Ted Malone
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Mission - Monday Night Jesus Calls Us to Trust in Him.
St Therese of Lisieux has a message for us as we celebrate this parish mission Therese teaches us that by placing our hand in the hand of Jesus and trusting in his teachings and the teachings of the church then we will enter Heaven and discover happiness for ourselves.1. Father Exposes The Blessed Sacrament 2. Prayer of The Divine Mercy Cenacle Chaplet (I lead.) 3. Talk on Faith I would like to start this mission by extending my thanks and prayers to the Charismatic priests who have taught me over the past nine years, on both retreats and through their books, Fr. Peter Coughlin, Fr. Robert DeGrandis, S.S.J, Fr. Robert Bedard, C.C., Louis Kaczmarek, and especially Fr. Francis Donnelly who spent so much time with me in prayer and conversation giving me discernment of the Charisms and Gifts of the Holy Spirit so generously given to me by Our Heavenly Father, Almighty God, "El Shaddai" and correcting me in their use for ministry of all of God's people. Also my brothers and sisters in Christ, I wish to quote two passages from Holy Scripture that I wish you to keep in mind for yourself as we walk this journey to the Father throughout this mission. In 2 Cor. 12-1 Paul speaks for me, when he said, "I must boast, not that it is profitable, but I come to speak of the wonders and revelations of the Lord." Peter also speaks for me in Acts 3: 6 when he said, "I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth." Notice I wear a Franciscan Cross, which has no top on it. This signifies the Franciscan Way, that when I speak to you, it is not I that speaks to you, but rather the Christ that is in me. My first talk tonight is on, 1st TALK- The Gift of FAITH
A preacher in a rural Church was giving a special service because of a severe local drought. He began by saying
"You have all come here today to pray for rain. I have just one question for you. Where are your umbrellas?" Jesus, might say, "Everyone calls and most want, then almost demand a miracle from Me. So few are willing to carry any cross--great or small. Why don't you children surrender to My Will knowing you WILL receive great strength, peace and achieve holiness?" My children, today no one, or at least very few, wants to suffer in any form. They want, actually demand, their God to heal them and give them all they desire. In the Lord's Prayer you say, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." What you mean is my own will be done or I will not believe in you. Your prayers are commands and threats to your God and Father. These prayers are not answered for no one threatens their God. I hear all humble, loving prayers, but I have asked everyone to take up their cross and follow Me. To return to The Father's House, each person must make reparation for his sins. Yes, everyone is a sinner. If you will carry your cross behind Me and offer it as a prayer, you are helping or assisting Me in the salvation of many poor souls. Is it worth it to you to aid one soul? Will you offer your cross to help one soul return to Me? I've told you that if you help one soul return to Me, your blessings will be many. This is the way to save your soul. This is LOVE. The world today stresses self-joy, self-satisfaction. You must look young. You must achieve what makes you happy. You must not suffer but be pain free. There are pills for almost everything. To suffer is ridiculous. Numb your feelings. If pills don't work, use alcohol or drugs, but accept no pain--physical, mental or emotional. Many of My little ones suffer needlessly at the hands of man. Your position or financial status can purchase many material needs BUT My poor, elderly, unborn, newly born, creatures and most of nature, suffer at the hands of the influential. They are made to carry a heavy man-made cross at the hands of dictators--the wealthy. Some I will heal but all must carry a cross and follow Me. Carry your cross in humility and love. Make it a prayer. Do not always seek a miracle, but seek after strength, to follow in your Master's footsteps. For this you must pray. I will assist you, beloved of My Heart.' Jesus wants us to pray with humility, strength and expectancy. With a vague hope, we say; "I hope the Lord will cure me of cancer" or "I hope the Lord will straighten out this unhappy marriage." or "I hope the Lord will get my son off drugs, help me solve my financial problems and give me the job I want." Very often we don’t expect it to happen. Without EXPECTANT FAITH, our spiritual life can be presumed to be at the kindergarten level. Faith is important because, among other reasons, it is a criterion to determine our spiritual maturity. Your miracle waits behind a locked door. The key to that door is EXPECTANT FAITH. Heb 11:6, "Without faith, it is impossible to please God." We must ask for faith humbly. When we experience Faith, we know that God is listening to us, we experience this reality that He is about to release this power, then it happens….it always happens. You will experience this experience tonight…. as it says in 1 John 5:15 Heaven’s floodgate opens in response to that kind of Faith. This is when miracles happen. When I pray over you later in Tongues, EXPECT A MIRACLE, for I have expectant certitude that a miracle or healing is going to take place with each and every one of us here tonight. God is alive, really alive. He wants to do things for us---all we have to do is release His power by exercising faith. Tonight before I begin praying over you I am going to ask Jesus, in His Divine Mercy to give you His Gift of Becoming Faith-Fit. God will give certainty if you ask Him for it. You will be Baptized in the Spirit and will have this certainty of faith, because it is a charismatic gift. (1 Cor 12:8) For tonight we will pray with Supernatural Faith. For we know we can do nothing without Faith. (Heb 11:12). Elijah insisted that rain was on the way. It was ----in torrents. Yes! there was no external confirmation for that belief when the prayer of faith went up. This is belief and TRUST IN JESUS, in spite of appearances. To believe in God despite appearances is what triggers the miracle. Faith does not require a sign to shore it up. Tonight we are really going to experience the truth of what we say, when we say; "Jesus, I TRUST IN YOU." To believe in God despite appearances is what triggers the miracle. Not to rely on your faith, but to rely on God. Blessed are those who do not see and yet believe, Jesus told doubting Thomas. (John 20:29) True faith is in the Saviour, not in saved feelings. Faith is independent of feelings. Tonight we pray “Lord, take over. Just use my hands, my hands as Your hands. I can't heal, cancer, blindness and such things, Lord, just channel all of Your healing love through me." The closer we get to the Lord tonight, the more you lean on Him with reckless abandon, the less it requires to practice faith, for real faith is a form of surrender. It is not necessary to scream and yell to heal or to cast out demons. Just a simple EXPECTENT FAITH. If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we KNOW He hears us, the request for Expectant Faith will be granted to each of us here tonight. For the Lord will give you a special anointing at a special moment, and bring ersonal invitation to be His Divine Mercy Apostles. Our first step will be to ask God what His Will is and praying. "THY WILL BE DONE" and only then can we believe He will do it. If you want to know what God wants (not what you want) ask Him. He will gladly tell you. He is ready to give you a bountiful supply of Wisdom to all you ask of Him. Don’t worry about anything. Instead, pray about everything. Tell God your needs and don’t forget to thank Him for His answers. Present your needs to the Lord tonight. AMEN. 4. Speak on Gifts of Isaiah from Fr. DeGrandis. (For growth of ones soul) 5. Speak on Gifts of the Holy Spirit from Fr. DeGrandis. (The Service Gifts) 6. Distinguish through scripture Baptism and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. BAPTISED WITH THE SPIRIT There are only four or five items that are recounted in all four Gospels. The synoptic - Matthew, Mark, and Luke - tell many of the same things, but John's work seems to be more of a supplement, filling in the gaps, recording events, and teachings others do not mention. But one of the rare references that all four gospels include goes something like this: "There is one coming after me which is much greater then I, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie. I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit." These words of john the Baptist, or words virtually identical, are found in Mathew 3:11. The connation of being baptized has to do with "being immersed in" or being plunged into, ‘being taken over by" Jesus used the same expression in reference to the suffering He was to undergo. (Mark 10: 38-39). It appears the followers of Jesus were to be overtaken with the Holy Spirit. In addition, Jesus Himself makes reference to the same thing when, just before He ascended to the Father, He bids the disciples to wait in the city because within a few days you will be overtaken with the Holy Spirit. (Acts 1:5) The best definition of the experience of being baptized with the Spirit is to be found in a little book by Fr. Francis Martin. He says the expression is "a common way of describing a personal, abiding experience of the reality and presence of Jesus Christ, manifested in a transformed life and the use of spiritual gifts." We have to be careful not to confuse this reality with the Sacraments of baptism and confirmation. We receive the Holy Spirit in Baptism when the Church gathers around us, and celebrates this rite if Christian initiation. