EMBRACE YOUR GREATNESS!!

Icons Will Save The World

2013-04-24T10:55:00.000-07:00

We live in a sensual world that hunger and thirsts and aches for miracles and for supernatural phenomenon. It is as if there is a void inside of us all. But if we live in a physical world then how can we long for the supernatural? The two things do not seem to be complimentary but rather they seem contradictory don’t they?

Here is what I mean by that. Senses are of the physical world. They are tangible, measurable and understood by all who have eyes to see, ears to hear, and tongues to taste, noses to smell and bodies to touch. On the contrary, miracles and supernatural phenomenon are not tangible but are unexplainable and most probably understood as being more spiritual than material or physical in nature.

So what is the answer? Do we just continue to stuff our face with food and drink? Do we keep reaching out for sex and creature comforts? How are we to stop feeling so empty and unfulfilled? The answer is in the question. We long for fulfillment of physical and spiritual because we have been created as physical and spiritual persons. The senses may seem to be just physical aspects to our humanity but if we are body and soul then their effects must be felt within both.

St. Anthony called the sense the doorways to our souls and in fact wondered how much images affected our hearts and souls to either order them rightly or disorder them. In fact scripture tells us in Luke 11:34 “The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is sound, your whole body too is filled with light; but when it is diseased, your body too will be darkness.”

In todays world we see that people are searching, longing and hungry for more than just food to satiate their taste buds or movies or music to delight their eyes and ears. We are all searching for something beautiful. The double rainbow guy on YouTube demonstrated an unadulterated response to seeing something profoundly beautiful and but even more than that they was given a glimpse into the spiritual reality that it “meant” something.

Paul Evdokimov, a Russian theologian that believed all people should have an icon in their homes. He wrote that “if mankind aspires to beauty, it is because we are already bathed in its light; it is because mankind by nature thirsts for beauty and yearns to see the Face of God.” I agree with him that we thirst for beauty and yearn to see the face of God.

It is my opinion that the double rainbow guy yearns to see the face of God. In fact I have often shared with youth that very same video. Before I have them watch the video I ask them to imagine his reaction to seeing this beautiful rainbow was the reaction of Adam when we awoke in the Garden of Eden and saw Eve for the very first time. After they stop giggling, a quiet hush comes over the group. I think the girls are in awe of feeling that someone could look upon their feminine goodness with such joy, such appreciation, wonder and excitement. They boys are looking around with new eyes and thinking to themself; “Is the gift of woman something more spectacular than I have previously thought?” When we become desensitized to the beauty around us, we must find ways in which to re-encounter it. Icons are one example of how to do this.

The double rainbow guy responded in a way that I could imagine a human being responding in the first encounter of being in the presence of a living icon. Eve was “written” in the image and likeness of God. Her body revealed something about God to Adam and in their meeting he understood his own body in an entirely new way.

We are made in the image and likeness of God. The difference is that we have not yet been transfigured. I have met some people that radiate Christ, like an icon. This is of course the goal and what ultimately attracts people to Christ, we we act as a living monstrance and radiate Christ to all those around us.

But what is an Icon? Simply put an Icon is sacred art that is also theological in that it literally (not figuratively) teaches the doctrine of the Catholic Faith in regard to the person or persons it is “written” about.

Author Michel Quenot writes “ An icon is certainly not the image of a discarnate world-in the sense that it would refuse creation. Rather, it is the image of a world transformed, transfigured, rendered transparent by a spiritualization which embraces the entire cosmos.”

So our choice is to understand personhood as the corporealization of the soul or the spiritualization of the body. Icons chose to reveal the latter. Icons’s write this truth. I say written because Icons are said to written and not painted. In fact, years ago an iconographer had to get an imprimatur of his work to make sure it was free from doctrinal error lest someone would be led astray. That is how precise an icon is.

Iconography actually means to “write an Icon”. Icon’s are more than just pictures or paintings; they are theology in color. The person creating or commissioned to the do the icon was usually a monk or priest trained in the canons and rules of iconography.

There are many aspects that distinguish an icon from other kinds of sacred or even secular art. There are also certain specifications and criteria that set icons apart. Because an icon is a language and it speaks truth about the sacred mystery that its image contains there is no room in the image for the artist to insert his or her interpretations. This is one of the most important things for us to remember.

The clothing style, colors, postures, gestures, geometry of the image, in fact every aspect of the icon is held to a strict and unyielding set of rules to ensure that in the end the icon will reveal the invisible existence of the world beyond our material senses. An icon makes visible the invisible and it is for this reason I believe it is the pictorial language of Theology of The Body.

Leonid Ouspensky, a Russian iconographer wrote that “the task of the icon is to guide every emotion as well as our reason and all the other faculties of our nature towards Transfiguration”.

In fact that is a major component of icons. They reveal the transfiguration to us in a way we can receive. It is gentle, non-judgmental and inspires us to greatness beyond our comprehension. That’s the beauty of it, you do not have to understand it to receive from it.

We may not be aware of why the image both seems to draw us in and repels us but in fact it is making visible the invisible reality of the journey that we are all on. We are being called to what all Saints have done before us, Embrace Our Greatness. We are to embrace the Holy Spirit, to allow Him to permeate, penetrate and transform our hearts and in doing so we will emanate Christ to all those around us. If images can open our hearts and bypass intellect and reason then perhaps we should surround ourselves with images that enable our hearts to be made flesh rather than to harden them like stone. If you don’t have an icon in our home, pray to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to bring you one.

St. Paul writes in Romans that “all creation is eagerly waiting for the revelation of the sons of God” (Rom 8:15). All creation means that the entire material world, the cosmos even time itself inherited our human destiny, which was tainted by original sin. Then it must be true that as Christians we have an obligation to help liberate all of creation from sin and evil.

Michel Quenot states in his book “The Icon” that “It is our task to spiritualize the matter we use every day to help further restore all creation to God. “(Eph 1:9-10)

He is not talking about making them idols. Our contemplation, love and worship is reserved for God and God alone but icons permit us to contemplate beauty and incarnation which of course draws our attention to the creator God Himself. Icons speak of the incarnation. They make visible the invisible reality of the supernatural; they reveal God came in the flesh. In fact most iconographers first icon that they write is that of Jesus Christ as He reaffirms to them that God was made flesh. This is the entire premise of an icon.

The Muslim world understood this so well that it became their reason the Muslims destroyed icons during the iconoclast period. They viewed Icons as images of God, which was against their religion. It should be stated that Icons really are an image of God as the Shroud of Turin ( the cloth covering Jesus Christ in the Tomb which then captured the image of his body at the time of resurrection) was the template used to create the first Icons of Jesus Christ. Jesus say’s “whoever sees me sees the father”. There is a great mystery in the incarnation and how Christ made visible the invisible and icons reveal this same mystery.

Not all images make visible the invisible however a true icon can. How can an icon make visible something that is invisible? It is because an icon is Eschatological. This is from the word “Eschaton” and speaks of where we as human beings are headed. We will one day be resurrected and reunited to our glorified bodies and so in a real way an icon is revealing a person that has been so permeated and penetrated by the Holy Spirit that the light of truth and God shines from within them. We see the entire person, body ad soul radiating from an icon. That is why there is no external light source like we see in traditional art. The focal point of the piece also draws our attention to a bigger theological truth rather than to an object.

Icons reveal persons not objects or bodies. In today’s world we are moving more and more to seeing people as objects of use. Nicholas Gogol wrote that “When souls start to break down, then faces also degenerate.”

We are no longer seeing the person in front of us. What is beautiful about icons is that they are revealing how God has given us “personhood”. Personhood is that dignity of being unique and unrepeatable persons. There is no one like another and our person will exist for all eternity. Our personhood is also male or female. Our bodies make visible that invisible reality and are inexplicably tied to it. Death was never God’s plan for human beings. It was sin that disordered our human nature and so an icon reveals the transfigured person. This is our destiny. We are called to become new creations in Christ.

God was made flesh and in this flesh given a face. We belong to him and his gift of self has given us freedom from being faceless. Our identity then, is from Christ. In a world where most peoples identities are so flawed and in need of restoration, icons draw us to the reality that no one is faceless. If we continue to move towards a world that seeks to remove the face and the person that is revealed there, we will lose our identities. We see this happening already in secular art and even photography. Why is it that artists used to paint portraits so regularly while now we see animals or objects instead? That has even translated to photography. Many people no longer get professional portraits done. It may be that today’s art is reflecting a world in crisis. If this is true, then perhaps icons are a language of truth, life and love that our wounded world is in desperate need of discovering.

Icons speak to us. They speak truth, life and love. The reveal to us the entire person yet we see them without corruption. It is as if we are seeing the human being yet we are seeing their transfigured bodies filled with the Holy Spirit, thus the light that shines from their faces and bodies as well as by seeing their enlarged eyes or foreheads (filled with wisdom permeated by love) etc. There can be exaggerated size to the senses for the exact reason with the exception of the ears, as the ears no longer need to listen to the sounds of this world.

When a person views an icon and sees the person faced towards them, their frontality attracts the viewer and in fact begins to open them to the existence of an interior life. Icons then, bestow a grace of receptivity. Like a plow opens a field, they open the earth to receive the seed, which is the word. Icons seem to be a means from which the Holy Spirit can flow through to all in its presence; all that is required is for someone to look upon it

There is another aspect of an icon that speaks of an eschatological aspect. This is the fact that many times the laws of geometry, proportions or even gravity may not apply. That is usually because icons seek to manifest the heart or the essence of the objects, animals, mountains, buildings or even people that it is capturing to better express their meaning and the meaning of life. In fact the icon is not just seeking to express the theological truth or meaning of a person it is to incarnate the spiritual presence of that person.

Monk Gregory, a famous Iconographer said “Only a picture that has a face looking at us and human face transfigured by divine grace has the right to be a holy icon.” This was why he said the eagle used in the Gospel of John couldn’t be used as an icon or image of St. John but only a symbol. Icons are not symbols. They are doorways that we can move toward them and that the person in the icon can move toward us. It is a spiritual movement but movement nonetheless.

What we look at does affect us and can open or close our hearts. Iconography is a unique form of art that not only opens our hearts; it transforms them with truth, life and love. Once we understand the basics of what an icon is we will explore the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe to discover the truth, life and love that is “written” there for the Church of the 21^stCentury. It is a message of hope, battle, of healing and of Mercy. It’s message has been waiting for the Church of this century to discover it and we have never needed it more than we do now.

Our lady of Guadalupe’s image on the Tilma, which I call the Icon of the New Eve and the Shroud of Turin, which I call the Icon of the New Adam, are two icons that were not “written” by men but “written” divinely. If we can receive spiritual grace by being in the presence of icons, how much more will receive from an image not painting by man but written by the finger of God Himself?

A triple Portion of The Holy Spirit Comes Through Mary

2013-03-22T09:00:00.002-07:00

COME HOLY SPIRIT, COME!

Joan of Arc by Hermann Anton Stilke

We are headed towards a battle. Can you feel it?

I don't care what denomination you are, if you love Jesus Christ you will take a few moments to see that this is not blasphemy, this is not idolatry, this is God's plan of redemption of the world and that Mary has something to offer us. We do not worship her, we worship God alone. We do not believe Mary has magical powers. What we do believe is that God chose Mary to begin the plan of redemption in, with and through and so she offers us a way in which to follow so that we can be deeply permeated by the Holy Spirit, espoused and penetrated in a life giving way because Scripture says so. Scripture tells us that Mary was cable of being so receptive, so open to the Holy Spirit, that she was espoused and thus conceived of the Holy Spirit.

We are called to beg for this receptivity. We are called to open ourselves so completely that the Holy Spirit can find a dwelling place in which He can espouse Himself and conceive divine life within us. We are called to bring life into the world, to make the incarnation known and visible by becoming the body of Christ. Are you radiating Christ? Are you a Star of Bethlehem?

What I love about the 33 Day To Morning Glory program is that it harnesses the power of receptivity to the Holy Spirit in such a way that all of us can yoke ourselves to it. Consecration to Mary has been said to be the fastest and most effective means to become like Christ.
St. Louis De Montfort said this;

"In this battle, those who follow God will conquer with one hand and build with the other. The saints of the end times will be formed by Mary in their devotion to her. She will shape them and teach them even as she formed the body of Our Lord in her womb."

The mother of God formed Him in her womb and so she is the perfect mold from which to pour ourselves into. We could allow the hammer's to shape us, the knives to whittle us out to make room for Him, but to pour ourselves into the mold that shaped Christ is perhaps the quickest most effective means to do such a thing as this.

We are like a a field ready to be planted for a rich harvest. St. Joseph is like the farmer that leads the horses, he makes ready, he makes the way clear. St. Joseph, terror of demons binds up any obstacles, operational spirits or barriers that may prevent receptivity. Mary is like the plow. She is the grace of receptivity and fertility that opens our hearts like the plow does the earth.

Her son is the seed that will be planted deep inside of us so that it may burst forth new life within us and bear fruit. Seeds can grow without first having the soil prepared but the harvest is not as abundant, the protection from the rains and the elements is not as great since the roots are more shallow and without the farmer to watch for the rocks or weeds (St. Joseph) there can be obstacles that threaten as well.

If Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and conceived by the Holy Spirit then we see that Mary has a gift of perfect receptivity to the Holy Spirit that we should all long for. She was permeated, espoused and penetrated into the depths of her very soul which was Immaculately Conceived.

Mary herself was an icon of the trinity as St. Joachim gave himself as free, total, faithful and fruitful gift to St. Anne and she received his gift and then gave herself to St. Joachim in the same way. The fire of the rightly ordered love between them was so great it was a third person, Mary. The two became one flesh, they co-operated in bringing her into existence (matter) but God alone infused her spiritual soul.

But Immaculate Conception? How is that possible and why? For me her Immaculate Conception is further proof that God is indeed outside of time and space. He is pure spirit so He is unaffected by time and space which exists in a physical world. It is logical that God could take the graces of Calvary and apply it to Mary as her soul was infused into her at the moment she was conceived in St. Anne's womb. He created a perfect vessel, Christ makes all things new and she became the under of knots.

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, detail (Karlsbad 1745 - Rome 1829), Peter Wenzel, Vatican Museum

Eve was Immaculate, free from sin in the same way that Mary was. That is why we call Mary the New Eve. If Christ as the new Adam makes all things new then of course he would untie the knots tied by Eve's sin and make this new also. Christ makes ALL things new. God has a plan for the Redemption of the whole world and He began with Mary before He began with Jesus. Why? Because it began with Eve before it began with Adam.

Sistine Chapel Michelangelo

Eve was Immaculate as was Adam. They began in a virginal garden of Eden. They were not alone because love is a gift and must be given away. The tree of Knowledge was in the garden because love must have a choice, without choice love cannot exist as it must be a free, total, faithful and fruitful gift. Eve's no began when she took (of her own free will) the fruit of the tree of knowledge in that virginal garden of Eden, into her body and with it bore spiritual death to the world.

Mary was Immaculate as Eve was because Christ makes all things new. Mary was free to chose as Eve was, to undo Original sin, all of the knots must have been untied and so they were. It began in the virginal garden inside of her womb. She too was given a choice to love. Mary's yes began when she "let it be done unto her" and the fruit of all knowledge, the Alpha and Omega was given to her and in this garden of her womb, Jesus was the fruit of her womb and with her yes and with the hands and feet from which she would form in her body would come spiritual life to the world.

Mary is the undoer of knots, she is our hope because she was mere creature. She was no different than Eve. She was completely capable of sinning and yet she did not, she is our proof that we can give our yes to God and be transformed, permeated and espoused by the Holy Spirit.

If you want to be more fully espoused and penetrated by the Holy Spirit then first call upon St. Joseph as terror of demons and ask him to remove the barriers and obstacles in yourself or a loved one that seems in capable of even opening themselves. He will make way for Mary. Then pray for Mary as undoer of knots to come and bestow a grace of receptivity into your heart or the heart of your loved one (heck you can and should do this for your enemies as well!) Finally, pray "Come Holy Spirit, Come!" so that the sower of the seed can come and plant Jesus deep, deep into the hearts of the world.

Theotokos, the “Mother of God.

If you desire a double or triple portion of the Holy Spirit, then Consecrate yourself to Mary, she opens you wider than we can do on our own because she undoes the knots, she was what God chose to start with when He set into motion the plan of redemption for the world. He could have dropped Christ naked in the street, He could have chosen to come in flesh in any way He desired, yet the plan He chose was to undo the knots of the fall way back in the beginning. When Christ makes All Things New, He makes ALL THINGS NEW.

Mary, I ask that you intercede and show me how to open my heart to love like the Trinity and to help me to open myself in a bigger and more vulnerable way so that the Holy Spirit will find a home in my heart from which to bring life to the world in and through my yes to the Fathers plan.

Jennings 08

Come Holy Spirit Come!

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

UPDATED! Healing The Whole Person; Borderline Personality Disorder

2013-03-06T15:01:00.001-08:00

HEALING THE WHOLE PERSON

Facing My Identity wounds (Borderline Personality Disorder)

The CDC says that 1 in 4 people are sexually abused. We are the walking wounded and many people are taking pills to numb the pain. Traditional therapy offers a clinical diagnosis as well as a psychological stigma for those seeking help to cope with the ramifications of growing up neglected, abandoned, traumatized and or abused. I have always known that traditional therapy was not the answer.

As a person who went to school for and earned a degree in Psychology, I have read many books regarding this subject. Some of the graduate courses I took in Family and Individual Counseling required us to have patients and we recorded the sessions to be critiqued as a class with our professor. Even then I was frustrated with the process of diagnosing instead of bringing healing.

It seemed like they were not teaching us to ask what the diagnosis meant, after all, we diagnose so we can bring healing and wellness right? What traditional therapy does is diagnose and help cope with symptoms. What inner healing does is make the person whole, it heals them, just like we heal disease of the body, it is my belief that inner healing can restore our person, our well being.

It is easy when we are dealing with a physical illness to desire a diagnosis. We see a doctor and get a test so that we can diagnose and treat our illness. But what happens when you have an identity wound? You cannot get a blood test and have someone tell you to take this pill three times a day until gone and then you are well.

But Christ says He makes all things new and He promises us healing. Was He lying? Are we expecting to much? Are we giving the cross and God too much power? I say it is the exact opposite. We do not expect enough. We do not believe Christ really has the power to work miracles. In fact, He worked miracles of healing and told the apostles that they would do all of the things He did and more! We are called to bring healing and deliverance to those in misery and suffering to be a sign of His power. Christ desires to restore us and in our healing, be a witness and visible sign to the world that our God is an awesome God and that He Reigns in Heaven and on earth. He can make us whole.

When we are healed we become more joyful. We are called to evangelize and bring people to Christ but when many of us are wounded from sin and the sins of others we are not exactly a billboard for Christ. I was no exception. I would try to “fake it” as best as I could. After all the expression “fake it until you make it” was how I lived my life. But I was tired of the counterfeit. I wanted a double portion. I needed HOPE!

The retreat that I attended was called “Healing The Whole Person” and was held at a Catholic parish in Florida. The day of the conference I walked from the hotel to the Church taking my time getting there, as I was somewhat afraid of what would transpire once I got there.

When I arrived at the Church and made my way in to what appeared to be an old cafeteria with a stage area, I took notice of a large statue of saint on the main stage. I remember wondering who he was and then found a seat towards the back.

The first opportunity to meet with one of the trained therapists came and came I went up to the stage area to sit in a private area with him. As he led me through the process of uncovering the areas I was bound up in I was led to a re-occurring image in my mind of me in a crib crying and no one coming to me.

I did not think it was a real memory; rather it seemed to be a connection to a belief. It seemed to be a representative of not feeling neither heard nor having my real needs met. Perhaps one of the most profound revelations occurred that day when I realized that someone could be both good and bad at the same time. I also was I introduced to finding my identity in the Father rather than trying to prove it or earn it. Having these two belief’s healed help to free me and heal me from what I now believe some refer to as "Borderline Personality Disorder".

When I sat with my second trained counselor and a nun from the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary something shifted. I actually felt something weird happen in my chest. The nun looked at me and asked me what I was experiencing as she was praying for me. I told her I did not know how to explain it. I told her it felt like my heart swelled up inside of my chest and stretched the rib cage or something.

I saw in my mind a picture of what I had felt. I told her that the cartoon “The Grinch Stole Christmas” has a scene where his heart grew in his chest and he grabbed it and yelled out as it grew several sizes. I told her that is what it felt like, I literally felt like my heart was growing in my body. I would have been worried that I was having heart palpitations or some kind of medical emergency but with this sensation I felt an infusion of joy and peace and what felt like a deep sigh of relief.

She smiled at me and pointed to the large statue on the stage. Do you know who that is? She asked me. No, I replied.

That is St. Philip Neri, he was a saint that experienced such a transformation when the Holy Spirit permeated him that his heart grew inside of his chest and swelled so large that it cracked one of his ribs.

It was later confirmed after his death that one of his ribs did indeed crack. I was blown away that this same Saint, the one I have never heard of that just so happened to be the Saint over this particular parish, was present in the very place in which I not only found a great healing but experienced some kind of physical manifestation that strangely paralleled his own experience. I believe I not only received a healing of my identity but that at the moment the Holy Spirit came and brought healing and restoration to my identity I had a sensation that accompanied it as if to validate that it not only happened but it was very real.

I was not faking it, I was feeling it! I was infused with Joy and I felt like I had value, not because I impressed anyone or earned it, I was just “good” and I rested there and absorbed as much of it as I could.

It was my first taste of healing what I now am certain was from aspects or areas that are understood as BPD.

I really want to take a moment to go over what Borderline Personality Disorder is because I believe many people who have been sexually abused or experienced traumatic childhoods like I did are actually dealing with identity wounds that distort their ability to know themselves and to know God and are not dealing with a psychological "disorder".

Being abused has a very real and powerful effect on shaping our identity. To merely dismiss that and label someone as being "disordered" is, in my opinion, causing more damage and in a sense, keeps their pain and cries for help unheard.

I realize we can categorize and diagnose and give it a name such as Borderline Personality Disorder but what good is it to give it a name if you do not understand it enough to help bring healing?

I believe Borderline Personality Disorder is a fancy name for Identity wounds.

Identity wounds distort our ability to love ourselves, to love others and to love or know God. Instead of dealing with the real issue, identity wounds, people are being diagnosed with a disorder. Ironically, the worse thing you could do to someone with identity wounds is to give them an identity as being "disordered".

When you look at the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) it becomes clear that Inner Healing work helps to heal all of the lies that cause a person to exhibit the very criteria necessary for diagnosis. That has got me to thinking, what if BPD is really just an identity wound that has been left to cause such illness that it causes a schism in the person and their ability to see truth, to live their lives or to love and be loved?

We are complex human beings and Theology of the Body helps us to get a bigger picture as to who we are and how we are made rather than basing our truth in the disorders that result from sin.

Our experiences in and through our bodies shape our understandings and beliefs and those beliefs can bind us up in such a way that we act on those beliefs in disordered ways.

When a person experiences a trauma, for example sexual abuse, this trauma creates a deep wound penetrating our identity and distorting our “person”.

The criteria of Borderline Personality Disorder seems to reveal more about the fracturing or creating of a schism or division within our person than it does about our disordering our personality.

Using the teachings of Theology of the Body, it seems clear that Psychology may help us to understand the wounds within our identity as a “person” and how those wounds shape our beliefs. Our beliefs effect our actions and behaviors so perhaps using the 9 Criteria's for diagnosing BPD could actually help us recognize an identity wound. Perhaps the 9 disordered behaviors are really just distress symptoms that when rightly understood, can lead us to the areas we need to find healing.

Lets think about the word “disorders” through the lens of Theology of the Body. For something to be disordered it has to have been rightly ordered but then gotten twisted up. This is what happened with original sin. What was good and right became disordered due to sin. If this is correct then we see we are all disordered in one way or another. How helpful is it to give a diagnosis of a disorder to someone who has an issue with identity? I am guessing it creates further disorder and woundedness. Let's call this disorder what it truly is which is a distortion.

A person with BPD is really someone without a sense of identity. They are unable to base their value and their worth on truth but instead their identity is reliant upon others. The only one that can give us our identities is God because He is truth, life and love from an unchanging source.

What if you have wounds preventing you from going to God for this identity? Many people with sexual abuse wounds and other traumatic wounds form childhood have such a problem and I was no exception.

The diagnostic criteria for BPD can in my opinion, be used as a model in identifying distress symptoms of those dealing with a schism or fracture of personhood from PTSD or sexual abuse trauma. It is the trauma that creates the schism and distorts the person and their ability to see rightly and experience others with true freedom to love and be loved.

I believe I suffered from a schism from the traumas of my childhood some of which included sexual abuse. This schism distorted my perception of my identity as well as my ability to love and be loved by others. If love is a self to an “other” than it makes sense that a distortion to my identity affects my ability to see myself as a gift from God, thus making me incapable of loving rightly. If I am unable to see an “other” as being a gift from God, then I am incapable of receiving or connecting or interacting in healthy relationships.

I know now this has been the case in my life. I have believe that in my own life, some of the criteria of BPD I meet may actually be indicative of an identity wound rather than a psychological disorder.

I recently got the book “I hate you-don’t leave me; Understanding the borderline personality” by Dr. Jerold Kreisman

In Dr. Kreisman’s book he uses the DSM-III-R (diagnostic criteria of borderline personality disorder, herein referred to as BPD) to define the criteria of BPD and being present 80% of the time. I will be using this “criteria” as distress symptoms of a person with Identity Wounds.

Criteria 1)

Unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, with marked shifts in attitudes towards others (from idealizing them to devaluing or clingy dependence or isolation and avoidance), and prominent patterns of manipulation of others. It can also be referred to as "splitting". To protect myself I put people in one of two categories. They were either good or bad. I could not trust the bad people, I could trust the good people. If someone I believed was "good" hurt me, I did not see a good person making a mistake or doing something bad, instead they became "bad" in my mind.

