FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE
 

 The Forgiveness Prayer

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Dear Friends,

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple and give thanks to your name. Psalm 138:1-2

We had a mostly sunny day yesterday and it was warm in the afternoon. It was 25 degrees in the house. It is sunny again today for another great day. It will be warm this afternoon.

I celebrated Holy Mass yesterday morning at 9:30 a.m. and there were some people present who asked for prayers. I prayed with them after Mass. I was at the prayer meeting last evening at the Immaculate Conception Church, Palmer Road, and a good group turned up. I will celebrate Holy Mass this evening at 7:00 p.m.

I will have a retreat at the prayer room starting on Friday, June 20, at 7:00 p.m. There will be a healing Mass on Saturday afternoon, June 21, at 3:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

The Forgiveness Prayer

Dr. Rice used Father Robert DeGrandis' forgiveness prayer and changed it a bit. I will write this prayer out during the next few days. Here is the first part of the prayer:

Abba Father and my Lord Jesus Christ, I come before You, just as I am. I am sorry for my sins. I repent of my sins, please forgive me. In your name I forgive all others for what they have done against me.

Lord, Jesus Christ, I wish to come to You today to forgive EVERYONE in my life, and I know you will give me the strength I need to forgive them.

First I want to forgive my PARENTS for attempting to abort me or any of my siblings. For all the times they hurt me, were angry with me and for all the times they punished me unjustly. I forgive them for the times they preferred my siblings to me. I forgive them for any lack of support, love, affection, attention, and for being away from home. I forgive them for fighting, running around on each other, and for divorcing. Lord, I forgive my Mom and Dad.

Lord, I forgive my BROTHERS AND SISTERS for rejecting me, lying about me, hating me, resenting me, competing for my parents' love.

Lord, I forgive my SPOUSE for any lack of love, affection, consideration, support, attention, communication. For his (her) faults, failings, weaknesses, including being unfaithful to me and for all the other acts or words that hurt or disturb me. Lord, I forgive my Spouse, past and present.

Father Melvin

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Monday, June 09, 2008

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My children I love you. You are called to abide and live in the love of God
always.



Dear children before you are life and death. Choose wisely my little ones.
Decide for God that you may abide in the freedom of His love always; Love that
produces abundant fruit to the glory of God.



My dear children pray always that you may abide in God?s love and grace always.
Enlightened by the Word of God, enlivened by His love and enabled by His grace
journey in the freedom of God?s love along the path of holiness that leads to
eternity with God.

Message to Sharon Fitzpatrick June 11, 2008

PRAYER GROUP ROSARY / WEDNESDAYS - 7:00P.M. / SUNDAYS - 3:00 P.M
LADY OF LOURDES GROTTO (BEHIND HOSPITAL) PANA, IL
MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN
SHARON FITZPATRICK LOCUTIONIST

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2008


MY DEAR DEAR PRECIOUS LITTLE CHILDREN,

TAKE LEAVE OF YOUR FEARS AND ANXIETIES. LET THEM FALL TO ME. I AM YOUR
HELP, I AM YOUR MOTHER, I DO NOT LEAVE MY CHILDREN AND TAKE FLIGHT.
INSTEAD I REMAIN STEADFAST, HOLDING YOU UP, ENCOURAGING YOU WHEN YOU
FEEL INADEQUATE. MY LOVES, LIFE MUST BRING WITH IT TRIALS, YET JESUS
CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE YOU FROM YOURSELVES. THEREFORE, BE
CONFIDENT IN PRAYER. REMEMBER YOUR BLESSINGS, REMEMBER YOUR GIFTS.
TRUST, TRUST, TRUST.

