Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing          

September 29, 2014

September 30th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 8 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for September 30th
are Joyful.

  
 
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                September 29, 2014

Isaiah 12: 2-6

Look, he is the God of my salvation:
I shall have faith and not be afraid,
for Yahweh is my strength and my song,
he has been my salvation.’

Joyfully you will draw water
from the springs of salvation
and, that day, you will say,
‘Praise Yahweh, invoke his name.
Proclaim his deeds to the people,
declare his name sublime.
Sing of Yahweh,
   for his works are majestic,
make them known throughout the world.
Cry and shout for joy,
   you who live in Zion,
For the Holy One of Israel
    is among you in his greatness.’

 

                R. Is not Mary so fair –

                Mary, the Mother of God.

                We meditate on all God has created
                    and its beauty
                    and its depth
                    and its precision.

                Would not we meditate on how beautiful
                    God would create Mary, the Mother of Jesus.

                Then meditate on love –

                The Love God the Father has for us to send His only Begotten
                    Son into the world to pay for our sins –

                And how God wants us to identify with
                    Jesus, the Son of God, to help make reparation
                    for man's sins.

                Jesus: See Me clothed in robes of Glorious Splendor –
                    See the Might of God –
                    See the beauty of this Universe given to you –
                    See Love as the Father intends –

                R. Love of the Creatures created by God
                    for a purpose – to love
                    for a purpose – to give honor and glory to God.
                    for a purpose – to be as the Father intended
                        us to be –

                Oh can you not see how beautiful God the Father
                    created the Mother of God –
 

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, pray for us (repeat after each invocation).
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins,
Mother of Christ,
Mother of the Church,
Mother of divine grace,
Mother most pure,
Mother most chaste,
Mother inviolate,
Mother undefiled,
Mother most amiable,
Mother most admirable,
Mother of good counsel,
Mother of our Creator,
Mother of our Savior,
Virgin most prudent,
Virgin most venerable,
Virgin most renowned,
Virgin most powerful,
Virgin most merciful,
Virgin most faithful,
Mirror of justice,
Seat of wisdom,
Cause of our joy,
Spiritual vessel,
Vessel of honor,
Singular vessel of devotion,
Mystical rose,
Tower of David,
Tower of ivory,
House of gold,
Ark of the Covenant,
Gate of heaven,
Morning star,
Health of the sick,
Refuge of sinners,
Comforter of the afflicted,
Help of Christians,
Queen of angels,
Queen of patriarchs,
Queen of prophets,
Queen of apostles,
Queen of martyrs,
Queen of confessors,
Queen of virgins,
Queen of all saints,
Queen conceived without original sin,
Queen assumed into heaven,
Queen of the most holy rosary,
Queen of families,
Queen of peace,

Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray: Grant, we beseech You, O Lord God, that we Your servants may enjoy perpetual health of mind and body and, by the glorious intercession of the blessed Mary, ever virgin, be delivered from present sorrow, and obtain eternal joy. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

We fly to your patronage, O holy Mother of God. Despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.

 

                R. Rejoice, Oh Heavenly Powers
                Rejoice, that God so loved the world to
                    send Jesus.
                Rejoice, Oh Beauteous Earth to know
                    Mary, the pure and spotless one.
                Rejoice, Oh heaven and earth for God
                    has blessed you this day –

                Do not scorn Our God with your disdain,
                    with your ingratitude and
                    injustice –

                Oh men of Mary – live as sons of your
                    Heavenly Mother – not giving into
                    the impurities of your parents
                    who taught you some impure
                    ways –

                Seek first the Kingdom of God and all else
                    will fall into line for you –

                Seek wholeness and truth,
                Seek purity my little ones
                Seek purity as your Mother Mary,
                Seek wholeness, more and more to be
                    in the image of God
                Seek and you shall find –
                Knock and it will be opened to you –

                For to seek an earthly reward
                    over a heavenly reward
                    is but a fool.

