Joyful Mysteries

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Medjugorje Day By Day June 22 - PREPARE YOURSELF WITH LOVE

"Behold the source of every good, Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, who says, If any man thirst, let him come to Me.  Oh, what torrents of grace have the saints drawn from the fountain of the Most Blessed Sacrament! for there Jesus dispenses all the merits of his Passion, as it was foretold by the Prophet: You shall draw waters with joy out of the Saviour's fountains" (St. Alphonsus Liguori).

Mother Teresa -

Reflect today on these words of Pope Paul VI on peace : "If we wish to have true peace, we must give it a soul. The soul of peace is love."

Meditations by Padre Pio -

Do not be discouraged if you do not succeed in doing everything as you desire, force yourself to do what you have to do and see to it that you never fall short of anything in this respect, taking no account of whether you feel comfort or tediousness and boredom. Always be upright in this resolution (Epist IV p 466).

Archbishop Fulton Sheen -

The only way to solve the hunger problem

"The problem is the whole world is dying of hunger - the Eastern world is dying of hunger of body; the Western world is dying of hunger of soul. The first will be fed, but not by those who hate liberty when they give them flour; the Western world will be saved by feeding the East while recognizing their own hunger of the Spirit and by seeking again the true King of Hearts Who alone gives `The Bread of Life'."

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

 Then, in an instant, I was caught up to stand near Jesus, and I stood on the altar next to the Lord Jesus, and my spirit was filled with a happiness so great that I am unable to comprehend it or write about it. A profound peace as well as repose filled my soul. Jesus bent toward me and said with great kindness, What is it you desire, My daughter? And I answered, "I desire worship and glory be given to Your mercy." I already am receiving worship by the institution and celebration of this Feast; what else do you desire? I then looked at the immense crowd worshiping The Divine Mercy and I said to the Lord, "Jesus, bless all those who are gathered to give glory to You and to venerate Your infinite mercy." Jesus made a sign of the cross with His hand, and this blessing was reflected in the souls like a flash of light. My spirit was engulfed in His love. I felt as if I had dissolved and disappeared completely in God. When I came to myself, a profound peace was flooding my soul, and an extraordinary understanding of many things was communicated to my intellect, an understanding that had not been granted me previously.       (1048)

On several occasions, I have learned how some religious defend their own glory under the pretext of being concerned for the glory of God, whereas it is not a question of the glory of God, but of glory of self. O Jesus, how painful this has been for me! What secrets the day of Your judgment will bring to light! How can one steal God's gifts?       (1149)

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 22 - PREPARE YOURSELF WITH LOVE

As we approach the anniversary, Our Lady asks us to prepare with love:

Dear children, your Mother is happy to be with all of you. Dear children, you have helped me to realize the plans of God.

I wish to speak to you of love, and give you love. During these days, prepare yourselves for the anniversary with love, with my messages, and with joy. Your mother will help you, dear children, and your Mother will remain with you. There is nothing more important for you than to make what I have said your first priority. (Visionary's Prayer Group 6-6- 98)

St. John also recognizes the primacy of love:

"We love because he first loved us. Those who say, `I love God,' and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this; those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also (1John 4:19-21).

Reflection:

Some years ago the BBC sent its star journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge, to India to do a documentary on Mother Teresa. The BBC wanted to televise her and her sisters picking up the dying in the slums of Calcutta and caring for them at a shelter they ran. Here the dying are washed up and cared for, as Mother Teresa puts it, `within the sight of a loving face.'

The shelter is dimly lit by tiny windows high up in the walls. The television crew had not anticipated the poor lighting inside the building, and had not brought any portable lights with them. They concluded that it was useless to try to film the sisters working with the dying inside the building. But someone suggested they do it anyway. Perhaps some of the footage would be usable. To everyone's surprise the footage turned out to be absolutely spectacular. The whole interior was bathed in mysterious warm light. Technically speaking, the camera crew said, the results were impossible to explain.

