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Words From Jesus - Free Paperback Book Volume II
Monday, July 2, 2007, 09:36 AM
Words From Jesus Free Paperback Book Volume II Special Messages from Jesus given to Jennifer 450+ pages Free Shipping International Offers USA and Canada Size - 9"x6"x1.25" Copyright 2007 Published by Mary Joseph Communications Click HERE on how to order your FREE paperback book - 450+ pages The book contains information about the warnings and teachings of Jesus that provides spiritual direction for the coming days and ways of preparing our souls. It also serves as a reflection we need in order to renew our minds and hearts; all you need to do is listen with an open mind. In doing so, you¹ll receive many insights into the kind of relationship God wishes to establish with you and come to understand God's plan for salvation. Many sermons and homilies can be formed from these meditation and inspirational messages. Topics include: Marriage & family life, pro-life, heaven, hell, sin, forgiveness, faith, love, joy, suffering, direction for minsters of the faith, prophetic insights, prophetic words.
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Prolife Across America - Video
Saturday, April 14, 2007, 01:52 AM
Prolife Across America Billboard Across America Watch VideoTotally educational, (non-profit and non-political), PROLIFE Across AMERICA is committed to bringing positive, persuasive messages offering information and alternatives - including adoption. http://www.prolifeacrossamerica.org/
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More Fr Robert Altier Archive Homilies Found.
Sunday, December 31, 2006, 12:15 PM
December 30th 2006 Added DSS Audio of Fr Altier Homilies CLICK HERE to See What's NEWMarch 2001 30th Be virtuous January 2002 20th How to Stop Abortion 21st Offer God Obedience! Feburary 2002 4th King David has sinned 6th The effect of sin March 2002 12th River of God's Grace 13th Merciful judgment 18th Mercy of God 22th Do as Jeremiah did 25th Suffering Servant Songs 30th Easter Vigil April 2002 5th The loaves and the fishs May 2002 20th Worldly Wisdom? June 2002 2nd Corpus Christi July 2002 19th King Hezekiah - Faithful King 22nd Seeking Our Beloved 23rd Sanctifying grace 24th I formed you in the womb 31st If you repent November 2002 14th End of the world 18th Peter sinking in the water 22nd A den of thieves 24th Christ the King 25th Two little copper coins 26th Signs of the times 28th Thanksgiving Day January 2003 13th Call to Conversion 15th Took on our flesh & blood 16th Am I growing stronger? 29th The one sacrifice 31st The mustard seed March 2003 18th Confession. White as snow 23rd God allows these things 30th Sinfulness of humanity April 2003 1st A little trickle of grace 7th Humiliations purifies us 8th Bronze serpent May 2003 18th We are the branches 22nd Die to Self and Love July 2003 16th Our Lady of Mount Carmel 17th Take My yoke upon 22nd Era of Peace 27th Who is the Messiah? 29th Son of God is Love Himself August 2003 1st The carpenter’s son? 3rd The Lord is near at hand 4th Five loaves & the two fish 6th The Transfiguration 7th God Obeys the Pope? 8th Loving and being loved January 2004 26th Kingdom divided against itselt March 2004 14th If you do not repent 18th Give Yourself to God May 2004 30th Pentecost June 2004 10th Forgive now 11th Fast and pray 14th Your rights 20th Father's Day 25th Purified Hearts July 2004 20th Feast of Saint Elijah 21th I formed you in the womb 22th Her Love was Great Saint Mary Magdalene 25th Call ourselves Catholic 27th Focus on Jesus 29th Love one another 30th Reject the Lord? August 2004 1st Prophet Hananiah October 2004 10th Our Lady of the Rosary
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If Only We Will Open Our Hearts
Monday, December 11, 2006, 07:40 AM
If Only We Will Open Our Hearts
MESSAGE #2926 from the Blessed Mother - October 16, 2006 "Give your hearts to Jesus and He will truly lead you to holiness" My daughter, Prayer is truly needed all around the world. Prayer is your protection, so please do not become too busy and neglect prayer. Pray throughout the day and take Jesus with you wherever you go. Pray throughout the day and include those souls who are furthest away from God. Please live these messages and pray, pray more.
