Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Growing In The VIRTUE OF CHASTITY ~



The CHURCH is the BRIDE of CHRIST ~ and is espoused to HIM through a UNION of Divine LOVE in the Sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church. All Baptized Christians share in this UNION with the BELOVED whether in the lay state, Holy Orders or Consecrated Religious Life. The term BRIDE of CHRIST in the literal sense as WOMAN is shared to the faithful to allow the MAN to be an IMAGE of the BRIDEGROOM as the DIVINE HEAD of the UNIVERSAL CHURCH ~ and therefore, is espoused to a BRIDE ~ a WOMAN wholly dedicated and submissive to the HEAD of the CHURCH! ALL of this is a CALL from the MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST to share in a UNION that is a prefigurement of the Marriage Feast of the Lamb that is in the Book of Revelations and is A SIGN of the COMING OF THE KINGDOM!

A GREAT ~ sign VIRGINITY!


A Consecrated VIRGIN is a SIGN of the TIMES in which the BELOVED BRIDEGROOM is an UNBLEMISHED LAMB ~ and VIRGIN untouched and BETROTHED ONLY TO ONE who is ALSO VIRGIN! The VIRGINITY of Mary as Ever-Virgin was to be THE SIGN ~ and therefore, wholly DESIGNED TO BE THE NEW EVE who will crush the Head of the Serpent and TRIUMPHANTLY defeat the Sin of Adam. Consecrated Virginity RECALLS THIS TRIUMPH!

Friday, July 7, 2017

A VIRGIN ~ VIOLATED by the LAW


A VIOLATION was made in using a LAW to VIOLATE the RIGHT of Meryl Viola Bravo to enter a Monastery.  And in the VIOLATION of her Dignity as a United States Citizen to worship, they used a citation to prevent her from entering into the convent to pray with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.  In turn, she was placed in jail and was stripped of her dignity to speak for herself and was forced to cooperate to their procedures. 


A Country she TRUSTED to protect her ~
used a Law not to ~
and now she has a Felony ~
for simply being at the door of the Monastery.

Meryl Bravo Statement
August 25, 2015
On Monday, July 1, 2013, I arrived in Detroit, Michigan to discern a vocation to the Religious Life.  I had contacted several Religious Communities on my arrival and visited Our Lady of Assumption Grotto in Detroit, Michigan to attend 7:00 P.M. Mass and Adoration with the Holy Cross Sisters in the Area.  In speaking with the Holy Cross Sisters, I was introduced to the Sisters of the Children of Mary and contacted the Sisters to visit them in Ohio.  I then decided to attend Mass at Ave Maria Chapel at Domino Farms Office in Ann Arbor, Michigan and spent 4th of July in the area.  I introduced myself to the people there and continued to attend Daily Mass and Adoration in the area for Prayer and Reflection.  I was then welcomed by Elizabeth Seigal, a Parishioner of Christ the King and Employee of Domino Farm’s Gift Shop to stay in her home until my arranged meeting with the Sisters of the Children of  Mary in Ohio; and was scheduled to leave on July 10, 2013 from the Ann Arbor Greyhound Bus Station to Columbus, Ohio to arrive at around 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. for the Sisters to pick me up.  I was welcomed to stay in her home until I was to leave for Ohio on the 10th