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit for ministry within the Church when we are confirmed. But the Church has always taught that, if the sacrament at ages too young for us to understand what was happening to us, we must, as we reach a time of sufficient maturity, affirm and make personal what was chosen for us in the actual sacramental encounters. When I freely chose to belong to Jesus, which is what my Baptism was all about, and ask the Lord to fill me with the Holy Spirit which is what my confirmation was all about then His response to that will result in my experience of being baptized with the Spirit. This is what is going to happen to you all tonight. I will be calling and asking for those of you who wish to be baptized in the Spirit to come to the altar. I will lay hands on by touching your forehead. At that moment, using me as a channel of His peace, Jesus through the Holy Spirit will slay you in the Spirit. DO NOT BE AFRAID. You see marshals here, their job is to catch you and lay you down without harm or injury. While you are down, enjoy the experience. Jesus has been waiting for you all of your life to come to Him, let the Spirit anoint , ble heal you. Surrender completely to Him. Do not think, do not pray, BE STILL IN THE PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD- EL SAHDDAI who created you and breathed life into you. Some of you may be down for a moment or two, but it is my experience that all of you will be down until I have laid hands on the last person, then I call you all up as sons & daughters of Zion. For you parents here with children, bring them up with you, for again it is my experience that children over three years old are slain in the Spirit. A word of caution, we must be cautious about the vocabulary we use to describe what we speaking of here. It is incorrect, and quite misleading to say: "I was ‘baptized’ one year ago today." The experience of being baptized in the Spirit will certainly bring you closer into Closer touch with the role of the Holy Spirit in your life and the life of the church then was ever the case before. You will know that the Spirit of God resides in you and is working in your life. You will sense the things Jesus taught that He would do. The spirit will bear witness within you about Jesus. (John 15: 14:26. You will begin to appreciate the particular actions of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. You will know the Son, Jesus, as the one who links the human race to the Godhead, who makes it possible for us to enter into a share of the very life of God. You will know the Holy Spirit as the one who carries out the father’s intentions and directions, the one who gets things done, who has the wisdom and the power you need to bring you closer into the presence of His Divine Mercy. 7. Altar calls for Baptism of the Holy Spirit. (Marshals Needed.) 8. Put Away Blessed Sacrament. 9. Closing hymn & blessing. 10. Invite folks to share on way home and bring children & grandchildren for Tuesday. Give agenda.Mission - Tuesday Our Blessed Mother Invites Us to Reconciliation
1. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
2. The Divine Mercy Cenacle of Prayer.
3. Explain the false impressions we have of Penance. Which is the
Sacrament of Divine Mercy.
St.Theresa said;
"He whose Heart ever watches, taught me, that while for a soul whose
faith equals but a tiny grain of mustard seed, He works miracles, in
order that this faith which is so weak may be fortified; yet for His
intimate friends, for His Mother, He did not work miracles until He
had put their faith to test. Did He not let Lazarus die through Martha
and Mary had sent to tell Him that he was sick? At the marriage at
Cana, the Blessed Virgin having asked Him to come to the assistance of
the master of the house, d He not reply that His hour was not yet
come? But after the trial, what recompense! Water changed to wine,
Lazarus restored to life..."
"At the time I was having great interior trials of all kinds, even to
the point of asking myself whether heaven really existed. I felt
disposed to say nothing of my interior dispositions since I didn't
know how to express them, but I had hardly entered the confessional
when I felt my soul expand. After speaking only a few words, I was
understood in a marvelous way and my soul was like a book in which
this priest read better than I did myself. He launched me full sail
upon the waves of confidence and lo which so strongly attracted me,
but upon which I dared not advance. He told me that my faults caused
God no pain, and that holding as he did God's place, he was telling me
in His name that God was very much pleased with me."
Read:
2nd Talk.
The True Account of Prisoner Claude Newman (1944)
By John Vennari, from the March 2001 issue of "Catholic Family News."
[Edited by Catholic Dispatch]
The following true story of Claude Newman took place in Mississippi in
1944. Father O'Leary, a priest from Mississippi, told the account,
Father was directly involved with the events. He has left for
posterity an audio recording it.
Claude Newman was a Negro man who worked the fields for a landowner.
He had married when he was 17 years old to a woman of the same age.
One day, two years later, he was out plowing the fields. Another
worker ran to tell Claude that his wife was screaming from the house.
Immediately Claude ran into his house and found a man attacking his
wife. Claude saw red, grabbed an axe and split the man's head open.
When they rolled the man over, they discovered that it was the
favorite employee of the landowner for whom Claude worked. Claude was
arrested. He was later sentenced for murder and condemned to die in
the electric chair.
While he was in jail awaiting execution, he shared a cellblock of some
sort with four other prisoners. One night, the five men were sitting
around talking and they ran out of conversation. Claude noticed a
medal on a string around another prisoner's neck. He asked what it
was, and the Catholic boy told him that it was a medal. Claude said,
"What is a medal?"
The Catholic boy could not explain what a medal was or what its
purpose was. At that point, and in anger, the Catholic boy snatched
the medal from his own neck and threw it on the floor at Claude's feet
with a curse and a cuss, telling him to take the thing.
Claude picked up the medal, and with permission from the prison
attendants, placed it on a string around his own neck. To him it was
simply a trinket, but he wanted to wear it.
During the night, sleeping on top of his cot, he was awakened with a
touch on his wrist. And there stood, as Claude told the priest later,
the most beautiful woman that God ever created. At first he was very
frightened. The Lady calmed down Claude, and then said to him, "If you
would like Me to be your Mother, and you would like to be My child,
send for a priest of the Catholic Church." With that She disappeared.
Claude immediately became terrified, and started to scream, "a ghost,
a ghost", and fled to the cell of one of the other prisoners. He then
started screaming that he wanted a Catholic priest.
Father O'Leary, the priest who tells the story, was called first thing
the next morning. He arrived and found Claude who told him of what had
happened the night before. Then Claude, along with the other four men
in his cellblock, asked for religious instruction, for catechism.
Initially, Father O'Leary had difficulty believing the story .The
other prisoners told the priest that everything in the story was true;
but of course, they neither saw nor heard the vision of the Lady.
Father O'Leary promised to teach them catechism, as they had
requested. He went back to his parish, told the rector what had
happened, and returned to the prison the next day to give instruction.
It was then that the priest learned that Claude Newman could neither
read nor write at all. The only way he could tell if a book was right
side up was if the book contained a picture. Claude had never been to
school.
And his ignorance of religion was even more profound. He knew nothing
at all about religion. He did not know who Jesus was. He did not know
anything except that there was a God.
Claude began receiving instructions, and the other prisoners helped
him with his studies. After a few days, two of the religious Sisters
from Father O'Leary's parish-school obtained permission from the
warden to come to the prison. They wanted to meet Claude, and they
also wanted to visit the women in the prison. On another floor of the
prison, the Sisters then started to teach some of the women-prisoners
catechism as well.
