I love you so much.
I will outpour My gifts to you.
I am there in a very special way.
Don't you get it.
God runs this earth -
So few come to pray and give
honor and love to God and My Son Jesus
appears there.
Song: I Am Your Sacred Heart
Song: Little Child
The Agony in the Garden
1. Most of the messages that I
receive from Jesus, I just hear a few words and then the message comes as I
speak. I do not know what He will say through me. A lot is reflection, some
from the Holy Spirit. Most of the content of the rosary is this way. On some
occasions, He has asked me to read certain excerpts from a book. Today He has
asked me to have with me God’s Blue Book II in which a lot will come from
that when I read something and also from the Apostles Manual. However,
most that I receive is received as I sit here from Jesus, and I speak as He
speaks through me. I do not know what He will say. I just am used as the
instrument to deliver the message to you.
2. This is from the Apostles Manual.
This is a letter that I wrote to Jesus. “My whole life is to be like You, but I
am so imperfect. Dying to myself is such a struggle because I want to get down
from the cross and hold on to my old ways.
I see You on the cross, Jesus, with Your hands
opened wide and the way You hung. You endured it until the end. Three agonizing
hours. You did not get down and You gave Your all. In humbleness, I will admit
my faults and grow to be more like You. Oh, God, I can't get down from the cross
and put the old imperfections back on.
When You light the way and show me how evil I am,
I have to go all the way to the death of the imperfections as much as possible.
I cannot get off the cross and keep any of them. I want to be like You, but I
fall so short of true holiness. I only know I really, really love You and I want
to be like You. When You were beaten raw, You loved those who hated You. Oh, our
way is so hard. I don't want to open myself up to those who have hurt me, but I
know I should.
Jesus: I tell you, you must die
to your selfish ways and love. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. Admit your failings so you can
die to them.” (Apostles Manual, February 28, 1997, A Love
Letter to Jesus)
3. And so what do I see all
through the sorrowful mysteries, but the surrender of our Almighty God. I see
Him as He kneels in the garden. He is alone there, for the apostles slept. And
He surrendered, surrendered always to the will of the Father. How many times in
our life do we know that there is something very difficult that we must do, but
it is very hard for us. And so we struggle, we struggle trying to do what God is
telling us to do and what we want to do. It is in doing His will that we will
have peace and joy. Many times it is very difficult to do those things that He
asks of us. But in order to have peace and oneness with Him, we must comply to
the will of the Father and do as He asks.
4. Jesus speaks:
I
opened Myself, I opened Myself for you, My beloved ones. I gave, I gave Myself
to My death on the cross.
Look at Jesus today. In the
Eucharist He gives Himself to us. It is as if we would give ourselves to
someone, to open ourselves wide, to share ourselves and they would walk away and
treat us with much indifference. The Almighty God is all perfect love and He
gives Himself to us freely in the Eucharist. He gives Himself to us in the
greatest love. He is longing and He is waiting for us to come to Him in Holy
Communion to unite in this most intimate way with our Divine Savior. And so many
walk away immediately after they have received Communion, the gift of love given
by the all perfect God. He gives Himself and people walk away and they do not
treasure this great gift that He gives to us. Let us look deep into our hearts
and let us think of the gifts God has given to us. Let us think of the gift that
God is here present at this very moment, in this most holy place, the Almighty
God, the same Jesus that knelt in the garden, that sweat blood, that carried His
cross, that hung on His cross. He is here, the same Jesus that rose from the
dead, that ascended into heaven, He is here and He remains with us. Hear Him. He
calls out to me and to you, “So few souls come to Me with a heart that is filled
with such love and I am longing and I am waiting for them to come and to share
themselves with Me.”
5. Feel the anguish of our
beloved Savior in the garden as He kneels. And He knows of all of the souls that
He loved so, the souls that He would give Himself to in the Holy Eucharist and
they would leave and would not even recognize the great gift that He gave to
them. How His Heart hurt with immense pain in the Passion, suffering within His
Heart for wanting their love, wanting them to share this most intimate time with
Him. He gives Himself so intimately to them in the Holy Eucharist. And they walk
away as if the gift is nothing, and they talk of senseless things.
6. I remember this so well. It was
February the 28th, 1994 .
Note: It was noisy right after Communion.
He was upset.
R. Jesus, truly is in our midst! It is the
fire of His love in our breasts that will warm the cold heart.
Jesus: How can you, in your indifference,
walk from Me when I am truly present in your body? How can you, when you see Me
hanging on the cross out of love for you, walk away when I, God, love you so
much as to come and be inside of your body?
You are ignorant because you are busy for all the
wrong things. If you, My little ones, were busy about our love affair, I would
teach you all you need to know, but you busy yourself with such nonsense.”
Jesus lamented and lamented the loss of the souls that were leaving the
chapel. He cried out. It sounded as if in greatest pain and anguish for the
souls that were leaving, when He wanted so much intimacy with them. (God's
Blue Book II, February 28, 1994 After Communion, God Is There In Holy
Communion)
7. This is what this is
about. Our Lady promised at
Fatima that there would be
this great era in which the Sacred Heart of Jesus would reign and her Immaculate
Heart would triumph. In this great era, it will be an era in which man will know
such intimacy with God far beyond any that we know at this time. He is
revealing these secrets to us, the secrets of His Heart so that we will be more
intimate with Him. And He is giving to us a great grace to be ever closer to
Him. He promised Father Carter in a message that He gave to him, when he began
the Shepherds of Christ movement as Jesus requested, that He would give to the
members of the Shepherds of Christ movement abundant graces to be ever closer to
His Heart and to the heart of His Mother. Jesus’ Heart, let us focus on this
burning heart of love. Let us see it clearly before our eyes. This is the
Almighty God. He is here in this room with us at this very moment and He wants
our love.
8. So much our beloved Savior
suffered. He sweat blood. It is love He wants from us. For He has said many
times before in these rosaries, His greatest anguish was not the wounds to His
body during the Passion but it was the wounds to His most Sacred Heart. Think of
yourselves. Think of how it is if you break a leg. You are inconvenienced, you
suffer from the pain. But think of how it is when you love someone and you are
hurt by this love, how your heart is in such pain. Jesus has said in rosary
after rosary, “My greatest agony was not the wounds to My body, but it was the
suffering to My most Sacred Heart, the heart that loves and wants to be loved.’
