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Showing posts with label I am the Good Shepherd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I am the Good Shepherd. Show all posts

Friday, 14 April 2017

I am the Shepherd I AM

Notes of meeting on 4 April 2017

Picture of a walled vineyard, in the middle as Our Lord crucified. The vineyard was full of many workers tending the vines which all seemed to be grated on to the Cross.
From the rampart wall could be seen a destructive army coming close. Outside the wall was a sheep fold and many worker harvesting crops.
Jesus now appeared at the gate of the sheepfold.
Many people could be seen running and Jesus started to sing:
"I am the Shepherd I AM.
Come to Me, come to my arms.
I will soothe you, I will heal you,
I will love you and keep you
close to Me, close to My Heart
and there will be no more tears,
only joy.
Come make haste to peace
and abundance, safety from
the Evil One.
No more will your sins concern
you, for they are nailed
to My Cross.
The Cross of Love, Come to Me,
I am the Shepherd, the Shepherd I AM."

Our Lady cast down her mantle and an army of bright angels came between those running to her Son and the army of destruction. The light was so great the army was blinded and scattered in confusion.
Mary says:
"My children pray for your brothers and sisters and all poor souls that they will hear the voice of my Son Jesus and that they will come to Him. Continue your prayers and sacrifices in love of Jesus and miracles will be seen.
I bless you with my Motherly blessing. Mary"

Sunday, 17 January 2016

so shall I look after my sheep

Notes of meeting on 12 January 2016

Picture of Jesus right here amongst us. He showed us may fruit trees, grain fields, animals and vines that His Father had supplied for us. These are to feed and fortify our bodies and we should avail ourselves of these with great thanksgiving to the Father.
In the same way as we take in sustenance we are to open our hearts to the spiritual food provided by the Father. Jesus then showed us the Book of the Holy Word, the gift of Himself in the Eucharist and openness to the Holy Spirit so that all can grow in our hearts giving our spiritual bodies sustenance. This in turn brings forth the flowering of the seed firmly planted a baptism nurturing and growing within us sustaining our spiritual bodies so that in time the likeness of the Father becomes profound within each soul and this in turn will make us more able to draw other souls to the Father and Jesus.
Jesus says:
"Be open to My Spirit, be fed by Me and in turn you will feed our brothers and sisters. My little flock so dear to my heart, I bless you with the Father's grace. Draw all men unto Me."


Ezekiel 34 v 11-17
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.
17 "As for you, my sheep, the Lord Yahweh says this: I shall judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and he-goats.


Heavenly Father I ask you to bless our group Theotokos. Send your Spirit upon us so that we will be witnesses to the living light of Jesus in our lives. You chose Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit to become the first tabernacle to hold your Son Jesus in her womb, therefore I ask Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, to bear us into holiness. Teach us to listen to the voice of God in the stillness of our hearts and live in his presence offering all our joys and sorrows for his honour and glory. Teach us to pray for the conversion of our hearts and the conversion of the world so that we may become faithful ambassadors of your Son, Jesus.
Amen

Sunday, 19 October 2014

I am the Good Shepherd


Notes of meeting on 14 October 2014

Picture of workers in the vineyard tending the vines ,clipping back the leaves ready for the final ripening of the grapes to be gathered for the wine press.
The workers were diligently working and singing.
I the distance was a great cloud of dust coming up from the ground. It came rolling nearer and nearer to the vineyard.
People were fidgeting and becoming distracted from their work and began to become fearful. As the dust arrived it brought with it masses of serpents to annoy and bite the heels of the workers. The people seemed to run this way and that to get away from the irritating creatures.
Suddenly the workers all looked over to the Vineyard gate as they heard the beautiful love song of the King who was walking through the gate dressed as a shepherd with His Sacred Heart exposed.
As the workers listed to His song and beheld His face they no longer took notice of the serpents and they withered away.
Jesus said "My little flock when Satan sends his cohort to distract and annoy or even to hurt you, know this I have the heart of a shepherd who knows each of his sheep. your name is written in My Heart. look to Me and fear no evil for I Myself will fight off the intruder. I will bind up the hurt and soothe your fears for you are mine and I have paid the price for you. Look to Me and Satan will have no dominion over you. My little flock, beloved of mine, do not fear, turn to your loving Shepherd who laid down His life for His sheep. Look to me for I Myself will tend you My loyal little flock."
Each sheep of the flock had a cross inside a white heart upon its forehead.


Luke 17 v 5 - 10
The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith.'
6 The Lord replied, 'If you had faith like a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea," and it would obey you.
7 'Which of you, with a servant ploughing or minding sheep, would say to him when he returned from the fields, "Come and have your meal at once"?
8 Would he not be more likely to say, "Get my supper ready; fasten your belt and wait on me while I eat and drink. You yourself can eat and drink afterwards"?
9 Must he be grateful to the servant for doing what he was told?
10 So with you: when you have done all you have been told to do, say, "We are useless servants: we have done no more than our duty." '

Psalm 16
1[In a quiet voice Of David] Protect me, O God, in you is my refuge.
2 To Yahweh I say, 'You are my Lord, my happiness is in none
3 of the sacred spirits of the earth.' They only take advantage of all who love them.
4 People flock to their teeming idols. Never shall I pour libations to them! Never take their names on my lips.
5 My birthright, my cup is Yahweh; you, you alone, hold my lot secure.
6 The measuring-line marks out for me a delightful place, my birthright is all I could wish.
7 I bless Yahweh who is my counsellor, even at night my heart instructs me.
8 I keep Yahweh before me always, for with him at my right hand, nothing can shake me.
9 So my heart rejoices, my soul delights, my body too will rest secure,
10 for you will not abandon me to Sheol, you cannot allow your faithful servant to see the abyss.
11 You will teach me the path of life, unbounded joy in your presence, at your right hand delight for ever.

John 10 v 7 - 18
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.
17 The Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.
18 No one takes it from me; I lay it down of my own free will, and as I have power to lay it down, so I have power to take it up again; and this is the command I have received from my Father.