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The Little House Of Prayer

		Apostolate of Prayer and Healing Through the Two Hearts: Jesus and Mary "If you cannot understand my silence, you will not understand my words."

Bulletin

December 2011

*Christmas Message*
		This Christmas may you receive in your hearts His Peace and Joy. May it remain with you and take root all the days of your life. God's Blessing be with you and all your loved ones. Little House Of Prayer - Board of Directors Bernadette G. Cyr Charles C. Cyr Wilfred Cassette Daniel Gagne Joanne G. Gagne Guy Gosselin Dennis Hussey Dianne P. Hussey Suzanne R. Kelly

Jesus, Our Model

Let's use Jesus as our model.

In making decisions, Jesus went into the hills to pray. He did not quit until He received the answer from God, His Father. Sometimes He prayed all night.

Yes, Jesus did pray befoe decisions just like we should pray before all decisions. He got His guidance, not by discussing matters with His disciples, but by going to His heavenly Father in prayer.

Jesus did not know exactly what was the Will of the Father. He could have known, but He chose to do the WIll of the Father even unto the cross where he died, until He gave His Spirit to His Father, "Father, into your hands I commend my Spirit". (Luke 23:46)

He could have lived His life in His own inherent power as God's Son. He could have rapped His chest saying "I am the Son of God". No, He put His pride aside, just as we have to.

He is our Model. His life was a life of constant dependence upon the Father. And, who are we not to depend on the Father? Are we better than Jesus? Quiet daily prayer is needed. It is better for us to give up a long telephone conversation with a friend, or a television show, and spend one hour, or at least 30 minutes, per day with Our Beloved.

We must learn to wait on God instead of rushing into our activity. We are too clockwise when actually it is not our time to begin with. All of our time belongs to the Father. Jesus did not find it boring to be in the presence of His Father, and nor shall we.

Yes, just close your eyes and get up there on the mountainside and join Jesus. He will speak to your heart of that I am sure. Imagine seeing Him there on the mountainside, His upturned face radiant with the light of the Father, Our Father. How He loved to commune with His Father!

How it thrills our soul to be in God's presence just as our Model Jesus Christ did. Does it thrill your soul to spend time in Our Father's presence? Or, do you think, "I must go through with this and get it over with?"

Jesus persevered. He prayed and gave the time due the Father. He prayed and asked for the same things over and over again in perseverance. Do we give the time due to the Father? Do we respect the time we have? It is only on loan to us. Do we respect the loan of time? Do we?

All that we have is on loan; our car, our house, time; money, clothes. Do we respect all His graces that He let us use? Do we know this Holy way of perseverance of Jesus? Do we have the thirst to want to talk to the Father in all things as Jesus did? Do we?

Those are questions I've been asking myself, or am I just kidding myself in my faith? Is it for real? Am I good and strong enough to have this Holy perseverance of my God? I ask myself who I am? We need to do that from time to time.

Where do I stand in my faith, or am I a fake? When we do ask a brother or sister to pray for us, we should ask them to pray to the Father to give us the grace that our whole being becomes that of Jesus, and that we learn without reserve to walk on our stupid pride.

My Brothers and Sisters, you know this life is a one way trip. If we miss the boat we have missed it. There is no two ways about it. That is, let me explain myself, if ones misses the boat to Germany, or Africa, or wherever place one is going, he can take a plane. If he misses the plane, he can take a bus. No my friend, if we miss the heavenly boat, we have missed it. There will not be a chance to take a plane or a bus. If we miss it, that's it! Finis!

I want to be in the Heavenly Boat. I know that you also want to be in it. Often we wait for some flash of inspiration. We look for signs or we think God will speak to us through a Brother or Sister. Oh, what a waste, what a waste of His Precious time!

We cannot, I repeat myself, we cannot expect God to speak until we have spent time waiting upon Him. We can talk to Jesus or do His work all day, but if we don't stop and take the time to wait upon Our God to talk, we are wasting our time. His time that is on loan to us.

When we pray, we, as Christians, try to want what we are asking today, - yesterday. This life is rush, rush, rush so we want to rush the Spirit. Say, I've prayed for a while, "now come on, give me my answer right now as I am in a hurry. I have things to do."

We as Christians must learn that we cannot rush the Spirit. All things asked for are answered in His time, not our time. His ways, not ours. It is funny, it's really a joke. We say to Jesus, "I love you", but in our mind I believe some of us use this like a price tag. "Yes, I love you, give me what I want now." Is that really love? Are we kidding ourselves? We can do that but we cannot kid Our God.

A few years ago I started to listen to myself in prayer and I did not like the way I sounded. Too much humanity in my prayer style. So I had to make a change. The Father knows I am simple so I talk to Him as I talk to any friend.

I believe the message I received today is the perseverance in our talking to Our Heavenly Father.

The new way of the Church today is charismatic renewal. It is a much more wonderful time, but a dangerous time it can be for one's soul as we become popular and too intense in activity. There again we must know when to draw the line. It is different with each individual. As popularity brings the danger of pride, we must always remember we are only the instrument. Jesus is the one. Yes, Jesus is the one and only. He does work through us which is a beautiful grace and we must thank Him for it.