Several weeks passed, and it came time when Father O'Leary was going
to give instructions about the Sacrament of Confession. The Sisters
too sat in on the class. The priest said to the prisoners, "Okay,
boys, today I'm going to teach you about the Sacrament of Confession."
Claude said, "Oh, I know about that!"
"The Lady told me," said Claude, "that when we go to confession we are
kneeling down not before a priest, but we're kneeling down by the
Cross of Her Son. And that when we are truly sorry for our sins, and
we confess our sins, the Blood He shed flows down over us and washes
us free from all sins."
Father O'Leary and the Sisters sat stunned with their mouths wide
open. Claude thought they were angry and said, "Oh don't be angry,
don't be angry, I didn't mean to blurt it out."
The priest said, "We're not angry. We're just amazed. You have seen
Her again?"
Claude said, "Come around the cell-block away from the others."
When they were alone, Claude said to the priest, "She told me that if
you doubted me or showed hesitancy, I was to remind you that lying in
a ditch in Holland, in 1940, you made a vow to Her which She's still
waiting for you to keep." And, Father O'Leary recalls, "Claude told me
exactly what the vow was."
This convinced Father O'Leary that Claude was telling the truth about
his visions of Our Lady.
They then returned to the catechism class on Confession. And Claude
kept telling the other prisoners, "You should not be afraid to go to
confession. You're really telling God your sins, not this priest, or
any priest. We're telling God our sins." Then Claude said, "You know,
the Lady said [that Confession is] something like a telephone. We talk
through the priest to God and God talks back to us through the
priest."
About a week later, Father O'Leary was preparing to teach the class
about the Blessed Sacrament. The Sisters were present for this too.
Claude indicated that the Lady had also taught him about Holy
Communion, and he asked if he could tell the priest what She said. The
priest agreed immediately. Claude related, "The Lady told me that in
Communion, I will only see what looks like a piece of bread. But She
told me that THAT is really and truly Her Son. And that He will be
with me just for a few moments as He was with Her before He was born
in Bethlehem. And that I should spend my time like She did, in all Her
time with Him, in loving Him, adoring Him, thanking Him, praising Him
and asking Him for blessings. I shouldn't be bothered by anybody else
or anything else. But I should spend those few minutes with Him."
Eventually they finished the instructions, Claude was received into
the Catholic Church, and the time came for Claude to be executed. He
was to be executed at five minutes after twelve, midnight.
The sheriff asked him, "Claude, you have the privilege of a last
request. What do you want?"
"Well," said Claude, "you're all shook up. The jailer is all shook up.
But you don't understand. I'm not going to die. Just this body, I'm
going to be with Her. So, can I have a party?"
"What do you mean?", asked the sheriff.
"A Party!" said Claude. "Will you give Father permission to bring in
some cakes and ice cream and will you allow the prisoners on the
second floor to be turned loose in the main room so that we can all be
together and have a party?"
"Somebody might attack Father," cautioned the warden.
Claude turned to the men who were standing by and said, "Oh no, they
won't. Will you fellas?"
So, the priest visited a wealthy patron of the parish, and she
supplied the ice cream and cake. They had their party.
Afterwards, because Claude had requested it, they made a Holy Hour.
The priest had brought prayer books from the Church and they all said
together the Stations of the Cross, and had a Holy Hour, without the
Blessed Sacrament.
Afterwards, the men were put back in their cells. The priest went to
the chapel to get the Blessed Sacrament so that he could give Claude
Holy Communion.
Father O'Leary returned to Claude's cell. Claude knelt on one side of
the bars, the priest knelt on the other, and they prayer together as
the clock ticked toward Claude's execution.
Fifteen minutes before the execution, the sheriff came running up the
stairs shouting, "Reprieve, Reprieve, the Governor has given a
two-week reprieve!" Claude had not been aware that the sheriff and
the District Attorney were trying to get a stay of execution for
Claude to save his life. When Claude found out, he started to cry. The
priest and the sheriff thought it was a reaction of joy because he was
not going to be executed.
But Claude said, "Oh you men don't know. And Father, you don't know.
If you ever looked into Her face, and looked into Her eyes, you
wouldn't want to live another day."
Claude then said, "What have I done wrong these past weeks that God
would refuse me my going home?" And the priest said that Claude sobbed
as one who was brokenhearted.
The sheriff left the room. The priest remained and gave Claude Holy
Communion. Claude eventually quieted down. Then Claude said, "Why?
Why must I still remain here for two weeks?"
The priest had a sudden idea. He reminded Claude about a prisoner in
the jail who hated Claude intensely. This prisoner had led a horribly
immoral life, and he too was sent to be executed.
The priest said, "Maybe Our Blessed Mother wants you to offer this
denial of being with Her for his conversion." The priest continued,
"Why don't you offer to God every moment you are separated from Her
for this prisoner so that he will not be separated from God for all
eternity."
Claude agreed, and asked the priest to teach him the words to make the
offering. The priest complied. At the time, the only two people who
knew about this offering were Claude and Father O'Leary.
The next day, Claude said to the priest, "That prisoner hated me
before, but Oh! Father, how he hates me now!" The priest said, "Well,
that's a good sign."
Two weeks later, Claude was executed.
Father O'Leary remarked, "I've never seen anyone go to his death as
joyfully and happily. Even the official witnesses and the newspaper
reporters were amazed. They said they couldn't understand how anyone
could go and sit in the electric chair actually beaming with
happiness."
His last words to Father O'Leary were, "Father, I will remember you.
And whenever you have a request, ask me, and I will ask Her."
Two months later, the white man, who had hated Claude, was to be
executed. Father O'Leary said, "This man was the filthiest, most
immoral person I had ever come across." His hatred for God, for
everything spiritual," said the priest, "defied description."
Just before his execution, the county doctor pleaded with this man to
at least kneel down and say the Our Father before the sheriff would
come for him.
The prisoner spat in the doctor's face.
When he was strapped into the electric chair, the sheriff said to him,
"If you have something to say, say it now." The condemned man started
to blaspheme.
All of a sudden the condemned man stopped, and his eyes became fixed
on the corner of the room, and his face turned to one of absolute
horror.
He screamed.
Turning to the sheriff, he then said, "Sheriff, get me a priest!"
Now, Father O'Leary had been in the room because the law required a
Clergyman to be present at executions. The priest, however, had hidden
himself behind some reporters because the condemned man had threatened
to curse God if he saw a clergyman at all.
Father O'Leary immediately went to the condemned man. The room was
cleared of everyone else, and the priest heard the man's confession.
The man said he had been a Catholic, but turned away from his religion
when he was 18 because of his immoral life.
When everyone returned to the room, the sheriff asked the priest,
"What made him change his mind?"
"I don't know " said Father O'Leary, "I didn't ask him."
The sheriff said, "Well, I'll never sleep if I don't."
The Sheriff turned to the condemned man and asked, "Son, what changed
your mind?"
The prisoner responded, "Remember that black man Claude - who I
hated so much? Well he's standing there [he pointed], over in that
corner. And behind him with one hand on each shoulder is the Blessed
Mother. And Claude said to me, 'I offered my death in union with
Christ on the Cross-for your salvation. She has obtained for you this
gift, to see your place in Hell if you do not repent.' I was shown my
place in Hell, and that's when I screamed."
This, then, is the power of Our Lady.
