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August 16, 2007
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August 16, 2007
Death - Resurrection
Matthew 5: 48
...You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.’
The Holy Spirit dwells within the grace
baptized soul.
According to how much we have prayed,
gone before the Blessed Sacrament -
other means of bringing down grace —
grace is in us — we become more
saturated with His life the more we
receive the sacraments and do things
that bring down grace.
Parents teach us to parent ourselves —
Usually people at a certain age
break from their parents and sort out
good and bad ways to parent ourselves
People whose parents criticized them as children,
may treat their children the same
way
They may continue that same critical tone on
themselves life long until they decide to
parent themselves differently that their
parents did to them
The past and its training is part of a
person — like the layers of an onion —
all that happened, is recorded and
can be acted out and acted on
Some people have had traumatic childhoods
some never break ties with any of
the bad patterns they were taught —
To think we are not a child of the past
as well as a person now, to ignore
our past bad habits taught is
just foolish.
Like trophies on a shelf a person who
learned passive-aggressive ways
of getting control or power progresses
most awkwardly in adulthood as
they try to control others through hidden ways
that show them as mild-mannered — in control
and they may develop a whole battery of manipulation
tactics that keep them from ever acting
directly to accomplish a task —
It is like this — I know Vitamin C
can have ascorbic acid and fillers —
I don't want the fillers, I want the
least fillers possible and want ascorbic
acid. (I don't know a lot about these
things, but in my thinking I hope this
helps to describe it.)
A person who has an onion — sealed
tight with wounds and wounds, bad
habits when asked to do something
because of passive-aggressive ways
that - get more and more advanced like
anything practiced and held onto with
emotion — will not do the action when asked —
they have a baggage bag and when they are given
a command then it starts — stalling to control —
power to have the floor — engagement
in the past sordid punitive bitterness
they have in their baggage —
Satan can use this to work on the person
to advance deeper into a very deceptive
way of manipulating —
If the person "goes through" one
intimate relationship they continue
their bad habits practiced on the next
person — manipulating and working toward
a goal of once again getting into
their unfinished business from the
past to attempt to have some resolve.
A person who ignores the past and
is seriously wounded from the past
can be majorly paralyzed. Like a crystallized onion
they see themselves as a gem — perfect and
yet all the hatred, bitterness, punitiveness
comes to the surface and the person who
is stuck in the muck wants peace,
flow throwing reality — unfinished
business and tension in them
finished and calm.
To the effect one is in touch with
their inner self they are at peace.
A person who is full of unfinished business
from the past and seriously wounded
is ready to bring this business into a
simple task of being asked to take a
check to the bank. They are bulging with
tension — they develop ways to bring
this out in very limited intimate relationships
with another —
Long ago I remember talking to a lady psychologist
she called a person "wounded goods" — I thought
that so harsh, but as I look to explain what
"truth in you" means to be as John says
John 16: 4-15
I did not tell you this from the beginning,
because I was with you;
but now I am going to the one
who sent me.
Not one of you asks,
'Where are you going?'
Yet you are sad at heart
because I have told you this.
Still, I am telling you the truth:
it is for your own good that I am going,
because unless I go,
the Paraclete will not come to you;
but if I go,
I will send him to you.
And when he comes,
he will show the world how wrong it was,
about sin,
and about who was in the right,
and about judgement:
about sin:
in that they refuse to believe in me;
about who was in the right:
in that I am going to the Father
and you will see me no more;
about judgement:
in that the prince of this world
is already condemned.
I still have many things to say to you
but they would be too much for you
to bear now.
However, when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking
of his own accord,
but will say only what he has been told;
and he will reveal to you
the things to come.
He will glorify me,
since all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
Everything the Father has is mine;
that is why I said:
all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
A person who projects their hidden,
bitter, wounded ways on others in passive-
aggressive ways is filled — a clogged vessel —
one whose pipe is not free flowing —
Marriage can show an individual lots
of things, but if a person in a failed
relationship goes away with unfinished
business, stuffing what really happened —
hurt, wounded, blaming the other —
they are a crown of unfinished business
and the person inside will seek resolve —
to have peace
But the wounded person may not look inside
for resolve, but may look outside acting out unfinished
business — keeping others through manipulative
tactics engaged in unfinished business
to have control, connection and blaming
others outside for their insides clogged
with pain, hatred, bitterness, unfinished
business.
