17th Book
Theme:
The Hearts of Jesus and Mary
- Holy Spirit Prayer
- Prayer for Union with Jesus
- Song: Immaculate Mary
- Song: To Jesus Heart All Burning
- August 13, 1994 Message
- From Fr. Carter's Book, The Spirituality of Fatima and
Medjugorje
- St. Teresa Prayer
- The Beatitudes
- Song: The Song of the Beatitudes
- August 11, 1994 - I Watched You
- Song: From the Day you were Born
- Mary and the Church, From Fr. Carter's book
Mother at Our Side
August 10, 1994
Song: Mary's Song
Song: Lady of Medjugorje
July 25, 1994 - My Beating Heart
August 16, 1994 - The Invisible Wounds
August 16, 1994 - August 15th Daily Message
Song: Oh Holy Mary
August 18, 1994 - The oneness between Mary and Jesus
Song: Jesus, I Believe
Fr. Carter Closing Remarks and Blessings
Song: Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All
August 20, 1994
August 21, 1994
August 21, 1994
17th Book
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit,
almighty Sanctifier,
God of love,
who filled the Virgin Mary with grace,
who
wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles,
who endowed all Your
martyrs with miraculous courage,
come and sanctify us.
Enlighten
our minds,
strengthen our wills,
purify our consciences,
rectify our judgment,
set our hearts on fire,
and preserve us from
the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.
The following Imprimatur is for the Prayer for
Union with Jesus and not the messages above or below.
Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and
permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in
my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and
only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty
vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only
for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to
myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the
will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let
You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me
against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on
myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change
what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore
You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
Imprimatur: Most Reverend Carl K. Moeddel,
Vicar General and
Auxiliary Bishop
Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Song: Immaculate Mary
Song: To Jesus Heart All Burning
August 13, 1994
Jesus speaks: The world is so attached to itself. I
am Jesus, Son of God. I am He Who Am. I dwell in your midst this day. Pray
for your brothers. Preach the real presence, tell others about God, spread
the Good News. So many are in total darkness, they are dying in their
hearts. They have made other things their gods. Oh children, you do not know
much about the love of God. It is not preached. Many never go to church,
they live their lives with hardly a thought of God and they do not hear if
someone tells them. Offer up your days for the sake of souls. Pray for them
each day when you wake. Offer up your sacrifices for your brothers.
You do not have any time to waste. Time is short and many
will be lost. Love your brothers, pray for them. Your hearts should reflect
the love of God Who dwells within. "They will know they are Christians by
their love." Oh child, what sets you apart from those who do not know Me is
your love. The love of God is a mighty force. It cannot be contained. It
shines from your eyes and rages burning in your hearts. You must always
love. When they are cold to you, you continue to love. It is My love
you are giving to them. Oh child, I love each soul. One smile given lights
up a room when it comes from the love of God within. I am the Good
Shepherd. I know Mine and they follow Me. Please sweet ones, spread My love
to My lost sheep. You will do My work in your loving one another. I give you
a new Commandment, "Love one another as I have loved you."
My child, there is no time to waste and wonder. You must
be about the work of God this day. In your being, be Christ-like. I come to
serve. I come to love. I come to give Myself in greatest love for
you.
I come to you this day with an urgent plea: to be the
light that shines in this dark world. Be My hands. Be My feet. Be Me to your
brothers. I come and ask you - will you answer My plea?
I am Jesus, Son of the living God. I am not dead. I am
alive and in your midst. Do not be downhearted, My little one, with so much
work to do. You have the Good News. You know that I have died and I have
risen. Shout it from the housetops that I am Life. I am real Life.
You cannot get bowed down. It is you who will light up the
dark world. Every minute of every day is so valuable to the salvation of the
world. Love My little ones. Love and let the light of Christ shine from your
hearts. Be at peace, be Christ-centered. Be forever about My work, for I am
God and I am forever with you. Do not ever be cast down, be about My work.
My time is at hand and you are My chosen witnesses proclaiming that I am in
your midst this day. I live and dwell in your hearts. To all who listen,
they will receive the light of life. This is a vibrant force. It cannot be
hidden. A city set on a hill will shine and cast its light to the darkened
world and many will turn to the ways of the Lord.
From Fr. Carter's Book, The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje
Mary, the Mother of Christ, knows that we cannot go to the Father without
Jesus. Jesus, Himself, told us as much:
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one can come to the
Father except through me. If you know me, you know my Father, too. From
this moment, you know Him and have seen Him (John 14:6-7).