9. And so why are the football
games so crowded? Why do people spend so much money to go to hear singers but
our Almighty waits many times in the tabernacles of this world waiting for the
precious souls to come? It is in this chapel that we should tell Him how
fervently we love Him, the King of all kings on His throne in the tabernacle,
that we should open up our heart at this moment and thank the Almighty God for
the gift of Himself given to us.
10. We are as blind men and we
do not see. Jesus speaks to us in the scriptures. Some of the language is
veiled. We must go to the heart of our Mother and pray to the Holy Spirit that
we will see more and more, that we will know our beloved God more and more. For
to know Him is to love Him. We must pray for the light to shine in our hearts,
the light of knowing God and loving Him with the most fervent love.
Song between decades: “I come to you with
greatest love…”
The Scourging at the Pillar
1. This is an excerpt from the
Mass Book. In this experience, I was given the great intensity in the presence
of God and I wrote on December 17th, 1995 ,
“I touched eternity, and in that embrace, I knew
all the waiting was worth the glory. You enveloped my being, and I was truly
merged in the Divine Presence. I was merged in Your being. I existed IN You,
with You, in the highest union with You, although I knew I was still distinct
from You.
I was fused and absorbed in You, feeling complete
and satisfied.
This is heaven on earth: to be merged as one with
Divinity, although remaining distinct from God, to take our feeble hearts, our
lowly status and to unite ourselves with the Divine, Almighty, powerful God and
in this union to be meshed with Him, that His power dominates and our humanity
reaches its heights of fulfillment in this union, in this oneness with Him.” (Mass
Book,
December 17, 1995 , The
Earth Stopped and Touched Heaven)
2. “The place Jesus took me was into the deepest
recesses of His Heart. I was enveloped in His burning love. It was a red room
with heat and an intense glow. I was swept away in this embrace, and I only
existed in Him. The power of the Almighty God enveloped me, and I only existed
in Him. There was no fear, for I was existent in this Almighty Being. My heart
was wrapped in the eternal embrace of this Supreme Being. The security, the
power I know was His deep presence in which I existed.” (Mass Book,
December 18, 1995, In the Deepest Recesses of His Heart)
3. And so He stood at the pillar. They had bound Him and they came to Him with
their whips. They came forth to our beloved Jesus, our lover, and they whipped
Him and they tore His flesh. And did He give? Yes, He gave. He gave His flesh,
He gave His blood, He gave His all. He came to this earth, the Almighty God in
greatest love for man, and He gave Himself. He gave Himself as a sacrifice to
His death on the cross and He gives to us this day Himself. And how do we treat
this great gift that the Almighty God gives to us? What about the gifts that
God is giving, the gift that He gives, His precious Son? He gives Himself to us
in the Holy Eucharist. And how do we treat Him when we receive Him? Do we give
Him our love? Do we tell Him how much we love Him? Do we spend the time after
communion, the time that is so precious when He imprints on us knowledge of
Himself, the most intimate knowledge of the Almighty God, the great gift given
to us. Do we relish this time with Him after Communion and realize that it’s in
that time the Almighty God will shower us with His divine life. And He will give
us knowledge of Himself, special knowledge in this great act of intimacy and
union with the Almighty God. This will be the era of great intimacy. When men
will not run from church, when they will be so united in such intimacy to the
Almighty God, where their hearts will burn for they will love God beyond
everything else and they will love each other as the Father intends us to
love. Think of this. All of us being united, loving God with such intense love
and being one with each other where we care for each other, where we are not
trying to get ahead of people we are just genuinely loving each other, as
brothers, as the Father intended us to do. This will be this great era when men
will know that they are truly brothers in Christ, where they will love God with
the most fervent love and when they will love each other.
4. And how can we help? We can
help by giving ourselves to the hearts of Jesus and Mary. We can pray this
prayer every day for union with Jesus. We can go to Him in the holy sacrifice of
the Mass and give ourselves, give ourselves as completely as we can, as a
sacrifice, united with Jesus in this sacrifice to the Father.
5. And so why are we not
one? Why is there such separation between us? We must die to our
imperfections. We must go to Him in the holy sacrifice of the mass and
surrender, give ourselves. And at that point of consecration, as we unite to His
sacrifice to the Father, that we will ask to die to our imperfections, that we
will pray to be more and more like Him. The more we are like Him, the more we
will be one with each other. For it is because of our imperfections that we are
separate from one another. We must die to our imperfections to be more like Him.
6. And so I say, “But Jesus, I
do not want to give for I hurt. It hurts so many times when I give, and I give,
and I give and I am rejected and unaccepted. But I see Jesus at the pillar with
His hands tied and I see them whip Him and I see as His flesh is torn that He
gave His flesh indeed for love of me. This is love. It is the gift of self
given.
7. The word that I have heard all morning is
“surrender, surrender, surrender.” “Surrender to Me.” So I opened up the Blue
Book and Jesus spoke to me in the Blue Book. “Oh, sweet surrender to the will of
God, to know that He, too, uses this to our greater love of Him! All that we
experience is to strengthen our relationship with Him! It is in these periods of
longing that we realize how much we truly love Him.” (God's Blue Book II,
February 4, 1994, After Mass The Ache in Your Heart Is for Union with Jesus)
8. And I open to another place in the Blue Book
and He said, “The will of The Father I make clear to you. You want that security
the world says you should have. The world is not secure. It is built on a
sinking ship. It may look secure, but in one instant your ship could sink and if
you are counting on yourself, what will you do?” (God's Blue Book II,
January 18, 1994, 4:40 a.m. I Want Both Feet Off the Ground)
9. We hold on, we hold on to so
many things that we do not even realize that we are attached to. Look at
Jesus. They tied Him to the pillar, the Almighty God. At any moment, He could
have released Himself. But for greatest love of us He allowed Himself to be tied
to a pillar, to be beaten, to be bloodied. He surrendered Himself for love of
us.