                God has bestowed on you the
                    gift of reason, use it
                    wisely, which means you
                    seek the plan of God –

                Do not give into your selfish
                    prodding and plotting for
                    your own will –
                    the will of a man and oppose
                    the Father's will, the Creator,
                    the Almighty –

   

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-11

There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven: 

A time for giving birth, 
a time for dying; 
a time for planting, 
a time for uprooting what has been planted. 
A time for killing, 
a time for healing; 
a time for knocking down, 
a time for building. 
A time for tears, 
a time for laughter; 
a time for mourning, 
a time for dancing. 
A time for throwing stones away, 
a time for gathering them; 
a time for embracing, 
a time to refrain from embracing. 
A time for searching, 
a time for losing; 
a time for keeping, 
a time for discarding. 
A time for tearing, 
a time for sewing; 
a time for keeping silent, 
a time for speaking. 
A time for loving, 
a time for hating; 
a time for war, 
a time for peace. 

    What do people gain from the efforts they make? I contemplate the task that God gives humanity to labour at. All that he does is apt for its time; but although he has given us an awareness of the passage of time, we can grasp neither the beginning nor the end of what God does.

   

Song of Songs 2: 8-14

I hear my love. 
See how he comes 
leaping on the mountains, 
bounding over the hills. 
My love is like a gazelle, 
like a young stag. 

See where he stands 
behind our wall. 
He looks in at the window, 
he peers through the opening. 

My love lifts up his voice, 
he says to me, 
‘Come then, my beloved, 
my lovely one, come.
For see, winter is past,
the rains are over and gone.

‘Flowers are appearing on the earth.
The season of glad songs has come,
the cooing of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The fig tree is forming its first figs 
and the blossoming vines give out their fragrance. 
Come then, my beloved, 
my lovely one, come.

‘My dove, hiding in the clefts of the rock,
in the coverts of the cliff,
show me your face,
let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet
and your face is lovely.’

   

Isaiah 9: 1-3, 5-6

The people that walked in darkness 
    have seen a great light; 
on the inhabitants of a country 
    in shadow dark as death 
        light has blazed forth. 
You have enlarged the nation, 
    you have increased its joy; 
they rejoice before you 
    as people rejoice at harvest time, 
as they exult 
    when they are dividing the spoils. 

For the yoke that weighed on it, 
    the bar across its shoulders, 
the rod of its oppressor, 
these you have broken 
    as on the day of Midian. 

For a son has been born for us, 
a son has been given to us, 
and dominion has been laid 
    on his shoulders; 
and this is the name he has been given, 
‘Wonder–Counsellor, Mighty–God, 
Eternal–Father, Prince–of–Peace’ 
to extend his dominion 
    in boundless peace, 
over the throne of David 
    and over his kingdom 
to make it secure and sustain it 
in fair judgement and integrity. 
From this time onwards and for ever, 
the jealous love of Yahweh Sabaoth 
    will do this.
 

Malachi 3: 1-4

‘Look, I shall send my messenger to clear a way before me. And suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come to his Temple; yes, the angel of the covenant, for whom you long, is on his way, says Yahweh Sabaoth. Who will be able to resist the day of his coming? Who will remain standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like fullers’ alkali. He will take his seat as refiner and purifier; he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they can make the offering to Yahweh with uprightness. The offering of Judah and Jerusalem will then be acceptable to Yahweh as in former days, as in the years of old.

 

                Jesus: Yes, Rejoice oh Jerusalem –
                    I give you My love and
                    My all and you come
                    to Me robed in ingratitude
                    and it is sufferings I endured
                    on the cross for your
                    ingratitude and selfishness –

                Lift up your hearts Jerusalem,
                    your time is come

                Let not yourself be sold into slavery –

                I give you freedom –
                    it is living in the Father's will –

                Let the Spirit enfold you and
                    fill your heart with
                    fire –

                Praise God to be His servant –
                    What an honor –

                R. Virgin, Mary, Mother of God
                    how I love you –
                    I love you Immaculate Heart –
                    I love the womb that carried
                        Jesus, My Savior –

                Song: A Song from Jesus

                Put on Christ in all you do –
                    be holy and know you
                    are loved by God –
                    be compassionate and heartfelt,
                    be kind and humble,
                    gentle and patient.

                Jesus: Walk in the truth do not
                    cloud your own heart –

                    having hearts of gratitude –
                    Sing songs of praise to God –

                Whatever you do – put on love!

                Commit your hearts to your vocation
                    because your Heavenly Father
                    desires this – He desires
                    your heartfelt love –

                Be instruments of harmony and truth,
                    peace and love –

                This is My delight that your
                    path be the one God has
                    called you to –
                    today – do not delay at
                    all to My calling of you.