My Identity Wounds has led to many unstable relationships. It is because of my being able to reconcile the fact that people could be good and do bad things and remain good as well as my fear of intimacy. Because of my Identity wounds I have made unrealistic demands on others and many times have been referred to as being spoiled.

I have always had to ask others what they think and get input from those I saw as "better" than me or more "good". My identity wounds create such a distrust of others that I have great difficulty trusting the motives of almost everyone I have ever met. This is because it provided me the only protection I felt that I had, if I could be proactive in determining who is safe and who is not then I felt more capable of not being hurt.

This also causes a great loneliness as no one would ever really be allowed in. There is even a process to determine if someone is able to be considered as a worthy of my trust. It was as if there was a "circle of trust" and hardly anyone has ever been allowed in.

I can say for certainty that my husband is in the circle. Dr. Bob is in the circle of trust. Fr. Bryce is in the circle of trust. Lynn is in the circle of trust. I can not say for certain if anyone else has ever been allowed in. I am still learning to let people in. I still find myself watching peoples facial expressions, keeping tabs on inconsistencies that may expose them as being inauthentic and this creates a greater loneliness and despair.

I have created a reality in which hardly anyone is allowed in and yet the fear of being alone has caused me to become extremely dependent on my husband and my children. I want them to be with me but because of my fears and feeling of deep inadequacy and shame I did not want them to touch me or expect to much intimacy. The guilt from this exacerbates the self-loathing.

The word intimacy is sometimes referred to as In-To-Me-See. For someone with identity issues I wanted people to look anywhere but at me. The irony of this is that I longed to be seen. I was victimized so I was very distrustful of people growing up, even by those who seemed to care. I believed the lie that they were only trying to get me to let down my guard or perhaps they just wanted something. This thinking is what led to the destruction of all of my friendships with women.

I have never liked being touched. If my identity is distorted then the shame runs so deep it is as if I am untouchable as much as I am unlovable. If you cannot give what you don't have then, perhaps I have been unable to touch and be touched because I had no source of love to share with others. I am continuing to work on this and have not found full healing here but there are many days I am more capable of affection than others and that is a definite improvement from where I was.

My first healing in this came when Charlie stood up at the Theology of The Body Course on Love and Responsibility and pronounced to me and the other 100 students that he thought I was beautiful and wonderful and looked forward to me coming into class everyday just to behold the gift of femininity that I made visible. I was affirmed just because I was good. It came from someone I could believe and receive it from and in that moment a lie about who I was and the value I had was exposed.

I was healed. Now I have been learning to grow in maturity in this area.

Criteria 2) Impulsiveness in at least 2 areas that are potentially self-destructive, i.e. chemical abuse (tried that), sexual promiscuity (check!), gambling (not so far but only because I knew to stay away), shoplifting (yes), excessive spending (still fighting this one), overeating (did it say only 2? Cause this makes 4), anorexia nervosa (no self control for this one) or bulimia (so now I am at 5 areas).

The criteria of strong, sudden feelings and perceptions cause impulsiveness that causes repetitive mistakes is used to as diagnostic criteria. I have always been proud to refer to myself as someone that “flies by the seat of my pants”. The need for immediate gratification and absolutely no patience has attributed to much of my impulsiveness.

The lack of self-control continues to cause idolatries in my life. I make an idol of substance to comfort me. I become slothful when I am overwhelmed. I buy things to make me feel better. I find I still get angry over the simplest of things but I know realize that this is symptom and should be catching my attention so I can discern what triggered my identity wound. I know realize I must path attention to it and go to the Father and check in with Him first to be affirmed and know who I am with mercy. Then and only then do I look at why I am upset or mad. Usually it is a trigger that is relating back to an old belief that I am bad, selfish, manipulative or undeserving of love and happiness.

This awareness of myself came from learning about the cycles of addictions as related to shame taught by Dr. Bob at my very first course. Being a Psychologist I have a great awareness of how we think and feel and then observing behaviors as a direct result. I always loved Dr. Phil's comment "You can't change what you won't acknowledge" and it is for this reason I have always looked to the why behind what I do. The problem was I was looking without Christ's mercy and so what I saw was ugly everything everyone said it was. The rage came to protect myself and the excuses and blaming things on other people was the only way I was able to live in my own skin.

As a youth, I would use self-destructive behavior to cope and release some of the pain. This would create guilt which in term caused more shame and then I would seek out substance to numb or comfort myself. It is as if we know that sin deserves to be punished and our wounds convince us we ARE our sins and so we punish ourselves. It is interesting how the devil brings us 99% truth (always without the Merciful love of Jesus Christ) and 1% lie and this is the rope we hang ourselves by. When I found healing in this was when I heard Joyce Meyers speaking on an early morning show. She said "When the devil comes to tell you what a sinner you are and remind you of all the things you have done and why you are unworthy of being saved, tell him that God knew what He was doing when He made you. You are no surprise to God. You are not Holy Ghost jr. He knew you would fail Him and yet He created you anyway. If Satan has a problem with you tell Him to take it up with God."

Wow! It's true! It's not like God is watching my life play out like a sitcom and when a new episode airs is hitting himself in the forehead saying "What was I thinking!" No! He knew He wanted me to exist. He knew me and knew my name and knew when and where to bring me into existence, in the words of Caryll Housleander "Out of all of the potential souls, God chose me!". The book "Reed of God" was a book I came across about 5 years ago and it brought such healing to my identity wounds that to this day I use it in all of my talks. My identity is in God the Father and by my baptism I have been adopted as His daughter. I am a daughter of the most high King. I am not a mistake. I am not my identity in my family, I am not an identity in my sin, I am Christina and my names mean to bring and witness to Christ. The fact that my married name is Christina King is not lost on me. It is a daily reminder that I am indeed royalty.

I have exhibited at least 5 of the above indicators. I have tried to control everything even my healing. I now realize that control is a false idol to cope with feeling powerless or being afraid I will be abandoned and alone. When I am unable to control I get anxious and angry and either have a panic attack or rage. I believe that panic attacks can be another symptom of identity wounds.

Criteria 3) Radical mood shifts include depression, irritability, and anxiety and last either a few hours and rarely last days. The person with identity wounds bounces between enthusiastic periods of energetic creativity to unproductive morbid self-pity and depression, blaming his/her failures on others.

I have always been told I was moody. I get anxious and irritable when I feel I am being assaulted but now it is less often and not such a huge shift. I have tried to identify what triggers me. Tone of voice can be huge. When someone’s identity is fragile, tone of voice can feel like a lashing rather than just a simple question.

The guilt and shame go so deep that often words can trigger a person who has been assaulted by the same or similar words in childhood. The other reason my moods would change would be that I was hearing something that was not being said. I would hear people speak and assume something they said was a passive aggressive attack on me in some way and I would try to "self-justify." Self-justification is a huge indicator of identity wounds.

My need to justify myself came across as bragging or being pretentious or just down right rude and full of myself. When my family had legitimate needs they were trying to express I would self-justify and they would then believe their needs were not important and that I just did not care.

More and more I begin to hear what people are saying rather than what my distorted identity was allowing me to hear. This has been huge in my healing of my whole person. I am also gentler with myself and try not to "should" all over myself. I realize I am not the fourth person of the holy trinity and so I am going to fall short. I am called to faithful not successful and this gives me hope.

My healing of this came when I begged Jesus Christ to heal me of the spirit of control. I was using the above things to control the pain or to control my happiness or to control how valuable or worthy I was. I was making an idol of things to replace God because I was I did not know God and did not know He love me just as I was. I did not have to fix myself before I could come to Him. I was finally able to do this was when I renounced Control. I asked forgiveness from God and then renounced the enemies hold over my life.

In the name of Jesus, I took authority in Jesus' name and renounced Control. God began to uncover the lies I had allowed to be sown in my heart about what being "vulnerable" meant and as He did I became less fearful and more trusting. Once I realized vulnerability was strength, I was more capable of opening myself to those around me. Once I did this, I was able to hear them and to stop justifying myself. I could forgive myself when I fell short as long as I went to God the Father to affirm me in my identity. This was probably the biggest deliverance of my entire healing process.

Criteria 4) Inappropriate and intense outbursts of anger can cause someone with identity wounds to have unpredictable and frightening behaviors that are disproportionate to what triggers them. The underlying fuel of the rage is great fear and guilt of disappointing someone and fear of being abandoned. It is so intense and so easily invoked that often their spouse or their children receive the brunt of their rage. The irony is that the fear of intimacy is a cry for help. The person with identity wounds pushes away the people they need most. They may even rage against their therapists, testing their commitment to stay.

When I met with repercussions I have always raged. Rage is another indicator of identity wounds. It is as if deep down that place that St. Augustine speaks of as "knowing we were made for God" screams out against the lies and self-loathing and says "I am good". The story "Horton Hears a Who" comes to mind. I imagine that place deep inside where we know we are a "person" is yelling out "I am here! I am here!" I believe the rage is a self protection of that one tiny shred of hope and truth that remains that is trying to protect itself.

My identity wounds caused me to misinterpret the motives, intentions and even actions of those around me. I would believe they were attacking what little shred of goodness I was managing to hold on to and so the rage was about forcing them out and protecting my shred of goodness. If they were right, then I was bad and I just could not live with that.

When I was not able to control someone or my environment the anxiety would get so intense that I would either rage or attack. I would get so intense that everyone around me would back way off and look at me as if I had lost it. In fact, I had lost it. The intense emotions would rise up so fast and so strong it felt like a tidal wave rising up and engulfing me. It was sink or swim. To sink meant to look at what was happening and why I was reacting and that felt like drowning. The reason is I did not have mercy to help me see myself without prejudice or fear. To see I was wrong would mean I was bad. I could not reconcile good and bad. A person was either one or the other.

I continue to smile at the ironies that I was controlling, but out of control. I wanted to be seen but did not want anyone to see me. I was terrified at being alone but I pushed people away.

As I said previously, I used to have so many issues with this but I believe I no longer rage. I do get angry still over the littlest of things at times but I am getting better and better at asking forgiveness from my children or husband and to owning up to things I did or said that were not loving or fair to them. It has taught me an aspect of humility that allows me to love myself more when I do things that are not Christ like. If grace perfects our nature, then I must be able to retain more grace, as I am growing more and more comfortable in my own skin.

I realize now that I do not have to feel bad about raging at God. He can handle it and wants me to lay it all at his feet, even my rage. I still turn to food to comfort or and now realize this is what Gluttony is, an idolatry of substance for comfort. It is another way in which I try to not be vulnerable and take what it hurting to God. Anytime we make an idol of something it is because we are not willing or able to go to God the Father. If this happens, we must ask him to reveal the barrier to us. We must ask His help to remove the obstacles.

Criteria 5) Re-occurring suicidal threats, self-mutilating behaviors or comments about dying soon or wanting to die are frequent ways to communicate the deep pain and are real pleas for help.

Self-mutilation (I am including excessive piercing and tattooing) is signs of identity wounds. Excessive use of drugs and alcohol and even food are also means of self-mutilation and although I did not fall into excessive use of substance to cope with my pain I have used substance.

I used to pull my hair out of my head until vanity caused me to turn to cutting myself. I remember it make me feel powerful and not so weak. I also liked how it let me feel like I was taking the edge off of the latent anger inside of me. Some scratch themselves, cut themselves or burn themselves. It is a form of releasing some of the guilt or alleviates some of the suffering they are experiencing internally. It is a way to connect the body to the pain of the inside, the person and identity are making visible the invisible ugliness and they are able to find a release or even feelings of euphoria from it.

The reason persons with identity wounds self-mutilate could be to experience the endorphins the body releases during the mutilation (self-treatment for pain) or perhaps it is the souls relief that now the hidden pain is being made visible in some way, uniting the body in expressing what the soul cannot express. Whatever the reason, this is a hallmark of identity wounds.This is Theology of the Body. Making the invisible visible! See me! See my pain! To manifest the inner pain in a physical sign on the body is to allow the "whole person" to express it consistently and to feel whole.

Criteria 6) Identity distortion in at least two of the following areas; 1. Self-image, 2. Sexual Orientation 3. Long term goals or career 4. Type of friends desired or 5. Preferred values.

I have never accepted my own intelligence or attractiveness. I was taught early on that this is something subjective. I was taught my multiplication table by being quizzed and then slapped in the head when I missed one. I was yelled at and made to feel stupid. To me, being smart is something you earn and it is judged by how smart or stupid you are compared to others.

I was told regularly when I got to fat so my body image was always about looking a "certain" way. Whenever I would feel pretty, I would see someone prettier than me and then I would feel ugly again.

My identity was graded on a curve and my value had to be proven over and over again. The little bit of self-esteem I had was gained through impressing others and was necessary and critical to love myself. I name-dropped; I bragged about whom I knew and what I was doing all in an attempt to impress people so that I could love myself. My identity was in the hands of others and so it was a very fragile thing.

I felt fake and that I had to "be" someone people would like. I tried to be or emulate attributes that others had that I liked. I remember talking like a girl I went to school with, dressing like another, you named it I would try it all in an attempt to find that perfection that would make people like me.

Some people with identity issues change their jobs, friends and even life goals frequently some may even change their sexual orientation. This can be from Gender Shame and this is covered in the appendix. Persons with identity wounds are more susceptible to joining cults because they are seeking unconditional acceptance. They want to be affirmed as good. This is the basic human need of every person but many do not get this, especially when neglect, trauma or abuse is present in early child hood. This also can lead some into very destructive relationships of physical abuse. I am grateful this was not the case for me.

I have driven many people away from my attempts to prove myself, to accomplish then herald it to others. I only did it to say "See, I am valuable" but this can seen and heard as "Look at me! I am better than you!". I never realized that when I would feel threatened by someone sharing something they did or accomplished, that I would immediately attempt to prove how I some how was just as good or better in that area. Now that I have become aware of that, I have gone back and asked people's forgiveness at making them feel little and I have shared vulnerably how I was attempting to cover my feelings of being inadequate. Their success triggered my wounds. This has not only been healing of many relationships but it also has been freeing for me to see how affirmed I am when I do not have to earn or prove my worth.

by Anthony Kerrigan

Criteria 7)A person with identity wounds has chronic feelings of boredom or emptiness. They long and desire for purpose and without it some people with identity wounds chose to end their lives rather than face the feelings of emptiness and lack of purpose.

There was only one time that I thought about suicide. I was in high school and had just moved back to live with my mother. I put almost a whole bottle of aspirin in my mouth and when I closed the medicine cabinet and saw myself in the mirror, I could not do it. I saw myself with a mouth full of aspirin and thought, "What are you doing?" I did not end my life but there have been many days where I stayed in bed and slept the day away unable to face my life. I still have days where I am filled with emptiness. When I was in bed pregnant on bed rest, I very much went to a place of feeling like I would be better off dead. Those have been dark times for me and were before my healing experience. When you feel you have no purpose, life becomes very difficult and can feel empty. When you know God created you for a reason then you know there is a purpose to everyone’s life, even our suffering has purpose when we unite it to God and go to him for the answer to the burning questions inside of us.

My greatest healing in this came when I read "The Reed of God" and realized the when we embrace virginal emptiness we realize the emptiness is not without form. The reed by a babbling river is cut and wittled out with stops cut into the outside. But when the creator blows his breath into the emptiness lyrical music is played. The emptiness gives the reed its beautiful form from which to pour out it's greatest gift. A golden chalice does not come in the form of the beautiful flower it resembles but is instead made from first gathering gold from mud and rock from which it must be hewn. It is then melted down and poured into a form and then beaten by countless blows of a mallet to give it the emptiness from which it's purpose is manifested. The chalice's emptiness is the space in which wine can be poured and then offered in the sacrifice of the mass! A nest is created when a mother bird gathers the materials from which to create it and then it is her tender breast that forms the emptiness from which her babes will find their home.

Each of us are formed in some way. We are either pounded into our shape or perhaps our lives felt more like being cut and whittled. Maybe you feel like you were held to a hot fire and melted down before being poured into your shape. Still others will be formed by tender love. Whatever the method, our emptiness, our shape is the perfect emptiness from which God desires to pour Himself into so to that He may play His lyrical music through us, our to sacrifice Himself through us or to bring a drink of Him to those in thirst.

Emptiness is necessary or else there is no place for God. Without Him, emptiness is without purpose. When we consider our emptiness helps reveal our form, we can then have the courage to look at what shaped us as something most perfectly suited to reveal Him to the world. When we are small He is big, when we are weak, He is strong. The reason a person who was sexually abused can write a book about healing from sexual abuse is because I know the ache, I know the pain. Christ can shine from this broken place in me and now my brokeness is made beautiful. Put your fingers into my wounds and see the glory of Jesus Christ and allow Him to resurrect you! Come from the tomb that you are waiting in, more dead than alive and see the Glory of God. You have been created for a reason and God desires for you to enter into the redemption of the world with HIm. He wants you to bring your emptiness to Him so that He can fill it and pour Himself out to others. Will you say yes?

By Hoeg

Criteria 8) The person with identity wounds has such a problem with being alone that they seek out any means to fill the silence with whatever noise they can. If they believe their identity is relative to how others see them, to be alone would be without identity. The feelings of neglect and abandonment are exacerbated with being alone.

I am not sure why I have always been afraid of being alone. There are times even now when I am surrounded by my children and I think to myself, "I wish I had a moment to myself!" but then when I get it I am scared to death. I have a really hard time with Eucharistic adoration for that very reason. The thought of going to a room and being alone, even though it is with Jesus in the monstrance terrifies me. It "feels" frightening. This is how I know I am not fully healed in this area of my identity. Fear is not of God.

I think it is because without the distraction of others I am exposed and I am terrified of what I will see there and what God will say about me. I still forget sometimes that God does not come to strike us dead with lightening but comes to restore us and raise us up to him. When we are small, we can go to Jesus and be lifted up in his arms to God the father. I recently had another healing when I saw a picture on Facebook of a man hugging his daughter who joined a convent. It was cloistered so he would not be able to see her again, she was saying goodbye. I saw this young girl in her father’s arms and he was crying and she was crying but neither of them looked sad, it was more like tears of joy and pride and admiration and love. She looked small and he looked big and for this first time in my life I thought to myself "if that is what it means to be small, I can be small like that".

I have even begun to look to the way in which my husband is such a beautiful father to our children and imagine God the Father being like that. It has begun to heal me. I may have found freedom here but I still need maturity in this and that is what the next chapter of my book "Desperate for Love is going to deal with.

Warm Bodies Teaches Us Theology of The Body

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Possible spoiler alerts!!

This zombie movie is absolutely wonderful because it teaches through using the analogy of zombies as our own impeding deaths due to our disconnection from one another and with our design of our bodies. We are made for connection, we are made for union and communion and this movie shouts this out using this current craze of Zombie Apocalypse as a modality of entertainment. This movie teaches theology of the body, our body speaks a language and a zombie body tells us that when we are disconnected from one another, when we use others for our own selfish needs, we are dead. When we connect we begin to live, our design reveals our creators intentions, union and communion.

This movie uses so many examples to reveal this truth. At one point we even see the main character walk past a wall display of the evolution of man showing how we have "evolved" from an animal. This of course reveals once again to the viewer that we are called to be more than animals, we were made for greatness.

The movie begins with the lead character, a Zombie feeling "unconnected". As he starts out desiring connection, he begins to wonders how awesome it must have been before the apocalypse when people connected to one another. The movie then flashes back to before the apocalypse and shows a scene in the same airport in which he know finds himself walking and we the audience see the world as it is today, disconnected as we are all on our digital devices, surfing the internet, listening to music or playing some kind of virtual game.

The Zombie, named R...monologues with inner dialogue about how he wonders why he cannot connect with others then realizes, "oh ya...I'm dead"
He has taken over an empty airplane and listens to records like Bob Dylan and Guns and Roses. He and his "best friend" another zombie he groans with at a bar in the airport, walk into town to get something to eat (yes, you guessed it..the living) he makes several jokes about how slow they are and finally he arrives to the place he meets "her".

Upon seeing her he is smitten in fact, his heart beats as if human connection re-ignites his heart. For so long he existed in solitude and now, seeing her a spark hits him and we see his heart pump showing us that connection of man and woman gives purpose and life.

He helps her escape (not before eating the brains of her boyfriend Perry. This is done because it allows the zombie to experience human connection as the memories of the deceased are experienced in a living dream experience for the zombie ). It should be noted that this scene really reveals how we long for and ache to fill the void inside of us meant for human connection because ultimately it is supposed to point us like an icon to God. The only thing a zombie has that can even remotely resemble connection is the eating of brains because the life experiences of the person they are eating are experienced in doing so. It fills that deep hunger and longing and while it fills and satisfies the hunger, the joy and ecstasy comes with it of feeling and experiencing the human connections of the persons life. The people they loved, the dreams they had and so much more. This is the only way a zombie can connect, it is a counterfeit, but it is all they have so they seek out more and more persons to consume, trying to fill the hunger and longing inside of them. They continue to decay and eventually become "bonies" which are zombies that are much like demons in that they are not even covered in flesh, they are at the point of no return and in fact now hate anything resembling connection.

After "R" sees Julie (the love interest of R) music plays and his heart beats in chest, just once, but enough to show us that he is changing. To escape being eaten, R helps Julie to pretend she is a zombie and he covers her in the stink of dead blood. He teaches her to pretend to be a zombie to hide her and through their time together he continues a slow metamorphosis back to life.

She comes to care for him as well and tries to take him to her father to show him (he kills zombies) that they are curing themselves. In fact they are not curing themselves but rather human connection and the relationship witnessed by other zombies between her and Z causes their own hearts to begin beating by witnessing them holding hands. Their body speaks a language and the zombies understand it is a sign of purpose and meaning. They begin to stare at pictures on the wall of couples holding hands.

I don't want to spoil it all but I will say that in a scene where R gives himself as a free total and faithful gift, by wrapping himself around her to jump from a building to save her using himself as a shield for her...the fruit is witnessed in an almost baptismal scene and he is created anew and we see it. The next scene is even more amazing as she too then makes a sacrifice and faces her own fears for love.

This is a treasure trove of teaching on love and our call to union and communion. The zombies are an analogy of so many who are dead to this truth, that seek the counterfeit and feed on what they think numbs the pain or gives them pleasure rather than ultimate fulfillment.

I definitely recommend this movie but go and see it and talk about it using the lens of Theology of The Body!

Healing Wounds through The 7 Sorrows

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The Seven Sorrows of Mary Rosary

What if I told you that if you pray the rosary of the 7 sorrows, the one Our Lady of Kibeho says are for this time in the Church, that you would be healed.

Praying the rosary of the 7 sorrows helps to heal us because it untwists the lies of the evil one. When we see the lies we understand the judgments our hearts have made and even the inner vows we may have made in order to protect ourselves.

No wonder people are free from addictions when they pray this rosary, it is because when lies are exposed and the vows are renounced the strongholds are removed and we are delivered from oppression.

Click this link to print out your copy of the Rosary of The 7 Sorrows

The Seven Sorrows of Mary Rosary

Exposes lies, judgments and Inner vows , which Heals Wounds, Which frees people from addictions, Strongholds and oppression.

Sin=LUST

1st Sorrow: Prophesy/Simon;
Heals idolatry of relationship. She went to be purified. It undoes the impurities of our hearts.

Heals Wound=Rejection

Sin=Greed

2nd Sorrow: Flight Into Egypt;
Heals idolatry of fear, mistrust and idol of materialism. It teaches detachment from worldly goods.

Heals Wound=Mother and Father Wounds (identity or shame issues) that resulted from neglect or abuse

Sin=Anger

3rd Sorrow= Losing Jesus;
Heals idolatry of control. Rather than being angry, she gave up control and realized that being

powerless was really about allowing God to be powerfully working doing His will.

Heals Wound=Powerlessness and Abandonment

Sin=Sloth

4th Sorrow=Carrying The Cross;

Heals idolatry of fear or desire to use substance to avoid pain or suffering. He picked up his cross, he did not avoid the pain he embraced his suffering and the task at hand.

Heals Wound=Fear identity issues, abuse in childhood can create a way to self medicate when anxiety becomes overwhelming. Anxiety disorders are from being unable to face, for whatever reason, that which causes pain or suffering.

Sin=Pride

5th Sorrow=Mary at the Foot of The Cross;

Heals idolatry of self. Mary’s pain was her own as her heart was pierced but her concern was not for self but for Jesus. The shame of being seen naked, the disgrace of our

Savior being killed on the cross did not become disordered in her heart, she did not focus on
self but she suffered at the foot of the cross experiencing what must have been the most difficult
moment in her life to bear. She knew who God was, she knew her Son was part of God's plan of love and she fully trusted in Him at that painful moment.

Heals Wounds=Shame and identity issues, vanity issues and intellectual pride or importance to allow the self to control value rather than turn to the Father for identity

Sin=Gluttony

6th Sorrow= Receiving The Body of Christ;

Heals idolatry of substance for pleasure. It rightly orders our need of spiritual and physical food to

fill the place inside with Him rather than false food, drink or substance. We are called to Union and Communion, we are called to connections, relationships with others so that we can be seen. We must be this vulnerable in order to be healed.

Heals Wounds=Vulnerability Issues, Addictions and dissociative disorders, fear of abandonment

Sin=Envy

7th Sorrow=Christ's Body is Laid in The Tomb

Heals the idolatry of Status. Christ was not laid in a tomb for a King, nor was he even laid in a tomb that was prepared for himself. He had no place to lay his head, neither in birth nor death. The King of King's and Lord of Lords was given the resting place of another because Christ had no status, he was crucified as a criminal and buried as a common thief would have been, in a tomb shared with others without status.

Heals=Wound=Shame, Neglect, Identity feelings of not being seen or heard or being valued

Here is the first of the four videos that pray the 7 Sorrows given to us by Our Lady of Kibeho and prayed by Immaculee Ilibagiza, the woman who survived the genocide in Rwanda and wrote the book "Left To Tell" and "Our Lady of Kibeho"

Was Downton Abbey's Ethel Parks pro-life?

