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.
Scripture Reading Romans 10:17-18 - Thus faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ. But i ask, did they not hear? Certainly they did; for "Their voice has gone forth to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."
Prophecy - "Come, come, I've come to embrace you because I love you so dearly. I see all your faces shining with my light flowing through you. So now with that light, reach out to your neighbors, your friends, your acquaintances because they can see it too. They can see the joy that you have and they want to know how you get it, how you have it. So this is the time to give testimony to the great love that you are receiving every day. Thank you that you spend time with me, that you hear my heart and I hear yours, your hearts very clearly. My dear, dear lovely children, thank you, thank you for always coming and always be ready with a smile, a friendly word because you are reaching out with my love."
Scripture Reading Lamentations 3:22-24 - The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue, fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise. The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope.
Prophecy - "Yes, my little ones, I am all you need. Come to me for everything. Before you open your eyes in the morning telling me you love me, and I will reply with a greater love. I will fill you with my Spirit. I will empower you to go through the day and reflect my love. Oh my little ones, you are my chosen beloved ones. Never doubt that. And I have chosen and called each one of you by name. You are not a disappointment to me, not at all. I am very pleased with each one of you. I know your name. I know your strengths and I know your weaknesses. Remember, I am your creator. I have made you in my image. Go, reflect my love. Bring my love to all who are alone and weary. Oh my little ones, you have only begun to be used by me. Remain open and ready to serve in any way I call you. I will always be with you, and my angels are around you to guard you, to guide you. You are never alone. You are my precious holy ones."
Vision - "I saw someone standing amongst long tubes of steel."
Interpretation of Vision & Prophecy - "My children, I am the pillar of your life. I am the one that is going to uphold you. And as you go out evangelizing and proclaiming the good news, as you go out loving the people whom I place in your hands before you, I will be that pillar. You only need to be in between the Holy Spirit and myself. I will give you the words you need. I will give you the empowerment you need, the gifts and the graces that you need. But I need you, my children, to say yes to receiving what I am offering you, to be my witnesses to the ends of the earth, to be my witnesses here on earth, now, where you live, where you attend your social activities, where you go to Mass. I depend on you, my children, to be my word, to be my hands and my feet. Know that you will never be alone. As long as you hold on to the pillar of faith that I give you and to the power of the Holy Spirit, you will bear much fruit."
Scripture Reading Daniel 3:26-30 - Blessed are you, O Lord, God of our ancestors, and worthy of praise; and glorious is your name forever! For you are just in all you have done; all your works are true and your ways right, and all your judgments are true. You have executed right judgments in all you have brought upon us and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our ancestors; by a true judgment you have brought all this upon us because of our sins. For we have sinned and broken your law in turning away from you; in all matters we have sinned grievously. We have not obeyed your commandments, we have not kept them or done what you have commanded us for our own good.
Confirmation - "I'd like to confirm those words. Truly, unless we are able to face the reality of our own woundedness and our own sinfulness, we cannot be instruments of God's love; we cannot be his witnesses. It is only in truth, we can be set free, and only in truth can others be set free."
"I thought the Scripture reading from Daniel went along with what we read from Maccabees today. I read a little bit further in Maccabees than what was in the Mass reading. So the youngest son when he was ready to be put to death said that God has visited his people for the sins of the people and that the death of his brothers and himself were hopefully in atonement for all those sins. So, I thought those words in Daniel kind of matched Maccabees today."
Scripture Reading Ephesians 5:13 - But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light.
Prayer said by E. morning and evening - "Good morning Jesus, thank you so much for the day that you have given us. Thank you for your blessings, your graces, for your love and your mercy. We love you, Jesus. Good morning Mother Mary, thank you so much for being our heavenly mother. Thank you for loving and caring for us the way you do, and thank you for helping to bring us to your son, Jesus. We love you, Mary. And my Guardian Angel, good morning. Thank you so much for being at our side, protecting, guiding, leading us to God. We love you so, and for everything you do for us, we love you Guardian Angel. And good morning all Saints and angels of Heaven, thank you so much for praying for us, protecting, guiding, leading us to God and for everything you do, we love you."
John Beaulieu spoke on "Activating Our Faith As An Act Of Love".
God has an amazing way of working in very profound and beautiful ways in the simplest of moments. i.e. John's story of his move to parish work in North Carolina. The major ways God has intervened in John's life and spoken to him and dealt with him personally; it's never been about him. But God has used John's life to bring together two awesome people who produced something (Wild Goose series) which literally changed the course of thousands and thousands of people's lives and helped them experience more of the Holy Spirit.
Because of John's yielding, because of God's intervention, because God has done great things for John, great things have happened. Anyone of us can experience this. God wants to come to each one of us to do something great in our lives. We are created in his image in likeness. Our soul was purchased and set free from the gates of Hell, from the power of sin and death by the blood of his only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He has poured his love into us through the power of the Holy Spirit.
We should all want to say, "Lord, I want to magnify you. I want to glorify you." It's about me receiving. Jesus said to St. Faustina, "The graces of my mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is trust. The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive." Love emboldens us. It's a response to grace.
Catechism 2784 says the free gift of adoption requires continual conversion and new life. We must respond to the grace of Christ. This should be the posture of our souls before God: 1) the desire to be like Him. The whole purpose of receiving the Eucharist is that in the end we would become what we consume, to be consumed by the love that's there. 2) Catechism 2785 - a humble and trusting heart that enables us to turn and become like children. St. Faustina wrote, "a humble soul does not trust itself. It places all its trust in God." Pope Benedict XVI said it's only in accepting God's love that we come to know who we truly are. "Man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not in what he does but to what he accepts. One cannot become wholly in any other way than by being loved, by letting oneself be loved." Just surrender.
St. Catherine Siena: "The Devil fears hearts on fire with love of God." God doesn't want us to walk alone. (i.e. Story of Peter walking on water.) As long as we're in his arms, he will do amazing things in us and through us.
Every sin that we have ever committed can be traced back towards a lack of trust in God's goodness. Catechism 154: "Believing in God, having faith in God is impossible without the Holy Spirit." He's the engine, he's the fuel that animates our life in Christ. Supernatural grace. Jeremiah 17:7-8 says "Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. They shall be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. They shall not fear when the heat comes; its leaves shall stay green. In the year of drought, it is not anxious and it does not cease to bear fruit." Living without fear. Living in trust and hope.
Maria M thanked everyone for their prayers for her friend, Maria. She had her surgery yesterday. Praise God her surgery was very successful. The surgeon was very happy how it all went. After surgery, she said, "This is the power of prayer. I feel pretty good."
Charleen had the procedure for her compression fracture. She didn't feel any pain of any kind. She didn't feel intense pressure. The doctors were so thrilled. They also found a second fracture while they were doing this operation. They were able to fix this at the same time which was a blessing. Praise to God that there was no suffering of any kind and that the second fracture was also taken care of!! Charleen thanked us for our prayers.
Joan asked for prayers last week for her granddaughter who was moving from Halifax to Indiana. Everything went smoothly; the visas, everything across the border. She was amazed how quickly they were brought to Indiana. The next day, she and her family attended Mass at a church called, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and she said that the church on a weekday was almost full. There were school children, there was music. She was so impressed and then she found out about programs that were in the parish. And so, her words were: "I feel cared for." Joan thanked everyone for their prayers. God is answering prayers so quickly and so powerfully. Praise the Lord!!
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