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.


I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun.

July 20, 2000


A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.


Messenger: Include Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in 6:20 prayers.


Messenger: Our mission is this, to give our lives to God, united to the Mass for souls, with consecrated hearts.

Our mission is to reach souls so that they offer up their lives united to the Mass for the Church and the world - for all souls. (our own included)



Messenger: Christ came as Savior.

WE WALK IN HIS FOOTSTEPS.

WE HELP IN THE ACT OF REDEMPTION.

OUR LOVE IS SO GREAT FOR HIS SOULS.

HE LOVED THEM SO MUCH HE GAVE HIMSELF TO HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS.

WE LAY OUR LIVES DOWN FOR OUR OWN SALVATION AND FOR THE SAKE OF SOULS.


Isaiah 12: 2A, 3A

Look, he is the God of my salvation:
I shall have faith and not be afraid,

Joyfully you will draw water 
from the springs of salvation




Messenger:  Our offering is most pure as we give our hearts to Jesus and Mary

In the back of Holy Cross-Immaculata Church I saw Him at the point of death hanging on the cross.

I was so shaken and horrified, in tears, and He opened His mouth trying to talk and no words came out. (December 5, l996)

Early January, l996 - I saw Him transfigured in the front of the church as He appeared in the Sacred Heart statue.

December l7, l996, Mary appeared in Clearwater, Florida.


Revelations l2: 1-2

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.


Matthew 28: l6-20

Meanwhile the eleven disciples set out for Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had arranged to meet them. When they saw him they fell down before him, though some hesitated. Jesus came up and spoke to them. He said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And look, I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.'



Words of Surrender of a Soul

Words of Consecration to God

Today Lord, (today's date), I give You my entire will-

I give You all my liberties, I want to love and serve You as You desire.

I surrender myself to You.

I ask You to run my life.

I ask You to help me act like You, Jesus, and like Your Mother Mary.

God, this day I consecrate myself to You.

I am  (name) , Your beloved child, guide me on my way now as I go about my day (or if in Church) as I leave Your Eucharistic presence.


Messenger: My dream is to live every moment at the consecration of the Mass where I unite more fully in that moment, and I pray the words He gave to me in that vision of being so completely surrendered to Him. I pray this prayer, too, after the reception of the Eucharist. It is my gift of giving myself more completely to Him. Is this not what love is?

The Son of God - God Almighty gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist - in the Mass - should we not give ourselves most completely to Him?



Messenger: This is love - the gift of self to the other - the other gives himself to us. How completely God gives us Himself.

I see from afar a priest raise the Host, raise the chalice, through Him, with Him and in Him.



Messenger: At every moment the bell tolls reminding me of this precious moment that goes on constantly around the world and that I can unite with that and help in the act of redemption.

My life is a gift to Him.

From afar I see the priest now, oh that precious gift. That all would unite to this precious gift as little children of the Father and Mother and pray in this union for our family, our human family on this earth and the souls in purgatory!

Oh God, help us to see more fully the gift given and as the brides of Christ unite so fully in this act of love, of ourselves given to Him in Holy Sacrifice.


Words of Surrender of a Soul

Words of Consecration to God

Today Lord, (today's date), I give You my entire will-

I give You all my liberties, I want to love and serve You as You desire.

I surrender myself to You.

I ask You to run my life.

I ask You to help me act like You, Jesus, and like Your Mother Mary.

God, this day I consecrate myself to You.

I am  (name) , Your beloved child, guide me on my way now as I go about my day (or if in Church) as I leave Your Eucharistic presence.


Messenger: My life is yours, I am your child, Father. I ask in this Holy Eucharist to do all I can to tell others, especially those in our Church, of the great gift God gives to us.

Oh, I cry for joy for this gift of God given to us today.

Through Him, With Him and In Him-

All things in Him. All things offered united to the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present now on the altar through our precious priests.



Messenger: In yesterday's message Jesus told us to reach nursing homes and prisons that all will offer their lives to Him.

