Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing          

May 24, 2015

May 25th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is 
Day 3 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for May 25th
are Luminous.

 

Pray for special intentions.

 

Pray for Dan & Melanie, Jimmy,
Fr. Joe, Sonny & family, Blue Book 15,

We need funds to send Fr. Joe's
homily book
to the priests.

 

Please pray for funds & grace.

   

                   

New Cycle B - Guiding Light Homily Book
We need help in mailing Fr. Joe's
Homily Book to priests.

     

  

                May 24, 2015 - Pentecost

 

Galatians 5: 16-24

    Instead, I tell you, be guided by the Spirit, and you will no longer yield to self–indulgence. The desires of self–indulgence are always in opposition to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are in opposition to self–indulgence: they are opposites, one against the other; that is how you are prevented from doing the things that you want to. But when you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. When self–indulgence is at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality, the worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels, disagreements, factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such things. And about these, I tell you now as I have told you in the past, that people who behave in these ways will not inherit the kingdom of God. On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self–control; no law can touch such things as these. All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all its passions and its desires. 

  
   


 

                Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus
   

    From the Lectionary

                        Pentecost Sequence

Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
    Shed a ray of light divine!

Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
    Come, within our bosoms shine!

You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
    Sweet refreshment here below;

In our Labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
    Solace in the midst of woe.

O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
    And our inmost being fill!

Where you are not, man has naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
    Nothing free from taint of ill!

Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
    Wash the stains of guilt away;

Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
    Guide the steps that go astray.

On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
    In your sev'nfold gift descend;

Give them virtue's sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
    Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.

 

                R. God is Superior –

                God is Omnipotent

                The devil is at the bottom
                    opposing God –
                    hating God –

                God is infinite –

                To reach more and more upward

                To seek the Divine –

                To want to grow more and more
                    in perfection –

                To be a reflection of the Divine
                    God

                To be an instrument of God's
                    love –

                To be so identified with Christ as
                    to know Him in all we
                    do – To seek His will –
                    To seek the Plan of the all –
                        loving – INFINITE – DIVINE
                        God

                IS to be up

                Is to grow –

                Is to be His

                Is to be selfless

                Is to be a work in process

                God is ABSOLUTE TRUTH

                The devil wants
                    destruction – tearing down
                                    – bringing down
                    lies – denial – deviousness

                God is light

                God is love

                God is life

                God is Joy

                God wants to raise us up –
                    Supernatural –

                God wants us to have the
                    knowledge of Divine things –

                God wants us to see in
                    vividness –

 
Jesus
– a bottle is full of a
        liquid – full of sediment
        and debris – it is so full
        of dirt that a person
        cannot see through the liquid –
        it is thick with debris –

 
      Another jar is clear – one can
        see through it because
        it is pure liquid – there
        is little or no debris

                    The more you understand God the
                more you are lifted to heights in
                understanding and seeing the vision
                of God. You are filled with light,
                you are filled with love –
                you are seeing the heights of
                beauty – Beauty is real –

                    Satan wants secrets and satan
                wants a person – not to live at all –
                satan wants the soul to be dark,
                confused, angry, lacking the
                truth that comes from faith from
                seeing God and His plan more and
                more.

                    Actions for the man growing
                in the image of God are actions
                of love and light of not being
                burdened down with stuffed
                anger, darkness, of living
                opposed to God which is what
                satan wants –

                    Being burdened, with secrets,
                darkness, living lies – smothering
                in one's own self - will opposing
                God –

                    I am light – I want a soul eternally
                happy with Me – they must
                let go of darkness and be obedient
                to My rules – live in purity –
                not try to be equal to God –
                burdened with lies and secrets
                that keep them stuck – a clogged
                vessel – a man with a ball and chain –

                    One that is growing in the spiritual
                life is seeking insight into the
                Mysteries of God.

                    You need to know more deeply
                these hidden mysteries of God –
                to seek to know the invisible
                God.

 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.

end of excerpt

 


 

                R. In Fr. Carter's library – most of his books
                    were on love and Jesus –

                In writing his books – as our
                    founder

                    Response to God's Love
                    Response in Christ

                Shows us profoundly –
                    God calls and we respond to God –

                We live in Christ –

                We model our life after Christ –

                We seek the mystery of Christ –

                We have relationship with God:
                    Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

                In this lies our eternal destiny
                    until we see God –
                    face to face – forever in heaven –

                Relationship is what God wants
                    (1) Loving God
                    (2) Loving others
                    (3) Loving ourselves
 



                Because of original sin we see
                    distortedly, but the more the
                    Holy Spirit breathes into our soul the
                    depth of His gifts – the more
                    clearly we see, we perceive, we
                    embrace, we live in the Divine –
                    All - Perfect – All pure God –

                Seeking the heights –
                Seeking the Mystery of God –

                Knowing reality more and more –
                Living in Him and living life in
                Him – trusting in Him – wanting
                to be that empty vessel ready
                to be filled –

                I don't know much about the physical
                    heart,
 


 

                R. Secrets, lies, anger, unaccountability
                    for sin, not taking responsibility
                    for actions –
                    makes these pathways to the
                        heart –
                        Blocked –

                Secrets must be brought out
                    and healed –

                A person can act - out on innocent
                    others and lie to themselves
                    about their actions –

                They become clogged and miserable
                    because God intends us
                    to grow in the spiritual
                    life –
                    to seek the Divine –

