Topic: Prophecy Meditation
Hidden Life, Sacred Heart & Soul,
Infant Jesus Litany & Novena,
Message Phone Line, Pope's Prayer
Intentions, Calendar
The Hidden Life of Our Lord - Release
2
Beginning in Advent and continuing
through the Feast of the Epiphany on
January 6, 2008, the Foundation will
be posting the first 10 chapters of the
My Hidden Life as Our Lord Himself
dictated them to Gianna Sullivan
between January 26th, 1999 and April
1, 1999. Release 2 of the Hidden Life
is:
2. My Incarnation... (
http://www.centeroftheimmaculatehe
art.org/foundation/hidden_life_2.asp )
3. In the Womb... (
http://www.centeroftheimmaculatehe
art.org/foundation/hidden_life_3.asp )
Sacred Heart & Soul Newspaper
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Martin Todd Ministries overcame
tremendous obstacles to publish the
first issue of "Sacred Heart & Soul",
America's Catholic Tabloid, and bring
the true spirit of the Christmas Season
as well as Our Lady of Emmitsburg
into so many homes during this special
time of the year. What can you do?
For More Information... (
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The Litany of the Infant Jesus
Link to the Litany... (
http://www.catholictradition.org/Litani
es/litany20b.htm
)
Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague
Join us in praying the Novena to the
Infant Jesus of Prague beginning
December
1th through Christmas Eve, December
24th 2007.
Link to the Novena... (
http://www.latinmass.bravepages.co
m/infant_jesus_of_prague.htm )
Toll Free Message Phone Line
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current
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(prompt #3). At the present time it is
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to call 3 separate times to select each
of the 3 prompts rather than being
able
to proceed from one to another, but
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consider including this phone number
as well as the Foundation website
information as an insert in your
Christmas cards.
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Heart Phone Line
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Pope Benedict XVI Monthly Prayer
Intentions - December 2007
Join in praying daily for the December
2007 monthly intentions of our Holy
Father:
THOSE SUFFERING FROM AIDS: That
society may care for those stricken
with AIDS,
especially women and children, and
that the Church may help them feel
the Lord's
love.
ASIA: That the incarnation of the Son
of God may help the peoples of Asia
recognize Jesus as God's Envoy, the
only Savior of the world.
DAILY OFFERING PRAYER - O Jesus,
through the Sorrowful and Immaculate
Heart of
Mary, I offer You my prayers, works,
joys, and sufferings of this day in
union
with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
throughout the world. I offer them for
all
the intentions of Your Sacred Heart:
the salvation of souls, reparation for
sin,
and the reunion of all Christions. I offer
them for the intentions of our
bishops and of all Apostles of Prayer,
and in particular for those
recommended
by our Holy Father this month.
January
6
Sun
Our Lady of Emmitsburg Monthly
Marian Prayer Service
Lynfield Event Complex, January 6,
2008
Come pray the Rosary and Chaplet of
Divine Mercy at the Our Lady of
Emmitsburg
Monthly Marian Prayer Service from
3PM-5PM. (Our Lady has been giving
her
monthly message to the world at this
service.) All are welcome.
WAYNE WIEBLE to give a short talk
following the prayer service - details
forthcoming...
More Info...
(
http://www.centeroftheimmaculatehe
art.org/messages/messages_current_
events.asp
)
Visit:
www.centeroftheimmaculateheart.org
& www.prourladyofemmitsburg.org
Medjugorje Day By Day Dec 15 -
LEARNING TO LOVE
"The season of Advent is the perfect
opportunity for us to recall the worthy
reason why the Holy Father convoked
the extraordinary Year of the
Eucharist:
so that we would 'contemplate more
intensely the face of the Incarnate
Word.'
For Advent prepares us to experience
that incomparable moment at
Christmas
when we will behold God's human face
in Jesus" (Fr. Peter John Cameron,
O.P.).
My opinions may have changed, but
not the fact that I am right.
Remember there's no I in team... (but
there is a M and an E)
Pope John Paul II -
June 1986 response to a group of
twelve Italian bishops seeking pastoral
advice on people making pilgrimages
to Medjugorje. "Let the people go to
Medjugorje if they convert, pray,
confess, do penance and fast."
http://www.medjugorje.org/pope.ht
m
Mother Teresa -
Let us pray for one another.