10. There are so many messages
that Jesus gave in the second Blue Book on surrender. Let us look at our
Almighty God, the Almighty God, all powerful, knowing all things, Almighty comes
into this world a helpless baby in the womb of a woman. He is tied to the
pillar, the Almighty God. He is bound in a little baby body, He is bound to the
pillar. He is hung on the cross and nailed to the cross. He is bound to the
cross but we do not want to surrender. We do not want to give for we do hold on
to things. We want that little bit of security that the world tells us that we
must have. And He says to us, “I am the Almighty God. I am all powerful. I gave
Myself for love of you. I allowed Myself to be tied to the pillar and to be
nailed to the cross. I gave Myself to you. I died for you. I gave Myself for
love of you and you are afraid, you are afraid to let go and let me run your
life. I want union with you. I am asking you this day to pray the Prayer for
Union With Jesus to give yourself as a sacrifice to unite to My sacrifice and to
offer yourselves to the Father.”
Song between decades: “I come to
you with greatest love…”
The Crowning With Thorns
1. We even hold on to our
imperfections. We do not give ourselves as we should to Jesus and let Jesus work
in our hearts. We think that we are in control of everything, that we are able
to rid ourselves of these imperfections. We must give ourselves to Jesus and
willingly want to give up the imperfections. We must pray for His grace to
help us.
2. I opened up
the Blue Book again and Jesus spoke to me. And He says, “Do not dwell on how you
should be perfect, that you are not and are disappointing to Me. That is Satan!
You are not perfect. Admit it with humility. You are a creature that thinks of
yourself. Selflessness is a constant struggle. Pray for strength and help to
become selfless. This is how it is achieved. You do not do it. You pray and
practice discipline in yourself. You are not perfect and I love you always. I
love you in your faults, just as I love you when you are good. I love you
unconditionally. It is pride to think you are perfect. You are not perfect. You
are constantly struggling with the ego part of you. Pray to be absorbed in My
heart. Pray for union with Me. Pray to die to yourself and remain only in My
love.” (God's Blue Book II, February 20, 1994 6:30 a.m., Focus
Only on the Love of Jesus)
3. And so I struggled and I
struggled and I went to Him and I cried. And I said to Jesus, “Jesus, will You
help me?” And He told me, He told me in a message on December 22nd that He would
bring the shepherds to their knees. And that He has. Since
December the 22nd, 1996 , He has
brought me to my knees and He has brought me to the Blue Books in a way that I
have never used them before. For the answers are truly found from Jesus in
these Blue Books. And He speaks to us, His words of love. And in His words of
love He gives to us teachings in order to live in holiness, in order to live in
loving God more and loving one another.
4. I am sorry so many times when
I see myself fall and I keep going to Him more and more. But I am realizing more
and more that it is in the holy sacrifice of the Mass, it is in uniting in that
sacrifice with Jesus to the Father, that at that moment when I give myself to
Him, that I will die to many imperfections if I surrender and let go. For it is
in that moment, I feel His presence so strong. And then He gives Himself to me
in the Holy Eucharist and He wraps me in His Divine love and it makes me cry.
For to have the presence of the Almighty God is greater than all treasures to be
found on this earth. And I hear Him lament about the souls that run from the
church after Communion. And I understand more fully what it is to give yourself
and to be hurt, what it is for Jesus to give Himself completely, the Almighty
God to us and to be treated with such indifference and such lack of love from
the cold hearts that exist in this world. The hearts are, oh, so cold in this
world today. But the Heart of Jesus is warm and on fire for love of men. And He
is giving us the grace and He is giving us these messages that our hearts too
will be turned to hearts of love and on fire for Him. For He is alive and He is
truly present in this room with us and He is longing for our love. Will we turn
our hearts over to Him, will we surrender and give ourselves, or will we remain
as the cold hearts in this world? For He longs for a heart that is filled with
love to come to Him and to share their love with Him. He is alive and He wants
our love.
5. I would like to read to you from March of
1994. This was exactly three years ago today and I remember this as if it
happened only minutes ago. For I went to church and my heart was in such anguish
and suffering as He allowed me to suffer so many times for the souls that do not
love Him. And I went there and I heard Jesus call out. He says,
“Jesus speaks: I died for you, sweet one. I
allow you to suffer. This is suffering. You are given this to know how I
suffered. You I only give such little things. I suffered, sweet one. I suffered,
bloodied, bruised and beaten. Blood rolled down My cheeks. My head was pierced
with sharp thorns. They spat on Me. They whipped Me. They beat Me on My head, My
precious head. They hit Me on My thorns and the pain was so intense--the
piercing thorns! I was slapped hard by these senseless ones. Oh, such evil in
the hearts of those who beat Me, the Son of God!
My whole Body ached from head to toe. I suffered
so, My child. You will never know how I suffered for love of you. I am God and I
loved all My precious ones to My death--and they ignore Me!
Oh, how I suffer from this wounded heart. They
will never know what love I have to give them. They will never know how I, God,
love them. They are so busy with their worldly lives!
You must tell them how I wait for them. I wait. I
want them to come and I will give them such love! Tell them, Rita, tell them!
Your discontent is from what emotions I give you and you keep them inside. I
want all to know Me and My love. I am crying out to you, little one. Tell them,
tell them. Do not waste any time. I am crying out for you to spread this
message. I want you to tell all of My love and how I am waiting. Emotion!
Emotion! I am crying out to you in your heart!
I long for their love. I died for them. How do I
make them know if you, to whom I speak, hold back? I want you to get the
messages out, child.
I loved all My beloved ones to My death. I love
you this way this day. I am Jesus. I am begging you to not hold back this
emotion.
Oh, child, My beloved ones are blind and are going
down the road that leads to nowhere. You must preach My message. You must
distribute My letters. You must tell all how I wait here!” (God's Blue
Book II, March 13, 1994, My Heart Aches for You)
6. And I went from the church
and I was in such suffering as He allowed me to suffer. Every Sunday I would go
to the church from 5-6 (p.m.). And He said He allowed me to suffer on Saturday
and Sundays especially, because of the neglect He received from so many that
went to church on Sunday and did not even have a thought for Him when He gave
Himself to them.
