The following are words given by participants at the streamed meeting. 1 Corinthians 14:29 says that "Two or three prophets should speak, and the others weigh carefully what is said." 1 Thess 5:19-21 tells us not to despise prophecies, but to test everything and retain what is good.
At beginning of meeting Scripture Reading Luke 9:18-22 - Now it happened that as he was praying alone the disciples were with him; and he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?" And they answered, "John the Baptist; but others say, Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen." And he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered, "The Christ of God." But he charged and commanded them to tell this to no one, saying, "The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised."
Prophecy - "My little ones, I can't tell you enough how much I love you. I love you with a never ending love. I chose you in the beginning to love you, nothing more, to love you. Let me love you. Let me care for you. Let me provide you with everything you need. You are my beloved chosen ones and I'm filling you so much more with my Spirit. You are my hands, my feet and my mouthpiece. Through you I will save many souls. I will use you to spread the good news. Yes, even more in the days to come. I am with you, always with you. Trust me, trust me. My power will lead you and guide you. My Spirit will fill you with wisdom and knowledge; and I will put my words in your mouth. Let me love you and I will use you."
Prophecy - "Come to me all you who are weary and I will give you rest."
Prophecy - "Stop being worried, stop being worried, stop being worried. I have given you a heavenly language. Use it, use it often."
Scripture Reading Psalm 25:4-5 - Make me know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day.
V. said that Pat L. came to mind. Pray for Pat.
Scripture Reading John 7:38 - Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.
Scripture Reading Jeremiah 17:5-8 - This is what the Lord says, "Cursed is the one who trusts in man; he depends on flesh for his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord. Who will be like a bush in the wasteland, he will not see prosperity when it comes, he will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream; it does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. He has no worries in a year of drought, and never fails to bear fruit.
Believe that is also confirmation to the Word from Jeremiah 17.
Scripture Reading Psalm 51:1-4 - Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgement.
Scripture Reading Psalm 103:17-18 - But for those who honor the Lord, his love lasts forever and his goodness endures for all generations of those who are true to his covenant and who faithfully obey his commands.
Bishop Robert Barron spoke on the Mystical Body of Christ. It means we, members of the Church, are cells, molecules, organs in this living body of Christ. We've been grafted onto him in such a way that he now endeavors to live his life in us. The Church is that organism, that living thing, that body of which Jesus is the head and we are the active members.
The conversion of Saul - He hears, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" God didn't say, "Why are you persecuting those people that believe in me?"
Matthew 25 - "Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, you do it to me."
You get into the Mystical Body through Baptism. We are now in an intimate living relationship with God the Father. The love that connects the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit. To be baptized is to be drawn into the life of God. We pray in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We don't pray outside of God, praying to him. No, we pray within the dynamics of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We pray within God. We are members of Christ's Mystical Body.
Three implications of baptism:
1) We are connected to one another the way organs in a body are connected to each other.....the good and the bad. Their problem is my problem.
2) If baptism means the beginning of Christ's life in us, we need the other sacraments. We need things that will sustain that life.
3) Who are we? His mind, his heart, his feet, his hands, his eyes. Everyone of these people around us, members of the Mystical Body in their time, function as a means by which Christ was continually transforming his world: Thomas Aquinas through the exercise of his magnificent mind, Thomas More with the witness of his life, Catherine of Siena with her mystical prayer. Every one of us baptized people were given gifts, charisms, that we were meant to exercise in this world. Are we co-operating? Christ acts through us. If we opt out, Christ's grace will not surge into the world. We are gifted for a mission that we are meant to exercise for the transfiguration of the world!
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