We see many parallels between these facts of Claude Newman story and
the Message of Fatima in 1917. There is the emphasis on:
. Sacramental Confession,
. Holy Communion,
. Making sacrifices for Sinners,
. the vision of Hell.
"Many souls go to Hell" said Our Lady of Fatima, "because they have no
one to pray and make sacrifices for them."
Examination of Conscience.
Forgiveness Prayer of Fr. DeGrandis
The following prayer covers most significant areas of forgiveness.
Often, such a prayer will bring to mind other areas that need
forgiveness. Let the Holy Spirit move freely and guide your mind to
persons or groups that you need to forgive.
Lord Jesus Christ, I ask today to forgive EVERYONE in my life. I know
that You will give me the strength to forgive and I thank You that You
love me more than I love myself and want my happiness more than I
desire it for myself.
Father, I forgive YOU for the times death has come into the family, hard
times, financial difficulties, or what I thought were punishments sent by
You and people said, "It's God's will," and I become bitter and resentful
toward You. Purify my heart and mind today.
Lord, I forgive MYSELF for my sins, faults and failings, for all that is bad
in myself or that I think is bad, I forgive myself; and I accept Your
forgiveness.
I further forgive MYSELF for taking Your name in vain, not worshipping You
by attending church, for hurting my parents, getting drunk, for sins against
purity, bad books, bad movies, fornication, adultery, homosexuality. Also,
for abortion, stealing, lying, defrauding, hurting peoples' reputation. You
have forgiven me today, and I forgive myself. Thank You; Lord, for your
grace at this moment.
I also forgive MYSELF for any delvings in superstition, using ouija boards,
horoscopes, going to séances, using fortune telling or wearing lucky charms,
I reject all that superstition and choose You alone as my Lord and Savior.
Fill me with Your Holy Spirit.
I truly forgive my MOTHER. I forgive her for all the times she hurt me, she
resented me, she was angry with me and for all times she punished me. I
forgive her for the times she preferred my brothers and sisters to me. I
forgive her for the times she told me I was dumb, ugly, stupid, the worst of
the children or that I cost the family a lot of money. For the times she
told me I was unwanted, an accident, a mistake or not what she expected, I
forgive her.
I forgive my FATHER. I forgive him for any non-support, any lack of love,
affection or attention. I forgive him for any lack of time, for not giving
me his companionship, for his drinking, arguing and fighting with my mother
or the other children. For his severe punishments, for desertion, for being
away from home, for divorcing my mother or for any running around, I do
forgive him.
Lord, I extend forgiveness to my SISTERS AND BROTHERS. I forgive those who
rejected me, lied about me, hated me, resented me, competed for my parents'
love, those who hurt me, who physically harmed me. For those who were too
severe on me, punished me or made my life unpleasant in any way, I do
forgive them.
Lord, I forgive my SPOUSE for lack of love, affection, consideration,
support, attention, communication; for faults, failings, weaknesses and
those other acts or words that hurt or disturb me.
Jesus, I forgive my CHILDREN for their lack of respect, obedience, love,
attention, support, warmth, and understanding; for their bad habits, falling
away from the church, any bad actions which disturb me.
My God, I forgive my IN-LAWS, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, FATHER-IN-LAW,
and SON/DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND OTHER RELATIVES by marriage, which treats my family
with a lack of love. For all their words, thoughts, actions or omissions
, which injure and cause pain, I forgive them.
Please help to forgive my RELATIVES, my grandmother and grandfather, aunts,
uncles, cousins, who may have interfered in our family, been possessive of
my parents, who may have caused confusion or turned one parent against the
other.
Jesus, help me to forgive my CO-WORKERS who are disagreeable or make life
miserable for me. For those who push their work off on me, gossip about me,
won't cooperate with me, try to take my job, I do forgive them.
My NEIGHBORS need to be forgiven, Lord. For all their noise, letting their
property run down, not tying up their dogs who run through my yard, not
taking in their trash barrels, being prejudiced and running down the
neighborhood, I do forgive them.
I do forgive my CLERGYMAN, my CONGREGATION and my CHURCH for their lack of
support, affirmation, bad sermons, pettiness, lack of friendliness, not
providing me or my family with the inspiration we needed, for any hurts they
have inflicted on me or my family, even in the distant past, I forgive them
today.
Lord, I forgive all those who are of different PERSUASIONS, those of
opposite political views who have attacked me, ridiculed me, discriminated
against me, made fun of me, economically hurt me.
I forgive those of different religious DENOMINATIONS AND BELIEFS who have
harassed me, attacked me, argued with me, forced their view on me or my
family.
Those who have harmed me ETHNICALLY, have discriminated against me, mocked
me, made jokes about my race or nationality, hurt my family physically,
emotionally or economically, I do forgive them today.
Lord, I forgive all PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE who have hurt me in any way:
doctors, nurses, lawyers, judges, politicians and civil servants. I forgive
all service people: policemen, firemen, bus drivers, hospital workers and
especially repairmen who have taken advantage of me in their work.
Lord, I forgive my EMPLOYER for not paying me enough money, for not
appreciating my work, for being unkind and unreasonable with me, for being
angry or unfriendly, for not promoting me, and for not complimenting me on
my work.
Lord, I forgive my SCHOOLTEACHERS AND INSTRUCTORS of the past as well as the
present. For those who punished me, humiliated me, insulted me, treated me
unjustly, made fun of me, called me dumb or stupid, made me stay after
school, I truly forgive them today.
Lord, I forgive my FRIENDS who have let me down, lost contact with me, do
not support me, were not available when I needed help, borrowed money and
did not return it, gossiped about me.
Lord Jesus, I especially pray for the grace of forgiveness for the ONE
PERSON in life who has HURT ME THE MOST. I ask to forgive anyone who I
consider my greatest enemy, the one who is the hardest to forgive or the one
who I said I will never forgive.
Lord, I beg pardon of all these people for the hurt I have inflicted on
them, especially my mother and father, and my marriage partner. I am
especially sorry for the three greatest hurts I have inflicted on each.
Thank You, Jesus, that I am being freed of the evil of unforgiveness. Let
Your Holy Spirit fill me with light and let every dark area of my mind be
enlightened. AMEN.
Forgiveness is an act of the will, not a feeling. If we pray for a
person, we can be assured that we have forgiven that person.
To help accept an individual and open ourselves to a particular person
more, picture him with the Lord Jesus and say to the Lord, "I love him
because You love him. I forgive him because You forgive him."
Forgiveness is a life-long obligation. Daily we need to forgive those
who hurt or injure us.
4. Send everyone to confession. And explain they are to return to
their pews and remain before the Blessed Sacrament until all have
confessed.
5. Healing of Marriage, Family Relationships between parents and
children, and the Family Trees, through the intercession of the
BVM & St. Joseph.
6. Altar call, lay hands on families.
7. Put away the Blessed Sacrament.
8. The Parish gives thanks by praying in tongues.
9. Explain Wed. agenda and send the parish home.
Mission - Wednesday
Our Lady of Fatima
St. Theresa says:
"Great is the power of prayer - a queen, as one might say, having free
access always to the King, and able to obtain whatever she asks. In
order to be heard, it is not necessary to read from a book a beautiful
form of prayer adapted to the circumstances; if it were so, how
greatly to be pitied should I be!"
1. Exposition of The Blessed Sacrament
2. Divine Mercy Chaplet
3. Talk on the Rosary
THE POWER OF THE ROSARY
One of the most striking events that occurred in the life of Christ,
happened, when Mary, Jesus, and the apostles, received an invitation
to go to a wedding feast at Cana of Galilee.