7. Jesus speaks:
And so
I cry out to you this day, My beloved ones. I am asking you to help to spread
the messages in God’s Blue Book Two. For in this book I am telling My beloved
souls of My burning love for them. It is in these letters that they will know
that I am alive and that I am waiting and that I am longing, that I am truly
present in the tabernacle and I give Myself to them in the Holy Eucharist. And I
long for those moments after communion, for those moments when you come and you
spend this time with Me and you tell Me how much you love Me. I am Jesus. I am
alive and I am waiting for you. Will you spread this message to the far ends of
the earth? There will be a time when men will love Me with the greatest
love. Many souls will be lost. I am calling you, the apostles, to carry this
message to the ends of the earth and to tell men of the fire of My love, the
fire that will warm their hearts. So many will know the fire of hell, the fire
of everlasting damnation. What you do with your life this day, how you spend
your life helping to spread this message to the world will make the difference
to so many souls for I am magnifying all of your efforts. And the souls will
know My love because you went into the world and told the world how I loved
them.
8. And the King will reign on
His throne. All will come and they will worship and adore Him. They will kiss
the ground and bend low. They will prostrate themselves and they will know God
in a way that they have never known God before. And they will have the most
intimate love affair with the Almighty God sharing in His deep burning love for
them.
9. Hail Mary…
10. Hail Mary…
Song between decades: “I come to
you with greatest love…”
The Carrying of the Cross
1. This is a message from
August the 23rd, 1993. Jesus spoke, “
Jesus speaks: I thought of My intense love
for you -- that many would go to heaven because of My suffering -- and I
continued to the top of the hill. At the top they laid Me on the cross and with
a big hammer nailed My hands to it. It was the worst (suffering) yet. My hands
were nailed with big nails and the big hammer. Then, as if that weren’t enough,
with a big nail they nailed through both feet.
Then they lifted the cross and banged it into (a
hole in) the ground. My shoulders ached from how I hung. My head bobbed and My
neck ached and they laughed and said, "Now save Yourself." I hurt so much! I
suffered this way for hours -- which seemed like forever -- and they glared at
Me and laughed! My Mother watched in such agony.
For love of you, to My death I gave you My Body.
My child, I shed My Blood and gave you My life that you might be with Me forever
in heaven -- not for a day, a month or a year, but forever with Me in heaven.
I am the true Bread come down from heaven. He who
eats My Flesh will have life forever. For the drink I give you is My Blood and
food you eat is My Body. Who would lay down his life for a friend? I did, for
you. I love you this much, child. Forget about those who reject you. You have My
life that I gave you and I give you life eternal.” (Blue Rosary Book, August
23, 1993, On His Passion)
2. And so He carried the cross
on His back laden with our sins. He suffered for us. Do you know what it is to
suffer for another? Do you know what it is? Do you know how it was for Jesus to
carry the weight of the sins of the world on His back?
3. Think of how we feel when
somebody makes us mad, if they can make us mad. But we feel as if someone hurt
us or someone did something to us. Think of how we feel inside. Jesus willingly
took on the cross, He took on the weight of the sins of the world. He carried
the sufferings on His back.
4. And how does He tell us that
we are to love one another? He tells us that we are to love one another as He
loved us. And how did He love us? He gave His life for us. Do we love our
brothers that we would give our life for them?
5. Jesus speaks:
It is
in the cross, it is in the crosses that I give to you that you learn the lessons
that I want to teach to you. But so many abandon the cross and they do not learn
a lesson. And so I must try to teach them again. You must bear with your
crosses and you must identify with My cross. You must realize that it is in
carrying your crosses that you learn the greatest lessons in dealing with the
people that irritate you, the people that make you suffer, that you learn how to
love. I am teaching you this day in your life, in all of the circumstance of
your life, you are being taught My lessons of love. I am molding you and shaping
you into My soldiers of love. Do not give up the cross. You must love, you must
not be angry with your brother. You must love them when they hurt you and when
they persecute you. I am teaching you the way to love.
6. But we kick and we holler and
we complain and we give our cross many times to others, when we could carry the
cross ourselves and we could gain much grace. But it is so hard. And He says,
“It is hard. Look into My eyes as I carried the cross. See the blood as it
rolled down My face, as it rolled into My eyes. See the cross as I carried the
cross and fell to the ground and My chin hit the earth. See the cross as they
poked at Me and I scarcely could move, but I got up and I continued to the hill
where they crucified Me.”
How are you this day? Do you
give up your cross or do you carry the cross? For it is in the cross that there
is the glory. It is in the death that there is the life. It is in the darkness
that there is the light and although we can not see for we feel our eyes are
crusted over and we are blinded. Slowly, very slowly the light steals across the
sky and we see the brightness of the new day. Slowly, very slowly as we struggle
through the deepest cave, there is the opening at the end where the light shows
through. He allows us many times to suffer and then we go to Him in front of the
tabernacle and after communion and in one second He outpours His most intimate
love and it was as if all the suffering was worth those moments of intimacy when
He gave us His special divine touch. For He is alive, He is alive and He is
giving to us great grace to draw us ever closer to His heart on fire for love of
us. Oh, Jesus, how I love Thee. But it is so hard so many times. I love Thee
with all my heart and I want to be so close to you. But I see myself struggle
and I hear you say to me, “No one is perfect. I am giving to you the grace to
handle all the difficulties in your life. You will struggle. I love you, I love
you however you come to Me.” And I know this, for He has revealed this to me. I
know that the more I go to the holy sacrifice of the Mass, the more that I truly
beg Him to help me to die to my imperfections, that He will help me, that He
will help me. I depend on Him.
7. God knows that we are not
perfect. And at the beginning of every Mass we tell Him how sorry we are for our
sins. I remember one time going to Mass and feeling so unworthy. And I went and
then they said to be sorry for our sins and to say, “Lord, have mercy, Christ,
have mercy, Lord, have mercy.” And I thought, “Jesus wants me to offer myself as
a sacrifice. But in this mass, I can tell Him how I am a sinner and I am sorry
for my sins.” I want to be a holy sacrifice, I want to unite with Him, I want to
be like Him. But it is a struggle, it is truly a struggle. But I know after the
dark, dark, black, black night that there is the morning light. After the death,
there is the resurrection. And He outpours His life to us and we know Our Divine
Lord lives.