I see inside of me TRUTH — after years
of working to know the truth and God
speaking to me of truth — I have begged
to be filled with truth
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.
Habits from others who have not had
intimate relationships can be
passive-aggressive and gets more advanced —
a person finds a "scapegoat" to work
out unfinished business — they
are full of bitterness and unfinished
business — they have never embraced
how they were wounded — really honestly —
they tell themselves - I will do something
else when a problem arises —
something outside myself —
then I will handle it this way —
So if the old wound is aggravated by
the person who has caused unfinished
business in them, divorce, parents,
children —
they have not embraced the truth
of their own pain and bitterness
inside —
they find the scapegoat —
"work"
"another family"
"another intimate other"
this person or persons is "outside"
of themselves
they zip down the zipper to their
scapegoat and they stick
in their unfinished business —
like putting baggage on a monkey's back —
they then pride themselves on how
clean they are and walk away
without a wrinkle
Who had the pain?
Who had the wounds?
It was inside of them.
Did anything happen in this maneuver
to heal them inside. "NO"
They work through habits — destructive
to others and society trying
to work out unfinished business
on innocent others.
When one is asked to do a job, a person
without baggage will just do
it — they are focused — it is done —
But a person can teach themselves to deal
with bitter wounds inside of themselves,
by dealing with it outside —
zipping down and stuffing in an
innocent other by maneuvering,
untruths — stalling ways
their angry unfinished business —
when asked to do a simple task
Jesus gave me a message once about
a man who cut the grass for
the bad plumbing in his house.
You say oh cutting the grass in the back yard
has nothing to do with
bad plumbing in the house —
It won't help at all —
So many people fail to grow in intimate
relationships — family relationships
later in life — community relationships
because of clogged pipes inside
of them.
A person may be wounded, but it is
sinful when a person hurts an
innocent other through untruths
stemming from unfinished
wounded behaviors in themselves
and they abuse another by passive-
aggressive measures trying to
provoke another by stalling
and manipulating until they
project their hidden rage,
anger, bitterness on the
innocent other. It is sick when
one does this to prevent work being
done used as power to force another
to put up with this to get a simple
task accomplished. Provoking another
and watching them cry or get frustrated
for your hidden unfinished anger
is wrong.
To hurt another and watch them
cry for your pain and walk
away with relief is very sick.
The greatest command tells us —
Matthew 22: 36-39
'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
When people are severely wounded by
parents, divorce, intimate relationships
and they intend to fix it outside
themselves so you become "scapegoat"
for their hidden unfinished business —
get out of the way —
if God choose a man or woman to a
role in religious life — to live
in unity with others —
the first rule - must be to get in touch
with wounded relationships
with others inside
How can people be one when a whole
crop of persons on the earth
are wounded deeply because
of divorce, unmarried
relationships — homes where
parents controlled with force —
children grew up in homes where
they were passed like little
potatoes from sometimes angry, selfish
parents on Holidays and Birthdays.
On Christmas, I want to think
about Jesus, God, who took on
Flesh, born in a stable, I want
to go to CHRIST - MAS — Mass —
I want joy —
Selfish angry moms and dads
divorced two and three times can
focus on this division "who gets the
kids" and be mad months before
and months after for the vacation
the kids took with her instead
of him after Christmas.
