A Blessed Holy Octave to everyone! When Abbacasita began 2 yrs ago (july 2012) we explored some different things you could do to celebrate and you are still invited to share your ideas about what you do! This year I thought of a different aspect of it, the spiritual part. Although these scrapbook app cards were too fun to make!...
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Some Ideas on How to Feast for 8 days!
I'm sure there are an unlimited amount of ways to honor God with these themes and He delights in His children giving anything to Him with their hearts... here are just a few ideas.
Praise Him with music, enjoy nature, recognize all the ways He is present in His creation; nature, animals and people... praise His glory and marvel in these things. Have a Praise Fest all day long!
Praise Him with music, enjoy nature, recognize all the ways He is present in His creation; nature, animals and people... praise His glory and marvel in these things. Have a Praise Fest all day long!
I got a doughnut the other day at the gas station down the street. I can't usually eat donuts, and I am pretty far from the nearest city. These were fresh, chocolate glazed with sprinkles even... and I had no adverse side effects from it. I was SO thankful for this donut!
Today I got 6 hours of sleep and I was exhausted but I sensed He did not want me to go back to bed but rather go outside and try and wake up. It took me a good half hour of hiking in the forest before the groggy half asleep immersion began to lesson at all and the sun and physical movement began to take any effect. I literally marched like a zombie struggling to lift my legs over the uneven terrain. I can't do caffeine at all (remember how the chocolate glaze was a grace?) That was a real offering. I felt abused doing it. Somehow though, as I woke up and stayed up for the day, I am certain that going back to sleep would've been more harmful to me and Father knew that. Everything, anything can be offered to God, but when we want to give Him something and it is difficult, He is so moved and proud of our efforts for love and in His way, He rewards us, He supports what is our hearts desire to give, like a good parent and glorifies us because we are imitating Him more, think of Jesus efforts alone to love us, and He is also glorified in us!
Father had yet another surprise in store for me. As the day progressed and I opened my heart to the Holy Spirit for true repentance, what I continued to sense was "accept how loved you are... by God and all of Heaven ". I mentioned earlier in previous posts that I'm being healed on a deeper level than ever. I believe what Love was trying to do with me was cleansing through my own acceptance and openness to Love Itself, my Divine Family... That this was what would grant me the fruits of repentance at this time. God is Mercy! Amen!
I am sorry to say that I was unable to be consistent with this, although I had experiences of grace, I forgot specifics. I was going to put these all in a slide show and delete the text but decided not to. I am learning how to go through some major healing from ages that I find very difficult to snap out of, or areas that I need to learn letting go... even of posting. Besides, I could not get to my laptop and weebly glitches on my ipad all the time... I wrote a big thing here and it lost it completely.
Inheritance. Family, real family whether blood or not, consists in loving... you can have relatives that really love, pray, make sacrifices and they are the ones who ultimately have bound themselves to the Divine Family. Jesus said regarding His own Mother, and it pained Him to do so, "blessed rather is the one who does God's will" ...they are My true and only family, as far as God is concerned. Mary was more blessed because of Her Fiat than because she was His physical earthly mother.
This binding allows our inheritance as God's children to flow through them. We reflect more our Divine Image as a son or daughter of the Most High God. And when we act in Charity for anyone, even ourselves, we enter into Family. The Divine Family is the entirety of Family in Created existence. People who choose hell cut themselves off from their inheritance and their real family. Eek huh? Our Family of Love bestows on us an Inheritance of Love... and It is Eternal. Father wants us to enter into that now, through faith as St Paul teaches regarding faith being the seed of Glory, and have it for eternity in bliss with Him. A Father readying a home for His child to share in joy and consolation and intimacy forever more. Amen! Ave Pater!
Inheritance. Family, real family whether blood or not, consists in loving... you can have relatives that really love, pray, make sacrifices and they are the ones who ultimately have bound themselves to the Divine Family. Jesus said regarding His own Mother, and it pained Him to do so, "blessed rather is the one who does God's will" ...they are My true and only family, as far as God is concerned. Mary was more blessed because of Her Fiat than because she was His physical earthly mother.
