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August 18, 2013
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August 19th Holy Spirit
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The Novena Rosary
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From Blue Book 11
April 22, 1996
Jesus: I have spoken to you on the 22nd of the month concerning the Center and the Shepherds of Christ Movement. The Center will light up the darkened world. I ask you to spread the messages of My love in God's Blue Book. I am a burning fire filled with such love for men. My light will shine when hearts are joined in deepest love with My Heart. You will unite in one mind and one heart when all are consecrated in their hearts and are fervently loving My Heart and My Mother's heart.
Jesus gave me a message:
I want Blue Book 10 published and the
Parents and Children's Rosary Book reprinted.
The Blue Book 10 and the
Parents and Children's Book
should be presented together as a unit
because they are from January 1st, 1996 to March 31, 1996.
I would like the Parents and Children's Book
in Spanish printed with the Imprimatur.
Pray for Special Intentions Dan called and gave the report to me, when I hung up I saw
this rainbow and took a picture for him.
Pray for Funds
Given August 17, 2013
R. There are 7
basic vices of the
wounded human nature –
They are pride, greed, envy,
wrath, lust,
gluttony,
and sloth.
Mary was conceived without sin –
all other human creatures
have a wounded human nature.
We can have a virtuous life, like
flowers in a garden –
or a life of weeds –
vices.
We need to be rooted in God!
A rose has thorns and flowers –
Flowers need to be pruned –
A man told me, Rita, I have to
cut the roses back!
The deadly sins can develop
into vices, bad habits, because
we have tendencies toward the
deadly sins because of our
wounded human nature.
We are to love ourselves as a
gift from God, with a purpose –
have healthy self-esteem –
A person of pride is excessive –
in their love of themselves –
It is a disordered love – it
is not true the way they want
affection for themselves –
they want it for their own vain
glory –
We want our glory – over God's
glory – we want our glory over
giving our brother the respect
and love and recognition he deserves.
God allows us to have things –
A person can be covetous
toward possessions, persons,
inordinate love for those we
are to love differently. We
are to not seek to possess things
with such an attachment we offend
God and use another person or
thing as a false god. We are to
be detached in a way that is
loving and using things and people
for God's honor and glory as He
wills every relationship and possession
to have in His will.
A person has a desire that
attracts men for women and women
for men for marriage. If this
tendency is without control
against God's will it can
be lustful, destructive, destroying
the very life of many others who
are involved in this behavior,
vice against God's will.
This can be in the heart, in
giving into inappropriate
fantasy against God's will –
This can lead to indulgence of
the flesh against God's will –
Satan is always trying to tempt
people to give into the tendencies
of the wounded human nature –
some offenses against the natural
law itself can occur –
Men marrying men –
Women marrying women
Vices are like weeds in a
garden – they can grow big and
quickly –
Desires of the flesh, accompanied
by passions that a person gives
into, can become fierce
when one gives into desires
of the flesh against God's will.
Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. Besides the messages associated with the major Fatima apparitions,
there were other revelations given by Our Lady. Before Jacinta died, she
told of other messages given her (during her illness) by Mary:
More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any
other reason.
19. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.9-10
Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord
very much.
R. This passion and desires of the flesh
offending God can hurt souls.
There can be weeds that wreck
the whole garden when an
inordinate attachment in
a relationship leads to one
accepting that, as a god.
We must not give into lustful
behavior, that first was started by
one's tendency to indulge in thoughts, actions,
in one's relationship with another that
was inappropriate in offending God --
and disobeying His laws
Anger is a passion, when
a person possesses something
against God's will – satan can
tempt them to lie and be
angry if a person, like a
spiritual director, a husband
or wife who is involved tries
to correct the evil being done.
Love is always to lead the other
to a better relationship with
God and to living according to God's
will.
The Church teaches us – we must
obey the laws of God and
observe the restrictions God
places on us in relationships –
The devil wants people to not be
accountable to just authority –
the devil wants people to act
like they can do what ever they
want to do and discredit just
authority to get away with it.
