Daily Writing
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May 28, 2007
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May 29th Holy
Spirit Novena |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries |
Sidney Rosary
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May 28, 2007
God tells us we must love God and
love others.
God brought us into the world in a
family — God continues the human race
in families. God brings a baby in the
world through a mother and father — there
is relationship.
God intends us to learn to obey, to learn
to grow in our relationships. Parents are
also tainted human creatures — so we learn
imperfections and we have a tainted human
nature.
Parents teach us to love, to relate, to forgive
to get along, to obey, to respect authority.
God did not bring us in the world with a
book in our hand — He brought us in a loving
relationship. Human creatures were to be
created in love.
God the Father first loved us.
It is our response to God's love that is
the focus of our lives — how we love each
other.
From having a baby — a mother has to give
her body to bring the child in the world. The
child is to be conceived in love. The child
can be fed from the milk of the mother.
The child may demand a lot — they come into
the world after being in the womb — they
learn it is a safe place through the mother
and father's love — a child may come into a
family and right away the other children
may be jealous, but they learn to love each
other — to share — to be a family.
LOVE is the game.
God is love and He is teaching us about
relationship right away.
We come from imperfect homes, we are
tainted human creature, but we come
hopefully from people who loved each other —
God gave us as a gift in love.
Even Jesus came as a baby to teach us
about the family.
God wants the family to work things out
in love and forgiveness, God wants us to tell
the truth, God wants us to recognize we
are imperfect, but just like a baby
grows to an old person — we have a lifetime
to grow in the spiritual life of love and
become more perfected in having meaningful
relationships. To focus on ourselves only
and what we want for our honor and glory
doesn't work so good.
Babies are so cute — little children
and we love them so much we can keep
teaching them about obedience and will
and love — even when they seem very
self-focused. Training children to be
other focused, respecting others, loving
others is coming from imperfect parents
who may have lots to learn themselves, so
God gave a man and woman the ability to
have children, but in love learn to
give and take and stay united in marriage
helping each other grow in the spiritual
life. If one partner is not willing to give
and take, the other partner can grow deeper
in love by working in the situation
relying on God who loves them and knows
their difficulty.
There was a book — Who Moved my Cheese.
Think of those words — we have to learn to
handle things in respect and love.
The family is to be a little unit of love,
but God gives us priests and religious
to love deeply the Church and to have
the people of the Church as their family —
principals of schools can experience
great unity putting their school in
the Hearts of Love — the Hearts of Jesus
and Mary.
When our Lady appeared at Fatima —
World War I had been raging — War
is great suffering, but our Lady came
to a quiet little village with sheep
and she gave her message of love —
She said that Jesus wants His Heart
venerated next to her Immaculate Heart.
In a world where we have imperfect hearts
and division, hate —
Our Lady appeared at Fatima to tell
us to consecrate our hearts and our
lives to the pure and Holy Hearts of Jesus
and Mary — the Hearts of Love.
God is love and we are here because
God first loved us — It is our response
to God's love that we must have.
Our Lady appeared to the world,
suffering from World War I, telling them to turn
to the pure and holy Hearts of Love — the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary —
At the end of the century Our Lady's
image appeared in Clearwater, Florida
the Sun state.
In rainbow color to remind us that
God made a covenant with Noah to
never flood the earth again — Again
the message to turn to the hearts of love —
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary — Pure Hearts
of Love — Jesus and Mary in
CLEARWATER —
the rainbow was a sign with Noah —
Now God calls us to spread His love to
this world that is starving for love —
divided, hurting
Song: God's Love
God gives us our breath —
God is ever mindful of us.
To ignore God is absolutely silly —
We are the creatures God created —
Excerpt from Response to God's Love
God's ways are not always our ways, and his thoughts are not always our thoughts. God can take a life that seems so ordinary, so prosaic, so uneventful, and achieve wonders with it as long as the person is striving to fulfill his or her role in life according to God's designs. We cannot, then, use the ordinariness of our lives as an excuse for not making our existence truly great, truly significant for both Christ and humanity—a life that truly makes a difference. Karl Rahner has advice for us when the ordinariness of our lives tempts us to think that our existence is unimportant and almost useless: "Let us take a good look at Jesus who had the courage to lead an apparently useless life for thirty years. We should ask him for the grace to give us to understand what his hidden life means for our religious existence" (Spiritual Exercises, p. 160). Notice that Rahner describes the first thirty years of Jesus' life as "apparently useless." In reality, of course, Christ's very ordinary existence at Nazareth was not actually useless but was, on the contrary, tremendously important—it was part of his redemptive effort. No, it is not the ordinary setting of our lives that is an obstacle to our making a unique and important contribution to the cause of Christ. The real obstacle, if we allow it, is our failure to relate to life's ordinariness as God intends.
The realization of the greatness of our own lives, however, must be balanced with a realization of the limitations that are attached to that greatness. We are finite creatures who have various limitations that emanate from our finitude. A sense of limitations, then, should accompany the fulfillment of our mission in life.
end of excerpt from Response to God's Love
John 3: 16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.
