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

Sunday 3 August 2014

Rescue me

Notes of Meeting on 15 July 2014

Picture of a man whose soul was to be judged. Satan came to him and revealed his true self as the murderer, Satan mortally wounded the man and claimed him for himself. The man seemed to be being impelled into a vortex of blackness which was Hell. The man was terrified yet in his mind he realised that he had wasted his life doing terrible things and even acting against God and his people. He knew that he deserved to go to Hell.

Then the man could hear the gentle voice of a woman at prayer and several others all pleading for him. In his terror he screamed out 'Jesus please help me, Jesus please hear me, Jesus I'm sorry'.

Then the Cross of Christ went into the vortex and the man grasped onto it laying himself upon it like a person in a storm at sea hanging onto driftwood. He clung to the Cross crying all the time 'I'm sorry, forgive me'. All was all peaceful and the woman came and helped to release his fingers from the Cross and as she did so the man realised that he had been laying on the crucified Christ and that he was covered in His Blood.
Our Lady covered the man in her mantle and led him away, his face was at peace, full of relief and wonder and in his gratitude he couldn't stop saying 'Thank you'. The man's mortal wound had also been healed.

Hebrews 10 v 17
Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.

In the picture above it was felt that Jesus was asking us to keep up our prayers and showing us how our prayers united with Our Blessed Mothers really are effective.
The prayers helped release the grace that allowed the man to call out for mercy even at the very doorway to Hell.
We are not children any more to be fed milk, we are part of Jesus' Body and partake in the real food that is his Body and Blood. We need also to take up our cross, which is His Cross, and stand our ground with courage against the evil one.
The Body and Blood of Christ will fortify us in carrying out the call and work he has for us.
he loves even the most hardened sinner and asks us to cooperate in his work. He loves us!

Psalm 119 v 169-170
169 May my cry approach your presence, Yahweh; by your word give me understanding.
170 May my prayer come into your presence, rescue me as you have promised.

1 John 5 v 1 -13
1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and whoever loves the father loves the son.
2 In this way we know that we love God's children, when we love God and keep his commandments.
3 This is what the love of God is: keeping his commandments. Nor are his commandments burdensome,
4 because every child of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith.
5 Who can overcome the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 He it is who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with water alone but with water and blood, and it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is Truth.
7 So there are three witnesses,
8 the Spirit, water and blood; and the three of them coincide.
9 If we accept the testimony of human witnesses, God's testimony is greater, for this is God's testimony which he gave about his Son.
10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him, and whoever does not believe is making God a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son.
11 This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has life, and whoever has not the Son of God has not life.
13 I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Matthew 12 v 10 - 21
10 now a man was there with a withered hand. They asked him, 'Is it permitted to cure somebody on the Sabbath day?' hoping for something to charge him with.
11 But he said to them, 'If any one of you here had only one sheep and it fell down a hole on the Sabbath day, would he not get hold of it and lift it out?
12 Now a man is far more important than a sheep, so it follows that it is permitted on the Sabbath day to do good.'
13 Then he said to the man, 'Stretch out your hand.' He stretched it out and his hand was restored, as sound as the other one.
14 At this the Pharisees went out and began to plot against him, discussing how to destroy him.
15 Jesus knew this and withdrew from the district. Many followed him and he cured them all
16 but warned them not to make him known.
17 This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
18 Look! My servant whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul delights, I will send my Spirit upon him, and he will present judgement to the nations;
19 he will not brawl or cry out, his voice is not heard in the streets,
20 he will not break the crushed reed, or snuff the faltering wick,
21 until he has made judgement victorious; in him the nations will put their hope.

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