This is from satan who
tempted Eve in the garden –
telling her she could be equal
to God –
1 Corinthians 15:20-28 In fact, however, Christ
has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of
all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that
death came, so through one man has come the resurrection
of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all
will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper
order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming,
those who belong to him. After that will come the end,
when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father,
having abolished every principality, every ruling force
and power. For he is to be king until he has made
his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies
to be done away with is death, for he has put all
things under his feet. But when it is said
everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include
the One who subjected everything to him. When everything
has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be
subjected to the One who has subjected everything to
him, so that God may be all in all.
R. Anger against God's will leads
to darkness and revenge.
Meekness is the opposite of
Confrontation and Combat –
A person can develop such
a habit of confrontation because
of envy and a low self esteem –
they do not recognize others
and their importance in God's plan –
Envy is when a person feels a
person doing good work is taking
away from their good looks – so
they can attack to bring the man
serving God and doing good
as God wants, down!
God is light –
In Him there is no darkness –
God is love!
God is unity –
God is order - not disorder –
not disharmony –
The devil wants destruction of
those places bringing love to
God and others –
So the devil tempts men to rise
up in jealousy and envy and
pride, to be slothful
and then –
If the devil can take out just
authority and doing whatever
anybody wants –
he moves in –
there is commotion –
discord –
collapse –
disharmony –
The devil tears down the
house operating in
men's vices they give
into in their hearts
Slothfulness - is laziness –
We owe God our service –
When God calls us to do
something in our
vocation and we don't
do anything – we are
choosing to disobey
God's will –
We do something - which
is doing nothing!!
This disobedience of not
serving leads to sadness
and not doing our duty
to God given in baptism
to spread the Good News –
When we don't do God's will –
we do something else that
isn't God's will and we
lead others off of doing
God's will besides our
bad example!
We do not diligently serve
God –
God calls us to be prudent –
to have enthusiasm
and zeal for His
service –
August 18, 2013
From Fr. Joe's homily
R. Nebuchadnezzar was
attacking the land
Jeremiah told them they
should surrender to the
Babylonians –
They called Jeremiah a
traitor –
They threw Jeremiah in a
cistern –
Jeremiah 38: 4-6, 8-10 The chief men then said
to the king, 'You must have this man put to death: he is
unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the
city, and all the people too, by talking like this. This man
is seeking not the welfare of the people but their ruin.'
King Zedekiah answered, 'He is in your hands as you know,
for the king is powerless to oppose you.' So they took
Jeremiah and put him into the storage-well of the king's son
Malchiah in the Court of the Guard, letting him down with
ropes. There was no water in the storage-well, only mud, and
into the mud Jeremiah sank. Ebed-Melech came out from the
palace and spoke to the king. 'My lord king,' he said,
'these men have done a wicked thing by treating the prophet
Jeremiah like this: they have thrown him into the
storage-well. He will starve to death there, since there is
no more food in the city.' At this the king gave Ebed-Melech
the Cushite the following order: 'Take thirty men with you
from here and pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the
storage-well before he dies.' Psalm 40: 2-4, 17 He pulled me up from the
seething chasm, How blessed are those Poor and needy as I am, Hebrews 12: 1-4 With so many witnesses in a great cloud all
around us, we too, then, should throw off everything that
weighs us down and the sin that clings so closely, and with
perseverance keep running in the race which lies ahead of
us. Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, who leads us in our
faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy
which lay ahead of him, he endured the cross, disregarding
the shame of it, and has taken his seat at the right
of God’s throne. Think of the way he persevered against such
opposition from sinners and then you will not lose heart and
come to grief. In the fight against sin, you have not yet
had to keep fighting to the point of bloodshed. Luke 12: 49-53 'I have come to bring fire to
the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is
a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am
under until it is completed! 'Do you suppose that I am
here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather
division. For from now on, a household of five will be
divided: three against two and two against three; father
opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter,
daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law,
daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'
from the mud of the mire.
He set my feet on rock,
and made my footsteps firm.
who put their trust in Yahweh,
who have not sided with rebels
and those who have gone astray in falsehood.
the Lord has me in mind.
