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June 1
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June 2nd Holy Spirit
Novena |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries |
Given March 21, 2014
R. Pray for These Things
1)
Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue, Jack & Jean.
Special intentions
2) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
3) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
4) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
5) People going to Florida and China.
6) Vocations to all 7 categories.
7) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
8) Pray for pope helping us.
9) Pray for Jeff and sales. Pray for Nick.
10) Blue Book 13 cover; Blue Book 12, Blue Book 13 – all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
11) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
12) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
13) Donors and members and their families.
14) Healing of the Family tree.
15) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
16) All who asked us to pray for them.
17) All we promised to pray for.
18) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, a special couple,
Rosie & all involved.
19) 2 babies and moms.
20) Funds and insurance.
21) Jerry's garage.
22) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
23) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
24) Consecrate all hearts.
25) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
June 1, 2014 - Celebrating the Ascension
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.
R. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in our
graced baptized soul.
The Blue Books tell us God wants to
love us and wants us to love Him
intimately.
Blue Book I tells us how God wants an intimate,
personal love union with us.
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
Cling to Me
May 13, 1993
Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.
You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.
When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.
I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.
I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.
end of May 13, 1993
R. God loves us and we are to seek to know
how to love likened to God.
When we think we are loving, we may
expect others to do things for us –
A parent may love a child in such
a way they are proud of them and
give themselves to make their child
happy.
A man may love his wife to try to make
her happy and he may want to give
her what she needs.
Fr. Carter said in Response to God's Love
how many people marry to get
love and not to give love.
If our attitude is selfish, self-promotion
we are not being like Jesus.
We know Jesus came and He came to give
us His love, to teach us, to be our
Savior. Jesus came and He gave and
gave for us.
We can love with the Heart of Jesus.
We pray for greater increase in
faith, hope and love.
In baptism we receive a gift, our knowing and
loving capacity is elevated – we
have a capacity to develop –
pray for this –
We share in God's knowing and
loving activity because of
baptism.
How do we give to others –
Do we give as God wills so
they can do what is God's
Plan for them?
Do we give to get something back
for ourselves, manipulating
others our way, to get our way.
Mary loved God's will.
It is God's will for us to serve
Him, to love Him, to give
in love to others so they can
do God's will – not please us for
our selfish will opposed to God's will –
Mary and Jesus show us pure love.
The Two Hearts are the sign of pure
and perfect love.
Jesus gave to His death on the
cross.
What came forth from His
pierced Heart was Blood
and water –
Water for baptism
Blood for the Eucharist –
God is the most perfect lover.
God is love –
Heaven is for lovers –
We can live our whole lives focusing
more and more on ourselves and being
closed in
And saying in relationships –
What is in it for me –
Not focusing on giving in relationships –
like God wants us to give –
following in the footprints of Jesus.
God first loved us –
We seek to have new life in Him –
through Him, with Him and in Him –
God gives us Himself in the Eucharist
Through Him, With Him, In Him
R. Living according to God's will is the
answer –
not focused on our will for selfish
pursuits –
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
R. God loves us –
God wants us to be happy –
We were created for God – our ultimate
goal is happiness with God.
We must be willing to give, to
commit ourselves –
A covenant is a commitment.
In the Prayer for Union, Jesus said to say:
"Come to me Lord and Possess my soul"
Possess is how we will be for all
eternity in the beatific vision.
We are here to prepare ourselves for
the beatific vision –
Heaven is our true home –
We need a Savior –
We need God to go to heaven –
Fr. Carter tells us about the 3 loves –
All 3 are important –
Love of God
Love of others
Love of ourselves –
We see Eve in the Garden, she wanted
independence from God –
Independence can become our god –
When God is calling us to do something
with others and we do nothing
we are making a choice not
to do God's will – we are
doing something when we are doing
nothing –
Who is on our throne – have we
put God on our throne – are
we really loving as He wants
to give ourselves and be
committed in a relationship
with God and others as He
desires.
Loving ourselves means we want
what God wants for us.
Wanting our will, in independence
against God's will is not what
is best for us in His Plan –
God gives us each other to help
each other – He sends guides
to help us –
In prayer we learn to trust God's
will for us –
We need to be able to trust others.
We learn how to trust God more
and more in learning how to
trust others, in loving
ourselves –
in seeing ourselves as imperfect
and in need of being
converted –
in seeing others as imperfect
and in need of conversion –
We see the story of Judas and Peter –
Judas acted against God's will
and Judas was full of pride –
he couldn't recognize
how God loved him and
he should have asked
God to forgive him.
Peter acted against God's will,
but he recognized how
God loved him and he
asked God for forgiveness –
he repented, he was
sorry –
Jesus came the Redeemer –
He wants us to recognize
our sins and ask for
forgiveness –
Life is about relationships –
with God
with others
with ourselves
God wants to forgive us when
we say we are sorry,
God wants relationships with us –
Colossians 1: 13-14
Because that is what he has done. It is he who has rescued us from the ruling force of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son that he loves, and in him we enjoy our freedom, the forgiveness of sin.
R. We can look at loneliness
because people fail to trust
those that God wants them
to trust.
