February 7, 2016

                From Fr. Joe's homily

                R. Introduction

                    Isaiah is hearing his
                calling from God. He exclaims
                what he sees and hears.

                    He is aware of his own sinfulness –

                This is Peter's reaction when he sees the
                    miraculous catch of fish –
                    He says "I am a sinful man"

                Here I am Lord, send me.

                We meet Christ in the miracle of the
                    catching of the fish.

                Today's Readings

Luke 5: 1-11

    Now it happened that he was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd pressing round him listening to the word of God, when he caught sight of two boats at the water’s edge. The fishermen had got out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats—it was Simon’s—and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

    When he had finished speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ Simon replied, ‘Master, we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled both boats to sinking point.

    When Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, ‘Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man.’ For he and all his companions were completely awestruck at the catch they had made; so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners. But Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on it is people you will be catching.’ Then, bringing their boats back to land they left everything and followed him.

                R. Last Sunday before Ash Wednesday –

                Here is some technical about scripture –

                Today's Gospel is from St. Luke –

                Jesus hadn't even asked Apostles
                    to follow Him.

                There is the story and the miraculous catch of fish
                    in St. John's Gospel – This occurred after
                    Jesus' resurrection.

                Most scholars think there is only one
                    miraculous catch of fish in St. John's Gospel.

                John & Luke tell it a little differently, but
                    same story. Stories were passed on orally.

                The Gospels are not always in the
                    perfect sync in time – then when
                    Gospel writer wrote it they were
                    not exact about time – they were
                    interested in telling the Good News.

                When the events come from 2 sources
                    that is a really good chance of
                    authenticity. They were interested in the
                    issue not same time.

                The Gospel is Luke today, so we talk about
                    that – Luke tells us it happened
                    before Jesus called Peter to follow Him.
                    Jesus told Peter from now on he would
                    be catching men.

                We know what happens to fish –

                Fish gets fried and eaten –

                Peter is supposed to not
                    do this – Peter is told he
                    is to bring them to light –
                    capture them alive –

                People will blessed to have
                    fullness of life in heaven.

                Jesus is writing like a prophet
                    He says you will be catching
                        people –

                Jesus never lies when He
                    promises us –

                He promises those who believe
                    in Him will have eternal life.

                He promises about baptism that we would
                    be born again and share in His life.

                He promises about confession –
                    our sins will be forgiven.

                In Holy Communion He promises "This is
                    My Body"

                In the miraculous miracle of fish
                    we see Jesus walked along the sea and
                    said come follow Me.

                They sensed His Divinity and power.

                They dropped everything and followed Him –

                Jesus tells them they will have
                    suffering, they will be rejected.

                Jesus is who stands out in the Gospel,
                    but then Simon Peter stands out next –

                We see Peter stands out as a
                    leader a lot after Jesus.

                Peter was dead when Luke
                    wrote his Gospel –

                Why do they make such
                    a big thing about Peter's job
                    because his office remains –

                We see Peter's role remaining in the Church.

                We see Peter's role in the Church
                    the Pope's role in the Church.

February 7, 2016

                R. The ultimate goal of all of us should be eternal
                life, to have the beatific vision.

                    Each person is unique. We work in happiness
                according to the vocation God has called us to.
                God has given a man a calling. If a man
                accepts that calling he has a responsibility
                to God for what he is called to do by God.
                What binds a person in a given vocation?
                We are called by God to live a life of love –
                love of God first, love of our neighbor as
                ourselves –

                This love and our efforts to live in love,
                likened to God – unites us more and more to God,
                who is love.

                    We are to discipline ourselves and not give
                into satan who attempts to tempt a man to
                give in to his feelings against what God wants
                for attention and drama.

                    Satan is real. A person can become a
                slave to his feelings that he gives in when
                satan tempts him to try to ruin things for
                attention. A person may become so addicted
                to living in excitement he keeps himself
                in constant chaos working out the unfinished
                business of his past.

                    God intends us to accept the moral responsibility
                of our vocation. A man in a particular vocation
                is called to support the ministries for which
                his vocation is called to support.

                    A person can have problems in their life
                seeking drama and attention when dealing
                in their vocation because they are acting-out
                unfinished issues that have not been
                healed from their past life. Life long
                they can continue the merry-go-round called
                denial as they act out the same unresolved
                issues of the past.

                    God called us in our vocation to be guided
                as we interact with others to help in the
                building of His Kingdom, but a man can be
                so enslaved to keep fighting, arguing and
                holding out as satan continues tempting
                him, to act-out issues from his past –
                it can be victimhood – where a person sees
                themselves a victim and continues life threatening
                issues to always be on a treadmill of chaos.
                It can be loss of power issues – where he
                is constantly trying to get power back from
                innocent others for his loss of power
                of the past, of how he lives now, but
                feels very threatened and dominated by
                some – so he dominates and threatens
                others to act-out his unresolved issues
                now or in the past.