You, my helper, my Saviour,
my God, do not delay.
R. Today's readings are not cheerful –
Jeremiah spoke God's message
to the people and they threw
him in a cistern –
sinking in the mud
Jesus describes in today's
Gospel – Jesus wants to be a
fire – It can symbolize –
fire of the Holy Spirit,
judgment, purification,
Jesus described some baptism in
this Gospel. His suffering and
death could be like a baptism.
Baptism and fire can
be understood –
We have no trouble understanding
The division in men that will come from His message
Family bonds were so strong –
Jesus is telling us membership
in His Kingdom is more important
than family ties –
Jesus told His Apostles to say "Peace
Jesus appeared to Apostles He says,
"Peace be with you"
The greatest peace Fr. Joe has is
his relationship with Jesus.
There is an on-going battle of
good and evil –
There will always be those
who choose not to follow Jesus.
We are challenged by serving
God or doing our own
wills.
We have great struggles in
our lives, families, work,
politicians –
We come to God today seeking His
Confiteor I confess to Almighty God,
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 19, 2007 INTRODUCTION
peace.
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault;
therefore, I ask blessed Mary ever Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and
sisters,
to
pray for me to the Lord our God.
HOMILY
– A “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoon pictured Calvin, the little boy sitting under a sign that read “kick in the butt for one dollar!” When Hobbes, a talking tiger and Calvin’s playmate, saw his friend sitting under this sign, he asked “How’s business?” “Awful!” Calvin replied, “and I don’t know why, because so many people need a good kick in the butt!”A lot of us might need it at times, but few of us appreciate it. The people who heard Jeremiah’s predictions that Jerusalem would be destroyed if they didn’t surrender weren’t happy about what they heard. They hoped to get rid of Jeremiah as a result. Jesus too had to confront many of the people in authority in his day and we know what happened to him. Knowing how he would be rejected and would have to suffer for teaching God’s message, he felt it only fair to warn his followers that they may be in for a lot of pain and suffering if they chose to follow him.
Pain and suffering, of course, comes to everyone, whether we are good, bad or indifferent. If we do not live good lives, often we have to suffer for it, but sometimes even those who are perfectly faithful to God have to suffer too, as we hear today. One of my favorite books,
The Road Less Traveled, begins with a very profound insight. M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist and Episcopal priest, begins his book by saying “Life is Difficult.” That’s not especially profound, but what I found so profound is his statement that once we accept life is difficult, it’s not so difficult. It’s more difficult for those who think it shouldn’t be so. I had a good friend who was pushing a person in a wheelchair at his synagogue and while he was doing this he suffered a stroke. He would often cynically say to me “no good deed goes unpunished.” I think at times we all feel that way, that life is not fair. I believe most of us have the unexpressed expectation that if we do what God wants, God should do what we want. Well, sometimes he does, and sometimes he doesn’t, at least not right away.A lot of times it’s not the difficulties that come our way that cause us pain and suffering but the attitude we take toward them. Dr. Richard Carlson’s book:
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, and it’s all small stuff, tells the story of a journalist interviewing two bricklayers working at a construction site. The journalist asked the one man, “what are you doing?” He said, “I’m just an underpaid and overworked bricklayer wasting my time piling bricks on top of one another.” He asked the other what he was doing and he said, “I’m the luckiest person in the world. I get to be a part of great and important projects. I help turn single bricks into magnificent structures.” They were both right. We see in life what we want to see. If you want to find ugliness, you will find plenty of it. If you want to find fault with life you can find lots of reasons to do so. But the opposite is also true. There are times when in my ministry and in my life, I feel like the luckiest person in the world. I am grateful that I am in a position at times to be able to help people in very important ways. On the other hand, there have been moments when I felt like Jeremiah, sinking in the mud at the bottom of a well where everything looks dark and hopeless. It’s only faith that gets me through. I know God will not fail us if we are faithful to him, but God does not always make things happen the way we think he should. When he doesn’t make things go our way, we have to trust God has a better plan, a plan we do not yet see. The letter to the Hebrews which we heard speaks of the example of Jesus whose work and life seemed to be a great failure when he died on a cross, but now he has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. The author of the letter encourages us not to grow despondent, but to keep alive in us the hope of eternal joy that God has promised to those who are faithful to him. When we take our last breath, that is what’s really going to count. Amen.
