The Light of Christ

Notes of meeting on 18 December 2018

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Picture of an open door leading into a cave within a mountain and around it were many animals all calm and quiet.
The Holy Family with the baby Jesus in his crib were in the cave and St Joseph opened the door wide and streams of people came in and worshipped the Child. Many were overcome with emotion tears running from their eyes at the sight and sound of the Peace Child. The Peace invaded them, each one felt the overwhelming Love, Joy and Peace.
These people were not the high and mighty but the poor and careworn, the hurt and the maimed.
Our Blessed Mother kissed each one personally as though they were truly her Child. There were people from every Nation and religion and as they acknowledged Jesus as their Lord they were filled with Hope. As they passed on St Joseph gave them a little gift for their journey telling them to place it near their heart. As each person did this the gift disappeared into their heart and the Light of Christ entered in.
God says:
"This is My Son, your deliverance is at hand. Be full of hope and the Light of Christ will shine in all Nations for I Am a Loving Father."

Matthew 1 v 18-24
18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
 20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
 22 All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
 24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.

God bless you,
Stephen and Annhttp://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415/ 

Let the one who boasts - boast in the Lord

Notes from meeting on 11 December 2018

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1 Corinthians 1 v18-31
18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  19 For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
    and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe.  22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom,  23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,  24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  25 For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
26 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.  27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;  28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are,  29 so that no one might boast in the presence of God.  30 He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,  31 in order that, as it is written, “.”

Luke 3 v 1-6
 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,  2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.  3 He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,  4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,
“The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord,
    make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled,
    and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight,
    and the rough ways made smooth;
6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

Come Lord Jesus Come

Notes of meeting on 4 December 2018

Creator God we thank you that your Spirit hovered over the abyss at the beginning of time to bring for the your wonderful Creation.
Creator God we thank you that the same Spirit hovered over Mary as she conceived and brought into the World your Son Jesus to be our Saviour through His birth, death and resurrection.
Creator God we pray that the Spirit would once again hover over the World and prepare it for the second coming of Jesus in His Glory.

2 Peter 1 v 3 - 11
 His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. ⁴ Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature. ⁵ For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, ⁶ and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, ⁷ and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For anyone who lacks these things is short-sighted and blind, and is forgetful of the cleansing of past sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers and sisters, be all the more eager to confirm your call and election, for if you do this, you will never stumble. ¹¹ For in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you.

Let us entrust ourselves to God

Notes from meeting on 27 November 2018

1 Peter 4 v 12-19
¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. ¹³ But rejoice insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, so that you may also be glad and shout for joy when his glory is revealed. ¹⁴ If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory, which is the Spirit of God, is resting on you.  ¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, a criminal, or even as a mischief maker. ¹⁶ Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bear this name. ¹⁷ For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; if it begins with us, what will be the end for those who do not obey the gospel of God? ¹⁸ And

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,
    what will become of the ungodly and the sinners?”

¹⁹ Therefore, let those suffering in accordance with God’s will entrust themselves to a faithful Creator, while continuing to do good.

 

 

We are strengthened by the many gifts that God has given us, the gift of the Spirit himself, the gift of Jesus  in the Eucharist and His Word and the gift of Mary our Mother.