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If Ethel Parks had lived in modern times, would she have had an abortion? As I watched Ethel reach out to the father of her unborn baby and watch him treat her with distain and disgust, I was reminded of my own experience of being pregnant outside of marriage.

I had just graduated from high school. I did not live in Ethel's age but I did live in a small town. When I began to show I received all kinds of reactions. I had some tell me outright that I was a disgrace, or how "terrible" it was that I was a child having a child. There were some that I encountered that would scowl others that would just stare in disgust. Many would whisper as I passed and still others would refuse to shake my hand in Church or ignore me all together.

It certainly was not what Ethel Parks went through but it was bad enough. The irony was that there were several girls at mass that also were pregnant outside of marriage. The difference was I kept my baby and they aborted theirs. I had a visible sign of my scarlet letter and they had hidden theirs.

As I watched Downton Abbey, I cried. Ethel Parks did all that she could to find a way to raise her son and continued to fall deeper into despair and poverty as everyone around her cast her out. My heart ached for her as she was snubbed and even refused any legitimate work because "respectable persons" would not associate with a woman of scandal. Finally, after doing all that she could to prevent her and her child from starving to death, she turned to prostitution.

Mrs. Hughes, was her only friend (and later Mrs. Crawley). She brought her food when she could, she tried to deliver a letter to the father but nothing could elevate her suffering. I found myself screaming at the television screen when the Ethel burst into the luncheon in which the grandparents of her son, Charlie, were dining. I screamed at Mrs. Hughes for not saying that she knew that their son fathered Charlie because she walked in on them doing it! Even Lord Grantham was aware of likelihood, a man that professed to love his servants as family, yet because he could not associate with her scandal, he kept silence to this. The etiquette of the day and the need to always protect ones reputation was more important than restoring the honor of a "prostitute" or a "slut" as she was also called.

Justice says we get what we deserve. Mercy says, rather than give you what you deserve, you will get what you need and it will be done with love, kindness, gentility and it is in fact justice perfected. This is what Mrs. Crawley showed Ethel, Mercy. She took her in and loved her despite her sin and gave Ethel hope for the future.

Ethel decided to give Charlie to his grandparents. It was very heroic but more importantly it was an example of Trinitarian love. She loved her son so much; that she gave him as the gift that his life was, to another who could care for him. So many women could give their children to families who cannot conceive, yet because they lack this kind of love, or perhaps because we as a society do not value this as love, they have an abortion instead.

My guess is, although I pray that I am incorrect, I wonder if Ethel would have had an abortion if it where legal. Today women do not have to struggle to find employment because they are with child outside of marriage. They do not have to bare the weight of scandal associated with carrying a child to term without a husband. If Ethel had not had to deal with this, I wonder, would she have kept her son or would she have aborted him?

Most likely Ethel would have wanted to hide from the ridicule and ruin of pregnancy outside of marriage. Because abortion was not legal, we see her struggle play out on screen and my opinion she triumphed and transformed because of it. She went from a selfish and vain servant girl that could not take direction or think of others, to a self-sacrificing woman that thought only of others and never for herself. She truly bloomed.

Ethel, you are an inspiration to those who find themselves pregnant outside of marriage. Your courage and strength to give up your son for his better good, is a demonstration of the love of the trinity and it is what we should all strive for. In the end, Ethel Park's was pro-life and I am sure that Charlie would thank his mum for it.

Are Sufferings Blessings in Disguise?

2013-02-03T10:02:00.001-08:00

Some people are starting to think we need not suffer but just need to keep calling down blessings from God. While I agree we should ask for blessings, I believe we should never turn away from suffering because it is in our willingness to suffer that we will be healed and perfected. It is the fire that refines us it transforms us and makes us stronger, more beautiful and perfected.

Why are people beginning to embrace the teachings that God wants only to bless us and give us all that will make our lives easy? This is falsehood. A loving parent gives us what we need not what we want. A child in need of therapy to recover use of once broken limbs, must be forced to walk on them,in excruciating pain, to strengthen the muscles and move the joints. If the child screams and cries, a loving parent will console but NOT remove the suffering because it is in suffering that pain that the child will one day be able to run!

Be cautious of those who are preaching only abundance and blessings and good things without a cross. We are all called to suffer. It is because of sin that has entered into the world that we must suffer. It is because we are at war ( because of sin) with one another, that we must suffer one another. It is because of sin and death that there is illness and disease and so sometimes we must suffer in this way.

I'm sure you already know this but I've heard lately, some, that are beginning to preach blessings only and it concerns me enough to want to write. It is not because I believe you would begin preaching blessings only because I know that you understand the value of suffering but I write to you rather so that you will pay attention to those who come preaching blessings only.

http://www.markmallett.com/blog/2013/02/the-healing-road/

Peace in Christ our King and may Our Lady of Guadalupe heal, hide and protect you

Are Anti Psychotic Drugs Causing Psychotic Behavior?

2013-01-09T10:57:00.002-08:00

Am I the only one that is concerned that some of the new psychotropic drugs are the culprit behind the psychotic behavior? What I really believe is the there is a God and there is a Devil and that the devil is finding more and more ways to cut us off from God. I believe in infestation, oppression and yes, even possession although I think that is somewhat rare.

I am not saying I think these shooters are possessed. I am not saying they weren't. What I am saying is that perhaps their "illness" was actually demonic oppression brought on by psychotropic drugs. If you do not believe in God or the devil then let me say that I think that psychotropic drugs are creating chemical changes to the body that create physiological changes in the body that make concrete abstract reasoning difficult if not impossible making the person susceptible to suggestion or worse, likely to become aggressive or violent towards themselves and or others.

Either way, someone needs to ask for an independent review of these "medications" to assess whether or not they attributed in any way to the latest massacres.

List of persons taking psychiatric drugs that became murderers;

Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Colombine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.
Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.
Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.
Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.
Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.
Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.
Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.
Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.
A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.
Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..
A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.
Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.
TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.
Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.
James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.
Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania
Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California
Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.
Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.
Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.
Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.
Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.
Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.
Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family’s Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.
Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara’s parents said “…. the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”)
Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002,
(Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed himself.)
Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family’s detached garage.
Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.
Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.
Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.
A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.
Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”
Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.
Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.
Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.
Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.
Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his
New York high school.

Missing from list…3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds….
What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on, age 21…… killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az

What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on, age 24….. killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado

What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on, age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas Or

What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on, age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct
Roberts is the only one that I haven’t heard about being on drugs of some kind

The Aurora shooter, James Holmes was taking psychotropic drugs. The Sandy Hook shooter was taking psychotropic drugs. The Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner was taking psychotropic drugs and the list goes on.

The pharmaceutical industry makes;

$ 88 BILLION A YEAR
$7 BILLION A MONTH
$ 1.7 BILLION A WEEK
$ 246 MILLION A DAY
$ 171,000 A MINUTE

ON PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS ALONE

Want more info? Check this out.

Why is the media failing to even mention this connection? Because the Pharmaceutical companies are very powerful and make trillions of dollars a year selling us their newest and latest creation to "help" us manage the ever growing list of illness, disorder or problems that people are developing over the past 50 years. In fact they seem to work hand in hand with Doctors and some have even said there seems to be a conflict here.

Im not the only one making these links check this out: PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE CONNECTED TO SHOOTINGS

You don't mess with these giants. They have board members on the FDA committees guaranteeing their products are approved and they are some of the most powerful lobbyists in government. Its the same reason it took so long for people to uncover the studies that proved cigarettes caused cancer or that the companies dumping chemicals in the rivers were causing cancer in local communities. The money is powerful and the drugs we are willingly taking are turning us into mindless puppets.

Goni Montes

"Every time you see a commercial for a new drug, with all its supposed benefits – and its long list of potential side effects – you can be grateful to the extensive lobbying efforts of America’s pharmaceutical industry."

We are becoming a culture obsessed with taking medication. It never used to be this way. All you have to do is turn your television on and see how the commercials have changed from kids singing they are "stuck on bandaids cause bandaids stuck on me" or "my bologna has a first name it's O-S-C-A-R" to being told we should take this or that pill for our neck pain, joint pain, depression and the like. Why are we being fed more and more medications? Why don't people care that the side effects are worse than the original ailment? I have seen commercials for medication that helps people with joint pain state that the side effects include internal bleeding, liver failure, even death. Remember, the original ailment was joint pain.

Why are some of these drugs being handed out so quickly without years of studies to make sure they are safe? It used to be that we would have to wait years for something to get approved. Not anymore, some of the flu vaccines we are giving our infant children were created a week ago. We have no idea in the long term, what the ramifications are or will be to giving our kids these "vaccines". There is just no way to know yet. But I promise you, any new childhood leukemia's or cancers or autistic spectrum disorders will absolutely NOT be associated with these toxins we inject directly into the blood stream along with 4 other injections of other toxins all at the same time. No, crib deaths in these children are not in any way from the toxins we are putting into their tiny bodies. Am I really the only person out there saying this just is not logical? We are giving our kids more and more of these drugs and more and more of our kids are getting rare cancers. So much so that now their are barbie dolls with no hair, for the kids with cancer.

BACK TO THE MASSACRES

Why is no one asking the question; "What pharmaceutical drugs were these men on when they did these horrific crimes?" We should be asking this question because we know for a fact that psychotropic drugs are linked to aggression, visions, nightmares, suicide and more. We know that some psychotropic drugs for depression actually became a catalyst for some to take their own lives. Ironic isn't it? That you could be taking Prozac for depression and then have the side effect be suicidal tendencies in "some" people.

It is not my opinion that psychotropic drugs are altering our brain chemistry and subverting our wills and opening us to demonic forces ( or for those of you that do not believe in this lets call it aggressive or violent behavior).

There are scientific studies proving this. They do not call it demonic, that is just my terminology, but they do say this:

"She felt hopeless and alone. It seemed that all she could do was to follow a thought that had been planted in her brain from some alien force. She suddenly decided she should go and throw herself in front of a car, that this was the only answer."

Why does one person say a thought was "planted in her brain by an alien force"? Another woman says this:

"There was a strong feeling that while on the drug that in some way she was being controlled and that suicide might happen."

Why does this woman say she felt she was being controlled? Check out this article in the Guardian to see the research that Britain has done to prove that Prozac and other anti-depressants in the same class (like Zoloft) is creating nightmares, suicidal tendencies, visions, and paranoia as well as causing some of the patients to commit suicide or even murder.

Read an excerpt here from THE GUARDIAN:

But while the happy drug works for many people, in a significant number it can take them to the edge of despair. The study, conducted by David Healy, director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, reveals the real dangers for some of the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), as Prozac and its imitators are called.

Nightmare

It found that two out of 20 healthy volunteers on an antidepressant in the Prozac class called Lustral (or Zoloft in the USA) became dangerously suicidal, compared with none of them when they were put on an antidepressant of a different class called reboxetine.

One 30-year-old woman who took part had a nightmare about having her throat slit after one week and by the end of a fortnight, was suicidal. "She felt hopeless and alone. It seemed that all she could do was to follow a thought that had been planted in her brain from some alien force. She suddenly decided she should go and throw herself in front of a car, that this was the only answer.

"It was as if there was nothing out there apart from the car, which she was going to throw herself under. She didn't think of her partner or child," says the study, published in the journal Primary Care Psychiatry.

Later she completed a diary entry, describing herself as jumpy, anxious and suspicious. "Her mind was racing and spiralling out of control. Then it went blank except for the clear thought that she must kill herself violently by throwing herself beneath a car or a train."

The use of drugs to create altered states is not new thinking. Many occultists have used drugs to induce altered states so as to "connect" with "beings" from other dimensions. One example is Aleister Crowley. It would make sense that as embodied spirits (that would be us) if you alter our bodies (altering our brain chemistry) it would alter us spiritually.

Why should we care? Because we are subverting our will. Our will is what separates us from animals. The bible warns against drunkenness and hypnosis. Why? Because it is dangerous for us to subvert our wills. Our will protects us. As we move through this world, the senses of our bodies takes in information and then our our reasoning and decision making allows us to make choices and then act upon the information in a particular way. If our will is removed then we can not protect ourselves, we open ourselves and now, without reasoning we may be acting in ways that are contrary to our conscience. This is dangerous. We see it with these men that have murdered other human beings while under the effects of these drugs.

Jared Loughner actually was quite normal and very smart according to his friends. But then people around him said he started taking some drugs and his personality changed. They said they could tell he wasn't drunk or high but yet he was not at all the Jared they grew up with. Jared told many people that he believed he was being mind controlled. Jared was a United States Military recruit. He kept many journals and in his journals he said that the military was trying to control his mind. He even had websites showing how a "handler" is able to effect mind control. He definitely believed the government was trying to brainwash him and in fact, the entire population. Was he just crazy or did the drugs create this effect?

Jared was affiliated with a satanic organization that had ties to the drug cartels. How? The church was led by an ex-catholic priest by the name of David Romo. Drug Lord Oseil Cardenas attended this satanic church. There are more details on the website here.

Drug Lord Oseil Cardenas and most of the drug cartel, believe the rituals perfumed there protect their business. David Romo was arrested 3 days prior to the Jared Loughner shooting in Arizona. The judge sitting on this case as well as many of the cases dealing with the drug cartel was Judge John Roll. Representative Gifford was also an instrumental person in destroying the drug cartel's ability to smuggle drugs over the border and had in just days prior to the shooting worked with the National Guard to set up further patrols on the boarder.

Is it a coincidence that both of these persons were shot by a man affiliated with an organization that had threatened them both for quite some time and that Jared was begging for help from those around him saying that he believed he was being mind controlled? I don't know the answer to that, I am just asking a question because no one else seems to think we should be asking questions.

As for the other men that have performed such horrific crimes, we see a huge change in them as well. They go from looking almost normal to looking like they are possessed by something. We should point out that James' father is supposedly linked to the banking industry and so is the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza's dad. Check out the following website to see how it seems there might be another connection between these two besides the fact the boys were on psychotropic drugs to control their "mental illness".

I do not know why no one is asking about the drugs used by these boys, but someone should be. The pharmaceutical industry should be held accountable if the drugs they are selling to the public (and will now have Obama Care to help them make even more money) are safe for use. Shouldn't they?

My next blog will be on the effects that gaming is having on the male brain. Did you know that the correlation between violent video games and boys becoming violent is so high that it can no longer be considered a coincidence? I will show you in my next blogpost.

The New Discoveries In Our Lady of Guadalupe Are A Message To Mankind

2012-12-07T15:15:00.000-08:00

It seems that every one that I have met who feels called to the New Evangelization has their own story involving Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is not mere coincidence, rather it is part of a special grace through the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. About a year ago, I had an encounter with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that changed the way I understood who and what Mary is, how God loves the world and what He desires to reveal to the world through this image about Himself and His relationship with every human person. I saw that the image of Divine Mercy is present in the tilma. It is present in that the torso of Jesus Christ appears there and The Shroud of Turin aligns perfectly. Why? Our Lady of Guadalupe is revealing the Love story between God and His Children. God is declaring His mother as a co-operator in bringing about the redemption of mankind. In fact, it has been pre-destined for the remnant Church to be in the America's and for Mary to be the Intercessor. Throughout history she has protected the remnant Church from death, disease and persecution. She is once again heralding to her Children that SHE desires to pour out a supernatural grace of receptivity and in doing this we will be opened to her spouse, The Holy Spirit and He will become one with us. The Holy Spirit desires to become espoused to us so that we too can allow the gifts of the Holy Spirit, given to the Church at Pentacost, to become operational.

Through consecration to Mary, we too will be given great fruits as well as supernatural protection from Mary. Through invoking Our Lady of Guadalupe, to hide us in her mantle, it will be as if we are hidden from the enemy, invisible. God desires for us to get the whereabouts of her Shrines out to the faithful because they will be safe havens during coming persecutions. They will also be places of great miracles and conversions.

These "signs" are to bring more people to belief in the one true risen Lord, Jesus Christ. He said that we would do miracles and even more than He so that people might believe. Now is the time. We must begin to tell people this love story. We need to buckle down in our parishes regardless of what we do or do not like going on there and we need to set up pilgrimages to The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, the first approved Marian Apparition site in the entire United States of America.

Why go to Medjugorje? Come to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, after all it is an approved place where Mary appeared and provided protection to those who came there for safety. One day soon, we will need to flee to her again. Do you know where to go? Another place of refuge is the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. I believe this will also be a place of refuge and protection. Finally, there is the Shrine "Mary Help of All Christians at Holy Hill ". It also will be a refuge. We need to begin having speakers in to tell the Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe so that she can begin to mystically open us with her graces of receptivity.
Please note the Shrine of Necedah is demonic. It is a disproved apparition site and extremely dangerous. It is not a place of refuge it is a place that only will bestow confusion, perversion and pain.

CULTURE OF

DEATH

Our Lady of Guadalupe has a message from God to the people of this particular time in history. There are now three discoveries found in the image in the 20^th century that were not part of God's plan for conversion of the Aztec people of Mexico so why would he have put them there unless the generation that would discover these things were to be evangelized by them. Truly the culture of death we live corresponds in many ways to the culture of death of the people of Mexico in 1531.
God has a reason for everything, why would he have put these images in the tilma unless they were meant to be discovered when the veil thinned enough so to as reveal another message in an age that is in desperate need for conversion.

Am I the only person asking the question of "Could there be a message in the Tilma for the Century of the Church that is most like the Aztec culture? We are after all, a culture with false deities, shedding of innocent blood and in need of divine intervention as well as a poor man's catechism to re-evangelize our pagan world are we not?

So, I contend, we are making discoveries in an image that always held these new findings but they were laying dormant until the age upon which would need it most would not only discover it, but through a gift of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, there would be an outpouring of grace and receptivity to the world so that we would, through the sacred doorway of art, discover the spiritual realm.

Nahuatl Glyphs were words telling a story

Banner Used In Mexico because the Image of OLG was believed to be a powerful intercessor

Mary Brings St. Juan Diego up the Hill and He discovers the Flowers in Bloom

St.Juan Diego goes Bishop Zummaraga with the Message from Mary

Bishop Zummaraga receives the sign He prayed for as well as a miracle!

9 Million Aztecs Convert through the intercession of Mary who brought the announcement of Jesus Christ, God incarnate for all of mankind.

GOD SPEAKS

IN A LANGUAGE

WE CAN RECEIVE

The Aztec's were catechized through glyphs, through pictures that spoke a language to them. Through the lens of Iconography and science, Theology and Technology are revealing the teachings of our faith once again and I expect to see millions healed, converted and protected through Our Lady of Guadalupe.

I have now heard a 3^rddiscovery that lends itself to the technological age upon which we live. Perhaps my theory that there is a message within the Tilma, for the century and the technological age that would have the equipment to detect it, and that because of the discoveries, would be re-invited to discern the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE

TILMA

The microscope, Kepler's Advanced Mathematics and computer software and mechanics that drive phonographs, Iconography and photography are part of the technology that has revealed this invitation to the world. The microscope enabled us to discover the miracles in her eyes.

Not only does her eye act like a living eye, which was discovered and then confirmed by over 10 Ophthalmologists that her eyes demonstrate the Samson-Pukinje effect, which is that of a 3 fold reflection of an image on the cornea that occurs when a living eye is viewing something, but the images that are reflected there are of 14 people. They are of a family, Juan Diego, Bishop Zummaraga, the interpreter and a few others who were present in the room at the time the tilma was presented to the Bishop. It is as if Our Lady of Guadalupe was present in the room.

Kepler's Mathematics and computers have allowed us to see the second invitation. It is that of the Constellations. They are on the tilma represented by the gold 8 pointed stars and they are placed exactly as they appeared at the exact latitude and longitude in the sky. With two exceptions, first the N and S axis are horizontal and E & W are Vertical (poles are shifted) and second, it is from God's perspective not ours since it is looking down upon the sky not up from earth. Actually, this is also for a reason and is part of “reading” the message we are being invited to receive. The fact that the stars are exactly as they were in the sky on the tilma itself, reveals that the date of the morning of Dec 8, 1531 by way of the stars on her outer mantle is another miracle. I want to point out that the intersection of the universe made on the NASA computers cross right over the tilma when aligned.

One would expect the crossing to be right at the Nahui ollin, the glyph for the one true God in her womb but it is not.

Instead it is right where it out to be, over the sacred and merciful heart of Jesus whose heart is pierced and water and blood are flowing down the inner robe and pooling in the Aztec fold.

The pierced heart is the wise man glyph's mouth inside the hill glyph. The stream of Divine Mercy is said to be the color of deep red, a blood like color red. The scholars mention that the "shadows" within the inner robe of Mary, pool in such a way that does not make sense. It is not how light would pool in this area. I believe that is because it is conveying a pooling of precious blood and water. It pools into the area of the aztec fold. The place that most Nahuatl Indians carried their valuables, their children and more.

SACRED ART AND ICONOGRAPHY ARE

THEOLOGY IN COLOR

To show the pierced heart and the groin area together is indicative of art that shows the fulfillment of the old and new covenants. Christ came to circumcise the hearts of men. To transform them through his blood. Since Christ's body was Mary's flesh and bones it makes sense. The Mandala shape around her in gold rays is also an artistic expression of icons revealing the convergence of two things, here we see God become man. We also see Mary and Savior in a Eucharistic way.

His body and blood was her body and blood. Her human nature giving him his. In iconography the mandala is reserved for Christ but of course she is pregnant with Christ but now we see Christ is also present in the image through Divine Mercy. (More on this below). Another finding that points to this same truth is that the constellations on the tilma reveal the center of the universe. The center is over the flow of water and blood NOT the Nahuai Ollin as we would think it would.

A GEOGRAPHICAL MAP OF

MEXICO

The Tilma is a geographical map of Mexico. Where each of the 9 flower clusters are laid out on the inner robe (Nahuatl Glyphs) is where the mountains are. Tepayac Hill is represented by the Nahui Ollin. These images help to show you how this is laid out.

MUSIC TO HEAL

What is the 3^rd discovery I mentioned? It is a song. A friend who traveled to Mexico and met with Msgr. Eduardo Chavez (as well as ancient documents cited in “Mexican Phoenix” has said as much has just told me. My friend told me that Msgr. Eduardo has taken pins and put them into every center of every flower. If you look at the stars and the center of the flowers, it aligns with notes on a staff. Very soon I will upload the song played on a piano.

I want to note that I have shown on this website the research proving that music can create an effect on us. My article entitled "Good Vibrations" shows the biological changes that certain hertz, frequencies and vibrations that music has on us. St. Hildegard created a lot of this very kind of healing music and there are multiple youtube videos of it for those who want to listen. The music probably provides healing vibrations. Some say that when God created us He sang the world into existence. St. Francis said that if you sing you are praying twice. Music is a powerful medium because it effects both the spiritual and physical reality of each person.

Even the words we SPEAK can effect a substance

Sound creates change biologically and some sounds create beneficial and healing change and some sounds create ill effect.

Neurons before stimulation

Music heals our bodies and one of the tilma's messages to us is that she is pouring out graces to heal the wounded hearts of humanity so that we can receive and retain the graces that are being showered upon us from God.

Neurons stimulated by music

Just as she healed Juan Bernadino, St. Juan Diego's uncle, she is bringing healing to us. I do not have all the specifics on this but am working on getting them and will update this when I do. I should note that when Juan Diego was walking through the mountains he first heard beautiful music before he ever saw Mary. Music was the mans that the Aztec's prayed as well as dancing to music. Everything that meant something then means something now for us.

SCIENTIFICALLY UNEXPLAINABLE

The tilma itself is a miracle. The image of Our Lady appeared in a moment upon the cloth made of Agave plant. For almost 500 years, the tilma has remained without deteriorating even though it is on cloth made of cactus. In 1785 a worker accidentally spilled cleaning fluid made of 50% nitric acid on the upper right corner of the tilma. “Besides any natural explanation, the acid has not destroyed the fabric of the cloth, indeed it has not even destroyed the colored parts of the image,” Orozco said.

In 1921 a bomb was set off inside of the church in an attempt to destroy the image. The explosion cracked the marble floors, shatter the windows that were over 150 meters away yet no one in the church was hurt nor was there even a scratch on the glass that enclosed the tilma within.

There are 14 people

The tilma has been studied by artists, has been scanned using ultraviolet rays, microscopes and more. The colors have been determined to be neither plant, nor mineral nor animal yet the image was created almost 200 years before synthetic dyes were invented. There are no brush strokes, other than the ones that are of persons painting on top of the tilma to "improve" it. The paint they added is unable to stay adhered and flakes off of the image as if it is rejecting any improvements.

One example is of the addition of silver to the black moon. It seems some people thought black was a demonic color and should not be on the tilma so they tried to cover it. There has also been gold paint added to the gold rays in an attempt to make it more beautiful.

There is a book called "The Mexican Pheonix" written by a Cambridge professor that shows ancient documentation he uncovered in the library archives in Mexico that the original artist in charge of caring for the tilma, signed on his death bed, a confession that there was a crown on Our Lady but that he did not paint over it.

Rather, he said in his confession, that it disappeared due to the sin that of the people and one day it would mystically re-appear. It should be noted that the first missionary image that was painted using the original was the image aboard the ship at the Battle of Lepanto.

It is said that the sailors brought the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe from below to the main deck and implored her direct intercession when attacked by the Muslim armies at sea. They implored Our Lady of Guadalupe and prayed the rosary. The victory was told to Pope Pius V by the Holy Spirit, a week before he received official word. The reason it was such a victory is because so many priests and religious were aboard the Moslem ships. Because they surrendered, thousands of lives where saved. Pope Pius V later declared the victory through the rosary but in fact it was through the rosary and the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe that saved the day. This is only one of thousands of stories in which a missionary image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has interceded to protect or preserve the faithful who implored her help.

