Virgin of Vladimir (+ image by the hand of Stephen Allison 2008)

Monday 10 February 2014

I shall look for the lost one

Notes of meeting on 21 January 2014

Picture of Mary making flat bread. Jesus arrived bringing wine and water.

We were all invited to take a place around the table. Mary seemed to be Jesus' helper and server. Jesus took the bread, water and wine and said grace and then the bread was distributed. Everyone was famished and the bread tasted good. Then Jesus offered us the mixed wine and water. We were so thirsty our tongues were sticking to out mouths. When we drank the wine and water we felt completely filled up and our thirst completely quenched.

We felt as though our spritual body was alive, as though some great need had been satisfied.

Jesus and Mary got up to go but said they would be back. Jesus said "I will send you souls to help, bandage and bind their wounds, feed them, give them drink, act as loving brothers to one another".

We hadn't been invited to His house He had come to ours.

Ezekiel 34 v 11 -16

11 "For the Lord Yahweh says this: Look, I myself shall take care of my flock and look after it. 12 As a shepherd looks after his flock when he is with his scattered sheep, so shall I look after my sheep. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered on the day of clouds and darkness. 13 I shall bring them back from the peoples where they are; I shall gather them back from the countries and bring them back to their own land. I shall pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the inhabited parts of the country. 14 I shall feed them in good pasturage; the highest mountains of Israel will be their grazing ground. There they will rest in good grazing grounds; they will browse in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself shall pasture my sheep, I myself shall give them rest -- declares the Lord Yahweh. 16 I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the injured and make the sick strong. I shall watch over the fat and healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to them.

John 10 v 1 - 16

1 'In all truth I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a bandit. 2 He who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; 3 the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all those that are his, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice. 5 They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they do not recognise the voice of strangers.' 6 Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand what he was saying to them. 7 So Jesus spoke to them again: In all truth I tell you, I am the gate of the sheepfold. 8 All who have come before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep took no notice of them. 9 I am the gate. Anyone who enters through me will be safe: such a one will go in and out and will find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full. 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. 12 The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep do not belong to him, abandons the sheep as soon as he sees a wolf coming, and runs away, and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep; 13 he runs away because he is only a hired man and has no concern for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep. 16 And there are other sheep I have that are not of this fold, and I must lead these too. They too will listen to my voice, and there will be only one flock, one shepherd.

Romans 5 v 12

Well then; it was through one man that sin came into the world, and through sin death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned.

Picture of Jesus with light from His eyes upon the Earth and light coming from His hands as in the 'Divine Mercy' picture.

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