8. Jesus speaks:
My
beloved ones, Satan is a prowling lion that is prowling this earth wanting to
devour you. He wants your soul and he wants the souls of all My beloved ones. I
am aiding you in helping to spread My love, in helping to spread the Shepherds
of Christ movement. You must pray for the priests. Pray fervently for the
priests. Pray as Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. You must pray your
prayers as often as you can. Pray as often as you can before the tabernacle. It
is through your prayers that many things will be accomplished.
I know, Jesus, what you are
asking of us is to spread this movement to the far corners of the earth. And I
know that the bombs are flying and the bombs will fly. And I know that Satan
works on the weakest link to help stir up much confusion and division. He works
on the people that do not have a fervent prayer life. Satan works in order to
try to stop us. For he does not want the movement to spread and he does not want
souls to love God and he wants souls for hell. So I know this from what Jesus
has told us, that we must pray fervently, seriously at least an hour a day,
alone with Jesus in greatest intimacy for as long as we assume our role as
apostles. As long as we go out, Satan will work on us to try to stop us and it
is the ones that are not spending the intimate time with Jesus that he will use.
This time is so precious with our beloved Jesus, preferably before the
tabernacle, if not at home, to spend some quiet time with Jesus every day. For
it is in that time that He helps us to sort out the information that we have
taken in and He gives us the knowledge that we need to know how to handle the
problems in our life.
9. It is in this time alone with
Him, if we write to Him, if we read His letters in the Blue Book, if we spend
time just being with Him that we will learn about intimacy with Jesus, that our
life with Him will change more and more into a greater intimacy after communion
and during the mass. For we will know Him as a Person that truly loves us.
10. Hail Mary…
Song between decades: “Oh
burning heart, Oh love divine…”
Jesus speaks:
I love you, I love you, I love
you.
Jesus Dies on the Cross
1. This is from the Mass Book, December the 19th,
1996, There is a Man on the Cross. “God wants union with us. He wants fire. Many
try to love God with a cold heart. They tell Him words that they think they
should say that are loving.
When one loves, they do not need to be prompted to
say words. From the depth of their being they cry out their words of love. It is
a cry from within, from the fire within their chest, behind the words. The words
are burning in their chest and must be released because of the fire behind them.
We are as blind men. We do not see the great gifts
that God gives to us. It is as if we stand by the shore of the sea and throw
little words at Jesus. We must not be afraid to jump into the water and be
completely immersed in His love. He was consumed with such love for us. He gave
Himself to His death on the cross.” (Mass Book, December 19, 1996, There is
a Man on the Cross)
2. “There is a man on a cross and he tells us so
many things. He does not have to speak. When we study Him on the cross, He
speaks to us with His pierced hands. ” (Mass Book, December 19, 1996, There
is a Man on the Cross)
3. “His head covered with blood,
His body withered and beaten. He speaks to us of His undying love. Oh, beloved
Savior, I am blind. I am selfish. I do not see the great reservoir of love that
you give to Me. I see the man dying on the cross. How do I see Him?” (Mass
Book, December 19, 1996, There is a Man on the Cross)
4. “Do I see the body of a man, a live man? Do I
see His labored breath? Do I see His chest move as His Heart beats within? Do I
see the real skin of a man? Do I see the real blood He shed? Do I see the light
that silhouettes His withered body? Do I see the Light of the World? Do I see
the tender skin of an infant laid on bare wood in the manager and then the torn,
lacerated, bloodied skin of this man?
This is love! There is a man on the cross. There
is a child born to us today. He is the Light of the World. His light is shining
in the darkness, but people do not see. They see the wood, but they view it for
the beauty it will create in their newly decorated living rooms.
The cross is not a thing of the past, the cross is
with us today. We carry it on our backs as He showed us we would, but we try to
take it off and throw it away.
It is in the cross there is the resurrection. It
is by meditating on the crucifix, we see His undying love. We must open up our
eyes and see. Pray for vision to see clearly the man Who gave Himself for love
of us, Our Divine Lord.” (Mass Book, December 19, 1996, There is a Man on
the Cross)
5. It is in the death that there
is the resurrection. It is after the dark night that we see the light of day. It
is in going to the holy sacrifice of the mass and uniting in this sacrifice with
Jesus to the Father that we are transformed more and more and that we unite, in
the deepest intimacy with Him, in the Holy Eucharist. We are to be soldiers of
love, soldiers that are going across this earth with hearts that are warm and
are filled with love. There are many cold hearts in the world. If we go to the
world and we are confronted by these cold hearts and we clam up and we close up,
we will not spread His light and His fire into the darkness. We must realize
that love is giving, that we must give when it hurts, that we must give, and
give, and give. There is a man that is hanging on the cross and He does not
speak any words. But if we study His body, if we see His arms outstretched and
nailed with the nails, we will see that He gave His all to His death, He gave
the last drop of His blood and the last beat of His heart.
6. Jesus speaks:
Can I
count on you, My beloved ones? Will you carry the message of My love into this
world? Will you carry the message of My burning heart to the cold hearts? For so
many people have turned almost into robots, the way that they talk to one
another. I want love and oneness, I want you to be one.
7. It is in the Shepherds of
Christ movement as we give our hearts to Jesus and Mary that we unite in this
oneness in Their Hearts. It is in the Holy Eucharist that He gives Himself to
us, that we become one in Him, and that we become so united with one another.