Here is a short prayer to give them.

     God, I give you my life in union with the Mass for souls, the Church and the priests.

Soon little cards will be available, make your own little cards and give them to elderly and nursing home people so they will offer their lives as a sacrifice to God in union with the Mass.


Excerpt from the Mass Book

Oh the Mass, the greatest gift of love between God and man. The Almighty God gives Himself completely to us and we give ourselves to Him. The Bread of Life comes to me and outpours His love, His life to me. The sacrifice is God, He is the Lamb of God, and He gives Himself to us. I experience an intense sharing in His divine love. Oh God, open our eyes and give us lights that we may see more clearly the great gift You give us, that we may in this great act of love, give ourselves more completely, that we will worship You and praise You and bow down and adore our most beauteous God. I love You, I love You, oh I love You God, Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Enlighten us that we will treasure this great gift given to us. God gives Himself to man.


Prayer for the proper disposition of heart at the Consecration of the Mass

Oh God, help me to be so one with you in the Holy Sacrifice. I want to be so deeply united to Mary’s pure Heart so I can be so one with Jesus in offering this holy Sacrifice.

Oh Father, please look down from heaven and see this holy Sacrifice and outpour your grace on our Church and our world and especially on our priests and our youth.

Oh God, we cry to you to hear us and help us and outpour Your grace and mercy. We love You so much, and we are so sorry for all our sins and the sins of the human race for all time.

Help us unite as a body at every moment with the Masses going on around the world, and in offering up our lives as a sacrifice, let us help to bring great grace down on the earth for our priests and the Church and the world.

Oh God we love you so, we pray this prayer from all our hearts united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We offer it to the Father, united to Jesus in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, with Mary at our side, and united to all angels and saints and the souls in purgatory. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, help us, protect us, we place our trust in Thee.

Oh God, help us, We want to make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary for the offenses against them. Holy Spirit, fill us.

Oh God, we plead to You to grant grace for souls. Help us! Help souls Jesus gave His life for. Help us. Help our children and our priests.


A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

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

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

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

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

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

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

-God's Blue Book, December 27, 1995


Messenger: When giving the people the little card give them the card "I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love."

That makes the offering a most pure offering in Their pure Hearts and all our actions bring down greater grace in Their pure Hearts.

I write to you now, my brothers, as my precious Jesus instructs me. I love souls so much, a little as He loved them. If I am so united to Him offering my life as a sacrifice united to the Mass to help save souls, it will make a difference. Our lives are so important to His plan. I am one person and my life can make such a difference to help in the salvation of souls when united to His offering of Himself in the Mass through the priest.

Jesus told me to write to you and the emotion in my soul is so deep with tear-filled eyes in every word. I am pleading that you help me with the offering of your own lives united to the Mass for the sake of souls and help me reach others to do likewise. I am one person, I give myself as completely as I am able. The body of Christ must realize how important their role is in this in acting in as far as they are able as a priestly people offering sacrifice.


Revelations l: 5-6

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the First-born from the dead, the highest of earthly kings. He loves us and has washed away our sins with his blood, and made us a Kingdom of Priests to serve his God and Father; to him, then, be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.


Revelations 5: 9-10

They sang a new hymn:

You are worthy to take the scroll
and to break its seals,
because you were sacrificed,
    and with your blood
you bought people for God
of every race, language, people and nation
and made them
    a line of kings and priests for God,
to rule the world.


Messenger: It is up to us to participate as fully as we can as a body for the sake of souls and to get others to lay down their lives as a sacrifice.

This means offering up our daily activities united to the Mass. What a waste to not offer up all our sufferings and joys so we can help that great grace can be released.

My life is centered around the Mass. I am a member of His body, His bride. I offer sacrifice being one in Him for the precious souls He gave His life for.

I am emotional, for I love so deeply His precious souls and my life here when offered this way can help to bring down great grace for our troubled world.

Only His grace will change the hearts.

