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

Sunday 24 April 2016

We the people of his sheepfold

Notes of meeting on 19 April 2016

Picture of many sheep walking along a path across fields. They looked weary but were content as they had nearly reached the sheepfold. Just as they could see the sheepfold many wolves arrived with murder and theft on their minds.
The sheep started to react restlessly and moved around not keeping to the path.
Our Blessed Mother cast down her white mantle and it covered the sheep in such brilliance of light that the wolves were blinded to their prey. The sheep all arrived safely and rejoiced at their journey's end.
Jesus says:
My people the flower of My Heart and My Mothers Heart, continually call on the Holy Spirit to lead you and when the evil one tries to foil you Our Mother will continue to protect and guide you in the ways of Sanctification and Holiness so that you become a beacon of light to those in darkness and they shall be drawn to My Most Loving and Sorrowful Heart.
My people My Heart is in agony for those who disown Me but rejoices in you who comfort Me and try to do My Holy Will uplifts Me. As you honour Me so will I honour my promises. Call on Our Mother and the Holy Spirit, keep the faith, pray much and we will accomplish all the Father requires to save those destined for perdition. My Heart cannot bear to lose even one, so pray, pray, pray.
I love you My people, the flower of My Heart. your Jesus.".


Psalm 95
1 Come, let us cry out with joy to Yahweh, acclaim the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving, acclaim him with music.
3 For Yahweh is a great God, a king greater than all the gods.
4 In his power are the depths of the earth, the peaks of the mountains are his;
5 the sea belongs to him, for he made it, and the dry land, moulded by his hands.
6 Come, let us bow low and do reverence; kneel before Yahweh who made us!
7 For he is our God, and we the people of his sheepfold, the flock of his hand. If only you would listen to him today!
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as at the time of Massah in the desert,
9 when your ancestors challenged me, put me to the test, and saw what I could do!
10 For forty years that generation sickened me, and I said, 'Always fickle hearts; they cannot grasp my ways.'
11 Then in my anger I swore they would never enter my place of rest.

Wisdom 7 v 7 - 30
7 And so I prayed, and understanding was given me; I entreated, and the spirit of Wisdom came to me.
8 I esteemed her more than sceptres and thrones; compared with her, I held riches as nothing.
9 I reckoned no precious stone to be her equal, for compared with her, all gold is a pinch of sand, and beside her, silver ranks as mud.
10 I loved her more than health or beauty, preferred her to the light, since her radiance never sleeps.
11 In her company all good things came to me, and at her hands incalculable wealth.
12 All these delighted me, since Wisdom brings them, though I did not then realise that she was their mother.
13 What I learned diligently, I shall pass on liberally, I shall not conceal how rich she is.
14 For she is to human beings an inexhaustible treasure, and those who acquire this win God's friendship, commended to him by the gifts of instruction. 
15 May God grant me to speak as he would wish and conceive thoughts worthy of the gifts I have received, since he is both guide to Wisdom and director of sages;
16 for we are in his hand, yes, ourselves and our sayings, and all intellectual and all practical knowledge.
17 He it was who gave me sure knowledge of what exists, to understand the structure of the world and the action of the elements,
18 the beginning, end and middle of the times, the alternation of the solstices and the succession of the seasons,
19 the cycles of the year and the position of the stars,
20 the natures of animals and the instincts of wild beasts, the powers of spirits and human mental processes, the varieties of plants and the medical properties of roots.
21 And now I understand everything, hidden or visible, for Wisdom, the designer of all things, has instructed me.
22 For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, incisive, unsullied, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, shrewd,
23 irresistible, beneficent, friendly to human beings, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed, almighty, all-surveying, penetrating all intelligent, pure and most subtle spirits.
24 For Wisdom is quicker to move than any motion; she is so pure, she pervades and permeates all things.
25 She is a breath of the power of God, pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; so nothing impure can find its way into her.
26 For she is a reflection of the eternal light, untarnished mirror of God's active power, and image of his goodness.
27 Although she is alone, she can do everything; herself unchanging, she renews the world, and, generation after generation, passing into holy souls, she makes them into God's friends and prophets;
28 for God loves only those who dwell with Wisdom.
29 She is indeed more splendid than the sun, she outshines all the constellations; compared with light, she takes first place,
30 for light must yield to night, but against Wisdom evil cannot prevail.



If you knew how close I am to you, your hearts would sing with joy.

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