I want to lead each of you closer to my Son, Jesus, but you must pray more. You must trust in God and believe in the power of prayer. You must have faith in God and turn to Him each new day. Give your hearts to Jesus and He will truly lead you to holiness. Do not delay, come to know Jesus now. Open your hearts and my Son will truly dwell in you. Ask and you shall receive what is best for your soul. Now, please be wise and keep your focus on Almighty God. Amen.
John 14 6-14 Jesus the Way to the Father
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 1432
The human heart is heavy and hardened. God must give man a new heart. Conversion is first of all a work of the grace of God who makes our hearts return to him: "Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored!" God gives us the strength to begin anew. It is in discovering the greatness of God's love that our heart is shaken by the horror and weight of sin and begins to fear offending God by sin and being separated from him. The human heart is converted by looking upon him whom our sins have pierced:
Let us fix our eyes on Christ's blood and understand how precious it is to his Father, for, poured out for our salvation it has brought to the whole world the grace of repentance.
Excerpts of a Homily by Fr. Robert Altier Monday May 3, 2004 "If Only We Will Open Our Hearts"
What we need is something internal that is going to change, not something external. The external things can point to the reality, but the fact is that it still has to get to the heart before we are going to be able to make any kind of change in our lives. So the Lord continually pleads with us: Believe in Me. Believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me, as He said to Philip, or at least believe because of the works that I do. Again, we will sit back and say, "We do believe." And I will respond for most of us: "We believe in our heads, but not in our hearts," because we refuse to allow the Lord to get inside and change us – because we are afraid of the change.
The challenge to open our hearts, to allow Christ into our hearts, to enter more perfectly into His heart is something that can only be done in prayer – only in prayer – and only in the silent prayer: being one in that relationship with Christ in the depths of our hearts. That is what He is waiting for. That is what He is pleading for. There is nothing lacking on His side at all; it is only up to us.
He continues to plead for us so that we can be one with Him as He is one with the Father, and that we would be brought into the intimate life of the Most Holy Trinity through the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. That is His desire for each one of us if we are only willing to open our hearts and allow Him in, and at the same time to enter into His heart and be able to love Him and allow Him to love us. That is what He is desiring. If we are willing to get on that way, to walk the Way Who is Jesus Christ, to accept the Fullness of Truth Who is Jesus Christ, then and only then can we have the fullness of life that He promises, and that Fullness of Life is Jesus Christ.
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Emergency Abortion - Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel
Friday, September 29, 2006, 04:25 PM
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel: The terms “emergency contraception” and the “morning after pill” are used to describe a way to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. We are told that, if taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex, pregnancy can be prevented. This is a falsehood. The most likely thing these pills will do is to cause an abortion. These chemicals are simply a six- fold dose of birth control pill. If ovulation has occurred, fertilization will likely result, but the pills will harden the lining of the uterus and not allow the one-week-old, tiny, developing baby to implant in the womb. As a result these pills directly result in killing this child and this is quite simply an abortion. By promoting these drugs they hope to blur the line between contraception and abortion and make abortion seem less ugly. This is Dr. Willke. Life Jewels
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Look at the Cross - Tue, Feb 1, 2005
Friday, September 29, 2006, 04:22 PM
http://www.desertvoice.excerptsofinri.c ... ilies.htmlTuesday February 1, 2005 Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading (Hebrews 12:1-4) Gospel (St. Mark 5:21-43) In the first reading today, we hear the beginning of the twelfth chapter of Saint Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews. It is a reading that maybe we should cut out and hang on our refrigerators and keep with us as a constant reminder to us of the situation as it is. We are reminded, first of all, that we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, all the saints, all the martyrs, all of those who have lived their faith and have not backed off when it came to giving witness to the Lord. Therefore Saint Paul says, Let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race. This is precisely what our call is, to get rid of sin in our lives, to be holy, to overcome everything that is going to lead us away from Christ. And then he tells us we must keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, Who is the leader and the perfecter of our faith. We have to make sure we are keeping our focus on the goal of where we are going; otherwise, in the hustle and bustle of everything that goes on, we will be getting knocked around and turned and twisted and we are going to lose the direction that we are heading. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, it does not matter how many times we get knocked around, we are still going to have our eyes fixed in the right direction and we are still going to keep moving forward. Then he tells us what is the most important for us because he knew, of course, from his own life how much he had suffered for the Lord, and he knew how much the people who were going to follow Christ were going to suffer for the Lord. So he tells us about Our Lord’s attitude: For the sake of the joy that lay before Him, Jesus accepted the Cross, heedless of its shame. It did not matter to the Lord what He had to endure because the joy that He was looking forward to was that all of us would be united with Him in heaven. That is what He wanted. It was not a matter that He could go to heaven, because He is God and even in His humanity He was in the Beatific Vision already. And so it is not a question that there was something He was going to gain, but the joy that was before Him was the joy that comes when you love. He loved us so much that He was willing to endure the Cross for us so that our sins could be forgiven, so that we would be able to go to heaven, so that we could have eternal life. Then Saint Paul goes on to remind us of the opposition that Our Lord faced, and therefore tells us that He did this in order that we might not grow weary and lose heart. Again, looking at the Cross gives us the courage to persevere in the race, to continue to struggle forward. In case we get despondent and think, “I’ve had enough!” – Saint Paul kind of anticipates it – he said, In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood. So when have you had enough? When you are put to death for your faith. Then you do not have to worry about struggling in the race any longer; and until they put you to death, you have to keep going and there is no pulling back. Sometimes we try to be like the woman in the Gospel reading today that sneaks up behind Jesus and we want to be a follower of Jesus in secret. He did not allow it. In front of the entire crowd of people, the woman had to confess the situation; and in front of the whole world, we have to confess our faith. If we are going to be true Catholics, it is not something that can be hidden under a bushel basket or under a bed. There is no hiding the reality of who we are. If we are members of Jesus Christ, we have to live the life of Christ, and that is not something that we can hide away. It is something that must be lived in our day-to-day lives, and it is to struggle against sin, against anything that leads us away from Christ, so that we continue to move towards Him, so that we seek union with Him. That is what we have to be about. We have to be so convinced of this faith and we have to be so in love with Him, that we, like Him, will be willing to do whatever it requires for the sake of the joy that lay before us, that is, for the sake of union with Christ, for heaven itself. What are we willing to endure? When we look at it that way, all of us objectively would say, “I’ll do whatever it takes,” but we all know that in our day-to-day life, the smallest little pebble, the little prick on our finger, and, oh, we start to whine and complain and back away and think, “I‘ve had enough. I don’t want to do this anymore.” No, we need to persevere. We need to keep going forward regardless of what obstacles are put in the way. And we need to realize that it is precisely those obstacles that strengthen our faith, that are going to help us to grow, that prove our love and are going to make us saints. When we have to deal with these problems and the difficulties and the ridicule and all the things, then we just need to keep on reminding ourselves, For the sake of the joy that lay before Him He endured the Cross, heedless of its shame. What are we willing to endure for Jesus? What shame are we willing to endure? What kind of ridicule would we be willing to endure for Him? That is really what it comes down to. It is not about us; it is about our love for Him. For the sake of the joy of union with Jesus Christ forever in heaven, we need to embrace whatever comes our way, whatever sufferings, whatever rejection, whatever difficulty, heedless of its shame, for the sake of the joy that will be ours forever.
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Pursue of righteousness - Homliy by Father Robert Altier - Sep-26-2004
Monday, September 25, 2006, 05:57 PM
September 26, 2004 Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading I (Amos 6:1a, 4-7) Reading II (1 Timothy 6:11-16) Gospel (St. Luke 16:19-31)
In the second reading today, Saint Paul instructs us that we are to pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, and so on. That pursuit of righteousness, he tells us, is exactly what we have to be about because of who we are. He tells us that we are to lay hold of eternal life, the eternal life which was promised to us, and the eternal life which we confessed when we made our noble confession. That noble confession took place at the moment we were baptized, when we made the vows of baptism to reject Satan and to profess our faith in God. So if we are going to pursue this life of righteousness, which is required of those who have given their lives over to Christ, that means we have to reject everything that goes contrary to righteousness. That is precisely the point, again, that we made in our baptismal vows: to reject Satan and all of his works and all of his empty promises.
