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March 23, 2017

                R. Please help me – I beg and I cry
                unto Thee. I give You myself –
                I love You, Jesus.

                    I am a son of God. God
                wants me to be with Him eternally
                in heaven. My goal and my eyes
                are on this.

                    Where there is justice, there
                will be peace. We look to the
                Holy Spirit to give us His gifts –
                the gifts of the Holy Spirit can be
                ours. We pray to Him to possess
                our souls and give us His gifts of
                wisdom and understanding, knowledge,
                prudence, piety, counsel and
                Fear of the Lord.

The Holy Spirit gives us
strength and light.

                    Come Holy Spirit, Come and Possess
                my soul. Come lead me more
                and more into the ways of
                God, I love You so much
                Holy Spirit – I want to be
                so intimately one with You,
                my God, my All.

                    The Holy Spirit gives Wisdom for me
                to know the Father's will – He
                fills me with love to give God
                what He wants, I would not
                want to offend Him with
                the slightest sin because it
                is my God I love.

                    Relationship with God –
                our life's work – to know and
                love Him and to see what God
                wants of me now and forever.
                I love You God, You are my all,
                in You I breathe and my
                heart beats – for You my Savior –
                my love and relationship with
                You is reality.

                    Thank You for the Church
                and the sacraments for Your
                love for me. Thank You for
                the Eucharist in China and
                the building and the waters in
                Florida –

Thank You God for all
Your gifts to me –

                    God has all the power – we
                pray for the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
                God is infinite. God is
                Almighty. God is all powerful.
                God guides us, I am Your
                little child, I am Yours
                Lord, I want to have
                my life in You –

                    Dear God teach us to walk
                in the path of knowledge –
                Dear God help me to know and
                love on a supernatural level –
                This is so high – to know God!
                Help me to know God and give
                me Wisdom – I thirst to know
                Thee, my God. To love Thee
                ever more, to know Your
                presence in me – in others
                to love God – to love as You
                desire me to love –

                    Give me Wisdom to know how
                to live according to God's will –
                today in love.

                    Jesus gave His all for love of
                us – He gave Himself – the
                Lamb of God –

                    I see the Blessed Sacrament –
                I know God gives Himself to
                me today in the Eucharist –
                My beloved God loves me so
                much and gives Himself to
                me in such love!

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. Sin is slavery –
                We meditate on the slavery of
                the Jews – it was so awful –
                they were whipped and forced
                by the Pharaoh – living a
                horrible existence –

                A man a slave of satan is
                    living a horrible existence –
                    in darkness and down
                    so low – he sinks
                    lower in his stubbornness
                    refuses the plan of God –
                    and over and over again a man
                    of darkness refuses God's
                    grace.

Life is in God –

                    We see the people collapsing
                before Babylon because they
                would not listen to God as
                Jeremiah warned.

                    We see the words of the
                prophet Jeremiah – the people
                refused to listen to him
                and they were blind!

                    God is Almighty – All powerful –
                God gives us Laws to live by –
                the man who obeys the commandments
                of God walks in happiness –

                    The man who disobeys God's
                commandments walks in
                darkness as he is ruled by
                his stubborn pride he goes
                more and more into darkness.
                His vision is dark and
                blinded – he does not see
                as the man of light – His
                life becomes misery and
                he sees others as enemies if
                he continues to walk in his
                own self-made slavery to
                his sin –

                    A man holding on to evil
                moves further and further
                from God and stubbornness
                keeps him in blindness
                and sin if he refuses to
                see himself rebelling against
                God. Pride in a man leads
                to more and more stubbornness
                and sin.

                    The man who loves God and
                works on his relationship
                with God – sees himself
                under God and seeks purity
                of heart, asking for forgiveness
                and having real sorrow for
                his sins because he offends
                God, whom He loves, and is
                all worthy of our love and
                he offends his fellow men
                when he sins because God
                commands we love our brothers –
                Love is the rule of the just man's
                heart. Love is what makes
                us more and more living in
                the image of Jesus.
                Love rules the holy, happy
                heart!

                    We are to worship God.
                We have the Eucharist exposed
                in China.

                R. We are to Adore and Worship
                and love God.
                Kneel before God and love Him.

                    We see the burning bush – Moses
                saw – the love of God never
                runs out – God's love is
                eternal – God wants us to
                love and to treat our neighbors
                with love –

                    If we obey God's law and
                live according to His will in
                love – we can go to heaven
                forever – Heaven is a reward –
                Our life here is to prepare us
                for a life of love in heaven.

