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Jesus: My retreat in Florida
                    
and China is a
                    
privilege 
                    
it is a gift 
                    
I outpour My grace 
                
It is for My purpose 
                
It is for My honor and glory 
                
Pray with Rita as I have instructed
                
Make reparation for your sins 
                
What is not so bad is the sin
                    
as the one who denies
                    
they sin 
                   
they are stuck!!
                
Be contrite and truthful 
                    
come to Me and beg for
                    
love and mercy and forgiveness
                    
when you sin 
               
R. I watched the movie "Bobby Jones"
                
and I saw a man in his life with
                
so many relationships  all of which
                
were so important to his life 
                    
God the Father created us uniquely
                
special to relate with others on
                
a unique relationship  No other
                
person can fill a relationship as
                
one, husband, child, leader,
                
worker, friend etc. 
                
Each relationship is unique 
                
To try to possess another person in
                
a relationship and try to force them
                
to have only that relationship
                
is to be a rival to God's will 
                
which is a life of misery 
                    
God calls men and women to
                
religious life, married life,
                
single life  their relationships
                
are all different and yet they
                
form a beautiful love of many
                
as is seen in the movie
                
Bobby Jones 
                    
Because an individual
                
rebels against their own vocation,
                
uniquely created by God and given
                
all the right talents  one leads
                
a life rebelling against the
                
Plan of the Father, the Father's
                
will and this leads to misery 
                
God intends us to love the world 
                
love the souls Jesus died for 
                
help build His Kingdom and
                
put Him first in our lives 
                    
A person wounded in a very
                
painful relationship may never
                
trust another again and keep
                
their distance 
                    
Relationships are formed to
                
be deeper  to work better
                
together  to let people go
                
in and out of doors to do what
                
God wills them to do 
                    
Nobody will be happy
                
blocking another from living
                
their vocation as God intends
                
because of slavish possessiveness 
                
Every day is a new day to do God's
                
will  to surrender as Mary,
                
the perfect handmaid of the
                
Lord  to live as God intends
                
us to live and to say yes and
                
be happy serving God 
                
A mom went away for a 1 1/2 day
                
trip  the children were
                
angry 
                
the two, almost three year
                
old, played very cold to mom
                
when she returned 1 1/2 days
                
later 
                    
Adults are to be mature
                
spiritually  to realize that
                
we are happy only in living
                
according to God's will in
                
love  It is preparation for
                
relationship in heaven 
                
"Give us this day, our daily bread"
                
"Thy will be done on earth as
                    
it is in heaven"
                
