with the will of
God. As I shall say later, you may be quite sure that this comprises
the very greatest perfection which can be attained on the spiritual
road."16
Again she states: "...love
consists ... in the firmness of our determination to try to please
God in everything." 17
13. Pope John Paul II, as in
Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, pp. 140-141.
14. "From the Various Writings of
the History of the Order of Preachers," as in The Liturgy of the
Hours, Catholic Book Publishing Co., Vol lV, p. 1302.
15. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace,
Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.
16. St Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle, translated by E.
Allison Peers, Doubleday and Co., "Second Mansions", p. 51.
17. Ibid., "Fourth Mansions", p. 76.
February 9, 2016
Dear Friends,
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you
in love.
If you read Fr. Joe's book like I did on the
13th you can see how awesome it is.
It helps me understand what is happening in
the writings during the liturgical year.
It is so very good, it makes me so eager to
live the liturgy in my life, live in the liturgical year.
Well we have sent over 13,000 of Fr. Joe's
new cycle books since the beginning of November to priests and hierarchy
all over the world.
It can enrich so many lives with the weekly
sermon rooted in the Word, the Eucharist, the liturgy, the Mass,
Baptism, love and unity.
When a priest uses the book weekly he
focuses on the Bread of Life to feed the people.
Say a priest says 4 or 5 Masses weekly
Think of how many souls could be reached with the people attending Mass.
Fr. Joe speaks of love and being a member of
the body of Christ, living in relationships all in the context of the
scripture.
We see salvation history and its ups and
downs - we see our calling from God and we see our part in
salvation history.
God calls - we respond.
The body of Christ can help the world to
raise up to greater perfection.
What are you doing to help this coming
election in the United States.
This book of Fr. Joe's can help so many
people every week.
We have sent over 13,000 books out to
priests and hierarchy to every priest in your state.
We have sent the books to so many priests in
the United States and all Bishops.
Can't you help us.
We also send a Prayer Brochure with the
Shepherds of Christ prayers praying for the priests, the Church and the
world.
We pray in adoration 8 days a month with
usually 6 Masses for you, your family and the priests the Church and the
world.
We pray in 24 hour adoration before the
Exposed Blessed Eucharist in China for all this and for you.
The China mortgage is due tomorrow
and we are struggling because of giving so
much money to the Ministries.
Can anyone help us with a donation.
Also we are printing another 20,000 of Fr.
Joe's books going to all the priests in the United States.
This can enormously help for this coming
election.
A weekly Priestly Newsletter used about the
scriptures and everything at Sunday Mass.
Please we need your help.
If you want to know what to do to help the
world and especially all active priests in the United States please help
us with a donation.
We need your help today. Thanks for your
prayers and help in advance.
God Bless you and love you.
Rita Robinson Ring
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