HE IS HERE "LET US REJOICE'

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled.This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over their flock. The angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were struck with great fear. The angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."
And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying:
"Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests."
When the angels went away from them to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go, then, to Bethlehem to see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us."
So they went in haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child.
All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart. (Luke 2:1-19 NAB)

This morning while praying the scriptural way of the rosary the Holy Spirit broke open my heart. I was able to see our Lord Jesus as the helpless baby in His mother's arms come as our Peace. My Peace and your Peace, our Peace announced by the Angels come down from Heaven. They are the first ones in spreading the Good news with Holy Adoration by pointing the way to the Baby born in Bethlehem. The Creator has come to Earth under the illuminating rays of a bright Star so all can see His face and worship Him.
Our Creator comes to us as a baby in the arms of His Loving Mother who was filled up with Grace. The darkness of our disordered lives and altar-egos of trying to know good from evil and trying to obey the law through our own self determination now exposed in the Light of His coming. The Promise One of all the ages and of all Good the "I AM" is before us. His flesh is now with us. Baby Jesus body, blood, soul and divinity, now smiling in the arms of His Mother Mary and Saint Joseph at her side. He is the Baby of all babies. There is no other baby like Him. This Baby in the arms of our Mother Mary is the Head of the Church and the Creator of the Universe from which all unity and Loves flows. Truly God has emptied Himself and entrusted Mary and Joseph with Holy parental protection under angelic guidance. This Holy Family brings to us the key to the Kingdom seen on the face of Mary when she looks deep into her Son's eyes and sees His Father. She has no words on her lips, but can only ponder what she is experiencing in her heart with holy adoration. The fullness of Life that establishes Peace to all the world past, present, and future is looking back at her with total dependency and trust. This Baby is the Bread of heaven come down to feed us the Fathers Love!
Rejoice and again I say Rejoice!
O’ Come all you Faithful and let us Adore Him!
Joy to the World!
Peace of Christ to All,
Francis AmbroseT

A Word from Mother

The Father has shown me the fullness of His Kingdom and it is greater then what you will ever experience or know on earth. The Father desires His children to breath the prayer of complete abandonment to His will, so Love and Mercy be in your lives while on earth. I have poured forth the Fathers Divine Mercy upon all mankind. Don't let go of your devotion to me or the Divine Mercy, they are one in the same to our Father. Know the time on earth draws to a close fast and I want my Mercy to increase in your hearts.
Know that a scriptural rosary unto me your Mother excites the Fathers heart as He creates a new mind of Christ Jesus in you.
Never separate Divine Mercy from my Son's work of complete passion for your soul. Know that His Love is running to find you by the all powerful Holy Spirit my spouse.

Mary your MotherT

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Holy Spirit has so much to teach us about Jesus Love and I believe Saint Ambrose has pointed out and unexplored view that has been mostly forgotten in the Church today. Let us ask the Father for ears to hear the faithfulness and receive the grace brought through His Son into this world in which we live. May we receive the fullness of His Love and the grace outpouring upon the world through His Mother Mary. Is my Prayer this season for all His Church.
Read this Passage First from Luke's Gospel;

Luke 1:27-45 NAB
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary.
And coming to her, he said, "Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you."
But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end." But Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?"
And the angel said to her in reply, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God."
Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.
During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."