8. This is from Ezekiel (34:
11-16) “For the Lord Yahweh says this: Look, I myself shall take care of my
flock and look after it. As a shepherd looks after his flock when he is with his
scattered sheep, so shall I look after my sheep. I shall rescue them from
wherever they have been scattered on the day of clouds and darkness. I shall
bring them back from the peoples where they are: I shall gather them back from
the countries and bring them back to their own land. I shall pasture them on the
mountains of
Israel, in the ravines and in all
the inhabited parts of the country. I shall feed them in good pasturage; the
highest mountains of
Israel will be their grazing ground. There they will rest in good
grazing grounds; they will browse in rich pastures on the mountains of
Israel . I myself shall pasture my sheep, I myself shall give
them rest -- declares the Lord Yahweh. I shall look for the lost one, bring back
the stray, bandage the injured and make the sick strong. I shall watch over the
fat and the healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to them.”
9. We are the Shepherds of
Christ Associates. We are the apostles that He is calling this day to carry out
this mission, to carry the light into the darkness, to pray for the priests, to
pray for the renewal of the church and the world. It is through our prayers, our
prayers and our prayer chapters, it is through our prayers in front of the
tabernacle, in doing what He has asked us to do as Apostles of the Eucharistic
Heart, that this will be accomplished. For Satan is so strong. Jesus gave
Himself to His death on the cross. This is Jesus’ instrument to help in the
renewal of the church and the world. He is asking us to give ourselves and to
help spread this movement to the far corners of the earth. And He will give to
us great grace that we will be ever closer to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and
we will know this intense love and we will know Him, in the deepest love, within
our hearts. And we will be joined in one mind and one heart, as the Father
intended. For this is how God wants us to be. The Father look to the earth, He
wants to see us as one happy family. Jesus gave Himself to His death on the
cross for love of us. He has told us that we must love God and love one
another. Jesus does not want cold hearts, words spoken from the surface. He
wants us to love Him with our whole heart, our whole soul, and our whole being,
to love one another with the deepest love, and to give ourselves. For love is
giving. For we see that He is love and He gave His all to His death on the
cross.
10. Our strength is in Him. We
must go to Him. He is the power, He is the might we must give ourselves. We must
surrender ourselves. It is in going to the Holy Eucharist, particularly that He
outpours His grace to us. It is in spending those moments after Communion that
He implants on us special intimate knowledge of Himself.
Jesus speaks: I give to
you these secrets, these secrets of My heart, in these messages that I have not
revealed before in human history to help bring about the reign of My most Sacred
Heart. This will be a time of great intimacy. I am asking you to help to spread
My messages of love to the far ends of the earth, to help Me to spread these
letters of love. You are My apostles. Will you say “no”? I have called you by
name. You are My chosen one. I am giving to you grace that has not been given to
the greatest saints. You will know a time of great intimacy with Me. Will you
help Me, My beloved ones, to spread My letters of love to this earth?
There will be one flock and one
shepherd. The King will reign on His throne and all will bow down and fervently
love Him. They will kiss the earth and they will love one another with the
greatest love. There will not be this separation and this division. We will be
one happy family as the Father intended. For He came and He gave Himself for
love of us. This is love. There is a man hanging on the cross and He does not
speak a word. But if we study the cross, we will know a little more of how He
loves us.
Song: “I come to you with
greatest love…”
Jesus speaks: I am
asking you to read the messages from God’s Blue Book II, to read the
messages on surrender. You must realize that you are not doing the work that I
am the one that is doing the work through you.
end of March 13, 1997 Rosary
Jiffy Sheet: 108 day Novena beginning December 14, 2005
to March 31, 2006
You will need: 1. This sheet
2. Holy Spirit Novena Book
3. Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
I. Begin at 6:20 p.m. by singing, "Come Holy Ghost" (verse 1).
- Say, "I want to make a Spiritual Communion."
- "I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love." (This will
unite us in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.)
- Cast out Satan: "We cast Satan into the fires of hell, far from
us, our families, our Movement, Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center,
the Church and the world in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit."
Holy Spirit Novena and Rosary Novena
Chart
| Day: |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| Period I |
Dec 14
- J |
15 - L |
16 - S |
17 - G |
18 - J |
19 - L |
20 - S |
21 - G |
22 - J |
| II |
23 - L |
24 - S |
25 - G |
26- J |
27 - L |
28 - S |
29 - G |
30 - J |
31 - L |
| Period I |
Jan 1
- S |
2 - G |
3 - J |
4 - L |
5 - S |
6 - G |
7 - J |
8 - L |
9 - S |
| II |
10 - G |
11 - J |
12 - L |
13 - S |
14 - G |
15 - J |
16 - L |
17 - S |
18 - G |
| Period I |
19 - J |
20 - L |
21 - S |
22 - G |
23 - J |
24 - L |
25 - S |
26 - G |
27 - J |
| II |
28 - L |
29 - S |
30 - G |
31 - J |
Feb 1
- L |
2 - S |
3 - G |
4 - J |
5 - L |
| Period I |
6 - S |
7 - G |
8 - J |
9 - L |
10 - S |
11 - G |
12 - J |
13 - L |
14 - S |
| II |
15 - G |
16 - J |
17 - L |
18 - S |
19 - G |
20 - J |
21 - L |
22 - S |
23 - G |
| Period I |
24 - J |
25 - L |
26 - S |
27 - G |
28 - J |
Mar 1
- L |
2 - S |
3 - G |
4 - J |
| II |
5 - L |
6 - S |
7 - G |
8 - J |
9 - L |
10 - S |
11 - G |
12 - J |
13 - L |
| Period I |
14 - S |
15 - G |
16 - J |
17 - L |
18 - S |
19 - G |
20 - J |
21 - L |
22 - S |
| II |
23 - G |
24 - J |
25 - L |
26 - S |
27 - G |
28 - J |
29 - L |
30 - S |
31- G |
- Pray the
Holy Spirit Novena using the Holy Spirit Novena Booklet.
- After the novena, read the appropriate meditation. For example:
period 1, day 1; period 1, day 2; etc. This will continue until
further indicated.
- It is enormously important that you feel as a body praying
together, asking for the special coming of the Holy Spirit.
- After the meditation say: "We consecrate the Movement, Our Lady
of the Holy Spirit Center, the Church and the world to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
- Ask that the Blood of Jesus be spread on the Movement, Our Lady
of the Holy Spirit Center, the Church and the world.
- Begin the 6:30 p.m. prayer service as usual.