This binding allows our inheritance as God's children to flow through them. We reflect more our Divine Image as a son or daughter of the Most High God. And when we act in Charity for anyone, even ourselves, we enter into Family. The Divine Family is the entirety of Family in Created existence. People who choose hell cut themselves off from their inheritance and their real family. Eek huh? Our Family of Love bestows on us an Inheritance of Love... and It is Eternal. Father wants us to enter into that now, through faith as St Paul teaches regarding faith being the seed of Glory, and have it for eternity in bliss with Him. A Father readying a home for His child to share in joy and consolation and intimacy forever more. Amen! Ave Pater!
Saying yes with your whole heart to God.... ya, that takes time and growth and that is ok. Father says it is not that we come to Him perfect but rather we are made so through love. That's His action and our consent ;) Practicing His Presence and getting in the habit of relating with Him in all our actions helps me a lot. He tells Vassula Rhyden "we us?" It is so cool. Like a perfect loving friend always there, or the parent you wished loved and adored you as God alone could and pays total and constant attention to you... or maybe a dream lover who is obsessively infatuated with you... well, those are all symptoms of having a heart that hungers and longs for.... God!! and by the way, He can surpass. Not a man-god, or anything weird we can imagine. People in heaven are totally and blissfully happy and satisfied and forever. It's true, ask Colten Burpo, the kid who saw Jesus and was brought to heaven and lived to tell and now shares his experience as a teenager and you can go watch him now saying so on YouTube. And you can tell this kid is legit and also knows the difference between authentic Peace and hippy peace.
Fidelity to God is also something we grow in. I would like to think if I make vows to my husband or wife that I am now ready to do all the obligations and responsibilities that come with that but that is even less true with God. In marriage, you marry someone imperfect but with God, you consecrate to a perfect Being, and His love perfects us as we open our hearts to It. So, even if you find later that parts of you are way more against Him than you ever had any idea, that's ok, don't be alarmed. It is natural and good. Not a freakish horror. All human creation has struggled to Love, it is a good kind of struggle. Father even purifies us of the wrong ideas about that as well so we can love and accept ourselves as He does. It gets easier after that resistance part because the pain is in the resistance... the pain is the erroneous meanings that get purged out and corrected. Real Love, in fact, does not hurt. And His love frees us from even the compulsive buried stuff over time and with our fiat and fidelity. It's all good.
When we make the Holy Octave of Consecration to God our Father we are told we ascend 8 steps to the Heart of God foreshadowed in the 8 steps to Ezekiel's prophetic temple. That prophecy was about the, now imminent, New Era of Peace promised by Our Lady of Fatima. Father tells Barbara that the New Era and Era of the Father, Holy Spirit, 2 Hearts etc. are all the same thing. ( BTW, Ya, lots of creepy stuff is happening to our generation no doubt, but think, isn't it awesome to be living during a time when Prophecies made regarding the End Times, all the way up till now, as far back as even before Jesus was born are coming to be fulfilled, we will see them and in some cases, we are the very people living that the prophecies are referring to! )
The Consecration Themes were divinely inspired and given to us through God our Father and He confirmed His chosen vessel, Barbara who wrote them, to change nothing! But even apart from that it makes sense, look:
The first step, praising the Lord (1), is an essential part of having a thankful heart (2). And to give Him a real offering (3) one would need gratitude (thanksgiving) and therefore praise. And certainly the gift of true repentance (4) assumes one has the first 3 steps otherwise one can be weak towards shame or servitude, which are poisonous to the confidence and absence of fear which accompanies true repentance ( a gift of the Holy Spirit the Church encourages us to ask for in our prayers ) and therefore it's fruit of a clean and pure heart and clear upright conscience. And receiving ones inheritance (5) necessitates the first 4 steps to be well disposed which is vital to the nature of reception of the Inheritance of God ( just look at what happened to Esau... we can all be thankful that God's covenant with our forefathers Abraham and Isaac did not pass to his wild heathen Canaanite heart, and Abraham was his Grandpa! Can you imagine? ). Now one can give ones Fiat (6) : an authentic fired up with Charity yes from the heart. One can really give, say Yes!, when one understands who, in this case, Who, they give to and why... just look what Abraham could give to Father once He knew Him intimately! This is Father's desire that we know Him as He truly is, our ultimate fulfillment and our enemies worst fear. And faithfulness (7), well this one is a no brainer due to the nature of fidelity and the necessity of the previous 6 steps. There's a big difference between a robotic soulless obedience to a vow and one that is worthy of God and worthy of a son/daughter of God. And now we can ascend the final step, Consecration (8), where one has in their possession and heart having climbed the previous 7 steps, we can now give ourselves to Father with true devotion; total consecration... that we may fulfill St. John's prophecy (Jn 4:23-24) and proudly be one of those who worships the Father "in Spirit and Truth"... that we may come to know Him as He is, in the intimate union between a child and Father and return Home in God-Love. And a return to our original Innocence, our being transformed by Being, being transformed by the Fiery Charity and Innocence of God. Pure uncontainable Love, limitless power; the very Spirit of God: the essence of the Divine Paternal Heart. Now sparked, His pearl within us, which He tells us ALL are born with and only I can access * is ignited and flash-point! we are transformed into His Image and likeness, our Divinisation and Mystical Transubstantiation emerges. Fr. Ianuzzi tells us that this is all proper to the New Era... the Wedding Feast of the Lamb and the mystical marriage of Christ with His Bride the Church (those alive and willing in these times).
* Seeing Books July 22, 1997
... Deep within you there is a place where only I, the Creator, can access. You must go there to meet Me. "
This is something theologians may be in an uproar about but not those with a childlike faith. Father told Barbara this, which I've quoted extensively on the site because of the need for this revelation in light of the real damage to all those sexually and occult abused now rampant... well, self condemnation alone would suffice and the abuse of the "Accuser" so purposely named in the Bk of Rev. regarding the End Times and those who live during them (us). Such abuse creates the real conviction that one has been violated and shamed having lost ones actual innocence not by choice, but rather it was stolen. The church teaches that one committing the act of mortal sin destroys grace and innocence within them and then through God's grace and repentance it can be restored. And it is not uncommon for those who have been violated to feel themselves shame and guilt. This revelation of Father's to Barbara has the power to completely cancel that dynamic. It is revelation in that He says that within us all is a secret place, all are born with it ( therefore not acquired through baptism) where "no one" can enter, where God dwells. He asks us to go there. (Perhaps then, only we are invited?) By saying no one can enter it means not by force or by our own allowance. This fact, if one believes it, would assure these souls that their abuser never entered that place and sinners, that sin never entered that place, for it was guarded. It is the despair of these souls who cry out to God delirious from their pain, "I have been contaminated, and You let it happen". Another lie of the devils that is so believable. But just that, a lie. You don't need to regain your innocence if you were abused. Jesus tells us it is what comes out of the heart that contaminates rather than what goes into the body. So hard for people to put faith in, but Father gives us another support for our innocence in Him and it's power over death... now let us have faith in It and shine the Light bright on the shameful nature of death for all to see. Shame is shameful to itself alone, the victims remain pure and untarnished... with a cross of martyrdom for the glory of the Lord who brings Good out of all evil and Who has destroyed death through the cross of Jesus and the Blood of the Lamb forever.