                Acting-out can be how a person becomes
                enslaved to unmet needs with the family
                from the past, relationships with children
                now – a whole set of problems are
                acted-out from control, to attention, to drama,
                to power.

                    This St. Ignatius refers to as inordinate
                attachments.

                     The purpose of the spiritual exercises is
                this.

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

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

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

                R. God intends us to walk hand-in-hand
                and to interact and work with others
                in healthy and loving relationships that
                help us to grow more and more in the
                image of God. We are preparing for our
                eternal vocation with God forever in
                the beatific vision.

                    We are to die to those ways that are
                keeping us stuck and stopping us from
                living in greater purity.

                    We need to work with others, to
                see our life here is for conversion as
                Our Lady of Fatima called us to almost
                100 years ago.

                Fear is a big way satan works. Fear of
                abandonment, childhood fears.

                    I love the book "Where the Wild Things
                Are."

                    The little boy has a fear of his basement
                and he envisions monsters down there
                and so he doesn't want to go there –
                It is shown as a serious matter and it
                gets bigger and bigger –

                    At least he knows what his fear is.
                The Merry-Go-Round called Denial
                can be like an endless play somebody plays
                hurting themselves, acting-out the past –
                going round and round, staying isolated,
                sending people away that are needed for
                the vocation someone is called to by God
                to build up a particular institution,
                but they are closed down and want their
                space and don't want to trust others,
                work with others and can be afraid
                to feel things of the heart.

                    We are helped in our vocation to
                grow to be more perfected in relationships.
                God has a plan for us and He wants us
                to contribute to the building of the Kingdom of God.
                God wants us to do His will – not too much
                of a thing – not too little.

                    The person addicted to attention,
                drama can come in at the most
                inopportune times because satan presses
                on them when they are to be supporting
                what God is called them to – they become
                a rival and try to stop the very thing
                God calls them to.

                    In the Movement God has called the
                13th, the 5th as special prayer days.
                Our Lady has appeared to me 5th after
                5th. 

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                R. I think of the scripture where Jesus
                did not work many miracles, He said
                where the faith of the men was so weak.

                    When I see Jesus, when I think of
                God, it is not extraordinary for God
                to work miracles.

                    God is God, God is Divine – If we
                see God through our limited vision we
                can see God quite distortedly! We see
                ourselves distortedly, we see ourselves
                distortedly, couple this with a man – who
                sees darkly – his whole life he is
                seeing through the half-empty eyes or
                even shutting down eyes of opportunity –
                He expects things to not work out –
                coupled with fear and isolation and
                his closed down reality the way he sees –
                he doesn't intend for things to work –
                nor is he attractive to men coming who
                are seeking miracles, who want to
                increase in faith and possibilities –

                    Because of original sin our vision
                is distorted, vision of God – distorted
                            vision of ourselves – distorted
                            vision of others – distorted –

                    Couple this with immaturity – acting-out
                on the pity-pot, drama, seeking attention –
                seeking dominance and control
                for dominance sake –

                    How do you grow seeds on a side-walk?
                How do you grow anything where a
                man seeks to find a place he can call
                a sterile reality his stomping ground?
                So satan can work there – in the
                enslavement, in the darkness, to close
                down, to be always working on issues
                that stop the progress of working on
                building up – making advances in
                the Ministries of God.

                    God gives us a moral responsibility in
                our vocation to be as He wants us to be.
                To choose to do nothing and be shut down
                is to choose.

                    If God calls us to something and I
                say "I did nothing wrong," because
                I did nothing, I am acting in doing
                nothing.

                    We are uniquely called by God to
                help spread the Kingdom of God in the way
                He calls us.

                    We are to live in greater purity, maturing
                in our ways, not living to act-out –
                stay dark and have an attitude
                "It can't work and I don't need anyone
                in my space."

                    God gives us gifts – We see the day-light
                every day here. The night comes we rest and
                then the light of day – day after day after
                day – we see the light after the dark
                night –

                    God puts guides in our lives to help us
                to grow to be as God wants us to be –
                We can't look at the sun – too much
                light can blind us – sometimes I can
                hardly take it when God gives me a
                special experience – We are not to have
                darkness all the time –
                We are not even to have the ability to gaze
                at the sun –

                We are to be in the right place at the
                    right time –

                    A person can look back and see their own
                darkness – day after day after day –
                That is what examination of conscience
                is every day – during the day – am I
                doing what God wants – take my
                spiritual pulse, am I obedient to
                authority – am I addicted to attention,
                drama, starting something when I am
                called to be in harmony, but instead
                bringing chaos and division – wherever
                I go to not go along and support prayer,
                conversation God is calling me to.