You will note, that I mentioned Mary’s name before I did Christ. And I
did so, because this is the only place in Sacred Scripture where
Mary’s name, indeed, is mentioned before that of her son.
At the wedding feast of Cana, Jesus, sat next to Our Lady. What an
awesome thought. The two most powerful powers, in all entire of the
universe. Sitting side by side. Jesus Christ, the God man, along with
the Father and the Holy Spirit, did everything in the universe. And
sitting next to Him, His most Magnificent Masterpiece, His greatest
creation, His perfect creature.
A rather embarrassing situation arose. They ran out of wine. Now who
do you suppose was the first one to realize this? To have compassion
and to do something about it? It was Our Lady, She turned to Christ
and looking into His deep dark mysterious eyes, She said,
"They have no wine!"
And Christ, turning his glaze upon Her lovely countenance, said,
"What is that to me, my time has not yet come."
There is something in our natures, inherent, whereby we all love to
see a great contest. That is why billions of people flocked to their
TV sets in February of 2002, to watch the Olympic Games. And that is
why, twenty seven years ago, at Reclevick, Iceland, people came from
all parts of the world to watch Bobby Fisher of the US, beat Boris
Bosky of Russia for the World Championship Title in Chess.
And incedently for those of you, who play chess. In a game of chess
each contestant, has sixteen pieces, the most important piece on the
board is the King, but in a game of Chess, the most powerful piece is
the Queen.
Well back at Cana of Galilee was a contest, so great, that it can only
best be described by calling one an irresistible force, the other an
immovable object. What happens when an irresistible force, something
that cannot be stopped, meets an immovable object? Something that
cannot be moved? Something has got to give! In this case, Our Lady was
the irresistible force.
Once again recording her words to Christ, She said,
"They have no wine"
And Our Lord said,
"What is that to me, my time has not yet come?"
Our Lady continued staring Her Son into the eyes, and She who had
said, "Yes" to God at the Annunciation was not about to take "No" for
an answer at Cana of Galilee.
She slowly withdrew Her eyes and She spoke to the servants. The last
time that Sacred Scripture gives Her credit for speaking. And
incedently it is the most powerful advice our planet Earth has ever
received in the realm of the Spiritual. Mary said,
"Do whatever He tells you."
The six servants filled the six stone jars with water and the
beautiful miracle, His first that Christ performed, is so excellently
described by an eighteenth century English poet Richard Crashaw, who
wrote these immortal lines.
"When the servants filled the six stone jars with water,
The unconscious water, looked at it’s God and blushed."
Mary had attained a great victory at Cana of Galilee. Because there
are two things that God can't do,
No 1 God can't sin.
No 2 God can't say "No" to Mary.
It was this great Victory at Cana of Galilee that caused the Great St.
Alphonsus of Liguori, and I say great, because he is a doctor of the
church, he is the patron saint of all the doctors of the Church, he is
the patron saint of moral theologians, he is the patron saint of
confessors, he is the patron saint of vocations and he is the founder
of the Redemtorists Order. And it was this that he said, because of
Cana
"When Mary commands everybody obeys, even God."
It was this Victory at Cana of Galilee that caused the great St. At
helm who has been proclaimed The Doctor of Mary to proclaim
"What God can do in His Infinite Powers?
Mary can do the very same thing, through Her prayer."
It was this Victory at Cana of Galilee that caused the great St.
Bernard to say
O! Mary, WHO but WHO can with stand your power."
It was this incident at Cana of Galilee that caused a great
Protestant, Literary Giant of England, poet Rudyard Kipling in the
year 1911 to pen this immortal poem
"O! Mary feared with sorrow, remember, reach and save,
The soul that comes tomorrow, before the God that gave,
For each was born of woman, for each was utterly
True comrade, and true fold man,
Madonna intercede."
It was this incident at Cana of Galilee that caused another great
Protestant, William Wordsworth to write these immortal lines
"O! Mother whose Virgin bosom was uncrossed
With the least shade of thought to sin alive,
Women among all woman glorified,
Our tainted nature solitary boasts"
And that last line "Our tainted nature solitary boasts" has become the
most immortalized line in the English language written of this
Magnificent Masterpiece.
It might shock some of you to know that the first protestant Martin
Luther had a great overwhelming devotion to The Mother of God and
wrote the poem, which he entitled "HIM" to the woman of the
appcropolis
"She is my love a noble maid,
Forget her, I can never
Whatever honors men have paid
She has my heart forever"
The great George Bernard Shaw shortly before he was dying said;
"I think Our Blessed Lady is going to sneak me into heaven"
When Christ was dying on the Cross one of the seven last sentences he
uttered was this directed to St. John the Evangelist
"Woman behold thy son, son behold thy mother."
The majesterium of the Church teaches us that Christ the God man was
officially and publicly, sanctioning devotions to His Mother. Jesus
was also consecrating our entire human race to His Mother. She would
become our heavenly mother and we her spiritual children. From that
day the most common name given a boy is John. The most common name
given to girls is Mary.
The Majesterium of the Church teaches us that all graces come from the
Holy Trinity and are given to Jesus Christ the God man, who is the
mediator. He in turn gives them to this Magnificent Masterpiece, Our
Lady, who is the mediatrix, and Our Lady - Mary dispenses them
according to God’s designs. And whether we like it or not, all prayers
and good works go right back to those channels, to Mary, to Jesus, and
to the Holy Trinity.
In the year 325, the first great heresy rocked our church to its very
foundation. It almost ruined it. It was called the Arians heresy. It
received its name from a priest, Fr. Auerous. Who taught, Jesus Christ
was indeed a man but He was not God. He was so convincing in his
argumentation that he consent eighty-one percent of all the bishops of
his error.
A council was called at Nicea to settle the issue. And Bishop Fulton
J. Sheen tells us that what crushed the Arian Heresy was the fact that
lay people stood outside the Council Chambers and that as each bishop
went in the council he was given a picture of this Magnificent
Masterpiece. This coupled by the fact that these same laypeople prayed
to Our Lady to CRUSH the Arian Heresy. Mother did.
In the year 431, the second great heresy rocked our Church's to its
very foundation. It was called the Nistorian Heresy. It received its
name from a bishop, Bishop Nistoria, who said, "Mary was not the
Mother of God."
A council was called at Ephesus. Where tradition says Our Lady lived
the balance of Her life. A Nestorian Heresy was overwhelmingly
crushed. The Champion of the day was St. Cyril. And the argumentation
that he used was this
"If Jesus Christ is one person with two natures, that is He is both
God and He is man, then you cannot separate the humanity of Jesus
Christ from the Divinity, and if this Magnificent Masterpiece is the
Mother of the Humanity of Jesus Christ, therefore Mary is the Mother
of God.
It is interesting at this point, to single out the fact, that the most
beautiful prayer we have, in the Catholic Faith is the Our Father,
because, it was composed by Jesus Christ the God man. But …is not the
oldest prayer, nor is it the Apostles Creed, nor the Glory Be to The
Father, the oldest prayer in Catholicism is the Hail Mary.
Before Christ was born the Angel Gabriel appeared to Our Lady and said
"Hail full of Grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed are thou among women"
The second portion of the Hail Mary comes again, before Christ was
born. Our Lady went to visit her cousin Elizabeth who was six months
pregnant with John the Baptist. And Elizabeth said to Our Lady
"blessed is the fruit of thy womb"
In the year 431 after St, Cyril was instrumental in crushing the
Nestorian Heresy he composed the next portion of the Hail Mary, which
is:
"Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners."