                    The Hebrews were in
                bondage – a man in sin and
                holding onto the darkness –
                operating against God's will
                and failing to love God and
                others is in bondage –
                slavery to sin from his
                own choices.

God is love and in Him
is no darkness –

                    We are to help in the work of
                redemption. God gave us life
                to love Him and love our
                brothers and help them and
                ourselves to go to heaven.
                Christ is our Savior – Christ
                is our Redeemer –

We see how Moses led
the Jews from Slavery –

                    Jesus came to lead us
                out of slavery – to love
                us – He showed us His love
                on the cross. Jesus is our Redeemer.

                    God has a plan for us. We have a
                vocation He has given us – we
                are to live our vocation as God
                wants, doing all He has asked
                us to do – so someday we can
                go to heaven –

                Jesus: "Job well done, good and
                    faithful servant – come
                    with Me into paradise,
                    I am a just God – I
                    know the love of your
                    heart and your works,
                    you have served Me
                    as you were called to do –
                    You are My faithful servant,
                    come and enter My eternal
                    Kingdom of Love, My precious
                    servant."

                R. Dear God I live to sing Your
                    praise and Your glory –
                    I live to give You honor
                    and glory.

Oh God rescue me from the
hands of the wicked –

You, Oh God are my strength –
my stronghold –

I worship and honor, You, my God –

                You are Mighty, my God and
                    all loving –
                    You have taught me Your
                    ways –
                    given us Your commandments
                    and Your Word –

                You have given us the
                    Light of Life to
                    follow You and love
                    You and love our
                    brothers and our
                    enemies –

                Oh God open the portals of
                    Your Heart so I can
                    bask in Your everlasting
                    love that never flickers
                    or goes out –

Oh God Your deeds are great
indeed –

                God gives us light every day –
                    the light steals across
                    the sky and the day
                    comes anew – everyday.

                    We see God's love for His people –
                for the Father gave His only begotten
                Son –

                    God is a God of mercy and
                of love – only the fool
                holds onto darkness – clings
                to that which is evil –
                God is with us – we are
                so blessed – be grateful
                and love Him – it is
                His due –

We were created to love –

Created in the image and likeness
of God –

Psalm 24: 1-6

To Yahweh belong the earth and all it contains,
the world and all who live there;
it is he who laid its foundations on the seas,
on the flowing waters fixed it firm.

Who shall go up to the mountain of Yahweh?
Who shall take a stand in his holy place?

The clean of hands and pure of heart,
whose heart is not set on vanities,
who does not swear an oath in order to deceive.

Such a one will receive blessing from Yahweh,
saving justice from the God of his salvation.
Such is the people that seeks him,
that seeks your presence, God of Jacob. Pause

Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997

Scriptural Reflections

In all this Mary offers an example. Selfishness was totally foreign to her. She did not belong to herself. She belonged to God. She was not closed in upon herself. She was completely open to God. When God spoke, she listened. When God pointed the way, she followed. She realized that life is not a process a person masters by carefully mapping out one's own self-conceived plans of conquest, but a mystery to be gradually experienced by being open to God's personal and loving guidance.

Selfishness, then, did not close Mary off from God's call. Neither did fear. God asked her to assume a tremendous responsibility. He asked her to be the Mother of Jesus. Mary did not engage in a process of false humility and say that such a great role was above her. She did not say that she did not have the proper qualifications for this awesome mission. Briefly, she did not waste time looking at herself, making pleas that she was not worthy, telling the angel he had better go look for someone else. No, Mary did not look at herself. Her gaze was absorbed in God. She fully realized that whatever God asked of her, His grace would accomplish. She fully realized that although she herself had to cooperate, this work was much more God's than hers.

Mary's words, then, truly sum up what is the authentic Christian response at any point of life, in any kind of situation: "I am the handmaid of the Lord," said Mary, "let what you have said be done to me".

                R. Mary totally accepted God's
                    will – Mary loved
                    God's will –

Luke 1: 31

Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus.

                R. God gives the prisoners in
                    darkness a free will to
                    come out of their slavery and
                    darkness and be forgiven
                    and have mercy,

                    but because of pride and
                loving the darkness of their
                rebellion against God and
                sin – they can refuse grace
                after grace God gives them –
                for the devil deceives them
                and lies to them and is
                envious of them – since
                he is going to hell – he wants
                the ones he tempts and traps
                to take him (the devil) as
                their council –

                    Like Eve in the Garden –
                she listened to the devil –
                wanted to be equal to God –
                disobeyed God and she
                was thrown out of paradise –

                    In Sunday's readings
                the woman at the well kept
                changing the subject when
                Jesus talked to her –

                The person serving God –
                    serves God – they are in
                    one mind and one heart –
                    they don't automatically
                    rebel against authority
                    in pride – they listen
                    and try to be united
                    in one mind and one
                    heart – Living their
                    vocation as God wants them
                    to be – living it as a
                    gift from God.