                Mary obeyed the will of God
                Mary loved the will of God

                Oh sing Alleluia, My chosen ones
                Oh sing Alleluia for your friends –
                Show them a heart of rejoicing –

                Give glory to God –
                Glory is God's due – do it –
                Give glory to God –

                Love God with your whole
                    heart, your whole soul
                    and your whole being.

                Rejoice, Oh Israel

                Live in beauty –

                Be fruit for the Kingdom of God –

                Let stubbornness be far from you!

 

Psalm 19: 8-9

The precepts of Yahweh are honest, 
    joy for the heart; 
the commandment of Yahweh is pure, 
    light for the eyes. 

The fear of Yahweh is pure, 
    lasting for ever; 
the judgements of Yahweh are true, 
    upright, every one, 

 

Matthew 12: 46-50

The true kinsfolk of Jesus

He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, ‘Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?’ And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.’

   

                R. Oh God I love You –
                You are my strength –
                I called You Lord and
                    You answered me –
   

Mary's Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

end of Mary's Message

  

Written September 24, 2000

R. Mary stood beneath the cross of her Son and she was in such anguish, of this I write. 

She saw the anguish of her beloved Son. She watched, she heard Him sigh, breath, she endured the time, knowing the time was near for His death. 

There was the intensity of waiting during the passion. Think of her anguish watching him as He hung on the cross.  

Mary knew things from the prophecy of Simeon. She knew of a deep sorrow to pierce her heart. 

Think of the anguish of her heart.  

Think of Mary holding the lifeless body of Jesus under the cross. Meditate on the sufferings she endured. 

Think of how she felt at the tomb where they laid her Son. 

Pray for light to know more fully the heart of Mary in these sufferings. 

Mary had such a deep connection in her heart to Jesus. They were so united.  

Death by crucifixion was used to kill criminals. They crucified Jesus, the Son of God. 

 

July 5, 2001

 

R. It is painful to see injustices in the world. 

We go through sufferings concerning injustices in the world. Mary cries out about the sins of her children. We identify with Jesus. He knew all the souls that would be lost despite His suffering. 

Be with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane and see the sins of the world. Pray for knowledge to know more about the souls being lost. We must pray more fervently. Beg for mercy from God for our sins and the sins of the world. 

I could write forever of those moments of Mary as she stood beneath the cross or when she held the lifeless body of her Son in her lap. 

She shared in His Passion. She stood and watched Him suffer. She did not take a pill to numb her pain, nor was there any mechanism used to dull it. Every moment was with full intensity as she watched His mutilated body be drained more and more of fluid and blood until He took His last breath, giving His life for His precious souls. 

A person watching someone linger with cancer can identify with Mary as she watched her beloved Son die. 

We will die. 

We must keep our focus on the life hereafter. 

A woman of beauty, our Mother Mary, God allowed Mary to suffer. 

  

Luke 2:35 

and a sword will pierce your soul too—so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.’

 

    

~ The Seven Sorrows of Mary ~

 

 

1. The Prophecy of Simeon

 


 

 

2. The Flight into Egypt

 

 


 

 

3. The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple

 

 


 

 

4. Jesus and Mary Meet on the Way to the Cross

 


 

 

5. Jesus Dies on the Cross

 

 


 

 

6. Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross and Laid in Mary's Arms

 


 

 

7. The Burial of Jesus

 

end of the Seven Sorrows

 

R. Many times we try to alleviate suffering from our lives. 

    Suffering was a major part of the life of Mary. 

    Her heart was filled with such knowledge. She knew joy and suffering. She watched her Son die a pitiable death. Jesus is the Lamb of God. 

    We think we are so smart here. Do we really know the ways of our God? We think the way it is at present may go on and on. The flower eventually withers and fades and the beauty of the full blossoming flower goes with time. A flower, once an instrument of awe because of its beauty, may soon be thrown on a dung heap pile. 

    Our bodies may deteriorate and decay, but God promises eternal life to those who love and serve Him. 

    Be with Mary outside the tomb of Christ. Feel the emotion in Mary’s heart. 

    Pray for sorrow for our sins and light to know God more and more. 

    Contemplate the joy of Mary to know Christ has risen. 

    She saw her little baby born in Bethlehem. Now she sees Him die on the cross. Christ her beloved Son, rose victorious. We receive a sharing in His Divine life through baptism. 