God intends us to walk hand in hand
in love.
Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
In order to be in touch with the inner self of others, we must be aware of or in touch with our own inner or true self. This awareness, in turn, is an awareness that our self is likewise made in the image of God, that it has been divinized in Christ and is to be oriented toward God and neighbor. Here, then, we see the profound interaction between the three awarenesses and loves—awareness and love of God, self, and neighbor. As Christians, consequently, we should have a maturing sense of how our existence is, in varied ways, profoundly interlinked with the existence of others. This feeling of union with others is not limited to those we directly encounter, but, in some sense, is directed to all members of the human family.
end of excerpt from Response to God's Love
It is our mission in the Shepherds of Christ to continue
the mission Mary began at Fatima in
spreading the consecration to the pure
and holy hearts of Jesus and Mary.To a wounded world — Mary appeared
at Fatima 1917 to tell us to turn to
their two Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Look
at Jesus and Mary in these pictures pointing
to Their Hearts of love.
The Church is the bride of Christ.
The children of the Church are the
special family God called to spread
His love to the world.
The Church is the body of Christ.
Christ lives in us. As we are more
deeply united in love we help
strengthen the world in our love and
unity. God lives in the graced soul.
Jesus is the vine, we are the branches
reaching out to a secular world that
have many who live like there is
no God. What a terrible existence to
not know God. We have a big mission
as this special family, the Church,
to spread the love of Jesus to the world.
The Holy Spirit lives in us — in
a world where the devil is working
in so many hearts to forget about
our Creator.
God lives in the graced soul.
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in a special
way in the hearts that are baptized and in the state
of grace. God lives in our graced
soul.
Jesus paid the price —
Today God has called us at the end
of the century to spread the devotion
to His Sacred Heart and Mary's Immaculate
Heart — to a world needing to know
God's love —
Listen to Isaiah 53: 7-9
Excerpt from Response to God's Love
Though he was harshly treated, he
submitted
and opened not his mouth;
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
or a sheep before the shearers,
he was silent and opened not his
mouth.
Oppressed and condemned, he was
taken away,
and who would have thought any
more of his destiny?
When he was cut off from the land of
the living,
and smitten for the sin of his people,
A grave was assigned him among the
wicked
and a burial place with evildoers,
Though he had done no wrong
nor spoken any falsehood.
—Is 53:7-9end of excerpt from Response to God's Love
1 John 4: 20
Anyone who says ‘I love God’
and hates his brother,
is a liar,
since whoever does not love the brother
whom he can see
cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Excerpt from Response to God's Love
Because attaining the mystical state is the last major
stage of development in Christian existence, it is logical and
appropriate that we now treat this topic as we near the end of this
work on the spiritual life.
One who desires the full development of the Christian life is,
then, actually aiming at the mystical state.
end of excerpt from Response to God's Love
From the Book
Authenticity by Fr. John J. Pasquini
Holy Spirit Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.
Children get sick and need constant care —
we as parents care for their children.
Priests and religious — care for the
children of the Church —
But to care for others they must grow
deeper and deeper in their
love of God and others.
A parent loves their children so much
they sacrifice, take care of little
babies born, 1, 2, 3 years old —
throwing up, learning how to
obey.
The priests and religious are to love
the children of the Church —
they work on relationships
in love with the people in
their community to help make
the Church a place of strength
for families and all.
The Church is to be attractive —
a place of strength —
God gives us the sacraments
in the Church.
We need to pray that the Church is
filled with people deeply rooted
in God's love. Praying for
the priests and the Church.
We pray for the human family —
we try to lead them to the
Church.
The Church is more than the building —
it needs to be deeply rooted
in people who love God
and are people of love —
living to lead more pure lives
devoted to the Hearts of Jesus
and Mary.
Jesus gives us the Mass the sacrifice
of Calvary sacramentally made present
so that we can receive so much
grace.
God loves us so much — He gives
us the sacraments, the Church, the
priest.
We want the Church to be a light
to the troubled world.
Happiness is found in God.
In following the commandments of
God and living lives of love
rooted in God's will.
We are members of the human
family.
God made men and women.
God gave woman the ability to have
babies. God let woman carry
the babies in their bodies.
Men and women are different.
God wants us to be able to get along
in love.
It takes love to try to understand
each other because men and women
are different.
The bottom line is love and
realize God made men and women
different, but in love we
can have a more gentle heart
like Jesus.
Jesus wants us patient
and other focused respecting
each other in love living
according to God's plan,
Jesus' Heart is the most gentle
male heart — He loves us so
much — He became man and died
and rose for us to be able to
live in Him. Jesus teaches
us about love — to be like Jesus is
to be kind, compassionate, gentle,
kind and loving —
other focused.
God gave us a spiritual mother.
Mary appeared at Fatima to tell us
about their pure Hearts.
God is love.
We are here to learn to love.
Love God, others, and ourselves.