Let us pray that we may accomplish
our life's mission, which is to be holy.
Let us pray that we will be the love
and kindness of God in today's world.
Meditations by Padre Pio - To fear
losing yourself in the arms of Divine
Goodness, is stranger than the fear of
an infant held tightly in its mother's
arms.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen -
We do have control
Just as there is a right and wrong
theory about the sun and the earth,
so there is a right and wrong theory
about external circumstances. If we
revolve about what happens on the
outside, then the latter determines our
moods and attitudes. But if we make
what is external revolve around us, we
can determine the amount of their
influence.
St. Faustina's diary
http://www.marian.org/directory_flas
h.html - On Friday evening during the
rosary, when I was thinking about
tomorrow's journey and about the
importance of the matter which I was
to present to Father Andrasz,* fear
seized me at the sight of my misery
and incapability, and of the greatness
of God's work. Crushed by this
suffering, I submitted myself to the will
of God. At that moment, I saw Jesus,
in a bright garment, near my kneeler.
He said, Why are you afraid to do My
will? Will I not help you as I have done
thus far? Repeat every one of My
demands to those who represent Me
on earth, but do only what they tell
you to do. At that, a certain strength
entered my soul. (489)
In the evening, when I was walking in
the garden saying my rosary and
came to the cemetery, I opened the
gate a little and began to pray for a
while, and I asked them interiorly,
"You are very happy are you not?"
Then I heard the words, "We are
happy in the measure that we have
fulfilled God's will"-and then silence as
before. I became introspective and
reflected for a long time on how I am
fulfilling God's will and how I am
profiting from the time that God has
given me. (515)
*Father Sopocko, not sure of Sister
Faustina's inspirations regarding the
establishing of a new community,
wanted to refer the matter to one
more priest for consideration, and for
that reason he told Sister Faustina to
give an account of all the commands
she received to her former confessor,
Father Andrasz, S.J., in Cracow.
Dailys -
http://www.catholic-forum.com/e-pis
tle.html -
Quote of the Day Just as we can
never separate asceticism from
mysticism, so in St. John of the Cross
we find darkness and light, suffering
and joy, sacrifice and love united
together so closely that they seem at
times to be identified. -Thomas
Merton
Dec 14 - LEARNING TO LOVE
During Advent of 1984 Our Lady gave
the following message:
Dear children, you know that the day
of joy is approaching but without love
you will receive little. First, then, start
loving your family and everyone in the
parish; then you will be able to love
and accept all those who come here.
Let these seven days be a week of
learning to love.
This Christmas will be unforgettable if
you follow me. Disconnect your
television sets and radios, and begin
God's program: meditation, prayer,
reading the Gospels. Prepare
yourselves with faith; then, having
understood love, your life will be filled
with happiness (Weekly Message Dec
13, 1984).
Reflection:
The Blessed Virgin says, not
surpassingly, that love is the whole
context of Christmas, "the season of
Joy", and it is prepared for simply by
loving first or own family, and then our
neighbor. "Learn to love", she urges
us. But how? Today's reading from
John's gospel is telling: "They who
have my commandments and keep
them are those who love me; and
those who love me will be loved by
my Father, and I will love them and
reveal myself to them."
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord,
how is that you will reveal yourself to
us, and not to the world?" Jesus
answered him, "Those who love me
will keep my word, and my Father will
love them, and we will come to them
and make our home with them." (Jn
14:21-23).
How then "to learn to love"? Christ
first speaks to us of keeping his
commandments, of being fair and
decent with all people. Second, his
appeal to "love one another as I loved
you" (Jn 15:12) means that Jesus'
own life is our primary example for
learning to live. Like him, loving means
to help, to heal, to enlighten, and
above all, to love even sacrificially, as
his own life testifies.
The Gospels, then, which relate the life
of Christ, are a canvas on which is
painted the many hues and shades of
his love. Our Lady asks that we
carefully examine that portrait, and
with her messages to help us, to live
out her Son's love in our own lives.
Application:
Spend some time today reflecting on
how you see Jesus loving in the
Gospels. What were his actions of
love? His words of love? How can I
imitate his love in my own life? What
action or word of love can I give to
another today?