Song of Songs 2: 8-14

I hear my love.
See how he comes
leaping on the mountains,
bounding over the hills.
My love is like a gazelle,
like a young stag.

See where he stands
behind our wall.
He looks in at the window,
he peers through the opening.

My love lifts up his voice,
he says to me,
‘Come then, my beloved,
my lovely one, come.
For see, winter is past,
the rains are over and gone.

‘Flowers are appearing on the earth.
The season of glad songs has come,
the cooing of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The fig tree is forming its first figs
and the blossoming vines give out their fragrance.
Come then, my beloved,
my lovely one, come.

‘My dove, hiding in the clefts of the rock,
in the coverts of the cliff,
show me your face,
let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet
and your face is lovely.’

                R. The Blue Books tell us how
                    much God loves us –
                    What a gift they are –
                    "Letters of love from Jesus,
                        to us"
                    "What a gift" –

                A person walking in darkness
                    and going into deeper
                    darkness sees everything
                    as dark – it is run
                    by satan who wants confusion,
                    chaos, argumentation,
                    rebellion, pride.

                The person in darkness listens
                    to satan –
                    who tells them what is
                    right is wrong and
                    what is wrong is right –

                And he tries to snare them
                    so they live with
                    satan as their master.

Pray to St. Michael –

                Oh Eternal light, come to me,
                    let me live in the light
                    of justice and right –

                When the Holy Spirit is in us – the
                    truth is in us –
                    what is right is right and
                    what is wrong is wrong –

                Mary: To those lost in darkness –
                    they can cling like
                    blind-men being led
                    by satan's lies and they
                    give into satan –

I am Mary –

I crush the head of satan –

                You must be servants of God –
                    a man puffed in pride –
                    in rebellion to God –
                    walks in darkness of
                    his own making –

                So stubborn – rebelling
                    against God and living
                    in anger and darkness
                    and pessimism –

They see failure –

                They see the fruit dwindle
                    and are withered
                    like their hearts –

                R. Come, oh Come, my beloved
                    Jesus – You are the
                    Light of the World –

Salvation is in Him –

Jesus is meek and tender of
heart –

Excerpt from the Spirituality of Fatima

by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

October 13, 1917

    On October 13, 1917, there were more than 70,000 people gathered in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal. They had come to observe a miracle which had been foretold by the Blessed Virgin to three young visionaries: Lucia dos Santos, and her two cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. (1) Shortly after noon, Our Lady appeared to the three visionaries:

    As the Lady was about to leave, she pointed to the sun. Lucy excitedly repeated the gesture, and the people looked into the sky. The rain had ceased, the clouds parted, and the sun shone forth, but not in its usual brilliance. Instead, it appeared like a silver disc, pale as the moon, at which all could gaze without straining their eyes. Suddenly, impelled by some mysterious force, the disc began to whirl in the sky, casting off great shafts of multicolored light. Red, green, blue, yellow, violet—the enormous rays shot across the sky at all angles, lighting up the entire countryside for many miles around, but particularly the upturned faces of those 70,000 spellbound people.

    After a few moments the wonder stopped, but resumed again a second and a third time—three times in all—within about 12 minutes. It seemed that the whole world was on fire, with the sun spinning at a greater speed each time.

    Then a gasp of terror rose from the crowd, for the sun seemed to tear itself from the heavens and come crashing down upon the horrified multitude.... Just when it seemed that the ball of fire would fall upon and destroy them, the miracle ceased, and the sun resumed its normal place in the sky, shining forth as peacefully as ever.

    When the people arose from the ground, cries of astonishment were heard on all sides. Their clothes, which had been soaking wet and muddy, now were clean and dry. Many of the sick and crippled had been cured of their afflictions. ⁽²⁾

NOTE:

2. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). pp.7-8.

R. Here are the rainbows from
the feast of the Epiphany.

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And ask God to bless your state
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Pray all prayers through the intercession of
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Ask the Lady of CLEAR - WATER
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Mary has appeared to me for 22 years,
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    because of your being so
    one with Jesus.

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