|
Viewing 1 - 4 out of 4 Blogs.
"My people, what is a needle without thread? I am the needle and you are the thread and it is when you allow Me to guide you that your mission on this earth becomes a beautiful masterpiece guided by the hands of your Master" The Words From Jesus book is being spread primarily by word of mouth and at this time a unique promotion of giving books away, where thousands have been shipped all across the world. ( free books while supplies last) Conversations with God - Words From Jesus Book Quote from book - 10/1/05 2:30 PM "My people, I came as prophet and King and I come out of love for you. I come as your resurrected Savior who endured crucifixion for your sins. My love is not guarded it is unending, unconditional. I will come in radiant splendor and claim My faithful children. Do not focus on your failings rather take heed to your weaknesses, repent and sin no more.
The new dawn is approaching, so please turn to My Son MESSAGE #2984 from the Blessed Mother April 23, 2007 --------------------------------------- My daughter; Please continue to write, for these messages are for the world. All my children must come to know God’s love, mercy and forgiveness. Believe; believe in God’s unconditional love. Believe in God’s love for you so you turn to Him each new day. It is time now to respond to God’s love so you can be light to a world that is so filled with darkness. The new dawn is approaching, so please turn to My Son and place all your trust in Him. Climb God’s holy mountain and through your efforts, peace and love will dwell in your hearts. Amen. Psalm 56 1-6 & 13 -------------------- Be merciful to me, O God, for men hotly pursue me; all day long they press their attack. My slanderers pursue me all day long; many are attacking me in their pride. When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? All day long they twist my words; they are always plotting to harm me. They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps, eager to take my life. For you have delivered me fromdeath and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. JOHN PAUL II GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday 19 September 2001 ------------------------------- Dear Brothers and Sisters, It is a dark night; devouring wild beasts are perceived in the surroundings. The one who prays is waiting for the coming of dawn so that the light will dispel the darkness and fear. This is the background of Psalm 56 on which we reflect today. It is a night prayer made by the one who prays at the break of day, anxiously awaited, in order to be able to praise the Lord with joy. In fact, the psalm passes from dramatic lament addressed to God to serene hope and joyful thanksgiving. In reality, one assists at the passage from fear to joy, from night to day, from nightmare to serenity, from supplication to praise. Catechism of the Catholic Church ------------------------------ 409 This dramatic situation of "the whole world [which] is in the power of the evil one" makes man's life a battle: The whole of man's history has been the story of dour combat with the powers of evil, stretching, so our Lord tells us, from the very dawn of history untilthe last day. Finding himself in the midst of the battlefield man has to struggle to do what is right, and it is at great cost to himself, and aided by God's grace, that he succeeds in achieving his own inner integrity. December 21, 2003 Excerpts of a Homily by Fr. Robert Altier ------------------------------- If we look around in our society today, [God] is allowing our society and the people within it to go their own way. As we have spoken of over the last number of weeks, quoting Saint Paul, “Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more,” so we know that there is more grace available to people today than there ever has been before in history. It is not because of a lack of grace on God’s part that all of these things are happening. In fact, Saint Faustina told us about the time of mercy and how there would be an abundance of grace available for people Our Lady has to be firmly established before her Son is going to come. She is going to give birth again but not in any kind of physical way. Rather, the fullness of the truth regarding Our Lady will be fully known and understood and accepted and lived. And it is through that that Jesus Christ is truly going to be born in the hearts of all who believe, and that He will find a new sort of incarnation, if you will, in the world â€" through us, who are children of Our Lady and who believe in her Son. This is the pattern that God has established. He will give up the people; He will send Our Lady, the dawn that comes before the sunrise; and then He will send the Son of justice, Jesus Christ. The time of mercy has not yet stopped. Things are going to get very ugly because the darkest part of the night comes right before the dawn, and the saints tell us that Mary is the dawn that precedes the sunrise. So as the world prepares to receiver her Savior, there was one who was prepared long before everyone else â€" and that was His mother. She is now preparing the hearts of those who will believe, of those who will be faithful to her Son.