And guess what — you must obey
the rules by the divorce court so
are you going to punish innocent
others with your anger. And are you
a clogged vessel — in 5 years there
are 5 Christmases to get mad at,
5 Easters, Vacations, Birthdays,
Father's Day — Mother's Day —
When the family is to be one — there
is hidden bitterness —
I know the old saying
"First to thine own self be
true"
The scripture says —
the truth will be in you —
I saw a young man who has
no rights with his children —
I knew another man who was
angry — he got a divorce because she
demanded it — he had three kids—
he could not see them — once in a
while he did — the mom had them
with her parents — the children
didn't want to see him —
He acted out his hatred, bitterness,
anger on others — the unfinished
business— he could not embrace the
truth — he was a hard angry man to
live with wounded — when he divorced
did he look at himself for the failed
marriage or in anger told himself it
was her — and tried to work out the
unfinished business on others —
will he get so angry hurting others
he can end up in prison —
What are we to do?
To embrace the truth about ourselves.
We are wounded people from imperfect
parents. Adam and Eve sinned.
Cain slew his brother — God
destroy the earth at the time of Noah —
the descendents then became Noah's.
God is always renewing the earth.
Jesus came and died and rose
for us to give us sinful creatures
a sharing in His life.
Fr. Carter said he believed the Shepherds of
Christ would go down as one of the greatest
Movements in the Church for
helping to renew the Church and
strengthen it.
When a person is so caught up
with pain and wounds acting
out their unfinished business
on others through hidden rage
in passive-aggressive ways
because of childhood or divorce,
failed intimate relationships —
suffering at the hands of others —
wounds inside — UNFINISHED
BUSINESS they can act out on others
wanting one last time the business
to be finished —
I say this
No matter how hard we human
creatures try or think (not Mary)
we won't get rid of our wounded
human nature — We have a wounded
human nature — we all have tendencies
toward jealousy, anger, envy, greed,
slothfulness, lust, pride and gluttony.
We seek dominance for dominance
sake —
God gave us the Virgin Mary —
sinless — conceived without sin —
she does not have a wounded human
nature.
Thinking we are not a child of
the past is wrong. We are the sum
total of all we experience — Stuffing
lies in our bonnets about our wounds
are like a walking bee hive — the bees
that are unfinished we keep acting out on
others.
Abused persons in relationships
can get in some kind of connection
maybe it is called co-dependent —
I don't know, but a person I know
can through passive-aggressive measures —
provoke and provoke another, stalling —
doing things that shouldn't be done to
cause troubles and confusion — or start
things behind a boss' back — their
wives or husbands' back with others
to try to force the person to engage with them
so they can act out their sick ways.
This is sick.
Slavishly dependent relationships
are sick!!
Healthy relationships renew
People who have so much pain and
can't face it can turn to
alcohol
drugs
work
manipulating and abusing others
controlling others
Trying to FIX the BROKEN FAUCET
IN the house by cutting
the grass.
How will we have greater life
IN - US — Saturated with
His grace —
by embracing the child of the past —
blaming others comes from the garden
God put us here to love each other
God put us here to do God's will
A person acting out pain - Can USE —
they can use drugs
they can use alcohol
they can use control
they can use manipulation
A person full of pain — projecting it
on others by projecting their own
wounds on another —
Seeing themselves as mild mannered
and provoking another through
passive-aggressive ways to
act out their pain —
is thwarting their spiritual life.
SIN MAKES US A CLOGGED
VESSEL
TRUTH Sets us free
Pope John Paul II did some book
Taking Responsibility is Love
Adam and Eve sinned and we all suffered
Sin can come from unfinished business
people project on others through
passive-aggressive ways
Trying to provoke another to anger —
to act out our hidden rage -
is wrong
Not acting in harmony to help each
other, but to enrage another
and get control over another
is sinful when it is God's will
we work in harmony for His honor and glory
The person who is divorced learns to
hold out sometimes — they are forced
to reconcile with that unfinished
unfailed relationship —
If they don't do it in truth —
they keep acting it out
To act out passive-aggressive
ways on others — provoking them —
being disharmonious is living
a lie and deception, that hurts
our own spiritual life.
We are the product of the past —
unfinished business must be dealt
with or we continue to act it out —
ICE CUBES can melt when
we apply heat
God's Heart is a furnace of love
Seeing the Big Picture like Mary
showed me souls going into
hell
This is reality
The devil is real
The devil wants division
The devil wants hate
The devil is the father of lies
John 16: 19-33
Jesus knew that they wanted to question him, so he said, ‘You are asking one another what I meant by saying, "In a short time you will no longer see me, and then a short time later you will see me again."