Medjugorje Day By Day Dec 14 -
LEARNING TO LOVE
These are words of Fr. Slavko from
5/18/85:
"Why fast? You can find a lot of
reading on fasting, but I am telling
you: just start. Fasting is like prayer, it
is a duty for us as Christians because
both Jesus, Mary and all the saints
fasted. And St. Francis, do you know
how many days he fasted? This fasting
means: living on bread alone for a
whole day. This is very important,
because one then gradually learns to
live a simple life, one begins to realize
that we have sufficient, that we do not
have to worry, and to be anxious, and
besides this, it is also a help to resist
our continual longing always to have
more. But the best thing to do is:
start fasting, and then you will see.
But in order to fast more easily, it is
necessary also to pray. "
"We look forward to celebrating the
first coming of Jesus at Christmas.
We look forward with hope to the
second coming of Jesus in his glory.
We seek out Jesus here and now in
the Mass, when he comes to us in the
Eucharist" (Fr. Richard Veras).
Pope John Paul II -
August 1, 1989 address by the Pope
to a group of Italian physicians
dedicated to defending unborn life and
to making scientific and medical
studies on the apparition, as reported
by Bishop Paul Hnilica, SJ, Auxiliary
Bishop of Rome: "Today's world has
lost its sense of the supernatural, but
many are searching for it - and find it
in Medjugorje, through prayer,
penance and fasting."
http://www.medjugorje.org/pope.ht
m
Mother Teresa -
May we all have hearts overflowing
with love as a reflection of God's love.
God's love is what can save our
families, our country, and the world.
Padre Pio - He who attaches himself
to the earth remains attached to it. It
is better to detach oneself little by little
instead of all at once. Let us always
think of Heaven.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen - True
tolerance extends love and patience
"There can be another form of
tolerance which is right, such as one
inspired by true charity or love of God.
Even though the virtuous may hold
absolutely to their philosophy of life,
they do so, not because they look
down on the views of others as not as
good as their own, but because their
own beliefs are so real to them that
they would not have anyone else hold
them with less reason, less love and
less devotion."
St. Faustina's diary
http://www.marian.org/directory_flas
h.html -Once, the Lord said to me,
My daughter, take the graces that
others spurn; take as many as you
can carry. At that moment, my soul
was inundated with the love of God. I
feel that I am united with the Lord so
closely that I cannot find words to
express that union; in this state I
suddenly feel that all the things God
has, all the goods and treasures, are
mine, although I set little store by
them, for He alone is enough for me.
In Him I see my everything; without
Him-nothing.
I look for no happiness beyond my
own interior where God dwells. I
rejoice that God dwells within me;
here I abide with Him unendingly; it is
here that my greatest intimacy with
Him exists; here I dwell with Him in
safety; here is a place not probed by
the human eye. The Blessed Virgin
encourages me to commune with God
in this way. (454)
The day of the renewal of vows. At
the beginning of Holy Mass, I saw
Jesus in the usual way. He blessed us
and then entered the tabernacle. Then
I saw the Mother of God in a white
garment and blue mantle, with her
head uncovered. She approached me
from the altar, touched me with her
hands and covered me with her
mantle, saying, Offer these vows for
Poland. Pray for her. (468)
Dailys -
http://www.catholic-forum.com/e-pis
tle.html -
Quote of the Day Just as we can
never separate asceticism from
mysticism, so in St. John of the Cross
we find darkness and light, suffering
and joy, sacrifice and love united
together so closely that they seem at
times to be identified. -Thomas
Merton
Today in History
867 Adrian II begins his reign as Pope
872 John VIII begins his reign as Pope
Today's Tidbit Discalced is derived
from Latin roots and means without
shoes. It is used to designate religious
orders that have rules to wear sandals
or to go barefoot. Intention of the Day
Please pray for the safety of all people
who will be traveling during the
approaching holiday season.
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
These thoughts for a day are taken
from a daily meditation book based on
the Messages of Our Lady of
Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer,
Ave Maria Press.
Dec 14 - LEARNING TO LOVE
During Advent of 1984 Our Lady gave
the following message:
Dear children, you know that the day
of joy is approaching but without love
you will receive little. First, then, start
loving your family and everyone in the
parish; then you will be able to love
and accept all those who come here.
Let these seven days be a week of
learning to love.
This Christmas will be unforgettable if
you follow me. Disconnect your
television sets and radios, and begin
God's program: meditation, prayer,
reading the Gospels. Prepare
yourselves with faith; then, having
understood love, your life will be filled
with happiness (Weekly Message Dec
13, 1984).