On Sunday, July 7, 2013, around 4:40 p.m. I was invited by Elizabeth Siegal as she shared with me that people were welcomed to attend Evening Prayer at the Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.  I was told it was a public event open on Sundays for anyone to attend.  She drove me to the Monastery and brought me to the door and the Sisters greeted me and welcomed me into the chapel.  I introduced myself as Meryl and stayed for evening prayer and in the middle of prayers, Sister asked to speak with me and I followed her to the door.  There were police officers there who requested my identification and asked me of my presence at the Monastery.  I shared with them that I was told that it was a public event open for anyone to attend and so I attended something I would usually do as an aspiring Catholic who desires to enter the Religious Life.   There were other visitors also present that were also welcomed to attend. 
I was given the option to call someone to pick me up.  I called someone to pick me up and my belongings that were left in the chapel were prayer books.  As soon as the people I called to pick me up arrived I was asked to get into the police car and was handcuffed and taken to jail.  I was given a bond and a pretrial on July 18, 2013 under the misdemeanor of stalking.  I have been accused of stalking a community that I have been affiliated with in the past and was treated like I was there for other reasons than to spend time in prayer.  I was sitting among the visitors of the Monastery attentive to the prayers of the Sisters until I was requested to be spoken to. 
I had arrangements to visit another Religious Community that was welcoming me; therefore, I was open to other convents that would consider me for candidacy.  I went to prayers at this public event open to visitors to pray with the Sisters and no other reason.  I had plans to have dinner with Elizabeth Siegel’s family after the prayers was concluded, but I was arrested and put in jail. 
On July 18, 2013, I plea bargained and pled guilty to the misdemeanor of stalking with a deferred sentence of probation for a year.  I returned to California that evening.
On March 20, 2014, in the Catholic Season of Lent, I returned to the Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of Mary seeking to enter their community and receive some form of understanding and reconciliation.  I arrived on their property and rang their doorbell once.  Within minutes, a police officer was at the premises and I was arrested. 
I was placed in custody at the Washtenaw County Jail, and on July 14, 2015 I pled No Contest to the Felony charge of Aggravated Stalking.  I have learned that any form of communication with these Sisters will be perceived as a form of harassment.  I resolve never to contact them again.  Reconciliation is not possible when the other party is not open to dialogue and I resolve to respect their decision and leave it in the hands of Providence. 
I had been on Retreat with the Sisters of Mary three times in previous years and the fourth time I requested to come on retreat the Sisters declined their welcome.  There was no reason and I sought to find some understanding from their rejection.  Unfortunately, pursuing this led to legal problems. 
I am seeking justice for being severely punished for coming to the Monastery on March 20, 2014.  Forgive my poor judgment in returning.  I have learned not to pursue this any further and will respect the decision of the Court of no contact with the Dominican Sisters of Mary.  However, my need for reconciliation with this extreme act from a Religious Institution I revere and respect has not come to terms.  And would request the prayers of the faithful, to pray for my continued recovery from the injustice no human being deserves.  I wish to move forward with my life as a Faithful Catholic in my home community and have no intention of returning to Michigan until it is time for me to go before the court to get this felony expunged from my record. 
 Please understand and consider that I have had no criminal record until this event with the Dominican Sisters of Mary.  After graduating Rialto High School with highest honors and recognized as Salutatorian, I entered the convent in California with the Carmelite Sisters of Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles and after six years of formation with the Sisters, I returned to my family.  I went back to School and earned a Masters in Education at California State University of San Bernardino and worked as a Kindergarten and 4th Grade Teacher.  This incident will affect my future opportunities in teaching. With continued hope for my future, I will move forward from this experience with the support of my family and will not pursue any contact from a community that has horrifically treated me with an act that contradicts all charity.  


Dear Viewers, how do we respond to injustice?  The only way to respond is charity.  And CHARITY ALWAYS ADMONISHES those who broke charity.  And continue to admonish. 
If you are aware of the case that occurred with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist done against Meryl Bravo and would like to file a petition in support of Meryl Bravo's vocation to the Consecrated Life please file a complaint with the Attorney General of the State of Michigan for the Religious Community's violation of a law in using it to discourage Meryl in following God's CALL!






Thursday, July 6, 2017

VIRGINITY ~ is a GRACE!


An UNDIVIDED HEART ~ written by Meryl Viola Bravo


The Consecrated Life, deeply rooted in the example and teaching of Christ the Lord, is A GIFT OF GOD THE FATHER to his Church through the HOLY SPIRIT. By the profession of the evangelical counsels the characteristic features of Jesus the chaste, poor and obedient oneare made constantly “VISIBLE” in the midst of the world and the eyes of the faithful are directed towards the MYSTERY of the Kingdom of God already at work in history, even as it awaits its full realization in HEAVEN.

In every age there have been men and women who, obedient to the FATHER’S CALL and to the prompting of the Spirit, have CHOSEN this special way of following Christ, in order to devote themselves to him with an “UNDIVIDED” HEART (cf. 1 Cor 7:34). Like the Apostles, they too have LEFT EVERYTHING behind in order to be with Christ and to put themselves, as he did, at the service of God and their brothers and sisters. In this way, through the many CHARISMS of spiritual and apostolic life bestowed on them by the Holy Spirit, they have helped to make the MYSTERY and mission of the Church shine forth, and in doing so have contributed to the RENEWAL of society.  Supreme Pontiff John Paul II (1996) Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata.  Libreria Editrice Vaticana.


