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The Banner over me is LOVE

3/30/2024

It’s so hard to see a parent die but it’s harder to see your own child die. The anguish seems impossible to endure. People talk about the three days of darkness. I’m sure in Mama Mary‘s life, this is the second day. The three days of darkness is experienced every year when the loss of Jesus pains your heart, knowing that the light of the world, was put out for three days. Today people talk about the three days of darkness that incites fear…the one I’m talking about incites sorrow. The sorrow of loss not the fear of what you will lose.

Good Friday didn’t turn out to be the way I wanted it to be this year, It took a turn because I needed to babysit three grandchildren under four years old. I embraced it as it was-God‘s Will for me . I did teach them simplistically the story of Adam and Eve - their disobedience, and how Jesus came and died for us. My eldest granddaughter cried and looked up at the cross- “I don’t want him to die”, she said with her tear stained face. My other granddaughter, immediately said, “look he’s alive”, as she pointed at the resurrected Divine Mercy image!” How beautiful and pure the thoughts of little children. Aaliyah kissed Christ’s feet to make him feel better. Amazing compassion! How precious and pure are their ways! When they left, it was late, so what I could do was watch the Passion of the Christ with my mom.

And then I remembered long ago a reflection that the Lord gave me for a long time and it stayed with me. I remember Jesus, uttering as he carried the heavy cross, “because I love them, because I love them, because I love them“, with each labored step on Calvary to Golgotha. There’s significance in the Golgotha name which means the empty skull. He showed me that he took that cross of his and staked it on the empty skull of pride and disobedience and claimed it by putting his banner there …

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Song of Solomon 2:4

Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John 6:53

“The banner over me is love”. Jesus is the banner on the pole staked so that souls might have divine wisdom and the fullness of His Spirit through the banquet off His Body and Blood. The myriad of souls that have gained God’s thoughts by the embrace of God and walking away from pride. Jesus countered Satan’s pride…Adam and Eve’s pride with total humility. He countered disobedience with submissive obedience. But most of all, he countered everything with love.

You and I have seen the proliferation of Christians after the death and resurrection of Jesus, who have become his followers. So many that books cannot contain them all. The many of virgins, martyrs, religious, parents, teachers, etc. living and dying for Christ. He built his kingdom on earth establishing a throne on the Cross, which is also his altar of sacrifice. Crowned with thorns, yes to suffer but to gain a dominion, a sovereignty. Retrieving what was lost for the love of the Father and the love of you and me.

His subjects know how to serve, their attributes are recognizable- to live life for the purpose of gaining more subjects for everlasting life. They have fought against their own pride, the ways of the world and the devil.

Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
John 12:24-26

The kingdom of heaven starts here and ends in the totality of joy - which is prepared for us by our loving God. We’ve got a place reserved for us! With the very best of Father’s.

Love you all,
Karen

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Pearl of Great Price

3/23/2024

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Today in Church I came into a great contemplation. You know the parable of the pearl of great price?

"The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." Matthew 13:45-46

We tend to think it's about us finding the pearl of great price.....but the direction I was thinking was.. what if Jesus is that merchant who found the pearl of great price. He gave away all he had, his time, his teachings, his gifts, his blood and his life. He paid a great price to get that treasure, even dying on a cross so that he may have it. My brothers and sisters, that pearl of great price is YOU!! It is every single one of us! He feels that individual great value for each and every one of us. He paid the highest price of his life but because that life was worthy he willingly gave it out of love for each soul. The same way that Hosea bought from the slave block his unfaithful wife driven to the depths because of her sinfulness....yet Hosea, to the surprise of all, paid the highest price to retrieve her. God used Hosea to make us understand His Ways.
Each soul has inscribed inside their heart his laws, his Word is within us. He is within us. So Jesus sees God in us, the Kingdom of Heaven hidden inside the shell.

Know your worth before your God!!!

Love, Karen

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March 19th, 2024. Feast of St. Joseph

3/19/2024

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I had developed a relationship with St. Joseph after my extraordinary conversion in 1992. Now, in the year 1994. I had been doing his ancient prayer 9 times a day. ➡️ https://youtu.be/YPNDavsCQKs?si=a_KXuxGdpdMV9UNO. ( I suggest looping this video and doing it multiple times daily!)

So we had purchased a model home in Millstone, NJ., it was considered “horse country”, I guess because of the horse farms there next to the Freehold Raceway. About a year after purchasing the house, I paid the monthly bills and all these unforeseen expenses came in one after another. It amounted to over $11,000!!!! I prayed to St. Joseph all the time, but particularly this day all day long.

Later in the day, still praying for his intercession, I went to the Post Office to get my mail. It was a stack of mail that was bound in a thick rubber band. At home as I opened each envelope, to my shock, it was check upon check adding to just over $11,000.00!!!

I never told anyone about this problem so this solution was not planned by man, but by God. St. Joseph delivered my tearful plea to the throne of God!!!!

I have just to testify that he is an incredible saint to rely on. He has helped me a myriad of times throughout the years and is still doing so to this day.

Thank you Dear St. Joseph. You means so much to us Catholics! ♥️ 🔨
St. Joseph, pray for us!!!!! I put the expo into your hands!

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This is the Lord's Day...what gift does he want the most???.......YOU!!!!!!