From Blue Book 11
April 2, 1996
Tuesday at Our Lady of the Woods
Before the TabernacleSorrowful Mysteries
The Agony in the Garden
R. See the vastness of this universe. See the sky around us. See the light of day and the sun as it shines in the sky. See the darkness of the night and know that there is a power that puts this earth into this order – that lights the sky by day and it is there in the darkness of the night. Let us feel this around us, such comfort that we know that God is truly with us. Jesus truly present in this room in the tabernacle, the same as the day He walked the earth, the same as the day that He knelt in the garden and He remains with us, truly present with us because He loves us so much.
Let us quiet our hearts and feel the presence of God, truly present with us in this room. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit live in our graced baptized soul in a special way.
1. R. Why do we fear? Why do we fear when we see the power of the Almighty God? We see the brightness of the sun that blinds us, we know that God is with us. We know God controls our breath and our heartbeat, but we do not see. Our faith can grow weak. We see the sun come up and the sun go down and the darkness of the night. We see the snow as it covers the trees and we wonder from whence it comes. We know that the hand of God is in our lives. We can see this but our faith can be so weak. We know that, at any moment, that we could die, we do not control our breath and our heartbeat. Let us trust in God and be deeply united to Him.
Let us meditate on these mysteries of the rosary and in meditating on His Passion realize His immense love, that Almighty God, with all His power and might came into this world and took on a human body for love of us. Jesus truly gave Himself and died on the cross that we could be saved. Let us meditate on His act of self-giving love and ask Him to help us to give ourselves in love to Him.
2. R. In His Divine knowing, God knew all things, at all time. He said to Peter that he would deny Him three times. He knew Judas would betray Him. We cannot comprehend the Divine mind. In the Garden Jesus knelt there and He knew all the sins of all men from all time in vivid detail every offense against God. He knew our deepest, bitter anger and the hatred in the hearts of men the division they gave into opposing God's will. Jesus knew in deepest detail every sin of every man.
3. R. Jesus also saw before Him vividly all of the suffering that He would undergo to His death on the cross. All of the bloodshed, all of the offenses, the beatings, the whippings, and Jesus complied to the will of the Father and gave Himself to pay for the price of our sins.
4. R. We wish sometimes to have someone love us very deeply and we feel all alone. Jesus experienced every human emotion in the Garden and He said to the Apostles to come and to be with Him and they slept. Jesus said to them, 'Can you not wait one hour with Me?' They slept.
5. R. He cries out to us this day from the tabernacle and in these letters:
Jesus: Can you not wait one hour with Me? I love you so dearly, all through the day I am waiting as the ardent lover by your side, waiting for you to talk to Me. I am always with you, My beloved ones, at every moment. I am with you and I am waiting for you to talk to Me, to tell Me of your love. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God and I am calling out to you this evening to open your heart and to listen to My words spoken. I want a love affair with you, My beloved ones. I want to be so close to you. I want to be one with you, to share My life with you, to share My love with you, to share all of your thoughts, all of the desires of your heart.
I am Jesus, I am the Almighty God. I know far better than you your every thought and every desire in your heart. I created the stars in the sky and the sun and the moon, for I am the Almighty God and you run from Me when I gave Myself for you.
6. Song: A Song from Jesus
7. R. Why do we fear? Why are we afraid? Why do we lack faith? Why do we not believe that the very hairs of our head are numbered and God is truly with us? I heard Him call out, "I am alive, I am alive, I am alive." Why do we not hear this? When we see the snow-covered trees and we see the frost on the grass and we stay so focused in our little world and do not see the vastness and the sun in the sky and the moon and the stars in the sky at night! God is truly present and in this room and He lives in our hearts and we fear and feel so alone!