Reflection:
The Blessed Virgin says, not
surpassingly, that love is the whole
context of Christmas, "the season of
Joy", and it is prepared for simply by
loving first or own family, and then our
neighbor. "Learn to love", she urges
us. But how? Today's reading from
John's gospel is telling: "They who
have my commandments and keep
them are those who love me; and
those who love me will be loved by
my Father, and I will love them and
reveal myself to them."
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord,
how is that you will reveal yourself to
us, and not to the world?" Jesus
answered him, "Those who love me
will keep my word, and my Father will
love them, and we will come to them
and make our home with them." (Jn
14:21-23).
How then "to learn to love"? Christ
first speaks to us of keeping his
commandments, of being fair and
decent with all people. Second, his
appeal to "love one another as I loved
you" (Jn 15:12) means that Jesus'
own life is our primary example for
learning to live. Like him, loving means
to help, to heal, to enlighten, and
above all, to love even sacrificially, as
his own life testifies.
The Gospels, then, which relate the life
of Christ, are a canvas on which is
painted the many hues and shades of
his love. Our Lady asks that we
carefully examine that portrait, and
with her messages to help us, to live
out her Son's love in our own lives.
Application:
Spend some time today reflecting on
how you see Jesus loving in the
Gospels. What were his actions of
love? His words of love? How can I
imitate his love in my own life? What
action or word of love can I give to
another today?
r. Gloria Polo's Return From The Gates
of Hell - Part 1 of 2
Colombia, South America
Interview of Dr. Gloria Polo by Radio
Maria (Colombia)
http://www.gloriapolo.com
http://gloriapolo.com/gloriapolo_ingle
s.doc
GLORIA POLO's WITNESS
[Taken from one of the interviews
done to Dr. Gloria Polo by Radio Maria
(Colombia)]
Brothers and sisters! It's beautiful for
me to be with you sharing this
precious gift my Lord gave me more
than ten years ago. (This was at the
National
University of Colombia in Bogota). I
was attending graduate school, along
with my nephew, who was also a
dentist. My husband was with us that
day. We had
to pick up some books at the School
of Dentistry on a Friday afternoon. It
was
raining very hard and my nephew and
I were sharing a small umbrella. My
husband
was wearing his raincoat and he
approached the outside wall of the
General
Library. Meanwhile, my nephew and I
approached the trees without noticing,
while
skipping puddles. As we were about to
skip to avoid a huge puddle, we were
struck by lightning. We were charred.
My nephew died there. He was a
young man
who, despite his young age, had given
himself over to the Lord and was very
devout to the Infant Jesus. He always
carried the Infant Jesus? image inside
a
quartz crystal next to his chest.
According to the coroner, lightning
entered
him through the image, ran through
his heart, burned him on the inside and
exited through his foot. But on the
outside, he was not charred or burnt.
In my
case, instead, lightning came in this
way and burned my body in a
horrifying
way, on the inside and outside. This
body you see here, this reconstructed
body,
is through the mercy of our Lord.
Lightning charred me, left me without
breasts,
practically made my whole flesh and
ribs vanish. My stomach, my legs;
lightning
went out my right foot, my liver was
charred, my kidneys were burned, just
like
my lungs.
I did family planning using the copper-T
intrauterine device. Therefore
copper, an excellent electrical
conductor, charred me, it pulverized
my ovaries.
I was left in cardiac arrest, lifeless, my
body jumping from the electricity
that remained in it. But look: that?s
the physical part. The most beautiful
part
is that while my flesh was there
charred, at that instant I found myself
inside
a beautiful white tunnel full of joy and
peace, a happiness for which there are
no human words that can describe the
grandeur of the moment. The climax
of the
moment was immense. I was happy
and joyful, nothing weighed me down
inside that
tunnel. At the bottom of that tunnel I
saw like a sun, a most beautiful light. I
call it white to name a color because
no color on earth is comparable with
that
most beautiful light. I felt the source of
all that love, all that peace.
As I was going up I realized I had died.
At that instant I thought about my
kids and I said Oh, my God, my kids!
What will they say? This very busy
mom
never had time for them! That's when
I saw my life truthfully and I became
sad.
I left home to transform the world,
and I couldn't handle my kids and my
home.