‘In all truth I tell you,
you will be weeping and wailing
while the world will rejoice;
you will be sorrowful,
but your sorrow will turn to joy.
A woman in childbirth suffers,
because her time has come;
but when she has given birth to the child
she forgets the suffering
in her joy that a human being
has been born into the world.
So it is with you: you are sad now,
but I shall see you again,
and your hearts will be full of joy,
and that joy no one shall take from you.
When that day comes,
you will not ask me any questions.
In all truth I tell you,
anything you ask from the Father
he will grant in my name.
Until now you have not asked
anything in my name.
Ask and you will receive,
and so your joy will be complete.
I have been telling you these things
in veiled language.
The hour is coming
when I shall no longer speak to you
in veiled language
but tell you about the Father
in plain words.
When that day comes
you will ask in my name;
and I do not say
that I shall pray to the Father for you,
because the Father himself loves you
for loving me,
and believing that I came from God.
I came from the Father
and have come into the world
and now I am leaving the world
to go to the Father.’His disciples said, ‘Now you are speaking plainly and not using veiled language. Now we see that you know everything and need not wait for questions to be put into words; because of this we believe that you came from God.’ Jesus answered them:
Do you believe at last?
Listen; the time will come—
indeed it has come already—
when you are going to be scattered,
each going his own way
and leaving me alone.
And yet I am not alone,
because the Father is with me.
I have told you all this
so that you may find peace in me.
In the world you will have hardship,
but be courageous:
I have conquered the world.
Talk plainly
Let your "yes" mean "yes"
Let your "no" mean "no"
Anyone knows when you have
had such trauma as some
in childhood —
when some trauma as a
divorce — they cannot say
unfinished business
does not need to be healed
To me much failure of religious
orders is people will not
embrace the truth about
themselves
heal from wounds inside —
To be one we must know the
truth about unfinished
business inside of us and
beg for healing
Not try to find a "scapegoat"
Say we are perfect
Then provoke an innocent loving
other to take on our
stiff - bitter - ugly heart
Bitterness is ugly
Hate is ugly
Jesus is love - trust - truth
To have the truth IN YOU
You must resolve unfinished business
through forgiveness and love in
the heart
Pride keeps people with frozen
bitter hearts stuck
Jesus' Heart is soft, supple
loving, on fire
The Blue Books can help heal
hearts full of pain,
but lying about our pain
lying we are perfect and provoking
others is sinful
We are commissioned in baptism to
spread the Good News
The Church is one, holy,
Catholic, Apostolic
To have oneness - we must purify
our hearts —
Look at the wounds of the past
Embrace the truth about our hearts
Embrace the truth about our sins
Forgive them genuinely
Some people can never get close to anyone
really close and love because of their
bitter, stone heart —
God tells us in the Bible through the
writings about man's imperfections —
How come some think they are perfect
Listen to 1 John 1
1 John 1: 8 - 2: 2
If we say, ‘We have no sin,’
we are deceiving ourselves,
and truth has no place in us;
if we acknowledge our sins,
he is trustworthy and upright,
so that he will forgive our sins
and will cleanse us from all evil.
If we say, ‘We have never sinned,’
we make him a liar,
and his word has no place in us.
My children, I am writing this
to prevent you from sinning;
but if anyone does sin,
we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ, the upright.
He is the sacrifice to expiate our sins,
and not only ours,
but also those of the whole world.
We can deny our need to be close and be
tense and bitter inside but this
can block religious communities
in being more deeply one as
God desires of His Church
Suffering from neglect in childhood
may have wounded us, parents making
little boys a king would have trouble in
a mutual relationship —
We can learn to give up fear of
relationships and then plunge in and
get hurt by others who may not
be living in truth.
In religious communities —
people aren't working on others to
get united — each is working on
themselves to be like Jesus.