In the eighteenth the DeMonsfort Fathers composed the balance
"Now and at the hour of our death. Amen"
And we go back to the year 700 and in that year the word Mary was
inserted after the word hail. In the year 1252 the word Jesus was
inserted after the word womb.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the greatest of all heresies,
the Albeygentian Heresy. It received its name from a little town in
southern France, Albey. Where the heresy originated. And it taught
just the opposite of the first heresy, the Arian Heresy.
It taught that Jesus Christ was God, but that he was not man. It also
taught that God created our souls but that Satan created our bodies.
Hence the Albeygentian said if you were a true Albeygentian you would
have to murder your children and then commit suicide yourself.
In the fashion of the day, the choice was either to slit their wrists
and slowly bleed to death, or to starve to death.
Pope Innocent the 111, called on the Great St. Dominic to go into
Southern France and preach against this Terrible Heresy. St. Dominic
did in the year 1203. He preached for three years without gaining one
convert.
In desperation, after three days of Fasting and Abstinence, in a
little wooded area outside the City of Tuluth. Dominic beseeched Our
Lady. She who had crushed all Heresy, to come once again and CRUSH
this the greatest of all terrible heresy.
Our Lady appeared to St. Dominic in the year 1206 in Tuluth, France
and gave him this sacramental, The ROSARY. She told him to propagate
it, and the Albeygentian Heresy would indeed be crushed. St. Dominic
did. The Albeygentian Heresy was indeed crushed. And at one point over
one hundred thousand Albeygentian heretics returned to the Church.
From the year 1328 to the year 1428 the One Hundred Years War was
going on between France and England. All that time England had
occupied French soil. God raised a little seventeen-year-old peasant
girl, Joan of Arc, to lead the French Army Victoriously over the
English Army.
She only uttered two commands to her soldiers.
The First, one was they must be pure.
The Second, she said that on the French banners she wanted the names
of Jesus and Mary sewn. On her own sword she had the words Jesus and
Mary etched.
Joan of Arc was an illiterate girl. She only knew three prayers, the
Our Father and the Hail Mary and the Glory Be. But her favorite prayer
was the Hail Mary. The rest is history
You all know that in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America. Did
you know what an outstanding Holy Catholic man he was? His cause for
canonization had been considered. His life was wrapped up in this
Magnificent Masterpiece, Our Lady.
Christopher Columbus daily prayed the Rosary daily and the Angelus. He
loved to frequent the churches named after Our Lady. Two of his ships
had already been named The Pinta, and the Nina. His flagship was
proudly named after Our Lady, the Santa Maria. The Holy Mary.
He wanted to set sail on August 2nd the Feast of Our Lady “Queen of
the Angels.” But weather did not permit him to do so. Instead, he set
sail on August 3rd. Before he sailed to make up for this loss of his
sailing date. He spent three hours at the Shrine of Our Lady "Star
of the Sea" imploring a successful and safe journey.
Once he had set sail he commanded all three ships to come closely
together each evening in order that they could all sing the Salve
Regina, in honor of this Magnificent Masterpiece. He sailed until
October 10th and said “ if we do not site land by the next feast day
of Mary, we are turning around and going back to Spain.”
The next feast day of Our Lady occurred on Oct.12th. In the year 36,
The Great Mother of God, Mary Most Holy, made her first earthly
apparition, appearing to St. James one of the twelve apostles, as on
top of a pillar. At two o'clock in the morning on Oct 12th,
Christopher Columbus discovered America,
The first place he landed was an island, which he proudly named San
Salvador, The Saviour and the second place he landed was another
island which he so proudly named “The Immaculate Conception Island”
which we now call Conception Island, A large body of water in the area
he called the "Sea of Mary." The first Indians he brought back to
Spain he personally taught how to pray the Hail Mary.
November of 1493, Christopher Columbus made his second of four trips
to the New World. This time he had seventeen ships. And this time he
had a brand new flagship, which he so proudly named "The Maria
Gallente" which in English means ‘Mary, Gallant and Powerful.’
Before he died he requested that the first church erected on this
continent, be named, after Our Lady. And isn't it ironic, he
discovered America, yet the country is not named after him. You would
think it would be called Columbus or Columbia. But I think, it was Our
Lady’s way of having things. He implored her intercession! And She
went one farther then he expected.
The country was named after the first Italian Explorer, Americo das
Duty, and do you know "Why"? Because in the word AMER-I-CAN the last
part is "I can" but the "I" comes in the word Mary, through Mary "I
can". American. Isn't it strange that the first thirteen colonies one
was called Mary's Land in Her Honor, today we call it the state of
Maryland.
On October 7th, 1571, in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of
Greece, a great battle of Lake Pancha took place. Prior to this great
battle, Turkey had amassed the greatest navy in the world. And under
Ally Pancha, he was threatening the great seaports of the Christian
World.
The reining Pontiff at the time was a Great Pope, St. Pius 5th; he
urged all of Cat holism to amass a great fleet of Europe. He knew this
would not be enough to win the battle. He urged a Rosary Crusade
throughout the length and breath of Europe.
Rosaries were said twenty-four hours a day around the clock throughout
Poland, Italy and France. St. Pius 5th, personally selected Don Juan
of Austria, who had a great devotion to Our Lady in the Rosary, to be
the Admiral of his fleet.
Catholic sailors and soldiers waged war literally with a Rosary in one
hand and a sword a lance or a blunderbuss in the other. The two fleets
engaged at eleven o’clock in the morning. The battle waged back and
forth until five thirty in the evening.
When a sudden twist of the wind, from East to West gave a tactical
advantage to the Catholic Fleet. The head of Ally Pancha had been
decapitated when his ship had been boarded.
The battle had been won. All Catholic Europe had been saved THROUGH
THE ROSARY. October the seventh was made the Feast of The Holy Rosary,
all because of the winning of this great battle.
The church waited 112 years and Turkey came back with the most
powerful army in the world. Under the most brilliant General in the
world then living, General Kara Mutaffa, he boasted I will take
Catholic Europe; I will stable my horses in St. Peter's Cathedral. He
led an army in 1683 of a quarter of a million men. German and Austrian
soldiers temporarily halted him at Vienna.
The reining Pontiff was Pope Innocent X1, he quickly called upon
Poland's King John Souvesky to come and save all of Catholic Europe.
St. John Souvesky loved Our Lady and Her Rosary. He ordered all of his
65,000 mounted Polish soldiers to pray the Rosary all the way from
Poland to Austria. Once having arrived in Austria at the siege of
Vienna, but to the jubilation of the Austrian and German soldiers, he
had one command for his men.
"I want all soldiers to engage in battle with two words on their tongues,
JESUS& MARY."
He then led charge after charge until the enemy was defeated, crushed
and decimated the army of Kara Mutaffa. The head of Kara Mutaffa was
decapitated; his head can be seen in the museum of Vienna, Austria.
St. John Souvesky said when reporting to the Holy Father, "I came and
I saw how Jesus and Mary conquered." The Pontiff in honor of this
great battle established The Feast of The Name of Mary on September
12th, 1683.
It has been said by Cardinal Spellman that more rosaries were prayed
in that six-year period of World War 11 from 1939 to 1945, then any
other six-year period in the history of the world. What effect did
those millions and millions of rosaries have on the outcome of the
war.