Satan wants to make
a case so we don't grow
in relationships and love –
He starts out trying to get
a person to prove they are
right, when in fact they
are wrong. Expecting perfection
from others who are fallen –
and we see that in Peter –
Jesus made Peter head of
the Church – where would
Christianity be if Jesus
acted like many men who
say – well you did this –
that is the end of you –
God knows we are imperfect –
God gave us a sacrament
for forgiveness of sins –
At the beginning of Mass there
is the Penitential Rite –
Look at the talents scripture –
God gave us the talents
for His Kingdom –
what of the man who
says, I don't want
to deal with men with
a problem, but fail to see
God's plan – that the members
of the mystical body are like
a body and must unite –
If a person is sick with
a lump that is cancer, the
doctor tries to get rid of
the lump and the cancer,
if possible –
the doctor works to try
to restore the body to health –
What about anger and hurt
and jealousies and envy –
these need to be dealt with –
That is what life here is
about, our Lady said
at Fatima, not throwing
the person out –
Life here is to be more and
more in the image of God –
we are working until the
day we die –
Look at depression, anxiety,
boredom, hating our
brothers, lack of trust,
its like deciding we
can fix our bodies
so they won't break
down. We have a wounded
human nature – we
are here to grow in virtue –
Why did God the Father let
Mary appear on the building –
to tell us about conversion –
like she said at Fatima –
to tell us to venerate her Immaculate
Heart next to Jesus' Sacred Heart –
to tell us to make reparation
for our offenses against God.
God the Father has sent His Son into
the world, our Savior
and our God –
God created the world –
God has the Plan for
the individual Christian,
the Church and the world
that were created in the image
and likeness of God and needs
to grow more and more in that
image and likeness.
God has the Plan –
The Plan is love –
God is love
God has all the Power –
His Power never runs out!
Romans 8: 5-9
Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Romans 8: 31-35
After saying this, what can we add? If God is for us, who can be against us? Since he did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for the sake of all of us, then can we not expect that with him he will freely give us all his gifts? Who can bring any accusation against those that God has chosen? When God grants saving justice who can condemn? Are we not sure that it is Christ Jesus, who died-yes and more, who was raised from the dead and is at God's right hand-and who is adding his plea for us? Can anything cut us off from the love of Christ-can hardships or distress, or persecution, or lack of food and clothing, or threats or violence;
John 11: 21-27
R. Do we trust in God?
Do we want to put God
in our fear mode,
so we can stay
uncommitted to what
He calls us to – thinking
this is a sure thing –
Doing nothing –
trusting no one – not really –
Jesus loved us so much
He took flesh –
He walked the earth –
He died for us
He rose from the dead
So we could have new life –
...I have come
so that they may have life
and have it to the full.
R. God wants us to have
greater life in Him –
Song: I Love You Jesus
Galatians 5: 22-23
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.
Holy Spirit Novena
Daily Novena Prayers
Opening Prayer
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Dear Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit. We come to You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in the perfect, sinless heart of Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting ourselves to her holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory.
Prayer for Holy Spirit
We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.
Protection by the Blood of Jesus
We pray that the Blood of Jesus will be spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement, that we will be able to move steadfastly ahead and be protected from the evil one.
Healing
We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.
Prayer for Strength and Light
We adore You, oh Holy Spirit. Give us strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light and grace, we want to only do the will of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always in the Father's will.
Eternal Spirit fill us with Your Divine Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your Divine Mysteries.
Give us lights, Oh Holy Spirit that we may know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of the Virgin Mary, to form us more and more into the image of Jesus.
Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
We long for You, Oh Spirit of Light, we long to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God. We want to be one with the Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We want to know the beloved One, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want to be one with You, Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.
Prayer to Be One in Jesus
Let us experience life in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...." Let us live, united to the Mass, all through the day being one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this elevated state of oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You, we love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and thank You, our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
We seek to be one in God, to live and dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on earth, to experience life in the all perfect, pure, sinless heart of our Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to be united to Jesus as the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered to the Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world to help in the salvation of souls.
Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts
Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.
Leader: Send forth Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All: And You will renew the face of the earth.We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.
Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.
Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts
We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.
Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit
Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God.
Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs for us.
Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.
Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is wrong.
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
end of excerpt
Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus
R. Pray for healing –
Sing: Healer of Our Every Ill
Sing: Come Holy Spirit
R. We must commit ourselves
to God - turn our
will over to Him.
Give God our will –
Love the will of God
like Mary did.
Luke 11: 9-13
Effective prayer
‘So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; everyone who searches finds; everyone who knocks will have the door opened. What father among you, if his son asked for a fish, would hand him a snake? Or if he asked for an egg, hand him a scorpion? If you then, evil as you are, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!’
Romans 8: 6
And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace,
Sing: This is the Day –
Psalm 118: 24
This is the day which Yahweh has made,
a day for us to rejoice and be glad.
Sing: Spirit Song
Sing: Fall a fresh on me
Sing: Lord Send Out Your Spirit
Sing: We Have Been Told
Sing: You Are Mine
R. To live the life God
wants we
must be committed
must serve
must pray
must study to learn
unite to the Mass –
Christ is our Center
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