This image was less than 40 years from the original and had a crown in the painting. It is this reason scholars such as Mnsgr Eduardo Chavez believe that the tilma once revealed her as crowned but that it has since disappeared. The artist in charge of the tilma was accused of painting it on the original and then removing it. There are others that thought it was painted over and is underneath layers of paint. There also was the incidence of the top of the tilma being cut off when the glass frame came from Rome because the dimensions of it were off.

If you look close, you can still see it, or is it beginning to appear as more of her army consecrates itself to her Immaculate Heart? Whatever you decide, there are many that believe it will one day re-appear, miraculously as a message to the Church. I tend to agree based on the evidence I have read.

THEOLOGY OF THE BODY

The tilma is a supernatural image from God and it tells us a love story of God for His Children, love of the bridegroom for His bride and Mary as mother and sister to mankind. This story is one that invites us back to union and communion with our creator. Blessed Pope John Paul II gave the Church so much while he was the vicar of Christ. One of the things he gave the Church was his reflections on scripture called "Theology of The Body". He helped us to see that the body makes visible the invisible person. That we are not animals or objects but we are persons. He also showed helped us to understand the trinitarian love of God. That God so loved the world that He gave Himself as a free, total, faithful and fruitful gift to the son and that Jesus Christ, the 2nd person of the Holy Trinity gave Himself as a gift of love back to the father in a Free, Total, Faithful and Fruitful way and the fire of love that burned between them WAS the 3rd person of the Holy Trinity. It should be noted that Pope Paul VI wrote about love being full, total, faithful and fruitful in his work of "Humanae Vitae". This concept was his but of course JP2 worked on that before he was Pope.

Theology of the Body is the antidote to a world in a downward spiral. We are living in a time of spiritual leprosy. There are many that no longer believe in the dignity of the human person or being made in the image and likeness of God. When we lose the truth about being male and female we lose our purpose, which is to love and to be loved. At the time Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in Mexico, they too had no understanding of who God was or that they had been made in His image and likeness. In fact, they were living in a culture of death that demanded human sacrifice to appease the demonic gods so that they could live to see another day. They also took many wives because they saw them as spoils of war. When the Franciscans came and tried to teach the faith to them some chose to be baptized but nearly all resisted monogamous marriages. It was only after Our Lady of Guadalupe came that they sought sacramental marriages. This was seen by many scholars as the real miracle.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is revealing the love of the Bridegroom for His bride and that we are all asked to come to the wedding feast.

The tilma announces Mary as Mother, as Spouse/Bride and as Sister. She is the bride in the Song of Songs that is BOTH sister and bride, love free from concupiscence.

She is sister to humanity but she is also sister in that she shares the same biological DNA as Jesus Christ.

Like an identical twin, she shares the same biological matter of Jesus. He "split" from her side like Eve split from the side of Adam. Here we see the New Eve, Mary and the New Adam, Jesus Christ, sharing the same biological matter.

It is the perfect undoing of knots that were tied in the Garden of Eden.

In the virginal garden of Eden, Eve with her No to God, took the fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil and with her free will ate the fruit and in doing so she brought spiritual death to her children.

Mary, received into her virginal garden, the fruit of all Knowledge (The Alpha and Omega). With her Yes to God, she brought spiritual life to her children.

As twins split so too did Eve from the side of Adam. The exception is that identical twins cannot be of the opposite sex, yet woman did come from the side of man. The fact that a woman could come from the side of man reveals that our masculinity and femininity reveals a great mystery.

“Let us make man in our own image, male and female He created them” are words revealing the infusing of the divine life into our bodies and being revealed through our bodies.

Mary gave her flesh, all of it, to Jesus. This is the reason she was immaculately conceived. Just as Eve was taken from the image and likeness of God (not the dust of the earth as Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand likes to joke) Eve took her sinless flesh from the Adam. Now we see that God is starting over from scratch, to make new all things and so the New Adam is taken from the image and likeness of God, that is spotless and sinless, a seamless garment.

Mother, revealing the Father in that the incarnation is revealed in the icon through the Nahuatl glyphs, Bride in that she is dressed both in Hebrew dress for a wedding and also the colors of an Aztec princess ready to be married and her coloring is that of the Spanish and Indians mixed. Sister, in that in the Song of Songs, we are invited to contemplate the love of the bride and bridegroom as sister first then bride. It is also a message of loving rightly, without the disorder of concupiscence. The constellation of the Gemini Twin is over her belly. There is more on this later in the article.

THE ICON OF THE NEW ADAM AND THE

NEW EVE

I believe the Shroud is the Icon of the New Adam and the Tilma the Icon of the New Eve. It is no wonder then that the Shroud can be aligned over the tilma and when it is done, you see the torso of Jesus Christ, hanging on the cross is present in the inner robe of Mary.

The Icon of Divine Mercy Using the Shroud for a blueprint

The Shroud of Turin is The Icon of The New Adam

Both the Shroud and the Tilma are supernatural images created by God. The Shroud is the Icon of The New Adam and the Tilma is The Icon of The New Eve. Both reveal God's plan for mankind yet there are many similarities in them.

Flower like Glyphs appear in the Shroud

Many of the Glyphs on the shroud resemble the tilma

The pollens are significant just as the many kinds of flowers picked by Juan Diego is significant

There are some that see Mary in the shroud

Jesus, The New Adam, reveals through the shroud that we are called to the banquet (last supper table cloth). We are called by the Bridegroom to the marriage wedding feast of the lamb. It reveals that Christ is who He said He was, the son of God and that He rose from the dead (the resurrection was the "flash" that created the image like a photographic negative onto the cloth).

The tilma reveals that every person is called to union and communion. The tilma is used in wedding ceremonies and the two are tied together to symbolize union. The tilma is worn on the body, the sacramentality of the body is being heralded in the tilma. The role of co-redemptrix is being heralded and the invitation to become cooperators is issued to all of mankind. The message of mercy is what will attract those who do not feel worthy.

Jesus body was Mary's body

The Shroud aligns with the tilma revealing Divine Mercy

The Shroud was used to create the first Icon's

INCARNATION REVEALS THE

LOVE OF THE TRINITY

HIS DEATH REVEALS DIVINE

MERCY

His most sacred and merciful heart is pierced and water and blood pour out, spraying out then down the robe and pool in the Aztec fold above her feet. This is not a subjective opinion. I have been able to prove it using the dimensions of the shroud as well as using the Nahuatl glyphs that correspond at these exact locations within the tilm. Once you understand their original meanings you see that in fact, they are speaking the same truths. The wise man glyph has the color of deep red, like blood, coming forth as if springing out of the mouth. This also aligns with the shroud to show the heart of Jesus. In fact, the Guadalupan scholars all agree this is an upside down heart glyph.

It is the hill glyph that shows a new civilization of love will begin with this God of all Gods that Mary is bringing. It will be the sacrifice to end all of the human sacrifices they believed they must offer to their false gods. The wise man glyph was understood as a wise man of knowledge beyond earthly understanding, what we would call a mystic and they were to go to him for more knowledge about who this God is.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is The Icon of The New Eve

The top of the heart shaped glyph was in the shape of a Bishop's mitre and so it pointed the Indians to Bishop Zummaraga, the wise man that wore the pointy hat.

MARY CO-OPERATES IN REDEMPTION OF

MANKIND

She IS the woman in the Song of Songs.
Clusters of flowers were used as glyphs to depict the most beautiful of prayerful poems and music of the Aztec people. Hidden within the clusters on her robe, lies a song. It is a song of holy music. In their culture dancing is a form of prayer or entering into the prayer and many see her as dancing.

The fact that OLG is dancing meant that she is participating in the song revealing that she IS the bride. Yet, she is making the music because she is CO-OPERATING by playing the morocco, which she is holding in the palms of her hands (yet it is sacred music since her pinky's are in the position of St. Anthony's cross).

The fact that she is making the music shows her role in the redemption of man as her own conception was immaculately conceived (1st date of apparition was the feast of the Immaculate Conception) and that through her Fiat, her yes, The New Adam was given flesh and blood from which to give us his Fiat. Just as Adam was free from concupiscence when from his side 100% of his DNA was utilized to create woman. Like an embryonic twin that splits, Adam split and God breathed into her his divine life, thus creating woman. So now we have The New Eve, free from Concupiscence, sharing her flesh to give life to the New Adam. God is outside of time. He created time and until He created us it did not exist. The Immaculate Conception reveals this. We now see that Time is a spiral. It is circular but spirals toward completion.

This theology is shared pictorially in that she is holding the morocco in her hand (her immaculate conception and her Fiat, her participation is validated). Mary reveals to all humanity that we also are called to the redeemer as bride. She is revealing that just as both man and woman co-operated in the fall of man (both of them ate of the forbidden fruit) so to has God declared that man and woman would and should co-operate in the redemption of the world.

THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY

Mary participates on every level as Christ makes all things new, she is also assumed into heaven so that the feminine receptive is shown to us and that she too is redeemed. Woman is participating in the original vision of God. In a world wrought with feminism, she calls the feminine heart home to truth. Even her body is glorified and raised into heaven. We see the New Adam and The New Eve become eschatological.

The tilma and the shroud tell the story through sacred art that male and female we are redeemed. It is the story of Eschatological Man and Woman. It is Theology of the Body in the declaration of the incarnation, the sacrementality of the body and it catechizes a culture of death in a gentle way that they have been made in the image and likeness of God, male and female He created them and we were created to Know (intimate relationship), love (not animals for use as objects of pleasure) and to serve (to live a vocation revealed through our bodies to be mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, brides and bridegrooms.

First Pilgrimage of Pope John Paul
was to OLG in Mexico

Blessed Pope John Paul II is the Wise

Man Glyph

Pope John Paul II launched an investigation
into the "disproved" messages
of St. Faustina and her diary. It is by his
efforts that the
Message of Divine Mercy
and brought it the the faithful

In 1531 the wise man glyph pointed the indians to Bishop Zummaraga. Now we are being pointed to Bl Pope John Paul II. That is why the glyph of Blessed Pope John Paul II is there in the wise man glyphs, right were the water and blood flow, from the corner of his mouth as he is the pontiff that brought us Divine Mercy out of the obscurity it was in and through his efforts became an integral piece that will re-evangelize the Church.

THE DEMONIC TRINITY

It would make sense to ask the question as whether or not there is a foundation upon which to build a case that Our Lady of Guadalupe is exposing a "demonic trinity".

I would like to demonstrate that it is in several ways. First of all, the culture from which the Aztec people came believed in many different gods and goddesses. It has been said by many scholars that there has never been a culture using such obvious demonic symbols and rituals. The snake has long been understood as a symbol of the devil. Snake skin was used to cover the drums that where beaten during the ritualistic slaughter of their victims on the altars of these such gods and goddesses.

"This is an image from the last page of one of the maya codex. It is taken from the library in Dresden Germany. It is of the serpent God. It is a serpent like creature with symbols of constellations on it's side with signs of solar and lunar eclipses hanging from it's belly. It's wide open jaws has a flow of water pouring earthward." (From America's Treasure" by Helen Behrens)

"And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood." Revelations 12:15

"The old woman goddess is a personification of death and destruction a writhing serpent on her head and skull and crossbones decorating her skirt holds a bowl from which also gushes a destroying flood containing rocks." (Helen Behrens)

"At the bottom is the black God of War, the bird of Evil Omen on his head; two javelins in his right hand a long staff in his left, all three pointing downward. It is the Mayan way of depicting Venus or the Aztec Serpent with feathers, (feathers indicating flight through space) and of the God of War, Mars, the Aztec Huitzilopochtli. It is a true representation of what happened throughout the centuries when this Comet approached our planet, causing darkness and all manner of catastrophes to befall mankind. The sculptured heads of the spirant represent the great comet with the ancestors of the inhabitants of Mexico had seen. At least 20,000 human sacrifices a year where made to the gods." (Helen Behrens "America's Treasure published 1964 Nihil obstat Mons. Gregorio Aguilar Imprimatur Lo decreto S. E. R. Doy fe Mexico March 1963 by Mons. Octaviano Valdes Srio).

It should also be noted that the book "Catholic Prophesy; The coming chastisement" put out by Tan Publishing has entire chapter on "The Comet". There are many prophesies given by saints throughout the ages that believe this will again be the source of a coming chastisement.

There are two speculations I make. There is a demonic trinity at work in the world and the Aztec and Mayan people depict their "persons" in their codexes. Much like an icon, a codex is theology in color intertwined with historical events ("demonic trinity" is a name I use that was given this name by Fr. Miguel Guadalupe of "The Veils of Our Lady of Guadalupe").

First, that their codex gives evidence to the demonic trinity being operational during their lifetimes and that they were linked to supernatural events as well as the stars.

Secondly, that the constellations are and always have been a way in which God reveals truth. The three wise man followed a star to Bethlehem and anyone who has watched the DVD "The Star of Bethlehem" knows that the stars revealed the conception, birth and each of Jesus. Using advanced Astronomy software, the bible and secular historical documents the creator of "The Star of Bethlehem" proved definitively that the star of Bethlehem was birthed through the Virgo constellation and in fact he shows this on screen to the viewer. He uses scripture to show us that Kepler's quote "Astronomy is the Wise Mother and Astrology is the foolish daughter" means that we do not ignore the constellations here, in fact we should be asking, why did God chose to put those constellations in the sky to be captured by the tilma and why are they configured where they are on the tilma pictorially?

The discovery of the constellations of stars appearing in precise locations on the mantle of Our Lady of Guadalupe is another invitation. They have been proven to be in the exact positions of the constellations of the morning sky of 1531 using Johannes Kepler's advanced mathematical formulas and advanced software from N.A.S.A.

Demonic Trinity
It has gone by many names but the angels that were
cast out of heaven have been working
to bring death to the world since the beginning.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is revealing a great spiritual battle that the world has been engaged in since the beginning of time itself with a demonic trinity and she is declaring herself to be the pre-destined intercessor in this battle. "In the end my Immaculate Heart Will triumph" are the words of Fatima.

Our Lady is staring into the constellation of Draco, the dragon. The head poised under her as if ready to breath hot fire and sulphur on her. In her eyes she holds the family as domestic church and the Bishop and priests present as the Church on earth.

THE DRAGON

The dragon in scripture is said to be the liar, the deceiver and the one that brings division, confusion and schism. The dragon’s attack is on the family and it begins with the same lie in the garden, God is not who He says He is, God does not love you, you are animals not persons made in His image. When we believe the dragon we embrace homosexuality, pornography, atheism and more. The dragon seeks to lie about God our Father in Heaven and to divide and confuse His children.

Notice the 7 heads of the dragon in scripture? This is the liar and his lies are the 7 deadly sins which are all sins that result from believing the liar and turning away from God and to self for truth.

Pride is an idolatry of self through intellect, academics, vanity to name a few. The liar tells us that we have no value and worth so we make our own. It is used to escape feelings of unworthiness and shame.

Envy is an idolatry of status. We believe what is rightfully ours was or is being taken away from us or denied us.

Greed is an idolatry of material wealth because there is no trust in being taken care of.

Gluttony is an idolatry of substance to comfort through pleasure.

Sloth is an idolatry of substance to avoid pain and suffering.

Anger is an idolatry of control to overcome feelings of powerlessness.

Lust is an idolatry of relationship using sex to fill the need for union and communion.

Mary reveals in the tilma that she will be our intercessor to expose the liar by holding us in her eyes as she stares it down. She will be the intercessor of the Church in the America’s, which I believe has been predestined to be the remnant church during the end of days.

THE SCORPION

Over her left should as if ready to sting her with it’s venom is the Scorpio constellation. In scripture scorpions are referred to as wounding. They are also referred to as perversions of the flesh. St. Hildegard talks about this in her Scivia’s vision # eleven. This is entity Ashtoreth, Lilith, Jezebel, and the Whore of Babylon. It is the emasculator of men, it is feminism it denies the gift, its womb is closed and barren, it is the counterfeit Mary that blasphemes union and communion.

Drawn by St. Hildegard of Bingen this false Mary
has come to devour. The head at the entrance to her womb is a monster with teeth that shred like steel she says.

The goddess on tepeyac hill had flaccid
breasts because as a "mother" she did not give life she took it

The totem of Goddess Tonantzin

It is an attack on the 2^nd person of the trinity, Jesus comes in the flesh and it works with the dragon/liar to create wounds within us. Wounds are how the enemy gains his ability to oppress and oppress. This entity has remained almost hidden from view until OLG exposed it. This is a raping spirit that mocks receptivity by creating wounds, forcing gashes in a person so the enemy can infest himself there.

This is fallen angel most probably uses the feminine because of the ability to emasculate men and to control through sexual perversion. Where Mary is receptive the scorpion a closed, where Mary is fruitful the scorpion is barren, where Mary is gentle the scorpion is harsh. Where Mary is Virgin the scorpion is Whore. This is an attack on Jesus by first attacking Mary. In this truth we see that the way to overcome this demonic entity is to first invoke St. Joseph under the title of "Terror of Demons".

THE SERPENT

The third entity, the serpent is one of spiritual and physical death. Notice how if you draw a line between the three it forms an inverted triangle over the torso of Mary. This is a perverse and upside down demonic trinity because the enemy can only mock and mimic, he has no power only God has power so the enemy must use truth to manifest any real spiritual effect.

HEROD

HOLOCAUST

RWANDA GENOCIDE

The serpent works with the liar and wounder and once the forced receptivity or opening as been gained (the liar gets the person to submit will to the proposed lie, turning a person from God to self, the wounds create the opening and pain so that the person closes themselves to suffering of the flesh in any form) the serpent moves from infestation to oppression and like the Kundalini spirit, works to possess the person. The darkness that ensues leads to spiritual and even sometimes, physical death.

The other aspect of the serpent is to use abortion as a demonic sacrifice. It was responsible for the mass killings on the Aztec altars, the murdering of innocence young boys in Egypt, the killings and starvations in Russia by Stalin and Lenin, the killing of Jews in the holocaust, the murder or ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and now in the Middle East.

The murder of human beings is a diabolical sacrifice that acts like spiritual gasoline. It has been going on since the beginning. It seems the mass deaths are required, the spilling of blood to manifest the spiritual dark powers into the physical realm.

Mary has always come to warn their children and ask them to pray, sacrifice and do penance to overt great evil. When figures like Lenin, Stalin and Hitler rose up and killed their evil was finally subverted by grace which poured out of Mary's army through answering their mother's call to arms.

Where evil abounds, grace abounds all the more. We must however, note that the enemy tries to spill blood and as much as possible, and the blood is not that of Christians (although Christians died in the holocaust it was predominantly Jews, homosexuals, disabled etc.). This is because the enemy realizes that shedding the blood of Christians creates martyrs and their blood is the seed of the Church. He does not want fertile ground. The killing of Christians will be massive once the anti-christ has been personified because then the darkness has been achieved for such a thing to happen. It will then be the descent, upon which we will not be able to undo.

It has been going on since the beginning and it continues today. There are a few sins that cry out for justice. These sins are crimes against the Immaculate Conception. One of them is homosexuality and another is abortion.

ABORTION IS A DEMONIC

SACRIFICE

With Obama's health care bill paying for abortion on demand and forcing hospitals now to do this evil deed, the blood of the innocent unborn will run like a river of blood through our country. This will pour out darkness like we have never seen.

Using the laws that God has ordained as true, the enemy uses the truth that blood is a bonding of spiritual and physical and manifests a relationship or covenant to do the same but in an evil way. The spilling of blood manifests a spiritual reality in the physical realm. The spilling of blood of an innocent is a sacrifice and when done in abortion, the woman’s body is used as an altar. This is not just a bad thing happening in our world, it is actually manifesting dark powers and forces in our world and it seeks create darkness that will overcome the graces from our prayers, penance and fasting of the faithful. Perhaps now, in an age that no longer seems to believe in God, the scales have been tipped and we have descended the spiral towards the opening of the seals.

Time is like a spiral. It is circular in that it is ongoing. The reason every generation believed Jesus would come back was because he was, but through the grace that abounded in the world allowed for the time and the age of Mercy to continue. The enemy knows he loses in the end so why would he want to bring about the end of the world when he is having so much “fun” here? Because the enemy realizes that by bringing about the end of days, no more souls will be born to glorify God for all eternity in heaven and this is a victory, however small in our eyes, because a single soul has so much value to God.

Notice The Snake?

The enemy knows that if he can work to create a culture that embraces the anti-christ he can even perhaps perfectly possess someone to become the anti-christ from which to bring about the downward spiral to the inevitable end. There is a new religion and it is called "Enlightenment". The "Chakra's" are openings from which to allow the demonic to go from infestation to oppression and then possession. There are many levels of possessions, rarely can someone be perfectly possessed but it does happen.

I am reminded of the saints that had the stigmata as well as the ability to bi-locate (St. Padre Pio). If you have read any of the biographical books of Venerable Anne Catherine Emerick you will remember she said that when Adam and Eve sinned the mystical openings where divine light shone from their bodies closed. When Christ was crucified the five openings where mystically re-opened. Perhaps the Saints have been mystically pierced with an arrow to open them to this divine light.

If this is the case then the enemy has found a counterfeit way to open a person.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Icon Spain

OLG is going to protect the remnant Church. She has proven throughout the centuries since Mary walked on earth that she has the particular intercessor of the faithful. OLG is tied to the Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Spain.

St. Luke "Writing" the Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The icon is said to have been carved by St. Joseph and painted or “written” by Saint Luke, was given to St.

Bishop Leander

Gregory the Great in the 5^th century, escaped the plague through begging for the intercession of God's mercy by caring the Icon of Our Lady that would later be known as Guadalupe, over his head.

He later would give the Icon to Bishop Leander who escaped the murdering of Christians by radical Islam through imploring the intercession of Our Lady in the Icon (Guadalupe).

To protect the image during the infiltration of the Muslims into Spain. In fact it was the protection of Our Lady through the Icon that protected the remnant Church in hiding there.

Here is more from Fr. Ladis J. Cizik of the Blue Army "The village of Fatima was given the Islamic name of the well-loved Princess of the nearby Castle of Ourem. She died at an early age after marrying the Count of Ourem and converting to Catholicism. Baptized with the Christian name of Oureana, she was named at birth "Fatima," like many other Moslem girls, in honor of the daughter of Mohammed. Of his daughter, Fatima, the founder of Islam, Mohammed, said: "She has the highest place in heaven after the Virgin Mary."

It is a fact that Moslems from various nations, especially from the Middle East, make so many pilgrimages to Our Lady of Fatima's Shrine in Portugal that Portuguese officials have expressed concern. The combination of an Islamic name and Islamic devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is a great attraction to Moslems. God is writing straight with crooked lines, as we will see. Fatima is a part of Heaven's Peace Plan."

Fatima is known among Muslims as Immaculate and that they can share in Fatimah's suffering by weeping for her sorrows. The tears of the faithful is also believed to console Fatimah. They also hold that Fatimah will play a redemptive role as the mistress of the day of judgment in the hereafter as a reward for her suffering in this world. I cannot help but believe that Our Lady of Guadalupe, an Arabic name, will somehow help to convert Moslems from Islam to the true faith through their honor of Mary and love of Fatimah. Our Lady of Sorrows surely will help us bridge this gap.

It was then re-discovered by a farmer after Mary revealed it’s location, a church was built and then the America’s were discovered by those who went to her Church to consecrate herself particularly to her, Our Lady of Guadalupe-Spain. She is responsible for ending a culture of death in Mexico and propagation of the faith in the America’s.

They built a Church there and named the Icon "Our Lady of Guadalupe" because of the river nearby.

Queen Isabella consecrated her reign to her after making a pilgrimage there.

While this article does not provide all of my research, it has enough information so that those in which whom the Holy Spirit has touched already or are ready to see, will in fact see and perhaps do their own research to see what part God is asking them to play in what I believe is showing the way to the largest Evangelization to take place in the shortest amount of time since 9 million Aztec's were baptized within a 7 year period.

That way is through Mary as Co-redemptrix (co-operating with) Christ's Divine Mercy as revealed through this image and explained by Bl. Pope John Paul II in his many writings. When we enter into these mysteries, we then see that we are all called to co-operate in the redemption of the world. As Caryll Houselander says in her book “The Reed of God” we are called to be christs (small c). We are called to be tabernacles in which Christ is brought to others. It is God’s decision to enter man into his salvific plan. He desires that a priest bring us Eucharist and he desires that we Christ in others. This is dignity of the human person.

May Our Lady of Guadalupe give you the receptivity in your heart to hear and see how Christ's Divine Mercy desires to be revealed through your gifts, your apostolate and your life. It will be then that after becoming receptive, the Holy Spirit will come upon you and through a mystical espousal, the operational gifts of the Holy Spirit will be released and THIS will transform the world. Want more on how to recognize the New Pentecost? Go to Renewal Ministries and start with listening to the audio on The New Pentecost. Then check out their books. If you have not consecrated yourself to Mary, DO IT NOW! This is how you enlist into the Army.

On this universal level, if victory comes it will be brought by Mary. Christ will conquer through her because He wants the Church’s victories now and in the future to be linked to her… —POPE JOHN PAUL II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, p. 221

The Hidden Meaning In The Song of Songs

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This is something I wrote after a Marian retreat a few years ago. I now realize that this is why Marian consecration is important. This is what she does.

"In the song of songs (Song of Solomon chapter 8 vs 1 & 2)

I see the image of our Lady of Guadalupe. "Drink at my mothers breasts and to enter into the chamber of her that conceived me is her womb "

OLG is a pregnant mother and her breasts are already leaking colostrum as a mother close to delivery does. The image is Mary ready to give birth.

Colostrum is that special fluid that which protects against disease by infusing within it the mothers own immunity. Her immunity she passes through her colostrum to her baby, or in this instance, to her spiritual children.

We, her spiritual children are invited to enter in to her protecting Mantle and to receive her, her colostrum which will be our protection through by and with her, her immunity, her freedom from concupiscence providing us remedy for ours.

