Peace & Blessing IN & WITH our Holy Heavenly Father..
Memorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Lectionary: 455
Reading 1 ZEC 8:1-8
This word of the LORD of hosts came:
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
I am intensely jealous for Zion,
stirred to jealous wrath for her.
Thus says the LORD:
I will return to Zion,
and I will dwell within Jerusalem;
Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city,
and the mountain of the LORD of hosts,
the holy mountain.
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women,
each with staff in hand because of old age,
shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem.
The city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
Even if this should seem impossible
in the eyes of the remnant of this people,
shall it in those days be impossible in my eyes also,
says the LORD of hosts?
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
Lo, I will rescue my people from the land of the rising sun,
and from the land of the setting sun.
I will bring them back to dwell within Jerusalem.
They shall be my people, and I will be their God,
with faithfulness and justice.
Responsorial Psalm PS 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 AND 22-23
R. (17) The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
When the LORD has rebuilt Zion
and appeared in his glory;
When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
and not despised their prayer.
R. The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
Let this be written for the generation to come,
and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
“The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die.”
R. The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
The children of your servants shall abide,
and their posterity shall continue in your presence.
That the name of the LORD may be declared in Zion;
and his praise, in Jerusalem,
When the peoples gather together,
and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
R. The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
Gospel LK 9:46-50
An argument arose among the disciples
about which of them was the greatest.
Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child
and placed it by his side and said to them,
“Whoever receives this child in my name receives me,
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
For the one who is least among all of you
is the one who is the greatest.”
Then John said in reply,
“Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name
and we tried to prevent him
because he does not follow in our company.”
Jesus said to him,
“Do not prevent him, for whoever is not against you is for you.”
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This line "for whoever is not against you is for you" gives us discernment on whom to allow into our hearts as the true lovers of our souls and who to trust as those who represent God or at least are not an obstacle or resistance to the Holy Spirit. It is imperative that we entrust our hearts and souls only to those trustworthy and do not entrust our hearts and souls and in many cases reject, anyone including family, whom are not for us keeping our souls inline with God's Love, our true Good, as their intentions.
Father tells us that we must cling to Him now, to Jesus & Mary, to be ready and live each day as if it were our last.... being ready, in our hearts for His Spiritual Kingdom on Earth and to live it now through relating In & WITH Him as much as possible. In this way we will be able to stay close to Him and separate from the Shadows and those who dwell there.
These days which precede the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart in it's culmination are days of Merciful Grace and Turmoil as we find ourselves in the middle of Heavens defeat of evil "for a time" and are granted an Era of Peace. His Consecrated children will live to see this happen.
It seems Pope Francis desires to prompt this Glorious Event as He Consecrates the World to Mother's Immaculate Heart this October 13th. Let us join Him in Prayer, fasting and preparation!
Our Lady of Fatima, Oh Immaculate Heart of Mary, Triumph NOW over sin and death and usher in the Promised Time of Peace and fulfill Yours & Jesus' and Your Consecrated children's Mission through the Holy Spirit, of THE RETURN of Father's Children to their Father. The Coming Home! For the Glory & Consolations of so Good and Tender a Father. Amen.
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Dr. Petrisko, leading author & publisher in the promulgation of the Holy Octave to God the Father Consecration & Feast Day, now presents to the Church and the world this new work.
It's essence? the very Heart of the Father & the critical need for the Church to establish the Feast & Holy Octave of Consecration, now, that will bring mankind and the earth back into alignment with Heaven.
This is the text from the website where it can be purchased. The image is linked to it.
"“We raise our voices and pray that the Love which is in the Father,” Pope John Paul II writes in Dives in Misericordia, “may once again be revealed at this stage of history…that it may be shown to be present in our modern world to be more powerful than evil, more powerful than sin and death.”
Now, in our time, our Heavenly Father shows us the means to see this great Love of His that is so merciful, so wanting to be discovered – it is through His Heart of Life, His Divine Paternal Heart!
It is the Heart He wants all to come to know, see, and love, for it is the Heart that created the universe out of Love. It is the Heart, that out of Love, created mankind, each and every soul. It is the Heart that lives and loves in every line of Scripture. Most of all, it is the Heart that has been waiting for so long to be discovered and to be loved, so it may then pour out upon mankind its greatest expression of Love.
Today, with the world mired in a crisis of civilization, the time has come to turn to The Heart of the Father. We must first turn as individuals, Dr. Petrisko writes, and consecrate ourselves to our Father. Then, in a unified voice, we must request that the Church declare His Feast, the Feast of Life: The Solemnity of the Divine Paternal Heart – the Feast of the Father of All Mankind. It is the mystical answer, he argues, to ending the Culture of Death and to bringing a new Civilization of Life.
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