Muggeridge has his own theory about the mysterious light: `Mother Teresa's home for the dying is overflowing with love...This love is luminous, like the haloes artists have seen and made visible round the heads of the saints. I find it not at all surprising that the luminosity should register on photographic film.'

Application:

Today, pray especially for this gift of luminous love, as Our Lady urges us today.

Medjugorje Day By Day June 21- SURRENDER YOURSELVES

"Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God, whom I believe to be really present in the
Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, receive this most profound act of adoration
to supply for the desire I have to adore You unceasingly, and in thanksgiving
for the sentiments of love which Your Sacred Heart has for me in this
Sacrament" (St. Margaret Mary Alacoque).

Mother Teresa  

To make sure that we do not forget, Jesus gave us the Eucharist as a memorial of his love ... When you look at the Crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then, when you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now."

Meditations by Padre Pio -

Father, why do you cry when you receive Jesus in Holy Communion?" Reply: "If the Church can utter the words: speaking of the incarnation of the Word in the womb of the Immaculate Virgin, what should be said of us miserable creatures? But Jesus said to us: 'He who does not eat my Flesh and does not drink my Blood will not have life everlasting,' so then let us approach Holy Communion with great love and fear. Let the whole day be a preparation and thanksgiving for Holy Communion" (LdP,55)

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Both body and soul must be fed

"Let it not be forgotten that He Who promised the spiritual did not deny bread to the poor. Our hopes and our liberties are sold too cheap when they are bartered away to him who feeds the body and leaves the soul unsatisfied."

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

Today, I took part in a one-day retreat. When I was at the last conference, the priest was speaking of how much the world needs God's mercy, and that this seems to be a special time when people have great need of prayer and God's mercy. Then I heard a voice in my soul: These words are for you. Do all you possibly can for this work of My mercy. I desire that My mercy be worshiped, and I am giving mankind the last hope of salvation; that is, recourse to My mercy. My Heart rejoices in this feast. After these words, I understood that nothing can dispense me from the obligation which the Lord demands from me.       (998)

Let the glory and praise to The Divine Mercy rise from every creature throughout all ages and times.       (1005)

Praise and glory be to You, O Holy Trinity, Eternal God. May the mercy springing from Your very bowels protect us from Your just anger. Let the praise of Your incomprehensible mercy resound everywhere. All Your works bear the seal of Your unfathomable mercy, O God.       (1007)

  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 21 - SURRENDER YOURSELVES

In anticipation of the anniversary, the Virgin calls us to surrender ourselves to God:

Dear children, until the anniversary day, I call you, the parish, to pray more and to let your prayer be a sign of surrender to God. Dear children, I know that you are all tired, but you don't know how to surrender yourselves. During these days, surrender yourselves completely to me! (Weekly Message 6-13-85)

Perhaps the greatest example of surrender was that of Job, who remained faithful in prosperity and poverty, in illness and in health, in joy and in tragedy. His simple words were:

"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord (Job 1:21)."

Reflection:

Surrender to God is one of the most difficult tasks of the spiritual life, for we are ingrained with a self-centeredness and egotism (original sin) that impels us to seek control not only over our own lives, but over everyone and everything around us. Left unchecked, this sometimes unconscious attitude leads inevitably to emptiness and despair.

However, turning from self to God allows us to enter a new life of God-centeredness, oneness, and joy that we were created for. Instead of moving inward, we move outward, and become free. It all begins, as Our Lady says, with a conscious choice.

Application:

Today, let us make that choice -- using a special prayer written by St. Therese of Lisieux, "The Little Flower":

"I consider that `all is vanity but to love God and serve him alone.' The grace which I especially ask, O Jesus, is never to offend you. My gifts are all unworthy, and so I offer you my very soul, O most loving Savior.

I fear only one thing, my God, to keep my own will.

Take it, therefore, for I choose all that you choose. O my Beloved, I offer myself to you, that you may perfectly accomplish in me your holy designs, and I will not allow anything created to be an obstacle to their accomplishment."

msg from Jesus to m. rosalita aguila

After testing carefully..over and over! PRAY AND DISCERN VERY CAREFULLY TESTING
THE SPIRITS...AGAIN AND AGAIN!