The following was given by my Patron Saint Ambrose. In his commentary of the Gospel according to Saint Luke he gave the following words of inspiration.
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The angel Gabriel had announced the news of something that was as yet hidden and so, to buttress the Virgin Mary’s faith by means of a real example, he told her also that an old and sterile woman had conceived, showing that everything that God willed was possible to God.
When Mary heard this she did not disbelieve the prophecy, she was not uncertain of the message, she did not doubt the example: but happy because of the promise that had been given, eager to fulfill her duty as a cousin, hurried by her joy, she went up into the hill country.
Where could she hurry to except to the hills, filled with God as she was? The grace of the Holy Spirit does not admit of delays. And Mary’s arrival and the presence of her Son quickly show their effects: As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting her child leapt in her womb and she was filled with the Holy Spirit.
See the careful distinction in the choice of words. Elizabeth was the first to hear the voice but her son John was the first to feel the effects of grace. She heard as one hears in the natural course of things; he leapt because of the mystery that was there. She sensed the coming of Mary, he the coming of the Lord — the woman knew the woman, and the child knew the child. The women speak of grace while inside them grace works on their babies. And by a double miracle the women prophesy under the inspiration of their unborn children.
The infant leapt and the mother was filled with the Spirit. The mother was not filled before her son: her son was filled with the Holy Spirit and in turn filled his mother. John leapt and so did Mary’s spirit. John leapt and filled Elizabeth with the Spirit; but we know that Mary was not filled but her spirit rejoiced. For the Incomprehensible was working incomprehensibly within his mother. Elizabeth had been filled with the Spirit after she conceived, but Mary before, at the moment the angel had come. “Blessed are you,” said Elizabeth, “who believed”.
You too, my people, are blessed, you who have heard and who believe. Every soul that believes — that soul both conceives and gives birth to the Word of God and recognizes his works.
Let the soul of Mary be in each one of you, to proclaim the greatness of the Lord. Let the spirit of Mary be in each one of you, to rejoice in God. According to the flesh only one woman can be the mother of Christ but in the world of faith Christ is the fruit of all of us. For every soul can receive the Word of God if only it is pure and preserves itself in chastity and modesty.
The soul that has been able to reach this state proclaims the greatness of the Lord just as Mary did and rejoices in God its savior just like her.
The Lord’s greatness is proclaimed, as you have read elsewhere; where it says Join me in magnifying the Lord. This does not mean that anything can be added to the Lord’s greatness by human words, but that he is magnified in us. Christ is the image of God and so any good or religious act that a soul performs magnifies that image of God in that soul, the God in whose likeness the soul itself was made. And thus the soul itself has some share in his greatness and is ennobled.

St Ambrose's commentary on St Luke's Gospel

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the prayer that we address to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer.
Mother of Mercy, Teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate on this day all our being and all our love. We also dedicate to you our life, our work, our joys, our infirmities and our sorrows. Grant peace, justice and prosperity to our peoples; for we entrust to your care all that we have and all that we are, our Lady and Mother. We wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness to Jesus Christ in His Church; hold us always with your loving hand.
Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you for all the Bishops, that they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble service of God and souls. Contemplate this immense harvest, and intercede with the Lord that He may instill a hunger for holiness in the whole people of God, and grant abundant vocations of priests and religious, strong in the faith and zealous dispensers of God’s mysteries.
Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. Blessed Virgin Mary, protect our families, so that they may always be united, and bless the upbringing of our children.
Our hope, look upon us with compassion, teach us to go continually to Jesus and, if we fall, help us to rise again, to return to Him, by means of the confession of our faults and sins in the Sacrament of Penance, which gives peace to the soul.
We beg you to grant us a great love for all the holy Sacraments, which are, as it were, the signs that your Son left us on earth.
Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace of God in our conscience, with our hearts free from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which come to us from your son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Amen.

His Holiness John Paul II
Mexico, January 1979. Visiting Her Basilica during his first foreign trip as Pope

ADVENT 2008

ADVENT SEASON THE CALL TO AWAKE AND WATCH FOR HIS COMING!