Now if we are going to live this life, then we have to pursue it with great diligence. This has become more important right now than ever before because of the situation in which we live. If we consider the words of the first reading – Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying on their couches and eating fine foods…– if you just remove “Zion” and put “America” in there, I think you could have a pretty good idea of what we are talking about. And you could add a few more things: “Lying on their couches watching TV.” We do not have to worry about improvising music on the harp because we have all the filth that blasts out of the radios these days so people can be inundated with all kinds of unfortunate things. We have given in. The sad thing is that at the time of Amos the things that were going on in Israel were not good – the faith was in shambles – and yet because the people were wealthy, because they had a pretty easy life, they did not care. That is exactly why Amos says that even though they have all these things they are not made ill by the collapse of the house of Joseph. Well, look at what is going on in America. We have lots of wealth,, and the vast majority of people instead of being made ill over the immorality that is rampant are actually rejoicing in it. I think if the Founding Fathers of this country were to be placed in our society just for an hour, they would be absolutely horrified by what they would see. And to think of the effort they made to try to found a country that was based on faith, morality, and righteousness. Instead of rejoicing in the foundation and following the commandments, as Saint Paul tells us we are to do, we are rejoicing instead in just the opposite – reveling in it, in fact – as we have decided to dive headlong into the mire of this society.
Worse than that, we have a situation in the Church where in many ways we would have to say that the Catholic Church in America is in shambles. But tragically, the vast majority of Catholics (once again, rather than being made ill) are actually rejoicing because they no longer have to follow rules. They can do whatever they want. Mass, they say, is no longer boring because now it is fun. There is entertainment. You can show up and there is a whole band strumming on their guitars and beating on their drums and singing bizarre songs that have absolutely nothing to do with God. You look at what goes on in the sanctuary and it looks more like an anthill with all the activity that is going on rather than a place of reverence and worship. Far worse than that is that we have bishops and priests who are reveling in it, and in fact are the cause of much of it as they move the Blessed Sacrament out of the sanctuary and put the Lord in a closet somewhere, as they tear out the statues and destroy the churches. And they are far more interested in money than they are in Jesus Christ. They lie on their couches and they watch TV and they count their money. They are more interested in going on vacation and going golfing and playing games than they are in preaching the truth to the people of God. Once again, the people rejoice.
I just heard recently about a priest whom the people have tried several times to have removed from the parish he is assigned to. They are complaining bitterly about him and people are leaving the parish. They are quitting; they are leaving the Catholic Faith. And the reason? Because this priest keeps talking about Jesus and pointing to the crucifix – and they do not want to hear it. Woe to the complacent in America lying on their couches not wanting to hear the Faith, not wanting the truth, not wanting Jesus Christ, but wanting the Catholic Church to be a secular thing so that there will be no challenge to their conscience!
If we look at the Gospel reading and we put it into context, we see a rich man lying on his couch, eating sumptuously, enjoying life; and there at his door is a poor beggar, clearly starving and sick. The man does nothing, absolutely nothing, to lift a finger to help this poor man. And when the end comes after this rich man has lived a completely self-centered life, he goes to hell. The amazing thing is that even from there he calls out to Father Abraham to say, “Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to be able to cool my tongue because I’m in torment!” Look at the selfishness and the arrogance: “Send Lazarus to take care of me.” He did not lift a finger to take care of Lazarus but now he wants Lazarus’ finger to be able to cool his tongue. That is what hell is all about; it is pure selfishness. Everyone in hell is caught up in themselves, so of course that is what he is going to ask for; it is just himself.
