Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the
world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater,
Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish
this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.
We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages
rests
with the Holy See of Rome.
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April 11, 2003
April 12th Holy
Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 5 Period II. |
The Novena Rosary
Mystery
for April 12th is Glorious. |
Rita Ring will be in China
for a live rosary on the 13th
broadcasted worldwide.
It will be discerned by
a catholic priest.
PALM SUNDAY
Rita Ring will do a live rosary.
Prayers begin at 12:00 China time.
April 13th -
Sunday - China, Indiana
Come to China
Mass Saturday April 12 - 12:00 noon
exposed Eucharist until
April 14 - 12:00 noon
praying for the priests,
the Church and the world.
The Nursing Home Video
January 5, 2003
will be available and
shown on the 13th in China.
We urgently, urgently
need
funds
and volunteers for
the
priestly mailing!
Please help us!
We still owe Banta
$2,000 for shipping
of the Blue Books
Here
is the schedule for our web radio
April 12, 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
April 11, 2003
Structure
Messenger: Power
comes from God
God is the head
Genesis Chapter 3
The Fall
Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild
animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say
you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman
answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But
of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You
must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake
said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day
you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing
good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing
to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So
she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband
who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened
and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together
to make themselves loin-cloths.
The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God
among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where
are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied.
'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were
naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to
eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some
fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman,
'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I
ate.'
Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have
done this,
Accursed be you
of all animals wild and tame!
On your belly you will go
and on dust you will feed
as long as you live.
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head
and you will strike its heel.'
To the woman he said:
I shall give you intense pain
in childbearing,
you will give birth to your children
in pain.
Your yearning will be for your husband,
and he will dominate you.
To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice
of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,
Accursed be the soil because of you!
Painfully will you get your food from it
as long as you live.
It will yield you brambles and thistles,
as you eat the produce of the land.
By the sweat of your face
will you earn you food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.
The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother
of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his
wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become
like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach
out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for
ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the
soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of
the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery
flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
April 11, 2003 message continues
Messenger: The
devil doesn't like structure.
He wanted Eve to do her own will.
God gives us the Church.
The Head of the Church is Jesus.
The Pope is in charge of the Church.
Priests have power.
They report upward.
God gives us the family.
The father and mother are over the children.
In businesses there are those in charge.
When structure is not defined clearly
there is a struggle for spots of
authority or people have ciaos
sometimes.
We were created by God.
When structure is defined it helps for
a healthy atmosphere.
People go in and they almost feel structure,
they say to themselves, "who is in
charge here."
On the playground the people may go in
a park, but a park ranger usually
patrols the place, people are
in charge.
Going on vacation may be a time to let
go, but sometimes a person rents a
condo, some people have vacation homes.
The devil wants us to be like Eve in
the garden. The devil wants us to think
we are equal or smarter than God.
Not observing structure many times will
help ciaos to grow. The devil wants
this. For example children at home using
alcohol, smoking without parents around.
Fr. Carter always obeyed his superiors.
Fr. Carter taught us about authority. Fr.
Carter had a review with his superiors and
the provincial.
Children at home "a lot" by themselves
while parents go away or work can get
into a lot of trouble.
Who ever heard of someone coming
in the bank or business, cleaning
the bathrooms, fixing food and then
saying I am in charge of your finance
department and my feelings are hurt because
you said I can't and then they walk
around the bank complaining that they
can't do what they want creating sympathy
for themselves because they are a victim.
Jesus speaks:
Oh My people, you do not take Me
seriously. 85,000 priests could be touched
with the mailing I have ordered. I ask you
to work for Me in love. If stuffing envelopes
gives someone a right to change the rules
you are missing the point.
On the 5th of each month for 8 years
I have given this gift. When Fr. Carter died
it may have appeared to some the authority
of the Movement was weakened. Fr. Carter
and I put in place a priest to help Me
and he has helped since before Fr. Carter's
death and another priest and others as
were needed. The stability was always there
and two priests help, one daily.
I called My messenger and I give you
the video of January 5, 2003 which will be the
first video on the Shepherds of Christ web T.V.
very soon. The video begins with My messenger.
As Mary delivers a message —
the sun is focused and still all through
the message Mary delivers through
My messenger on the Feast of the Epiphany —
It is a light to the nations —
It is Mary and Jesus who speak in the
live rosaries.
Father Carter discerned the messages and
led the rosaries October 13, 1996, November 13, 1996,
December 13, 1996, January 13, 1997, February 13, 1997.
The rosary led by Fr. Carter March 13, 1997
was never published.
Mary appeared in Clearwater December 17, 1996
in the middle of these rosaries.
3 rosaries before
3 rosaries after
Then Fr. Carter was not permitted to go to any
more live rosaries by his Jesuit
provincial. This began April 5, 1997.
Here is how I appeared April 5, 2001
4 years later.
April 5, 2001
April 11, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: After Fr. Carter died I began to allow
people to see My face in the lower
left corner.
February 5, 2001
April 11, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: I
am running My Movement.
Do you think the state the world is in,
after coming to the earth and dying
on calvary, that I wouldn't send
a message to help the souls I died for.
Fr. Carter and Rita Ring are two messengers
I have chosen.
Revelation 11: 1-19
The two witnesses
Then I was given a long cane like a measuring
rod, and I was told, ‘Get up and measure God’s sanctuary, and the altar,
and the people who worship there; but exclude the outer court and do not
measure it, because it has been handed over to gentiles—they will trample
on the holy city for forty–two months. But I shall send my two witnesses
to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth. These are
the two olive trees and the two lamps in attendance on the Lord of the
world. Fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies if anyone
tries to harm them; and anyone who tries to harm them will certainly be
killed in this way. They have the power to lock up the sky so that it does
not rain as long as they are prophesying; they have the power to turn water
into blood and strike the whole world with any plague as often as they like.
When they have completed their witnessing, the beast that comes out of the
Abyss is going to make war on them and overcome them and kill them. Their
corpses lie in the main street of the great city known by the symbolic names
Sodom and Egypt, in which their Lord was crucified. People of every race,
tribe, language and nation stare at their corpses, for
three–and–a–half days, not letting them be buried, and the people of
the world are glad about it and celebrate the event by giving presents to
each other, because these two prophets have been a plague to the people of
the world.’
After the
three–and–a–half days, God breathed life into them and they stood up
on their feet, and everybody who saw it happen was terrified; then I heard a
loud voice from heaven say to them, ‘Come up here,’ and while their
enemies were watching, they went up to heaven in a cloud. Immediately, there
was a violent earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed; seven thousand
persons were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors, overcome with
fear, could only praise the God of heaven.
That was the second of the
disasters; the third is to come quickly after it.
April 11, 2003 message continues
Messenger: These
are two messages I received from God
the Father right after Mary appeared
on the building.
Fr. Carter took these messages
very seriously and we have him
on a tape talking about them
and Mary's Message.
January 11, 1997
Message given through Rita Ring
God the Father: My plan will unfold
despite the willfulness of any of My children. I am the Father. I have
guided you in all of your activities.
I am telling you that the members of the Shepherds of
Christ must be made aware of the importance of living the Blue Book
messages.
Planning is up to Me. This is My plan and it will unfold.
Men plan for the future. I AM.
I am directing the Shepherds of Christ Movement through
these messages.
I am angered at the lack of response on the part of some
to back these messages. You must support these messages so they are lived by
man.
These messages are given from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
to bring about the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the triumph of My
beloved Mary's Immaculate Heart.
You are given all you need. You must adhere to My plan.
I am the Father. I AM WHO AM. I was in the beginning, I am
now and I will be forever.
I am telling you to obey the directions given by Jesus in
these messages.
My plan will unfold. The completion of the Fatima message
will greatly come through the Shepherds of Christ Movement.
You must circulate the tape, Mary's Message. You
must circulate the messages given to you in God's Blue Books and Rosaries
from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
The renewal in the Church will greatly come through the
newsletter and the books published with the imprimatur. You must publish all
books on the Mass with the imprimatur. Prayer chapters must be started in
the churches.
The instructions for the priests will come from doing as I
have requested. I beg you to circulate the Priestly Newsletter Book
to the priests as soon as possible. The priests must be made aware of the Mass
Books.
The Children's Rosary Book must be published immediately.
Your work, Fr. Carter and Rita, is to publish this material.
Heaven has contacted the earth primarily in these messages
to bring about the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the triumph of
Mary's Immaculate Heart.