And in that instant of emptiness for
my children, I looked and saw
something
beautiful: my flesh was not in this time
or space. I saw everybody in a single
instant, at the same time, both the
living and the dead. I embraced my
great-grandparents and my parents,
who had passed away. I hugged
everyone; it
was a full and beautiful moment.
That's when I realized I had been
cheated into
believing in reincarnation, which I even
defended. I used to see my
grandfather
and my great-grandfather
everywhere. But they hugged me
here, I met with them in
an instant, we embraced and I
embraced all the people I had anything
to do with
in my life, everywhere, at the same
instant. When I hugged my daughter,
she got
scared. She was nine years old. She
felt my embrace. No time had gone by
during
that moment, so beautiful, out of my
flesh. I didn't see in the same way I did
before, where I only noticed who was
fat, thin, dark-skinned, or ugly, always
with prejudice. Now, out of my flesh, I
would see people on the inside. How
beautiful it is to see people on the
inside. I would see their thoughts, their
feelings. I embraced them in an instant
and, still, I kept rising and rising,
full of joy. At that point I felt that I
was going to enjoy a beautiful sight,
an extraordinarily beautiful lake. At
that moment, I heard my husband's
voice.
My husband was crying and with a
deep cry, with deep feeling, he called
out to
me and said Gloria, please don't go!
Gloria, come back! The kids, Gloria,
don't
give up! In that instant I took a big
glance and I saw not only him, but I
saw
him crying in deep pain. And the Lord
allowed me to come back, although I
didn't
want to. What a joy, how much
peace, how much happiness! Then, I
started
descending slowly to find my body,
where I found myself lifeless. My body
was on
a gurney at the medical center on
campus. I saw how the doctors gave
me electric
shocks to pull me out of cardiac
arrest. We lay there for two and a half
hours.
They couldn't pick us up because our
bodies were still conducting electricity.
When that finally stopped they were
able to assist us and they started
resuscitation. I set my feet here, on
this part of my head, and I felt a spark
that pulled me in violently. I went back
into my body. It was very painful to
go
back because sparks came out
everywhere. And I saw me fit into
such a small
thing?. My flesh hurt, it was burned. It
hurt a lot. Smoke and vapor came out
of
it. And the most horrible pain was that
of my vanity. I was a woman of the
world, an executive woman; an
intellectual, a student, enslaved by my
body,
beauty, and fashion. I would work out
four hours each day. I would slave to
have
a beautiful body: massage therapies,
diets, well, everything you can
imagine,
that was my life; an enslaving routine
for the sake of a beautiful body. And I
would say if I have beautiful breasts, I
might as well show them off. No point
in hiding them! The same was true for
my legs, because I thought I had great
legs and breasts. But in an instant, I
saw with horror how I had spent my
life
taking care of my body. That was the
center of my life: my love toward my
body.
But now, there was no body and no
breasts; just some horrible holes. In
particular my left breast had practically
vanished. My legs were the worst:
empty gaps with no flesh, completely
charred and blackened. From there,
we were
transported to a hospital, where they
quickly moved me to the operating
room and
began scraping all my burned tissue.
When I was under anesthesia, I came
out of my body again. I saw what the
surgeons were doing to my body. I
was worried for my legs. All of a
sudden I
went through a moment of horror. I
had been a dieting Catholic all my life.
My
relationship with the Lord was down to
Sunday Eucharist, no longer than 25
minutes, wherever the priest's homily
was shortest, because I couldn't stand
anything longer. That was my
relationship with the Lord. All the
trends of the
world tossed me like a windsock. In
fact, when I was already in graduate
school,
I once heard a priest say that hell
didn't exist and neither did demons.
That
was the only thing that had kept me in
the Church. When I was told the devil
didn't exist, I just thought we were all
going to heaven regardless of who we
were. That distanced me completely
from the Lord. My conversations
became bad,
because sin was not contained inside
of me. I started telling everyone that
demons didn't exist, that they had
been invented by the priests, that they
were
manipulations. Hanging out with
college friends I started to say that
God didn't
exist and that we were the sole
product of evolution. But back to that
instant
in the operating room, I was really
terrified! I saw demons coming for me
and I
was their pay. At that moment I saw
many people coming out of the walls
of the
operating room. At first sight they
looked normal, but with a look of
hatred on
their faces, a horrible look. At that
point through some special insight
given
to me, I realized I owed each one of
them. I realized sin was not for free
and
that the main infamy and lie of the
devil was to state that he didn't exist.