8. Jesus: My dear beloved ones, I am with you in your every thought and your every heartbeat. I want you to come to Me in the quietness of your room, in the quietness of your heart, and to tell Me of your love. I am there watching and guarding you always. You are never alone. In your darkest sin I am with you and I am waiting for you to tell Me you are sorry and tell Me of your love. I do not leave you.
9. R. Jesus saw before Him in the garden all the sins of all men from all time and He knew each deed in vivid detail. Jesus' anguish was so great that He sweat blood but as He suffered so for the sins of men, He was comforted by the sweetness of our love that we give to Him today and He calls out to us and tells us to tell Him how much we love Him.
The Almighty God wants a love affair with us.
10. Song: Spirit Song
The Scourging at the Pillar
R. See Jesus bound and tied at the pillar. You see a man with brown hair tied and beaten, covered with blood, looking so weak as the angry men whipped Him harder and harder to their own exhaustion. Jesus, bound in a human body, but He is the Almighty God. How could any man bind the Almighty God? Jesus obeyed the will of the Father. The Almighty God comes to this earth and gives Himself for love of His creatures. Jesus could have, at any moment, stopped all this treatment for Jesus is the Almighty God.
1. R. God loves us so much that He gives us our freedom. We can chose to love Him or to reject Him. It is totally up to us. Because of His great love for us, He gives us a free will. We can decide if we will do the will of God. He is calling us in a special way to join in such oneness with His Heart and He wants a love affair with us. He wants tender moments during the day when we say in the quietness of our heart, Jesus, I love You so much. Jesus wants us to open up our eyes and to see the sky, to see the light by day and the dark by night, and to know that it is His love that surrounds us at every moment. Even though we do not see God, we know that He is there.
2. R. You must pray for grace to see with the eyes of God, to not be so focused on the little details that we miss the big picture that God is truly present and we should not fear for if we stay rooted in Him, if we stay one in Him, He lives in us and we are never alone.
3. Jesus: These are the words that I speak to you, My beloved ones, but you do not hear. You do not see through God's eyes. You remain blind. I am the Almighty God. I say to the grass grow and the sun, shine, and the grass grows and the sun shines and I say to you, give Me your love but you turn away. I am God. I am your Creator. I call you to love God first and to love one another. I say to the grass grow and it grows. I say to the sun, shine and it shines and I tell a man to love and he hates many times. How I suffered for the sins of hatred in the hearts of men. You are created to know, love and serve God and to love each other. This is My command to you.
4. R. And God looks down from the heavens above and He sees man in all his wickedness. The Father wants us to love one another. The Father wants us to live as children of God in harmony. He commands us to love. God has called us to be the lights that will shine in the darkened world. Let us open our hearts that God may fill our hearts with His light.
5. Jesus: I tell you, My beloved ones to place your lamp on a lamp stand that it will shine to all in the house. I am the Almighty God. I am filling your hearts with My burning love and My light will shine from your faces to this darkened world. You have been called and you have been chosen. I am guarding your every step. You are My soldiers of love. As I stood, whipped at the pillar, I thought of you and the love in your hearts and it comforted Me during the bitter whippings that I received. I am Jesus. I love you with the deepest, burning love.
6. R. To shine in the darkness we must go into the darkness. We cannot cover our light with a bushel basket. We must go into the darkness and let our lights shine.
Jesus: When they persecute you and hate you, I beckon you, My dear ones, to love.
7. Jesus: Come to Me and I will fill you with My love and you will go out to spread this love. You cannot be self-focused, you must focus on giving love to others. You must take the risk and know that I am truly present, that you truly are My lights that will shine in the darkness, that you will comfort those who are weary and care for those that are hurting. You are My chosen ones.
8. R. And Jesus stood at the pillar and they whipped Him with instruments that tore His flesh and made Him bleed. This is the blood that He shed that we could be saved. Jesus is the Savior of the world.
9. Jesus: I am giving to you great graces to go out into the world and to be My apostles of love. Come to Me. I love you with the deepest burning love. See Me, My sweet ones, covered with blood and wounds – this is the love I have for you.