The plan will unfold. It is My plan. You must be obedient
to the directions I give to you here. The Movement is a great star of light
to this world. From the Movement the earth will be covered with stars of
light and the earth will be lighted through your efforts, Fr. Carter.
I will give you all you need. The plan will unfold. It is
My plan to turn sinful men into obedient, loving children.
I have delivered this message that you will know My plan
is unfolding. Many will be lost because of their willfulness. I demand
obedience to My requests. The plan will unfold. It pleases Me greatly that
you obey My messenger. She is delivering these messages to you from the Son,
My beloved Son, God-made-Man.
The messages of the love of God will be written on the
hearts of men through the writings of Fr. Carter and Rita to bring about the
reign of His Most Sacred Heart.
I am displeased with those who have blocked these
messages. Anyone continuing to block My messages given through the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary will receive a shock that will envelope them.
The time is very urgent. The time has run out for sinful
man. I am angered at the way the world has treated their Mother. Willful
children must be punished. I demand obedience. Mary gave to her children her
peace plan and she was ignored by the Church and her children. Mary is
Mother of the Church and Mother of her children. Willful children must be
admonished. Children must obey their Mother.
Mary appeared on the building in Florida as Mother of all.
You have made money your god. You have ignored God and made this world your
end.
I am God. I AM WHO AM, without a beginning, without an
end. I am today, tomorrow and always. You do not comprehend My ways with
your feeble minds. You must obey the messages given by My Son and His
Mother. These messages I give to you as a gift and a great revelation from
heaven. You must be thankful and cherish this gift given. I will not remove
My gift to you for I know you will obey Me. I will admonish you when you do
not respond as you should.
I have called you and anointed you, My holy priest (Fr.
Carter), to lead this world to the light. The Light of the world is My Son,
Jesus. His Heart will reign and the heart of your Mother will triumph. I beg
you to surrender and obey and watch My plan unfold. There will be a great
era of peace very soon, My little children. All you do today will help to
save many souls. Many souls will know the love of God through the Shepherds
of Christ Movement. Many souls will love God with burning love.
I give you this gift. Your writings, Fr. Carter, and the
writings of My messenger, Rita, will help greatly to bring about the reign
of the Sacred Heart.
I am the Father. I am the Almighty God. You must believe I
have chosen you. I have called each member here this day to hear this
message. I have called you to be the apostles of the new era of peace. I
have called you by name. You will lead men to the Heart of My Son. You must
listen and focus all of your attention to this mission I have given to you.
I am the Father. From the day you were conceived, I formed
you in your mother's womb, knowing the great mission I would call you to
today. My children, My children, do not be distracted by the evil one to
lead you astray. I am counting on you, My beloved shepherds. You must not be
led astray by doing other good works. I have called you, this is My plan, it
is unfolding. You are a major part of the success of this plan for the
renewal of the Church and the world.
Your work in the Shepherds of Christ Movement greatly
pleases Me.
I AM, WHO AM. I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am the
Almighty God. You must be obedient children. It is through your obedience
that the consecration will spread to many souls on the earth.
It is through your obedience to help spread the priestly
newsletter and start prayer chapters in churches that many priests will love
God with the greatest love in the Mass. I am asking you to spread the Mass
Book to priests and sisters. Please pray for the priestly newsletter, the
quick spread of the material given in the newsletter and for the priests
reading the newsletter.
Heaven has contacted the earth. The light will shine in
the dark corners of the world. Men will respond to the Shepherds of Christ
Movement. You must not be afraid. You must do as I have asked you.
I have called you by name, My chosen ones, from the
beginning I formed you and I gave to you the talents needed to accomplish
this mission on the earth.
Your talents are gifts from Me to be used for this
purpose. You are the Shepherds of Christ. You are the apostles of the new
era.
There will be a new earth, there will be love on this
earth as I intend it to be. My children will love one another, you will walk
hand in hand, loving God and one another in harmony and peace.
R. ...Thy kingdom come on earth as it is
in heaven...
Jn 1:1-18 (From The New Jerusalem Bible):
In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through Him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being except through Him.
What has come into being in Him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.
A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.
The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognize him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept Him.
But to those who did accept Him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believe in his name
who were born not from human stalk
or human desire
or human will
but from God himself.
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.
John witness to him. He
proclaims:
'This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.'
Indeed, from his fullness we
have, all of us, received--
one gift replacing another,
for the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart,
who has made him known.
R. We do not even see Our Father as so
important to us.
A little child is always aware of their father. A little
child knows how dependent he is on his father, always wanting to please his
father.
A little child is always aware of his mother and obeying
her. A little child loves his mother. Look at how unloving we are to Mary.
We are children of God, with God the Father as Our Father
and Mary as our heavenly Mother.
end of January 11, 1997 message
January 18, 1997
Message given through Rita Ring
God the Father: My Dear Children,
I am the Father. My plan is unfolding through you, My
beloved priest, Fr. Carter, and Rita and the core group in the Shepherds of
Christ Movement.
I tell you all to read the accounts concerning Noah.
Nowhere in history has God been offended as He is this day by this sinful
world. You will suffer a fate for the offenses against God.
Mary appeared at Fatima to warn you, the sinful children,
how they were offending God, but you did not listen. The war did not change
the hearts of many evil men.
I warn you through My beloved daughter, Mary. You did not
heed her warnings. Disobedience against the Mother I gave you displeases Me
greatly. Mary is the Mother of all children. Mary is a gift from Me, but you
are willful and abuse the gift I send you.
You do not make reparation to her Immaculate Heart; you
continue to offend her. I will not tolerate the deeds of evil men any
longer.
My plan will unfold. Any disobedience to these messages
given by Me, My Son, or your Mother Mary will cause Me great displeasure.
I am the Father, the Almighty God, the Alpha, the Omega;
you are a sinful people, a chosen race sinning against a loving God.
I am angered at your ways for they are not My ways, you
have run amuck, you have offended your God, you have disobeyed your Mother
and My beloved Son who died to save you.
I will act on all who continue in such sin. The sheep will
be separated from the goats; the goats will receive punishment for their
deed. Heaven and earth will kiss, there will be love in all hearts, justice
will prevail and My children will be children of light, children that obey
as I intended from the beginning.
Oh indeed My sweet messenger, I look to the earth and see
the darkness, I see the disobedience of men against their Mother. I know the
deeds committed and the evil in the hearts of so many. Justice will prevail
and I will wipe out the earth. Only the children of light will remain, those
who have given their hearts to their Mother Mary.
Do you think I send your Mother Mary as a messenger to be
disobeyed by willful children? What do you think about at night, the cat,
the dog, the fish? You don't know love. You don't love God or one another.
This is My command to you, to love. You are a sinful, willful race, and the
devil will vanish from the hearts of the children of light for they will be
under the protection of her Immaculate Heart, the other children will be
wiped off the face of the earth.
Disobey My messenger, ignore your Mother, ignore the Son
in these messages. Ignore My Son who died for you.
Oh you sinful people filled with pride and disobedience, I
give you the directions here to turn your hearts to love.
My Son has revealed Himself as never before in history
into His tremendous love for men and you treat Our gift with such
indifference.
I am angered at the lack of support to spread the messages
of My Son's love for all.
You worry for funds, worry more, I am God the Father, the
Almighty God. You disobeyed Mary, you disobeyed Jesus, now you will disobey
Me?
You must obey My directions, the directions given through
My Son, Jesus for the unfolding of the Father's plan.
No longer will I wait while willful men check and
deliberate and disobey.
My plan will unfold through the Shepherds of Christ
Movement.
I am talking through these messages given by My Son and
Mary to tell you how to accomplish this task of carrying out My plan.
You must obey. The directions are given in these messages
to spread the fire of God's love across this earth, to renew the Church and
the world.
Because of willful men these messages have been held in
check.
I am God, the maker of all things. You have made money
your god. I want obedience, the funds will come when you obey all of the
directions I have given to you.
Anyone who interferes with these messages will be removed.
These are the messages I give to the world. Fr. Carter's
newsletter will teach the priests, all they need to know to be holy, loving
priests.
Many priests are not loving, they are cold in their
hearts. I will instruct the clergy through the newsletter.
My Son is the Chief Priest and Teacher. He has taught the
world the secrets of His Heart through the writings of Fr. Carter and Rita,
to go to men to check the value of these writings displeases Me.
You must have faith, you must study the entire revelations
given here. You are not valuing My great gift to you.