    The rosary is so beautiful. We meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary. 

    We identify our lives with Theirs. We live His life, death and resurrection in our lives. We ask God to help us grow in a greater likeness to the New Adam and the New Eve. 

    Many times we take our health for granted. God can call us from this life at any moment.

end of September 24, 2000

 


 

John 19: 25-27

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

 

                R. God is the joy of my soul –
                    I rejoice in the Lord
   

January 5, 1997

R. On January 5, 1997, I was wakened by Our Lord and He was mumbling as He was around my bed as He did on October 8, 1997, when He delivered the "Seedless, Barren, No Fruit on the Vine" message.

I heard Him and He repeated the words over and over again. I had a copy of the all-night message on the floor, I jumped from the bed and began to write around the message, for it was the only paper available and He was speaking very plainly and direct. I wrote this message in the margins of the paper. He kept repeating "BABY, BARE BABY, LAID BARE".

Jesus:  Open yourself, Oh Jerusalem, your time is come you will be a light to the people in darkness, many will walk whence you come and the earth will be shakened and the light will come across a dark sky and enlighten their minds.

Oh stiff-necked people, you are so stiff in your ways, let the spirit envelope you and lead you on your way.

A country of stiffs, a people of planning and prodding, of deliberating and wonderingyou lack faith, Jerusalem, you lack faith in God.

Oh walk naked into the cold night, you are cold in your hearts and naked in your clothingI cloth you with glory, I light your face with light, but you turn your cheeks to the darkness and stay stiff-necked in your hearts. Oh cold and dark hearts, reach for the light that you may know the glory that awaits the sinners and enlightens their minds.

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                Jesus: Lift high the gates that you
                    have allowed to surround
                    you, for a closed heart is
                    like a piece of coal.

                Hearts were made to love –
                Hearts were made to give selflessly –
                Hearts were made to be open
                    to the Christ-child on
                    Christmas –
                    making a bed for Him
                    in your heart –

                Or do you say, on Christmas,
                    to Jesus –
                    there is no room in the Inn for
                    You my God –

                Open your heart –
                    for you have taught the
                        people about your closed
                        heart too long –

                    You turned against My light
                        and you only rewarded
                        darkness and commotion –

                It was in your doing, when
                    I called you to open your
                    heart and be a child of light –

                You challenged others and only darkness,
                    trying to force your dark heart
                    on those I put here to show you 
                    the light –

                Stubbornness was your way
                    and like a man who took
                    out the trash can - every
                    day – yours was empty
                    instead of filling it with
                    the trash you needed to
                    dispose of –
                    you held on to the debris –

                Hearts can be loving and warm
                    and you can answer
                    My Father's call to you –

                Or your heart can be empty
                    of love because yours
                    is as closed as a bank
                    vault at closing time –

                Why do you hold onto what needs
                    to be discarded and keep
                    your heart locked like
                    a midnight vault –

                Are you afraid to rejoice in
                    the Lord and show gratitude because
                    one, impure, wronged you –

                I died for your sins –

                Where would you be if I
                    did not forgive your sins –

                I love you and you sin
                    against Me and offend
                    Me and I call and you
                    close your heart like
                    the midnight vault –
                    locked, sealed, secured
                    and dark inside like
                    cold money –

                Why is your heart sealed away like
                    cold, locked up money –

                I gave you one talent and you
                    buried it – good – you
                    buried it for the day you
                    won't even be here to
                    retrieve it

                Life is passing and you have
                    frozen the lock on your
                    heart – saving it for
                    another day that will
                    be a day too late for you –

                Life is for living – NOW
                Life is for rejoicing

                Life is for casting your net
                    into the sea, so you
                    are fishers of men, by
                    your light of love –

                A candle gives no light when
                    it is not lighted –

                A bell no sound if it
                    is not rung –

                The days of your lives creep
                    on in petty pace and you
                    freeze them like unwanted
                    meat in the freezer –

                Will you be here to get them
                    out when your life
                    is spent.
   

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven: 

A time for giving birth, 
a time for dying; 
a time for planting, 
a time for uprooting what has been planted. 
A time for killing, 
a time for healing; 
a time for knocking down, 
a time for building. 
A time for tears, 
a time for laughter; 
a time for mourning, 
a time for dancing. 
A time for throwing stones away, 
a time for gathering them; 
a time for embracing, 
a time to refrain from embracing. 
A time for searching, 
a time for losing; 
a time for keeping, 
a time for discarding. 
A time for tearing, 
a time for sewing; 
a time for keeping silent, 
a time for speaking. 
A time for loving, 
a time for hating; 
a time for war, 
a time for peace. 