A man always criticized everybody
else and never looked at himself —
he saw himself as perfect and he
would fix the world — he would be -
an arbitrator as one observing
the two and then he would be admired
for his work.
He was bitter and wounded inside
and he wanted to be admired while
he fixed others. His unfinished business
kept him from unity in relationships —
he would not trust — nor did he
recognize genuine truth in
others — He did not see the working
of the Holy Spirit uniting the group
in deep oneness, harmony and love.
The tension was - I will tell them —
they will be fixed by me. Jesus is the
healer — the Holy Spirit — the Spirit
of love — Renews the face of the earth —
God's grace heals.
A Superior that is rooted in God - prays
for unity - healing - oneness and love —
the devil wants division, tension —
and the hardened heart keeps this
rigidity —
God wants religious orders living
in community living in deep
oneness to help strengthen the
members of the body of Christ —
Oneness is achieved as the Holy
Spirit outpours His grace and renews
the hearts — Oneness is found in
the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary —
A man says — what should I do to
be the leader — he plans and then starts
manipulating and controlling others.
A leader to build God's Kingdom
says — What does God want us
to do and works as a spiritual
director to lead the group as
God's Spirit of love and unity
counsels the soul to act more
perfected likened to God. There is
not pride and control, but obedience
coming from a deep desire to love
Jesus and others and serve as God
desires living in one's vocation to
please Jesus their spouse. There is
not force — There is love and forgiving,
guidance and trust and commitment
on all the members part to do God's
will in love — living as a family
serving God.
I taught math most of my
life, but when they wrote an
article for the college paper
of adults I taught — they commented
on how I taught the whole person.
God wants life rooted in Him.
God wants the truth to be in us.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the
life -
To lie about our past and a bitter heart —
To control and manipulate and act out
unfinished business to provoke
others is from satan —
It is to be blind.
We have had mothers who over mothered us
We have had mothers who under mothered us
My mother died —
We need to look at what makes us
act out bad habits,
hurt others —
look at why we are tense —
look at why we are prideful.
look at why we are defensive
look at why some don't want anyone over us.
A person can maintain a certain
aloofness in their contact with
others — insecurities, lack of trust,
wounds, unfinished business
we do not even look at -- that are
acted out on others.
Acting out in communities from
blind children within can tear
the community apart for when a
spiritual director addresses it
because it is majorly leading to
disharmony and disunity — the person's
pride can attack a superior and
try to hurt the organization by detracting
from the work that needs to be accomplished.
How big is your pride?
How big is the "wall" around you
because of childhood wounds,
divorces,
intimate relationships which were
unfinished and ended,
death of others you never worked
through and grieved
How big can the wall of 2 people
have to have unity and harmony
in a marriage.
How big can your wall be to be
a superior to help unite the
world.
Our priests need to seriously live the
life of Consecration to the Hearts
of Jesus and Mary —
this promotes unity —
helps us live more perfect lives more
likened to God as He desires
How about religious orders
How big of a wall of hate can
an individual have
around them as a
leader to teach oneness?
All actions should be done because
it is God's will — not because
someone impulsively decides to do
a direction to have power or just
get relief from a problem —
Doing a direction impulsively when
it is the wrong one can majorly
hurt the whole institution.
"I Don't feel good", they may
rationalize "I will give a big
direction because it makes
me feel I am doing something
and I get my power back,
I may have lost somewhere
else."
Then watch the effects of his impulsive action
hurt everything.
Actions should be done because it is
God's will.
To my knowledge I have never lied
in one message —
why would I lie
All I want is truth in myself —
I want truth to bring people to
Jesus —
People blame others for neglect in
other relationships, the x-wife,
husband, in childhood —
who could ever make up to you
neglect if you suffered it in
childhood or make up to you for
a spouse who betrayed you, but
embracing the truth about it —
then you can close that unfinished
business rather than acting it
out demanding an innocent other
pay for your horrendous unfinished
business and pain and
It never works —
Acting out blindlessly makes you steeper in
your pain because you
cause new problems
new pain and
become more blind.