I am the power, I am God, to the ends of the earth, I will
be with you. My plan will unfold. You must think big, not on a human level.
You must come to Me.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy
kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
I am telling you to circulate the tape of January 13
(1997) as soon as possible. This tape must be released to the world. It is
the message to go with the apparition on the building in Florida.
You must make every connection with Mary's message given
December 12 (1996) and the messages given by Mary with the apparition of her
on the building in Florida.
Time is very short and My patience is very thin. I will
strike the earth and the evil men will scatter and there will be a reign of
peace where men will love God as I intended. The evil men will be chastised
for I sent your Mother to warn you and you disobeyed. I gave My Son as a
sacrifice and you treated Him with indifference. I am angry at the creatures
on this earth. I will lessen the chastisement if you make reparation to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Oh willful children, you disobey your Mother, you are
unloving and willful and your ways are evil. You are a sinful race.
I am sending water, rain to quench your thirst, My beloved
children of light; I am sending fire to burn the fields for the sinful
children, they will suffer drought and will fall to the ground dead, they
will know fire, they will know the wrath of God. For I speak and I am
ignored.
I am using the Shepherds of Christ Movement to majorly
carry out the plan begun at Fatima. Every day lost is a lost day. I give to
you Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary as your directions to help
the plan unfold. Circulate these rosaries to all chapters and stress their
importance.
The tape of January 13 (1997) is important to the world.
The tape must be circulated with the apparition in Florida and the messages
typed and put on the Internet with the rest of the messages I have given.
The connection must be made between the apparition and the Shepherds of
Christ Movement.
Satan will attack you strongly, he will create division
and give messages through other visionaries to get you off coarse. You must
obey My directions given in these messages to help bring about the
completion of the Fatima message.
I will weed out anyone interfering with My plan.
I will tell you when you have deviated from My plan, do
not taunt My messenger, this displeases Me. Read the messages for direction
and obey them.
The directions given are strong to correct a sick world.
You must quit focusing on the messenger and obey Me.
I am the Father, these are My messages to bring about the
reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate
Heart.
You think of money and miss the gift given. You are men
bolted to the earth. You must obey Me. I have all the power.
end of January 18, 1997 message
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July 5, 2000
January 5, 2003
Feast of the Epiphany
Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
Mary speaks:
I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I
saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My
Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I
suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and
give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this
message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I
stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried
for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How
do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I
appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject
me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored.
The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you.
Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and
I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart
was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this
day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold
back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to
help my children. You are my children of light.
end of Mary's Message,
August 27, 1996
Rosaries
from the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary
This rosary
was received on Thursday, February the 13th, 1997 at an
International Shepherds of Christ Associates Meeting at Our Lady of the Holy
Spirit Center. The rosary was led by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., spiritual
director of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. The meditations and messages were
given to Rita Ring during the rosary. This rosary was received live and
transcribed from the recording. This live recording can be obtained by writing
Shepherds of Christ Publications. All of these
meditations have been discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
The Agony in the Garden
- Jesus speaks:
I have promised to be with you in a special way, My beloved ones. I am
Jesus. I am with you this day, this special time to deliver to you messages
that will help to bring about the completion of the Fatima messages. Mary
appeared at Fatima from May the 13th until October the 13th of 1917. I am
Jesus. Beginning October the 13th of 1996, the Fatima message will unfold
through these messages that I deliver to you on the 13th. I am Jesus. These
are My messages that I am giving to you, My apostles, that I have called
here, to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message. My Heart
will reign, My Sacred Heart will reign in the hearts of men and from the
tabernacle. Many people will love, love God with the deepest burning love.
You, My beloved ones, I have called you to come this day to be My apostles
to go into the world, to carry out My burning love to the souls that are
suffering and in pain. Will you answer this call? You are here because I
have called you. You are the apostles. You are the messengers. I am giving
to you the messages to help bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart. I am
Jesus. I have spoken. My Father has spoken from this church. He has
delivered to you two messages that you must read in the Apostles Manual. The
Apostles Manual is given to you to study that you will know what I am
asking. I am asking you to go out and to carry My love letters to this
world. It is through these love letters that many will know My burning love.
Men will love God in a way that they have not loved God before, with a deep,
burning love. It is through these letters they will know the most intimate
secrets of My Heart. I love you with such love, My beloved ones. Open your
heart now and listen to the messages that I deliver to you, My apostles.
- Jesus has asked that I read the following message from the
third Blue Book on June the 12th, 1994 entitled "The Carpenter".
"You are he who goes to a carpenter to learn to make a cabinet. You
know nothing. You do not have any idea of what you are to do. The carpenter
knows exactly. He has a procedure whereby his plan will be accomplished.
Every detail must be observed. He is the Master. You do not have the talent.
You need talent to do woodwork. If you were given the talent and the
directions, you could accomplish this task with such beauty. I am the
carpenter. You are he who needs to be taught. You lack the talent. You need
the gifts of the Spirit to accomplish My task! You come to Me in total
ignorance. You are open, the Spirit fills you with the gifts. You have
everything you need to do My work. The Father created you to accomplish His
tasks. You are perfect. You must come open. You must know the plan. The plan
is His will for you. If you do not follow the plan, the cabinet will not be
built correctly. I am the Master. I guide you. I love you. I give you all
you need. I walk you through every move. If you try on your own, you have a
problem. You know not the way to build cabinets. You know not the way to Me
on your own. You must come to Me to be taught. To go it alone is to your own
detriment. Oh, little one, it is so simple. You, and your will, want to work
your own plans. You know not how to do it. Only I can teach you what you
need to know. Oh, please come to Me. I have all you need. The Spirit fills
you with the gifts to know, love and serve God. To go it alone is like
trying to build the cabinet with no knowledge of woodworking. Oh, little
ones, I love you. Come to Me. Let Me teach you. The will of the Father is
the happiness of your life. I am Jesus Christ, Son of God. I am God. I, God,
long to be with you and to teach you. Go not off on your own. Come to Me. I
love you so!"1
- Song: "Oh the rosary, the rosary..."
- And the Father told me on January the 5th of 1995 that the
Father's plan will unfold despite all the willfulness of all those involved.
He gave to us two messages in January of 1997, the messages from the Father.
Mary appeared everyday for fourteen months and she gave messages and she
cried out. People did not listen to the pleadings of their Mother. Jesus has
given to us these messages to bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart.
Mary appeared on the 5th of every month for two years and four months. And
Jesus on the 5th of December appeared instead of Mary, dying on the cross
with His mouth moving. And He said that people were not hearing Him. Then He
began to deliver very strong messages starting December the 19th. I received
these strong messages. Every night He would wake me and give me very strong
messages. In January the Father began to speak, on the 5th of the month
neither Jesus nor Mary appeared. On the 5th of February, I was sick and
could not go to the rosary and receive this message. The messages in the
Apostles Manual, these are His messages for you. For in these live rosaries,
Jesus is delivering the messages to help bring about the completion of the
Fatima message. He speaks in the message and He says that when you listen to
the live tapes in a candlelight setting, when you pray the rosary fervently
that He will be there and His Mother will be there in a special way and
grant to you special graces. And all those present will receive special
graces to be drawn ever closer to His Heart and the heart of His Mother.
They appeared, both Jesus and Mary, over and over again. Now the Father has
spoken. He is calling you the apostles to go out to carry the tapes and the
live rosaries to your individual chapters, not in the churches but in
private homes, in private settings where you can play these live rosaries
where the people there can participate in the rosary and Jesus and Mary will
be there with you. They will give you special graces to draw you ever closer
to Their Hearts. And you will receive the graces He says that He has given
when He was there and delivered the rosaries. This is His calling. These
rosaries and messages will spread throughout the world and people will know
the special grace when they pray this rosary in candlelight as Mary has
requested. You are the apostles. You will carry Their messages to the far
ends of the earth. And the world will know the fire of His love. For this is
a new era, it is a new way. It will be a new earth in which men will love
God with this great intimacy as never before and He is revealing in these
messages, the intimate secrets into His Heart. He is longing for our love.
Look at Him now in the tabernacle. See Jesus. Know that He is with us. Hear
Him crying out to you, "Oh, come to Me and tell Me of your love. I am a
Person and I am longing for you to tell Me how much you love Me. I am
Jesus." This will be the era of great love. When we love one another as
the Father intended and we love God with our whole heart, our whole soul,
and our whole being and there will not be bumping of heads on this earth,
but the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign in all hearts and the Sacred Heart
of Jesus will reign from His throne, the tabernacle, in all churches. And
the earth will be lighted with the burning fire of His love.