In the images of our Lady of Leleche, she demonstrates in pictorial form the mystical reception of that saving fluid from her breasts as it sprays out upon the saint in front if her. Just as the centurion was sprayed by the gush of fluid under the cross, this fluid is transformative.

A mothers fore-milk is mostly water and electrolytes. It quenches a baby's thirst.

Her fore milk quenches our thirst. When we except the invitation written in the Song of Songs, we become the sister and bride. To be the brother or sister of Jesus and suckle at his mother's breast is to accept the invitation of Mary as our Mother. Our consecration to Mary is like a baby latching on to drink from its mother.

When we latch on, her milk let's down and we gulp. Our initial desire to be fed will be satisfied as we quench our "thirst".
When we move past the initial passion of physical hunger, it is them that she nourishes us with her hind milk.

We become fattened and satisfied. A sleepy and comfortable peace permeates us as we are transformed.

Hind milk is known to be of the highest fat content. We grow fat, transforming us from spiritual newborns into spiritual adulthood. When we are ready, the next gift she bestows is honey.
Honey is a traditional remedy used among the ancient Indian cultures and even today as a natural Cure or antiseptic an antibiotic for things that cause disease.

We are now living in the times of spiritual leprosy due to the loss of the dignity of the human person.
Theology of the body and what it reveals about our whole person is like honey, its an antiseptic and antibiotic.
Those of us that are late to the banquet are offered the breast of Mary.

We bring with us our broken, wounded, diseased or unclean hearts.

What does she do? She opens herself- feeding us not only the honey but the honey comb itself where the royal jelly is found.

That special honey reserved for the queen herself and yet she's giving us her all and her everything not the leftovers but the very best, her own portion and we are healed. If we are in need of medicine we are cleaned. It becomes an antibiotic that with time eradicates all that is in us that keeps us in our sickness. We are made whole. she seals the places we were unable to retain graces for ourselves but more importantly where grace has seeped out of our wounds making us incapable of bring tabernacles, like herself, to bring Christ to a world in thirst and in hunger.

Mary bestows a supernatural grace if receptivity because she herself was perfectly receptive. Mary nurtures us so that all of the places we are unable to receive or retain grace are healed up.

Mary enables us to become the bride. It is then that those who know the secret will encounter the living God in the Person of The Holy Spirit and will be mystically betrothed and then joined and in the consummation, the two will become one.

It is in this fulfillment that we are filled up so that we overflow onto all around us so that they too will hunger and thirst for her milk and honey. It is in her care we are able to one day grow up so that we may eat true food and drink true drink, the body and blood of Jesus.

Come Holy Spirit Come

St. Hildegard of Bingen Visions Reveal The Battle Plan of Mary

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St. Hildegard has been raised up for this time in the Church because when we read her visions, we will see that she is declaring what every approved Marian apparition has been telling us. (She also has music that is anointed and an understanding of healing which is meant for this time in the Church).

O vis Aeternitatis

Power of Eternity
you who ordered all things in your heart,
through your Word all things are created just as you willed,
and your very Word
calls forth flesh
in the shape
which was drawn from Adam.
Power of Eternity
Power of Eternity.

As to her visions, they are descriptions of how the end times will play out. What is she saying? Well, there is a lot but the number one thing to note is that Mary is raising up an army.

Dragon at War with Woman Clothed with the sun William Blake

Mary is the woman clothed with the sun and she is our intercessor.

Mary is rising up a mighty army. Mary is making the way for her Son to come again. Our Lady of Guadalupe is declaring the same thing. She is drawing up that Army and is revealing what we are fighting, how she is interceding and what the battle plan is. The new finding within the tilma are an invitation from heaven to enter back into this icon of the new eve and when we look at what we have discovered we see that the constellations found there are telling us a story about how the enemy is brining about an end to the age of Mercy and ushering in the age of Justice.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is showing us that she will be our intercessor in the final battle. Not only does she “hold” the family, the domestic church in her eyes, as she gazes into the eyes of the dragon (literally) she also hold the Church representative of the Bishop who is also seen as one of the 14 figures found in her eyes. Mary is going to lead us, her army, in this battle.

THE DEMONIC TRINITY

The other two “demonic” constellations are the scorpion and the serpent. I say demonic because the dragon, the scorpion and the serpent are all terminology used in the bible to describe the operation of the devil at work in the world.

The dragon is the one that lies, deceives, separates, divides and confuses.

The scorpion wounds with it’s sting, it is also a perversion and the sign is considered “feminine” it also has a sign of “M” with a tail and sharp point. It is the perversion of Mary and wounds through perversion. Finally the serpent brings death.

The serpent brings spiritual and physical death. It works with the other two to infest, oppress and possess for the purposes of bringing death.

It is responsible new age “Kundalini” spiritualism; it is responsible for abortion and more. The sacrifice of abortion is a means from which this diabolical trinity manifests spiritual darkness into the world because it realizes that the spilling of blood is a powerful means of achieving this.

THE ANTI-MARY; THE WHORE OF BABYLON

If you have read through my writing on the demonic trinity at work in the world, you will see that the Whore of Babylon is an ancient entity that has been at work in the world since the beginning of time. While she is neither male nor female her characteristics are feminine. She has gone by many names throughout history, Ashtoreth, Jezebel, Isis and more. The whore of Babylon is the antithesis of Mary. Where Mary is open, the whore is closed, where Mary is receptive, the whore denies the gift, where Mary brings life the whore is barren and lifeless, where Mary is femininity the whore is feminism, where Mary is complimentary to man, the whore emasculates, where Mary accepts the invitation of the Bridegroom and opens her gates, the whore rapes and forces.

The Whore of Babylon is NOT Mary it is The Scorpion, The Jezebel, Isis, Ashtoroth, Lilith

This is important because unless we understand the operations of the spirit of Jezebel, the spirit of the whore of Babylon.

ST. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ILLUMINATES THE BATTLE PLAN

In St. Hildegard of Bingen's writings entitled: Scivia's, page 491, you see a picture of what Our Lady is revealing in the Scorpion constellation. It is the "anti-Mary" and her "opening" is that of a demon/beast head with gnashing teeth. This is what this operational spirit is doing on earth. Then on page 493, Vision Eleven, speaks of "The Last Days and the fall of the anti-Christ. This describes this her "and from her waist to the place that denotes the female, she had various scaly blemishes; and in that latter place was a black and monstrous head. It had fiery eyes, and ears like an ass, and nostrils and mouth like a lion's; it opened wide its jowls and terribly clashed its horrible iron-colored teeth."

There is blood, her body is beaten and the head of the beast is covered with excrement. The description goes on but notice that from the waist up she appears as beautiful as Mary and even wears a crown.

ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT VISION OF BEING FORMED BY MARY IN HER WOMB IS DESCRIBED BY HILDEGARD

(FROM ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT "THE SECRET OF MARY"

16. (10) Mary is called by St Augustine, and is indeed, the "living mould of God" . In her alone the God-man was formed in his human nature without losing any feature of the Godhead. In her alone, by the grace of Jesus Christ, man is made godlike as far as human nature is capable of it. A sculptor can make a statue or a life-like model in two ways:
(i) By using his skill, strength, experience and good tools to produce a statue out of hard, shapeless matter;
(ii) By making a cast of it in a mould. The first way is long and involved and open to all sorts of accidents. It only needs a faulty stroke of the chisel or hammer to ruin the whole work. The second is quick, easy, straightforward, almost effortless and inexpensive, but the mould must be perfect and true to life and the material must be easy to handle and offer no resistance.

Mary Forms and Nourishes us To become christ's like her son

17. Mary is the great mould of God, fashioned by the Holy Spirit to give human nature to a Man who is God by the hypostatic union, and to fashion through grace men who are like to God. No godly feature is missing from this mould. Everyone who casts himself into it and allows himself to be moulded will acquire every feature of Jesus Christ, true God, with little pain or effort, as befits his weak human condition. He will take on a faithful likeness to Jesus with no possibility of distortion, for the devil has never had and never will have any access to Mary, the holy and immaculate Virgin, in whom there is not the least suspicion of a stain of sin.

If you turn to page 169 to see the TRUE Mary, then you see her womb is the place we are to go, entering in through the pierced net like openings, those who are "black" are then groaned up to her mouth and expelled.

This is a tying of Mary's army, consecration and formation through and in her womb; Our Lady of Guadalupe is referred to in so many ways I cannot count.

In fact the rest of her vision talks about 5 epochs or "times" and it they are depicted by the 5 animals and ropes that come from their mouths tied to the hill. On page 494 it is once again re-iterated that the Church will be victorious and Hildegard uses the analogy of the Bride and The Bridegroom to tell the story.

AT THE END OF TIME SHE WILL RISE UP STRONGER THAN EVER

Hildegard says, "All things on earth will hasten to their end, oppressed by the weakening of its forces and its May tribulations and calamities. But the Bride of My Son, very troubled for her children both by the forerunners of the son of perdition (Hitler, Stalin, Lenin etc.) and by the destroyer himself (the final anti-Christ) will never be crushed not matter how much they attack her. But at the end of time she will rise up stronger than ever (through Mary's army) and become more beautiful and more glorious; and so she will move sweetly and delightfully to the embraces of her Beloved."

THE FIVE TIMES THAT ARE COMING

The five epochs are;

1. The fiery dog;

Fiery but not burning, people with a biting temperament, fiery in there own estimation (Pharisees?) but not burning with the justice of God.

2. The yellow lion;

Martial people, instigating wars (Stalin, Lenin, Hitler?) But do not think of the righteousness of God, kingdoms will weaken and tire like the yellow color shows.

3. The Pale horse;

People drown themselves in sin (60's on), and licentious and swift-moving pleasures neglect all virtuous activities. Kingdoms will lose strength, grow plea with fear and ruin, hearts will be broken.

4. The Black Pig;

Leaders who blacken themselves with misery and wallow in the mud of impurity (President Clinton?). Infringe the divine law by fornication and other like evils (legalization of Gay marriages?); plot to diverge from the holiness of God's commands.

5. The gray wolf;

People who plunder each other, rob powerful and fortunate; divined and conquer rulers and realms, many will be ensnared, the error of errors will rise from Hell to Heaven. The Children of light will be pressed in the winepress of martyrdom; and they will not deny the Son of God, but reject the son of perdition (anti-Christ personified in someone who is coming) who tries to do his will with the Devil's arts.

THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT

1 Thessalonians 5:5

For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness.

The Children of light are Christians, more precisely, those consecrated to Mary through the last enlisting through Our Lady of Guadalupe as she is the woman who is covered in rivers and those rivers are rivers of light! The rivers of life giving waters of baptism of the Holy Spirit which comes to be espoused to our virginal hearts that the immaculate heart of Mary creates within us so that the Sacred Heart of Jesus can pour itself into, infusing us with his own washing water and his own merciful love.

That the love pressed out of the Children of Light through the winepress of martyrdom will be reclaim the ground and make it fertile for Christ, there will be many spiritual graces that flow to the entire world through it. Not all are called to martyrdom but those that are will bestow upon us a great grace of receptivity and fertility to the Holy Spirit.

DO NOT BE AFRAID

ST. Hildegard’s visions tell us that we do not need to worry because Mary will lead the battle against the anti-Christ.

Finally, on page 496 St. Hildegard says this;

"The Church will shine in her justice until the time of the Antichrist”.

“So now you can see him from the waist down; for now you see Him in the strength of His members who are His elect, and He will flourish as Bridegroom of the Church, with many obscure signs and wonders, until their number is complete. And from the waist down to the place that denotes the male he glows like the dawn; for until the time of the son of perdition, who will pretend to be the man of strength, His faithful members will be perfected in fortitude and He will be splendid in the justice of His righteous worshippers. So, in the same place, a harp is lying with its strings across his body; which signifies the joyful songs of those who will suffer dire torments in the persecution that the son of inequity will inflict upon the chose, torturing their bodies so much that they are released form them and pass over into rest.”

Our Lady of Guadalupe is revealing that torso of Jesus Christ is being revealed in the inner robe on the Tilma. The shroud of Turin is the icon of the new Adam and when it is laid over the Tilma the dimensions are exact. Divine Mercy is also exactly aligned with the shroud but of course it is because this is what OLG is heralding to her army was the weapon that will defeat the Anti-Mary. The message of Divine Mercy is in fact a message of the incarnation, the enfleshment of God become man, it is the message of co-redemptrix as it is the body of Mary that gave us the body of Christ from which to hang on the cross, it is a message of the body making visible in the invisible reality of who God is (love) and our call to love like the trinity and how God pre-destined this from the moment Mary gave her fiat at the Annunciation.

There are common themes throughout every approved Marian apparition in Church history that connect it to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Why? because Mary is rising up a mighty army. Through her immaculate heart we will be perfectly opened and formed, she will bestow a virginal emptiness into our hearts from which Christ’s sacred heart can pour itself into. This is the victory of her immaculate heart.

Mary’s army is the heal that will crush the serpents head and her immaculate heart will triumph because it is through her heart we will be given Christ’s heart from which to witness Him to the world that is in thirst.

33 Day Consecration; A preparation for battle

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"In the end my immaculate heart will triumph".

JOIN ME!

Those consecrated to Our Lady will become the heal that crushes the head of serpent. The way in which we will be able to do this great task? By allowing her immaculate heart to empty us and form us in the perfect mold from which Jesus' Sacred Heart to pour Himself into.

This is because her immaculate heart is the first step necessary in transforming our hearts more perfectly into Christ's own heart so that we can be christ's to others. We, like Mary, are called to become tabernacles. We are to become the hands and feet from which to bring Christ to a world that thirsts! When we are more perfectly formed, we will bring Christ in the tabernacle of our hearts and as our eyes are the window to the soul, we will see them in their nakedness and they will not feel shame. Their own hearts will leap for joy like St. John in Elizabeth's womb in the presence of the living God.

Each of us usually have a particular feast that calls to us and this is her choosing because it entails the graces and formation and a special seal, agreement or participation that will flow through us in our living out of that consecration.

Once we can identity the graces and messages, teachings and plan of each day through tradition, it becomes easy to "see" which feast day we are called or attracted to. This is part of the new evangelization as much as we should go to college to learn the skills for a job we are called to do, not just any old job. To be truly effective we must ask God to help us discern our calling. St. Catherine of Siena said that we will set the world ablaze when we are doing what we were called and created for. This is no different.

The 33 Day Consecration program enables those who have been "recruited" into Mary's army to begin their basic training. The way you will know which National Guard, Army, Navy, Air-Force or Marine's you are called is to identify which Marian Feast day you feel drawn to consecrate yourself on.

Just as there are unique and specific specialities in the military, so to are there in the New Evangelization. Each of her feast days are unique and with it a grace flows to uniquely form the person who enlists on that day.

I am currently discerning all of the implications of what each feast day and what it will give or ready the person to carry out as the "Knights of the Immaculata", "Church Militant" or "Slave Of Mary" but be assured, it seems that each of these days has united to it, a specific purpose.

I would speculate that the Marian Apparition Feast days are for those who are called to be part of the New Evangelization in a more public way either through an apostolate or ministry. The other days are about personal transformation and sharing that particular charism and grace for the propagation of the kingdom to sow the seeds of receptivity into the hearts of the faithful who will then, hopefully, be called and select their own day and thus enlist as well.

The only Marian Feast days I am confident in defining so far are the following. As we prayerfully discern together (and you share in the comments) the Holy Spirit will open our eyes to see and our ears to hear the truth in this even more).

May 13, Our Lady of Fatima

The Call: To bring restoration to families. To enable men to become the fathers they are called to be and the mothers to embrace motherhood. Devotions to the Holy Father. Those promoting "offering it up" and offering themselves as a living sacrifice. Those called to promote fasting and prayer as a means of uniting the body and the soul, our entire person to prayer. The body makes visible the invisible so the fasting component enfleshes the spiritual prayer and enables the grace to become a reality in our physical world. Those who are called to free souls from purgatory. Martyrdom

Sept 15 Our Lady of Sorrows

The Call: Re-establish the dignity of the human person, assist those who have fallen slave to their passions particularly that of addictions. A call to defend Humanae Vitae and all that it teaches. Those who are promoting a deeper understanding of suffering and forgiveness as a means to heal and open their hearts more fully to Jesus and Mary.

Dec 8th Feast of The Immaculate Conception

The Call: Co-Redemptrix and all that this truth brings. Restoring the understanding of personhood.

Dec 12th Our Lady of Guadalupe

The Call: This feast day and the Immaculate Conception feast day will be united in purpose and will cooperating together in their living out of their unique call. The focus of this army will be to bring Inner healing through the lens of Divine Mercy, Theology of The Body and will be engaged in Spiritual battle using deliverance and sacramentals to bring freedom to souls that are infested and oppressed.

A. Feb. 11: Our Lady of Lourdes

Begin before or on January 9, consecrate February 11

B. March 25: The Annunciation

Begin on or before February 20, consecrate March 25

C. May 13: Our Lady of Fatima

Begin on or before April 10, consecrate May 13

D. May 31: The Visitation

Begin on or before April 28, consecrate May 31

E. July 16: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

Begin on or before June 13, consecrate July 16

F. August 15: The Assumption

Begin on or before July 13, consecrate August 15

G. August 22: Queenship of Mary

Begin on or before July 20, consecrate August 22

H. September 8: Nativity of Mary

Begin on or before August 6, consecrate September 8

I. September 12: Holy Name of Mary

Begin on or before August 10, consecrate September 12

J. September 15: Our Lady of Sorrows

Begin on or before August 13, consecrate September 15

K. October 7: Our Lady of the Rosary

Begin on or before September 4, consecrate October 7

L. November 21: Presentation of Mary

Begin on or before October 19, consecrate November 21

M. December 8: Immaculate Conception

Begin on or before November 5, consecrate December 8

N. December 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe

Begin on or before November 9, consecrate December 12

O. January 1: Mother of God

Begin on or before November 29, consecrate January 1

P. February 2: Presentation of Our Lord

Begin on or before December 31, consecrate February 2

St. Joseph Terror of Demons & Our Lady of Gudalupe

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Why is St. Joseph CRUCIAL to the victory of the

Immaculate Heart of Mary

Sacred Heart of Jesus?

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, pave the way for Mary and she paves the way for her son, Jesus Christ into the world, our families and our hearts. Expose the Jezebel spirit operating in the feministic world that emasculates men. The enemy cannot remain when you intercede on our behalf. You protected Mary, your most chaste spouse and in doing so, did what Adam did not do in the garden. Therefore, St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, conquerer of this failure of Adam, bestow upon all fathers the grace of authentic masculinity and purity of heart so that they too can defend the family. Prepare the way for Mary in our homes by driving out all demons that are preventing our hearts from being receptive so that she, who IS receptivity, may pour out her graces into our hearts and thus enable us to more perfectly receive, retain and share the merciful love of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, Pray For Us. Amen

Using advanced technological equipment, The Universal Church, represented in the by the finding of Bishop Zummaraga in them using, and the domestic church, represented by the family have been found in the eyes of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She is revealing that she holds the key to how the enemy will be defeated and the Universal Church will be protected.

How will this be accomplished? Our Lady of Guadalupe is revealing the natures of the demons we are fighting against and how we will be victorious through her particular intercession. The first thing an exorcist asks a demon he is casting out is “What is Your Name?” so should it surprise us she is revealing the names and the operations of the demons we are at war with? She does this so we know how to take authority over, be delivered from and how to call upon the weapons of the Church to defend us in this battle. Secondly, an exorcist priest asks, “How Many are you?” Our Lady of Guadalupe reveals through the constellations present, how many they are? When you draw a line between them, it creates an upside down triangle, a mockery of the trinity. It is made up of many or a legion, each identifiable by a name but together making up three larger entitles. They are The Dragon, The Scorpion and the Serpent.

The Demonic trinity is what she is revealing we are to battle with her direct intercession. The first “operational entity” is the Dragon, is the liar, the divider, the one that brings division and schism and she holds the Bishop in her eyes because she is going to defend us against the Dragon. The second “entity” is the Scorpion and is spoken of in the bible as the one that brings woundedness and perversion through sexuality. It is Jezebel, it is Lilith, and it is Ashtoreth. It is the demon goddess on Tepeyac hill in Mexico that demanded the sacrifice of women and children. The Third “entity” is the serpent. It brings death both spiritually and physically.

These three, the demonic trinity work together as a mockery and blasphemy of the trinity, a blasphemy of the Father because where God says we are made in His image and likeness and our bodies have dignity, the Dragon and liar says we are nothing but animals and it does not matter what we do to and with our bodies.

The second person of the trinity, the Son, first reveals the receptivity of Mary to receive and submit perfectly her will To God as a gift of love through a truly feminine heart Secondly, it is Jesus, true God and True Man, God enfleshed. This is significant because it is demonstration of love. God is love and Jesus reveals this in His life giving sacrifice poured out on the cross for the sins of the world as a gift, unto death that He Freely laid down. The Scorpion closes the womb and does not accept but it denies the gift. The breast would be flaccid, without sustenance. The role of Mary is blasphemed, as it desires to emasculate men and stand in the place where on man is called to stand. The serpent does not submit but consumes, rapes and forces itself. It rejects femininity and counterfeits it with feminism. The Scorpion then never allows the Word to be planted into the hearts of men. Conception is never to take place and thus it paves the way for the serpent to bring death to humanity both spiritually and physically.

The Third “entity” is the serpent. It brings death both spiritually and physically. It is the spirit behind abortion because the blood sacrifice is a means of manifesting a spiritual reality and power in the physical. God is the one that has made blood sacred as well as a means of bonding the spiritual and the physical and the enemy knows this “truth” and counterfeits it for his own dark purposes. The serpent is also the kundalini spirit in that it works with the liar that first lies to humanity so as to bring wounding, the wounding then takes place and then the serpent who first infests the wound then can enter more deeply to oppress. If the serpent has it’s way it then can attempt to possess the person.

If we want to make way for Jesus Christ, we must first have receptivity, which comes through Mary. To have receptivity we must first have freedom from the operational demons that are blinding us spiritually, deafening our ears to truth and numbing our conscience.

This is E.W. Bullinger, biblical scholar's writings about how the bible is played out in the constellations. If you have seen the movie "The Star of Bethlehem" then you know this is not only true, it is beautiful because it provides scientific evidence to the legitimacy of the bible (Using Kemplers advanced mathematics and advanced NASA software they show what constellations were in the sky the night of Jesus birth and so much more fulfilled in skies through the constellations).

This is to me, the proves that the new findings within the tilma, in the age of technology able to discover it, would be shown the battle plan ordained by God, pre-destined to be given to us through Our Lady of Guadalupe during the age in which her Army foreshadowed by St. Louis De Montfort, would need it to defeat the scorpion that wounds mankind through perversion.

http://www.levendwater.org/books/witness/chap13.htm

We come now right into the heart of the conflict. The star-picture brings before us a gigantic scorpion endeavouring to sting in the heel a mighty man who is struggling with a serpent, but is crushed by the man, who has his foot placed right on the scorpion's heart.
The Hebrew name is Akrab, which is the name of a scorpion, but also means the conflict, or war. It is this that is referred to in Psalm 91:13--

"Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder.
The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet."

David uses the very word in Psalm 144:1, where he blesses God for teaching his hands to war.
The Coptic name is Isidis, which means the attack of the enemy, or oppression: referring to "the wicked that oppress me, my deadly enemies who compass me about" (Psa 17:9).
The Arabic name is Al Akrab, which means wounding him that cometh.
There are 44 stars altogether in this sign. One is of the 1st magnitude, one of the 2nd, eleven of the 3rd, eight of the 4th, etc.
The brightest star, a (in the heart), bears the ancient Arabic name of Antares, which means the wounding. It is called by the Latins Cor Scorpii, because it marks the scorpion's heart. It shines ominously with a deep red light. The sting is called in Hebrew Lesath (Chaldee, Lesha), which means the perverse. The stars in the tail are also known as Leshaa, or Leshat. (Antares seems also to have been known as Lesath).
The scorpion is a deadly enemy (as we learn from Revelation 9), with poison in its sting, and all the names associated with the sign combine to set forth the malignant enmity which is "set" between the serpent and the woman's Seed.
That enmity is shown more fully in the written Word, where we see the attempt of the enemy (in Exodus 1) to destroy every male of the seed of Abraham, and how it was defeated.
We see his effort repeated when he used Athaliah to destroy "all the seed royal" (2 Kings 11), and how "the king's son" was rescued "from among" the slain.
We see his hand again instigating Haman, "the Jews' enemy," to compass the destruction of the whole nation, but defeated in his designs.
When the woman's Seed, the virgin's Son, was born, we are shown the same great enemy inciting Herod to slay all the babes in Bethlehem (Matt 2), but again he is defeated.
In the wilderness of Judea, and in the Garden of Gethsemane the great conflict is renewed. "This is your hour and the power of darkness," He said to His enemies.
The real wounding in the heel was received at the Cross. It was there the scorpion struck the woman's seed. He died, but was raised again from the dead "to destroy the works of the devil."
To show us this; to prevent any mistake; to set forth the fact that this conflict only apparently ended in defeat, and that it did not really so end, we have the first two constellations belonging to this sign presented in one picture! Indeed, the picture is threefold, for it includes the sign itself!
If these pictures had been separated, then the conflict would have been separated from the victory; the deadly wound of the serpent's head from the temporary wound in the Victor's heel. Hence, three pictures are required, in which the scorpion, the serpent, and the man, are all involved, in order to present at the same time the triumphant issue of the conflict.

Treasure In Earthen Vessels; God works through cracked pots UPDATED 10/28/2012)

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WE HOLD THIS TREASURE

PREZI PRESENTATION

The story of the woman at the well is a marriage proposal and is a great place to begin in sharing how we are treasures in earthen vessels. It is strangely reminiscent of the song we sang as children “first comes love then comes marriage then comes the baby in the baby carriage”. First there was God who is love. Then the word was made flesh. Jesus is the Bridegroom.