A person that gives to a relationship
                
and then when they leave
                
punishes the person for
                
leaving  never learned
                
about love and relationship 
                
in punishing their friend
                
leaving  they know little
                
about love  the invisible
                
string that binds friends 
                
They are immature in trying
                
to possess another or try
                
to force another to disobey
                
God's will for them for their
                
slavishly dependent ways 
                
A person who loves and relates to
                
others is gladden when they are
                
together, they want God's will
                
when separated and then they
                
are happy again to re-unite 
                
Hurting someone we love for
                
a possessive sickness 
                
hangs our own heart on a
                
stick  because when we
                
are unloving to anyone we
                
sin 
                    
God intends us to trust 
                
to be committed 
                    
He gives us the New Covenant 
                
what a gift 
                    
The person afraid to ever
                
commit doesn't understand
                
the goal in relating and going
                
to heaven 
                    
When we put a lot of
                
love and time into a relationship
                
we know others have to do God's
                
will 
                
we don't act like selfish
                
people 
                
or cry like babies when mama
                    
leaves 
                
We want all to do God's will 
                    
Serve God and
                    
not be leeches for us 
                
A person building relationships
                    
with others gets their
                    
strength in the love they
                    
know God has for them 
Not controlling 
                
Not trying to make others 
                    
slavishly dependent 
They want the will of God 
                
They are filled with love and
                    
pray for those who need
                    
it in love 
                
They never punish others to
                    
control and manipulate 
                    
them 
                
They are too busy living and
                    
loving their vocation
                    
as God has called them 
               
Jesus: This is My
                    
message with
                    
love to you 
                
Love mightily as your
                    
heavenly Father intends and
                    
thank God for His
                    
over pouring love to
                    
us 
Trust in My love 
                
I am Jesus, I died for your sins   
	 
                
R. The devil presses on an individual and he
                    
tempts them with run-on thinking to
                    
create a case against someone they
                    
love deeply 
                
Now the heart of the person is bleeding
                    
in this division because they have
                    
worked long and hard to make a
                    
relationship of love 
                
What caused the division 
                    
write it down 
                    
then write how God has blessed
                        
you both in the love and
                    
talents He has given to be united, and
                        
build His Kingdom 
                        
and spread love 
Love is a choice 
                
God wants us to love from a free heart 
                    
So He gave us a free will to love 
                    
We choose to do God's will and love
                        
and work in unity or
                    
We can rebel against God's will and
                        
blame an innocent other for
                        
our own unloving heart 
                
Even when one is distant and relationships
                    
broken up  a person must work
                    
through that hurting relationship
                    
and learn to forgive and work
                    
through the offense 
                    
turning their hearts to forgiveness 
                    
even if they do not think it is God's
                    
will they are still together 
                    
forgiveness, working through the
                    
relationship in love in their
                    
heart is necessary for a happy 
                    
free heart 
                    
to be a heart of love 
                
Empty and ready to love as God
                    
intends 
                
They need closure in the relationship 
                    
in their heart even if it is no longer active
Song: Why do We Hurt the Ones We Love

R. Love is the answer 
God is love 
                
If we say we love God, but hate our
                    
brother we are a liar 
                
God calls us to love Him and love our
                    
brothers as ourselves 
                
To go in and out of doors in relationships 
                    
praying that all does God's will 
               
Jesus: I am love 
                
He who loves, abides in Me and I in Him 
                
Love is a choice 
                
Love as I have loved you 
                
I died for your sins 
                
I forgive your sins when you ask Me 
                
I am a God of justice 
                
You have a free will to love or not
                
I obeyed My Father's will to My death
                    
on the cross 
Song: I Am a God of Justice

Revelation 5: 9-10
They sang a new hymn:
You are worthy to take the scroll
and to break its seals,
because you were sacrificed,
and with your blood
you bought people for God
of every race, language, people and nation
and made them a line of kings and priests for God,
to rule the world.
Acts 13: 26-33
My brothers, sons of Abrahams race, and all you godfearers, this message of salvation is meant for you. What the people of Jerusalem and their rulers did, though they did not realise it, was in fact to fulfil the prophecies read on every Sabbath. Though they found nothing to justify his execution, they condemned him and asked Pilate to have him put to death. When they had carried out everything that scripture foretells about him they took him down from the tree and buried him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead, and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem: and it is these same companions of his who are now his witnesses before our people.
We have come here to tell you the good news that the promise made to our ancestors has come about. God has fulfilled it to their children by raising Jesus from the dead. As scripture says in the psalms: You are my son: today I have fathered you.
Psalm 2: 6-11
I myself have anointed my king
on Zion my holy mountain.I will proclaim the decree of Yahweh:
He said to me, You are my son,
today have I fathered you.
Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations as your birthright,
the whole wide world as your possession.
With an iron sceptre you will break them,
shatter them like so many pots.So now, you kings, come to your senses,
you earthly rulers, learn your lesson!
In fear be submissive to Yahweh;
John 14: 1-6
Do not let your hearts be troubled.
You trust in God, trust also in me.
In my Fathers house
there are many places to live in;
otherwise I would have told you.
I am going now to prepare a place for you,
and after I have gone
and prepared you a place,
I shall return to take you to myself,
so that you may be with me
where I am.
You know the way
to the place where I am going.
Thomas said, Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way? Jesus said:
Jesus said: I am the Way; I am Truth and Life.
No one can come to the Father
except through me.