I want to show you Lucia's vision June l3, 1929.

On June 13, 2000, we had a special ceremony for apostles in China, Indiana.

On June l3, 1999, the monstrance with the exposed Blessed Sacrament moved while we prayed there. It faced one side of the church then the other. This is on video.

There was a message from Jesus that day-

(Coming soon the message from Jesus from the rosary recorded live!)

(This is also recorded on a tape, available called tape 1 Consecration, made on July 31, l999, at the request of Jesus on the Feast of St. Ignatius)

In a few days on July 31, it will be the wonderful feast of our beloved St. Ignatius Loyola. The nine day period before begins July 23. Let's all join together and ask St. Ignatius to intercede to God to grant grace that the Jesuits will help us more and more in this mission. That the Jesuits will help us spreading the priestly newsletter and the consecration and rosary to the earth and all that is needed to help spread the devotion to the Sacred Heart as Jesus desires. We will pray in this 9 day period for ourselves and our calling to help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart. We will pray for the Jesuits, whom we love, through the intercession of St. Ignatius.

I love St. Ignatius so much. Every July 31,  I have received the most wonderful graces on this Feast at Mass that day. I feel really close to St. Francis Xavier, too. I think we should pray through his powerful intercession and that of St. Claude La Columbiere and St. Margaret Mary.

Let's make this nine day novena praying through their powerful intercession.

Here is a message our founder, a Jesuit, received on July 31, l994.


Message from Jesus to Our Founder on July 31, 1994

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement,
Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world. 

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for
spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart. 

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great
blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of
My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit." 


- Message from Jesus to Our Founder, as given on July 31, 1994, feast of 
Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits).



Messenger: Our lives here are important to Jesus. We are intercessors for souls, intercessors praying for the priests, the Church and the world. We love like He loved and we pray like He did with burning love in our hearts for His precious souls.


Luke 12: 49-50

'I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!


From the Mass of St. Ignatius


Timothy 1: 12-17

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength. By calling me into his service he has judged me trustworthy, even though I used to be a blasphemer and a persecutor and contemptuous. Mercy, however, was shown me, because while I lacked faith I acted in ignorance; but the grace of our Lord filled me with faith and with the love that is in Christ Jesus. Here is a saying that you can rely on and nobody should doubt: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I myself am the greatest of them; and if mercy has been shown to me, it is because Jesus Christ meant to make me the leading example of his inexhaustible patience for all the other people who were later to trust in him for eternal life. To the eternal King, the undying, invisible and only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.


Luke 9: 18-26

Now it happened that he was praying alone, and his disciples came to him and he put this question to them, 'Who do the crowds say I am?' And they answered, 'Some say John the Baptist; others Elijah; others again one of the ancient prophets come back to life.' 'But you,' he said to them, 'who do you say I am?' It was Peter who spoke up. 'The Christ of God,' he said. But He gave them strict orders and charged them not to say this to anyone.

First prophecy of the Passion

He said, 'The Son of man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.'

The condition of following Christ

Then, speaking to all, he said, 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, will save it. What benefit is it to anyone to win the whole world and forfeit or lose his very self? For if anyone is ashamed of me and of my words, of him the Son of man will be ashamed when he comes in his own glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels.


Messenger: My whole life is centered around Him.

The Eucharist is the greatest gift given to us.

Oh that we would cherish this gift and be as He wants.

The Church is His bride.

The faithful are His brides.

We offer sacrifice and partake as we are able in His holy priesthood in being one with Him at Mass.

Lord I give you myself - take all my liberties - my entire will.

Please rule my life, I am your bride, you are the Bridegroom of my soul.

I call You Master.

You are God.


(Please copy and pass out to family and friends.)


Sorrowful MotherMary'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.

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

(End of Mary's Message)


MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY
AND THE WORLD

I _________________ give my heart to
You Jesus and Mary on this day

_________________
I promise to help spread the devotion to
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

          


Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How do I feel when I do something really special for you and you do not notice?


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