That childhood song was a song about the holy Trinity and the call of our God into the marriage relationship of the bride and bridegroom and how we will be transformed into new creations. Theology of the Body gives us a beautiful lens from which to fully understand what the old Baltimore catechism said when it said we were created to know love and serve God to give you him forever in heaven.

The woman at the well is symbolic of all of our brokenness because of the sin in our lives, all of the inadequacies and all of the ways in which we fall short and yet God comes to us and seeks us out.

This is the marriage proposal. We are made for connection we are made for relationship.

Where we struggle in this is when SHAME gets in the way of allowing others to truly see who we are or to allow others to truly see us.

That’s where vulnerability comes in.

VULNERABILITY IS NOT WEAKNESS. How many think it takes vulnerability to speak in front of an audience of 800 people? It is true that vulnerability involves emotional risk and uncertainty but what vulnerability really means is to have courage.

Vulnerability is birthplace of creation and transformation. To create is to make something that never existed before like the unique and unrepeatable person. When we have the courage to really open ourselves to look into our hearts and even more importantly let others really and truly “see” us, we become transformed. “ Grace perfects our nature”.

In the garden, we were naked without shame.

“Naked without shame” is about knowing who we were as persons made in Gods image and likeness and our nature was perfect. When we fell from Grace due to original sin shame entered into the world.

Shame is the devil’s proposal about who God is and who we are.

Shame says one of two things; “you will never be good enough” or “who do you think you are”.

Adam and Eve covered themselves because they said yes to the devil’s proposal. Because they were unwilling to be vulnerable enough to go to God and trust in who He said we are, they fell and the consequence was sin.

A very basic understanding of sin is separation from God. In the Old Testament sin is described as a transgression. It is not just a violation of the law, but because the law was meant to protect as persons and to protect our world and our environment and God’s creation it is also a violation of God and violation of us so every time we separate from God and transgress upon his will we transgress upon ourselves and of all of creation. Sin, missing the mark and falling short of the glory of God. So with three

Sin has its effects always in wounding. Sin always wounds. There is no sin that doesn’t wound. It wounds us and it wounds others around us. We have no possibility of living in this world without being wounded.

What SHAME does is it takes the guilt we feel and turns the belief of “What I did was bad” into the belief that “I am bad”.

SHAME then makes us feel that we are unworthy of connection. It is in believing we are not thin enough, beautiful enough, successful enough or smart enough that SHAME turns our focus from who we are as unique and unrepeatable persons into who we think we “should be” or “should be doing”.

Shame makes us feel we are not good enough and that we will never be good enough.

The story of the woman at the well reminds us of whom we truly are which is the beloved of the Bridegroom and that God desires to marry us.

God knows all the places we have failed him and will fail him and yet he created us anyways. Out of all of the potential people God could've created we were chosen to be created and to come into the world to exist in fact of this very particular time in history.

But it gets better than this! God is calling all of us to enter into the redemption of the world! God could have chose to redeem the world anyway he liked. What he decided was that he wanted all of us to enter into this great work with him.

He does this by transforming our wounds much like his own were from the power of the cross. His “cracks” were in fact the greatest gift given to the entire world. Our wounds, our cracks, our inadequacies become the very place, once transformed like a firing kiln to a clay pot, becomes the very form from which God can best shine through, pour out of and be given to others. He is magnified by our smallness and our weakness.

God is calling you and is issuing a marriage proposal in which He desires to transform you and touch the lives of those around you through your fiat.

A treasure in earthen vessels is about our unique and unrepeatable personhood, it is about our immortal soul chosen by God to be called into existence. The earthen vessel reveals that the person we are is feminine or masculine and also is a sign that we are called to love like the trinity. But the earthen vessel also speaks to us about form.

Form, and the material from which it is made reveal its purpose. If I held up a cup and asked, “What is it?” unless we were from another world where they do not use cups, we would know it is a cup and that it holds liquid. We know understand what it is because of its form

Our form is meant to be a visible sign of Christ to the world. It is not just our masculine or feminine person that our form reveals but it tells a story of the Bride and the Bridegroom.

In Caryll Houselander’s book “The Reed of God” she uses three forms to reveal how Christ “shines” through our cracks”, The reed, the chalice, and the birds nest.

The Reed grows on the riverbanks and must be cut with a knife and then hallowed out with notches cut into it to create its form. Some of our stories include this kind of shaping. We are cut and hallowed out. We may think that we have nothing to give, our brokenness, or even our sinfulness might make us believe that God could never possibly choose us. The woman at the well is a reminder that God does chose us and when we allow him to redeem us, it is as if we are pressed to the lips of the master and when His Spirit blows through the reed, lyrical music is created because of the hallowing out and the notches that had been cut.

Some of our stories are like a chalice. A chalice is made from gold that has to be first hewn from the mud, then forged in fire before it can be poured into it’s mold. It then has to be pounded by a mallet to create its form. For those whose forming came from the succession of blows or from the purification of fire, they may understand that they are like Gold, that they are good, but they may not believe themselves worthy of greatness. It is the age-old question “Who do you think you are? If we remember that we are the beloveds of Christ, that He called us into being that we are His, then we remember who we are. A chalice is used to offer the great sacrifice of the mass. For those whose form is like the chalice, God desires to fill you with the water and blood that gushed from His sacred heart so that through your form you can pour Him out to a thirsting world.

Finally, for those who are shaped like the nest of a bird, the soft downy feathers of a tender mother bird’s breast create the form. For those who may have been formed by loving parents, in a prayerful home and have no painful formation as part of their story the temptation could be to say that they do not have a unique or inspiring story. Those whose story includes love, fidelity and affirmation are not only hope and inspiration for the world but it also creates a person more fully capable of revealing Christ. This story is an example of how each of us is called to become tabernacles.

We are to bring Christ to the world with our own hands and feet, with our own stories.

Each of our stories is as unique as our fingertips, as unique as our personhood.

We are the vessel and form helps us to tell the story of who Christ is and who we are in Christ. We should never underestimate the power of conversion to work through even the most broken of vessels.

Lazarus is an example of just such a vessel. He was dead. A rotting corpse and according to chief mourners “stinking” and yet when Christ shone through Lazarus, an entire city and now every generation to come, was converted through his story and through his form.

For me, my form is the reed. I have been hallowed out, whittled and cut into. The story I have to tell is of being transformed through my children and my husband.

I've been able to identify specific attributes or virtues that God has helped to develop in me for each one of my children.

For Maegan it was vulnerability, for Sara it was selfless love, for Elisha it was the need of affirmation, for Gabriel it was submission, for Annamarie it was long-suffering, for Mercedes it was Mercy, for Christopher it was joy, for Jonah it was perseverance.

For each child I have received a healing of a major wound, crack, or notch cut into me. God transformed it and the grace He has given to me in each of these areas have brought me freedom to love more rightly

Each time I was cracked, wounded or cut into because of my sin or the sin of others, the enemy proposed a lie so to enter into my heart and bring me to a place of shame.

Christ helps to expose the lies and bring healing to our wounded hearts and when we become vulnerable and allow Him in to truly see us, Christ transforms our wounds and they become like stained glass windows illuminating and radiating God’s beauty, God’s light, God’s truth to the world.

They will know us by our joy they will know us by our love. In this year of faith we are called to transformation. The new evangelization is about allowing Christ to permeate us. We embrace our greatness when we dare to take what we know in our heads and connect it to our hearts. When we move from knowing God, to being in an intimate relationship with Him.

When we allow ourselves to truly be seen and to really see the person God puts in front of us everyday is when we enter into one another’s story of redemption. God works through cracked pots, because His greatness is magnified in our weakness. The truth is that the enemy puts salt in our wounds because he is terrified that if we actually go into the wounds and bring Christ there with us, we would discover that when Christ redeems them, they become like jewels in the Crown of the creator.

You are a treasure in an earthly vessel and your form reveals a call to love and to be loved from the bridegroom to His bride. All it takes is your “fiat” which is the greatest “I DO” you can ever utter. HERE is more on this:
Healing The Whole Person- Reprint AND A TALK TO GO WITH IT.
http://ia701502.us.archive.org/14/items/AnatomyOfAWound/3-01AnatomyOfAWound.m4a

MUSLIM 101; THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM

2012-10-16T11:07:00.000-07:00

Do you know the basics on Islam, Muhammad and the Muslims? Here is a great interview with Bill Federer, an expert in History and especially on all things related to Islam. If you love the United States of America and all that it stands for, please take the time to watch and listen to this interview. Knowledge is power and we never know how long we will have access to the truth. Don't take my word for, listen for yourself, then research the answers. Your freedoms might just depend upon it.
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PART 1 BILL FEDERER AND HIS BACKGROUND

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PART 2 WHAT IS RADICAL ISLAM?

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PART 3 WHO WAS MUHAMMAD?

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PART 4 ISLAM RELIGION OR MORE?

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PART 5 DECONSTRUCTION IS A FORM OF BRAINWASHING

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PART 6 SLAVERY BEGAN BY ARABS NOT EUROPEANS

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PART 7 BATTLE OF LEPANTO!

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PART 8 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MODERATE, RADICAL OR FUNDAMENTAL MUSLIM?

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PART 9 SACRED LYING; MUSLIM'S LIE TO PROTECT AGENDA

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PART 10 A COMPARISON BETWEEN JESUS AND MUHAMMAD

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New Mass but same heretical music

2012-10-11T19:05:00.000-07:00

Are you ready for this?

I have a theory. I believe that the music we are singing at mass has a deliberate effect on us. I believe that the tones, frequency, hertz and noise level act as either conductors or as blockers. Because we are both body and soul and Blessed Pope John Paul II says that the body makes visible the invisible, I contest that the soul's senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and sound all have a direct effect upon our soul's reception of grace from which the source comes.

attempt to block the graces of the Eucharist flowing from the Altar as well as well our ability to receive these graces.

There is documented evidence

OCP (formerly known as Oregon Catholic Press) is an American liturgical publisher based in Portland, Oregon. The not-for-profit company publishes liturgical music, books, choral collections, hymnals, missals, and support materials for the Catholic Church. OCP also publishes the Catholic Sentinel, the diocesan newspaper for the Archdiocese of Portland.

OCP represents such musical composers as Michael Joncas, Dan Schutte and the St. Louis Jesuits, and offers worship programs that are used in two-thirds of all Catholic churches in the U.S., and in communities and ministries throughout the world.

Their music continues to dominate contemporary songbooks. Of all the hymns in the mixed-repertoire, mainstream Heritage Missal published by Oregon Catholic Press, 24% are by a member of the St. Louis Jesuits, with 70% written in the style they pioneered. The 2000 edition of Glory & Praise, "the most popular Catholic hymnal ever published," according to OCP[1] , contains 100 songs written by them. One member of the St. Louis Jesuits serves on the US Bishops' Subcommittee on Music, which is working toward naming a common repertoire for parishes.

You might almost forget that we are speaking here of the simple, well-worn, and recognizably popular melodies, written in that pseudo-folk style of the period, that have achieved ubiquity in millions of parishes, and can be (and usually is) sung and played by people (usually on guitar) with little or no formal training in music. I am speaking here of such Catholic favorites as "Be Not Afraid," "Here I Am Lord," "City of God," "Sing A New Song," "Come to the Water," "For You Are My God," "Yahweh, I Know You Are Near," "Though the Mountains May Fall," "Glory and Praise to Our God," "Only This I Want," and "One Bread, One Body."

The men in question are Bob Dufford, John Foley, Tim Manion, Roc O'Connor, and Dan Schutte. They attended the seminary during the most turbulent times in modern Catholic history. They entered seminary at the time of the transitional Missal of 1965, which had already severed a link from the past with the introduction of vernacular. Their primary educational experience took place during and after the Second Vatican Council. The ordinations of 4 of the 5 followed the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae. Tremendous confusion reigned over what music was appropriate at Mass. After the 1965 Missal, there was already a growing sense that Latin texts were not the future. The text of the new Mass had been imposed in 1969-1970 without an attached volume of chants for the Propers or Ordinary. Indeed, the music question appeared to be completely open, as if the past no longer had any bearing on what the future held. More here;http://www.musicasacra.com/publications/sacredmusic/133/3/3_2.html

Guess what we have been singing for the past
Just read on another Catholic board that Dan Schutte, former Jesuit priest, is now living with his gay partner. OK, that is hearsay (although I trust the source).

However the following is NOT hearsay: Schutte's song "Here I Am, Lord" is the unofficial anthem of Ministry with Lesbian and Gay Catholics (http://www.the-tidings.com/2001/0209/mlgc.htm).
Is this a common "lifestyle" choice for Oregon Catholic Press? When I visited Oregon last year, the churches seemed to be VERY liberal and supportive of the active gay community.

I was shocked. This was the first openly heretical set of acts during the Mass I had ever witnessed.

I wasn't sure the insinuation could be placed against Oregon Catholic Press or if it is simply an anomaly with Dan Schutte.
That test should be made on the merits of the words and melody. I've heard the song "Here I am Lord" criticized because the singers must take the part of God: "I the Lord...." I don't feel qualified to make that kind of judgement.
Just read the GIRM (or any one of my posts on Sacred Music) and listen to a Dan Schutte song and you'll have your answer. His music should be added to the index of forbidden books and burned. Publicly. A giant bonfire that can be seen from space...

St. Louis Jesuit, and former priest, Dan Schutte, who is now publicly identified as a partnered gay man.

For the record, Dan Schutte evidently now publicly identifies himself as a "partnered gay man." References abound. Here's one: http://www.cruxnews.com/ftm/ftm-24sept04.htmlMike Gale [Dan Schutte's partner]: Pilgrim Music was founded in 2002 by composer Dan Schutte after hearing time and again from folks in the pew how often they were frustrated by not being able to find his music, or that of other well known artists and composers, in the stores.

URL: http://www.pilgrimmusic.com

"The link goes to http://www.pilgrimmusic.com. Here is their Company History, according to their site:

"'Pilgrim Music was founded in 2002 by composer Dan Schutte after hearing time and again from "folks in the pew" how often they were frustrated by not being able to find his music, or that of other well known artists and composers, in the stores. There are many songs that have been standards, not only of worship, but have also become personal to many Christians in their journey of faith. In response, Dan and his associates have developed this site as a vehicle for folks to find music they might enjoy for their personal prayer, or simply to enjoy around the house or in the car as they go about their day. Much of the music you'll find on this site has been personally selected by Dan. We are continually increasing the number of collections we offer as we search for wonderful new music for prayer.

"A WHO IS search for PILGRIMMUSIC.COM reveals: Domain Name: PILGRIMMUSIC

Administrative Contact: Pilgrim Music, mike@mikegale.net; 231 Mullen Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110; Phone: 415-505-6440

"On the Pilgrim Music website, their 'Contact Us' link provides an address of: 109 Franconia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

"A WHO IS search for Dan Schutte's personal website, DANSCHUTTE.COM reveals: 'Domain Name:DANSCHUTTE.COM; Dan Schutte, 109 Franconia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Phone: 415-970-1500; fax..: 703-991-8203. Email: dan@danschutte.com

"Obviously," writes Dr. Kopp, both PILGRIMMUSIC.COM under the Administration of mike@mikegale.net and DANSCHUTTE.COM under the Administration of Dan Schutte list this same address, 109 Franconia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110.

Summary:
If Dan and Mike were only 'business' partners, the obit would probably not mention the 'partner' at all, or if they did, they would specify 'business' partner, for fear others would think their son was gay. Plus, the obits specifically mention Dan and his partner live in San Francisco. Two guys described as partners means only one thing in San Francisco, to my knowledge.

"2) Dan Schutte founded a website to sell his music, and that website is administered by a Mike Gale of San Francisco, and both share the same street address, and, 3) the public announcements that Schutte is a partnered gay man were published in print and on the internet in July, yet there has been no correction of this charge (to my knowledge) by Schutte, and so it appears that Dan Schutte, the former St. Louis Jesuit and composer is indeed presently 'partnered' with Mike Gale in San Francisco...."

That should end the disinformation campaign.

As an aside, Marty Haugen (often inadvertantly mistaken for the SLJs) is described on his own website (http://www.martyhaugen.net) as a "composer-in-residence at Mayflower United Church of Christ in Minneapolis and serves as adjunct professor at United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota."

You know Dan Schutte: he's the composer whose music you hate to hear at Mass. And just think, every time you sing one of his copyrighted songs, published in the hymnals or monthly missalettes by Oregon Catholic Press (among others) in a half-dozen different languages, including Vietnamese, (e.g. "Glory & Praise," and Today's Missal), you are generating revenues for Dan's gay lifestyle.

There really oughta be a law against Catholic publishers publishing the songs and other writings of former priests living what most Catholics consider a scandalous lifestyle. (Dan, by the way, is also supported by the (Jesuit) University of San Francisco, where he is "composer in residence" and "director of music" for university ministries.

Schutte's most famous song, "Here I am, Lord" is the anthem for the gay rights movement within the Catholic Church, as the Los Angeles Tidings' Brenda Rees reported on February 9, 2001:

"'Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go Lord if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart.'

"The refrain of Dan Schutte's familiar opening refrain that filled St. Dominic Church in Eagle Rock Feb. 4 set the tone for the warm, almost-summer evening, where more than 400 people gathered to celebrate 15 years of the Ministry with Lesbian and Gay Catholics (MLGC).

"'Here I am, Lord' is, in ways, an unofficial motto for the ministry that has grown and found its place within not only the Los Angeles Archdiocese but also the cities and parishes where it has taken root. The MLGC encourages gay and lesbian Catholics to remain (or return to) their parishes to fully participate in the service and life of the church [sic].

"For all those involved in the MLGC - including supportive pastors, religious, lay members and leaders - the evening was indeed a celebration of endurance, strength and commitment. At the end of the Mass, the ministry's director, Carmelite Father Peter Liuzzi, thundered to the crowds, 'We have passed through the door. This is our jubilee year!'

"San Pedro Regional Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Sartoris presided at the Mass where more than 30 priests concelebrated....."

Bob Dufford (Ex-Jesuit Priest)
Come then and bring [H]im your sorrows
Life is a road clogged with trouble and pain (Ever think of trying Liquid-Plumr?)
Jesus was man, man [W]ho died but Lord [W]ho rose again (No. Re-read the first chapter of John's Gospel. This line implies Jesus wasn't divine until His Resurrection, which is heresy.)
Join in [H]is saving meal and hope in [H]is name. (Again, no Sacrifice of the Mass.)
Come then with food for [H]is table
Bread for [H]is banquet and wine for [H]is guests
Our Lord will share with us this food blessed by victory
Joined in this human meal we touch our God. (On one hand, this is the least objectionable verse, but still, it so minimizes the Eucharist, leading the people to think it's nothing more than a Really Nice Dinner. The Sacrifice may employ human bread and wine, but they are transsubstantiated into the Body and Blood during the Eucharistic Prayer. I bet Parker could have worked "transsubstantiation" into a line if he'd wanted to.)

What we are presented with is a collection of 12 songs ranging in style and also displaying the individual songwriting talents of Dan Schutte, John Foley S.J., Bob Dufford S.J. and Robert ‘Roc’ O’Connor, S.J.. Additional input is given by one-time St Louis Jesuit Tim Manion.
If you're playing music to make people come to Mass (for the music), that's not a good thing.

I propose that individuals who are involved in liturgical music—planning, preparation, and execution—spend time in prayer before every stage of their important task: namely, to lead the People of God closer to eternal unity with Him through music.

New Dan Schutte; calls it bread and cup...
http://cdn.ocp.org/shared/pdf/preview/30103289.pdf
Controlling brain activity using ultrasound has been a theoretical possibility that scientists have been working on for a while. The advantage over electrical stimulation is that sound can target any part of the brain, and would not involve an invasive procedure. MIT Technology Review is reporting on some of the recent advancements in the field.

The Listening Program-Ear-Brain Connection website says this:

Certain classical music, like that of Mozart, Haydn and Vivaldi, has specific structure, producing sound waves in organized patterns. Within these patterns are vital elements including time, frequency and volume. When listening to music, the ear is receiving the musical sound waves—waves that arrive in different frequencies, measured in Hertz (Hz). These frequencies stimulate the brain, and thus affect different functions of the mind and body.

The Listening Program’s psychoacoustically modified music and patent-pending production techniques are designed to stimulate, or “exercise,” the different functions of the auditory processing system. This enables the brain to better receive, process, store and utilize the valuable information provided through the varied soundscapes in our lives such as music, language and the environment in which we live.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1460879066?bctid=24922408001

EEG and the brain's state
EEG (Electroencephalography) technology is used to measure brain's electrical vibrations from the surface of the scalp. The resulting EEG pattern will contain frequency elements mainly below 30Hz. The frequencies are categorized into four states as follows:

State Frequency range State of mind
Delta 0.5Hz - 4Hz Deep sleep
Theta 4Hz - 8Hz Drowsiness (also first stage of sleep)
Alpha 8Hz - 14Hz Relaxed but alert
Beta 14Hz - 30Hz Highly alert and focused
Stimulating the brain with binaural beat frequencies
The easiest way of applying stimulus to the brain is via ears. Other senses could be used as well, and vision is actually used quite often (often in addition to hearing). However, humans cannot hear sounds low enough to be useful for brain stimulation, so special techniques must be used. One such special technique used is called binaural beats.

If the left ear is presented with a steady tone of 500Hz and the right ear a steady tone of 510Hz, these two tones combine in the brain. The difference, 10Hz, is perceived by the brain and is a very effective stimulus for brainwave entrainment. This 10Hz is formed entirely by the brain. When using stereo headphones, the left and right sounds do not mix together until in your brain. The frequency difference, when perceived by brain this way, is called a binaural beat.
The effect of the audible frequencies used
To get a stimulus of 10Hz, you may use tones of 500Hz and 510Hz, or 400Hz and 410Hz, or 800Hz and 810Hz, or so on. The only requirements are that the tone is heard well enough and that it is below about 1000Hz. Below 1000Hz, the wavelength of the skull is sufficiently small so that the sound waves curve around it.

You may try out different audible tones with BrainWave Generator and see which ones work best for you.
Altered brain states
As mentioned above, applying a stimulus to the brain will eventually bring the brain's state closer to the stimulus frequency. The following paragraphs describe some possible effects of this.

Note, however, that just passively listening to binaural beats does not necessarily alter your state of consciousness. For example, willingness and ability to relax and focus attention affects how effective the binaural beat stimulus is for inducing state changes.

Treatment of certain mental diseases
Brainwave entrainment is used in treatment of depression, low self-esteem, attention deficit disorder, drug and alcohol addiction and autism, to name a few.

Brainwave entrainment has also been found helpful in alleviating headaches and migraines.
Miscellaneous
Some users have also reported increases in their sex drive as a result of brainwave entrainment.

When most people hear the word ultrasound, they think of the diagnostic tool used to look inside the womb and steal glimpses at a fetus. But researchers at Arizona State University at Tempe have developed a new use for it: to control brain activity from outside the skull.

If the earth has magnetic forces, why shouldn't living human beings be charged with energy? Bioscience research lags far behind the atmospheric sciences, yet sources of universal magnetism exist at all levels of nature. Chemicals, minerals and atoms possess electrons wherever they are found, but energy is especially pronounced in living beings. As Dr Valerie Hunt says, "we, like all living matter, are bundles of electrically charged matter as nuclear physics has demonstrated."
SCIENCE AND THE ENERGY FIELD

Quantum physics tells us that material substances are composed not only of observable matter, but also more subtle field components with organized energy patterns, boundaries and definitions. The deeper one probes into physical substance the more one encounters the underlying electrical energy or the energy field. All material substances, tree, rock or animal, have electrical fields because all are composed of particles, atoms and cells. Each of these fields is in constant dynamic equilibrium. The less dense a substance, the more energetic the field with a greater density to create a force.
As Dr Valerie Hunt says, the energy field is the primary source of the interaction of a person with her/his environment. Whatever happens to you, it is your field that gets influenced ahead of anything in the nervous system or brain.
"Our energy field data carries one thousand to ten thousand greater frequency information per second than neurological frequency data. Our energy field carries the same times amount more information about the health of our body, or the disease of our body than any other neurological or pathological information from our chemistry or tissues.

A significant disease-maker causing biological and DNA damage is extremely low frequency (ELF) power sources which leak contamination in our homes and cars.

Chronic fatigue syndrome isn't a chemical imbalance, but an energy field problem.

Our energy fields fit into the patterns of all-life called chaos. Chaos is an elaborate mix of extremely complex patterns. Ageing is the process of losing some of the complexity, narrowing our frequency and moving towards entropy.

The human field both permeates the entire body and radiates several inches to feet from the body surface.

Noise is anti-coherent energy which can drain people's energy. However, more debilitating than the actual decibel level of noise at large gatherings is the contamination of so many scattered yet concentrated energy fields.

Our brains are extremely vulnerable to any technology which sends out ELF waves, because they immediately start resonating to the outside signal by a kind of tuning-fork effect. Puharich experimented discovering that

A) 7.83 Hz (earth's pulse rate) made a person feel good, producing an altered-state.
B) 10.80 Hz causes riotous behavior and
C) 6.6 Hz causes depression.

Sound is an acoustical wave frequency as opposed to an electromagnetic frequency. An acoustical frequency operates on the principle of compression and rarefaction of air molecules. This means the pushing together and pulling apart of air molecules. Electromagnetic frequencies are created by an oscillating electrical charge. Since sound needs air to be communicated, there is no sound in a vacuum. Sound is also transmitted differently through solids and liquids than through gaseous material. The elasticity and density of the material it travels through determines the speed of sound. Gaseous material is more elastic and therefore retards the velocity of the sound waves passing through it. Sound travels more quickly through solids and liquids.

Sound waves are comparable by their pitch, loudness and quality. Pitch of a musical note is the frequency of the sound producing it. The loudness of a sound is subjective to the listener, but is a function of the energy of the transmitted sound wave. The quality, or timbre, of a sound wave depends upon the instrument producing the wave, i.e. the difference between a piano, violin or flute.