JMJ

CHRIST, in All His MAGNIFICENT SPLENDOUR, bestows on a SOUL the special GRACE of COMPLETE OBLATION to the Eternal Father through the Vow of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience as a WITNESS of the GOSPEL of CHRIST in REFLECTION of His Divine Son poor, chaste and obedient.  How often CHRIST lived among the poor and was rejected by men for the TREASURE He HELD in His ETERNAL FATHER!  We as Christians CALLED by GOD to PROCLAIM to the ends of the EARTH of a KINGDOM that is to COME must LEAVE EVERYTHING to bring to the ALTAR a COMPLETE and TOTAL OFFERING of ourselves to the TRIUNE GOD most pleasing to the EYES of the FATHER!  In this OFFERING a PURIFICATION of the Heart is evermore brought to a RESPLENDANT DIAMOND chosen to be MERITED in the HEAVENLY COURTS for all ETERNITY! 

Created in His Image and Likeness, the SON bestows on HIS BRIDE, a GIFT, a GRACE known only to Man as ONE that is defiled and rejected, but to the ETERNAL FATHER as ONE MOST MERITED for the GLORY of HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM!  For what is it to the world to be poor.  It is NOTHING and to be DESPISED!  What is it to be chaste.  It is NOTHING and to be DESPISED!  What is it to be obedient.  It is NOTHING and to be DESPISED!  How AWESOME to KNOW that the MERITS of ETERNAL LIFE are considered as NOTHING and DESPISED all for the GLORY of GOD whose KINGDOM reflects a DIMENSION in Man that CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN CHRIST, poor, chaste and obedient!  For the KINGDOM began from a babe so LOWLY and so HUMBLE that the ANGELS of the HEAVENLY COURTS REJOICED and GLORIFIED the whole of HUMANITY to reach down and BRING to us THE DIVINE AND INFINITE GOD OF LOVE!  LOVE BEYOND all telling, is BORN for us so that those who have been rejected and despised might KNOW of the GLORY that is to COME for those who have been brought to the ALTAR with a LIVING OBLATION of SACRIFICE so pleasing to the Heart of the FATHER!  For it is in the HEART that the Eternal Father SEES ALL!

O UNDIVIDED HEART, loved for the SAKE of LOVE!  The WHOLE OF HUMANITY is at your beckoning so that the MANY SOULS that have been placed under your care may be LOVED for the sake of LOVE!  LOVE reflected in the HEART of the FATHER so that CHILDREN embraced by LOVE may know of the TRANSCENDANT GLORY that is to COME!  For the UNIVERSAL CHARACTERISTIC of the Heart of the Father is one that is UNDIVIDED yet so UNIQUE to each CHILD according to His PLEASURES and to that of the TRIUNE and INFINITE GOD!  For He speaks to each HEART and CHOOSES WHOM HE WILLS!

O WILL of the FATHER, UNITED to You in OBEDIENCE, the Undivided HEART becomes ever more RESPLENDANT in GLORY as she reveals to you her SECRETS and UNITES it to YOU in a CONTEMPLATION of DIVINE LOVE so pleasing to the HEART of YOUR SON!  For in the UNION of the WILLS we have been brought to an ATONEMENT OF LOVE so GRACIOUS and so BEAUTIFUL that the LOVE of the SON is ever more RENEWED and BROUGHT TO THE ALTAR ONCE AGAIN FOR AN OBLATION OF DIVINE UNION!

UNION only CHARITY can bring through a VOW made for the CHRIST, poor, chaste and obedient!  UNION with the ONE who is ALL LOVE so that all of MANKIND may know of this GRACIOUS and INFINITE GOD who wishes to be so INTIMATE with His CHILDREN! 

And yet, so often bring to Him a GIFT that is not always so FULL of HIS SPLENDOUR! 

And yet, what does He do, HE BRINGS to us HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON as MEDIATOR and VICTIM PRIEST to expiate what is lacking and receives HER GIFT and REFLECTS UPON HER THE AWESOMENESS of His DIVINE GOODNESS and brings her to the Altar to be evermore RENEWED and LOVED by the Heart of the Father! 

