Poussin – The Institution of the Eucharist
Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him. Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous. Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God. In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother. For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another, unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. Do not be amazed, [then,] brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. 1 John 3:1-18
As you all know I record what pops in my head as a letter from God. If the church came out today and said all I have written is wrong, the church is correct and I am wrong. I always want to be clear about that so you can discern what I write. Here is what I felt the Lord say to me on this weekend of the Feast of Corpus Christi;
Beloved Lily of the Father,
I have come for your sanctification. I reveal nothing to you that I haven’t revealed in and through others, you are a connector, connecting things I have revealed. I died on the cross for your Redemption but my promise is still to be fulfilled. I came to destroy the works of the devil. This was done and completed in My Mother. My Kingdom was established in her. But I came to establish My Kingdom in each of you, this is the work still to be done. Your baptism and belief bring you Redemption but the fullness of what I came for is Sanctification. Purgatory sanctifies. However, if you do MY WILL on earth as it is in heaven you partake in sanctification as co-redeemer. My Mother is Co-Redemptrix because in order to Redeem, I came through a soul where My Kingdom was established already. It was established in her. Redemption is for all baptized who believe and sanctification is subject to each soul who is willing to be purified by surrendering their human will to us. The levels of purgatory are the degree to which a person hands themselves to our will while on earth. Purgatory is my Mercy. Being purified of what kept you from complete sanctification. Nothing imperfect can be in heaven. Those who reject my mercy for themselves and others and remain in pride of mortal sin unto their death blaspheme the Holy Spirit and are lost to the fires of hell. You can be sanctified on earth. I make you holy when you surrender all to me. I completed Redemption your cooperation determines your level of sanctification. Some realize this to a great degree. They partake in my cross. When you partake in my cross you have access to MY CREATION. Full domain over creation. The more you give yourself to me, the more you have access to creation and are not limited. Healing, bi-location, raising the dead. You can do things that seem impossible because it is no longer you, but I who have established My Kingdom in you and I am not limited.
I am raising Saints like you have never seen before.
Many fear my chastisement. I tell you, DO NOT FEAR, EMBRACE IT AND YOU WILL SEE POWER LIKE NEVER BEFORE. I AM POWER MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS. TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME. My Will will be working in and through you. IT IS PERFECT LOVE and perfect love casts out all fear. This is how you operate as the Body of Christ.
Isaiah 60:1
– The Most Holy Trinity
Veil of Veronica 
Funny enough, I had similar thoughts to this this morning:
Not to fear the Chastisement, but to embrace it.
Understand that it will not only be painful, but cleansing/purifying.
Not to judge but to pray – “[w]ho am I to judge,” as Pope Francis said.
That I am called to heal – considering how many people I have hurt with my sins, this frightens me – so I pray that all the wounds that I have caused others be healed.
That we are called to love.
That we are called to forgive – there is no way around it. You must forgive if you want forgiveness, and forgiveness brings healing.
That the darkness will be made visible – it keeps becoming clearer and clearer.
That we will see love like we never have before.
Be not afraid ! And I keep having the image of good ole St. JPII before me. God bless him, I cried when he died.
At the end the Church will be reunited and many Jews will come home and the 12 tribes of the Church will be made clear.
And then I was asked to prepare to be a parish trustee this morning.
James, I also cried when JPII died. During his funeral, I wept like a baby; to this day, I can’t see footage of his funeral without ending up in tears.
Susan and James, the words of both of you are hitting me where I live. Much food for thought.
Mick, it is good to have prayer warriors like you, Beckita, Linda (Of God’s Messages to U) and Susan in my life. I imagine you all as lights shining grace out, like the ripple of rock thrown into water.
St. JPII gave me courage. He was the bravest of the brave in his time. Truly a rock of Peter. He surrounded himself with brave men like himself, such as Cardinals Ratzinger (Pope Benedict) and Cardinal Arinze. I recently had the opportunity to view pictures of a lovely EF mass presided over by Cardinal Arinze. It brought memories to me of St. JPII.