   

                Jesus: When I called you to zig –
                    you were so stubborn
                    and you zagged and

                The days of your lives were
                    frozen like unwanted
                    meat –
                    not spent for the Heavenly
                    Father's Plan –

                Wake up America – the
                    sun rises and the
                    days of your lives will
                    pass and you gave your
                    children a cold fish for
                    breakfast and
                    they were cold in their hearts
                    because you never taught
                    them how to give love –
                    how to solve conflicts
                    in ways that they could
                    use to have meaningful
                    relationships and make
                    relationships in loving
                    others a priority in your
                    life – children are to
                    learn to be a man of honor
                    and love from the example
                    of their father –

                    Children learn to love like
                the Heavenly Mother from their
                mother –

                    Children are to learn unity
                from the basic family unit –
                brought up like olive plants
                around the table –

                    Some threw out the table
                so the kids never learned
                what was the most valuable
                lesson – unity, love, forgiveness,
                truth –
                building unity and love with
                others –

                You were afraid of the
                    Father's Plan, you said –
     

Matthew 22: 36-40

'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, '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 neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'

   

                Jesus: Why put your money in a
                    cold vault and let it
                    sit day after day –
                    when you yourself told
                    others to give so much
                    they didn't even have
                    what you demanded they
                    give you –

                Money is cold and

                Love is warm
   

December 19, 1996 

Mary: My dear children, I give to you, my Son, Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem on Christmas morn. He is the Almighty God, the Light of the World.

    I appear to you, my children, on a (former) bank in Florida. You have made money your god! Do you know how cold are your hearts? You turn away from my Son, Jesus, for your money. Your money is your god.

    I am Mary, your Mother. I do not appear as I once appeared to you. I am asking you today to circulate my message given on a tape on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. Please circulate this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother. Please circulate my Rosary Book.

end of December 19, 1996

   

One Month after Mary Appeared in Clearwater

          From Blue Book 14

Excerpt from January 14, 1997 Rosary

Message before the Glory Be:

Jesus: I give to you the messages in this rosary. I am asking you to study all of the messages. The messages that I have delivered are crucial to help bring about the Reign of My Sacred Heart. The messages in this rosary are very important to stop the division that is now occurring in the Movement. I, Jesus, am asking you, to study these messages. Your answers are given in the rosaries that have been delivered but they must be studied. I am delivering the messages to you to stop the division so that you will obey these messages.

 

                  January 21, 1997 Rosary

          The Descent of the Holy Spirit Upon the Apostles

1. Song: Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I care for you. Jesus, I love you. I want to be with You.

2. R. And so it was on that first day that we came to our Shepherds of Christ meeting as if we were young and were ready to be trained by the Divine Master. And we came to that meeting and He began to tell us, to tell us of His burning love, the love that He has for us, a love that I did not know before He started to write these letters to me. For it was all there before, but I was so blind that I did not know the love that I knew when He started to teach me about Himself in such an intimate way as He did in His letters of love to me.

3. R. And I pray to the Holy Spirit to fill me – to come to me. And the Holy Spirit came to me and I started to feel the fire of God’s love as it would well up within my chest. 

Song: Come Holy Spirit

4. Sing: Come Holy Ghost
5. Sing: Veni Sanctus Spiritus
6. Sing: I Love You Jesus
7. Sing: Little Child
8. Sing: Give Me Your Heart Oh Jesus

9. August 11th, 1994 - I Watched You

Jesus: Oh, how I watched you, child. I watched you as I gave you each little sign of My love. I watched you grow in your faith and trust in Me. I watched you suffer and stood so close you could have touched Me, but you didn't know that this suffering would be that which led you to My tender love for you.

    I watched you when you surrendered and turned your will over to Me and I watched you cry, knowing this was the most joyous day of your life. I watched you see visions of doors and knew you would want to go through those doors, but they were not the doors you thought, they were the doors I gave you for greater union with Me. I watched you, child, when you wrote down My first letter to you and I saw your confusion and joy, knowing what these letters would do to touch so many hearts.

end of excerpt

 

                Jesus: Priests will create little cities
                of My love. Fr. Joe has sent homilies
                now for 7 years, etched in
                selflessness and love –
                teaching men to have hearts
                of light and be men likened
                to Jesus.