MY CHILDREN, YOU FACE MUCH NOW WITHIN YOUR OWN NATION. CONFUSION IS
HIGH. MAN LACKS FAITH IN GOD, EVEN TO DISCREDIT HIM WITH THE
IMPORTANCE OF MAN. THE WORLD HAS BECOME ONCE MORE PAGAN, BUT YOUR
NATION RISKS MUCH, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN GIVEN MUCH. I SAY TO YOU THEN,
KNOW THAT THESE YEARS OF PRAYER HAVE BEEN FOR YOU MOST BENEFICIAL. YOU
WILL BE THE ROCK THAT SHALL BUILD UP ANEW ERA OF LOVE FOR GOD. YOU ARE
STRONG AGAINST THE EVILS THAT NOW PERSIST. BUT THESE EVILS CANNOT WIN.
YOU KNOW AND RECOGNIZE THEM, AND THEREFORE CAN HELP OTHERS OVERCOME
THEM. BE NOT AFRAID IN THESE TIMES. I HAVE PREPARED YOU WELL. YOU MY
LITTLE ONES WILL PERSEVERE AND EVIL WILL BE NO MORE.

TAKE UP YOUR SWORDS, THEY ARE SHARPENED WITH PRAYER. EVIL WILL FALL
UNDER THEM, AND GOD?S HAND WILL REACH OUT TO THOSE SOULS WHO WILL CRY
OUT TO HIM.

PRAY MY LITTLE ONES AS I HAVE TAUGHT YOU. BE CONFIDENT, BE STRONG. I
AM WITH YOU IN ALL ENDEAVORS AND SHALL BRING ABOUT YET ANOTHER VICTORY
- THUS SHALL BE THE OCEAN OF GOD'S LOVE AND MERCY.

I BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND
THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THE BLESSING OF CHRIST IS ALSO UPON YOU. ASK MY CHILDREN FOR NOTHING -
BUT EXPECT EVERYTHING. LET THESE BLESSINGS BE FOR YOU A SIGN OF OUR
HEAVENLY COMMITMENT TO YOU. BE WISE, BE PRUDENT, BE WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN
PREPARED TO BE.

WITH LOVE, A DEEP AND TRUSTING LOVE, GIVE PRAISE AND THANKS TO GOD,
NOW AND FOREVER.

Medjugorje Day By Day June 12 - ENTER INTO THE MASS

"The Lord calls us friends, he makes us his friends, he entrusts himself to us, he entrusts to us his Body in the Eucharist, he entrusts to us his Church. Therefore, we must be true friends to him, we must have the same perception as he has, we must want what he wants and not what he does not want. Jesus himself tells us: 'You are my friends if you do what I command you' (John 15:14).
Let this be our common resolution: all of us together, to do his holy will, in which lies our freedom and our joy" (Pope Benedict XVI, May 13, 2005).

Mother Teresa -

Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service.

Meditations by Padre Pio -

Jesus, I love you very much; it is useless to repeat it to You, I love You. My Love, my Love. Only You! Praise be to You alone. (AD,38).

Archbishop Fulton Sheen -

The woes of confusion are legion

"One wonders if modern psychology has ever found a word which so adequately describes an unhappy and disturbed personality as the word legion. The word is found in the description of the mad man of the Gerasenes, who when asked by Our Lord to describe himself answered, 'My name is Legion: for we are many.' Notice the contradiction between my and we. He did not know what he really was, except that he was tossed about hither and thither by a crowd of wild and disordered impulses."

St. Faustina's diary  http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html  -

I spent the whole day in thanksgiving, and gratitude kept flooding my soul. O my God, how good You are, how great is Your mercy! You visit me with so many graces, me who am a most wretched speck of dust. Prostrating myself at Your feet, O Lord, I confess with a sincere heart that I have done nothing to deserve even the least of Your graces.

It is in Your infinite goodness that You give Yourself to me so generously. Therefore, the greater the graces which my heart receives, the deeper it plunges itself in humility.       (1661)

O Jesus, eternal God, thank You for Your countless graces and blessings. Let every beat of my heart be a new hymn of thanksgiving to You, O God. Let every drop of my blood circulate for You, Lord. My soul is one hymn in adoration of Your mercy. I love You, God, for Yourself alone.       (1794)

  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.

JUNE 12 - ENTER INTO THE MASS

Today's message concerns prayer and the Eucharist:

Always have God's love within you, for without this love you cannot convert yourselves completely. Let the rosary be in your hands in memory of Jesus. Dear children, strive to enter more deeply into the Mass as you should (Locution Jelena & Mirijana JUNE 1, 1985).

And in John's gospel, Jesus speaks of the Eucharist as well:

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever (Jn 6:56-58).