An excellent source for an in depth study of the effects of sound and music on learning and creativity is found in the books Superlearning and Superlearning 2000 by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder. As a boost to creativity the works of the Baroque composers is very beneficial. These composers are Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Tchaikovsky and Corelli, to name a few. The beat, harmonics and frequency of their music is very conducive to brain entrainment, and optimizing alpha brain frequencies.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Perhaps the Word was the energy and frequency of sound. Sound is the primordial essence that moves through the deep and silent recesses of the Void to emerge on the other side of creation, as a fluid and malleable influence on all levels of the manifest worlds. It permeates and brings life to the material world. Sound is the basis for all music. Thus, it appears then that music was not only a gift from God to man, but music is the all-pervasive song of creation playing eternally as creation itself. As Pythagoras coined it, "the Music of the Spheres."

When we consider single notes or sounds - their effect upon the physical body leads us to think deeply on the subject. There are snake charmers, mostly to be found in India, who by playing their instrument, a wind instrument called pungi, attract cobras and other snakes from their vicinity. Often and often this experiment has been made, and one has always found that all kinds of snakes, or cobras, are attracted on hearing the sound of the pungi. First they come out of the holes in which they live and there is a certain effect on their nervous system which draws them closer and closer to the sound of the pungi. They forget that instinct which is seen in every creature to protect itself from the attack of man or of other creatures. At that time they absolutely forget, they do not see anyone or anything. Then they are aroused to ecstasy: a cobra begins to raise its head and to move it right and left, and as long as this instrument is played the cobra continues to move in ecstasy. This shows us that, apart from the psychical effect and apart from the spiritual effect that sound has on mankind, there is a physical effect also.

The great drawback today in the world of song is that people are going far away from what is called the natural voice, and this is brought about by commercialism. They have made a hall for one hundred persons, then for five hundred, and then for five thousand persons. A man must shout in order to make five thousand people hear him, in order to have a success - a success that can be had at the ticket office! But that magic charm of the voice is in the natural voice.

Every person is gifted. God has given him a certain pitch, a natural note, and if that pitch develops and he develops that natural note, it is a magic, he can perform a miracle. But he must think about the hall where he has to sing, and of how loud he must shout!

Our Lady of Guadalupe; A Message For The Church of the 21st Century

2012-10-10T10:38:00.001-07:00

I do not claim to be an expert on Our Lady of Guadalupe. I claim to be a woman with an Amazon account who has read the scholars and done research as well as sought out those considered to be experts (The writings of Mnsgr Eduardo Chavez, Fr. Mario Sanchez and original documents as well as Cardinal Burke, Fr Peter Damian Fehlner, Fr Thomas Loya on Iconography and many more).

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I have talked with some, met with others and I have read their books for the past 3 years. Using their work, their writings and their discoveries I simply connect the dots. While the experts see the miracle of 1531, I seek to point out the Miracle of the 21st century. Our Lady of Guadalupe has been providentially chosen by God to re-evanglize the world, to offer healing, protection and deliverance. She is also declaring that she is Co-Redemptrix, or rather God is declaring it in the Tilma. All of things things are not subjective but objective proves that I can show using the Nahuatl Glyphs, the language of Iconography, theology, scripture and of course the writings of Mnsgr. Eduardo Chavez and others. I hope you enter into this great Miracle for she is the ark upon which we must board.

I would also like to share that I personally hand delivered my research to the Secretary of Cardinal Burke when we was visiting the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. He was the Bishop of the Diocese I grew up in and he helped me to become a speaker by allowing me to speak throughout his Diocese and writing me a letter of recommendation. He reviewed my work and wrote to me from Rome asking me to go see Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner at the Shrine. Fr. Fehlner reviewed my work and offered me two of the books you see below to help me continue my research.

Here are some slide shows on Our Lady of Guadalupe. Did you know she was predestined to be the intercessor of the America's? Did you know the Shroud of Turin perfectly aligns with the tilma and the image of Divine Mercy? Did you know that there are new discoveries within the image proving that Heaven is re-issuing an invitation to listen to a message within it for the Church of the 21st Century, the time when the technology was invented to discover the secrets contained within it until we were ready to see, hear and act upon on it. God is good.

Here is the descriptions of each slide:

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Our Lady of Guadalupe was predestined to be the protector of the faithful, the remnant Church and the America’s. The Icon was carved using Mary herself as a model by St. Joseph, “written” not painted as it is an icon, by St. Luke and then given and used as a means of protection and healing throughout the centuries. Protection from the uprising of Radical Islam/Muslims and protection from the plague. She is tied to Our Lady of Fatima through protecting the area from Muslims, to Our Lady of Lourdes in that the Franciscan's formulated the dogma of the Immaculate Conception before it was formerly declared by St. Bernadette and she is tied to Our Lady of Kibeho through the 7 sorrows of the Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico.

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The Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe-Spain was carried over the head of St. Gregory when the plague took the life of the Pope; St. Gregory became Pope and carried the icon over his head as he fled the city saving many of the faithful with him as they went. He later gave the image to Bishop Leander in Spain that was enduring persecution by the moors (Radical Muslims which beheaded Catholic Christians). I believe we will see major conversions of the Muslim faith through Mary, particularly that of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

See next slide

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Bishop Leander pleaded for the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe-Spain the icon (she was not named yet and would be named after being discovered by a farmer upon Mary’s personal direction) next slide

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It should be said that the area now known as Fatima was named such after Mohammad’s own daughter converted to Catholicism after falling in love with a Catholic that remained in that area under the protection of the buried Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe-Spain. Her husband renamed the area “Fatima” after his wife (yes the once Muslim daughter of Mohammad that converted to Catholicism) Fatima is the 2^ndmost frequented pilgrimage to this day for Muslims in honor of Fatima.

In 1326 a little known farmer Gil Cordero saw Mary appear to him telling him where to go to find the buried Icon. He brought with him men from the church to the spot pointed out. It was discovered along with documents authenticating it. Our Lady asked for a Church to be built in honor of her and the icon. There was a river that ran near the location and so the name of the Church and the Icon became “Our Lady of Guadalupe” because Guadalupe means water that runs through/within/between the black rocks. Mnsgr. Eduardo Chavez, the world-renowned scholar on all things Our Lady of Guadalupe, has authenticated this.

1340 King Alfonso made a pilgrimage to her Church to consecrate his Land to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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1464 King Alfonso’s daughter, Queen Isabella went on pilgrimage with her husband King Ferdinand and consecrated herself and her reign to OLG. She would meet Christopher Columbus at a gathering. He told her that the Holy Spirit came to him in a dream telling him that he was to go to distant lands and bring the faith to those who did not know the true God. She had the same dream the night before and so it would seem providence brought them together. She would become the personal benefactor and supporter of Christopher Columbus, Cortez and Bishop Zummaraga.

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Before departing Christopher Columbus made a pilgrimage to OLG-Spain to consecrate himself, his vessels and his discoveries to OLG-Spain. Ironically he would name the boats Saint Mary the little painted lady, almost 60 years before she would be painted in Mexico.

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In 1519 Cortez went to the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe and consecrated his voyage and his future work of bringing the faith to the new lands discovered by Columbus. Cortez landed on the exact day of the Aztec prophesy telling of the return of the one true God and King, the sister of Montezuma also dreamed and prophesized the landing of the men and even described the image that would be on the sail of the ships (a large cross). This is why Cortez was able to not only land without incident but it laid the grown work for him to enter into the very powerfully guarded cities. The first thing Montezuma set to work at was to bring an end to the demonic sacrifices upon the altars. He destroyed them the altars, held Holy Mass there to consecrate these places to God and destroy the hold the devil had claimed on this ground and their people and placed a statue of Mary on them begging her intercession.

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So we see that Mary, particularly OLG had a unique and providential role in claiming the America’s for her son. She brought protection, guidance, deliverance, evangelization and intercession. I will show how she is declaring once again that God has a providential message and role that she in particular is called to fill right now in this time of World History. Once again we are entering into a demonic culture of death and need a supernatural intercessor. Once again, OLG is the answer.

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It is no mistake that Blessed Scot Duns, a Franciscan way before Our Lady of Lourdes declared it, developed the doctrine of the “Immaculate Conception”. The Franciscans were preaching this theology for some time. The Franciscans were chosen to be the order to teach the faith to the America’s because this doctrine would we central to understanding the mysteries within the incarnation, the new eve and the new Adam and God’s call to union and communion with a love that is divine and free from concupiscence.

Bishop Zumarraga felt unworthy to be the Bishop of the new lands and so guessed it! He went on pilgrimage to OLG-Spain to consecrate himself and all of his work to her. Every single one of the involved in establishing the United States of America went to OLG-Spain. Coincidence or providence?

St. Juan Diego is significant because he is laity, simply formed and not at all a theologian and yet he was chosen to be part of God’s plan of imparting the faith in the New World. The place where it would be protected and nurtured while Europe would later be in turmoil. When Bishop Zumarraga struggled to share the faith he begged for OLG-Spain to intercede and asked for a sign. He asked for Castilian roses because they were from the part of Spain he was from. She would answer that call and more. The miracle of Tepayac hill consisted of her messages, the roses he asked for as well as MANY OTHER FLOWERS that were gathered and have significance, although we only hear of the roses.

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This is a codex. A codex is the way in which Ancient Nahuatl Indians recorded history. They used images and glyphs because they did not use an alphabet. They could “read” what was “written” on a codex because every picture spoke to them as a language. This is the original codex created by the Nahuatl Indians to record the appearance of OLG. It was created in 1548 and further proves the miracle of Olg was not something fabricated but less than 17 years after the event they were recording it as history.

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While almost 10 million Nahuatl Indians were converted in less than 7 years through this image it was because of the language God spoke to them that this miracle of faith was able to speak. Not only that but the Bishop received the sign He asked for. It was not until later however that it was understood what exactly that language was. It was Fr. Mario Rojas Sanchez that first realized the pictures were Nahunta Glyphs and began to study them for their meanings and significance. It should be noted that he also believed that this image was the very image spoken of in Revelations that St. John saw during mass in a mystical vision. “And I saw the woman clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet”. It is believed that the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was what St. John saw in the sky and then wrote of in Revelations. This is significant because there is evidence to prove this using the constellations that are aligned on the tilma that prove in fact that it seems to miss the very stars spoken of in that passage that were “cast out of heaven by the serpents tail”.

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A=Greater Than The Sun God (she stands in front of the sun rays to show this is greater)

B=Greater Than The Moon God (she stands on it)

C=her skin color reveals a Mix of Spanish and Nahuatl Indian (the colors of her skin is mixed)

D=Dressed like a Jewish Woman and colors are of Indian princess (she dressed both in Israelite garb but the colors where of Indian royalty)

E=Prayerful posture/ Maraca in hands with the combination of bent knee she is in posture of worship (dancing and music were part of highest worship)

F=Cincture for chaste and virginity but worn high on the woman is indicating pregnancy (revealing a virgin and mother, note there are 7 tassels)

G=Nahuii Ollin, the crossing of sticks for new fire, the N,S,E,W, the true God over the womb which is known to contain a child( in her pregnant womb is the God being proclaimed)

H=The Stars indicating outside of this world the 8 points symbolizing baptism and eschatological grace (heavenly, messenger with power from the heavens)

I=Brownish pink robe color of the earth (also a calendar, map and dignity of body expressed)

J=Flower Glyphs (Jasmine flowers significant, clusters where language for form of prayer through poetry and song)

Water glyph=they would be receive new water rooted with power from in the heavens, hill glyph combined with water=, new civilization

Wise Man Glyph=(looks like a mans face with eyes, nose and mouth, known as Shaman or man with wisdom outside of his own comprehension. This told them the knowledge of the faith being proclaimed in this codex would come from a wise man with a head shaped like a MITRE. This would be Bishop Z

Bishop MITRE=Bishop Zumaraga as having truth so they opened up and sought out the Franciscans that wore these pointed hats.

The Glyph of hill and water come together meaning “civilization” and spoke of an end to human sacrifice (it is Upside down heart) and a new civilization would be built upon this God’s truths as revealed since the water way is rooted or flows out of the outer mantle piece which they understood as divine and from the heavens because of coloring and the 8 pointed Gold Stars.

K=Broach of Franciscan Cross (the same as the Franciscans boats and symbols)

L=White Fur cuffs for purity & royal (for Aztecs this again connoted great royalty)

M=Mexican Magnolia flower of flesh (understood as food so Eucharistic message within this image, not to mention the overall shape which is corn shaped, a staple of their diet. In fact St. Juan Diego proclaimed, “Is this the land of the flesh the land of my people” when he went to the Hill and spoke with OLG there).

N=Aztec Fold precious cargo (This is the place children or food were carried. Since the tilma was a part of everyday attire.

O=Topographical Map of Mexico revealing water ways mountains and volcano’s revealing location of the apparition and the flowers clusters are calendar represents the end of an age. There were signs in the heaven at this time, storms, earthquakes and volcanoes. Their calendar based on Mayan calendars used “reeds” to understand time. This image revealed a calendar within the flower glyphs so in this image the year of the 13 reeds was upon them signifying an end to an age and beginning of another age. That age is the end to demonic human sacrifice and the beginning of the age of Faith. We too are being invited into this image because we are leaving the age of Mercy and the age of Justice is upon us. St. Faustina’s messages from Jesus declared this.

P=Gold lined convey godlike or royalty

Q=the angel holds the mantle and the robe

R=Clouds convey outside of this world/God

S=Crown originally present on her head but disappeared

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There is a new message being heralded to the Church of the 21^st century in the image on the tilma. The invitation was made when the technology was created in the world to discover that hidden within the image were undiscovered meaning.

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In an image where everything means something, we discover using high-powered microscopes that there are images in the eyes of those gathered in the room when the tilma was presented to Bishop Zummaraga. 14 people including St. Juan Diego himself and Bishop Zummaraga as well as a family and a black servant freed from slavery by the Bishop that decided to stay in His service. This was only investigated AFTER seeing the servant in the eye but was confirmed using eyewitness testimony that was documented. The eye also had the components of a living eye. The (Samson-Purkinje effect is a scientific term for the way the cornea reflects incoming images and inverts one of the three created reflections onto the back of a living eye. Using microscopes it was discovered that this effect is present in the image of the eye of OLG.

Using advanced Kepler's mathematics as well as NASA computer software, a computer image of the morning sky of 1531 was created and discovered to align perfectly with the stars laid out on the mantle of OLG. More significantly they are inverted, the North and south and east and west are turned. This is the way the Nahuatl Indians created their own maps so that would be significant by itself but perhaps more importantly it signifies that was what up (remember the nahuii ollin reveals that the Indians see the 4 directions of the world signifying God) that the God who is up has come down (incarnation) and for us it reminds us that was down (the enemy) is up and roaming about the world. We are being invited into a message about what this spiritual battle is all about. Who it is we are fighting, his battle plan and how we are to defeat him. This was all discovered now because the message is for us now. Using the original message and meanings of the glyphs as well as the language of Iconography (an approved and ancient means of teaching theology in color as well as the constellations and their Christian roots) we see clearly that God providentially chose Mary to bring us Jesus, she is the intercessor from which we will board the ark of the new covenant and with her the Gates of Hell will not prevail against us.

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Behold I make all things new! Why would it surprise us that if God created man and out of his side he would create woman, immaculately conceived and free from sin much like that of Adam before the fall and make all things new by taking Man from the flesh of Mary? Her immaculate conception gave the hands and feet upon which the savior of the world would be formed. With no biological father, Mary is the only flesh upon which Jesus was created. It is taking from her side, man. The new Adam and the new eve. Most of us who understand science know that men and women share different chromosomes. You can split a twin from one flesh but you will get the same sex not a male and female. However, God created us in His image and likeness, Male and female he created them so the supernatural component of the immortal soul into the flesh is somehow inexplicably tied to our sexuality as well as our intellect and biology.

One of the messages being heralded in the image of OLG is that of the New Adam and The New Eve. It is an invitation to understand His mother and her unique role in salvation history as well as our own. She was creature yet able to do what Mary could not or would not revealing she is our hope because as mere mortal creature it is possible to live out the will of God despite living in a broken world. It also heralds a call that all of us are to enter into the redemption of the world since God is the one who decided to work through human beings.

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She perfectly participated even in eschatological man, she has received her Glorified body and so paves the way for us. God came to redeem man and woman and there is something very important about the relationship of man and woman and the call to love. The love He desires to share with the world is love perfected, free from concupiscence and it heals and restores. He is also revealing who He is, whom God Himself is through this call to love. The incarnation and the message of the New Adam and New Even are a theology of love and He desires we share it with the world.

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The first pilgrimage the New Pope took was to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico to consecrate his entire pontificate to her. He also took the writings of St. Faustina out of the obscurity, (they were deemed unworthy of belief) and launched a full investigation, cleared the writings, gave them to the world and pronounced Divine Mercy Sunday and the Chaplet. Mary’s pope understood, perhaps mystically that his particular role, that of Our Lady of Guadalupe was part of God’s plan to heal, protect and evangelize the world once again.

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Within the inner robes of the tilma lies the torso of the crucified Jesus Christ with his heart pierced and the blood and water running down the side. It is not subjective but can be proved in several ways. One way is the nahuatl glyphs themselves another is that the dimensions of the tilma and the shroud are in exact proportion with one another. The divine mercy image is also proportionate with the shroud. They not only align over one another but they tell the same story when you do it. Right where the pierced heart of Jesus pours out blood and water we see the line of deep red pigment (which Guadeloupian scholars have all described as the color of blood) flowing down the side of the three folds that extend just under the Nahuii Ollin and pooling into the Aztec Fold. The same scholars say that the shadows of pooling are not consistent with the lighting so they are unsure why it pools in this way, but if we acknowledge it is blood and water it pools exactly the way this liquid would. The glyphs within this segment shout the truth of what is revealed. The stream of water and blood, which many of us understand as the pierced heart of Jesus, the font of Mercy described by St. Faustina, were given to us by Pope John Paul II, without His approval we would not be venerating the image nor sharing the message of Divine Mercy in the world. Right in the Wise Man glyph, at the very corner of his mouth is where the blood and water begin their flow as if to say Out of the mouth of the wise man, the man you know as Bishop with the MITRE hat (again all approved understandings and translation by experts) that this Pope spewing out of his mouth the font of Divine Mercy to the world.

It should be noted that the there are many more glyphs within the tilma that back up this claim. So we see an image of the love of the trinity and who God is through that sign. If God so loved the world he gave us his son, we see now with the crucified torso of Jesus with his heart pierced and flowing out unto the precious treasure of the world, we see Jesus loving the father in that he gives himself as a free, total and full gift, faithfully and fruitfully back to the father. The trinity is revealed here in this and for anyone having problems with Mary seeing the torso of Jesus in this way may be a means of drawing him or her into the fold. This part of the Icon has as if an inner light that shines and radiates from the image. Anyone who lays eyes on the image would see that there seems to be a light that illuminates from within this one area making it to appear to be more radiant than the rest of the image.

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The First Icons were in fact created using the Shroud of Turn as the template so why would not God Himself speak through the language of Iconography. It should be noted the flower shaped glyph shapes on the shroud image in red. Some scholars have wondered why they look “child like” but if you understand the Nahunta Glyphs and the connection of the icon of the new eve (tilma) and the icon of the new Adam (shroud) it makes perfect sense. Just as a man’s body makes no sense by itself but only when understood in light of the complementarity of a woman’s body and equal in dignity do we see an expression of complementarity and that “male and female” he created them in His own image.

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There even seems to appear beams of light that come of the area on the surrounding area. This is visible in most of the print images but even more so from Fr. Tim’s images. He was granted special permission to capture the image in an unprecedented way. Given full access to the image, to control the lighting and to use high power digital photography, Fr. Tim as created over 40 detailed tiles that he then spliced together to create one very precise image. It is said to be the most accurate and detailed “photograph” of the image in existence and can be viewed one tile at a time to see detailing within the image almost never seen before. Just as an icon is written to reveal the Heavenly message and doorway that it is, so too is this icon of OLG revealing that this is an icon, a doorway, theology in color, a poor mans catechism. In a world where people seem to no longer be able intellectually reason out faith, perhaps once more Heaven will speak through an image but are we listening? This is not just a historical document. This is an ongoing miracle that is declaring itself to have a message for the Church in the age in which the technology to discover the message would find it. Why, in an image where every detail means something is no one asking why these details are being discovered using modern technology? Why is no one asking, “Do you think Heaven is trying to tell us something” I say yes, in fact it is being heralded.

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The tilma is significant for many reasons. One it was simple cloth, made of cactus fiber, a plant. It was traditional covering for the Indians. It was a covering of the body that signified family affiliations and sometimes-rank dependent upon its splendor. This material was used in marriage ceremonies. The two would be tied together to signify union between man and woman. It seems this being chosen as the canvas is revealing that every person is significant, that marriage is significant, that laity will be playing a significant role and that that ceremony/ritual is significant and that God wants to tell us something about all of these things.

TILMA; Tilma worn during marriage ceremonies, worn on the body as a covering. Bridegroom and Bride are tied together as a symbol of their union during ceremony of wedding. It also is used to carry children later, in the fold, which is then tied around the waist of the person. The Tilma is worn by average people therefore revealing that ALL are called to Union and Communion. Two pieces of cloth were sewn together; in fact the center of this cloth is the exact middle of the image. It is where two have become one. Two pieces of cloth become one garment. This also brings dignity to male and female he created them as marriage is only between a man and a woman. In the image, I content the exact center of the tilma is also where the divine mercy image is in the robe.

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3. The Redemption of Man and Woman; The New Adam and The New Eve

TILMA; Not only do the constellation's placed precisely over her image where theological truths are conveyed, but she reveals that her immaculate conception is woman fully participating in the redemption of man. Just as Eve took of the apple and ate, so did Adam and so BOTH fell from the glory of what God had intended for them. In God's plan for the redemption of man, He could have done it by any means He saw fit, yet, He chose for the participation of mankind, and begun so through a woman. Male and female He created them, so would not God make it known that male and female they are redeemed? If we are made in his image, male and female, then we see how beautiful it is that before Christ takes His flesh from her; the merits of His sacrifice are applied to her at the very moment of her conception. OLGuadalupe appears to St. Juan Diego on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, linking this truth to the image.

This truth is “written” in the constellation of Gemini over her womb on the tilma. The twin constellation reveals the splitting of flesh, the two coming from one as Adam and Eve so too Mary and Jesus come from one flesh with His divine nature coming from God alone. In Song of Songs the love we are to have for one another is to be able to call our spouse our sister and our bride. How does one love this way? We love this way when the two become one flesh. We desire to love them for their own sake not ours, we are family we are intimately connected and this is a foreshadowing of our call to union and communion with God. We were made by love, to love and for love and our destiny is to be with God forever in Heaven.

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The most used analogy of the bible is a wedding. It is the teaching of the relationship between the bride and bridegroom that most accurately describes the relationship God is calling us to. He is calling us to the wedding feast. The first miracle Jesus Performed was the Wedding Feast of Cana. This was for many reasons one of which was to show us that He was giving us new wine. This new wine is the love of God poured out for many. The sacred vessels used, the water that was contained in them and the fact that the quality of the wine was mentioned all point to God showing us that He is coming to restore and to make New by giving us His love free from sin. In the incarnation is a language of Love. In every faith that exists EXCEPT Christianity the person must do something for God. IN Christianity, God came to us. Mary had it done unto her. She did nothing other than open herself in love. The Song of Songs is the language of the bride and the bridegroom when loving as sister my bride. The invitation of a gentle lover that Woo’s his bride and does not force. The love that remains faithful and gentle and merciful is shared with a world desperate to understand what love is. The message of the Song of Songs is in the tilma. The flower glyphs even create a re-occurring melody when a pin is placed within the flower’s center. The Indians used flower clusters as poetry, music and prayer so of course once again, now that we have technology to discover the music found within the image, we are being re-invited to listen the message within the Song of Songs, the call to marriage. Not just any marriage, the call to union and communion with our almighty God in the wedding feast of land. Will we be like the virgins that prepared by gathering oil or will God say he does not know us? Knowing of course is about intimacy and relationship (Mary knew not man). God of course knows all of us but we are called to be in relationship. Mary is reminding us of this.

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She healed. She is revealing a unique healing she desires to be a font of that will pour out onto the world and from that font will be the Mercy of Jesus Christ. She is Our Lady of Mercy because she heralds it in the glyphs, the iconography and the message. She is revealing that we are being attacked and wounded in a threefold attack. What is this attack? It is a demonic trinity.

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She even stares into the eyes of the dragon as if to show us she is going to do battle and that in her eyes she holds the family and the Church. The truth to see will come from being within her as if an ark to protect us from the coming siege. I believe Consecration to Mary through St. Louis DE Montfort accomplishes this as a first step.

She then reveals that the dragon brings lies, division, schism and confusion. It is important to note that the big bear constellation and little bear constellation are under the influence of the lies and divisions.

The Scorpion is an ancient evil force at work in the world since the very beginning. In the bible the serpent is referred to the great perverter and wounder. It wounds through perversion of sexuality. It emasculates, it controls, it is Jezebel, it is Lilith it is isis, Osiris and horis and it’s one desire is to work with the liar to confuse our understanding of what it means to be a man and woman and to create great woundedness so that we can not enter into God’s plan of love and salvation.