O AWESOME SACRIFICE of the Father, Your SON IS IN LOVE and wishes to BRING HIS BRIDE to the ALTAR for a UNION of DIVINE MYSTERY that only the SECRETS of HEAVEN can only be REVEALED to a HEART so PURE and UNDIVIDED for the ETERNAL SPLENDOURS of the KINGDOM!  For we merit HEAVEN only through the BLOOD of YOUR DIVINE SON so GENEROUSLY OFFERED to Man through His CHASTITY, Poverty, and OBEDIENCE!  O Splendour of the Father, bring forth to me a RESURGANCE of DIVINE VOCATIONS to the Evangelical Counsels of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience so that in IMITATION of Your Divine Son the whole CREATION may KNOW of the GLORY that is to COME for those that have been WILLFULLY CHOSEN for the KINGDOM of ETERNAL GLORY!  O IMMACULATE Mary, Mother of PRIESTS, pray for us who have recourse to thee.  Amen. 
 
 

How St. Maria Goretti is a MODEL OF VIRGINITY for me ~

M +

What is Grace and Virginity in the realm of Kingdom come?
Does it mean death?

Virgin Martyr, St. Maria Goretti, ora pro nobis

Sunday, June 18, 2017

VIRGINITY ~ Fruit of the EUCHARIST!


THE VIRGINITY ~ of MERYL! is BEAUTY!




 
Dear Papa,
I love you!  Do you like my dress ~  Meryl
 
I am 38 years old now and I wrote a letter to the Council of Major Superiors of  Women Religious of the United States of America.  Please read it and pray for me.  I love you, Papa!  Meryl
 
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Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious
Attn:  Chairperson
P.O. Box 4467
Washington, D.C.  20017-0467

                                                                                                                                                               
August 28, 2013
Feast of St. Augustine

JMJ

Dear CMSWR (Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious),
 

Praised be Jesus Christ and His Mother our Queen in Heaven!  I have recently encountered a most blasphemous account of the Consecrated Life that would be most appreciated to be evaluated and discerned.

On July 7, 2013, I was invited by Elizabeth Siegel of Dominos Farms to attend Vespers at the Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist with the knowledge that it was open to visitors on Sunday.

My recent encounter from the Sisters have been a witness of CHARITY towards the Salvation of Souls and request your prayers for my Salvation and those of my family members.

I deserved to be put in JAIL for attending an open event of prayers even with the intention of purely GLORIFYING CHRIST in the MOST AWESOME PRAYER of DIVINE VESPERS!  I deserved to be treated in the most heinous way of being handcuffed and put in jail surrounded by criminals who had the mouths of WOLVES and blasphemous TONGUES of HATRED!  I deserved to be treated like a Criminal with ONLY PRAYER BOOKS in my purse and an invitation from one of the parishioners of Christ the King in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  I deserved to be treated so rudely on the phone when I would call and the Sisters would IMMEDIATELY hang up after hearing my NAME!  How AWESOME A WITNESS of fidelity and CHARITY from the Sisters who have DEDICATED their LIVES to CHRIST for the GOOD OF THE CHURCH and the Salvation of Souls!  Must I say more of what GRATITUDE fills my soul, in this HUMBLE STATE of HUMILITY!  You HAVE GRANTED ME A SHARE IN MY BELOVED, and HE HAS GRANTED ME THE REWARDS AND MERITS OF ETERNAL SALVATION!  How may I REPAY SUCH GENEROSITY TO ME that the CRUCIFIED CHRIST has brought to me the ONENESS of HIS GOODNESS!