Yes, our wonderful pride can cause us to lose our soul. Pride, self-exaltation and activity can crowd out our communion with Our God, if one is not careful. We must always bear in mind that we are earthen vessels. If we don't then boy will the evil one have a ball.

The baptism in the Holy Spirit is beautiful, but bear in mind that it is not a substitute for a life of prayer and communion with Our God. It is not a substitute for a daily life of discipline. If we believe the baptism of the Holy Spirit is the gate to Heaven, then my Brothers and Sisters, there is a danger. If we neglect the things mentioned above we will lose out. The power will ebb away. The blessings and fruitfulness will disappear because we will have given in to the evil of pride, and, we will miss the boat.

Pride and self-exaltation, the killer of our soul, keeps us from growing closer to Jesus Christ, as our soul is the temple of Our God. The Lord knows we cannot burn the candle at both ends. This is why we need to come aside daily for quiet time with Our God to be refreshed. We have to discipline our lives.

Yes, a disciplined life is needed for a life of prayer, in the work of the building up of His Kingdom. Our model, Jesus, led a disciplined life. He, the Lord Jesus, prayed in the hour of Acclamation, Father, if it would be your Will, let this cup pass me, but nevertheless may your Will be done. (Matthew 26:39)

It was not the Will of the Father. Our beautiful model Jesus died. Yes, He died, not of cancer, not of heart trouble, but nailed to a cross by the sins of the world, your sins and mine.

Shall we not at least try to imitate Him by our example to live a prayer life of self denial and a disciplined life? Let us put Jesus in the driver's seat where He belongs. Don't be afraid of your weaknesses. As long as you are aware of them, Jesus will remember that you are still on this earth as a human being.

Peace Be With You

Bernadette Cyr, T.O.P.

To Get Closer o Our Big Brother, Jesus

To get closer to Our Big Brother Jesus, we need to offer Him all that we do and all that we say.

It goes back to offering Him one Praise and one Thank You for each moment of this day, every day. One Praise and one Thank You for each step, each muscle we will move today. One Praise and one Thank you for each heart beat, each breath that we will take today, each word we will speak, read, write or listen to. Then, during the day speak to Him. He is your interior friend. Invite Him to join you in all that you do, in all of your decisions. Tell Him many many times a day, "Jesus, I love you", then spend time with Him. Time that is just for you and Him, preferably in Adoration. If this is impossible, find a private corner in your home. If this is also not possible, invite Him to take a walk with you. I myself love to go for a walk with Him and talk with Him. But, also learn to give Him time, time that you will listen to Him. This is called silent prayer. We need to learn to be still. He tells us Be still and know that I am God. (Psalms 46:11)

Christmas is just around the corner. In your Christmas shopping, put Jesus at the top of your list. Bring Him with you on your shopping trip. He will help you and it will be a joy to go shopping with Brother Jesus. Tell Him you are glad that He is on your shopping list. You will also develop the prayer of the heart and you will never be alone and feel lonely.

What the world needs now more then ever is Jesus. And, with your prayer of the heart you will become a new you. Faith is our strength in all things. Remember always, when fear sets in that your help is always in the Lord. When fear comes to you, did you ever call on the Passion of Christ to inebriate you?

Remember what God has brought you through, and that it shows how much He loves you, how much He cares. While you remember these things, He will hold you in His arms. He will lay you upon His breast. He will walk with you daily. Though you don't see Him, He is there waiting for you to say "I love you, Lord." Faith is our all, our strength, our love, our trust.

In your trials, you have seen the mighty hand of God. Some will say, because they cannot see Him, "I can't believe in God." Then can you really believe in a thing called love? You feel it in your heart, but you cannot see it.

In the sea of life there are many storms. Some are small waves and some are like big waves just like the sea. They, at times, almost pull you under. But, God is there. Our Father, Our Daddy, will always care for His child. With Faith we go through small storms as we do those that almost pull us under. It is in the big storms, we sink in turmoil, the darkness is all around us. As we cry out in our storm, "Lord, help me", faith is there big and shinning like the hands of Jesus when Peter cried out Master, help me and Jesus did. (Matthew 14:30) Again, it was faith that made Peter cry out to Jesus for help. Every day of the year as each new day comes and goes, and the years come and go, Faith is with us.

We need much prayer. The moment of prayer is the moment of the transfiguration of the soul. We must spend daily time in prayer, yes, daily time in prayer ... PRIME TIME ... and let Jesus change our hearts for only He can change our hearts. No one else can. We must allow Jesus to operate this transformation, this transfiguration of our soul. Each one of us has a particular gift and can only grasp it by himself alone. Jesus has told us, When you pray, go to your room and pray. Jesus meant by this to shut the door to all noise around you. This room is in our interior self ... "in our heart."

Peace Be With You

Bernadette Cyr, T.O.P.

Let Us Pray For Our Priests
		O my Jesus, I beg you on behalf of the whole Church; Grant it love and the light of Your Spirit, and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to You, O Lord. Lord, give us holy priests; You yourself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of Your mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil's traps and snares which are continually being set for the souls of priests. May the power of Your mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for You can do all things. Amen From the Diary of Sister Faustina (Page 1042)