Margaret's casket

Fr. Carter's casket
R. God has prepared a place for them
1 Peter 2: 9
But you are a chosen race, a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, a people to be a personal possession to sing the praises of God who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
R. Paul was rejected by His own people 
Acts 13: 44-52
The next Sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the word of God. When they saw the crowds, the Jews, filled with jealousy, used blasphemies to contradict everything Paul said. Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. We had to proclaim the word of God to you first, but since you have rejected it, since you do not think yourselves worthy of eternal life, here and now we turn to the gentiles. For this is what the Lord commanded us to do when he said:
I have made you a light to the nations,
so that my salvation may reach
the remotest parts of the earth.It made the gentiles very happy to hear this and they gave thanks to the Lord for his message; all who were destined for eternal life became believers. Thus the word of the Lord spread through the whole countryside.
But the Jews worked on some of the devout women of the upper classes and the leading men of the city; they stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their territory. So they shook the dust from their feet in protest against them and went off to Iconium; but the converts were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.
R. Can you imagine 
                
Jesus called 12 men and
                
They had a fallen human nature 
                    
They were disobedient and
                        
prideful and afraid and
                        
argumentative 
                
Look at how Jesus had to talk
                    
in this Gospel 
                    
Philip asks to see the Father 
John 14: 7-14
'Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?If you know me,
you will know my Father too.
From this moment you know him
and have seen him.Philip said, 'Lord, show us the Father and then we shall be satisfied.' Jesus said to him,
'Anyone who has seen me
has seen the Father,
so how can you say,
"Show us the Father"?
Do you not believe
that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me?
What I say to you
I do not speak of my own accord:
it is the Father, living in me,
who is doing his works.
You must believe me when I say
that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me;
or at least believe it
on the evidence of these works.
In all truth I tell you,
whoever believes in me
will perform the same works
as I do myself,
and will perform even greater works,
because I am going to the Father.
Whatever you ask in my name
I will do,
so that the Father may be glorified
in the Son.
If you ask me anything in my name,
I will do it.
               
R. Pride and lack of forgiveness can get
                    
in the way of loving and doing
                    
the Father's will 
                
St. Ignatius says all sins can come
                    
from pride, seeking affections
                    
for oneself, greed 
No human person can satisfy us 
We were created for God 
                
As long as our goal starts and ends with
                    
a human person fulfilling us
                    
we see that that person is barking
                    
down the wrong tree
                
May the eyes of the blind be opened and
                    
their hearts healed and
                    
emptied of unforgiveness,
                    
shame and lies 
                
A heart like Jesus is one who is
                    
empty of hate and anger and 
                    
focused on doing God's
                        
will in love 
                
One who has not advanced in loving
                    
God and loving others as ourselves
                    
becomes more and more self-centered 
                    
instead of going out of themselves 
                    
they go into themselves 
                    
caved-in 
                    
the world is caved-in 
                    
not like the selflessness of Jesus 
                    
as one matures in the spiritual life
                    
they go from self-centeredness 
                    
ego focused 
                    
to other focused 
                    
they come from a place, Jesus says,
                        
of giving love without strings
                        
attached  with the purpose of
                        
doing God's will in love
                        
and building His Kingdom 
                
From a place of giving love to others 
                    
like Jesus and not living to need love
                    
like a baby who needs the affection
                    
of their parents or guardian to survive 
Giving love like Jesus 
                
Not caved-in  doing everything for
                    
themselves  caved-in 
                    
their world begins and ends in
                    
their head 
                    
blinded by their own thoughts
                        
and failure to choose love 
Love is a choice 
                
The life we have is a gift from God 
                    
Jesus is the Savior,
                    
but heaven is a reward for those
                    
who love and serve the Lord 
                
We have to work at being like God
                    
wants 
                    
being self-centered, caved-in 
                        
is not loving
                
Jesus loved those who rejected Him and
                    
put Him to death 
He died for our sins 
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