10. Hail Mary
Song: A Song from Jesus
The Crowning with Thorns
R. See Jesus crowned with thorns. See the thorns that go deeply into His precious head and the blood in His hair. Let us go to Jesus and kiss His wounded head and tell Him we love Him!
1. R. As He suffered so for the sins of men, He was comforted by our acts of love. Let us look into the eyes of Jesus as He sat on the mock throne. Let us look into His eyes as He suffered from the men that spit on Him. Let us look into His eyes and say, Jesus, I love You!
2. R. Let us stroke His hair, covered with blood, and tell Him that we are sorry for our sins and the sins of this world and we want to comfort Him in His bitter anguish.
3. R. Let us look closely at Jesus. Let us see how He sits there is such surrender. Jesus does not fight back, He does not argue and defend Himself. Jesus sits and surrenders and He is the Almighty God. He could have stopped the men at any second. He could have stopped them dead. Jesus could have caused fire to come down from the sky and to knock them to the ground, but He came to pay the price for our sins and He came to show us that His way is love and He is telling us this day that we will win the battle against evil in this world. We do not need to take up the sword and that the might of the Almighty God is more powerful than any weapons. He is the Almighty God that created the heavens and the earth, that keeps it in motion, that lives within our hearts, and is truly present, no less present than the day that He sat in the chair and was crowned with thorns and spit upon and He is in this room because He loves us. His words to us are simple: He wants a love affair with us. He wants us to go into this world and to spread His love in our actions, in our faces and in our eyes. Who will He send if we say "no"?
4. Jesus: You do not know the seeds that you plant, My sweet ones, through your actions. I live in this world today through you. My way is love, always love. I am love. Do not quarrel, do not argue. Look at the person and love them. See the hurt in their eyes and know that I am the Almighty God and I am loving you. You must look out at the others. Look into their hearts. See their fear and give them My comfort and My love and I will live in this cold world through you.
5. R. They spit on Him and He took it all. He came to show us His way and His way is love, but when He was crucified in the darkness His light shone brightest against the darkened sky. This is how it is with our acts. We may be spit on and persecuted but the love of God lives in the hearts of those that we comfort and treat kindly. Coldness in our hearts make our hearts cold.
6. R. And His light was the brightest light and He sat, covered with thorns and blood. If we looked into His eyes we would see Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Jesus' light is brighter than the sun, brighter than any star, beyond any light that we have ever seen. His light is the brightest light.
7. Hail Mary
8. Hail Mary
9. Hail Mary
10. Hail MarySong: You Are the Voice
The Carrying of the Cross
R. The Father looks to the earth and He sees us, His children, and He wants us to love each other. Jesus wants us to live in harmony – each one of us uniquely created. Only we can love this world the way that we can love the world. God is calling us to be as He wants us to be – this unique individual. No other person can do for this world what we can do. The Almighty God created us so special and so unique.
1. R. Jesus walked with a cross on His back. He could hardly move and He fell to the ground. How is your cross this day? Is the cross just living each moment, trying to love? This is what He calls us to: Jesus calls us to live according to the Father's will and to love. It is a cross many times. God looks to see if we are loving and doing God's will. This can be a cross. The cross is to love when others are cruel. The cross is to be calm and to know that God is there in every action that we perform, no matter how frustrating or how difficult it may seem. That this is a heroic action in God's eyes, that we perform all of our actions in love, that this is holiness, that this is what will make us saints – to take the every day, ordinary actions and to perform them in love! Even when we have fallen to the ground and everything seems to be upside down, to go to God in our weakness and He will be our strength – this is the cross. These are our wounds that we carry on our back.
2. R. But Jesus, do You want me to fast? Do You want me to give up this treat? Jesus, do You want me to work and work and work?
Jesus says: I want you to love and do what the Father asks of you. I call you to love God above all things and to love each other. Love, love, love.
3. R. What is the job that God wants us to accomplish?
4. R. When we are backed up against a wall, we must surrender and give it to Jesus and do everything we do with love.
5. R. Jesus carried the heavy cross and He fell to the ground three times. He could hardly get up but He got up and He moved on.