                    These homilies teach men
                and parishioners to be pure
                and loving –

                    Rejoice, oh Jerusalem,
                your time has come – take
                your heart from the bank vaults
                and give your love to others
                before your days are all gone –
                why save your heart for a
                tomorrow that is not going
                to be –

                    Now is the time –

                    Living in the moment

From a Lenten Homily, March 24, 2000

Live in the Moment

    Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.

end of Father Carter's homily

   

                Jesus: Become unfrozen –

                Let the light into the
                    bank vault –

                    When a person goes to Clearwater
                they must open up and let God
                be in charge –

                    A man can always try to
                implement his plan – soon
                nobody is around when it
                shows no light, no love
                and is for his own honor and
                glory –

                    Open your hearts, America,
                open your pockets, give to
                a cause of spreading love
                in men's hearts –

                    Why do you close your hearts
                and save them for the days when
                you are gone –

                    Like cold cash, unspent
                in a dark safe – when you
                were called by Me to teach
                love and generosity to the
                children – teach purity of
                heart, bring a light into
                your family and a light
                to the world –

                Open your hearts America –

                Get them out of the midnight
                    vault –

                Live in the love I teach you
                    about in My Blue Books –

                My love pays dividends that
                    pay forever –

                Invest in forever love –

                A forever plan –

                A plan of God the Father –

                R. God is love and in Him there is
                    no darkness –

                Jesus says:

                    I am the Light of the World
                    I am the Light of the World
                    I am the Light of the World

                I came to spread the light and
                    you locked up your heart –
                    Yes, I am talking to you –

                I am love –
                I am light
                I am God, the Holy One –

                Open up your vaults and
                    let the Light of Christ
                    shine –
                    so others can see your
                    example –

                Are you a child of the light
                    before men?

                Are you focused on God's Plan
                    or your own plan?

                I am the way, the truth and the life –

                Open your hearts
   

Sirach 24: 17-21

I am like a vine putting out graceful shoots,
    my blossoms bear the fruit of glory and wealth.
Approach me, you who desire me,
    and take your fill of my fruits,
for memories of me are sweeter than honey,
    inheriting me is sweeter than the honeycomb.
They who eat me will hunger for more,
    they who drink me will thirst for more.

 

Song of Songs 2: 4-15

He has taken me to his cellar,
and his banner over me is love.
Fed me with raisin cakes,
restore me with apples,
for I am sick with love.

His left arm is under my head,
his right embraces me.

– I charge you,
daughters of Jerusalem,
by all gazelles and wild does,
do not rouse, do not wake my beloved
before she pleases.

I hear my love. 
See how he comes 
leaping on the mountains, 
bounding over the hills. 
My love is like a gazelle, 
like a young stag. 

See where he stands 
behind our wall. 
He looks in at the window, 
he peers through the opening. 

My love lifts up his voice, 
he says to me, 
‘Come then, my beloved, 
my lovely one, come.
For see, winter is past,
the rains are over and gone.

‘Flowers are appearing on the earth.
The season of glad songs has come,
the cooing of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The fig tree is forming its first figs 
and the blossoming vines give out their fragrance. 
Come then, my beloved, 
my lovely one, come.

‘My dove, hiding in the clefts of the rock,
in the coverts of the cliff,
show me your face,
let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet
and your face is lovely.’
Catch the foxes for us,
the little foxes
that make havoc of the vineyards,
for our vineyards are in fruit.

   

                Jesus: Mary is your Heavenly Mother,
                    how beautiful she is.
   

November 4, 2013

 

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus.  Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

  

Sirach 24: 9-12, 18-21 

From eternity, in the beginning, he created me,
    and for eternity I shall remain.
In the holy tent I ministered before him
    and thus became established in Zion.
In the beloved city he has given me rest,
    and in Jerusalem I wield my authority.
I have taken root in a privileged people,
    in the Lord's property, in his inheritance.

I am like a vine putting out graceful shoots,
    my blossoms bear the fruit of glory and wealth.
Approach me, you who desire me,
    and take your fill of my fruits,
for memories of me are sweeter than honey,
    inheriting me is sweeter than the honeycomb.
They who eat me will hunger for more,
    they who drink me will thirst for more.

