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Poor in Peru

Poor in Peru

 March, 2009

 

Dear family, relatives and friends:

Greetings and blessings from Ottawa with my wishes for a very Happy Easter!

As our Holy Father, Benedict VI wrote in his wonderful Lenten Message for this year, there are three practices that help us prepare better for the celebration of Easter: prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

If one corresponds to what is being asked by the Church, then one enters into a greater celebration at Easter. Maybe almsgiving is not so common in our days – maybe there are no opportunities for almsgiving … I would like to give you an opportunity to help the poor in Peru and bring joy to their Easter celebration as well.

In this picture you see a child from a shantytown in Lima looking in a dump for something that can help him and his family survive. When we see what hardships some of our poor brothers and sisters go through, then we can consider ourselves very fortunate in Canada. Every little bit helps, as Scripture says:

“whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones…amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”  Matt. 10:42,

 and also

“Come, you who are blessed by my Father … for I was hungry and you gave me food.”   Matt. 25:34

May the joy that comes from helping others be magnified in you as you experience the joy of the risen Christ in the Easter Vigil celebration.

I will be praying for you also at the Feast of the Divine Mercy so dear to my mother and myself; may the promises of the Lord be realized in you.

Make cheques out to M.A.M.I., Peru projects.  You will receive an income tax receipt (address: MAMI, 601 Taylor Street West, Saskatoon SK S7M 0C9, Tel.: 306-653-6453 – this is the Missionary Association of Mary Immaculate).

May God bless you and keep you and make His face shine on you.

 

In the peace and love of Jesus and Mary,

Joe Kane, O.M.I.

 

(613) 233-3717

Today I would like to share with you an older dream with words from God, the Father.  The message of the dream imagery, along with the words He speaks, create a very clear, compelling request that we would all do well to heed.  It is a longer dream, so without further ado I present it for your discernment:

Insinuate by Johnny Hart

Insinuate by Johnny Hart*

MAY 3, 2005

Dreamt I was sitting at a table, telling a friend of my unusual dreams of God levitating me and speaking messages through me.  All of a sudden God entered me again with a powerful force and levitated me.  I was again slightly alarmed at what force was possessing my body.  I blessed myself and repeated “Jesus Christ” and said a few Hail Mary’s. Then the Prescence shot me out of the area I had been in.  I trusted it to be God and my body was in His power.  I said:

“What would you have me do, my Father?”

I hung suspended in the neighbourhood of Heart’s Desire.  He took my body, still levitated, and shot me through a gap between two houses.  He brought me to the edge of a cliff drop-off behind these homes.  There was a river there.  I trusted He would not let me fall to/in the water below, but I was a little disconcerted as I was quite high and the edge was rocky with water below.  But God paused here, as if waiting for my permission for Him to lower me off the cliff.  Even though apprehensive because it was a long fall I agreed and He descended me.

He took my body at a powerful speed into/above the river.  There were tall rocky cliffs on either side and we were in the middle of the river between Heart’s Desire and Stonebridge.  There was a computer set up in the middle of the river.  I sat possessed by His spirit/levitated – not touching the water, but on the surface and God controlled my body while a screen clicked on.   It showed many icons.  They all looked army green.  I clicked on an icon to open it.  It became as if a video game, which surprised me.  It showed the player surrounded by many larger creatures – beasts.  The beasts were surrounding from all sides and converging and swallowing the poor person that was the player.  The game was being lost.  The poor pitiful player would attempt to go to one thing in the world after another.  These worldly amusements looked like small slightly coloured prizes/attractions.  Each was a small icon like the symbols you try to click on or eat in a video game to win points.  But the player couldn’t make it do much at any of the icons because he turned from one to another, trying to flee these army green beasts and they were totally surrounding him.  Defeat was imminent and unavoidable.

The beasts were coming at the player from all sides and hemming it in and devouring it.  I saw this happen and then God lifted me away again, possessing my body and levitating me up the other side of the cliff to go warn people.  He shot me through the streets to the people.

I came to a table at a fork in the road.  One road went up and the other down – a high and low road, if you will.  The low road ran along beside the river I had just left.  There were many people around this table, some sitting, some standing.  Some people I knew and some I didn’t.  I started to speak God’s words/warnings to them.  I spoke of the impending Day of Judgement.  I spoke of the need to repent.  A girl I know, who I knew was a regular attending Catholic, started to cry and believed my words and what was occurring through me.  Her heart was softened and moved and she was amazed.  Some others stood/sat dumbfounded and stupefied at what was occurring and being said by me.

Another man, who I knew was Catholic, but did not know, sat laughing and mocking me and my warnings (mocking me as the witness).  God spoke to him through me and said:

“You call yourself a Catholic?  You will be sorry on the Day of Judgement!”

He said this because the man did not heed me or the warnings.  Then God levitated/moved me through the streets and I continued to proclaim my messages as He spoke through me.  The last, which I spoke aloud as I rose from sleep, was:

“PREPARE YOUR HEARTS!!!”

This was in reference to the fact that Judgement was imminent/very near.

