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Come to Florida on
April 5, 2003
for the live rosary

Here is the schedule for our web radio
April 1, 2003.

4:00 a.m. - Mass

4:37 a.m. - October 13, 1996 Live Rosary
               - Songs from Jesus

6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
                 Holy Spirit Novena
                 Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
                 Rosary

7:24 a.m. - Tell My People
                    read by Father Carter

8:55 a.m. - Newsletter 1999 Issue 4 
                    read by Father Carter

10:23 a.m. - Choose Life

11:25 a.m. - Grace by Father Carter
                    read by Father Mike Paraniuk

12:33 p.m. - August 20, 1996 Rosary
                    from the Mass Book

1:45 p.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 1
                    read by Father Carter

3:05 p.m. - Rosary of Light from November 15, 2002
                    led by Rita Ring

4:00 p.m. - Mass

4:37 p.m. - Blue Book Reading

                - Songs from Jesus

6:20 p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
                  Holy Spirit Novena
                  Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
                  Rosary

7:24 p.m. - Tell My People
                    read by Father Carter

8:55 p.m. - Love Songs and Messages
                    October 1, 1994

9:59 p.m. - Spirituality Handbook
                    read by Father Carter

11:33 p.m. - Mary's Message

12:30 a.m. - November 13, 1996 Live Rosary

1:50 a.m. - Messages from December 12, 2002 
                    feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

2:37 a.m. - August 20, 1996 Rosary
                    from the Mass Book

3:50 a.m. - Songs from Jesus

4:00 a.m. - Mass

                                                                                            March 6, 2003

Reverend and dear Director,

        Thank you very much for sending me a copy of "Shepherds of Christ-Spirituality 2 Newsletters" by Fr. Edward Carter S.J. along with the Prayer Manual for Shepherds of Christ Associates.

        I sincerely thank you for the wonderful and laudatory work you are doing to rekindle the dying embers in the hearts of priests torn asunder in this secularized world of to-day.

        I would like to start a chapter in the parish of "Sacred Heart of Jesus" in the city of _________ itself with at least ten members to begin with.

        Adjoining the church, we have a beautiful shrine with the picture of the garden of _________. The sisters of the congregation of the  _________ visit the chapel by turns and spend time in adoration. Local people also join them in silent prayer. The parish priest, Rev. Fr. ________, highly spiritual, is very much interested in this movement for prayer for priests, the Holy Father, the Church, Shepherds of Christ Associates and its Newsletter. He will be the contact person for Our Archdiocese. Both he and I joined together have translated the Prayer Manual in ____. We intend to start the chapter with at least 10 persons from the First Friday of April, myself offering the Holy Mass on that day.

        I am sending you a translation of the Prayer Manual in _____. Though you may not understand the language, I am proud to say it is a very ancient language, but still continuing to be a living one with a vast literature. May I request you to pray, bless and help this movement.

        I give here below the name and address of the contact person for our Archdiocese of _______________.

        _____________

        May I request you to contact him and send any material to him and to me.

        This is my 25th year of the Episcopal Jubilee and this will be a good event to start this movement in thanksgiving to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for all the favours he has showered on me.

        Thanking you,

                                            I remain,
                                            Yours devotedly in Christ,
                                           
                                            Archbishop of ________

April 1, 2003

Messenger:         It is for God we live.

                            There are three Persons in one Divine God.

                            Yesterday I did the Blue Book reading at 4:30.

                            You can hear it on the radio at 4:37 p.m.

                            Our Lord wants us praying these prayers for the

                                priests, the Church and the world.

                                Fr. Carter S. J. taught at Xavier 31 years and

                                had a doctorate in theology.

                                After writing 33 Newsletters during his life

                                sending them to all the priests in the United States

                                he died December 18, 2000, the day after the 4th

                                anniversary of Mary's appearance on the

                                building.

                            Father Carter had a doctorate in theology

                                and authored 18 books on the spiritual life.

March 31, 2003 message continues

Messenger:         Here is one of the homilies he gave on living

                                in the moment in our Eucharistic

                                Center in China, Indiana.

March 31, 2003 message continues

Messenger:         Servants and handmaids pray hourly there before

                                the Blessed Sacrament for the priests, the

                                Church and the world.

                            We have 48 hours of adoration before

                                the exposed Eucharist on the 12th, 13th and

                                14th of each month praying for the priests,

                                the Church and the world.

                            On the 5th of each month we have a prayer

                                service at 6:20 and Mary turns rainbow

                                and gold and Jesus appears. Here are some

                                of the pictures when I went there on

                                January 5, 2003 and February 5, 2003.