I remember well that “Be Not Afraid.” I remember it more now than I did as a kid, funny enough.
My son has what my wife’s Polish family calls “JP” head – the round head with Slavic features. I am blessed to look at my son and think of St. JPII.
God bless you, your husband, and all of your children, Mick!
Thank you, James; and may God bless you and yours. (I’m commenting here because WordPress won’t let me comment under your second comment, for some reason.)
Walk in Kingdom Power, Change the way you think : METANOIA
Do you have 6 minutes to listen to this?
https://globalawakening.com/blog/video/to-walk-in-power-change-the-way-you-think
Randy Clark is speaking here very briefly about METANOIA. He explains that it is all about bringing our MIND up to par with the Word of God when He tells us in Scripture about the nature of His Kingdom. The Bible says this :
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD !!!!
Randy is one of the founding “fathers” of a movement seeking to reveal to the church what the Kingdom of God looks like. He wants to help people change their way of thinking by raising our expectations, to align our desires with those of God. We discover just how limited we have become by our expectations of reality , according to Natural Law. Randy wants us to taste and see what God’s Supernatural Law looks like and to actively strive for it. He is part of the network of pastors and churches who belong to the Global Awakening. They are the living “fruit” of a “tree” that started to grow some 25 years ago at the Vineyard Church of Toronto, up in Canada. There, the Holy Spirit began a tremendous outpouring back in 1994, one that has continued to grow all over the world, but which many Catholics might not ever have heard about to this day !!! Truly it is a Tree of Life in the Holy Spirit, and one that is worthy of our undivided attention…and reverence : it is a Gift from God.
Today, these Evangelical churches are experiencing awesome creative miracles and prodigies operated by the Holy Spirit. Like many people who are currently hungering for MORE in their faith, these faithful souls are actively seeking to “equip themselves for ministry” and to discern their personal “mission and destiny” within God’s Kingdom. They believe it is POSSIBLE to actively live and serve in the world through powerful charisms of the Holy Spirit. They pray and educate themselves in the areas that the Holy Spirit seems to be calling them, and they seek “impartation” of the Gifts from those who have already received them in the church. Then, they “deploy” these Kingdom Treasures, every where and any time the Lord calls them out into the world. They seek the transformation of the whole world by the Holy Spirit working in them as individuals, for a global metanoia !!! They realize that as the Body of Christ, we have truly “fallen asleep” and we desperately need to be “awakened” by the Holy Spirit …
Arise! Shine, for your light has come,
the glory of the LORD has dawned upon you.
In the Catholic Church, we often speak about “schools” of the Charisms of the Holy Spirit. We speak of training and formation of the saints, for the work of Mission and for Evangelization.
Saint Catherine of Siena Institute in Denver is just one example of this sort of “school” :
https://siena.org/charisms-faq
The Holy Spirit is seeking to RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH, through our awakening . Now. Today. Everywhere…by making us true saints, people on whom God can rely to participate in and cooperate with His Will. What is the Will of God, you ask? It is for all humans to be SAVED in Eternity AND for all humans to THRIVE in the here and now, to live with the superabundance of Divine Life, in the Kingdom of the Divine Will. On earth just as it reigns in heaven….
It is not just a few holy souls who are called, but every single Christian living and working on earth is meant to “deploy” the Charisms of the Holy Spirit for the good of all of Creation, just as it is in heaven ! That River of Living Waters is a River flowing with Divine Grace… when a soul agrees to “set out into the deep”, or take a dive into the flow of complete surrender to Life in the Spirit, following every current proposed by Divine Providence….for our sanctification !!!
What is keeping us from living life this way? Fear. Disbelief. Sin. Vice. Hard hearts. Selfishness. Pride. Sloth. Individualism. Just to name some of the larger barriers to our personal sanctification …. But like it says in Scripture: when we taste and see this Kingdom Life, we cannot keep ourselves from proclaiming the Good News of this lifestyle to all those we meet.