I
saw how they were coming for me.
You can imagine how scared I was.
This
scientific and intellectual mind was of
no avail to me. I bounced off the floor,
into my body, trying to come into it
again, but my body wouldn't let me in.
I
ran away and I'm not sure when I
went through the wall in the operating
room. I
was hoping to hide in some hallway in
the hospital but I ended up jumping
into
thin air.
I went into some tunnels heading
downward. At first, they had light and
looked like bee hives. There were lots
of people. But I started descending
and
light became scarce and I started
roaming some tunnels in pitch
darkness. That
darkness has no comparison. The
darkest darkness on earth is like
noontime
sunlight compared to it. That darkness
causes pain, horror, and shame. And it
smells very bad. I finished descending
down those tunnels and landed
desperately
on a flat spot. I used to claim I had an
iron will, that nothing was too much
for me. But that was useless now,
because I wanted to climb up and I
couldn't.
At that point I saw a huge mouth
opening up on the floor and I felt
immense
emptiness in my body, a bottomless
abyss. The most horrifying thing about
that
hole was that not even a bit of God's
love was felt in it, not a drop of hope.
The hole sucked me in and I felt
terrified.
I knew that if I went in there, my soul
would die. In the midst of that
horror, as I was being pulled in, I was
grabbed by my feet. My body was
inside
that hole, but my feet were being
pulled from the top. It was a very
painful and
horrifying moment. My atheism fell to
the wayside. I started clamoring for
the
souls in purgatory to help me out of
there. As I was shouting I felt intense
pain because I realized that thousands
and thousands of people are there,
mostly
young people. Very painfully, I heard
the gnashing of teeth, horrible
screams
and moans that shook me to the
core. It took me several years to
assimilate this
because I would cry every time that I
remembered their suffering. I realized
that?s where people who commit
suicide in an instant of desperation
end, finding
themselves surrounded by those
horrors. But the most terrible torment
there is
the absence of God. God couldn't be
felt there.
In the midst of all that pain, I started
screaming who made this mistake?
I'm
practically a saint! I've never stolen,
I've never killed, I gave food to the
poor, I gave free dental treatments to
those who couldn't afford them. What
am I
doing here? I went to Mass on
Sundays, I always went even though I
considered
myself an atheist. I didn't miss more
than five Sundays my entire life. I
always
went to Mass, what am I doing here?
I'm a Catholic, please, I'm a Catholic,
take
me out of here! While I was screaming
about being a Catholic I saw a tiny
light.
I need to tell you that any light in that
darkness is the best gift anyone can
get. I saw some stairs over that hole
and I saw my Dad, who had died five
years
before, next to the hole, lit by a faint
light, and four steps higher I saw my
Mom, with plenty more light and in a
prayerful posture.
When I saw them I was very happy. I
started yelling daddy, mommy, please
take
me out of here, I beg you, take me
out of here! When they lowered their
eyes,
and my dad saw me there, you should
have seen the immense pain they felt.
In
that place, you feel people's feelings,
you can see pain. My dad started
crying,
holding his head with his two hands
and shaking my daughter, my
daughter! My mom
was praying and I noticed they could
not take me out and that my pain was
compounded noticing they were
sharing that pain with me there.
So I started screaming again, please,
take me out of here, I'm a Catholic!
Who made this mistake? Please, take
me out of here!As I was shouting this
second
time, a voice was heard, a sweet
voice, a voice that makes my soul
shake when I
hear it. Everything was inundated with
love and peace and all those creatures
ran away in horror because they don't
stand love or peace. And there was
peace
for me when that precious voice called
out to me all right, if you are a
Catholic, tell me the commandments
of God's law.
What a failed attempt! I knew there
were ten, but nothing beyond that.
What
was I going to do? My mom always
talked to me about the first
commandment of
love. Finally it paid out. Finally my
mom's chatter became useful. I had
to
repeat mom's chatter here. I thought I
could wing this one so the others
wouldn't show too much. I thought I
could handle things here the way I
used to
on earth, always with a perfect
excuse, always justifying and
defending myself
so no one would notice what I didn't
know. But this was the real thing, so I
started to say Love God above all and
your neighbor as yourself.Very well, I
heard, have you loved them? And I
said I have, I have, I have! When I
heard No!
for an answer, that's when I really felt
the shock of lightning run through me
even though I hadn't noticed where
the bolt had hit me. No, you haven't
loved
your Lord above all things, and much
less your neighbor as yourself! You
made a
god that you adjusted to your life only
when in moments of desperate need!