But now we need to look around, and especially look within, and ask ourselves, “Are we the ones who are lying complacently? Are we the ones today who are not made ill over the collapse of the house that Jesus Himself founded? Are we the rich ones who kind of like the way things are right now because we can do anything we want and our conscience does not even have to bother us because everyone else is doing it?” We are the ones, if that is the case, who will be tormented by the flames. If we live in this world as selfish individuals, we will live in eternity as selfish individuals. When Dives, the rich man, asked Abraham to at least send Lazarus to his father’s house to warn his brothers, Abraham said, “They have Moses and the prophets.” Dives said, “No, but if someone would only rise from the dead, surely they would listen to him.” Abraham said, “If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they’re not going to listen even if someone should rise from the dead.” That is in the Gospel of Saint Luke. If you look in the Gospel of Saint John, you have a man by the name of Lazarus who was raised from the dead. How did the people respond? We are told in Saint John’s Gospel that they plotted to kill Lazarus because he was too great a witness. And we have Jesus, of course, Who has risen definitively from the dead, and they paid the Roman soldiers so that they would lie to cover up the truth. People will not listen even if someone is raised from the dead because they do not want the truth, because they revel in the very things that should be their shame.
We need to make a choice. We need to pursue righteousness. We need to lay hold of the eternal life which has been promised. We need to cling to the promise and the confession of faith that we made because we have to remember there are only two ways that we can go. There are only two roads that lead to eternity and both of them are one-way streets. One is wide and smooth and easy, and it leads to eternal perdition, to the flames of torment where the rich man found himself being crushed in his own selfishness. The other is rough and narrow, and it is the way that leads to life. We have to make the choice, and it is made now. It is not something that we just choose in theory because I think if we asked every person on the face of the earth, “Would you rather go to heaven or go to hell?” most people of course would say that they want to go to heaven. But it is the question of living it, pursuing that righteousness, living according to the confession of faith that we made. It is every day and every minute of every day that we have to make that choice and put it into action, otherwise we become the complacent in America lying on their couches and watching TV and not caring in the least about the collapse of the house that is surrounding us.
So we have a choice to make. We have a choice of whether we want to live the faith that we have professed or whether we do not. We have the choice of which path we are going to take. We have the choice of where we want to spend eternity. And the choice is made now, not then. The question has been asked and it awaits the answer. The only one who can answer for you is you; you have to make the choice. Again, it is not an objective theoretical choice; it is a subjective and practical choice. If you are going to say “yes” to Jesus Christ, then you have to live it, you have to pursue it, you have to lay hold of the eternal life which was promised to you when you made your noble confession of faith. If we refuse to put our faith into practice, if we become complacent, if we rejoice in the collapse of the morality and the righteousness of America, if we rejoice in the destruction of the faith within the Church, then listen again to what the prophet Amos says: They will be the first to go into exile. The exile spoken of for us is an eternal exile away from the Promised Land, away from God forever, where we can be with Dives, the rich man, being tormented in the flames and being filled with selfishness and arrogance for the rest of eternity. The choice is ours. The question has been asked – it awaits your answer.
* This text was transcribed from the audio recording with minimal editing.
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Is the unborn human a person?
Tuesday, August 22, 2006, 08:32 AM
Listen To Dr. John Willke - 1 Minute MessagePERSONHOOD Life Jewels Volume 1 1996 This is Dr. John Willke with A Life Issue: Is the unborn human a person? To answer that, let’s ask a different question: What do you mean by “person”? The dictionary defines “person” in a dozen different ways. Yellowstone Park is a person. So is General Motors. So are you. The U.S. Supreme Court said, legally, you’re only a person after birth. But other countries rule you to be a legal person as early as conception, frequently at 3 months, and most of them by 6 months. Theologians often define “person” as beginning when the soul is created. Philosophers give is multiple meanings. So what to do? In discussing abortion, I think it’s best to use the very clear words “human life”. I’d like you to think about that. This is Dr. John Willke. Listen To Dr. John Willke - 1 Minute Message
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Friday, July 21, 2006, 07:33 PM
Listen to Dr. John WillkeThis is Dr. John Willke with a Life Issue. In her 1922 book, Pivot of Civilization, the author unabashedly called for drastically limiting the number of people in certain racial groups. She called them "weeds" overrunning the human garbage. She was a eugenist who called for the segregation of those whom she called morons, misfits and maladjusted. She wanted to sterilize "genetically inferior races", singling out Chinese, Jews, Southern Europeans and Blacks. And who was this? She was Margaret Sanger. Her American Birth Control League's goals in the '40s paralleled too closely what happened in Nazi Germany, so she changed its name to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. I thought you should know. This is Dr. John Willke
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