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Daily Afrocentric Chaplet Divine Mercy PT I

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St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church, Italy (1195-1231)
"Anthony was a friend of St. Francis and became a Franciscan priest. He was a great preacher on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and told everyone he met about his love for Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. St. Anthony was also known as a great miracle worker who loved the poor and sick people very much.

Many people think that having money makes you happy. I think it must be harder to be happy if you are wealthy because you may find it difficult to see God; you'll have too many other things to think about.

During the meditation on creation... at a certain point, my soul became closely united to its Lord and Creator. In this union, I recognized the purpose and destiny of my life. My purpose is to become closely united to God through love, and my destiny is to praise and glorify God's mercy.

 The Lord has allowed me to know and experience this in a distinct and even physical way. I become lost in admiration when I recognize and experience this incomprehensible love of God with which God loves me. Who is God - and what am I? I cannot meditate on this any further.

Stories continue to come out of China, from time to time, of the heroic efforts of the few remaining bishops and priests to keep the faith alive and nourish the underground church. One such story tells of a priest who lives and works as a coolie.

The Chinese Catholic takes his purchase home and usually, after a short family service, receives communion. Clearly the most exalted gift of Christ is his very body and blood in the Eucharist.

"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.

"The best influences in life are undeliberate, unconscious; when no one is watching, or when reaction to the good deed was never sought. Such is the long-range influence of a mother in a home; fulfilling of daily duties with love and a spirit of self-sacrifice leaves an imprint on the children that deepens with the years.

Oh, how ardently I desire that every soul would praise Your mercy. Happy is the soul that calls upon the mercy of the Lord. It will see that the Lord will defend it as His glory, as He said.

And who would dare fight against God? All you souls, praise the Lord's mercy by trusting in His mercy all your life and especially at the hour of your death. And fear nothing, dear soul, whoever you are; the greater the sinner, the greater his right to Your mercy, O Lord. O incomprehensible goodness!

Jesus, You know that I love suffering and want to drain the cup of suffering to the last drop; and yet, my nature experienced a slight shudder and fear. Quickly, however, my trust in the infinite mercy of God was awakened in all its force, and everything else had to give way before it, like a shadow retreating before the sun's rays.

The believer's real home, Paul says today, is with Christ in heaven. This gives us a different perspective on our lives here on earth. To "set your minds on things that are above," as Paul says today, means simply to look at life from God's perspective. Among other things, this is an antidote to materialism, for we gain a proper perspective of material goods when we take the Lord's view of them.

 FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE

The Holy Eucharist

Monday, June 16, 2008

Dear Friends,

“The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes behold, his searching glance is on mankind. The Lord searches the just and the wicked; the lover of violence he hates. For the Lord is just, he loves just deeds; the upright shall see his face. Ps 11: 4-5,7

I continue now with Dr. Bob Rice’s book on the Holy Eucharist. He wrote that the third problem in receiving healing is not discerning the Lord’s Body and Blood properly. He asks the question: Is Jesus Christ present in the Holy Eucharist?

The answer to that question is YES. As a Protestant Pastor he believed that the bread and wine were symbols that represented the Body and Blood of Christ. The Catholic Church, however, believes that when the priest consecrates the bread and wine at Holy Mass, they become the Body and Blood of Christ.

To make a long story short, Bob Rice became a Catholic on Easter Sunday 1999. He wrote that the first year that he was a Catholic, as he went to receive Holy Communion, he would have a little talk with the Lord: “Now Lord, You and I both know that the bread and wine really don’t turn into your Body and Blood.

They’re just symbols that represent Your Body and Blood, but Lord, I do this just the same in remembrance of what you did for me.”

In the year 2000, when Bob was fasting one day, he asked Jesus in prayer the following: “You know I love you and I want the truth. When the Catholic Priest consecrates the bread and wine, do they really become Your Body and Blood?”

To answer this question the Lord took him to the Gospel of St. John (John 6:47-58). Here are a few quotations from this passage: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” Later in the passage we have these words of Jesus, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him on the last day.

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.”

Father Melvin

Fr Doucette - The Forgiveness Prayer (last part) - Sun, June 15, 2008
 

FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE
 

The Forgiveness Prayer (last part)

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Dear Friends,

Have pity on me, O God; have pity on me, for in you I take refuge. In the shadow of your wings I take refuge, till harm pass by. I call to God the Most High, to God, my benefactor. Psalm 57:2-3

I celebrated Holy Mass in the prayer room yesterday morning and I was at the Immaculate Conception Church, Palmer Road, last evening at 7:00 p.m. for the French Mass. I will be at the Church of the Assumption in Miminegash this morning at 9:00 a.m. for the celebration of Holy Mass and I celebrate the last Mass of the day at 11:00 a.m. at Palmer Road Church. All the priests are gone to the Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City and they will only return on June 23.