I'll give you the facts and you make your own conclusions.
Fact No.1 Aug 15, 1940 when the greatest Air Battle ever fought
in the entire history of the world, took place over London, England.
When 27 Squadrons of English Spitfires and Hurricanes shot down 187 of
Germany’s finest airplanes. Thus crippling the German Luftwaffe and
defeating the secret coded plan of Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of
England. August 15 is The Feast of the Assumption Of Our Blessed Lady
Into Heaven. Is this a coincidence? Or is this Our Lady's way of
showing us the Power of Her rosary?
Fact No. 2 December 7th, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. It
was not until Dec. 8th the next day that the US officially declared
war on Japan. Dec. 8th is The Feast of The Immaculate Conception, the
Patroness of the United States. Is this a coincidence? Or is this Our
Lady’s way of showing us the Power of Her Rosary!
Fact No 3 Feb 2nd, 1943. For two years Germany, Italy & Japan
were defeating the Allied Armies. The turning point of the war came on
Feb 2nd, 1943 when Russia’s Marshall Zukov crushed the powerful German
6th Army. This day is the Feast of The Purification of this
Magnificent Masterpiece. Is this a coincidence? Or is this Our Lady’s
way of showing us the Power of Her Rosary.
There are some historians who dispute this fact. They say it took
place at the Battle of Kirst, Russia, where the largest tank battle of
the world took place on July 16th, 1943 with over 6,000 tanks engaged.
That is OK; we will let them have their way. This battle took place on
July 16th under Field Marshall Von Runstat of the German Army and
Marshall Zukov of the Russian Army this was on The Feast of Our Lady
of The Brown Scapular. Is this a coincidence? Or is this Our Lady’s
way of showing us the Power of the Rosary!
Fact No.4 May 13th, 1943 The North African Campaign came to
a close. The Axis all surrendered. Two armies were completely
defeated. May 13th is the Feast of Our Lady Of Fatima.
On this Day in 1946, the US Government declared this date as a day of
prayer of thanksgiving for the victory of WW11. Is this a coincidence
or is this Our Lady showing us the Power of Her Sacramental, The
Rosary!
My brothers and sisters in Christ. Mary, Our Blessed Mother, is still
with us. Still begging us to pray the Rosary. She is daily appearing
to visionaries, seers and locutionists all over the world. Garabandal,
Fatima, Majegore, Lourdes all attract millions of conversions daily
throughout the world.
Mother speaks to Her remnants everywhere, Conyers, Esperanto, Florida,
to Louise Tomkiel, and to prayer groups in ever growing numbers. And
yes even to me.
On May 13th, 1997 while praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3:00 pm,
Mother asked me to sing out and for the first time I sang the Rosary
and Chaplet of Divine Mercy in the Spirit for the first time. I did an
average of 14-31 rosaries daily in song until June 27th, 1997, when I
taught it to my prayer partner driving to Vancouver from Whistler, BC.
Jesus and Mary have taken me to homes all over the mainland to teach
these devotions in Songs to families. They have taken me to the
Philippines three times since 1997 to teach it to religious, priests,
bishops and a cardinal. They have brought me to a parish in Tabor,
Alberta to do so, to Madonna House in Cumbermere in November 2000, to
the Companions of the Cross here in Canada in December 2000, and
tonight I will now teach you my fellow parishioners how to sing the
Rosary.
We have been singing the Chaplet as it was taught to me through the
Holy Spirit. Let the Holy Spirit guide you through this Rosary, as we
will all take down the roof of this Church in song in a few minutes.
God bless you all for listening to Momma Mary’s call to prayer and now
listen to a message from Her given in prayer on
February 15, 2002
Message Given To
The Special Rose of His Most Sacred Heart
My Dear Children,
As you enter into a new way within your lives, know that you are asked
to bring prayer to a closer place within your lives, within your
hearts. For without prayer within your lives, you have nothing.
Without My Son in your lives you have a nothingness feeling. Your
lives must be totally converted to My Son's ways. Bring My Son to the
center of your hearts, talk to Him, for He is always near and waits to
hear from His children.
Prayers, prayers from the heart are what changes ones lives and shall
change this world, a world to which is filled with ever so much evil.
Through these heart filled prayers, many ones and many prayers shall
bring about the downfall of the evil hand to which has a great hold
upon many. Pray, Pray, Pray. Thanks you for responding to My call.
Message from Our Blessed Mother to Carlos Lopez
February 6, 2002 St. Bruno's Church, San Bruno, CA
Dear children, Praised be Jesus!
I come this night to call you, once again, to conversion. A conversion
is like fire, which burns the soul out of love for God. A conversion
must be complete; a conversion that together with the fire of the love
of God burns your souls due to a desire for holiness.
Many say they are converted, but their conversion is as cold as ice.
They do not pray and the cold and dark water of sin has extinguished
that fire which one-day shone in them.
My little ones, sin, bad habits, laziness, ill will, and a sharp
tongue to kill your fellow man with words and lies have extinguished
the fire which one day shone in your hearts.
Where are many of my children who one day prayed with me? Where are
the simple of heart? Where are those children of mine whom I formed?
Many ran to the emptiness of the world and they gave themselves
completely to sin. They forgot to pray and (they forgot) everything I
once taught them. The allurements of the world extinguished the fire
of that conversion which one day shone brightly in their hearts. How
can many say they are converted if they pray whenever they want; if
they pray only when they are sad or when the sufferings and problems
knock at the door of their lives.
Conversion must be daily, my little ones. If a conversion is not watered with
the water of life, it dies. Listen to my message of this night. Accept,
today, the grace that I come to give you, the grace of conversion, of a total
conversion, a conversion, which only I desire to give you.
Pray, pray, pray-for if you pray as I ask you to, with simplicity and
humility, the conversion of your hearts will not fail, but will live
always-even through the difficulties of daily problems, of the temptations of
my enemy. Pray, pray, pray and trust in me. I desire that your conversion be
like that of a child: simple and obedient.
Thank you for having accepted my invitation of this night. May the peace of
God Almighty be always with you. In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
LEAD THE HOLY ROSARY IN SONGMission - Thursday
ALMIGHTY GOD - EL SHADDAI
February 16, 2002 "For me prayer is an aspiration of the
heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry
of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy.
Finally, it is something... which expands my soul and unites
me to Jesus."
1 Father Exposes the Blessed Sacrament
2 Prayers of the Divine Mercy Cenacle Chaplet
3 History of parish love offerings, for 2001
Gross revenue for 2001 _________________
Number of families in the parish _________________
Divided by 52 weeks = Average weekly offering _________________
Assume 20% of parish brings 80% of weekly revenue = _________________
80% of parish donates 20 % of revenue = Average weekly gift_______________
A meal at McDonalds cost ______$ 4.99______
IS GOD NOT WORTH THE PRICE OF A HAMBURGER EACH WEEK?
Deuteronomy 14:21-23 "You shall surely tithe all the produce from what
you sow, which comes out of the field every year."
Leviticus 27:29-31 "Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the
land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S; it
is holy to the LORD"
Nehemiah 10:37-39 "The priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the
Levites when the Levites receive tithes, and the
Levites shall bring up the tenth of the tithes to
the house of our God, to the chambers of the
storehouse."
Luke 18:11-13 "I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.'
Hebrews 7:8-10 "And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who
received tithes, paid tithes,"
Malachi 3:7-9 "Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me!"
But you say, "How have we robbed You? In tithes and offerings."