Reflection: Fr. Slavko Barbaric offered these reflections on the Eucharist in a sermon given in Medjugorje in May of 1989:

Our Lady once said, "Come to church a little early," which I would interpret to mean about twenty minutes early, to prepare for Mass by offering the rosary. Also, we should remain after Mass for at least ten minutes in order to give thanks. [The Mass] is somewhat like a beautiful banquet spread out before us; if we do not take the initiative to socialize and eat the carefully prepared food, then the event is meaningless.

In the same way, if we eat the food quickly and then hurry away without thanking our host, it would be considered rude behavior. Likewise, hurrying away from Mass is disrespectful to the Lord. We need to spend some time giving thanks and praying for our healing as well as the healing of others. The Mass will have a real effect on our lives.

Application:

This Sunday, come to Mass early to prepare, and leave a bit later, in order to give thanks.

Medjugorje Day By Day June 11 - I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY

"Ah, if we had the eyes of Angels with which to see our Lord Jesus Christ who is here present on this altar and who is looking at us, how we should love Him!  We should never more wish to part from Him; we should wish to remain always at His feet.  It would be a foretaste of Heaven.  All else would become insipid to us."   (St. John Vianney)

Mother Teresa  

Works of love are always works of joy. We don't need to look for happiness; if we love for others we'll be given it. It is the gift of God.

Meditations by Padre Pio -

My Jesus, my sweetness, my love, love which sustains me (AD,50).

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

To uphold integrity, one must be honest through and through

"Crisis produces a hardened spiritual feeling which hinders understanding. Men do not like what they do not understand, or that which would demand a change in their lives. All the training of a university will not make certain persons mathematicians. If a person does not love truth and honesty, he cannot be made truthful and honest by expounding the definitions of these virtues. One must begin by creating within him conduct along the lines of these virtues; then he can be taught."

St. Faustina's diary  http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html  -

This has been a great day for me. During this day I remained as though in unceasing contemplation; the very thought of this grace drew me into further contemplation; and throughout the whole day I continued in thanksgiving which I never stopped, because each recollection of this grace [of the Immaculate Conception of Mary] caused my soul ever anew to lose itself in God...       (1416)

I want to live in the spirit of faith. I accept everything that comes my way as given me by the loving will of God, who sincerely desires my happiness. And so I will accept with submission and gratitude everything that God sends me. I will pay no attention to the voice of nature and to the promptings of self-love. Before each important action, I will stop to consider for a moment what relationship it has to eternal life and what may be the main reason for my undertaking it: is it for the glory of God, or for the good of my own soul, or for the good of the souls of others? If my heart says yes, then I will not swerve from carrying out the given action, unmindful of either obstacles or sacrifices. I will not be frightened into abandoning my intention. It is enough for me to know that it is pleasing to God. On the other hand, if I learn that the action has nothing in common with what I have just mentioned, I will try to elevate it to a loftier sphere by means of a good intention. And if I learn that something flows from my self-love, I will cancel it out right from the start.       (1549)

  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.

JUNE 11 - I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY

Today Our Lady gives us her purpose in coming to Medjugorje:

Dear children, I call each of you to begin to live in God's love. Dear children, you are ready to commit sin and to place yourselves in Satan's hands without reflection. I call on each one of you to consciously choose God and to reject Satan.

I am your Mother and so I wish to lead all of you to complete holiness. I want you to be happy on earth and then to join me in heaven. This is, dear children, my purpose in coming here, and my desire (Monthly Message May 25, 1987).

St. Paul also speaks of the happiness which is ours as heirs of Christ:

When we cry, "Abba! Father!" It is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ-if, in fact we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him (Rom 8:16-17).

Reflection: Paul uses the term adoption to illustrate the believers' new relationship with God. In Roman culture, one who was adopted gained all the rights of a legitimate child in his new family. He became a full heir to his father's estate. Likewise, when a person becomes a Christian, he or she gains all the privileges and responsibilities of a child in God's family.

As the Creator's children we are no longer slaves. This is the core of the gospel message and the messages of Our Lady in Medjugorje: we are God's heirs, sharing in the great treasures of his kingdom. Even now he has given us the greatest of gifts: his Son, forgiveness, the Holy Spirit, and eternal life.