II. Begin the 6:30 prayer service
- Begin praying: Dear Father in the name of Your Son Jesus, in
the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of the Virgin
Mary, with all the angels and the saints and the souls in purgatory,
we join in one mind and one heart and ask the Holy Spirit to come to
all the world in a special way, especially to our priests. We pray
all prayers for the priests and the renewal of the Church and the
world and for the Shepherds of Christ intentions. By the precious
Body and Blood of Jesus we cast out Satan far from this place, our
families, the Shepherds of Christ Movement, Our Lady of the Holy
Spirit Center, the Church and the world. We ask the Blood of Jesus
be spread on us, the Shepherds of Christ Movement, Our Lady of the
Holy Spirit Center, the Church and the world. We beg for grace and
mercy for the world and wish to make reparation to the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary. We give our hearts to Jesus and Mary with all
gathered here in love. We wish to be forgiven for offending one
another. We love You God, help us.
- Sing A
Song from Jesus. Refrain: "I come to you with greatest
love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you, I
come to you this day."
- Then begin the prayers of the Good Shepherd (Shepherds
of Christ Prayer Manual).
- Sing The
Rosary song Refrain: "Oh the rosary, the rosary is the
love of Their two Hearts, Oh the rosary, the rosary is the love of
Their two Hearts."
1) Ave Maria, Ave Maria.
2) Jesus we love You, Mary we love you.
3) This is her peace plan, Children must pray it.
4) We turn to Mary, She is the Queen of Peace.
5) Oh Sacred Heart Divine, Oh Heart of Mary pure, Ave Maria,
We love to pray it!
- Begin the rosary. Please use the
Rosary
Books and the Rosary Aves. The important thing is to pray
the prayers and the rosary at 6:30 p.m., if possible. (Rosary
mysteries need to be according to the Rosary Novena.)
- Read the Ten Commandments.
- I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods
besides me.
- You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in
vain.
- Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
- Honor your father and your mother.
- You shall not kill.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
- You shall not covet anything that belongs to your
neighbor.
- Pray
A
Prayer of Thanksgiving then read the Daily Message for the
day.
Holy Spirit Novena
DAILY NOVENA PRAYERS
Opening Prayer
In the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Dear Father, we come to You
in the name of Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,
in the Holy Spirit. We come to You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health
and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in the perfect, sinless heart of
Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting ourselves to her
holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the
souls in purgatory.
Prayer for Holy Spirit
We pray for an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will
descend mightily on us as He did on the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy
Spirit will transform us from fear to fearlessness and that He will give us
courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help bring about the Reign
of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We pray for
the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on
the Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ
and the world.
Protection by the Blood of Jesus
We pray that the Blood of
Jesus will be spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of
Christ Movement, that we will be able to move steadfastly ahead and be
protected from the evil one.
Healing
We pray for healing in
body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members
in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the
Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.
Prayer for Strength and Light
We adore You, oh Holy
Spirit. Give us strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves
entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light and grace, we want to only do the will
of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always in the Father's will.
Eternal Spirit fill us with
Your Divine Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your
Divine Mysteries.
Give us lights, Oh Holy
Spirit that we may know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of
the Virgin Mary, to form us more and more into the image of Jesus.
Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
We long for You, Oh Spirit
of Light, we long to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God.
We want to be one with the Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We
want to know the beloved One, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell
in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want to be one with You,
Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.
Prayer to Be One in Jesus
Let us experience life in
the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been
crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ
living in me...." Let us live, united to the Mass, all through the day being
one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this elevated state of
oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You, we
love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and
thank You, our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
We seek to be one in God,
to live and dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on
earth, to experience life in the all perfect, pure, sinless heart of our
Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to be united to Jesus as
the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered to the
Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around
the world to help in the salvation of souls.
Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts
Come Holy Spirit, come,
come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.
Leader: Send forth
Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All: And You will renew the face of the earth.
We pray for the seven gifts
of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy
souls likened to God.
Dear Holy Spirit, we give
ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom,
Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.
Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts
We know, dear Holy Spirit,
the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman.
We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and
dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy
Spirit, work in us.
Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit
Dear Holy Spirit, help us
not to be ignorant or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the
love of God.
Dear Holy Spirit, please
pray for our needs for us.
Dear Holy Spirit, help us
to respect God and to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.
Dear Holy Spirit, help us
to keep Your commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all
things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve
God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the
gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is
wrong.
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take
away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I
surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in
You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the
soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I
worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I
experience You most intimately.
First Period
Meditations Nine Days
- Romans 8:14-17
All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God; for
what you received was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back into
fear; you received the Spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, 'Abba,
Father!' The Spirit himself joins with our spirit to bear witness that
we are children of God. And if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs
of God and joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we share his
suffering, so as to share his glory.
- Romans 8:5-9
Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on
the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their
minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward
to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because
the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does
not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by
their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however,
live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the
Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have
the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
- 1 John 4:12-16
No one has ever seen God, but as long as we love one another God remains
in us and his love comes to its perfection in us. This is the proof that
we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us a share in his
Spirit. We ourselves have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son
as Saviour of the world. Anyone who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son
of God, God remains in him and he in God. We have recognised for
ourselves, and put our faith in, the love God has for us. God is love,
and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.
- 1 John 4:17-21
Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement
fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love
there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because
fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection
in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says
'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not
love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever
loves God, must also love his brother.
- 1 John 4:7-11
My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and
everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to
love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of
God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we
might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who
loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My
dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.
- Acts of the Apostles
1:1-5
In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done
and taught from the beginning until the day he gave his instructions to
the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to
heaven. He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion by many
demonstrations: for forty days he had continued to appear to them and
tell them about the kingdom of God. While at table with them, he had
told them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for what the Father
had promised. 'It is', he had said, 'what you have heard me speak about:
John baptised with water but, not many days from now, you are going to
be baptised with the Holy Spirit.'
- Acts of the Apostles
1:6-9
Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for
you to restore the kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not for you to
know times or dates that the Father has decided by his own authority,
but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on
you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but
throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'
As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took
him from their sight.