For my BELOVED was treated in the most HUMILIATING of CIRCUMSTANCES for my own Salvation; the ETERNAL WORD MADE FLESH.  BEAUTY ITSELF was made into the UGLIEST of CREATURES and bore it for Mankind so that all may KNOW of the ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE KINGDOM!  But in His UTTER ABANDONMENT OF THE FATHER, He TEACHES US to CALL UPON HIM ALL THE MORE!  Abba, Abba! Why hast thou ABANDONED ME!  I CRIED FROM THE DEPTH OF MY HEART TO MY CREATOR AND HAD NO OTHER REFUGE EXCEPT HIM WHO CREATED ME!  I CRIED FROM THE DEPTHS OF MY HEART AS THEY STRIPPED ME OF MY DIGNITY FOR SUCH UNJUST REASONS!  I CRIED LIKE NO OTHER MOMENT IN MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR THE HATRED THAT WAS BESTOWED ON ME BY CONSECRATED RELIGIOUS!  I CRIED AS THEY LAUGHED AND SMILED at a RETREAT encouraging YOUNG WOMEN TO DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO CHRIST AS I LAY AT THE AIRPORT waiting for someone to pick me up!  As THEY SMILED IN THEIR PICTURES of JOY witnessing the BEAUTY OF THE CONSECRATED LIFE, I CRIED!  I have said, YES to CHRIST!  And He Has ASSURED ME THAT I TOO WILL SHARE IN THE CUP that will FOREVER RESOUND THE ETERNAL LOVE OF THE FATHER; the CUP of SALVATION He has NOT KEPT FROM ME BUT HAS ALLOWED ME TO DRINK OF THE DREGS OF HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD!  O PRECIOUS CHRIST, my BELOVED, You have not kept anything from me and I WILL FOREVER LOVE YOU, my God, my Love, my HEART!  Burning with Love for thee, He has left a FIRE THAT ENFLAMES THE GOODNESS OF His ETERNAL LOVE; a flame that will FOREVER BURN and NEVER BE EXTINGUISHED!  A Heart BURNING WITH LOVE FOR THEE, a HEART ENFLAMED WITH DIVINE CHARITY!  O TRIUNE GOD, BURN YOUR LIGHT IN ME!  SET AFLAME the DESIRES OF MY HEART AND BRING FORTH A BLAZE OF CONVERSIONS ON FIRE FOR THE TRUTH!  VERITAS!  VERITAS!  VERITAS!

What is TRUTH!  TRUTH CRIES OUT IN EVERY HUMAN SOUL IN LOVE WITH A GOD INCARNATED AND BROUGHT INTO FLESH TO BRING TO LIFE, the Way, the TRUTH, and the LIFE!  It is WRITTEN that ALL MAY KNOW OF A GOODNESS BEYOND THE HEART OF MAN!  TRUTH, my Dear Sisters, is BEYOND WHAT WORDS CAN EXPRESS!  It is LIVED through the ETERNAL WORD!  It is LIVED!  WITNESSED!  THE TRIUNE GOD SHARED IN EVERYTHING!  EVERYTHING except SIN!  SIN IS UGLY AND BEAUTY was brought low in EXPIATION FOR what has degraded the humanity of Man.  He made me!  He CREATED ME!  He LOVED ME TO DEATH, even unto DEATH ON A CROSS!        

I encountered my Eternal FATHER, the LIFE and BREATH of my own EXISTANCE and was shown the SECRET OF ETERNAL LIFE; LIFE ON HIGH IN JESUS!  I was given a TASTE of the ETERNAL SPLENDOUR of COMPLETE SURRENDER TO THE DIVINE WILL!  “Father, if it be POSSIBLE, remove this cup from me, but not my WILL BUT THINE BE DONE.”  Yes, my Dear Sisters the Holy Spirit was my advocate and GUIDE during my encounter of the MOST HUMILIATING and SHAMEFUL of Encounters from a Religious Community that has DARED to PROCLAIM TRUTH even in the most dire of circumstances.  Emails that only EXPRESSED CHARITY and a desire for GUIDANCE was judged to be a form of Harassment and Stalking.  The police report was FAR BEYOND TRUTH and that my dear Sisters is a judgment that CHRIST ALONE will bring to JUSTICE; for DIALOGUE was not practiced in any form by the Sisters to be able to write such a Character reference on my behalf!