“to find the example of Jesus” -------------------------------- MESSAGE #2965 from the Blessed Mother February 12, 2007 ---------------------------------- My daughter, I am with you. Continue to pray and do your part for the salvation of souls. Prayer and obedience to God is how conversion will happen. All my children must pray and live, live the Gospel. They must be an example to all their brothers and sisters. Without love in your hearts, you will only turn others away. Please be prayerful, loving children so more turn to God before it’s too late. Satan loves war, so please do the opposite of what he is telling you. Be loving and forgiving and rescue those who have allowed hate to rule their life. It is time now to move forward with love and joy in your hearts. It is time to speak the truth in a gentle loving way. All must wake up from their slumber, so please respond and share all that I am teaching you. Now, please be obedient servants so more can be accomplished in this time of renewal, mercy and grace. Amen. Catechism of the Catholic Church ---------------------------------- #520 In all of his life Jesus presents himself as our model. He is "the perfect man", who invites us to become his disciples and follow him. In humbling himself, he has given us an example to imitate, through his prayer he draws us to pray, and by his poverty he calls us to accept freely the privation and persecutions that may come our way #1011 In death, God calls man to himself. Therefore the Christian can experience a desire for death like St. Paul's: "My desire is to depart and be with Christ." He can transform his own death into an act of obedience and love towards the Father, after the example of Christ: My earthly desire has been crucified; . . . there is living water in me, water that murmurs and says within me: Come to the Father. I want to see God and, in order to see him, I must die. I am not dying; I am entering life. Titus 2: 1-3, 11-14 Duties of the Older and Younger ---------------------------------- But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified, sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. Excerpts of a Homily by Fr. Robert Altier - Tuesday November 12, 2002 ---------------------------------- Saint Paul lays things out rather nicely. He tells us we have to live our lives in a way that is consistent with sound doctrine. We have to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith and endurance, and so on. We have to be living our lives as good examples to people around us. We have to be humble. We have to be charitable. We have to be pouring ourselves out. And he tells us that the reason for this can be found in the Incarnation. The little passage at the end of the reading today is about Christmas; it is about the Nativity of Our Lord. He says, “The grace of God has appeared, saving all and training all to reject godless ways and worldly desires, to live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age, as we await our blessed hope, the coming in glory of God and of our Savior Jesus Christ,” So for our own selves, then, we need to look at the example of Christ. We need to look at this little, tiny Baby who was born of a human woman, who was born in a cave, who has come into this world for the purpose of being obedient to His Father and of giving His life for us, who lived in such a way that He was above reproach. He teaches us how we are to live and that we are to find ourselves to be servants of God and servants of one another. When we can finally come to the point of actually doing what God requires of us â€" that is, when we can get to the point of becoming saints â€" then we can truly say that we are unprofitable servants. Until then, we need to get rid of even that amount of arrogance and we need to recognize that we have not even approached being an unprofitable servant yet; but rather, all we can say is that we are selfish, disobedient slaves who are not doing what we are supposed to do. Therefore, we need to keep working at it, to find the example of Jesus, and to become truly the dignified individual who is living as an unprofitable servant of God.
If you do not repent, you will die like all of them. MESSAGE #2968 from the Blessed Mother February 28, 2007 -------------------------- My daughter, Penance and prayer are truly needed in this time of God's mercy and grace. Please, dear children, pray and do penance for those who are furthest away from God. Pray each new day so more turn to God before it's too late. Through prayer and penance, hearts will be converted. Please understand I need your assistance, for so many are choosing to live in darkness. A great chastisement will come if man continues to live in sin. Repentance is truly needed, for evil has become widespread. Prayer and penance truly console My Son's wounded Heart. Now, please let go of the noise of the world and pray quietly with Our Lord. Pray and trust in God as you kneel before Our Lord. My daughter, pray with me, for many souls are in need of conversion. Many souls will suffer if they continue to live in mortal sin. Time is moving quickly, so please tell the world to join hands and pray, pray as a family. Pray, pray your Rosary every day. Amen. Catechism of the Catholic Church ------------------------------- #1492 Repentance (also called contrition) must be inspired by motives that arise from faith. If repentance arises from love of charity for God, it is called "perfect" contrition; if it is founded on other motives, it is called "imperfect." #1490 The movement of return to God, called conversion and repentance, entails sorrow for and abhorrence of sins committed, and the firm purpose of sinning no more in the future. Conversion touches the past and the future and is nourished by hope in God's mercy. Gospel (St. Luke 13:1-9) ------------------------------- Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on themâ€"do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish." Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?' " 'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.' " Excerpts from a Homily by Fr. Robert Altier Third Sunday of Lent - March 14, 2004 ------------------------------- http://www.desertvoice.excerptsofinri.com/ We are called to accept our share of the Cross. We are called to bear fruit for God, as Jesus made clear in the Gospel reading today. If we are not bearing fruit, we deserve to be cut down. It is not enough just to simply be there with nice-looking foliage; it is absolutely required that we bear fruit. And in order to bear fruit, it is made very clear what needs to happen: The gardener was going to work the soil and then he was going to put some fertilizer on it. We are being called by God to unite ourselves with Christ, to take up the Cross, and to walk with Our Lord. But many of us think we do not need to do that. The "American Way", after all, is to make sure that we do not have to suffer anything, to make sure that everything is comfortable and easy. The Cross is a scandal to us, just as it was to the Jewish people of old; it is absurdity to us, just as it was to the Greeks of old â€" unless we can see it with faith. Not the kind of faith that shoots up out of no place because something extraordinary happened, but the kind of faith that comes only by working through the suffering and recognizing that God is faithful to everything that He has promised. We are the unfaithful one, and the only way we learn to be faithful is to go through the suffering, to continue to pray, and to be faithful in the midst of the trials. All of us have certain habitual sins that we have been working against for many years, and we get to the point where we have made it for a week, maybe two weeks, maybe even a month or two, without falling into whatever sin it is that we struggle with; and what happens is we fall into the same pattern that we have been talking about. We stop praying about it. We start thinking thoughts like "I finally overcame this! I'm not going to fall into this anymore. I've finally mastered it. I have overcome!" First of all, we recognize that we are not giving the credit to God but we are taking it for ourselves, and then we do not turn to God anymore. So as soon as we hear those words in our own minds, we must recognize that really what that means is we are leaning over the edge of the cliff and we are about to fall flat on our faces because we have just let the guard down. That is exactly what the devil is waiting for, and then he pounces with everything he has and down we go because we were relying on our own strength and we were no longer praying We need to be faithful to Him. He has shown the way of fidelity and He has given to us the example to follow. We have our choice. Both examples are written down. Both are there for our learning and as a warning to us. We can be like Jesus, we can be like Our Lady, and we can be like all of the saints who were faithful to God in the midst of their trials; or we can learn from the people of old and we will be unfaithful and we will die in the desert. The choice is ours: to choose Jesus and live, or to rely on ourselves and die. This is precisely the point that Jesus makes in the Gospel: "If you do not repent, you will die like all of them."
|
