Embracing Your Greatness

The Devil= SIN, WOUNDS, SHAME

Embracing Your Greatness!

THEOLOGY OF THE BODY

Making Visible The Invisible

God’s mystery has been revealed in human flesh – “theology of the body.” This phrase is not only the title of a series of talks by John Paul II. It represents the very logic of Christianity.

Incarnation=Enfleshed

SACRAMENTS

SACRAMENTALITY OF THE BODY

SACRAMENTALS

The Marriage Proposal

*"Created" for by love to love

*"Designed" for union and communion (TOB)

*Baltimore Catechism; Know, Love & Serve

First Comes LOVE

Then Comes MARRIAGE

Then Comes a BABY in

the baby carriage

"to know, to love, to SERVE"

VOCATION

Elisha 15

Affirmation

Total Consecration To Mary

In this battle, those who follow God will conquer with one hand and build with the other. The saints of the end times will be formed by Mary in their devotion to her. She will shape them and teach them even as she formed the body of Our Lord in her womb."

St. Louis DeMontfort

BRIDE AND THE BRIDEGROOM

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* If u ever genuflected aisle/movies

* If u ever Make Sign of Cross/pray ambulance

* If u ever Star Wars/Force/Spirit

* If u ever heard "Offer it up"

* If think Madonna is Mother of God not Pop

* If you hear a list of names read/sing pray 4 us

* If you hear "John Paul 2" and think "We Love U"

* If you know the word Prostrate is NOT a place men get cancer but a posture of prayer.

Mother of 8 living Children

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5 Steps

The Bride and The Bridegroom

Embrace Your Greatness

1. Sacraments and Sacramentals

2. Year of Faith; Called 2 B tabernacles

3. Clean Our Your Own Heart

4. Become a Living Prayer

5. Consecration To Mary

You and your "story" is the vessel

that God desires to shine through!

The most striking material God can and does use to manifest His glory is Lazarus.

A Purposeful Emptiness Of A Virginal Heart

He can chose what seems to us the most unlikely material in the world to use for a positive miracle of His Love

It is not formless emptiness, a void without meaning, rather it has a shape, a form given to it by the purpose for which it is intended.

"Lazarus was not even alive; he was dead, and according to his chief mourners, stinking; but Christ used him as the material for showing forth the glory of God in a way surpassed only by His own Resurrection."

The Reed Of God

by Caryll Houselander

2/5/06

JOY

PERSEVERANCE & HUMILITY

Father wounds

7/10/09

MERCY

1) a blessing that is an act of divine favor or compassion

2) compassionate treatment of those in distress

3) one who gives themselves to those in misery

LONG-SUFFERING

Long-suffering is love on trial.

It enables you to forbear and forgive others (Colossians 3:13)

Dictionary: patiently enduring lasting offense or hardship

3/23/01

1/20/04

Suffering is valuable

+forms us

+purifies us

+suffering is transformational

+suffering now or later but there WILL be suffering

+Jesus Was Perfected In His Suffering and so are we

God's Glory is revealed through Our Story

TRUSTFUL SURRENDER

2/08/99

* It's a Boy!

* Amblyopia * Asperger's

* Kindergarten

9/29/95

INNER-BEAUTY

3/19/90

Selflessness

10/04/97

Affirmation

Vulnerability

What is it?

Who Am I ?

Why Do I Exist?

Vulnerability is NOT weakness!

SIN

WOUNDS/CRACKS

Shame

"When someone is wounded, he has a barrier to freedom in Christ. Though the human spirit is united with Christ, God's Spirit cannot radiate through this problem area until the person gets help to understand and deal with it." Leanne Payne

SHAME

*SEPARATION FROM GOD

* TRANSGRESSION

*MISSING THE MARK

wound in the way we are wounded

Idolatry

Shame: "I am Bad"

Guilt" "What I did was bad"

We "cover ourselves" so as to not be seen.

Wound: Abandonment

Distress Symptom; Anger

Inner Vow (The Lie) :"I'm alone, I will always be alone"

Judgement: "I cannot trust anyone"

Idolatry: Control

Sin always wounds

Shame says;

"You Will Never Be Good Enough"

"Who Do You Think You Are?"

We "Should all over ourselves"

we numb

Be pretty enough

Be thin enough

Don't be vulnerable

Be an Object

The Flesh= Beauty, Addictions, Sex

Suffering has no value

Hang out the wash

Kids ready for school

Bring Home Bacon

Fry it Up in a pan

Never let him forget He's a man

Never let them see you sweat!

The birthplace of creation "being made new", being transformation

The World=Be Perfect

The Lies I believed

Vulnerability

*weakness

*being violated

*giving up my rights

*death spiral into chaos

*impending doom

*out of control

It is being exposed so as to be truly seen but we must always bring Jesus and Mary.

Jesus Invites, Satan Accuses

OUR STORY

My Vulnerability Story

Chart of wounds, sin , lies vows etc..

We Numb Ourselves

God reveals Himself

When we numb ourselves we numb everything

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness!"

3 Symbols Of Virginal Emptiness

POPE BENEDICT XVI

You are no surprise to God

My Story.......

""These are each made from material which must undergo some experience to be made ready for it's purpose."

emptiness

"Each of us can, when He has cleared out the rubble even for a day, look honestly at the material from which he is made, and ask the Holy Spirit to let It show him the way Christ wills to show Himself in his life."

+The Reed

+The Chalice

+The Birds Nest

My Form....

THE REED

"The Reed grows by the streams. It is the simplest of things, but it must be cut by a sharp knife, hollowed out, and the stops must be cut in it; it must be shaped and pierced before it can utter the shepherd's song. It is the narrowest emptiness in the world, but the little reed utters infinite music."

THE CHALICE

"We may be formed by the knife, pared down, cut to the least, to the minimum of our own being."

"The chalice does not grow like the flower it resembles. It is made of gold; gold must be gathered from the water and the mud and hewn from the rock, it must be beaten by countless little blows that give the chalice of sacrifice it's fitting beauty.

"We may be marked indelibly by a succession of strokes, blows from the gold-beater's hammer; or we may be shaped for our destiny by the love and tender devotion of a devoted family.

MY FIRST GOD MOMENTS

THE BIRD'S NEST

The twigs and fluff and leaves of the bird's nest are brought from all sorts of places, from wherever the brave careful mother alights, with fluttering but daring heart, to fetch them, from the distances and explorations that only the spread wings of love know. It is the shape of her breast that molds the next to its inviting roundness.

TRUST + RECEIVE + CONCEIVE

We may be shaped by our destiny by the love and tender devotion of a devoted family.

"We can trust in God's plan, we can put aside any quibbling or bitterness about ourselves and what we are. We can accept and seize upon the fact that what we are at this moment, young or old, strong or weak, mild or passionate, beautiful or ugly, clever or stupid, is planned to be like that. Whatever we are gives form to the emptiness in us which can only be filled by God and which God is even now waiting to fill." Caryll Houselander

our story

How? we must open