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The Song of the Lamb

Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ that we have been united with all the Saints in heaven from the song of Moses to the present cry of all the saints. Do we not join our voices in this triumphant song of victory in our day? We need to cry out with them to learn of their perseverance during times of persecution upon God's Children. We are now in the midst of such games being played among the nations who are usurping their authority by degrading the poor and the suffering as those without a voice by establishing laws that impoverish morality and demoralizing human dignity. We are witnesses of these abortions issued and carried out from many different so called values that protect life? Read for yourself the theology of "pro-choice" and notice the emphasis placed on we are in "the age of enlightenment" from a distorted historical perspective. Look at the many different ways nations have established various legislation to intact

these laws to end the life of those without a voice. Web chart on this!

Now as this message to cry out to God is posted on this blog; the Mideast is up in arms ready for war due to disagreement's over nuclear weapons in Iran. Do we as people not look to the united nations as our hope for global peace and "human dignity for all"? Yet, are we not Christians united in crying out together as one heart moment by moment as the cultural of death closes in on us? Help us Jesus to receive the Holy Spirit's enlightenment from the Father for eyes to open to you as Peace O' Christ. You are PEACE! You are LIFE! You are King over all the nations Now already in place on the throne as God Himself with all the angels and saints of heaven as our witnesses. Wake up O' Sleeper and open your eyes before it is to late and the day of destruction is here! As the Bride with her bridegroom, and Mary with her Lamb we must cry to heaven with one voice, and stand in the gape as Moses did in intercession for those not following God's commandments and cry out to God for help.

The Song of the Lamb

“Great and wonderful are your works,

Lord God almighty.

Just and true are your ways,

O king of the nations.

Who will not fear you,

Lord, or glorify your name?

For you alone are holy.

All the nations will come and worship before you,

for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

REVELATION 15:3-4

The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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Love of the Father through Jesus!

Do you hear the voice of Jesus? Do you take time in silence to listen for Him? He is always desiring to speak to us and just be with Him in the Love of Our Father. Let us all come to set at His table together as one family.

Thank you Father for the Priesthood!

To thank our heavenly Father for the Priesthood is to have gratitude to our Father for His son Jesus who is our High Priest. Hebrews 4:14 NAB

1 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

The new testament alone has over 150 verses that speak of the priest(s) in one form or an other. The Holy Catholic Church holds this office of the Priesthood in high respect for this eternal office of Jesus that he established in His flesh which continues in His church, His Body on earth.

Catechism 1548
It is the same priest, Christ Jesus, whose sacred person his minister truly represents. Now the minister, by reason of the sacerdotal consecration which he has received, is truly made like to the high priest and possesses the authority to act in the power and place of the person of Christ himself (virtute ac persona ipsius Christi).24
Christ is the source of all priesthood: the priest of the old law was a figure of Christ, and the priest of the new law acts in the person of Christ.25

Remember how Jesus taught His disciples to pray:

Matthew 6:9-13
"This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, 7 your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
8 Give us today our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts, 9 as we forgive our debtors;
and do not subject us to the final test, 10 but deliver us from the evil one.

What a blessing that the Priesthood on earth today as a true representation of our High Priest Jesus in heaven. AMEN!
Happy Father’s Day!

Hearing the Voice of Truth

Truth Speaks Inwardly Without the Sound of Words
The Disciple from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis

SPEAK, Lord, for Thy servant heareth." "I am Thy servant. Give me understanding that I may know Thine ordinances . . . Incline my heart to Thine ordinances . . . Let Thy speech distil as the dew."
The children of Israel once said to Moses: "Speak thou to us and we will hear thee: let not the Lord speak to us, lest we die."
Not so, Lord, not so do I pray. Rather with Samuel the prophet I entreat humbly and earnestly: "Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth." Do not let Moses or any of the prophets speak to me; but You speak, O Lord God, Who inspired and enlightened all the prophets; for You alone, without them, can instruct me perfectly, whereas they, without You, can do nothing. They, indeed, utter fine words, but they cannot impart the spirit. They do indeed speak beautifully, but if You remain silent they cannot inflame the heart. They deliver the message; You lay bare the sense. They place before us mysteries, but You unlock their meaning. They proclaim commandments; You help us to keep them. They point out the way; You give strength for the journey. They work only outwardly; You instruct and enlighten our hearts. They water on the outside; You give the increase.
They cry out words; You give understanding to the hearer.
Let not Moses speak to me, therefore, but You, the Lord my God, everlasting truth, speak lest I die and prove barren if I am merely given outward advice and am not inflamed within; lest the word heard and not kept, known and not loved, believed and not obeyed, rise up in judgment against me.
Speak, therefore, Lord, for Your servant listens. "Thou hast the words of eternal life." Speak to me for the comfort of my soul and for the amendment of my life, for Your praise, Your glory, and Your everlasting honor.

O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven did promise to send the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul, the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit of Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable, and the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples, and animate me in all things with Your Spirit.
Amen.