This is the time of year when night becomes the longest and it is tempting to sleep longer through out the night. Not only has the natural light diminished, but also at the same time, the world comes roaring at us with various temptations to draw us into its grip of darkness. The temptation to spend our energy on the commercialized Christmas of materialism, favoritism, and excessive pleasure over devotion to Christ is overshadowing us from every side. The Church is called to awaken, watch, and wait for the coming of the Lord Jesus to break into our lives with His Light.
The natural light of the sun always leaves shadows, and in these shadows that are cast behind an object or in a cave or behind a mountain are the many places animals will bed down to be out of the heat of the sun. Many of us as Christians have become lukewarm by seeking the easy way by lying around making a bed out of the shadows in past ways of life, rather then moving on in our journeys with Christ as Lord. He is the Light where remains no shadows of the past and brings the fire of the Holy Spirit as giver of life eternal.
Paul reminds us in his letter to the Roman Church,

“It is the hour for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed: the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness (and) put on the armor of light: let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in rivalry and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.”
Romans 13:11-14

This light that we are to put on is Christ Jesus Himself. Paul makes this fact clear to us with the need for repentance first by the words “throw off the works of darkness” all starting from the command to awake from sleep.
This advent season the Lord has spoken to my heart to come away from my job of truck driving. Wait and not act until I hear His voice to bring instruction and a purging in my life and an end to old ways of thinking that had its attachment to selfish ambition. I feel it necessary to open my heart to Him regardless of what has happened in my past or may happen in the future. This present moment He desires me to look deep into His eyes of Love and Light to burn away the hate and darkness in my soul. The Light of Christ Jesus is to illuminate our lives today, now in this place and moment in time.

“And you, child, will be called prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God by which the daybreak from on high will visit us to shine on those who sit in darkness and death's shadow, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
Luke 1:76-79 NAB

May the Lord Jesus find us this Advent season waiting and watching His life of purity and devotion to the Father by the Holy Spirit alive in us. Now His life overtakes our hearts with peace toward God as our Father, and neighbor as or brother and sister.

Peace be with you,
Into His Divine Mercy
Jesus Himself be all Glory and Honor and Praise !

One Universal Church with One Faith_Jesus God with Us

I was so blessed to visit this wonderful multicultural community of believers who know how to celebrate life in the great city of Riverside California. Noted for having Christian roots that are symbolized though out the city by the "Raincross Symbol"

About the Raincross Symbol
The unique City Raincross Symbol is derived from combining a replica of the mass bell used by Father Junipero Serra, missionary priest and founder of the California Missions, and the cross to which the Navajo and Central American Indians prayed for rain. Called the "Raincross" symbol, it was designed for the Mission Inn and given to the city by Frank Miller. The Raincross symbol has been identified with Riverside since 1907. Variations of the symbol are used extensively throughout Riverside in architecture, street signs and lighting standards, and is used on the City flag.

The Lord Jesus shows forth the footprints of His Love in History as His church listens to His voice to bring forth blessing in our communites. This same Love He gives His people is the same Holy Spirit empowering people to build even cities that are marked with the symbol of a bell that rang to bring people to the Lord's table. I believe the real presence of Jesus body, blood ,soul and divinity is the foundation of all communities which the mass bell called the people of Riverside to the table to receive Him.
During the Sunday afternoon following the mass I was blessed to be apart of the people who were celebrating the Churches history in the community. I ran into an artist name's Pietro who painted this painting of Jesus with His hand outstretched to all peoples of many colors. The artist is a man who moved his family here to the United States recently from Mexico. He told me that the painting wasn't for sale because the Lord Jesus gave him the vision to paint this which gave he and his family their vision for coming to this country. I believe the Lord is sending many of His own to our country to remind us of the brotherly Love needed in the Church today. May we again build cities that have symbols calling us to the Lords table instead of billboards calling us into the spirit of materialism and greed that is polluting the United States with darkness of this age. Lord lead us to pray for Your heart over the communities you have graced our journey with on earth.

May We open our Hearts in agreement to the Holy Father's Prayer

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WORLD YOUTH DAY

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Pope Prays Closing Mass Will Be New Pentecost

Urges Youth to Open Hearts to Spirit's Power

SYDNEY, Australia, JULY 19, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is praying that the final Mass of World Youth Day will be like the experience of the Upper Room, and that the young people will go forth from it to proclaim the Risen Christ.
With this prayer, the Pope concluded his homily this Sunday morning local time, at the Mass that drew to a close the 23rd World Youth Day.