You
would prostrate yourself before him
when you were poor, when your
family was
humble, when you wanted to go to
college! Back then you prayed on a
daily basis
and you would prostrate long periods
of time, whole hours, begging of your
Lord,
praying and asking him to pull you out
of poverty and allow you to get a
degree
and become someone. Whenever you
were in need and wanted money, you
would say a
rosary. Lord, please send me some
money! That was your relationship
with your
Lord! I had an ATM relationship with
the Lord, I have to admit. I grabbed
the
rosary, and expected money in return,
that was my relationship with him. I
was
shown how, as soon as I got my
degree and made a name for myself,
the Lord
became too small for me and I started
thinking myself better. Not even the
smallest expression of love with my
Lord. Being thankful Never! Not even
while
opening my eyes in the morning,
never a thank you, Lord, for this new
day you've
given me, thanks for my health, for
the life of my children, because I have
a
roof over my head, I pity those with
no roof over their heads or food to
eat!
Nothing! Very ungrateful! And besides,
you placed your Lord so low that even
Mercury and Venus you entrusted
more with your luck. You were
blind-sided by
astrology, claiming the stars ran your
life! You started walking in all the
doctrines of the world. You started to
believe that you would die and would
start again! And you forgot grace! You
forgot that you had been ransomed
by your
Lord's blood!
They gave me a test on the Ten
Commandments. They showed me
that I claimed I
adored and loved God with my words,
but in reality, I adored Satan. A
woman
would come to my dentist's office to
offer her services as a sorcerer and I
would say I don't believe in that, but
put those charms right there, just in
case, for good luck. I had set in a
corner, where patients did not know, a
horseshoe and a cactus plant,
supposedly to scare away bad
energies.
How shameful all of this was! They
made an analysis of all my life based
on
the Ten Commandments. They
showed me who I had been with my
fellowman. They
showed me how I would tell God I
loved him when I wasn't far from him
yet, when
I wasn't involved yet in atheism, but
with the same tongue with which I
blessed
the Lord, I would lash out against all of
mankind. I used to criticize everyone.
I used to point a finger at everyone,
the ever-saintly Gloria. And they
showed
me how I was full of envy and always
ungrateful. I never recognized all my
parents' love and selfless effort, to see
me through college, to raise me. As
soon as I got a college degree, even
they became too little for me. I even
felt
ashamed of my mom, because of her
simplicity, humility, and poverty.
And they showed me as wife. Who
was I? I would complain day in and
day out,
from the break of day. My husband
would say good morning and I would
respond
what do you mean good? Look, it's
raining outside! I would complain
about my
children too. They showed me that I
never had love or compassion for my
fellowmen, for my brothers and sisters
out there. And the Lord told me you
never
had any consideration for the sick,
never kept them company in their
loneliness.
Never once compassionate for
children without a mother, for all those
suffering
children. I had a heart of stone. In a
nutshell, I didn't get half an answer
right on my Ten Commandments test.
Message to Eileen Renders Dec. 13,
2007
Dear Joyce and All Followers of The
Word of Christ!
Please know that while I have not a
Spiritual Adviser at this time and am
without the guidance and overseeing
of helping me to convert His word into
proper sequence, at time I will err. In
spite of that, in my heart I believe
Jesus wants me to continue to share
His messages with all His children.
God bless,
Eileen
Thursday Adoration, December 13,
2007
Hearts and Souls Resembling A
Porcelain Rose
Today I spent time alone with Jesus in
silent commune and made small
offerings to Jesus and Mary. A rosary
was offered for those with special
needs
and intentions.
After praying that Jesus please cover
me with His most precious blood, I
asked, Speak Lord (if it be His will),
Your servant listens.
Jesus responded to my prayer
through my heart saying My child
Eileen, just as a Rose loses its petals
one by one, Sin causes the heart and
soul of My children to grow cold and
to crack. The Porcelain rose also then,
is a reflection of how sin leads to My
own heartbreak!
Go in peace to love and serve the
Lord. Continue to pray for your
brothers and sisters. Amen