 

Zephaniah 3: 14-20

Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, 
Israel, shout aloud! 
Rejoice, exult with all your heart, 
daughter of Jerusalem! 
Yahweh has repealed your sentence; 
he has turned your enemy away. 
Yahweh is king among you, Israel, 
you have nothing more to fear. 

When that Day comes, 
    the message for Jerusalem will be: 
Zion, have no fear, 
do not let your hands fall limp. 

Yahweh your God is there with you,
the warrior–Saviour. 
He will rejoice over you with happy song, 
he will renew you by his love, 
he will dance with shouts of joy for you, 
as on a day of festival.

Return of the exiles

I have taken away your misfortune,
no longer need you bear
    the disgrace of it.
I am taking action here and now
against your oppressors.
When that time comes
    I will rescue the lame,
and gather the strays,
and I will win them praise and renown
when I restore their fortunes.

At that time I shall be your guide,
at the time when I gather you in,
I shall give you praise and renown
among all the peoples of the earth
when I restore your fortunes
    under your own eyes,
declares Yahweh.

 

                Jesus: Do not be proud and haughty
                    for the day is at hand –
                    when you will see
                    your reckoning –

                Have you been at peace,
                    like a child at the
                    breast – holding
                    on to their mother and
                    being so assured of
                    God's presence, living
                    in faith and hoping
                    for the Kingdom of Love –

                R. Jesus suffered for our sins –

                Jesus gave His all to His
                    death on the cross –
     

Psalm 72: 1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17

God, endow the king with your own fair judgement,
  the son of the king with your own saving justice,
that he may rule your people with justice,
  and your poor with fair judgement.

In his days uprightness shall flourish,
  and peace in plenty till the moon is no more.
His empire shall stretch from sea to sea,
  from the river to the limits of the earth.

For he rescues the needy who calls to him,
  and the poor who has no one to help.
He has pity on the weak and the needy,
  and saves the needy from death.

May his name be blessed for ever,
    and endure in the sight of the sun.
In him shall be blessed every race in the world,
    and all nations call him blessed.

   

Psalm 2: 7-8

I will proclaim the decree of Yahweh:
He said to me, ‘You are my son,
today have I fathered you.
Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations as your birthright,
the whole wide world as your possession.

   

                R. The man of right brings
                    a light to all the people –

                The man of disdain
                    brings sufferings
                    upon the men on earth –

                For who is a man, that he
                    sees not what God
                    has called him to –
                    to be an example before
                        men – like Christ –
                        a man of love –
                        a man of sacrifice –

 

Romans 5: 12, 17-19

Well then; it was through one man that sin came into the world, and through sin death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned.

It was by one man’s offence that death came to reign over all, but how much greater the reign in life of those who receive the fullness of grace and the gift of saving justice, through the one man, Jesus Christ. One man’s offence brought condemnation on all humanity; and one man’s good act has brought justification and life to all humanity. Just as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience are many to be made upright.

 

Romans 8: 28-30

We are well aware that God works with those who love him, those who have been called in accordance with his purpose, and turns everything to their good. He decided beforehand who were the ones destined to be moulded to the pattern of his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers; it was those so destined that he called; those that he called, he justified, and those that he has justified he has brought into glory.

 

                Jesus: Be sincere when you love –

                Do not hold onto evil and
                    store it in your heart –
                    like a locked vault –

                Hold onto what is good –

                Be kind and loving toward
                    your neighbors –

                Rejoice in the Lord –

                Do not be haughty and prideful,
                    stiff and with a heart of
                    disdain –

                R. God show me the path of life –

                Sing: The Path of Life

                Jesus: Be grateful, for your blessings
                    are many!

                Sing: Remember Your Love

                Jesus: Be vigilant you know
                    not the day nor the
                    hour –

                Pray to the Holy Spirit to fill
                    you with love –

                Pray to the Holy Spirit to do the
                    Father's will

                R. Dear Mother of Unity help
                    us to show Unity
                    before all –
   

Revelation 12: 1-2

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.

   

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John 21: 1-5

Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this: Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fishing.’ They replied, ‘We’ll come with you.’ They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night.

When it was already light, there stood Jesus on the shore, though the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus called out, ‘Haven’t you caught anything, friends?’ And when they answered, ‘No,’

 

 

 

     
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