July 15, 2022, journal entry, during morning prayer
Matthew 12:1-8
"I tell you, something greater than the temple is here."
"For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
Lord Jesus, you are my Lord, my rest, my Sabbath.
You are my Lord, my Sabbath.
In all of this, trust me my child. I will never forsake or abandon you. You too are my rest. For the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. The children of the Kingdom do not yet understand this. Here I am in the Heavenlies, and my Mother is my Comfort, in her humanity. I have need of Mankind for it is for you that I came. Fully human, fully divine, I am complete for I have the Father and the Holy Spirit with me, in me, above me, behind me, below me. Yet, I have need of humankind. This is what this means, and continues to mean. In me, mankind is complete. You too in me, have a place to rest, for I am in you and you are in me. Yet I have need of all humankind.
The Son of Man has no where to lay his head.
In my humanity, I have need of all of humankind. For it is for this reason I came, to redeem man and to bring him into communion with Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Come my child, share in the joy that heaven has for you, I in you and you in me. You will be my rest, a place to lay my head and to reign, and I will be your rest, a place to lay your head and to reign also in my heart, for my heart too has need of you. Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you. Whatever you ask in my name, and according to my will, it will be done for you, for you are mine and I am yours. We are one.
Amen.
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Thank you Lord for this sweet understanding of your love and need of me, lowly creature that I am. I console you as you console me.
This gives me a new understanding of the words about the joy in heaven when one sinner converts. Thank you Lord.
How great is your love, this even brings new understanding to my heart.
And that we add to what is lacking in the Cross.
All of humanity needs to be at the Cross, worthy or unworthy as we all are, to console your humanity for what you suffered for us on the Cross.
Thank you Lord God, Jesus my Love and my Heart.
Help me not to add to your sorrow, but to be there with you.
Amen.
Jesus, in his Divinity is complete with the Father and the Holy Spirit, for there is Completeness in the Trinity of God.
Jesus in his humanity is in need of all of humanity, as the Mother of God shows us in her presence in heaven, interceding continually for us. Jesus in his humanity in the Heavenly places is in need of humanity, a place to lay his head, in my heart, and in the heart of all of humanity. As Mary comes into the throne room of heaven in her full humanity, she is a consolation and a delight for Jesus. She has danced as Wisdom before him for all of humanity. Let my heart be emptied of all material things that Jesus the King of Glory may enter in, and find a place to rest his head.
Thank you Lord. So hard to put in writing what you are bringing to my heart.
As I have need of you, so too you have need of me.
"The Son of Man has no place to rest his head."
Amen.
In our humanity, thanks to Jesus, we enter into the heavenlies, and Jesus in the heavenlies and in his humanity has a place to lay his head. And that place is our heart.
As you are in need of me, so also I am in need of you.
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Two great revelations related to each other:
FIRST
Jesus, in the heavenlies, now in his resurrected divinity and humanity, has need of humankind to rest his head upon our hearts.
"The Son of Man has no place to rest his head.'
Mary now, coming into his presence, in her full humanity, has consoled him from eternity, dancing before God as Wisdom...
Jesus has need of humanity, us, to come before him in prayer into the heavenlies, to console him in his humanity.
SECOND
As we receive the Eucharist, we receive the Body and Blood of Christ; we also receive the body and blood of Mary from whom Jesus took his flesh.
And she fully becomes our Mother.
We remember this each time we partake of the Eucharist.
We too now, in the Fullness of Christ bring consolation to Jesus in his full humanity in heaven, when we entrust our lives to him, and pray; ask and you shall receive...
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Hard to put in my own words.
This revelation and the first bring great consolation to my heart as I consider them.
Thank you Lord God. Amen.
References
"Come to me all you that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and gentle of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Matthew 11:28-30
"I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."
Matthew 12:1-8
"The Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
Book: A Pilgrim's Journey, The Autobiography of Ignatius of Loyola
Joseph N. Tylenda, S.J. Ignatius Press
Manresa: Taught by God; 30. Fifth, pages 78-79
excerpt, pages 78-79:
"3. Fifth (Grace) Ignatius was once on his way, out of devotion, to a church a little more than a mile from Manresa... The road followed the path of the river, and he was taken up with his devotions; he sat down for a while facing the Cardoner River flowing far below him. As he sat there the eyes of his understanding were opened, and though he saw no vision, he understood and perceived many things...He cannot expound in detail what he then understood...but he can state that he received such a lucidity in understanding that during the course of his entire life - now having passed his sixty-second year - if he were to gather all the helps he received from God and everything he knew, and add them together, he does not think they would add up to all that he received on that one occasion."