Application: The Blessed Mother states that, "I want each one of you to be happy here on earth and to be with me in heaven." That is her purpose and her desire. She asks only that we, "consciously choose God and reject Satan." In your own words make this commitment today in prayer.

Medjugorje Day By Day June 10 - THE GIFT OF LOVE

"The same Jesus Who was sheltered by Mary Immaculate within her virginal body, is in the little body of a white Host" (Fr. Stephano Manelli, O.F.M.).

Mother Teresa 

The password of the early Christians was "joy," so let us still serve the Lord with joy. Joy is love, joy is prayer, joy is strength. God loves a person who gives joyfully, and if you give joyfully you always give more. A joyful heart is the result of a heart burning with love.

Meditations by Padre Pio -

Oh, if I had an infinite number of hearts, all the hearts in Heaven and earth, your Mother's heart, Jesus, I would offer them all, every one of them to you! (AD,54).

June 11 My Jesus, my sweetness, my love, love which sustains me (AD,50).

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Laying the foundation for building our stairs to eternity

"There are two kinds of wisdom: wisdom of the flesh and the wisdom which God gives. One is very often opposed to the other. The first would say this is the only life there is; therefore, we should get all we can out of it.

The other sees that this life is a kind of scaffolding up through which we climb to eternal happiness; it will, therefore, be so used as a ladder to the Mansions of the Heavenly Father. But this Divine Wisdom comes only those who have qualifications for receiving it, and is one of the first conditions is good behavior. As Our Blessed Lord said, 'If anyone will do My Will, he will know My doctrine.'"

St. Faustina's diary  http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html  -

Eighth day. O my Lord, while calling to mind all Your blessings, in the presence of Your Most Sacred Heart, I have felt the need to be particularly grateful for so many graces and blessings from God. I want to plunge myself in thanksgiving before the Majesty of God and to continue in this prayer of thanksgiving for seven days and seven nights; and although I will outwardly carry out all my duties, my spirit will nonetheless stand continually before the Lord, and all my exercises will be imbued with the spirit of thanksgiving.

Each evening, I will kneel for a half hour in my cell, alone with the Lord. As often as I shall awake at night, I shall steep myself in a prayer of thanksgiving. In this way I want to repay, at least in some small way, for the immensity of God's blessings.       (1367)

However, in order to make all this more pleasing in the eyes of God and to remove the least shadow of doubt from my mind, I went to my spiritual director [Father Andrasz] and revealed these desires of my soul to him; that is to say, the desire to be steeped in such thanksgiving. I received permission for everything, except that I should not force myself to pray at night should I awaken.       (1368)

With what great joy I returned to the convent! And on the next day I began this great act of thanksgiving by renewing my vows. My soul became thoroughly immersed in God, and there issued from my whole being but one single flame of gratitude and thanksgiving to God.

 There were not many words because God's blessings, like a fierce fire, consumed my soul, and all sufferings and sorrows were like wood thrown into the flames, without which the fire would go out. I called upon all heaven and earth to join me in my act of thanksgiving.       (1369)

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.

JUNE 10 - THE GIFT OF LOVE

Today Our Lady speaks of our greatest need:

Love is a gift from God. Pray, then, that God may give you the gift of love (Locutionists Jelena & Mirijana May 28, 1984).

St. Paul remarks on the love of the Colossians:

This you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, and he has made known to us your love in the Spirit (Col 1:7-8).

Reflection:

The Colossians had such a great love for others because the Holy Spirit had transformed their lives. The ability to love our neighbor as Christ loves us comes through the grace of the Spirit. Scripture speaks of love as an action or attitude, not just an emotion; it is the fruit of our new life in Christ.

The Holy Spirit not only empowers us to love others, but also to recognize how much we are loved by God and the Blessed Mother. "You know, dear children, that I love you immeasurably," the Madonna once said, and each day I pray that the Lord will help you to understand the love I give you." When we comprehend that love, we cannot help but turn around and love others in return.

Application:

Since lose is a pure gift from the Lord, the Virgin asks us to, "pray that God may give you the gift to love." Today, let us devote our rosary to that intention.