We have been redeemed by Christ. We have been saved by Christ. We can be resurrected by Christ….TODAY. Do we believe God wants this for us? Do we believe it is possible for us? His Word says so, all over the New Testament in particular. For example, in the story of Lazarus of Bethany. In this story, found in John 11, Jesus reminds us of an expression He used often in His Ministry:
IF YOU BELIEVE, YOU WILL SEE THE POWER OF GOD.
Our Lord asked both Martha and Mary that very question : DO YOU BELIEVE?
What else is more powerful in God than the sheer FORCE of His Glory made manifest in the RESURRECTION ? Nothing. That is a manifestation of God’s sheer CREATIVE POWER: bringing the dead back to life !!! He did this for Lazarus and desires to do the same for us, the multitudes who have “fallen asleep”….
Jesus says precisely that in John 11 :
EGO SUM RESURRECTIO ET VITA. I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE…
HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE….
He also told us in the Gospel that there are FOUR very concrete forms of miracles that are manifestations of the Presence of His Kingdom :
1. Heal the Sick
2. Raise the Dead
3. Cleanse the Lepers
4. Cast out Demons
These are signs and wonders that we are all meant to be displayed here and now for the Glory of God. Yet in the Church, they are hardly known or seen at all. This means we are NOT living in the Kingdom at all ! When God’s KINGDOM is present, He literally SUSPENDS Natural Law, overrides it and trumps all the rules and regulations we are familiar with here on earth, for His Great Glory ! God can do ANYTHING because nothing is impossible for Him ! Literally. Do we BELIEVE this?
Saint Paul tells the Corinthians (and us) that God wants to take us from GLORY TO GLORY in this life here on earth !!! What would that look like ???
Reading about the lives of the Saints will give us clear and true examples of such glories, the prodigies and miracles operated by the Kingdom of God on Earth , as it is in Heaven. A few of the Saints made “famous” for displaying Kingdom Power and Glory might be : Saint Charbel. Saint Francis di Paolo. Saint Vincent Ferrer. Saint Padre Pio. Many of the Saints had very specific charisms such as bi-location. Others had charisms of healing and operating miracles of all sorts.
A very short list of examples of Kingdom Glories. in addition to the above 4, would be:
Permitting humans to walk on water or to walk thru walls.
Permitting humans to become invisible.
Permitting provisions to be multiplied.
Slowing down time or speeding time up.
Causing weather to be transformed suddenly or out of season.
Causing rivers to stop flowing and to start again.
Permitting humans to walk on poisonous insects or creatures without harm.
Causing impure water to become pure with blessed salt.
Permitting humans to serve people with contagious diseases and not fall sick.
God sends out His Words and Commands every second of every day to every soul….do we “hear” Him in the silent dialogue of prayer ? Do we “listen” to Him by seeking to “eat” (take into our intimacy and accept ) of the “bread” of His Will ? The Lord’s prayer says just this: Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done. On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily BREAD… TELL US WHAT YOUR WILL IS EACH DAY….for to do the Father’s Will is also our daily bread !
There are 4 simple parts to living in the Divine Will, which are also perfectly reflected in the 4 parts of the Last Supper:
Take. Bless. Break. Give.
We are to take the Will of God each day (minute and hour!) in our hands, as if it were a loaf of precious bread (or the Sacred Host) .
We are to ask God to bless His Will for us , as we prayerfully say grace over it each day.
We are to break open the crust of His Will and reveal the inner tenderness of each loaf .
We are to receive and then eat of His Will, to consume it and perhaps even chew over it until we can digest it , with thanksgiving and gratitude.
We are also meant to distribute or transmit the Good News of our Testimony to living in the Divine Will to all those around us, encouraging them hear and taste the Goodness of the Lord for themselves !!!
A SAINT is a person who LIVES IN THE DIVINE WILL, their Will finding itself in perfect Communion and Union with the Will of God.
And so the Lord permits a SAINT, being faithful to and trustworthy of the Divine Will, to have “access” to His KEYS, which are the Kingdom Powers over the many aspects of natural law displayed in all of Creation. Seek FIRST the KINGDOM of GOD …and ALL ELSE will be given to you !!! Do we realize what this PROMISE really means ???