The COMMUNION OF SAINTS and the DIVINE MERCY APPEARED TO ME as my SOURCE OF STRENGTH AND PEACE!  St. Maxilimilian Kolbe accompanied me as he appeared to me reminding me of the CRIMINAL CHARGES that were placed upon him as a PRIEST OF CHRIST and the Martyrdom He RECEIVED with FULL COMMITMENT TO OUR LADY THE IMMACULATA!  St. Teresa Benedicta was STRIPPED of all her DIGNITY as a WOMAN OF GOD AND LED TO THE GAS CHAMBER LIKE A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER!  And as I lay there with women who were degraded from the ABUSE OF DRUGS and ALCOHOL; CHARGES that were way BEYOND the circumstances that led me to prison, I was SILENT and WEPT THE TEARS OF MARY of the UNJUST TREATMENT THAT CHRIST WAS ALLOWING ME TO SHARE IN HIS PASSION!  I WEPT as they took my fingerprints and recalled that these are the HANDS CONSECRATED TO CHRIST for PURITY AND INNOCENSE!  I WEPT as they took mugshots of me that will forever place on my RECORD as a WOMAN OF ILL-REPUTE!  And FOR WHAT!   For attending Evening Prayer in a Monastery that for WHATEVER REASON was not an invitation to me but to everyone ELSE!  Is that how women who DESIRE to LIVE SOLELY FOR CHIRST are to be treated from Women who have DEDICATED THEIR LIVES FOR THE SAME PURPOSE?  Yes, my Dear Sisters no WORDS CAN EXPRESS the GRATITUDE I HOLD to the Dominican Sisters of Mary for their UNJUST TREATMENT!  For the ETERNITY OF MAN WILL BE JUDGED AND HE WILL BRING TO LIGHT WHAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN!

He was CRUCIFIED for love of me and  am I who have CONSECRATED my HEART to HIM not to share in HIS CROSS.  How HUMBLE is our GOD to come to us in the form of Man and live and die as a CRIMINAL!  Though He was INNOCENT He was led to the SLAUGHTER like a LAMB.  How TREMENDOUSLY GOOD is our GOD to share an ENCOUNTER with HIM that only ETERNITY will CRY OUT in the midst of a LOVE BEYOND ALL BOUND!

My ENCOUNTER WITH HIM will FOREVER RESOUND for ALL ETERNITY!  He is my BELOVED, and I am His BRIDE!  He echoes to me, “Come BRIDE of CHRIST, Receive the Crown He has PREPARED FOR YOU, my BELOVED, my SPOUSE, my ONLY ONE!”

In Mary, the SORROWS of HER IMMACULATE HEART, the JOY has been FULFILLED in LIFE and in ETERNITY!  My Soul PROCLAIMS the GREATNESS OF THE LORD, my SPIRIT REJOICES IN GOD MY SAVIOR!  For He has looked with FAVOR on my lowliness and has BROUGHT FORTH AN ETERNAL DESIGN OF SALVATION that will be WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS OF ETERNITY!  I have SHARED IN HIS PASSION AND KNOW OF THE ETERNAL GOODNESS OF A GOD SO HUMBLE!  YES, my GOD IS VERY HUMBLE!  He is HUMBLE AND LOVES HUMILITY BEYOND BOUND!  Such a DESIRE HE HAS FOR HIS BELOVED TO SHARE WITH ME A HUMILIATION THAT I OFFER TO HIM AT THE ALTAR!

 I have been degraded of my dignity as a TEACHER OF THE FAITH and ask RECOMPENSE for the continued JOURNEY He desires for me to LIVE here on EARTH!  Your Charity as a Consecrated BRIDE OF CHRIST VISIBLY WITNESSED IN THE HOLY HABIT must CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE FOR THIS CHILD OF GOD THAT DID NOTHING WRONG IN REQUESTING GUIDANCE FROM RELIGIOUS WHO PROCLAIM CHRIST, as their BELOVED!

 In Mary,

 Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

 

 

 

 





BEAUTY ~


25th Anniversary ~ Episcopal Ordination ~ San Bernardino

 
WHERE ~
 
ARE WE ONE!
 
ASK ~
 
A PRIEST ~
FOREVER!
 
A CELEBRATION ~
of MOORE!
 
FOR A NEW ~ DAWN ~ IS ARISING!