The Holy Father spoke to the vast crowd, expected to number around 500,000, about the power of the Holy Spirit. His homily followed the naming of the 24 candidates for confirmation, two from each Australian state and the other 12 from around the world.

The Pontiff got a sense of the size of the crowd when he flew over Randwick Racecourse in a helicopter earlier in the day -- some 225,000 of the congregation slept under the stars Saturday night after a vigil with the Holy Father. Before the Mass, Benedict XVI greeted a part of the crowd from the popemobile.

Under the bright Sydney sun, Benedict XVI told the youth: "May the fire of God's love descend to fill your hearts, unite you ever more fully to the Lord and his Church, and send you forth, a new generation of apostles, to bring the world to Christ!"

The Holy Father explained to the youth what the power of the Holy Spirit is: "It is the power of God's life! It is the power of the same Spirit who hovered over the waters at the dawn of creation and who, in the fullness of time, raised Jesus from the dead. It is the power which points us, and our world, towards the coming of the Kingdom of God."

A new age

Benedict XVI cited the Gospel of Luke read at the Mass, where Jesus proclaims that a new age has begun, in which the Holy Spirit will be poured out upon all humanity.

"Here in Australia, [...] all of us have had an unforgettable experience of the Spirit's presence and power in the beauty of nature," the Pope said. "Here too, in this great assembly of young Christians from all over the world, we have had a vivid experience of the Spirit's presence and power in the life of the Church.

"We have seen the Church for what she truly is: the Body of Christ, a living community of love, embracing people of every race, nation and tongue, of every time and place, in the unity born of our faith in the Risen Lord. The power of the Spirit never ceases to fill the Church with life!"

"Yet this power," the Holy Father continued, "the grace of the Spirit, is not something we can merit or achieve, but only receive as pure gift. God's love can only unleash its power when it is allowed to change us from within. We have to let it break through the hard crust of our indifference, our spiritual weariness, our blind conformity to the spirit of this age.

"Only then can we let it ignite our imagination and shape our deepest desires. That is why prayer is so important: daily prayer, private prayer in the quiet of our hearts and before the Blessed Sacrament, and liturgical prayer in the heart of the Church. Prayer is pure receptivity to God's grace, love in action, communion with the Spirit who dwells within us, leading us, through Jesus, in the Church, to our heavenly Father."

A difference?

With solemnity, the Pontiff then said to the youth, "Let me now ask you a question."

He asked: "What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure? Are you living your lives in a way that opens up space for the Spirit in the midst of a world that wants to forget God, or even rejects him in the name of a falsely-conceived freedom? How are you using the gifts you have been given, the 'power' which the Holy Spirit is even now prepared to release within you? What legacy will you leave to young people yet to come? What difference will you make?"

"Empowered by the Spirit, and drawing upon faith's rich vision, a new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished -- not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed," the Bishop of Rome affirmed. "A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. A new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption which deaden our souls and poison our relationships."

"Dear young friends," he urged, "the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his love, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity."

The world and the Church need this renewal, Benedict XVI affirmed.

"The Church especially needs the gifts of young people, all young people," he said. "She needs to grow in the power of the Spirit who even now gives joy to your youth and inspires you to serve the Lord with gladness. Open your hearts to that power! I address this plea in a special way to those of you whom the Lord is calling to the priesthood and the consecrated life. Do not be afraid to say 'yes' to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will, giving yourself completely to the pursuit of holiness, and using all your talents in the service of others!"

The Pope concluded asking for Mary's prayer: "Through the loving intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church, may this 23rd World Youth Day be experienced as a new Upper Room, from which all of us, burning with the fire and love of the Holy Spirit, go forth to proclaim the Risen Christ and to draw every heart to him! Amen."