- And so how do we feel now? Are we persecuted? As Father
said in his homily, we are suffering. But there will be the new life and
there will be this new earth and we will fervently love God with the deepest
love. See Jesus in the garden. I know how it has felt many times to hear
Jesus call out from the tabernacle, "Come to Me. I long for that soul
that loves Me so dearly, for that soul that comes to Me and just outpours
their love to Me." See Jesus in the garden and see the sweat come from
His brow on the ground. For His greatest agony was not the agony of knowing
that He would suffer, of knowing the wounds, His greatest agony was for the
neglect, for the indifference, for the hatred, for what is inside of the
hearts of men when He is love and He longs for love and He wants us to love
one another. The greatest agony was the agony within His most Sacred Heart
filled with divine love.
- Song: "I come to you with greatest love..."
Jesus speaks:
You are My apostles that I am calling to go into this world. And I am giving
to you a heart filled with love. As you come to Me, as you come and you
adore the Almighty God and you pray before the tabernacle, I outpour to you
the greatest grace and you will carry My love into this world. Many will
know the burning fire of My love through you.
- Jesus wants intimacy with us. He wants communication with
us. He gave a special message that is in the front of the book. The new
messages are in the front of the book. Jesus wants this: for ten minutes
everyday, He wants you to take a notebook, He said a red notebook for the
fire of His love, and to write in that notebook everyday how you feel in
your heart about your beloved Jesus. In this ten minutes that you write to
Him, you will communicate to Him the desires in your heart, the troubles in
your heart, the feelings that you have in your heart to the Almighty God,
our Divine Lover. We will become intimate with Him as we write to Him in
this love letter. And after the ten minutes of writing to Him, telling Him
whatever is in our hearts, if it is love, if it is joy, we are sharing with
Him intimately the depth of our heart. And then He has requested that you
open the Blue Book messages which are His love letters to you and for ten
minutes read love letters from Him. Read each word as if Jesus is speaking
to you and hear His words of love as He outpours them to you. And after this
for the following ten minutes to spend this time conversing with Jesus,
being intimate with Jesus, sharing whatever is in your heart with His Heart.
This tool that He has given to us will increase our intimacy with Him. How
can we be intimate with Jesus if we do not really share the desires that are
deep in our heart with Him? This is His tool. These are His love letters
that He writes to you.
- Oh, my beloved Jesus, I love You so much. How many times I
have come to this tabernacle and I have sat before the tabernacle and I felt
your presence, the King on His throne, the Almighty God. And I have cried
and cried and I have heard You call out to me and say, "I long for the
soul that comes to Me and tells Me how much they love Me. I long for that
soul. I want to hear the words of love from your lips. I want love from you.
Bring Me souls. Bring Me souls for I long and I thirst for the precious
souls that I love, that I gave My life for, that I suffered for, that I
sweat blood for. I am God. I am love. And I long for love from My beloved
souls, but how few come to Me and tell Me how they love Me."
- And so I know this Person, this Person, a Divine Person,
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that came and gave Himself for love of me and
gives Himself to me everyday in the Eucharist. He comes and He gives Himself
to me. And I write these letters to Him and He becomes more and more alive
in my heart, as I read the messages that He has delivered to me. These are
His messages to bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart, where there will
be such intimacy between God and man as there has never been before in the
past. These are His letters given to bring about the completion of the
Fatima message as Mary promised. The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and
the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph. Mary appeared at Fatima. She told
us her peace plan. Jesus gives to us this day the most intimate secrets into
the love in His Heart.
- Mary appeared over and over and over again. She appeared at
Fatima. She appeared here in the Cincinnati area and her call was to bring
in the children, the children of light, that they would consecrate their
hearts to her and that she would then take them to the Heart of her Son. The
plan was to bring the children to her heart and then to lead them to these
messages that would bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart. For they are
Jesus' love letters, love letters that will help us to love Him with the
greatest intimacy. But Satan blocked this plan. Mary called and the people
came and Satan was strong for he did not want the reign of the Sacred Heart
to come. So he blocked the messages that would lead people deeply into the
Heart of Jesus. The Father has assured me and in these messages that His
plan will unfold despite all of the tactics of Satan and anyone to try to
block these messages. These are great revelations that He has given to us,
that we will know Him in a most intimate way as we have never known God
before.
The Scourging at the Pillar
- And so we must be protected against the wiles of the evil
one for he aims to stop all messages that will take men deeply into the
Heart of Christ. Mary called and the children came. And it is in
consecrating our heart to Mary that we will be able to go deeply into the
Heart of Christ.
- I sat in this chapel and received so many messages. There
are so many stories given from the Father, from Jesus, and from Mary, that
they have given to us to tell us about the Father's plan. I remember sitting
in this chapel and I looked at the window where Jesus was being whipped at
the pillar and I said to Jesus, I said, "Jesus, what were You thinking
when You were being beaten?" And He said, "I was thinking of you
sitting in the pew and telling Me of your love." For Jesus suffered
such bitter persecution, such bitter wounds, but the love that we give to
Him was sweetness during His bitter Passion. He was beaten, His flesh was
torn, His Heart was broken, for He knew all the souls that would neglect
Him, hate Him, and would be condemned to hell despite all that He did. But
He also knew the great love that we give to Him and it was such sweetness to
His Heart as He suffered during His Passion.
- And so the plan of the Father unfolds and He said how
important this chapel is to His plan. We look at the mysteries of the rosary
in the windows from the beginning, from the Annunciation all the way to when
Mary is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth. We walk these mysteries in the
lives of Jesus and Mary and their lives live in us as we meditate on the
mysteries of the rosary and as we read these meditations that He has given
to us. It is in these meditations that His life lives in us in a special
way. He is in my heart, and my soul, and my whole being from these
revelations. This is what He wants. He wants to be so one with us that He
lives in us, that every word of scripture vibrates within us as we hear the
words. We know Him and we love Him in each word in scripture, in each word
in the Mass. We cry. We fall to our face. We worship, we adore the Almighty
God. If we could see at this very moment, if we could see with eyes
unveiled, we could not even see because of the immensity of the power of the
Almighty God. He is here. God. And He is on His throne in this room and He
is longing for us to tell Him of our great love for Him. Oh, Jesus, how
dearly I love you. And the great gift that we are here and that God is in
this room with us. Who are we that the Almighty God is here in this room
with us? Oh, what a gift He has given to us. I want to cherish and love Him
with all my heart for He is all my heart craves. God is here.
- There is bitterness and there is sweetness. There is
bitterness and there is sweetness. There was a time when I prayed in this
chapel for years and then I was told to pray in a different place and there
was bitterness. As I sat in the pew, I felt such sorrow within my heart
because I had all these special rendezvous with my beautiful Jesus and Mary
in this chapel, times that I met Him most intimately and I loved Him. And I
did not want to leave and I went and prayed elsewhere. And He gave to me
greater intimacies with Him. We are sitting here in the pew this day. We do
not know what the future will hold. We only know that the Father's plan will
unfold and that men will love God with greater and greater love. Jesus is
here in the tabernacle with us today, the Almighty God. Do we treasure this
within our heart? For tomorrow we may not have this great gift in the
availability that we have it today. We do not know. Think of the great gifts
that God has given to us in the Mass and in the Eucharist and how He is
treated. I was sick and I could not go to Mass and I am writing the Mass
Book. And in that book I recalled the most intimate times all through the
Mass when I was so close to Jesus and He spoke to me and He told me of the
great intimacy that He wants with us and that the Mass is the greatest love
affair that there is, when He gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to
Him. This is what the Mass is. It's a great love affair with Jesus. And so I
could not go to Mass for a week and it was so hard as it was when I could
not pray in this chapel for a while. It was hard but He was there in another
tabernacle and He outpoured His great gifts. God is in this room at this
moment in all His might and divinity. God is present. What a great gift He
gives to us. He is outpouring His grace to us at this moment. We are being
saturated with His divine life. He is outpouring His love. He wants us to
open our heart and to tell Him, "Oh, Jesus, I love You." He is a
Person and He is waiting for an intimate love. He is revealing to us the
secrets of His Heart that we will more fervently love Him than any people
before in history. He wants us to love Him, to love Him now.
- On March the 13th, I remember this as if it happened
yesterday, in 1994, Jesus called out from the tabernacle. This was at St.