                    Soon the curtain comes down and
                the play is over.

                    We will NEVER live the moments
                of this day again.

                    Why would a man play the old tapes
                in his head – day long – of his perfectionists
                father or mother, why wouldn't he
                seek to do God's will in living in peace
                now and quit acting-out the
                unfinished business of his past.

                    What is the hole that keeps a man
                from letting go of inordinate attachments
                and living the life God called him
                to and quit acting out drama,
                need for attention, isolation, fear,
                victimhood –

                Jesus: All the energy a man employs to act
                out his negative energy –
                like putting on the same play – week –
                after week – after week –

                Your reality when living in darkness
                    is not what is reality –
                    The man in darkness can see
                    that way and try to force his
                    vision on others.

                I am God, I am a God of miracles,
                    I am light, I am love, I am a
                    God of order and peace –
                    Because men came into your life
                    and lived in darkness, sinning –
                    why do you not see yourself
                    acting-out and when someone
                    says "STOP IT" you get
                    mad at them and act worse –

                Wow, I cry blood for these stubborn
                    fools that go head first down
                    their crooked roads with
                    sacks on their heads.

                I command you to love –

                I give you the commandments to
                    follow –

                The man of darkness can be steeped
                    in pride and he stays there
                    because he is a rival to My
                    way of love and life –

                He makes his own bed, like the man
                    who makes his bed in the
                    morning – his blanket is
                    dark and he keeps it going like
                    a merry-go-round and nobody
                    will stop him – the man of pride –
                    he wants no correction –
                    he wants no direction –
                    and the darkness of this man
                    becomes darker and darker –

                I am love –
                I am light -
                I am Divine –
                I am All powerful –

                You watch the convents dissolve –

                Why would a man come to a place
                    where the darkness is crouching
                    in –

                The man acting-out his past and
                    punishing others has no
                    attraction.

                    He can keep living out his
                        sordid past and doesn't
                        want anyone to stop his
                        play –

                Nary will he have an issue –
                    he runs everybody off with
                        his pride and isolation
                        and darkness.

                If a fire is raging do you stick
                    your finger in it?

                Anger inside of a man is felt
                    by those who come around
                    him – Anger causes stiffness
                    and shut-down –

                People will come when the climate
                    is genuine – heart-felt love –
                    where there is holiness –
                    where there is no baggage –
                    and baggage –

                Every week the dumpster is
                    emptied –

                When the snow comes – the
                    snow shovel makes a
                    path for traffic on the
                    closed road –

                A snow came 2 feet high and
                    the man lived where it
                    would not melt –
                    He refused the snow plow
                    And he lived a frozen life
                        in his hut –
                    Soon he died because he
                        had no food –

                I am the Bread of Life –

                I give you a sharing in My life in baptism
                You are dependent on Me –

                I am God –

                God created you with a purpose.
 

November 4, 2013

                Jesus: You are a work in progress
   

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
    in the image of God he created him,
    male and female he created them.

                Jesus: So shall you sow
                    So shall you reap

                    Remember Pharaoh
                    God sent 10 Plagues
                    But he was obstinate
                    The king had a hard heart
                    The Egyptian army rushed into
                        the Red Sea –
                    They were enveloped by the waters –

                I give to you the 10 Commandments –
                    centered in love –

                Jesus: I give you rules to live by –

                They were worshipping the golden calf.

                I have called you to love God –

                I have called you to not have false gods
                    before you –

Isaiah 41: 10

do not be afraid, for I am with you;
do not be alarmed, for I am your God.
I give you strength, truly I help you,
truly I hold you firm
    with my saving right hand.

Deuteronomy 7: 9

From this you can see that Yahweh your God is the true God, the faithful God who, though he is true to his covenant and his faithful love for a thousand generations as regards those who love him and keep his commandments,

                Jesus: I hear your prayers and
                    I help you to be holy –
                    You must come to Me with a
                    docile heart –
                    not hard and cut off

1 John 2: 4

Whoever says, ‘I know him’
without keeping his commandments, 
is a liar,
and truth has no place in him.

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: What is the motive behind your actions?
                   Are you really living in love, as I
                   commanded you to do?
                    Are you true to your word?

                You need to recognize your dependence
                    on God –

                Pray to be holy, to live according
                    to God's will –

                To fill your heart with the Holy Spirit –

                Don't give into satan in pride
                    and let him dwell in
                    you and block your
                    life with darkness –

                Be a child of the light – ask the
                    Holy Spirit to fill you.

                Given February 5, 2016

                R. God has given us our speech and commanded us
                to love Him with all our heart, all our soul and
                all our being. God has given us a life time to love.
                We his ave a free will to use our speech to love, to
                be affirming, to be kind, to let others know what
                God wants us to tell them to have harmony,
                to have unity, to help one another.