The Forgiveness Prayer (last part)

Lord, I forgive all the INCONSIDERATE DRIVERS that endanger my life and my family by their reckless driving habits on the highway. Lord, I forgive them.

Lord Jesus, I especially pray for the grace to forgive the ONE PERSON in my life who has HURT ME THE MOST. I forgive anyone who I consider my greatest enemy, the one who is the hardest for me to forgive or the one I said I would never forgive. I forgive the person(s) who abused me sexually, physically, emotionally or spiritually. Lord, I forgive that person today.

Lord, I forgive these people, and I ask you to forgive them as well. I also ask You, Lord, to bless each of these people. Those who know You as Savior, bless all of them with spiritual blessings. Those who do not know You as Savior, Lord bless them with your saving grace, that they might come to know You as Lord, God and Savior.

Lord, I beg pardon from all these people and any others who I may have forgotten, for the hurt I have inflicted on them, especially my mother and father, and my marriage partner. I am truly sorry for the hurts I inflicted upon each of them.

And now Lord, as I have forgiven others, I forgive myself and will not allow Satan to falsely accuse me. Renew a right spirit within me and hold not Your Holy Spirit from me. Cover me with Your precious blood, fill me with Your Holy Spirit, stir up Your spiritual gifts within me and fill me with expectant faith so that I can minister more effectively to others. I renounce Satan, his evil spirits and all their works. I give you my entire self, Lord Jesus, now and forever. I invite You into my life, Lord Jesus; I accept You as My Lord, My God and My Savior. Heal me, change me, fill me and strengthen me in my body, soul and spirit. I love You, Lord. I praise You, Lord. I thank You, Jesus. I shall follow You every day of my life. Amen.

Father Melvin

Message fom OUR LORD JESUS -- 6-14-08 to: Luz Diaz

The following message has been received by this humble servant, from OUR LORD
JESUS -- The last three days I have been reflecting on THE HOLY EUCHARIST, knowing
that I must write about IT -- At Mass this afternoon at 5:00 pm OUR LORD said to sit
and write it .....and I do so now as I pray for HIM to bless and guide me, as per His Divine Will-
------------ --------- ------

"My daughter it is very, very important you write the following words about MY Presence In The
Holy Eucharist - and I urge ALL to pray as an Internationl Congress on THE HOLY EUCHARIST
is about to start in Quebec, Canada --- "

" MY PRESENCE IN THE EUCHARIST . MY EXISTENCE, MY GREAT ACT OF COMING TO MY CHILDREN, TO MY PEOPLE, IS REAL. AS YOU RECEIVE ME UNDER THE FORM OF BREAD AND WINE YOU ARE ACTUALLY ALLOWING YOURSELVES TO PARTAKE OF MY WHOLE BEING.
IT IS "THE GREAT MYSTERY OF OUR FAITH" .

IF ANYONE DOUBTS THIS AND STILL RECEIVES MY BODY, KNOW THAT I DO UNDERSTAND YOUR HUMAN NATURE SO WELL..... YOU ASK ME TO HELP YOU BELIEVE IN MY PRESENCE AND I WILL HELP YOU - THIS GREAT MYSTERY OF FAITH AS YOU KNOW FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE, WAS DESIGNED FROM ALL ETERNITY FROM OUR FATHER, OUR CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH- FROM ALL ETERINITY AS ALL OUR FATHER HAS CREATED, THIS WAS PLANNED - AFTER FULFILLING MY FATHER'S DIVINE WILL , TO CARRY MY CROSS, TO SUFFER THE LONG WAY TO THE CROSS AND DIE FOR ALL , THIS GREAT MYSTERY OF OUR FAITH, NEEDED TO BE SO THAT MY PRESENCE WOULD SUSTAIN, WOULD GIVE EACH WHO RECEIVES ME, POWER AND STRENGTH - ON THAT HOLY THURSDAY, AT THE LAST SUPPER, I NEEDED TO INSTITUTE, TO PERFORM THAT FIRST DAY OF HOLY COMMUNION FOR MY APOSTLES SO THAT YOU ALL WOULD FOLLOW THAT EXAMPLE - LIFE WITHOUT YOUR LIVING SAVIOR IS EMPTY - HAS NO REASON.....BECAUSE I AM THE LIVING JESUS SENT FROM MY FATHER -- FIRST, TO WALK ON THIS EARTH AND EVANGELIZE WITH THE HELP OF THE APOSTLES, SO THAT AFTER MY DEPARTURE FROM THIS EARTH, I COULD REMAIN AS YOUR LIVING GOD AND YOU COULD RECEIVE MY BODY AS YOU RECEIVE THE BREAD AND WINE ONCE CONSECRATED- - HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME AND RECEIVES MY BODY AND BLOOD WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE - THIS I TELL YOU, MY DEAR ONES, THE TIME YOU ARE LIVING NOW --- SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AS YOU SEE HOW FAST MY FATHER'S HAND, MY FATHER'S JUSTICE IS UNFOLDING-- YOU NEED TO REMEMBER THAT AT THE END, MY EUCHARIST WILL TRIUMPH
-- IT IS THE GREAT ACT, THE CULMINATION OF OUR TRIUMPH -- PROMOTE THESE WORDS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN :

**** THE HOLY EUCHARIST IS ALL-- THE TRIUMPH OF THE HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY WILL COME AND THERE WILL BE PEACE OF EARTH --------- WHEN IT HAPPENS, YOU WILL GAZE AT MY PRESENCE IN THE HUGE EUCHARIST, YOU WILL SEE WHAT I HAVE BEEN REVEALING ---

YOU WILL SEE ME IN THE FORM OF BREAD AND WINE IN A HUGE HOST, FOR I AM ALIVE AND WHOEVER BELIEVES IN ME AND IN MY FATHER WHO HAS SENT ME, WILL HAVE ETRNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.***** *

I BLESS EACH ONE, I ASK THAT EACH ONE MAKE A TRUE EFFORT TO SPREAD THESE WORDS WITH LOVE WITH FAITH .......THE TIMES THAT HAVE BEEN FORETOLD, ARE AT YOUR DOORSTEP AND SOULS NEED TO WAKE- UP --- PRAY - PRAY - PRAY - TIME GOES BY VERY FAST -- I LOVE EACH SOUL—AMEN

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

"I bow down before You, O Bread of Angels,
With deep faith, hope and love
And from the depths of my soul I worship You"
St. Maria Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament

Mother Teresa 

We have a right to be happy and peaceful. We have been created for this - we are born to be happy - and we can only find true happiness and peace when we are in love with God; there is joy in loving God, great happiness in loving Him.

 Meditations by Padre Pio -

Even if you had committed all the sins of the world, Jesus says to you; "Many sins have been forgiven you, because you have loved much" (CE,16).

 Archbishop Fulton Sheen

The treasures of self-sacrifice

"The best influences in life are undeliberate, unconscious; when no one is watching, or when reaction to the good deed was never sought. Such is the long-range influence of a mother in a home; fulfilling of daily duties with love and a spirit of self-sacrifice leaves an imprint on the children that deepens with the years. St. Francis has done much to influence painting, though he was not an artist. Great artists have influenced millions to love beauty, though their intention was never to be so remembered."

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

Oh, how ardently I desire that every soul would praise Your mercy. Happy is the soul that calls upon the mercy of the Lord. It will see that the Lord will defend it as His glory, as He said. And who would dare fight against God? All you souls, praise the Lord's mercy by trusting in His mercy all your life and especially at the hour of your death. And fear nothing, dear soul, whoever you are; the greater the sinner, the greater his right to Your mercy, O Lord. O incomprehensible goodness!

God is the first to stoop to the sinner. O Jesus, I wish to glorify Your mercy on behalf of thousands of souls. I know very well, O my Jesus, that I am to keep telling souls about Your goodness, about Your incomprehensible mercy.       (598)

Jesus, You know that I love suffering and want to drain the cup of suffering to the last drop; and yet, my nature experienced a slight shudder and fear. Quickly, however, my trust in the infinite mercy of God was awakened in all its force, and everything else had to give way before it, like a shadow retreating before the sun's rays. O Jesus, how great is Your goodness!

Your infinite goodness, so well known to me, enables me to bravely look death itself in the eye. I know that nothing will happen to me without God's permission. I desire to glorify Your infinite mercy during my life, at the hour of death, in the resurrection, and throughout eternity.       (697)

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 15 - DRAW EVER CLOSER TO THE FATHER

The Blessed Virgin wishes to draw us close to the Father:

Dear children, today I ask you to open your hearts to God like spring flowers which yearn for the sun. I am your Mother and I wish you to draw ever closer to the Father, that he may grant abundant gifts to your hearts. ( Weekly Message January 31, 1985).

One of these gifts is the vision to see form the perspective of heaven as God does:

So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God (Col 3:1-3).

Reflection:

The believer's real home, Paul says today, is with Christ in heaven. This gives us a different perspective on our lives here on earth. To "set your minds on things that are above," as Paul says today, means simply to look at life from God's perspective. Among other things, this is an antidote to materialism, for we gain a proper perspective of material goods when we take the Lord's view of them. From his viewpoint in eternity, how would he perceive money, prestige, or power?

What of family, friendships, or acts of sacrifice? The more we see the life around us as God does, the more we can live in harmony with him. As Our Lady has advised in several of her messages, we must not become too attached to what is only temporary.

Application:

In prayer today, spend several minutes thinking of the priorities in your life. Then switch to God's viewpoint, and examine the same priorities. Is there a match?