January 5, 2003

February 5, 2003

Messenger:     The mailing we are sending to the 85,000 priests

                                now includes this.

Messenger:     This will be out by Easter, 

                                many Shepherds have worked hard

                                to get these prayers to the priests and

                                Mary's image.

                            Here is a letter from a Bishop we just received

                                                                                            March 6, 2003

Reverend and dear Director,

        Thank you very much for sending me a copy of "Shepherds of Christ-Spirituality 2 Newsletters" by Fr. Edward Carter S.J. along with the Prayer Manual for Shepherds of Christ Associates.

        I sincerely thank you for the wonderful and laudatory work you are doing to rekindle the dying embers in the hearts of priests torn asunder in this secularized world of to-day.

        I would like to start a chapter in the parish of "Sacred Heart of Jesus" in the city of _________ itself with at least ten members to begin with.

        Adjoining the church, we have a beautiful shrine with the picture of the garden of _________. The sisters of the congregation of the  _________ visit the chapel by turns and spend time in adoration. Local people also join them in silent prayer. The parish priest, Rev. Fr. ________, highly spiritual, is very much interested in this movement for prayer for priests, the Holy Father, the Church, Shepherds of Christ Associates and its Newsletter. He will be the contact person for Our Archdiocese. Both he and I joined together have translated the Prayer Manual in ____. We intend to start the chapter with at least 10 persons from the First Friday of April, myself offering the Holy Mass on that day.

        I am sending you a translation of the Prayer Manual in _____. Though you may not understand the language, I am proud to say it is a very ancient language, but still continuing to be a living one with a vast literature. May I request you to pray, bless and help this movement.

        I give here below the name and address of the contact person for our Archdiocese of _______________.

        _____________

        May I request you to contact him and send any material to him and to me.

        This is my 25th year of the Episcopal Jubilee and this will be a good event to start this movement in thanksgiving to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for all the favours he has showered on me.

        Thanking you,

                                            I remain,
                                            Yours devotedly in Christ,
                                           
                                            Archbishop of ________

Messenger:        This is what Mary said we must do at Fatima

                                for peace. 

                                "until a sufficient number of people 
                                make and live the consecration, we 
                                will not have peace in the world."

               1. Mark 1: 7

In the course of his preaching he said, ‘After me is coming someone who is more powerful than me, and I am not fit to kneel down and undo the strap of his sandals.

               2. Mark 1: 8

I have baptised you with water, but he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.’

               3. Mark 1: 9

It was at this time that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptised in the Jordan by John.

               4. Mark 1: 10

And at once, as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit, like a dove, descending on him.

               5. Mark 1: 11

And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.’

               6. Messenger:  Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist.   

               7. Messenger:  Tremendous grace is outpoured when we
                                                pray before the Blessed Sacrament.

               8. Messenger:  Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and Humanity
                                                in the Eucharist.

               9. Messenger:  Jesus is the Light of the World.

             10. Messenger:  Jesus loves us so much.
   

               1.  Messenger:  Jesus performed miracles while on earth.

               2.   Messenger:  Jesus loves us so much.

                  3.  Messenger:  Jesus wants us to love Him.

               5.   Messenger:  God is all Powerful.

               6.   Messenger:  We must rely on His Might. 

               7.   Messenger:  We must surrender our lives to Him.

               8.   Messenger:  Mary did the will of the Father.

               9.   Messenger:  Pray through the intercession of Mary.

             10.   Messenger:  We are lights in the darkness.

               1. Messenger:  Jesus is the King of heaven and earth.

               2.  Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. 

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human nature

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

window at a former Jesuit Seminary

137. FIRST PRELUDE.   This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.

138. SECOND PRELUDE.   This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.

139. THIRD PRELUDE.   This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
   

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

140. FIRST POINT.   Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.

141. SECOND POINT.   Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.

142. THIRD POINT.   Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.

   The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
   

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

143.   In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.

144. FIRST POINT.   Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.

145. SECOND POINT.   Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .   

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
  

               3. Messenger:  Mary told me to reach the youth and tell them
                                                to pray the rosary and consecrate their hearts.

               4. Messenger:  Jesus wants us to pray the rosary.

               5. Messenger:  Jesus wants us to give our lives to Him.

               6. Messenger:  In Mass we offer ourselves united to the
                                                sacrifice of Jesus.

               7. Messenger:  The Mass is so powerful.

               8. Messenger:  The Power is in the Eucharist.

               9. Messenger:  God reveals insight into the Divine Mysteries in
                                                our soul when we come and pray before the
                                                tabernacle and go to communion if we ask for
                                                 this grace.