Very soon now, My little one, the earth will reel and convulse because of
the sins of all mankind that are so putrid ...and the stench rises to the
Heavens and to the Throne of My Heavenly Father and His Weeping falls to earth
in the form of rains.

You... yourself, little one, have wept over and over when you see the
disgusting way His children use one another for their own selfish pleasure at
the expense of another ones purity and innocence.

The Chastisement has to be, little one, because there are so many of His people
today who have no conscience and these sins cry out to the Heavens for a just
punishment from the Hand of My Father.

The cruel and inhumane way that His little precious defenseless innocent babies
are dying today is SUCH AN ABOMINATION. If Our children could see what We see
from Heaven their hearts would burst because of the pain. The devil is laughing
at how easy it is for him to win their souls and hearts through every kind of
vice there is today.

Complacency has taken over where fervor used to be. Laziness and love of self
rules today. What is pleasing to the senses is all Our people think about
today. What must it take to get their attention. Do you think My Father wants
to have to destroy His people again and the beautiful world that He created
also.

OH...HOW ALL OF HEAVEN WEEPS AND WEEPS! If Our people knew what is soon coming
they would be on their knees begging and pleading for mercy and more mercy and
more mercy. Dear little one; tell everyone you know to begin praying every
second possible before it is too late.

The messages will very soon cease. All communication will soon stop and the
desolation that will be felt in all hearts around the world you cannot
comprehend. There is little time left now before all is too begin. Children die
to yourselves and your earthly desires. Pray that My Father will give you the
Grace to focus through the Power of His Most Holy Spirit on helping to save
souls because so many many many souls are being lost to Our adversary. Ask
often for the help of Our Most Holy Spirit and My mother and St. Joseph and all
the Holy Angels and Blessed Saints and continue covering yourselves and your
families and everything you have in My Precious Blood and under the Protective
Cloak of My Holy Family and asking all IN MY MOST POWERFUL AND HOLY NAME
especially and praying for the GIFT OF DISCERNMENT always because these are
treacherous times when satan and his cohorts seek to deceive and lead all Our
children astray with 90% truth and 10% lies.

Say the Holy Michael Prayer often and again seek often the help of your Guardian
Angel who is there to protect and guide you on the right path. If our children
can get to the Sacrament of Confession weekly (before receiving the Most Holy
Eucharist- daily...if possible), they will remain so much stronger and the more
often they can get to Adoration and visit Me in the Blessed Sacrament and
receive Graces for themselves and their families and the world and do often
Consecrations to My Father, Myself and Our Most Holy Spirit and (again) to My
Most Holy Family and to all in Heaven (doing sometimes these Consecrations
hourly if needed). They will find that they will remain and stay peaceful no
matter what they see, hear or experience because they will be receiving GRACES
that are much needed for the coming times which will soon be upon the entire
earth.

You will soon see hate and division and disasters everywhere along with complete
chaos and confusion spreading very rapidly everywhere you look.

Remember Our beloved John Paul II's words 'BE NOT AFRAID'. That is all for now
dear little one! I love you and all Our dear children everywhere around the
world and thank them for their obedience and commitment and dedication to
pleasing My Father and spreading His Words of Warning and of Preparation that
are confirmed in Holy Scripture many times in many Books. Your JESUS

April 10, 2007

* Jesus again repeats Himself many times again because we have still not
understood fully and obeyed all of His Father's Requests because of our human
weaknesses and that the call of the world is so strong and its comforts which we
do not turn away from and die to ourselves because we are so selfish and spoiled
also.

One day very soon all the comforts will be taken away in the blink of an eye so
He can get our attention. I had heard the a very sad true story of a grandfather
molesting his young granddaughter on the day He gave these words and it made me
cry and weep to think what the Father and all in Heaven must have to watch day
after day.



m. rosalita aguila