Thursday, June 15, 2017

THE AUTHENTICITY ~ of LOVE! written by Meryl Viola Bravo

“The “fundamental question of youth,” John Paul continued, is the question of conscience and its authenticity. Conscience, the measure of human dignity, is, in a sense, the history of the world: “For history is written not only by the events which in a certain sense happen ‘from outside’; it is written first of all ‘from inside’: it is the history of human consciences, or moral victories and defeats.” To develop one’s conscience authentically is the true measure of a human personality’s development.”  Witness to Hope by George Weigel


JMJ

The AUTHENTICITY of LOVE is born from a conscience that is developed and formed from the very depths of one’s dignity made in the image and likeness of God. The moral development in mankind comes forth from the inner being and formed by the grace of God who works in the soul who is molded by the work of His Hand. The moral conscience is awakened in man during times of great challenge and trial; the response of man in eternal gratitude and inner audacity to cry to Him in desperate measures assures the consolation of God who man has placed his trust in Him. The relationship of man with the God who created him is ever formed by the response and grace of faith freely given to him from the God who is ever generous to those who call upon Him with all their heart, mind, soul and strength. The outer being is transformed by the indwelling of the Spirit molding him ever closer to union with the Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The development of love created from this union then shines forth in virtue and Christian character for the truest essence of human personality and development in moral victories. The development of grace in a soul that cooperates with the workings of Christ is a response of true freedom and a gift of faith, hope and charity. It is then that the true person made in the image and likeness of God reflects the love of Christ to all he encounters. Charity dominates his very being and transforms him through every outer event; a response that comes from the inner strength bestowed on Him by the grace of God. The development of one’s conscience geared towards a love for Christ and motivated by the spirit of the Living God present in the Most Blessed Sacrament draws man ever closer to Him and transforms and transfigures him. The moral conscience is awakened towards a greater good and an abhorrence towards what is evil. It is Christ who forms the soul to an ever newer and ever changing reality of what is eternally good and revives the soul for further growth in the Kingdom and the Salvation of Souls. To develop one’s conscience is the goal of every man who sets forth towards a higher good and an ever deeper union with the God of Love and Goodness.

O Christ, Redeemer and Savior present in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. I come before You as I am seeking refuge in Your Eternal Goodness. I seek You ~ for all You are is good. I seek You for all You are is ever loving in eternal splendour. I seek You as I gaze upon You in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Transform my soul into Your very image so that in my very being I may be a reflection of Your goodness and love to all I encounter in life. Transform me, O God, Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit so that Your Most Divine Indwelling may ever come alive in me more and more and the truest dignity of my life may flourish ever deeper. Transform me into Your eternal goodness and beauty reflected in this Most Awesome Sacrament alive and living reality for all those who take refuge in You, O Christ. Grant me the grace to seek only what is good and to abhor what is most offensive to You, O God. Transfigure my inner being so that all that is reflected outward may be a living image of You, O Eternal Goodness. In loving You, O God, may the very essence of my life be a praise and glory most pleasing to You, Christ, Redeemer and Savior. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, form me into the image of your Son who is love and goodness itself. Amen.



How Can I Keep From Singing ~ GOD IS MY ~ JOY!


Even Unto Death - LOVER ~ of my SOUL!


HER TRUE ~ story ~ A PRINCESS! Anastasia ~ VIRGIN MARTYR ~ RAISED to the ALTAR!



 
 

Bride of Christ - Taking Vows


Saturday, June 10, 2017

THE BETROTHAL ~

 
My BRIDE ~
DRINKS OF THE SAME CUP ~
of the BRIDEGROOM!
and the CHALICE ~
has BEEN FULL ~
TO THE BRIM!

Monday, May 29, 2017

The Spiritual Canticle ~ Stanza 10 vs. 5,6,7

The Spiritual Canticle ~ Stanza 10 vs. 5,6,7
 
THE REWARD is ONLY HEAVEN!
The possession of HEAVEN!
 
and the BRIDE ~
is HEAVEN!

Saturday, March 4, 2017

To my BELOVED ~ BRIDE ~ VIRGIN ~ Consecrated to be


CHRIST, the BELOVED, calls forth an ABUNDANT HARVEST for the KINGDOM that is HERE AND NOW!

HE in HIS DIVINE SPLENDOUR desires with INFINITE LONGING for her to be REDEEMED in this life for all to PRAISE and HONOR the ETERNITY THAT IS TO COME!

The BEAUTY of VIRGINITY is PROCLAIMED!

And will BE ACCOMPLISHED ~

at the Ordained TIME!