Phillips and it was so strong. He says, "I died for you, sweet
one." This is from the Blue Book Two, "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!" And He was so emotional here, I cryed and my
insides felt like I was torn within from what He hollered at me and it was
this, "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."2
- Song: "I come to you with greatest love..."
- Jesus speaks:
And so, My soldiers of love, I call you this day to be the soldiers that
will go into the dark night and will spread My love to My beloved ones. I
give to you the letters of My love. I give to you this special gift, the
gift of knowing Me in the most intimate way. You must come to Me everyday.
You must spend an hour with Me everyday, if you can, before the tabernacle
for it is there that I give you a great sharing in My life. But if you
cannot, you must spend an hour alone with Me in your home everyday. In this
hour I will tell you of My intimate love for you. Write to Me your letter.
Read My letters to you. Spend this hour alone with Me and I will sort out in
your mind all of the confusion. I will give you secrets into My Heart. I
will call you to the deepest chamber of My Heart and I will give you great
love. I am Jesus. You are My lovers that will carry My love to the world
today. You must put aside all of the bitterness and hatred in your heart for
a heart that is filled with anger cannot unite to My Heart. My way is love.
You are My apostles of love. You must be loving in your heart.
- Look at Jesus tied to the pillar. See Him with the sores
all over His body and His flesh is torn. Do you see Jesus there. This is how
He loved us. He loved even those men that beat Him. My beloved Jesus, I know
how it is today and how hard it is to love. I beg You for the grace that my
heart may be more and more like Yours for I fall and I want to love like
You. It is only through Your grace that I can be better.
- Jesus speaks:
I am giving to you great grace in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to come
ever closer to My Heart. I am asking you to spread the chapters to this
world. I am asking you to pray the prayers, to consecrate your hearts all
through the day, to say the Holy Spirit prayer and the consecration prayers
that you will be joined in one mind and one heart for you are My shepherds
that will go into the darkness and will help unite all of the people with
the fire of My love.
- Hail Mary...
The Crowning With Thorns
- And the King will reign on His throne. All men will love
God with a burning love. This great era will come soon. He is giving to us
great grace at this moment that we will know Him more intimately, that we
will be able to help carry out what the Father is asking us to do to bring
about the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate
Heart.
- So Mary appeared at Fatima and she told us what we must do.
We must carry the consecration into this world, to the church, to the
family, to the school. It is in giving our hearts to Mary that we become
children of light, that the Holy Spirit works within our hearts to make us
more and more like Jesus. And that when we go to the heart of Mary in her
pure and Immaculate Heart, we can then go into the Heart of Christ and unite
to Him.
- There will be this great era in which men will do what the
Father wills them to do. There will be great love among men. We will live as
the Father intended us to live. It is in the Shepherds of Christ Movement
that He is calling us to be one in His Heart. And as we are one in His Heart
and as we spread the consecrations, we lead the strayed ones home to His
Heart.
- See the Heart of Jesus surrounded by a crown of thorns. See
His head pierced with a crown of thorns. He is the King. He is the King of
heaven and earth. He does not wear a crown of jewels but He wears a crown of
thorns for He longs for love. He gave Himself for love of us. It is up to us
to give ourselves to Him in love and to give ourselves to one another in
love. His Heart is a heart of love. He wants us to be one with each other
and to be one in Him.
- And so how is it that I can say, "I can love you, but
not love you. And I can love you, and not love you" when the Heart of
Jesus loves all souls. He gave His life for each and every soul. If I am
divided in my heart toward any person, I am dividing myself from Jesus, for
I will not be able to unite in the deepest union with Him when there is
anger and bitterness and hatred in my heart. So we are hurting ourselves
when we are hating and feeling angry in our heart towards others. His Heart
is pure, His Heart is love. He gave Himself for each and every soul. He
loved those that crowned Him with thorns, that tore His flesh. He walked
with the wounds wide open on His body and He loved those men. He did not
shout at them. He was not arrogant. He walked and He gave Himself for love
of each and every soul.
- Jesus speaks:
You are My soldiers of love. I am calling you to be the soldiers that will
help bring about this great era.
- Hail Mary...
- And the soldiers walked across the earth. And you could
tell that they were soldiers for Christ for they loved one another, they
lived in harmony, they saw the problem, and they worked together to figure
out the problem according to the Father's will for His honor and glory. The
kingdom of God is at hand. We are the people that He is calling to help
bring about this great era in which the King will reign on His throne. But
we cannot be divided with each other. We must love and do the Father's will.
- Jesus speaks:
I give to you these messages, My beloved ones, to bring about the reign of
My Heart. They are the directions that I am giving to you. You will be My
lights that will shine in the darkness. But you must surrender. You must do
as the Father is asking you to do. You must come each day and spend this
hour alone with Me.
- Jesus gave to me a message last week and He said that the
bombs would fly around us. And He said only those that spent this hour would
be the ones that would survive. For Satan is trying to stop us. He knows
that we have been called, the apostles, to help bring about this era. We
cannot do it on our own. It only is in holiness that we can do this. It is
only by God's might that we can do this. If we do not spend the hour alone
with God everyday, we will have a problem. So Jesus gave to us this special
tool of writing these letters so that we will be more intimate with Him. In
this time we will share the most intimate desires of our heart with Jesus.
This is what He wants, intimacy with us.
The Carrying of the Cross
- Let us be there next to Mary as she walks and she sees her
Son with a cross on His back. She sees Him covered with blood. He is not
clothed in a golden robe. He is clothed in a cloak of dried blood and the
cross bears heavy on His back. And they poke at Him and they laugh at Him
and they scorn Him. Think of how we are and how we worry about what other
people think of us. How we worry about how they are looking at us, what we
are wearing. Was Jesus thinking about what people were thinking of Him when
He walked with a cross on His back?
- His Heart was consumed with the greatest divine love. He
was filled with such love for men. His greatest agony was not the poking,
not the bleeding, not the torn flesh but His greatest agony was the
rejection. Think of how it is in your life. Think of how it is when you feel
rejected and you do not feel loved. How painful that is. Think of Jesus
carrying the weight of the sins of men on His back, loving them with the
most perfect love, and seeing before His eyes all of the men that would hate
Him and ignore Him and not even have a thought of Him, that would go to the
Holy Eucharist, that would come to the church and not even realize that He
is there. Think of the people how many times they walk in front of the
tabernacle and they do not even genuflect and recognize the Almighty God,
the King of all kings, truly present. God, God is there as He is here.
Song: "In this very room there's quite enough love for one like
me..."
Jesus, Lord Jesus, is in this very room. How are our hearts for our King? Is
the King of all kings reigning in our hearts? Or are there places in our
hearts where there are debris and bitterness where we love some and we hate
others? How are our hearts? Oh, Jesus, King of all kings, give to us the
grace to be more like You.
- I love Jesus so much and I want to be so one with Him, but
it is so hard. I know that I must pray more and more. And He is showing to
me more and more everyday that it is in this hour that I spend alone with
Him that this is the true treasure after the Mass and the Holy Eucharist,
that this is the treasure. That Satan attacks and he comes as a wolf in
sheep's clothing, if I do not have this intimate time with Him everyday.
Just as Jesus said, He said "If we do not spend time alone with Him
that the devil will tear us to shreds because of the great mission that God
has called us to in the Shepherds of Christ Movement." The plan of the
Father will unfold. And it will unfold around us for this is Jesus' plan for
the renewal of the Church and the world. You have been called, an apostle. I
have been called, an apostle, and I must spend this time alone with Him
everyday or Satan will cause us to act in ways that are not like God.
- Hail Mary...
- "He put another parable before them, 'The kingdom of
heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While
everybody was asleep his enemy came, sowed darnel all among the wheat, and
made off. When the new wheat sprouted and ripened, then the darnel appeared
as well. The owner's laborers went to him and said, "Sir, was it not
good seed that you sowed in your field? If so, where does the darnel come
from?" He said to them, "Some enemy has done this." And the
laborers said, "Do you want us to go and weed it out?" But he
said, "No, because when you weed out the darnel you might pull up the
wheat with it. Let them both grow till the harvest; and at harvest time I
shall say to the reapers: First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to
be burnt, then gather the wheat into my barn."'" (Matt. 13: 24-30)3
- The Father gave me a very strong message in this chapel and
He said that I should read the accounts of Noah. I have not been taught
greatly in the Scriptures. I only know what Jesus has taught me and what I
have read. I went and read the account of Noah and someone that was typing
the rosary said, "Exactly what you said was in Matthew." And so I
read this from Matthew 24:37-44. It says: "As it was in Noah's day, so
will it be when the Son of man comes. For in those days before the Flood
people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the
day Noah went into the ark, and they suspected nothing till the Flood came
and swept them all away. This is what it will be like when the Son of man
comes. Then of two men in the fields, one is taken, one is left; of two
women grinding at the mill, one is taken, one is left. So stay awake,
because you do not know the day when your master is coming. You may be quite
sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night
the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have
allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house. Therefore, you too
must stand ready because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not
expect."4
- And Mary said, "The time is nigh that the children of
light walk next to the children of darkness." And she called and she
called and she called and men in their willfulness ignored her call. How do
we think that the Father expected us to respond to the calling of our
heavenly Mother. We are to obey our earthly mother but look at how we have
disobeyed our heavenly Mother at Fatima.