- Acts of the Apostles
1:12-14
So from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, they went back to
Jerusalem, a short distance away, no more than a Sabbath walk; and when
they reached the city they went to the upper room where they were
staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,
Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and
Jude son of James. With one heart all these joined constantly in prayer,
together with some women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with
his brothers.
- Acts of the Apostles 2:1-4
When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly
there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the
entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them
tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each
of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak
different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.
Second Period
Meditations Nine Days
- John 14:21-31
Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who
loves me; and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall
love him and reveal myself to him.'
Judas-not Judas Iscariot-said to him, 'Lord, what has happened, that you
intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?' Jesus replied:
Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and
we shall come to him and make a home in him. Anyone who does not love me
does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not my own: it is
the word of the Father who sent me. I have said these things to you
while still with you; but the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of
all I have said to you. Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give
you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not
let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me say: I am going away
and shall return. If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to
the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you this now,
before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. I shall
not talk to you much longer, because the prince of this world is on his
way. He has no power over me, but the world must recognise that I love
the Father and that I act just as the Father commanded. Come now, let us
go.
- John 17:11-26
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I
am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your
name, so that they may be one like us. While I was with them, I kept
those you had given me true to your name. I have watched over them and
not one is lost except one who was destined to be lost, and this was to
fulfil the scriptures. But now I am coming to you and I say these things
in the world to share my joy with them to the full. I passed your word
on to them, and the world hated them, because they belong to the world
no more than I belong to the world. I am not asking you to remove them
from the world, but to protect them from the Evil One. They do not
belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them
in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have
sent them into the world, and for their sake I consecrate myself so that
they too may be consecrated in truth. I pray not only for these but also
for those who through their teaching will come to believe in me. May
they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that
they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who
sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be
one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so
perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who
sent me and that you have loved them as you have loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that
they may always see my glory which you have given me because you loved
me before the foundation of the world. Father, Upright One, the world
has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you
have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to
make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.
- I Corinthians
15:20-28
In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the
first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that
death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead.
Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but
all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at
his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when
he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every
principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king
until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the
enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things
under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this
obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When
everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be
subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God
may be all in all.
- Revelation
3:1-3,12,16-19
'Write to the angel of the church in Sardis and say, "Here is the
message of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven
stars: I know about your behaviour: how you are reputed to be alive and
yet are dead. Wake up; put some resolve into what little vigour you have
left: it is dying fast. So far I have failed to notice anything in your
behaviour that my God could possibly call perfect; remember how you
first heard the message. Hold on to that. Repent! If you do not wake up,
I shall come to you like a thief, and you will have no idea at what hour
I shall come upon you.
Anyone who proves victorious I will make into a pillar in the sanctuary
of my God, and it will stay there for ever; I will inscribe on it the
name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem
which is coming down from my God in heaven, and my own new name as well.
'...but since you are neither hot nor cold, but only lukewarm, I will
spit you out of my mouth. You say to yourself: I am rich, I have made a
fortune and have everything I want, never realising that you are
wretchedly and pitiably poor, and blind and naked too. I warn you, buy
from me the gold that has been tested in the fire to make you truly
rich, and white robes to clothe you and hide your shameful nakedness,
and ointment to put on your eyes to enable you to see. I reprove
and train those whom I love: so repent in real earnest.'
- Revelation 5:9-14
They sang a new hymn: You are worthy to take the scroll and to
break its seals, because you were sacrificed, and with your blood you
bought people for God of every race, language, people and nation and
made them a line of kings and priests for God, to rule the
world.
In my vision, I heard the sound of an immense number of angels gathered
round the throne and the living creatures and the elders; there were
ten thousand times ten thousand of them and thousands upon
thousands, loudly chanting:
Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive power, riches,
wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessing.
Then I heard all the living things in creation-everything that lives
in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, crying:
To the One seated on the throne and to the Lamb, be all praise,
honour, glory and power, for ever and ever.
And the four living creatures said, 'Amen'; and the elders prostrated
themselves to worship.
- Revelation
7:14-17
I answered him, 'You can tell me, sir.' Then he said, 'These are the
people who have been through the great trial; they have washed their
robes white again in the blood of the Lamb. That is why they are
standing in front of God's throne and serving him day and night in his
sanctuary; and the One who sits on the throne will spread his tent over
them. They will never hunger or thirst again; sun and
scorching wind will never plague them, because the Lamb who is at
the heart of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide them
to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears
from their eyes.'
- Revelation
12:1-8
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun,
standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was
pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a
second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven
heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet.
Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to
the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was
at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as
it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was
to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was
taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into
the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after
for twelve hundred and sixty days.
And now war broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels
attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they
were defeated and driven out of heaven.
- Revelation
14:1-7
Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had
with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and
his Father's name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound coming out
of heaven like the sound of the ocean or the roar of thunder; it was
like the sound of harpists playing their harps. There before the throne
they were singing a new hymn in the presence of the four living
creatures and the elders, a hymn that could be learnt only by the
hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the world.
These are the sons who have kept their virginity and not been defiled
with women they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they, out of
all people, have been redeemed to be the first-fruits for God
and for the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths and no fault
can be found in them.
Then I saw another angel, flying high overhead, sent to announce the
gospel of eternity to all who live on the earth, every nation, race,
language and tribe. He was calling, 'Fear God and glorify him, because
the time has come for him to sit in judgement; worship the
maker of heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water.'
Revelation 19: 7-8
let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the
time for the marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been
able to dress herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made
of the good deeds of the saints.'
- Revelation 21:1-10
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first
heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer
any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I
heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among
human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his
people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. He will wipe
away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death,
and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has
gone.'
Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole
of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will
come true."' Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the
Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from
the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves
victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and
he will be my son. But the legacy for cowards, for those who
break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually
immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort
of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.'
One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven final
plagues came to speak to me and said, 'Come here and I will show you the
bride that the Lamb has married.' In the spirit, he carried me to
the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy
city, coming down out of heaven from God.
Revelation 22:20
The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon.
Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
Scriptural quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible,
Doubleday & Co.
Imprimatur granted by Cardinal Hume.