The neglected child of the past wants
ultimate love and affection — they
want the mother to accept them —
A person acting out the pain of a
divorce comes from a very needy
place — they can be very selfish — self
focused — not other focused —
they may want somebody to heal
their gashed wound, stop
the unfinished business and
sit by bathing their feet with
ointment and kissing them. They
can't see the big picture — they may
have turned "being right" into a
"god" to compensate for why they
were so "wrongfully" betrayed — they
see like a blind man hollering
"fire" — one last time they will try
to prove they are right, not wrong
and heal the blustering unfinished
business of the "bloody-painful
divorce" — over delivering a check
to the bank.
The suit cases are packed and on
the back of the wounded person
and they get more and more heavy
every day — they bulge and they
want to put them on a prey —
the suitcase reads
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
BITTERNESS
HURT
the suitcase is heavy and
even when others are happy before
them
they carry the heavy suit-case
heart
they are jealous they never sing,
or smile or laugh —
they want it stopped now —
they are tense —
they want you to take the suitcase
they may provoke you
they may discredit you
Eventually in passive-aggressive
attacks — stalling — long aggravation
you scream from frustration
To passive-aggressive people —
this is the victory
provoke —
stall
provoke
in passive ways —
it is an enduring attack so
they can watch you scream
their rage
they feel better now and
walk away smiling
saying "look at your anger"
Satan is cunning
Acting out is a problem why marriages
end
Religious communities are almost
non-existent
The bottom line is
that section of the Bible
To have the truth in you —
Unfinished business can be
damaged goods —
A stone heart is full of bitterness
We must look at unfinished business
See the wounds of the child of the past
Love ourselves
Not blame others because we can't
get along with people.
People abuse others to get their way
No one should be called names
No one is to be abused by others
Looking at patterned behavior in a home,
marriage, work, community that
hurts others and leads to disunity
of the whole is essential —
not abuse.
People hurt in childhood can be
easily hurt and can get bitter
inside.
When they are corrected their sensitiveness
from unhealed hurts from childhood
can add enormous pain to a very
simple correction —
rather than recognizing that
to see one's faults hurting
others in a community is freedom
from slavery.
Acting blindly is slavery when it
hurts unity — keeps us like
a stone heart and keeps us
alone rather than living
in peace and love
Parents had personal problems too,
many of them and they acted
their problems, unfinished
business out on the children.
Being wounded as a child was not our
fault — we are hurt by
others who are hurt themselves.
None of us human creatures
is sinless, but Mary.
Putting our parents on a pedestal
is not good when we are hurting
others because of it.
Denying how we hurt because of
a divorce and what happened
may leave big wounds that
need to be looked at so we
let go of rage and eventually
forgive and love through prayer.
Prayer is love.
We are the products of generations
of generations of attitudes —
Men acted like this too in the Church.
Some people act depressed life long.
If we realize God lives in the
graced baptized soul — we can be a
light wherever we are —
My parents taught me my Catholic
faith — they had me baptized —
Some people in the world - don't
believe in God
God has given us the Blue Books
to teach us how we are loved and
accepted by Him. Rejection
because of relationships is a big
problem — we can face these
wounds inside with God's help.
Begging for the Holy Spirit to fill us —
Spreading the Consecration to the 2 Hearts
There is a struggle in us between
the hurt person and the person we want
to be —
We have to deal with the unfinished
business — get rid of the garbage to
just act purely and do God's work —
I can be asked to do something simple and
try to get that person to engage in all my
manipulation to heal my unfinished, bitter
heart, to get them, for example to "move a box".
Using others to try to heal hurt and
rejection from the past in my life
when they ask me to "move a box" is not
being like Jesus.
Jesus self-lessly gave Himself on the cross.
Satan wants us self-ish caught in our wounds.
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
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.
I remember a book once
"Happiness is an inside job"
Who knows our past —
A person can have a major problem
in every intimate relationship —
Get with you —
Do the same thing and
Act like you are sick —
When they never had intimate relationships
Christ was wounded outside and we see His wounds.
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