             10.  Excerpt from Newsletter 2001 - Issue 1

Relationship with Members of the Church

There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.

The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.

The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.

This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."¹⁴ And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.

The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.¹⁵ The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."¹⁶

The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.

Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.¹⁷

 

---

NOTES:

16. Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
17. Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.

end of excerpt from Newsletter 2001 - Issue 1  

               1.  Matthew 17: 1-8

    Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his clothes became as dazzling as light. And suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared to them; they were talking with him. Then Peter spoke to Jesus. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘it is wonderful for us to be here; if you want me to, I will make three shelters here, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He was still speaking when suddenly a bright cloud covered them with shadow, and suddenly from the cloud there came a voice which said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour. Listen to him.’ When they heard this, the disciples fell on their faces, overcome with fear. But Jesus came up and touched them, saying, ‘Stand up, do not be afraid.’ And when they raised their eyes they saw no one but Jesus.

               2.   Messenger:  Fr. Carter wrote the book Response to God's Love 
                                                and it was published in '84. He used it as his text
                                                book all those years. He taught until his death in 2000.
                                                Here is a quote I love from Chapter 1 on the Trinity.

                        Excerpt from Response to God's Love

...In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

               3.   God is light.

                  4.  1 John 1: 5

                      Messenger:   Jesus appeared to me here transfigured
                                                    January 96 (4 times).
  

Excerpt from December 22, 1998

Messenger:    On January 9, 1996, I went to pray. The snow was so bad the street was blocked to Holy Cross-Immaculata. I finally managed to find a place to park and trudged through the snow, panting with joy to be with Our Lord in the tabernacle there. When I arrived all I could do was kneel before the Sacred Heart statue and pour out myself to Him.

Please show a picture of the tabernacle and the Sacred Heart statue.

From my writings of January 9, 1996, I write:

"I was engulfed again in my love of God and cried so hard because I love Him so much. In this intimate act of giving myself totally to Him, my whole act was in emptying myself, wanting only to be lost in Him and united forever to Him in this most blissful moment. I turned myself over and was lost in Him, knowing His presence with me and knowing His deep love. The world stopped and I existed in Him, longing to forever stay there, so this moment would never end."

"I touched you, God and in this embrace I knew your unending love. I saw Your Body as if it was transfigured and glowing in light and I was lost in Thee."

This is how it began. I would see a great reflective light, as if from a mirror, on the eaves of the church in the front of Holy Cross-Immaculata and His Body was changed in the most brilliant light before my eyes. I cannot describe what I saw, nor have I ever seen it except in this vision and two that would follow the next two days. Jesus was transfigured before my eyes.

The date of January 9, 1996, when it first happened, was the same date January 9, 1994, when I genuflected before the crucifix and the altar at St. Gertrude's and the Father spoke; Blue Book II-page 18, January 9, 1994: "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."

On January 9, 1996, I would see Jesus transfigured before me in the statue.

end of excerpt from December 22, 1998
 

               6.  Jesus speaks:  My people I am the King of the Kingdom.

               7.  Jesus speaks:  I am the Light of the World. 

              10. 

                  1.  Messenger:  Jesus likes us to sing this song to Him.
  

                  2.  Jesus speaks:  I am the light of the world.

               4.  April 28, 2000

    So good is our God to give us this visible sign. My heart hungers and thirsts for Him in this great gift given.

    Today at the consecration of the Mass the priest consecrated the Host in a silver dish. My heart longs to see the beautiful white consecrated Host so much I could hardly stand it, I desired it so much. He lifted the dish and took out the beautiful consecrated Host and a see-through Host the same size appeared above the Host. I often see a small transparent halo surrounding the top of the Host. This appeared as such:

    I had such a burning in my heart to see the consecrated Host and I heard the words "are not our hearts burning within us."

    My heart ached with joy and wanting to be in this ecstatic state forever, but I was so aware of souls and the Sacrifice being offered, longing to be so one with Jesus as I dwell in Mary’s pure Heart, so that my heart would be so deeply united to Jesus’ in this Holy Sacrifice to the Father.

    I want so much in that moment of consecration. I want my sacrifice united to His so deeply so that grace will be outpoured for our needs. I beg and I cry for the souls in the world, all of us who so desperately need God’s grace and mercy.

    Oh, I want to offer such a Holy Sacrifice from the depth of my soul for grace and help from God. Oh, God, I am so sorry for our sins. Oh God, oh God, help us, I plead and I beg and I cry, I want it so much. I want all souls to love Him as I love Him and to unite in this Sacrifice as holy little children of the Father, pleading to God for help.

                  5.   A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.

                                                                           -God's Blue Book, December 27, 1995

                  6.  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.