                To understand His plan and His
                    mysteries more and more

                To be filled with God

                To be filled with His light –

                To live selflessly for God –

                A person that is in the light is
                    seeking to rid themselves of
                    inordinate attachments – to
                    live more to work in love
                    with their fellow human
                    beings –
                    to be a man of peace –
                    to be other focused
                    to die to themselves and to help
                        lift up all around them –

                "Blessed are the clean of heart
                    for they will see God"

                Renewal of the Church and the
                    world – demands this
                    cleanliness of men's
                    hearts –
                    to be filled with God –
                    to be filled with God's light –
                    to be filled with God's life –

                Jesus tells us about the Blind
                    man – He said –
                    "I want to see"

                Jesus shows us the conversion
                    of Paul

                Think of the blind man – how
                    it would be to not see –

                Think of what we see now with
                    our eyes,
                    the sun,
                    the blue sky,
                    the green trees and flowers
                    the baby –
                    their little hands –
                    the beauty of a baby learning
                        to stand –

                Oh my God
                    "That I may see"

                To see God is why we were
                    created –

                To be alive –

                To not be closed down,
                    dark –
                    blind               
                    clogged
                    angry, hateful
                    pompous and prideful
                    self-righteous

                Jesus: I am the way, the
                        truth and the life

                Song: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

 

 

 

For the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and Lent

$10.00 plus shipping

Blue Book 14

One of the following DVD

Picture of Our Lady of Clearwater  4X 6

Prayer Brochure

 

 

 

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   Books available in limited supply for this sale.

 

The more you use the Blue Books and
    become one with Jesus – more
    intimate with Jesus –
    the more your lives are a blessing and
    everything you do in life can help
    to bring down great grace for the world
    because of your being so
    one with Jesus.

 

Guiding Light Homily Book Series

Fr. Joe’s Books


Cycle A –
Steadfast to the Son


Cycle B –
Focusing on the Word


Cycle C

Feed My Soul

 
Cycle A
 
Inspired to be Genuine

4 for $20 plus postage of $5.95 

 

These books can be given to:

1) All Priests

       2) Good for Music Ministers
       3) Good for DRE's
       4) Good for Deacons
       5) Good for Principals of Schools
       6) Good for Teachers
       7) Good for Mom and Dads

     

     
Give the gift that keeps giving!!

This statue was handmade and hand-painted
and has a little piece of the glass
from the image face of Mary –

PV-Fatima
w/glass - 27
PV-Fatima
w/glass - 18
PV-Fatima
w/glass - 15
OL-Fatima
w/glass - 18
PV-Fatima
w/glass - 12
OL-Fatima
w/glass - 11

OL-Guadalupe
w/glass - 28

OL-Grace
w/glass - 24

OL-Mt. Carmel
w/glass - 24

OL-Lourdes
w/glass - 24
 

IH-Mary
w/glass - 24

IH-Ivory
w/glass - 24

SH-Jesus
w/glass - 24
SH-Blessing
w/glass - 24
Sorrow M
w/glass - 24
Inf.-Prague
w/glass - 24

OL-Lourdes
w/glass - 18

OL-Mt. Carmel
w/glass - 18

I Heart
w/glass - 18

I Heart - Ivory
w/glass - 18

OL-Grace
w/glass - 18

SH-Jesus
w/glass - 18
OL-Guadalupe
w/glass - 12
 

We cannot get these statues any more –
the men making them were from
Portugal and no longer do so

We will have a limited number
until they are gone –

These statues are a treasure, a work of art

At the end of this message are healings
from statues and the Jesus
and Mary waters –
 

   

   


 

                Given March 21, 2014

                R. Pray for These Things

                1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
                2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
                    Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
               
3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
                6) People going to Florida and China.
                7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
                8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
                9) Pray for pope helping us.
               10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
               11) Blue Book 14 cover; Blue Book 13 – all involved.
                    For our Publisher and all involved
               12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
               14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
               15) Donors and members and their families.
               16) Healing of the Family tree.
               17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
                    Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
               18) All who asked us to pray for them.
               19) All we promised to pray for.
               20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
                    Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
                    2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
                    Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple
, Rosie & all involved.
               21) 2 babies and moms.
               22) Funds and insurance.
               23) Jerry's garage.
               24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
               25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
               26) Consecrate all hearts.
               27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.

 

 

We need money for
Fr. Joe's new homily book
(we sent almost 40,000 to priests,
cardinals, bishops)
Can you please help us?
888-211-3041

    
 

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Crystal Image Rosary

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Original Image Rosary

8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box

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15" Pilgrim Virgin Fatima – $85

12" Our Lady of Fatima – $75

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5000 copies of the
Parents and Children's Rosary Book
in SPANISH.
Can you help with a donation?

  

Give the gift that counts.

                Give to your priests Fr. Carter's Books plus postage.

Tell My People                    $5.00
Response to God's Love    $8.00
Response in Christ              $8.00

      

 

Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur 
$2.00 plus postage

New Mass Book with Imprimatur   
$8.00 plus postage

New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage

Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage

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Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage

     

Special sale statue with glass

27" Statue of Our Lady of Fatima
$175 plus postage

 

Get a canvas print of Mary's image
with a sliver of glass and a little
bottle of Jesus and Mary water.
The glass will be fixed behind the
back of the picture.
$200.00 plus postage

Dan called and gave the report to me, when I hung up I saw this rainbow and took a picture for him.


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