Christ came to fulfill the WORD not destroy it. Remember the following
verse of Scripture,
Revelation 22:18 "I testify to everyone who hears the words of the
prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God
will add to him the plagues, which are written in
this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words
of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his
part from the tree of life and from the holy city,
which are written in this book."
We Catholics are comfortable in our pews. We profess to be holy and
faithful, but we are fools before Almighty God, for we have
comfortably neglected to HEAR and OBEY His will. Rather we do our
will, as Jesus told us on Monday night, let us go back and again
listen to His Holy Words.
In the Lord's Prayer you say, 'Thy will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven.' What you mean is my own will be done or I will not believe in
you. Your prayers are commands and threats to your God and Father.
These prayers are not answered for no one threatens their God. I hear
all humble, loving prayers, but I have asked everyone to take up their
cross and follow Me.
We Catholics say to the Lord, "Jesus I Trust In You." EXCEPT with my
money, time, and effort of prayer. My love offering is sufficient, I
come to mass on Sundays, and I pray when I think of it. Bishops and
priests fail to teach on this subject of tithing, as they do not want
to offend anyone nor cause hardship on the family, so they say
nothing, by suppressing the gospel in teaching us to accept our
crosses.
Do you really believe in God? Do you really Trust In Jesus? Do you
really want to serve God by serving your brothers and sisters
throughout the world? Then it is time to give serious consideration to
salvation of your soul in now doing Corporal Woks of Mercy. Tithe for
yourself, wives tithe for your husband & children, and children listen
and learn the ways of God in tithing from your parents in obedience in
all things. Tithing as God has commanded us to do since Abraham.
A A Tithe is 10% of the GROSS INCOME, not after all of the
deductions of your take home check.
B Give 4% of this gross to your parish.
C Give 1 % of this gross to your bishop.
D Give 5% to your community and missions.
Of course, we Canadians are a proud people, and want to see real
results from the fruits of our own efforts. Then consider starting a
Parish NGO and pool your tithes of 5%. Elect your own directors as I
did with the Society, and find a need and fill it yourself. Or you can
take over an existing NGO.
I will be glad to give you the Society and have you continue with its
work. But firstly, be Obedient to the WILL OF THE FATHER by making the
decision to really TRUST IN JESUS, and tithe your money, set-aside
daily time for personal and family prayer, and then look after the
needy in our parish.
Now you are ready to commit to Jesus by surrendering totally to Him.
You have received the Holy Spirit, and there is not one person in this
church who is not convinced of this, from the youngest to the oldest.
You have received the Sacrament of Reconciliation and had your
relationships and wounds healed through the Divine Mercy of Almighty
God. You have experienced the Touch of the Holy Sprit in the Gift of
Tongues.
Now Jesus is asking you to Obey Him and Trust in Him by
1 Tithing of your money, time, and responsibility to the parish and
community.
2 Praying, by setting aside daily personal prayer time & family prayer time.
3 Help the sick, needy and poor in this parish. Particularly the poor
in heart.
4 Love your brothers and sisters throughout the world by tithing to
him 5% of you family and free time in the apostolate of the parish,
diocese and foreign missions.
5 Now you are truly beginning to be holy by taking up your cross and
following Jesus. Before the Blessed Sacrament, now, tonight,
consecrate yourselves to Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Make your
commitment as a couple and as a family to do so. You may now break
and discuss it among yourselves and return to your pews in 20
minutes.
6 Consecration to The Divine Mercy of Jesus. Taken from manual and
distribute DM Apostle Applications.
7 Altar call to receive Jesus deeper and deeper in our hearts.
8 Father puts away Blessed Sacrament.
9 Closing hymn and blessing
10 Tomorrow night is the final night of the mission. It is St.
Theresa's night. It is through the prayers of His Divine Mercy
saint who is the Protectress of Missionaries and Charisma tics
which you now all are, that healings of mind, body and spirit will
take place tomorrow night.
Bring all of the sick in your families. Bring the sick of mind, the
addicted, the needy and poor of heart, for Jesus in His Divine Mercy
will show you His commitment to this parish AND TO YOU PERSONALLY, as
His way of thanking you for your sacrifice in being here with him.
Come with the simple faith of St. Theresa and EXPEXT MIRACLES of
healings of every kind, through her intercessory prayers in the Divine
Mercy of Almighty God - El Shaddai.
Mission - Friday
St. Theresa says
Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and
takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I
understand then why He lets us suffer...
Note: the sick, elderly and those on walkers or wheel chairs should be
in the front of the church. The seriously ill and infirm in the front pews.
1 Mass of St. Theresa. Fr. then brings out the Blessed Sacrament.
2 Litany of St. Theresa.
3 Chaplet of St. Theresa.
Summary of This Weeks Mission
To Be Divine Mercy Apostles of The Cross
a Surrender to the Lordship of Jesus.
b Further your devotion to the Eucharist.
c Use your Charisms of the Holy Spirit in both prayer and ministry.
d Consecrate yourself to Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
This spirituality will be lived out in a series of very practical ways.
e spend an extended time each day in personal prayer.
f read scripture daily.
g participate in the Mass and Sacraments frequently.
h be consecrated to Jesus through Mary.
i in discernment through the community, undertake some kind of ministry.
j keep a spiritual journal.
k TITHE
l be a member of a share group that meets at least every two weeks.
m make daily intercession for the intentions of the parish.
n attend an annual retreat.
o take part in the community activities of the parish.
4 Anointing and Laying hands on The sick & elderly, wheel
chairs, and infirm The caregivers of the sick and infirm in
the aisles. This group can now take home the sick.
a Children from 3 yrs old to 18.
b Parents & grandparents.
c Single & young people.
d Widows & widowers.
e Religious and priests.
5 Father puts away the Blessed Sacrament.
6 Thanksgiving in tongues.
7 Final hymn and blessing.
Note: I would like to invite everyone to come to mass Saturday
morning, and then remain in church to give their impressions and
testimony individually and by family until noon at which time people
share the potluck I will invite them to bring. You will be astounded
and pleased and blessed to witness to this testimony of everyone.
I will invite the parish to bring their Divine Mercy Apostle
Applications, with their 1st tithe and place them in the basket at
Sunday's mass. Amen
With your permission Father, I would like to daily lead the parish in
the Divine Praises before you put away the Blessed Sacrament with O!
Salutaris.
Please feel free to speak to me of anything that you object too, or
wish to change. I can assure you that as I have written so it shall
come to pass through the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Application Statement for Divine Mercy Apostles
Please accept my membership application as a Eucharistic Apostle of
the Divine Mercy I have been read the mission statement and membership
conditions and willingly subscribe to them.
I understand the Charism of the apostolate and its call to build up
the local church through spiritual and corporal works of mercy in my
parish and the Archdiocese.
I ask the Merciful Lord and Our Blessed Mother of Mercy to accept this
offering of myself, to be a Eucharistic Apostle of The Divine Mercy.
May the spiritual and corporal works of mercy bear much fruit in
advancement of the Kingdom of God.
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Print Name Signature
Address_______________________________________________________
City_____________________________ Prov/State_____ PC/Zip_________
Parish Name_____________________________________________________
Priest/Advisor____________________________________________
Cenacle Facilitator Name: Ted Malone____ Ph No; 604-420-3865
Date Accepted___________________________________
Please submit a copy of this commitment, through your cenacle facilitator to:
Congregation of the
Marians of the Immaculate Conception
Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy
Eden Hill, Stockbridge, MA 01263