               9.  From Priestly Newsletter Book II, p. 248-249

             10.   

Psalm 85: 13

                                                Justice will walk before him, 
                                                treading out a path.

Messenger:          We must be positive.

                                Focusing on God and not the darkness —

                                Praying.

                                Putting all our trust in Him
  

                                Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my trust in You.

                                God loves us so much.

Luke 1: 52

He has pulled down princes 
    from their thrones 
        and raised high the lowly.

Isaiah 40: 5

then the glory of Yahweh will be revealed 
and all humanity will see it together, 
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.’

Isaiah 35: 4

and say to the faint–hearted, 
‘Be strong! Do not be afraid. 
Here is your God, 
vengeance is coming, 
divine retribution; 
he is coming to save you.’

Psalm 147: 20

For no other nation has he done this, 
no other has known his judgements.

Jesus speaks:        Oh My people, I love you so much.

                                Oh America land of plenty I love you.
  

Baruch 5: 5

Arise, Jerusalem, stand on the heights 
and turn your eyes to the east: 
see your children reassembled 
    from west and east 
at the Holy One’s command, 
    rejoicing because God has remembered.

Baruch 4: 36

Jerusalem, turn your eyes to the east, 
see the joy that is coming to you from God.

Psalm 98: 3

mindful of his faithful love and his constancy 
to the House of Israel. 

The whole wide world has seen 
the saving power of our God.

  

John 1: 14

The Word became flesh, 
he lived among us, 
and we saw his glory, 
the glory that he has from the Father 
    as only Son of the Father, 
full of grace and truth.

 

Matthew 2: 2

asking, ‘Where is the infant king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him homage.’

Epiphany January 5, 2003

John 8: 12

Jesus, the light of the world

When Jesus spoke to the people again, he said: 

    I am the light of the world; 
    anyone who follows me 
        will not be walking in the dark, 
    but will have the light of life.

John 1: 32, 34

And John declared, ‘I saw the Spirit come down on him like a dove from heaven and rest on him.

I have seen and I testify that he is the Chosen One of God.’

Messenger:          God we are sorry we have sinned.

Jesus speaks:        Oh My people I love you so much —

                                    I come to you dripping in Blood —

                                        hanging on the cross

Jesus speaks:        Oh Jerusalem — let your light shine —

                                    do not give into satan.

 Isaiah 60: 1-6

Arise, shine out, 
    for your light has come, 
and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you. 
Look! though night still covers the earth 
and darkness the peoples, 
on you Yahweh is rising 
and over you his glory can be seen. 
The nations will come to your light 
and kings to your dawning brightness. 
Lift up your eyes and look around: 
all are assembling 
    and coming towards you, 
your sons coming from far away 
and your daughters 
    being carried on the hip. 
At this sight you will grow radiant, 
your heart will throb and dilate, 
since the riches of the sea will flow to you, 
the wealth of the nations come to you; 
camels in throngs will fill your streets, 
the young camels of Midian and Ephah; 
everyone in Saba will come, 
bringing gold and incense 
and proclaiming Yahweh’s praises.

Isaiah 42: 1-4, 6-7

Here is my servant whom I uphold,
my chosen one
   in whom my soul delights.
I have sent my spirit upon him,
he will bring fair judgement to the nations.
He does not cry out or raise his voice,
his voice is not heard in the street;
he does not break the crushed reed
or snuff the faltering wick.
Faithfully he presents fair judgement;
he will not grow faint,
   he will not be crushed 
until he has established
   fair judgement on earth,
and the coasts and islands
   are waiting for his instruction.

I, Yahweh, have called you
   in saving justice,
I have grasped you by the hand
   and shaped you;
I have made you a covenant of the people
and light to the nations,
to open the eyes of the blind,
to free captives from prison,
and those who live in darkness
    from the dungeon.

1 John 5: 1-9

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ
is a child of God,
and whoever loves the father
loves the son.
In this way we know
    that we love God's children,
when we love God
    and keep his commandments.
This is what the love of God is:
keeping his commandments.
Nor are his commandments
    burdensome,
because every child of God
overcomes the world.
And this is the victory
    that has overcome the world -
our faith.

The source of faith

Who can overcome the world
but the one who believes
    that Jesus is the Son of God?
He it is who came by water and blood,
Jesus Christ,
not with water alone
but with water and blood,
and it is the Spirit that bears witness,
for the Spirit is Truth.
So there are three witnesses,
the Spirit, water and blood;
and the three of them coincide.
If we accept
     the testimony of human witnesses,
God’s testimony is greater,
for this is God’s testimony
which he gave about his Son.

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