                    The devil is hatred, he is bitterness,
                contrariness, angriness. The gift of one's tongue
                is a gift - to proclaim the glory of God, to be
                more and more in the image of God. In hell
                there is isolation and there is no love. It is
                so wrong for a person to hold out the tongue God
                has given them, the gift of speech and communication,
                the gift of a tongue and use it to do evil. It is
                offensive to God to use such a gift as the tongue
                or the gift of communication for the purpose
                of bitterness, anger, envy, jealousies of
                the heart.

                    We are here to prepare ourselves for heaven,
                to use our gifts to promote the Kingdom of God and
                we will be judged on how we loved.
               
                God gave us a free will because He wants us to
                freely choose love. No one man can make another
                man act lovingly. A person can love another,
                encourage another, but no person can make
                a person love. God gives man a free will to
                choose to love and He commands us to do
                so.

                    In heaven there is love. There is perfect love.
                There is the embrace of the beatific vision
                for all eternity. We are to prepare for the vision
                of God by living a virtuous life. We pray
                to the Holy Spirit to help us to do whatever God wants
                us to do today – to live a life of love and to be
                His instrument of love. What a gift that
                God loves me so much. I am lovable and
                God wants to come and possess my soul.
                My life is lived to be possessed by God.
                I give Him my will – I want to selflessly
                serve Him as He desires. I am His – as
                it says in the Prayer for Union with
                Jesus. "I am Yours Lord, I want to have
                my life in You."

                Surrender to the Divine, Almighty God who
                created us and loves us and has a plan
                for us. Surrender because we are under God,
                we are dependent on God, we love God, we
                follow His Plan of love. We love Him first,
                we love Him above all else. We know this
                is our life lived to prepare us for eternal
                life - with God - in heaven. God wants us
                with Him, eternally in heaven, where we
                will live a life of love – possessed by God.
                Wow, wow – that is what heaven is –
                being possessed by God. Heaven is being
                full of life. God is life. God created us
                to have the fullness of life with Him
                one day in heaven. We give ourselves
                to God. The Holy Spirit guides us, counsels us,
                gives us vision, helps us understand,
                gives us wisdom – gives us the gift of
                fear of God to not want to offend Him
                with the slightest sin. We walk in
                love – we live virtuously. We pray for
                the increase of faith, hope and love
                and we live in justice, prudence,
                temperance and fortitude –

                We are God's. We give ourselves to God.

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. God has the Plan –   

                God created us for a certain vocation –

                God calls us to this vocation –

                Do you remember the Pharaoh at the time of
                    Moses – how obstinate he was – that
                    God sent him all those plagues – and
                    he wouldn't budge –

                    It is indeed a story to remember and
                        then his fate was because of his
                        obstinacy to go down in the
                        pit – the Red Sea was separated
                        and when he went in, the waters closed
                        him in.

                It can tell us of a man who opposes God's
                    will his whole life –
                    what is his fate

                R. Dear God: Thank You for the gift to
                    communicate in love, for the tongue
                    and throat that brings forth the
                    love of my heart for You and for others,
                    Thank You for the softness of the heart
                    to surrender my will to Your will –
                    to live as You desire among the people
                    You asked me to serve – to love –
                    to be as You want me to walk as
                    a witness, a leader before others.

                Dear God thank You for my life, that I
                    can see how my life can help
                    contribute to salvation history by living
                    my life united to You as my Master
                    in love.

                Dear God – Come to me now and possess
                    my soul –
                    Let me bend the stubborn heart and
                    will to let go to You.
                    Help me to let go of bitterness and
                        unforgiveness hidden in my
                        heart and be sorry for my
                        offenses against You and others –

                Come to me Lord and possess my soul –
                Come into my heart and permeate my soul –

                Help me to give my life to You –

                I want to serve You God – FIRST

                I want to do Your will –

                I am yours Lord –

                I want to have my life in You –

                I offer You my day –

                I offer You everything I do Lord –
                    united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass –

                I am Yours Lord –

                Help me to be in my heart as You
                    desire me to be –

                Come Holy Spirit fill my soul with Your gifts –

                Dear God increase in me the virtues
                    of faith, hope and love –

                Come to me Lord and posses my soul –
               
                I am Yours Lord

                I give My Life to You –

                I love You God –

                Help me to be the witness You have
                    called me to be –

                Let me say "yes" like Mary
                    who loved You as the
                    perfect disciple, perfect
                    handmaid of the Lord –

                I love You God –

                I adore You God –      

                Come and Possess My Soul –

                I am Yours –

                I give myself to You –

                Happy Valentine's Day

                I consecrate my heart to Jesus and Mary
                    in love –

  January 14, 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