You must love your neighbour as yourself

Notes of meeting on 23 June 2015

Picture of a child wrapped in swaddling bands completely secure and safe like the baby Jesus but this child was rather a representation of us in this group. our Heavenly Mother fed us and nurtured us and kept us under her mantle.
Then the bands were taken off and the child could move freely flailing its arms and legs in the sheer joy of movement. As the child grew ands matured greater responsibility was laid on the child until eventually the child resembled somewhat her Son Jesus.
We are that child and are called to mirror and act like Jesus. No more petty jealousies or resentments. All of us must act and pray and love as Jesus did and does to this day. We start by opening our hearts to love and feel that love for each other. We may not feel that love straight away because we may have to forgive each other. Then we can show others as Jesus did how we love and act in accordance with the Fathers Most Holy Will, for this is the goal to do and act in the Fathers Most Holy Will as Jesus did.

Mary says: "Do as he says" (see John 2 v  5 -  His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever he tells you.')

Romans 12 v 9 - 18
⁹ Let love be without any pretence. Avoid what is evil; stick to what is good.
¹⁰ In brotherly love let your feelings of deep affection for one another come to expression and regard others as more important than yourself.
¹¹ In the service of the Lord, work not half heartedly but with conscientiousness and an eager spirit.
¹² Be joyful in hope, persevere in hardship; keep praying regularly;
¹³ share with any of God's holy people who are in need; look for opportunities to be hospitable.
¹⁴ Bless your persecutors; never curse them, bless them.
¹⁵ Rejoice with others when they rejoice, and be sad with those in sorrow.
¹⁶ Give the same consideration to all others alike. Pay no regard to social standing, but meet humble people on their own terms. Do not congratulate yourself on your own wisdom.
¹⁷ Never pay back evil with evil, but bear in mind the ideals that all regard with respect.
¹⁸ As much as possible, and to the utmost of your ability, be at peace with everyone.

Romans 13 v 8 -14
⁸ The only thing you should owe to anyone is love for one another, for to love the other person is to fulfil the law.
⁹ All these: You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet, and all the other commandments that there are, are summed up in this single phrase: You must love your neighbour as yourself.
¹⁰ Love can cause no harm to your neighbour, and so love is the fulfilment of the Law.
¹¹ Besides, you know the time has come; the moment is here for you to stop sleeping and wake up, because by now our salvation is nearer than when we first began to believe.
¹² The night is nearly over, daylight is on the way; so let us throw off everything that belongs to the darkness and equip ourselves for the light.
¹³ Let us live decently, as in the light of day; with no orgies or drunkenness, no promiscuity or licentiousness, and no wrangling or jealousy.
¹⁴ Let your armour be the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop worrying about how your disordered natural inclinations may be fulfilled.

Love one another as I have loved you

Notes of meeting on 13 May 2015

Picture of Jesus upon the Cross saying: "It is complete".
His poor Mother stood praying that the Father's will be done.
A great wind containing a force of darkness cam along that brought a terrible stench. This vortex of pain, darkness and sin seemed to be upon, within and around our beloved Jesus. It was as though he was absorbing all the hatred, pride, lies and sin in that last breath upon His Cross.
Our blessed Mother reeled with the heaviness, pain and smell of our sins but she still abided in the Father's will praying for us her beloved children. She was left in terrible sorrow, her Son had just died but she knew that this was the Father's will as she was told by Simeon long ago. She wept for her Son she wept for us her children as well.
This act of love by her beloved Son was the means of salvation for all and so began the mission to bring her children to the safety of Heaven. She asks us to cooperate in this mission to save souls:
"My children the time of Pentecost is approaching lay aside all differences , all unforgiveness make peace and then you will be so much more effective in your prayers to save your family , lost souls and yourselves. I will never leave you. My Son's blessing be upon you. Be missionaries like your Mother."

Stand in my Grace. I will not let you fall.

Romans 15 v 1 - 13

1.We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2.Each of us should please our neighbours for their good, to build them up.  3.For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”  4.For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

5.May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had,  6.so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7.Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. 8.For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed  9.and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written:

“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles;

I will sing the praises of your name.”

10.Again, it says,

“Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”

11.And again,

“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; let all the peoples extol him.”

12.And again, Isaiah says,

“The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

13.May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 29 v 10 -14
 ¹⁰ For Yahweh says this: When the seventy years granted to Babylon are over, I shall intervene on your behalf and fulfil my favourable promise to you by bringing you back to this place.
¹¹ Yes, I know what plans I have in mind for you, Yahweh declares, plans for peace, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
¹² When you call to me and come and pray to me, I shall listen to you.
¹³ When you search for me, you will find me; when you search wholeheartedly for me,
¹⁴ I shall let you find me (Yahweh declares. I shall restore your fortunes and gather you in from all the nations and wherever I have driven you, Yahweh declares. I shall bring you back to the place from which I exiled you).

John 15 v 9-17
⁹ I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.
¹⁰ If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
¹¹ I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.
¹² This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.
¹³ No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.
¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
¹⁵ I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.
¹⁶ You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name.
¹⁷ My command to you is to love one another.

Love one another

Notes of meeting on 17 February 2015

John 15 v 10 - 17
¹⁰ If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
¹¹ I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.
¹² This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.
¹³ No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.
¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
¹⁵ I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.
¹⁶ You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name.
¹⁷ My command to you is to love one another.

Romans 15 v 7 - 13
⁷ Accept one another, then, for the sake of God's glory, as Christ accepted you.
⁸ I tell you that Christ's work was to serve the circumcised, fulfilling the truthfulness of God by carrying out the promises made to the fathers,
⁹ and his work was also for the gentiles, so that they should give glory to God for his faithful love; as scripture says: For this I shall praise you among the nations and sing praise to your name.
¹⁰ And in another place it says: Nations, rejoice, with his people,
¹¹ and in another place again: Praise the Lord, all nations, extol him, all peoples.
¹² And in Isaiah, it says: The root of Jesse will appear, he who rises up to rule the nations, and in him the nations will put their hope.
¹³ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, so that in the power of the Holy Spirit you may be rich in hope.