 

The Unique Snowflake of Your Soul

The Unique Snowflake of Your Soul

The message of this dream seems pretty clear.  Examine your hearts!  Where do you think you stand on the path to holiness, which is the calling for each one of us?  Many people think holiness is only for a certain few chosen ‘saints’, but this is not the truth.  God has created each and every one of us for holiness.  But what is that, exactly?  It is to become, with time, grace and effort, a unique expression of love.  They say that there are no two snowflakes created equal.  To try to register this fact is mind-boggling!  How much more wonderfully complicated and wonderful are you – a unique human being!  There is no other you!  God has created you (and I believe I was given a little scientific vision of the ‘how’ which I will share down the road).

If I could convey one thing to you on this website, it would be to not sell yourself short for the faintly coloured little worldly amusements that you think fulfill you.  You have no idea what an empty, rattling, tin cup you really are inside until you find God – love!  We were each created to be filled and with this love that is God.  Without it, we are pitiful players, desperately going from attraction to attraction trying to fill ourselves up.  Think about it for a minute.  Where do you think the disordered, unhealthy addictions come from?  They come from the deep internal knowing that we have been separated from the thing that created us – God – love.  The aching chasm deep in our souls can never really be filled with anything else that makes us whole – satisfied.  Think about the food addictions, alcoholism, sex addiction, thrill seeking, power and money addictions, and I could go on and on and on.  Why is it never enough?  Why doesn’t it fill the hole?  Why do we wander from one faintly blinking icon attraction to another, only to still feel that something is missing?  Because it is!!!

I know it isn’t ‘cool’ these days for many people in the world to hear teaching about God, let alone Jesus.  Mmmmmmm.  Whether it’s cool or not, the fact is still that we are all empty, rattling tin cups when we look elsewhere for the thing our heart truly desires and was created for.  Love.  Please don’t wait ’til you’re faced with your mortality to contemplate this fact.  Please don’t miss the entire lesson of your life here on earth – seeking God and growing in love.  God is an atom bomb of love!  I, in my finite, limited existence, do a paltry justice to God in trying to describe the things I have seen.  An atom bomb of love is the closest thing I can think of to describe Him, as it is the biggest explosion of energy and power that I know about in the physical sense. 

As we head towards Easter, I think next week would be a good time to share with you an early experience I had – an experience my spiritual director calls a night vision.  It was a definitive experience of Jesus and the love that is His Sacred Heart, that made me truly aware of what a rattling, empty, tin cup we are without God.

I think all we need to do is examine our hearts and do as He asks…repent and prepare our hearts

Karen

*To see more of Johnny Hart’s work please visit www.johnhartstudios.com.

“Asleep”

Man Asleep

Man Asleep

In last week’s writing, “Unprepared”, I shared with you a very recent spiritual dream that showed various segments of the population and their state of spiritual unpreparedness for coming times.  It showed many people in the world are spiritually ‘asleep’.  But what does this mean?  To be spiritually asleep means to be devoid or unsure of faith in God and belief in a life to come after this earthly one.  It means being unconcerned about spiritual things altogether and living preoccupied solely with the things of this world.  Someone spiritually asleep may stumble across this article and say to themselves “Don’t bother me with this stuff.”  I understand.  I was once spiritually asleep!

The process of waking up for me happened gradually, before I started experiencing the profound things of the last nine years or so.  It seems to happen as we go through life and start to hit some really bumpy roads.  I think this is why God permits the bumpy roads.  It serves to mold us, change us, wake us.  If life was a smooth superhighway of good times, what nudge would we have to think about our spirits?  For others, though, the bumpy roads make them lose faith.  Sometimes it takes witness of someone they trust or a personal moment of grace to make them start to ponder these things.  I remember hitting a point in my mid-thirties, after quite a bumpy ride myself, where I was more awakened spiritually, but didn’t know God was real.  I still remember the day I stood in my laneway saying goodbye to a good friend after an afternoon chat, saying “You know – if God and this spiritual stuff isn’t real, then it should be.  If we all lived with love, what a different world this would be.”  It wasn’t long after that day, that I received my first real ‘taste’ of proof (see My Angel Story).

My gratitude for this ‘proof’ is profound.  I shudder to think that I might not know all that I know today.  I shudder for the people of the world that do not know and do not care to know.  I shudder because I am starting to see and believe that my calling in this fledgling ministry is to help other people to know before it is too late.