6. Jesus: Are you spit on? Are you persecuted, My beloved ones? You are My hearts, My gentle loving hearts. I was spit on and I was persecuted but My Heart was on fire, filled with love. Do not let your hearts be cold.
7. Hail Mary
8. R. Mary's heart was invisibly pierced as she looked into the eyes of her beloved Son and she saw Him covered with blood and wounded. She looked into His eyes and she saw His love for us and she calls out to us to look at her Son to see His love and to love Him.
9. Song: I Rocked Him as a Baby
R. Mary saw Him take His first step and Mary saw Him as He struggled to move His feet under the weight of the cross. His legs, breaking from the pain - and He says –
Jesus: Look into My eyes and see My love for you. I am calling out to you to go into this world that is suffering and to give My love to your brothers. They are your brothers. You are all children of God. You are My lights that will light up the darkened world but you must say yes. I am Jesus, I love you with the deepest love.
10. Song: I Rocked Him as a Baby
R. Look at the face of Jesus covered with blood and see the love that He has for us.
The Crucifixion
Song: God's Love
R. Have you ever been caught in the embrace of the Almighty God, the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit? Do you know what it is to be wrapped in an embrace of God's Divine love? This is what our hearts yearn for. We were created for God, for His purpose for us and nothing on the face of this earth will satisfy our starved soul but God. To be caught in this embrace, to know the presence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is only to want more until we are satisfied in Heaven. God lifts the veil and gives us little glimpses of Himself and we fall to the ground in awe, for God truly is mightier than any sun, the sun that blinds us. God is the Creator of the sky, of the heavens and the earth and He wants a love affair with us.
1. R. Pray to be wrapped in God's love. Let us see with the vision of God and pray for grace that we receive this vision, that we will see the big picture of the overall world, that we will see how truly dependent we are on God for our every breath, that we will fall to our knees and thank God for the gifts that He has given to us and tell Him we love Him.
2. R. And Jesus was raised high on a cross on Calvary and they pounded into His hands gigantic nails that went all the way through His hands and His feet and He hung to His death for three agonizing hours on a cross. Grace can be released on this world. Jesus paid a precious price for our sins.
3. R. We are human creatures and through Baptism God gives us a special sharing in His life. We can be filled with His life and His light. The price He paid was His blood. God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit live in the graced baptized soul.
4. Jesus: I come to you, My beloved ones. I want to come to you. I want you to love Me.
5. Jesus: Tell Me how you love Me. I outpour My grace to you when you ask Me. I fill your graced baptized soul more and more with My life in you!
6. R. Jesus gave Himself. Jesus gave His body and His blood for us and Jesus gives Himself to us today in the Holy Eucharist. Let us share in this love affair with God. We will share in this love affair depending on how we give ourselves to God. God wants to be more and more united to us.
7. R. Love is interaction between persons. Jesus gives Himself. In order to experience this deep love affair with Him we must give ourselves more and more to Him.
8. Jesus: I have come to you in a special way in this rosary. I have poured out My love to you, My dear ones. I am waiting for your love. I want to share a special love affair with you. I am Jesus Christ, the Almighty God. I am calling you and I am giving you great graces to join deeper and deeper in this love relationship with Me. But you must surrender and come to Me. Look, My dear ones at the crucifix. This is the love that I give to you.
9. Jesus: Let your hearts be quieted. Let your hearts be filled with love. Do not fear. Pray for grace that you will not sin. There is no fear when you know I am with you.
Song: Be Not Afraid
Jesus: I give to you My peace. I give to you My love and I give to you My joy. I give you Myself. I am Jesus Christ, the Almighty God and I am with you at every moment. I am with you. You are My lights that will go into the darkness and I will live in you and shine to those that are troubled and in pain. I love through your arms. I kiss your heart. I am truly present and in this room in the Blessed Sacrament. I am giving you My kiss of love. I am a person and I am waiting for you.
10. Hail Mary
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