The Serpent is the enemy that brings death. Spiritual death and physical death. Many Theologians and scholars of the Church understand the great sacredness of blood. God himself has made blood part of how he enters into sacred covenant with His people and this has been done since the beginning of time. The enemy, having no real power of his own, and uses what he knows as truth and follows, in a legalistic way? The enemy presents a lie “Did God really say you can’t eat from the tree of knowledge?” to bring division, schism, distrust and doubt as to what is true. The next step is to pervert being made in the image and likeness of God. The best way to do this is through wounds. The enemy enters in through wounds. The most intimate to wound is through our sexuality because it is intimately tied to our personhood. It is not just our bodies that are man and woman, masculine or feminine it is also our very personhood. Physical abuse, mental abuse and verbal abuse are all means to create wounds but sexual abuse is the most intimate and deep cutting wound because is creates a chasm between us and our creator because our purpose and identity becomes distorted. Not to mention the sacrementality of the body. The enemy realizes this and desires to create his own demonic sacraments using blood. Sexual abuse and abortion, prostitution, murder all spill blood and so they create a contract and a means of gaining a toehold, a foothold a stronghold in our lives. When we agree with the lies and submit our will saying “I am unloved, no one will ever love me, I am alone, I will always be alone” we of our own free will turn from God inwards making false idols that are presented to us. This creates a network of wounding that Mary desires to reveal so that we can be made fully whole. She is coming to restore the Church. She is revealing and shining light on the darkness and she is bringing a grace of supernatural healing, protection and perhaps an even “hiding” from the evil one as we work. She is receptivity and so being in the presence of this image painted by the finger of God of Mary onto the tilma is a divinely “written” and created image. If she is pure receptivity, openness fertile ground then perhaps a grace of receptivity flows from the image and touches all in its presence through the doorway of the icon. The teachings of the church are that Icons are spiritual doorways. Doors move two ways. We can both enter in and God can come to us. She is coming to expose the enemy so that we can be healed. Like St. Ignatius says, we are to be filled not for our sakes but so that we can overflow onto those around us. We have been leaking out the graces we are receiving through the cracks and crevices the evil one has made in the form that God created us into being. Some of us are chalices called to be a life of sacrifice, some of us are Reeds, hallowed out and emptied so the Holy Spirit can play lyrically through our lives some of us are like a birds nest hallowed out by the loving tenderness of family life and love. In each of the forms we are it is our perfect form. When we embrace the emptiness through vulnerability and turning outwards toward God and away from the lies and false idols, she will pour a healing salve into our form and seal the places we are leaking. We then will be able to be filled to overflowing so that we may bring a drink to others who thirst. We are called to be tabernacles, to the hands and feet upon which to bring Christ to a wounded world and she is showing us the way and the how. If you have anger issues, your issue is not anger it is an idolatry of control as a means to protect the root of the wound, which is usually an abandonment wound. If you have lust issues, the issue is not the lust in fact it is called a distress symptom. It is the neon sign and God’s mercy is trying to get your attention to point you to a place you may have come in agreement with the enemy with a lie that is of your own free will preventing you from finding freedom in this area in your life. The idolatry found connected to lust is relationship. When we distrust God we turn to others or a relationship to make us feel whole. Why? Because we are protecting the real root of the wound which is a rejection issue. “No one loves me, I am ugly, disgusting, repulsive” If we agree with the lie the enemy proposes he has permission to infest or perhaps even oppress us. He stirs up our fears and emotions and presents more lies (distorted thoughts). Some may turn to pornography, promiscuity, a spouse or other to fill the void to quiet the voice of feeling unworthy and unloved because they do not see they have turned inward instead of outward. We, all of us are failing to see that the first commandment is the one the enemy is using over and over to attack us. He proposes that we must turn to ourselves. He proposes we are only animals, He proposes there is no God. Mary comes expose the liar, bring truth, healing and once again evangelize the world as to who God is and what the incarnation means to us as well as prepare the world for Jesus once again. She is the ark.

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It begins with consecration. It continues with you placing this image in your own home, perhaps next to an image of Divine Mercy. Through the image, she seems to be saying she will pour out a gift of receptivity so that as the Holy Spirit is pouring out Graces upon the world in preparation for Jesus to come again, we will not only be able to retain them and utilize them we will be able to bring a portion to others. Her mantle is often referred to as a protection for the faithful, to hide us there in the crossing of her arms, within her mantle. She seems to be inviting us to step into the folds and hide from the enemy and to allow her to do the battle with the dragon as she will crush the serpent.

Our Lady Of Guadalupe; An Icon of Life, Love and The New Evangelization from Christina King

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Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary" the War of Jezebel on Mary and Her Offspring

2012-10-08T13:27:00.002-07:00

Gaga's secret wish is death to God. She is angry with the Beloved. It is The Bridegroom that she is running away from. Instead, she seeks to glorify self. Not just her own self but "the self". Her message is clear. We, each of us are to look to ourselves for validation, direction, atonement, love and purpose. The problem in that of course is that while each of us does have a part to play in these things, the source cannot be us because we, each of us are broken and are in need of being perfected and that only comes through grace.

Grace perfects our nature, which is good but we alone cannot perfect our self. This is the great lie of the age of "reason" and the age of "enlightenment". There is always a 90% truth sold with a 10% of lie behind it and that is what we are dealing with yet again with Lady Gaga and that is why she and her music are SO dangerous. It is true we should recognize that we are unique and unrepeatable persons. This is an amazing fact that is demonstrated merely by looking at our finger prints. Not one person shares the same finger print. We are as unique as our prints. The lie of course is that we should set our selves apart by embracing homosexuality, lesbianism, perversion or sex without meaning or purpose to truly be satisfied. Will this truly satisfy the hunger and thirst that burns within us? I say no.

Why? Because we have been created male and female and it is very good. Why are we looking to blur the lines between man and woman? Why are we seeking to be the same? There is something very wonderful about the complimentarity of the sexes and it points to a bigger truth. That truth is that we are made for union and communion. God has created us in His image, male and female He created them. There is something very mysterious about our sexuality and it is very good the bible says!

It seems like Lady Gaga is trying to distort who God is and turn Him into a big bully that secretly desires to condemn us for being different or unique. The creator of the universe chose us out of all the potential souls He could have created so obviously being created a man or woman is and was part of God's plan. Yet Lady Gaga paints Mary and Jesus as abusers, punishers, entities that bestow condemnation and judgement.

This is not who God is. God is loving and merciful and desires to make us whole. The free will of mankind is what has brought pain, woundedness and contempt. It is the failing hearts of men that have created the chaos we are in and God is the one who desires to restore us and heal our broken hearts. It is not God's active will that we should have been judged unfairly or unjustly. Lady Gaga's music is dangerous because it stirs up anger and pain in those who truly desire to be healed but lack the courage to open themselves to their creator and receive His love.

What is even more disturbing is the horrific video that takes the one pure person who was able to love outside of herself, even willing to be stoned to death if she were to be found pregnant outside of marriage. Mary, the mother of Jesus trusted in a place most of us could never trust. Lady Gaga clearly reveals the hatred in her heart for formal dogma, especially that which pertains to salvation or Mary being immaculate. Why is it that Lady Gaga has such disdain for purity? In world wracked with despair and pain, you would think that she would hunger and long for innocence yet she seems to want to destroy innocence.

If you learn to watch Lady Gaga's video's you see that the music and videos do not really tell the same tale. In fact, the videos are more like her revealing the state of her heart. She is desperate for love and union and communion in a mystical way. She has been poisoned with pain and lies of the world so that she cannot see the truth of who God is, who she is and how we are called to love and be loved in and through our bodies. Instead, she depicts the body as an instrument for use. She likens herself and others as biology, animalistic and without dignity. For someone who seems to understand we are unique and unrepeatable, why is it the body seems to not have purpose to her? For someone who blatantly rejects God, why is she constantly reaching out for a mystical connection with the spiritual realm?

She seems to see very clearly that there is a mystical realm that one can enter into. Her images used in the videos reveal that she is some how involved in occult activity or at least the director of her videos are. In fact, this particular video goes on to reveal that there is an attack being waged by the Jezebel Demon (she was a Queen in the old testament). The crown on Mary's head is the crown of Martyrdom that each Catholic must be willing to wear as their crown of Joy and Mary was the first person, fully human to be willing to suffer for sake of love. Her Immaculate or Holy status is connoted by the halo behind the crown seen in most if not all iconic pieces of art. The fact that she even names Michelangelo drives this point home.

The other point being made through Michaelangelo is that his art could never be able to fully depict the evil in the heart of man nor the great love of Jesus Christ.

Her lyrics:
"He Can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart" further reveals her hate for all things Catholic. The word "Agro" is a gaming term used to connote "hate".
Agro, a computer gaming concept also known as Hate (MMORPG terminology)
Michaelangelo cannot capture in art the great hatred she has within her...just as an icon is written and not painted, Gaga is saying that the carving of a sculpture is writing a truth and the truth that cannot be re-written as it is carved out by a sculpture is that hatred within her heart which is filled with fury.

The next part which is in french is about being afraid to die to alone, she instead desires to take us or as many others with her as she can.

The main Chorus which is:
""i wont cry for you, i wont crucify the things you do"

These words are a rejection of the Grace merited by Christ being crucified on the cross for mankind. She insinuates that each of us must accept our own sins and pay atonement. This is a subtle yet very deliberate undermining of the power of the cross to redeem her and thus all of humanity by extrapolating this meaning. A little bit of truth is mixed in to deflect the powerful lie underlying these lyrics. While each of us is held accountable and will have to atone in some way for our choices and actions, the power of Jesus's death on the cross as purchased salvation DESPITE our sins and it is this truth that is rejected by Gaga, nay it is not even addressed.

In this video, Mary is being hounded by the "Evil Queen" as she is named at the end of the video in the credits. This ancient Queen has a name other than "evil queen" and it is The Jezebel Spirit, an ancient diabolical entity that is one in the same of Isis. This "female" demon is prevalent since the beginning of time. I say female because while a demon is neither male nor female it does has characteristics. The Jezebel Spirit has characteristics of the feminine but a perverted form. While Mary is all things to do with femininity, the Jezebel is the spirt of feminism. One is open to life the other is barren and devoid of life. One is receptive and complimentary to man and the other is emasculating and destructive to man. The scorpion spirits that are of perversion are who Jezebel is and this perversion is conveyed in the video with the clothing of the black entourage of the Evil Queen being darned in black leather sadomasochistic attire.

The Jezebel spirit is one in which denies receptivity, emasculates (thus the leather garb often depicted in sadomasochism. This entity is the opposite of Mary. Where Mary is Immaculate or pure, the Jezebel is , not pure but filled with darkness. However, the Jezebel is a great counterfeit of Mary and this is revealed to the audience in that Mary by wearing white while looking like a zombie or undead with her eyes covered in black shadows.

The black entities are the demons that surround Mary at ever side, with the head of Balphomet which is a favorite for Gaga to use, which is because this ancient demon demanded human sacrifice. In the end, Gaga denies the grace from crucifixion which all Christians merit with saving Grace for humanity and yet Gaga rejects it. We then see Mary approach a Catholic Tabernacle, the place wear Catholics believe the true presence of Jesus Christ is reposed.

The Body of Christ is present in the consecrated host and it seems that Gaga still believes this while many Catholics no longer even believe in this mystery. She reveals that she believes because we see lying on the ground before it the dead body of "The King". He is named as such in the final credits. The symbolism of the King is her acknowledging that Jesus Christ, The King is there. The mockery is that while he is truly present, he is not alive, but he is dead.

In Gaga's version of the truth, this "dead" King causes Mary to despair. Gaga/Queen Jezebel, in all her darkness manipulates Mary and depicts her as some how being under the power of the Evil Queen (which again attacks the Omnipotence of God sending a message that somehow God can be subverted. In Gaga's version of events, Mary is somehow overcome by the power of the evil queen and made her kill herself. When this is accomplished, we see the Evil Queen steal the crown and place it on her own head.

Even the title "Bloody Mary" is a deliberate revelation that this song is about defilement of innocence. I would like to submit that the title of her song is also the name of game. "Bloody Mary" is also a game which I have been told by an ex Satanic High Wizard is an actual spell that children sometime's unknowingly conjure when playing the "I hate you bloody Mary". This game is not about Mary Magdalene but about Mary the Mother of God (so titled by Catholics).

Many Catholic's that go to Catholic School will remember kids playing this game in which an evil face would appear in a room while all the lights are off when this "game" is played by chanting this phrase and doing a little dance.

It is interesting that dance is ALWAYS used while casting demonic spells. This again has been affirmed by Zachary King, an ex-high satanic wizard. The precedence for this was also set in ancient Aztec times as dance was the highest form of worship. There is much to know and understand about rituals and dancing as well as how our hands are positioned. This is theology of the body. The body makes visible the invisible. While Catholics kneel or make the sign of the cross, these outward physical "signs" speak an inaudible language but a language none the less. The body speaks a language and so Gaga invites her "little monsters" to utilize dance and gestures in speaking this language with her in this song and the language she is teaching is not about love at all, it is about power, control, emasculation and doing away with the complimentarily of the man and the woman. In her world, we are just animals. In her world we lose our dignity our purpose and our goodness.

Love, is just a history that they may prove
And when you're gone I'll tell them my religion's you
When Pontius to kill the king upon his throne
I'm ready for their stones.

I'll dance, dance, dance
With my hands, hands, hands
Above my head, head, head
Like Jesus said.
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance
With my hands, hands, hands
Above my head
Dance together
Forgive him before he's dead
Because

I won't cry for you
I won't crucify the things you do
I won't cry for you, see,
When you're gone, I'll still be Bloody
Mary.

LOVE!

We are not just art for Michelangelo to carve
He can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart
I wait, on mountain tops in Paris cold
Je ne veux pas mourrir toute seule

I'll dance, dance, dance
With my hands, hands, hands
Above my head, head, head
Like Jesus said
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance
With my hands, hands, hands
Above my head
Dance together
Forgive him before he's dead
Because

I won't cry for you
I won't crucify the things you do
I won't cry for you, see,
When you're gone, I'll still be Bloody
Mary.

LOVE!

GaGa x 8
Dum dum da da da
Dum dum da da da d-d-da da da
Dum dum da da da
Dum dum da da da
Dum dum da da da d-d-da da da
Dum dum da da da

I won't cry for you
I won't crucify the things you do
I won't cry for you, see,
When you're gone, I'll still be Bloody
Mary.

Oh, Liberdade...
Mi amor...

Our Lady of Guadalupe; An Icon For Life, Love and The New Evangelization

2012-09-26T11:48:00.001-07:00

Please help to tell others about my talk on Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Our Lady of Guadalupe An Icon For Life, Love and the New Evangelization

Will Goodman's talk on Our Lady of Guadalupe Here:
Our Lady of Guadalupe a Missionary Image

Great pictures of all new discoveries here; http://embracingyourgreatness.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-new-discoveries-in-our-lady-of.html?m=1

Our Lady of Guadalupe is revealing to the world an unprecedented invitation from God through Mary (just as He did when the incarnation was heralded through her virgin birth of Christ) and that message is that through the intercession of the Merciful Mother, Our Lady of Divine Mercy, Our Lady of Guadalupe is pouring out a grace of receptivity, of protection within her mantle for all of those who call upon her and ask for her to hide them within the crossing of her arms, the shadow of her protection and that found there within her mantle is the sacred heart of Jesus, pierced for all sinners and from it healing waters flow.

This talk takes the audience on a journey back to ancient Aztec 1531 and shows how this culture used human sacrifices to appease their many false gods and deity's in hopes to keep the sun shining and the crops bountiful. A history lesson in how Cortez landed on the day prophesied by the Aztec's quickly led to Bishop Zummaraga praying for Mary to intercede since the missionary efforts of the Franciscans were failing. Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to a simply laymen, St. Juan Diego, with a message uniquely communicated to the Nahuatl Indians in a language using picture glyphs within a miraculous image that appeared on his tilma.

This Divine Codex appeared when St. Juan Diego obeyed OL Guadalupe and picked a number of Castilian Roses which had miraculously bloomed in the middle of winter on a desert hill amidst the cactus. These roses were not indigenous to Mexico but from Spain and were the sign that Bishop Zummaraga had prayed for to show him that Mary would answer his prayers. When St. Juan Diego brought these roses to the Bishop, which was no small effort, the image on the tilma he used to carry them, appeared in an instant before the group gathered there as he opened his tilma allowing the roses to fall to the floor.

This talk explores each glyph, it's meaning and how it spoke to the Aztec people in a language they could receive and brought the knowledge of the one true God to them in a way they could see it, receive it and not just understand it, but believe it. God used a this image as a catechism to teach the faith. The result was over 10 million Aztec converts to Catholicism within 7 years.

I then answer Pope Benedict's call for art, particularly Iconography to be utilized to teach the faith. Through the understanding of what an icon is we see that not only is Our Lady of Guadalupe an icon, a NEW and unprecedented message is being "taught" to the people of the world today who just like the ancient Aztec's are in need of learning about the one true God. In a world of materialism, technology, information or intellect being the highest truth, we see that in pursuit of things, success and knowledge, we too have allowed the shedding of innocent blood on the temples of false gods.

In the 20th Century new discoveries were found in OL Guadalupe, the constellations of the morning sky exactly as they appeared in Dec of 1531 have been painted precisely in the position of the universe on her mantle. These constellations are revealing that a battle is at hand and that OL Guadalupe is a unique means of protection, healing and Evangelization that Blessed Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI trust in and is why both have called upon her for this "unique time in history" to protect the family, the Church and the America's. There has also been a discovery within her eyes using powerful magnification.

In her eyes is seen Bishop Zummaraga, St. Juan Diego, the interpreter in the room, a servant and an entire family including a mother with a child on her back. This is a message of Mary holding the family in her eyes as she peers into the eyes of Draco the Dragon constellation, who we know through scriptures to be the "great deceiver" the lier that comes to confuse, to deceive, to cause confusion and division. We are at war and through the lens of Iconography, I will reveal how Blessed Pope John Paul II is in the inner robe of OL Guadalupe, the divine mercy image of Christ's pierced heart flowing with water and blood are within the image, an unholy trinity of 3 demonic forces are working in unholy union to spread lies and deceptions that disorientate, divide and confuse (Draco the Dragon), to bring spiritual and physical death (Hydra the serpent) and to bring perversions related to masculinity and femininity causing deep wounds that bind the enemy there (Scorpio the stinging scorpion). Many, many more truths are contained within objectively proven symbols contained within the image that have never before been understood through the lens of Iconography. This talk reveals them.

Her arabic name, her jewish clothing, her skin revealing mixed heritages, are a vehicle from which the muslims can identify (she is linked to Fatima and this as well as the fact that Mary is revered by Muslims is key), her jewish clothing appeals to the Jewish people and the explanation of the incarnation through the constellations may prove to be a point in which to evangelize our Jewish brothers and sisters and because the corpus is hidden with the icon, it is a gentle invitation so that those who are not ready to see, can be gently invited in to the truth of Christ's sacrifice for all of those who will answer the call. Protestants will be evangelized for the scientific proofs of this supernatural image will allow the message contained within it to be believed.

Other interesting comments;

1. The shroud of Turin, when aligned with OL Guadalupe, corresponds perfectly over where the divine mercy image of the torso of Christ is within the robes of OL Guadalupe on the tilma. The shroud and the tilma are both linked to "marriage". The tilma is used in the marriage ceremony tying the two together during the ceremony, later it is even used to carry a child. The shroud, perhaps the table cloth used at the last supper, the wedding feast of the lamb that we are called two. Both are two pieces sewn together to create one piece of cloth. Both are geometrical in measurement. These are only a few examples of evidence linking the shroud and the tilma.

2. Through the lens of Iconography, the trinity is revealed within the image.

3. The themes of Theology of The Body can be found in the image and it is my belief, using Msgr. Eduardo and Carl Anderson's findings in their book "Civilization of Love" that it is a deliberate teaching of Theology of the Body through sacred art, through Iconography.

4. There is an unholy and diabolical "trinity" revealed in the image and TOB is the antidote to the perversion of masculinity and femininity that the third demonic entity is disseminating throughout the world in attempts to destroy the family.

5. The image is a topographical map of Mexico revealing the exact place of the apparition. Fr. Miguel Guadalupe's book "The Seven Veils of OL Guadalupe" shares that their are geographical locations of God's grace and receptivity to the divine and that the enemy knows this and attempts to claim this as his own so as to subvert God from flowing in those areas to the people of the world. Perhaps this is why the demonic goddess who is the antithesis of Mary had her temple on the very hill in which OL Guadalupe appeared and asked the church to be built. Perhaps this is also why the drug cartel has grown so powerful that many are afraid to go to Mexico now. It is I believe another attempt to keep people form the place upon which many graces, blessings and healing's are waiting to be received by those who would pilgrimage there.

2012-08-20T16:43:00.000-07:00

Unveiled; Discovering The Great Mystery In My Marriage

This past weekend my husband and I traveled almost 6 hours to a marriage retreat in Faribault Minnesota. The Lay Faithful Foundation sponsored the retreat along with many lo. Dr. Bob Schuchts, of the Theology of The Body Healing and Training Institute, gave several talks. The talks given were on Discovering “The Great Mystery” in your marriage, Becoming One, Barriers To Unity; Core Wounds and Marital Conflicts, Reconciliation and Healing and Passion and Deeper Intimacy.

We arrived Friday night at about 6:30pm and entered the old church that was hosting the retreat. For those of you who have read my research and my theories showing how Our Lady of Guadalupe has announced herself as the protector of the new evangelization as well as a unique intercessor of the gift of receptivity (and so much more) you will smile when I tell you that “by chance” they had decided to place a large Our Lady of Guadalupe statue in the front of the hall surrounded by cut sunflowers.

There was also an extremely large, almost life sized image of Divine Mercy on the wall with the words “Jesus I trust In You” on the wall by the stairs leading to the hall. I do not believe in coincidence and knew immediately this was another affirmation that in following my inspirations, I had arrived precisely where I was supposed to be.

There is so much I desire to share about this unique gift from God, by this I mean the work of the Theology of The Body Healing and Training Institute, but I have limited time so I will highlight 5 things from this past weekend that are so magnificent I will be sharing them when I go and speak form this moment forward.

1) The Great Mystery revealed in the wedding ceremony

2)Covenant-Communication-Communion

3)Prayer of Mutual Submission

4)Zakar and Neqebeh

5)Reconciliation and Healing

I will be posting my observation on the 5 highlights one blogpost at a time so stay tuned. If you would like some background then please read through my "Healing The Whole Person" post, My "Undoing Post" and any of the others related to healing.

The 5 Senses Of The Spirit

2012-08-11T15:04:00.001-07:00

We have lost our ability to hear in the spirit, to see in the spirit, to taste in the spirit, to smell in the spirit and to feel in our bodies in the spirit.

There has been a twisting or disorder of the connection of the body the soul and spirit. When we begin to understand our personhood, we then discover we are our bodies, we are our souls.

We are both AND, not one or the other. Our spirit can utilize the senses of our body to understand the spiritual realm. We will smell roses on a saintly person, we will feel the warmth of the Holy Spirit washing over us, we will taste the sweetness of His words on our lips, we will hear truth when someone speaks prophetically in our presence, we will see visions that will guide us on our journey to Him.

So too will we hear the lies of the devil even when they are cleverly twisted in a truth, we will smell sulphur on a person who is under the enemies influence, we will see shadows, angels, demons, dreams and visions so to cut us free from the enemy and his minions.

We will feel in different places on our bodies (goosebumps for truth of Gods words being spoken) which will reveal what and how we (or others) are being oppressed. This will also enable us to help be intercessors for others.

We will taste the bitter poison in our mouths when the enemy is entering into our thoughts, or words or when we come into agreement with the enemy alerting us to renounce the lie before it can have ill effect.

We are being reconnected through an outpouring of healing from The Great Physician. This reconnection can and does happen. It has always meant to be so and begun on the day of Pentecost.

This was the outpouring of grace through the Holy Spirit which enabled the redemption of the body (which took place at the resurrection) to be more fully operational.

The Spiritual gifts become operational when we are made whole by receiving this outpouring and healing.

Many of us, through the devils works of inflicting great wounds, have become fractured. The enemy has created a chasm in us so as to prevent us from living out our missions and from using our gifts to bring freedom to others.

I talked about this at the last mass we had in Florida at the Theology of the body healing and training center. Http://tobhealing.org

I had my senses "reconnected" in a healing experience from the conception to birth experience prayer we did. I received the gift of praying in the spirit (tongues) which Monica and Lila helped me to receive through a prayer intercession healing they did with me that same night

At the Mass the next day I experienced the Mass " in the spirit"
It was like no Mass I had ever experienced before. I was attuned to what was happening beyond the veil.

That's when Angie (I think that was her name) said she tasted the sweetness of cherries on her tongue after communion. Perhaps that was a confirmation of what I was discerning at Mass, that when we are made more fully "whole" our senses are able to more fully receive and with it even our soul may be reconnected.

If we are able to smell roses on a person of Saintly virtue then why could we not taste the sweetness of cherries upon reception of our precious Lord? Perhaps her tongue had been made new and reconnected to the soul.

The enemy knows this truth. It is why he induced a forced "receptivity" called a wound. It's the only way he fan gain entrance to purpose a lie. If and when we agree with the lie a stronghold is made. Now he can begin to oppress us. The more wounded and infested we become the more fractured our personhood grows. This is the goal because we will be cut off from hearing lies, feeling God's presence, seeing prophets or rafting the venom of our own words that can slay our loved ones in a moment of anger. This is what happens when we operate out of woundedness.

Theology of The Body reveals the beauty of Gods plan for the body, in the body, with the body. The senses are not just somatic and subjective experiences. The senses are means from which the soul receives the Holy Spirit and in the receiving an effect is manifested in the flesh.

The enemy gets all of this. It is why he sets out at our conception to bring woundedness into our lives. It is why the new age movement is teaching the "opening of the chakras". The enemy uses a counterfeit means to open the soul through the body. However, this forced means is a perversion and do the result is a deeper and more pervasive oppression or possible possession.

This is his way of becoming incarnate. A mockery of God.

Now is the time to pray for a triple portion if the outpouring of The Holy Spirit. Pray for the gifts! Pray for healing of body and soul. I have begun to use Holy Water to bless my eyes, my nose, my ears and my mouth when I enter a Church. I then say the words; "Come Holy Spirit Come".