- She appeared over and over and over again and she called to
the children of light to come to her heart. And it was there that she would
take them to these messages to lead men deeply into the Heart of her Son.
But Satan blocked these messages. Mary appears now as she did not appear
before. She appears on the building in Florida. On December the 19th, I got
a very strong message from Jesus and Mary both of which are in the Apostles
Manual. And Mary said, "I appear on a bank in Florida, my children,
because you have made money your god." She said, "I do not appear
as I once did." And then she told me to spread the tape, Mary's
Message, which I was told to make on December the 12th. Mary appears on a
building in Florida. She wants to lead men to these messages given by her
Son that will help bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart.
- The time is nigh.
- The more that we spread the consecration, the more souls
will be turned to children of light. Mary has told us at Fatima what we must
do. Jesus is giving to us these messages to help bring about the completion
of the Fatima message in which His Heart will reign and her heart will
triumph.
Jesus Dies on the Cross
- In John 16: 23-28, it says, "When that day comes, you
will not ask me any questions. In all truth I tell you, anything you ask
from the Father he will grant in my name. Until now you have not asked
anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and so your joy will be
complete. I have been telling you these things in veiled language. The hour
is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language but tell
you about the Father in plain words. When that day comes you will ask in my
name; and I do not say that I shall pray to the Father for you, because the
Father himself loves you for loving me, and believing that I came from God.
I came from the Father and have come into the world and now I am leaving the
world to go to the Father."5
- Jesus has told me that He is giving His teachings to us in
plain talk. He has given twenty books of messages since the end of 1993. As
we read these messages we know Him more and more and He lives within our
heart. Every word in the Scriptures penetrates our heart as a two-edged
sword. The more that I read these messages, the more that every word comes
alive to me in the Scriptures and in the Mass. He is unveiling the
Scriptures in these messages and He is writing the messages of His love on
our hearts in plain talk.
- Jesus appeared on December the 5th hanging on the cross for
twenty minutes and His mouth moved and moved and moved and moved. And He
looked as a man hanging on the cross dying and it was horrifying, after
seeing Mary appear every single month for over two years and then seeing
Jesus instead of Mary when I went there. This is from the Mass Book:
"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. 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, 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?"
- I saw Jesus on the cross on December the 5th and He looked
as a dying man on the cross. His body was that of a live man. And in all His
agony, I saw His mouth move and move and move. For He has spoken over and
over and over again of His love and we do not hear. He is asking you today
to help to spread His letters of love into this world. It is through these
revelations that He has given that He will greatly bring about the reign of
His Sacred Heart. For men will intimately love God in a way that they have
not loved God before. He has opened Himself up wide and revealed the deepest
secrets into His most intimate love. And we have not treated this great gift
with the gratitude that we should. He wants us to take these letters and to
spread them to the souls that are hurting and in pain, that they will read
His words of love and that He will reign as King in their hearts.
- And what is the mighty medicine for the sick world, for the
world that is hurting, that longs for love, that has suffered so many
abuses? What is the mighty medicine? It is the burning love of Jesus Christ.
It must be in the hearts of men. As men give themselves in consecration to
the heart of Mary and to the Heart of Jesus, the Sacred Heart of Jesus will
reign in their hearts and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph.
- There is a man hanging on the cross and He does not have to
speak. If we study Him, we will see His undying, everlasting love.
- Jesus speaks:
I have delivered to you this day this rosary, My beloved ones. I want your
love. I want you to come to My Heart. I want you to give Me your heart, all
through the day to tell Me, "Oh, Jesus, how I love you and I give
myself to you." I will be King and Center of your heart when you come
to Me and you spend time with Me after you have received Holy Communion,
when you come to Me and you spend time before the tabernacle, when you spend
intimate moments with Me in your room at home. I want intimacy with you. It
takes time to be intimate. I am Jesus. I am the Almighty God. I have all
that you need. You must come to Me and I will heal your wounds, I will love
you and I will give you My divine love.
- And how do we feel when we go to the tabernacle? How do we
feel when we go to the tabernacle or when we spend time alone with Him? He
gives us great gifts, gifts of peace and joy in our heart. There is not
another way. We must spend this time alone with Him or as He said in the
message the bombs are going to fly around us. And if we do not have this
intimate time with Him, Satan will tear us to shreds.
- We give our hearts to Mary and she takes us into the
deepest chambers of the Heart of her Son.
- There is a man hanging on the cross. He gave Himself for
love of us. He did not holler and scream. In His last dying words He gave us
His Mother. We must give ourselves to our Mother Mary and give ourselves to
Him.
Jesus speaks:
I am Jesus, My beloved ones. This is the message that I give to you on the
13th of February to help with the completion of the Fatima message. I am
asking you to carry these rosaries and messages to the far corners of the
earth for I give to you My love letters to bring about the reign of My
Sacred Heart. You are the apostles that will help bring about the reign of
the Sacred Heart. You are the messengers. I have called you. I have chosen
you. You must do the Father's will. I am giving to you the directions in
these messages that are needed to help bring about the reign of My Sacred
Heart. The Shepherds of Christ Movement is major in bringing about the
renewal of the church and the world. You have been called to this movement.
Satan will try to lead you astray by doing other good works. He will cause
division in your hearts. You must know that I, Jesus Christ, am calling you
this day. You are a major part of the completion of the Fatima message. You
are part of the Father's plan. You have been called to this chapel and great
miracles will happen in your heart this day if you open your heart to Me. I
love you. I am waiting for your most intimate love.
Notes:
1. Rita Ring, God's Blue Book Vol. 3, Shepherds of Christ Publications
p. 122.
2. Rita Ring, God's Blue Book Vol. 2, Shepherds of
Christ Publications p. 159.
3. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem
Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.
4. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem
Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.
5. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem
Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.
February 13, 1997
very carefully discerned by Fr. Edward
Carter
Talk given by Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Founder of Shepherds of Christ Ministries
Talk given February 13, 1997 National Conference of
Shepherds of Christ, held at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, Norwood,
Ohio.
Before we begin the
rosary, I’d like to say a few words about the great importance of these days
on the 13th of each month. Before Our Lord asked me to begin the Shepherds of
Christ Ministries, the 1st dimension of that ministries was given to me on May
the 31st, 1994. But before Our Lord asked me to start the ministries, I had
been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. And I knew that everything
concerning recent Marian apparitions centered around the Fatima message. The
Fatima message is key to the peace of the world, as Our Lady of Fatima has
told us. So because I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima,
it was no surprise to me when Our Lord told me, and through me the whole
Movement, the great connection that there would be between Shepherds of Christ
Ministries and helping to bring the Fatima message to conclusion. I’ll
expand more upon that in my talk this afternoon. But here and now I’d like
to read just a part of the message I received on October the 13th, 1994, when
Our Lord called the full Ministries into existence. It had begun May 31st ,
some five or six months previous to that. But really October the 13th, 1994,
marks the real birth, the complete birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries.
And part of the message I received on that day reads as follows:
"I am giving you this message on this
day, the 77th anniversary of the great apparition at Fatima, because of the
close connection between the Shepherds of Christ Movement and the Fatima
message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My
Mother’s Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of
Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use
Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring
about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the Reign of My Sacred Heart.
Today then, October the 13th, 1994, the 77th anniversary of the great
apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I
pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, the Chief
Shepherd of the Flock."
The calling of Our Lord
to Shepherds of Christ to be present if possible at these meetings on the 13th
of each month, and if they cannot be present physically, to be present in
spirit with us then comes as no surprise. It’s merely another unfolding in
the history of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and in the Fatima message.
