Walking by God given Faith

Seek Jesus not riches Psalm 49

A sword shall pierce your soul

The presentation of the Lord Jesus happens in Jerusalem in the Temple forty days after His birth. Mary and Joseph meet two very important people who were full of expectation and promise that they
would see this Messiah born of a Virgin before the end of there journeys on earth. Anna who is a prophetess gave herself in prayer and fasting makes her confession to the Lord, and speaks the good news of redemption to those who were looking for salvation in Israel. This passage in Luke chapter two clearly connects this happening within the same hour that the Holy Family is received by a Holy Man of God, Simeon, who is listening to the Holy Spirit’s promise to him with persevering patience, believing he would not see death till He sees the Son of God who will bring Salvation.
Simeon then holding the Baby Jesus in his arms blesses Him as he raises Him to the Father and looks directly at Mary and said:

“Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted.
And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.” Luke 2:34 and 35.

Mary and Joseph own hearts are being consecrated unto the Father to a continuing journey of wonder and promise, the unfolding of the mystery of redemption. The Lamb of God coming down from heaven to Earth into their own Holy yet humble Family to expose the harden hearts of the world. These words spoken to Mary, the ever Virgin, and pure Mother of our Lord, came with no small price. Her own heart will suffer in pain and cost her agony beyond measure for any mother’s comprehension and heart felt fears for her child. Mary boldly holds to the call of the Father trusting in the promise she witnesses daily in the eyes of her Son.

Out of pain and times of suffering in heart and loneliness of soul I come to hold you. Come share My suffering for souls and the pain I feel in reparation for the times you left me alone on the Cross.
Hold Me as your Mother Mary held me in her heart and arms at the foot of the Cross. Feel My hands, head, opened side, and feet. Keep Me close don’t let go. We are One in the Father as We share in the Cross.
Now My Father will share My Life with you.
Jesus, the One Who died for our sins,
and the sins of the whole world.

Let us pray for our Archbishop of Detroit

HIS EXCELLENCY MOST REVEREND
ALLEN H. VIGNERON

Lord Jesus Christ,
You sent Your Apostles to proclaim the Good News with Peter at their head and You strengthened them with the Holy Spirit.
Remind us that our Archbishop Allen Vigneron is appointed by the same Spirit and he is one of the successors of the Apostles as pastor of souls.
Together with our Pope Benedict XVI and under his authority Archbishop Vigneron is sent here to Detroit to continue Your work.
Help our Archbishop to teach by the power of the Holy Spirit all members of his Archdiocese, to sanctify them in Your Cross, and to give them Your nourishment. Make us obey his teachings and love him as the Church obeys and Loves You. May we remain united with him, grow in faith and love, and attain eternal life with You. AMEN !

Is not the United States of America under the Word to Repent and Turn back to God ?

These scriptures were the first reading for this Sunday in the Universal (Catholic) Church for all the Nations which the Holy Spirit has a special call to the United States to turn back to God!
She must cry out to God to continue as a light of freedom and respect toward sanctity of Life to the whole world! Father have Mercy on Us !
Websites are poping up with this same call and you can feel the warning in the air and on the news 24/7. http://www.repentamerica.com/

The word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.’ Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: it took three days to cross it. Jonah went on into the city, making a day’s journey. He preached in these words, ‘Only forty days more and Nineveh is going to be destroyed.’ And the people of Nineveh believed in God; they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least.
God saw their efforts to renounce their evil behavior. And God relented: he did not inflict on them the disaster which he had threatened.
Jonah 3:1-5,10

2Ch 7:14
And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

Pray For our New President and the mission that is upon all the people of these Great United States

On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples A feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, The web that is woven over all nations;

Isaiah 25:6-7

The Holy Father gave these scripture verses as a reference in his letter to Our new President Barack Obama after he took the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States.
In this letter is heard the heart of the Holy Father's prayer over our New President and the mission that is upon all the people of these Great United States in which we live.
May the Holy Spirit grant us His grace and mercy to pray in agreement to first receive a new heart for this great call upon our country, and the fortitude to share our blessings with the whole world.

The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
The White House
Washington, D.C.
On the occasion of your inauguration as the Forty-fourth president of the United States of America I offer cordial good wishes, together with the assurance of my prayers that the Almighty God will grant you unfailing wisdom and strength in the exercise of your high responsibilities.
Under your leadership may the American people continue to find in their impressive religious and political heritage the spiritual values and ethical principles needed to cooperate in the building of a truly just and free society, marked by respect for the dignity, equality and rights of each of its members, especially the poor, the outcast and those who have no voice.
At a time when so many of our brothers and sisters throughout the world yearn for liberation from the scourge of poverty, hunger and violence, I pray that you will be confirmed in your resolve to promote understanding, cooperation and peace among the nations, so that all may share in the banquet of life which God wills to set for the whole human family (cf. Isaiah 25:6-7). Upon you and your family, and upon all the American people, I willingly invoke the Lord's blessings of joy and peace.

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