The Consecration Themes were divinely inspired and given to us through God our Father and He confirmed His chosen vessel, Barbara who wrote them, to change nothing! But even apart from that it makes sense, look:
The first step, praising the Lord (1), is an essential part of having a thankful heart (2). And to give Him a real offering (3) one would need gratitude (thanksgiving) and therefore praise. And certainly the gift of true repentance (4) assumes one has the first 3 steps otherwise one can be weak towards shame or servitude, which are poisonous to the confidence and absence of fear which accompanies true repentance ( a gift of the Holy Spirit the Church encourages us to ask for in our prayers ) and therefore it's fruit of a clean and pure heart and clear upright conscience. And receiving ones inheritance (5) necessitates the first 4 steps to be well disposed which is vital to the nature of reception of the Inheritance of God ( just look at what happened to Esau... we can all be thankful that God's covenant with our forefathers Abraham and Isaac did not pass to his wild heathen Canaanite heart, and Abraham was his Grandpa! Can you imagine? ). Now one can give ones Fiat (6) : an authentic fired up with Charity yes from the heart. One can really give, say Yes!, when one understands who, in this case, Who, they give to and why... just look what Abraham could give to Father once He knew Him intimately! This is Father's desire that we know Him as He truly is, our ultimate fulfillment and our enemies worst fear. And faithfulness (7), well this one is a no brainer due to the nature of fidelity and the necessity of the previous 6 steps. There's a big difference between a robotic soulless obedience to a vow and one that is worthy of God and worthy of a son/daughter of God. And now we can ascend the final step, Consecration (8), where one has in their possession and heart having climbed the previous 7 steps, we can now give ourselves to Father with true devotion; total consecration... that we may fulfill St. John's prophecy (Jn 4:23-24) and proudly be one of those who worships the Father "in Spirit and Truth"... that we may come to know Him as He is, in the intimate union between a child and Father and return Home in God-Love. And a return to our original Innocence, our being transformed by Being, being transformed by the Fiery Charity and Innocence of God. Pure uncontainable Love, limitless power; the very Spirit of God: the essence of the Divine Paternal Heart. Now sparked, His pearl within us, which He tells us ALL are born with and only I can access * is ignited and flash-point! we are transformed into His Image and likeness, our Divinisation and Mystical Transubstantiation emerges. Fr. Ianuzzi tells us that this is all proper to the New Era... the Wedding Feast of the Lamb and the mystical marriage of Christ with His Bride the Church (those alive and willing in these times).
* Seeing Books July 22, 1997
... Deep within you there is a place where only I, the Creator, can access. You must go there to meet Me. "
This is something theologians may be in an uproar about but not those with a childlike faith. Father told Barbara this, which I've quoted extensively on the site because of the need for this revelation in light of the real damage to all those sexually and occult abused now rampant... well, self condemnation alone would suffice and the abuse of the "Accuser" so purposely named in the Bk of Rev. regarding the End Times and those who live during them (us). Such abuse creates the real conviction that one has been violated and shamed having lost ones actual innocence not by choice, but rather it was stolen. The church teaches that one committing the act of mortal sin destroys grace and innocence within them and then through God's grace and repentance it can be restored. And it is not uncommon for those who have been violated to feel themselves shame and guilt. This revelation of Father's to Barbara has the power to completely cancel that dynamic. It is revelation in that He says that within us all is a secret place, all are born with it ( therefore not acquired through baptism) where "no one" can enter, where God dwells. He asks us to go there. (Perhaps then, only we are invited?) By saying no one can enter it means not by force or by our own allowance. This fact, if one believes it, would assure these souls that their abuser never entered that place and sinners, that sin never entered that place, for it was guarded. It is the despair of these souls who cry out to God delirious from their pain, "I have been contaminated, and You let it happen". Another lie of the devils that is so believable. But just that, a lie. You don't need to regain your innocence if you were abused. Jesus tells us it is what comes out of the heart that contaminates rather than what goes into the body. So hard for people to put faith in, but Father gives us another support for our innocence in Him and it's power over death... now let us have faith in It and shine the Light bright on the shameful nature of death for all to see. Shame is shameful to itself alone, the victims remain pure and untarnished... with a cross of martyrdom for the glory of the Lord who brings Good out of all evil and Who has destroyed death through the cross of Jesus and the Blood of the Lamb forever.
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