These 13th of the months
meetings are extremely important. They are great instruments which Our Lord
and Our Lady are using to help bring to completion the Fatima message, which
will result in that great era of peace, which Our Lady of Fatima promised
eventually would come to the world.
So I ask you to take
these meetings on the 13th of the month with the utmost seriousness,
gratitude, thanksgiving, joy that Our Lord, for His own reasons has chosen
Shepherds of Christ, the members thereof, the whole Ministries to play such a
great part in the completion of the Fatima message. It comes as no surprise
either that Our Lord gives special messages during the rosary on the meeting
of the 13th, just as Our Lady of Fatima gave messages to the three visionaries
at Fatima in 1917, from May through October. So at this stage of the Fatima
message’s unfolding, it is no surprise that they continue, and in a new way
and a new phase of the Fatima plan, give us these very special messages on the
13th. They are meant not only for us here present, they are meant for all
members of the Movement, and eventually for the whole world. All these
messages, all these rosaries on the 13th, eventually go onto our Internet with
its world-wide audience.
So please, be very
grateful to God for the messages He gives us during the rosary. Not everything
which Rita says is a message. I think you’ll be able to distinguish when
she’s receiving a message from Our Lord or from Our Lady, and when she is
speaking from her own heart. Sometimes the transition is very quick and you
may miss it, but there are both ways in which meditations are given on the
decades: in strict locutions or messages, and then from Rita’s meditations
or reflections herself.
(After the Rosary)
I wish to thank everybody
who made the effort to be here with us, especially those people who had to
travel from out of town. I’m sure the Lord has blessed you already and will
continue to do so for your effort to be here. These are extremely important
meetings on the 13th of the month. Our Lord has, Himself, instructed us in His
great love and mercy for us and the whole world to have them. From these
meetings, the messages of Our Lord, the previous message given at Fatima, go
out to the whole world...
I sort of left off when I
introduced the rosary by reading the rest, or at least a good part of the
rest, of that message which I, myself, received on October the 13th, 1994,
when Our Lord called the full Shepherds of Christ Ministries into existence.
"My beloved priest-companion, today I
come to you with another mission."
He had already asked me
on May the 31st of 1994 to start the priestly newsletter and then shortly
after that to start the prayer chapters.
"I’m asking you
to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already
begun the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the prayer chapters,
Shepherds of Christ Associates...
"I am giving you
this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at
Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ
movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion
to My Heart and My Mother’s Heart, especially in consecration to Our
Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our
Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in
helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of
My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be
experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.
"Today, then,
October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima,
marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great
love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the
flock."
So (this is) one of the
most important messages given in the whole history of our Movement, and I
think you can see why. Not only was Our Lord calling the Ministries into full
bloom with this message, but He was making that great connection between
Shepherds of Christ and the Fatima message.
You see how He says that
both the Fatima message and Shepherds of Christ is centered in devotion, and
especially in consecration, to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
So in my moments here
before you this afternoon, I wish to speak a bit about this consecration.
I’ll start off by
reading a message of Our Lord and from "Tell My People" which deals
with this consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
"My beloved
friend, tell My people that I desire all to consecrate themselves to My
Sacred Heart and to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Tell them not to just recite
words in making the Act of Consecration, but to realize what they are
saying. Consecration to Our Hearts means a total gift of self. That means
handing over everything to Me and My Mother. Consecration means a
willingness to surrender completely to Me. In Baptism, one is consecrated to
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But how many fail to live out their
consecration? I extend to all the invitation to renew this Baptismal
consecration through consecration to My Heart and to My Mother’s Heart.
"My beloved
companion, I have taught you what this consecration means. I have given you
great peace, joy and happiness because you have made this consecration. I
have taught you that you are to renew this act of consecration each day. I
constantly remind you that you are to pray each day for the grace to more
and more live the consecration. I have taught you that your consecration to
Me and My Mother means that you constantly surrender yourself to Us and to
Our care. I have taught you that the more you surrender yourself to Me, the
more I live in you, and through you and for you. I have taught you that My
great love for you longs to draw you more deeply into My Heart. I have shown
you that I wish your Mother Mary to place you there within My Heart, and
that the more you dwell within her Heart, the more deeply she places you
within My Heart. Dwelling within Our Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions you
more and more in My likeness. The Father thus looks upon you with greater
favor and takes you more closely to Himself.
"Tell My people all these wondrous
truths. I am Lord and Master and I desire all to listen to My words. (end of
message)"
And what beautiful words
those are, which Christ gives all, to us all regarding the consecration to His
Heart and Mary’s Heart.
I want to - after that
message of Jesus telling us what consecration involves, I wish to single out a
few aspects of the consecration, what it includes. One aspect of our
consecration and especially the consecration which Our Lord has given us for
Shepherds of Christ, one aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to
realize that we are apostles and that we are called to go out into the world
as we have heard in the rosary today, and other times to be the apostles of
His love, of His love and His Mother’s love, and thus to help bring about
that great era of peace promised by Our Lord, Our Lady of Fatima in which love
will just dominate. That’s what it means when Our Lady says, "In the
end," she says, "my Immaculate Heart will triumph." And along
with that triumph of her Immaculate Heart will occur the Reign of the Sacred
Heart. The Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart
simply is a reign of love, a triumph of love and in that era there will be a
type of love existent in the hearts of the members of the human family never
known before. We will all be so united in love to the Father and the Holy
Spirit through the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And not only with Them, but with
each other. What a glorious era we have to look forward to.
We are apostles. More and
more as the Movement has gone on, Jesus is letting us know that, yes, we are
supposed to pray. This is one of our primary duties in the chapters and
elsewhere, to pray for priests and all others. But more and more He is telling
us that now is the time to start to more and more move out from our chapters
and to be apostles of His love, to help spread the Movement, to help spread
the consecrations in the schools through the consecration cards, the Rosary
Aves, both of which have the Imprimatur of the Cincinnati Archdiocese, to help
spread all our materials, all our books and all the various rosaries, the
rosary tapes. And you are called to do that.
In the beginning of the
Movement, it was a relatively few people who were carrying the burden and
carrying the Ministry on. We have entered a great new episode of the Movement,
principally in that episode, principally centers itself around these meetings
of the 13th. More and more people are realizing as they hear more and more the
messages, more and more people in the Movement are hearing that Jesus is
calling each one of us to be apostles of the Movement, to spread the Movement,
to help implement the various ministries in all ways possible, to help spread
the movement by starting new prayer chapters. Just think if we have something
like, I guess, 2500-3000 members in the chapters and the Apostles of the
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement here in this country and throughout the
world-most of those, thus far, in this country.
But just think if each
person would take it upon himself or herself to go all out to get one more new
chapter formed. That’s not impossible, I don’t think that’s asking
something heroic. That would double our chapters; that would double our prayer
power. And so much of the Movement, the success of it, depends upon the prayer
power coming out of the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of
Jesus Movement. So He’s calling all of us; and how admirably so many in the
Movement are answering. I wish to single out-just because all of you know
about the Florida apparition-four or five, six, I don’t know how many now of
our members from Rita’s core group have gone down to the apparition site.
One of our main members, Tom A., has a home there at St. Petersburg, and
Clearwater is just a short distance from there. And they’ve been going down
and staying in his house, and each day going over to the apparition site and
handing out our materials, especially the rosary message tape, but other
materials also. This is what Our Lord, Our Lady has asked us to do. And
they’ve had phenomenal success. We can’t keep enough materials down there.
They just, the people are just so eager for it. But this is what. . .and they
do it on their own time, they drive down, some of them spend three or four
days, some a week and they come back. But what a marvelous example of their
answering the call to the apostleship to which Jesus calls them in the
Movement. And they’re doing just a tremendous amount of good.
And by the way when I’m
talking and as long as I’m talking about Florida I might read you part of
that message of Our Lady. You have read it, no doubt if you’d gotten a copy
of the picture with the message on the back. But for my own purposes I want to
read that here and now. So Mary tells us, this is the message which Rita
received on December the 19th:
Mary speaks: My dear children, I
give to you, my Son, Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem on Christmas
morn’. He is the Almighty God the Light of the world.
I appear to you, my
children on a bank in Florida. You have made money your god! Do you know how
cold are your hearts? You turn away from my Son, Jesus for your money. Your
money is your god.
I am Mary, your Mother.
I do not appear as I once appeared to you.