There is a book gaining popularity, especially in Catholic circles, called Divine Mercy in My Soul:  Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska.  It is one of the central books used in the Divine Mercy Cenacles, information about which can be found in this website.  It has received the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur of the Catholic Church, which is a declaration that a book or pamphlet is considered to be free from doctrinal or moral error.  In Divine Mercy in My Soul Saint Faustina records experiences and messages from Mary and Jesus, two of which I would like to share with you today, as I believe they will serve to illuminate experiences I share in this writing and those I will be sharing in future:

Write this:  before I come as the Just Judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy.  Before the day of justice arrives, there will be given to people a sign in the heavens of this sort:
All light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be great darkness over the whole earth.  Then the sign of the cross will be seen in the sky, and from the openings where the hands and the feet of the Savior were nailed will come forth great lights which will light up the earth for a period of time.  This will take place shortly before the last day. (Jesus to St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul:  Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska. c.1993 Congregation of The Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy; entry #83)

and

Write down these words, My daughter.  Speak to the world about My mercy:  let all mankind recognize My unfathomable mercy.  It is a sign for the end times; after it will come the day of justice.  While there is still time, let them have recourse to the fount of My mercy…(Ibid., entry#848)

I include these messages at this time for very good reason.  As difficult as it is for me to say this, and indeed difficult to have been living it, I believe my mission, and the mission of others (such as www.markmallet.com/blog/ ), is to issue warning and help prepare the world for our times, the coming times and God’s justice.  This is no easy thing and something I take very seriously.  Having said that I think most people need only look at the latest news forecast or read the latest headline to see that things in the world need to change, and soon, to steer us back to a better path of being.  God’s path.  Love’s path.  Because God is the best of parents, He does what any good parent does when it sees it’s child is behaving badly – He warns.  Because He is patient He continues to warn.  He admonishes.  Then,  if necessary, because His warnings are not heeded, He must punish in order to make the child aware of its errors and to correct it, in order to do the child a service in the long run.

Some of you may say at this point , ‘What warnings?’  To that I answer:  The Bible, the Church, evangelists, witness and example of good friends, personal moments of grace, recognized prophets, Mary in many apparitions throughout the centuries (notably at length in Medjugorje – www.medjugorje.org ) and let us not forget the inner bell of common sense!  “If God and this spiritual stuff isn’t real then it should be.  If we all lived with love, what a different world this would be.”  God is love.  God is calling us to love.  Having said all this, I feel it would be a disservice to you and a failure to fulfill my own calling if I did not impart to you some things that will probably feel like tough love.  In fact as you see the writings and sharing unfolding on this site over time I think you will feel like much of it is tough love.  However, I impart these things to you with love as warning.  I believe the current economic rumblings we are experiencing are only the beginning of waves of change.  Please take heed to the wake-up call and if you have already done so, please pray as much as you can for those who have not.  To that end I enclose two of many vivid dreams that I think have been given to me to share in order to do my own small part to encourage all to discern the times we are in and be prepared for them:

Woman Walking

Woman Walking

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2007 APPROX 8 A.M.

I had a brief dream of walking down a road and pouring out my love to Jesus – telling Him how much I missed Him and how I wished I could see Him more often. I was just talking out loud to Him as I walked – talking from my heart as I walked on this empty, open, country road. I saw no other people or buildings etc. It was clear, open and vast feeling. 

Just then I saw to my left this scene: Two cables – the end of the cables was anchored in the sky beyond my sight. Coming down on them were two cars or seats coming down from the sky on a diagonal, curving trajectory – like a descent on ski cables. Mary was in the first with Jesus directly behind her. Jesus was dressed in a red robe and Mary had her right arm up across her face high like a shield as they approached the road. She was shielding us from divine wrath from the Father from the sky as she came down. They appeared like poised, forward leaning statues in the seats as they were bearing down on the road in a very direct, purposeful trajectory. Even though I knew they had descended thus, it was their position at the road that was the focus (of where they are now).

I understood instantly the meaning of this vision: Mary has come first – shielding us from divine wrath (I was particularly reflecting in the dream at this scene on the fact that she has been appearing with such length and regularity and urgency at Medjugorje – www.medjugorje.org ), but Jesus is RIGHT behind her and when He reaches the road (they were both right at the edge of the road to my left as I saw this) OH!!!, the sadness for the world!!! Justice!!! I saw what His coming will be for the world in a moment of instant knowledge and sight in my heart – not a vision of events. I started to sob uncontrollably for the souls of the world – how upset I was in this moment for the world and its sin and unpreparedness. My heart and voice instantly changed its prayer from the loving talk I was having to Jesus to pleading for the world with sobbing tears of sorrow – sorrow that the world is so unprepared and in need of prayer. I also felt, and this has stayed with me, such profound gratitude to Mary for what she has been doing for us in shielding us – you should see how virulently she has been doing this!

This flash scene was like a reminder to me that the cry of prayer now should be urgent intercessory prayer for the world to help it prepare for His coming because He is not at the top of His descent; He is not in the middle of His descent: He is right at the edge of the road!

 

The Sands of Time

The Sands of Time

 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Words heard from Jesus in a half wake-half dream state.  I did not see Him:

Bring forth the sands of time to compassionate My Wounds.”

 ‘The Sands of Time’ is defined as follows:

“The Sands of Time is an idiom meaning that time runs out either through something reaching an end or through a person’s death.  It comes from the sand used in hourglasses, an ancient way of measuring time.”  (www.UsingEnglish.com)

I feel these two experiences go hand in hand and create a very compelling urgency for our times.  They represent the passing of time – that our world is not as stable as we think.  These and many other experiences that will be shared in future leave me pondering my situation in the world before God and I share them that you may ponder also.

Karen