It is the KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL.
It is NOT easy to obey God’s Will. It takes much prayer, humility, fidelity and obedience to sacrifice one’s own will. Minute by minute. Day by day. In season and out of season. Year in and year out. We may need an entire lifetime in order to become docile to the Will of God, which is His Cross…
What is the CROSS OF CHRIST ? It means to live right there at the POINT OF CONVERGENCE and INTERSECTION of the TWO WILLS:
the Will of God is the VERTICAL axis and the Will of Man is the HORIZONTAL axis.
When a soul is living in the Divine Will, it “lives” right there on the cross where the body of Christ was placed, extended upon the vertical and the horizontal beams. The crucifix is the ICON: the core of our being, from head to toe….including our thoughts, is VERTICAL ALIGNMENT with the Will of God while our arms and hands are in HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT to the service of humanity. Jesus says that this Cross of Communion of Wills can actually be something very easy and joyful…if and when there is complete SURRENDER.
Do we take Him at His Word or rather satisfy ourselves with our earthly experience, one that is filled with suffering, tribulation and distress as we so often fight against God ? That is NOT a Holy Cross! To the contrary, carrying the Cross of Christ with Him in the Holy Spirit is meant to bring us peace, joy and the fullness of life…through the dying to our human will. That is a GLORIOUS CROSS !
IF we knew or understood the perfect Mercy and GOODNESS of the Will of God, we would gladly surrender our own Will to Him at every second !!! Do we believe in the KINGDOM? Do we fathom its POWER? Can we imagine its GLORY?
When we say the Lord’s Prayer we conclude it with those 3 HUGE words: For yours is ….
THE KINGDOM. THE POWER and THE GLORY….NOW….and forever….
God is ready to give us the Keys to His Kingdom and to teach us HOW TO THINK in accordance with the SUPERNATURAL LAWS of His Kingdom. He wants us to ASK FOR these laws to take over. Natural Law is earthly law. Supernatural Law is heavenly law.
I believe that God is using a particular group of Evangelical pastors to awaken the whole Church, the entire Mystical Body of Christ. The name of that network of pastors is Global Awakening. They are modeling HOW to experience Metanoia in the Holy Spirit. They are letting the church taste and see how GOOD is the Will of God. They are teaching people how to live according to Kingdom Principles.
I believe that God is asking Catholics to REACH OUT to this MIRACULOUS RIVER OF LIFE flowing right now inside the Body of Christ and to join our “stream” with theirs. Together, we WILL be able to MOVE MOUNTAINS in Him !
I believe that means receiving from this movement what they have been given by the Holy Spirit …and likewise transmit to them the many unfathomable treasures that Catholicism has been given by the Holy Spirit. It is about JOINING OUR TWO HANDS TOGETHER AS ONE CHURCH, for the FULLNESS of Truth and Life in the Holy Spirit.
I believe God is opening up a SEASON of reconciliation, building bridges, joining hands and making strong connections inside the Church so that He can empower the SAINTS for the Times we are living in. These words perfectly echo what Jesus Christ said in John 11 : “Lazarus, come out !” And then: “Untie him and let him go !”
All we need to do is ASK and BELIEVE, in the complete confidence that when we are actively seeking to do His Will, God does show up and He does deliver miracles and prodigies, real supernatural signs and wonders for us to witness His Kingdom Power and His Glory, and then give testimony of them.
Arise! Shine, for your light has come,
the glory of the LORD has dawned upon you.
That they may be one. Operating as one Body in Christ. Thanks Lucy.
I listened to the video and read their faith statement (which is not too bad as Protestants go). They don’t have the full truth of course. Lots of enthusiasm and faith, which many Catholics could benefit from, but in that enthusiasm there are dangerous (pride, egos, immaturity). I would let them do what they think is God’s work and stick to the Catholic Church.
Some lessons from Exodus! Experiencing incredible miracles and evidence of God talking to Moses (face to face) didn’t help the Israelites, or even Moses, that much; they still spent 40 years in the desert and Moses didn’t get to see the Promised Land!