When Rita got that
message and when she gave it to me, both of us for a number of days thought
that her number of apparitions was simply decreasing, but we both came to the
conclusion; well Rita came to the conclusion and I followed after her, in
agreement with her conclusion, Mary says, "I do not appear as I once
appeared to you." She was saying apparently that, "I’m appearing
to you in this new way, where the whole world can see me."
So many others’
apparition sites have had their believers of course, but many, many people
throughout the world have doubted all this talk about the various apparition
sites of Mary. She says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to
you." She is appearing on a bank for the whole world to see.
Mary continues:
"I am asking you
today to circulate my message given on a tape on the Feast of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. Please circulate this tape now."
That’s one of the main
things our apostles down in Florida are doing, handing out the tapes with this
message.
Mary continues:
"Please circulate
this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother.
Please circulate my Rosary Book."
She’s referring to a
book which Shepherds of Christ Publications came out right around Christmas
time. Hopefully all of you have received it in the mail, Rosaries from the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as given to Rita. Now here’s the point I want to
make here and now. Notice how she links up the apparition site with the
circulation of her Rosary Book, and we are circulating the book there. But to
me, there’s a very great phenomenon connected with the colors on the window,
bank windows and the Rosary Book. And Rita herself pointed this out to me. Now
this cover on this book-it was designed by Hal K. weeks and even months before
the apparition of Our Lady on the bank in Florida. When did you start to
design that Hal? (question asked to Harold K.) Almost, two years ago. And the
colors were already selected months ago, right? Well if you’ll take the
picture of the bank of the apparition of the bank on Florida, and this Rosary
Book, you will notice that the colors are the same. To me, that’s a
miraculous confirmation of the fact that Our Lady is connecting the apparition
site on the bank in Florida with the Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a
special way with the rosaries. It’s just phenomenal. You can check the
colors out one by one. They’re a little bit brighter on the book, but
because of the photography involved I think you can see how they wouldn’t be
quite as bright on this. But check out the colors. They’re the same on the
Rosary Book and on this. And these colors, as I say, were picked by Hal months
and months before the apparition. You can take it for what you want, but for
me it’s a miraculous confirmation of this message, that Our Lady chose those
same colors which are on the front of her Rosary Book, to show the same colors
relative to her apparition there on the bank in Florida.
Therefore, our Florida
apostles are one of the many examples I could point out to you of how people
in the Movement are more and more taking up the challenge, the invitation of
Jesus and Mary to spread this Movement throughout the world. They have chosen
the Shepherds of Christ Movement as a great instrument to help bring about the
Fatima message. How privileged we are to be part of it, to be called to it. I
believe, I’ve told you this before, at least some of you have heard me, I
think this Movement is one of the greatest in the history of the Church. And I
think history itself will bear that out. So how precious a gift each of us has
been given by Our Lord in calling us to be members of this Movement.
Therefore, a very
important aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to be apostles, to
help spread all the ministries. Another aspect of our consecration is the idea
of union. I think we’re all very well aware how the consecration unites us
to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and through Them to the Father and the Holy
Spirit. But perhaps we don’t think often enough of that how it unites us
with one another, in the Movement, in the Church, throughout the whole world.
You cannot grow in union with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary,
without growing in union with all your neighbors. And this is the tough part.
It’s relatively easy to love Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, isn’t
it? Three Persons in One God infinitely perfect and Mary a human person,
perfect, free from all sin. It’s easy to love the Triune Persons and Mary,
relatively speaking. But it’s not all that easy to love each other all the
time, isn’t it? And yet that’s what Jesus calls us to. Jesus literally
died for each and every person. And no matter how unattractive a person is in
their behavior, Jesus still died for that person. If He loved that person
enough to die for that person, then certainly we have to love them, him or
her, and especially within the Movement. Satan is violently attacking us, he
will always try to cause division in the Movement. But if we are going to be
examples - and we are called to that, to be examples to the whole Church and
the whole world of what it’s going to be like in the new era, when we all
exist in such great loving union with each other in Christ. We are the
forerunners of that. We’re helping to prepare the way for that for the whole
Church, for the whole world. Not only us, but we have been given a special
mission for that. So we have to be united in love with each other, if we have
differences, we work them out in love and in peace. We work them out in love
and in peace. In one of the Blue Books, Jesus says, "The glass is either
half-empty or it’s half-full." I look at my neighbor, whether he or she
is in the Movement or outside of it. I can either look at the half-empty part
of the glass or the half-full part. I can either look at that person’s
faults and concentrate on them, or I can concentrate on the great goodness
which is inherently theirs. If they are in the state of sanctifying grace,
their soul is magnificently beautiful, despite the blemishes of their failings
of their sins. When I look at a person, do I look at the half-empty part or
the half-full part?
Everyday I ask you to
pray for a growing unity in the Movement. What Our Lord has allowed us to
accomplish so far in less than three years is just miraculous, I think it’s
just miraculous. The sign becomes ever and ever greater that He started this
Movement, not me. I was just the instrument which He chose to head it up. He
has given me so many beautiful people to help me do the Movement and that
includes all of you. He has given you so many beautiful companions in the
Movement. Let us concentrate on that part of it. This is the only way we’re
going to be models to the rest of the Church and the world, of the profound
union that Our Lord calls us to, not only with Himself, but with each other.
Strength for all this,
day after day, it’s not easy to live this way, is it? But as I said in my
homily, the great strength we have for that is the Eucharist. The power of the
Eucharist is much greater than your faults or my faults or the faults of
others in the Movement that surround you, or the faults of others in your
parish, or the rest of the Church and the world. He can give you the strength
to arise above your own faults and the faults of others around you, and march
forward in the most positive way towards this great new era. Oh what a gift
the Eucharist is.
St. Julian Eymard, the
founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, who gave us such beautiful writings
on the Eucharist, in one of his writings on the Eucharist he says:
"It is true also
that the world does all in its power to prevent us from loving Jesus in the
most Blessed Sacrament with a real and practical love, to prevent us from
visiting Him and cripple the effects of His love. This world engrosses the
attention of souls; it finds and enslaves them with external occupations in
order to deter them from dwelling too long on the love of Jesus. It even
fights directly against this practical love and represents it as optional,
as practicable at most only in a convent. And the devil wages incessant
warfare on our love for Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament. He knows that
Jesus is there, living and substantially present; that by Himself He is
drawing souls and taking direct possession of them. The devil tries to
efface the thought of the Eucharist in us, and the good impression made by
it; for in his mind, that should decide the issue of the struggle."
(That is if we give in to Jesus’ desire to possess us in the Eucharist.)
"And yet God is all love. This gentle Savior pleads with us from the
Host: "Love Me as I have loved you; abide in My love! I came to cast
the fire of love on the earth, and My most ardent desire is that it should
set your hearts on fire." 1
1St. Peter Eymard, "The
Most Blessed Sacrament Is Not Loved!," as in The Treasury of
Catholic Wisdom, Fr. John Hardon, S.J., ed.; Ignatius Press, p. 384.
Union amongst ourselves
through our union with Jesus and Mary and Father and Holy Spirit. Each of you
is so precious to Jesus. He has given each of you a very, very, very special
gift, precious gift, in calling you to be involved in this Movement. Very
early on in the Movement, it was July 31st of 1994, on the Feast of St.
Ignatius, He often gives me very important messages on key feasts, and the
Feast of St. Ignatius is a feast for Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola, the founder of
the Jesuits. And He told me in that message that He would give great, great,
great graces to those who join the Movement, and hope I’m sure, all of you
who have been in the Movement have experienced those great graces. In
appreciation for the great graces Jesus has given you in the Movement, I ask
you, with great joy and a great sense of responsibility and a great sense of
privilege, to do what you can to implement the ministries of the Movement. No
one else can do your role, can carry out your part. You are preciously unique,
no one exists like you now, no one ever has, no one ever will. It’s you
alone who can give Jesus the opportunity to do what He wants through your
humanity to help spread the Movement. To the extent that you answer Jesus and
give yourselves to Him, and work as time and energy permits, as your other
duties permit to help spread the ministries, to that extent you give Him an
opportunity which no one else can give Him, and to the extent that you hold
back, to this extent He loses this opportunity which no one else can give Him.
A precious Savior who has
done so much to each of us. Certainly He deserves our full loving response. As
I kneel before the crucifix each day, either before a actual crucifix or one
in my mind, let us ask ourselves those questions posed to us by Ignatius
Loyola, "What have I done for Christ?" "What am I now doing for
Christ?" "What ought I to do for Christ?"
end of February
13, 1997 talk by Fr. Carter
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