3/17/2024

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Please, please people of God, may the confessional always be close to you! There you will be able to ascend to the Lord's mountain. The miracle of reunion occurs. The priest takes God's hand and the repentant's hand, unites them together in a tight grasp- this is incredible unifying gift of Reconciliation.

The light of God's mercy surges into the soul, purifying what was weighed down by the filth of sin. Think of sin as heavy as an enormous block of lead. When heartfelt contrition and God's absolution meet, Gods mercy detaches that lead block shackling the soul down. The soul now has the opportunity to fly. If its mind is set above in God and not on the attachments of the world it will surely fly!
Going up the holy mountain refers to rising spirituality. One reason why souls don’t take flight is because even though they’ve confessed their sins, they still entertain it. (Get out of the mental prison!) They don’t fight habits and thus behaviors don’t change. They remain the same.

So after confession, acknowledge the incredible gift of the miracle God had procured for you by the priceless gift of his Son's passion and death, and leave your old ways there. Spring out of that confessional box with a grace-filled lightness and a heartfelt gratitude. You don't need to feel it just know it. This gratitude will propel you higher. Then radiate the love in your heart lavishly to all and let God's love abound.

⬆️Psalm 24:3-5

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Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?
Who may stand in His holy place?
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The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who has not set his mind on what is false,
and who has not sworn deceitfully.
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He will receive blessing from the Lord,
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

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Jesus told us to spread the Good News not the bad new

3/15/2024

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I woke up to an understanding, here it is put in words:

I was praying really hard last night. In the morning …. I got a deep understanding …that we have to grip ourselves, evil is going a level up. Stay focused on God and His Passion. Do not listen to the news, it’s got the spirits of lies, confusion, distrust and fear. It will cause a pandemonium.

That was what the prophetic occurrence in Fatima, the miracle of the sun was trying to tell us. To the 80k people the in 1917 it looked like end of the world, people crying out in fear, confessing their sins, in distress, fainting, when the sun like a disk went out of control, and was going to crash upon earth… just to find out that everything returned to order, and they were completely dry from the continuous rain. Then the sun went back in its orbit. Some accounts say that their clothes looked pressed even after being soaked.

Sr Lucia said that the last battle will be on marriage and families.
This is obvious. What is not obvious is the attack on the bridgegroom and his bride, the church. How the evil one will try to severe us from the unity of the Church. The evil one is trying to create division of distrust and egging people to disrespect and cancel the Pope. The chosen of the Holy Spirit. The cure for people who have judged him is confession.

The point of all this is to prepare, do not listen to the bad news, things will look very scary and bleak. For a moment. There will be pandemonium. We have the responsibility to spread peace to his people. Be grounded in the Passion of Christ. Be still and know he is God.

They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the LORD. ForIf

Psalm 112:7

God is for us, who can ever be against us?
Romans 8:31

Jesus we trust in you! And we love you too!
Karen Japzon
March 15, 2024

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Know who you are!

3/14/2024

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Through God's wonderful grace, I was able to see Cabrini, the new movie that came out last week. I read the reviews and was so eager to see it.

I thought that it was just perfect! It was perfect for two reasons. Now in lent, we need to keep our eyes on God and be focused on our greatest ability that God has given us. He has given us communion with him so we may decrease and he may increase. When he increases in our life, LOVE emits out of us. Our greatest ability is to Love. That's what I saw in Mother Cabrini. You may have not seen her in prayer, or in church much in the movie. But to the person who is beginning their walk in Christ or spirituality, I bet they did a search and found the volumes of how she enriched her life and how she became the greatest she could be, despite the odds she faced. So, as lent is to strip us of all the extras we add onto our lives, we could slowly get to the core, the cuore- THE HEART. Stripping ourselves plus putting on Christ, contemplating his passion, nurtures and grows the LOVE within us. The 'Christ in us'.

Secondly, what you may appear like on earth is not necessarily a good guide to what you look like in the spirit. When you nourish and constantly strengthen your spirit...Just like St Frances Cabrini did, you become a spiritual powerhouse. In the natural, she was frail, small, sickly, and a female in a male's world. But her strong spirit in the Lord helped her to accomplish God's work:

She founded her own order with seven other young women—the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
She visited Rome to obtain an audience with Pope Leo XIII.
She was to help the thousands of Italian immigrants already in the United States.
At the time NYC was filled with chaos and poverty, Cabrini organized catechism and education classes for the Italian immigrants and provided for the needs of the many orphans. She established schools and orphanages despite tremendous odds.
She opened schools all over the world. She traveled to Europe, Central and South America, and throughout the United States. She made 24 trans-Atlantic crossings ( having a lifelong fear of water) and established 67 institutions: schools, hospitals, and orphanages.

When you have LOVE, you can do everything. Just let LOVE do all the work!
LOVE=Jesus. She knew who she was; a child of God. Being a child of God has many miraculous benefits. Know who you are and don't be manipulated by the dark thoughts or critiques that are not beneficial to your soul. You are a child of God...Period. So the second reason is to remind us who we are.

I hope you get to see it!

I love you all! You are in my prayers, please pray for me...I'm organizing a big EXPO for the Lord!

Love,

Karen

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The Banner over me is LOVE

Pearl of Great Price

March 19th, 2024. Feast of St. Joseph

This is the Lord's Day...what gift does he want the most???.......YOU!!!!!!

Jesus told us to spread the Good News not the bad new

Know who you are!

Karen Japzon

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