St. Teresa Prayer coming soon!
Matthew 5:1-12
The Beatitudes
Seeing the crowds, he went onto the mountain. And when
he was
seated his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak. This is
what he taught them:
How blessed are the poor in spirit:
the kingdom
of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are the gentle:
they shall
have the earth as inheritance.
Blessed are those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those
who hunger and thirst for uprightness:
they
shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
they shall
have mercy shown them.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
they
shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
they shall be recognised
as children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted
in the cause of uprightness:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are you when people abuse you and perseute
you and
speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven;
this
is how they persecuted the prophets before you.
Song: The Song of the Beatitudes
August 11, 1994 - I Watched You (Rosaries
from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary pp. 8-10)
Jesus speaks: Oh, how I watched you, child. I watched you as I
gave you each little sign of My love. I watched you grow in your faith and
trust in Me. I watched you suffer and stood so close you could have touched
Me, but you didn't know that this suffering would be that which led you to
My tender love for you.
I watched you when you surrendered and turned your will over to Me and I
watched you cry, knowing this was the most joyous day of your life. I
watched you see visions of doors and knew you would want to go through those
doors, but they were not the doors you thought, they were the doors I gave
you for greater union with Me. I watched you, child, when you wrote down My
first letter to you and I saw your confusion and joy, knowing what these
letters would do to touch so many hearts.
I watched you, child. I watched you when I showed you My Heart and you
were so warmed by this Heart and so awed by its vision, but you didn't know
what this vision would mean for many to draw their hearts to My burning
love.
I watched you surrender each time as you let go of each little thing, as
you were dying to self. I watched you through this surrender grow closer to
Me. I watched you grow in this deep love for Me, step by step. I watched our
love grow as you gave more of yourself in prayer. I watched you, child, and
I loved being ever closer to you.
I watched you struggle in such trials that you thought tomorrow would
never come, knowing that this trial was what would give you more freedom and
love for Me. I watched you learn each lesson through hard tests and I was so
close while you struggled, but did not remove the struggle, knowing you
would not learn your lesson if I had.
I watched you, child, through each joy and pain and I loved you silently,
always with you, and you never knew how close I truly was to you.
Song: From the day you were born…
From the day you were born, I watched you. Forever by your side, I
guarded you, I loved you. I know the most secret desire of your heart far
better than you yourself know. I know the Father's plan for you. I know the
Father's love for you. I know the love poured on you from the Holy Spirit
and how Mary is forever by your side.
I watch you, child, constantly guarding you and your ways and you do not
know the love I have for you. You do not know how My Heart burns for love of
you. And, someday, My beautiful child, you will know what I have in store
for you, My beloved.
Come and be with Me. Grow in your love with Me. I never leave you, My
beloved. Remember, I am forever watching you.
Song: From the Day You Were Born
Mary and the Church
"'Mary is present in the Church as the Mother of
Christ, and at the same time as that Mother whom Christ in the mystery
of the Redemption, gave to humanity in the person of the Apostle John.
Thus, in her new motherhood in the Spirit, Mary embraces each and every
one in the Church, and embraces each and every one through the Church.
In this sense Mary, Mother of the Church, is also the Church's model.
Indeed, as Paul VI hopes and asks, the Church must draw 'from the Virgin
Mother of God the most authentic form of perfect imitation of Christ.'"
(Pope John Paul II)
"In this extremely meaningful passage from his
encyclical,
Redemptoris Mater (The Mother of the Redeemer), Pope John
Paul II tells us that Mary is the Mother of Christ, that she is the
Mother of the Church, that she is Mother of each of us in and through
the Church, and that she is the Church's model. All of these truths are
most intimately connected.
"Being Mother of Christ, Mary is also spiritual Mother
of His members whom Christ has formed into His body, the Church. She is
also model of the Church as all good mothers are models for their
children. Mary, the best of mothers, is the perfect exemplar, the
perfect model, of what it means to be a follower of Christ. She guides
the entire Church in greater assimilation to Christ."
[more coming soon!]
Mother at Our Side, Rev. Edward Carter, S.J.,
p. 68.
August 10, 1994 After Mass, Fr. Smith's Chapel
Messenger: See Mary as she beholds the baby in her arms.
She looks at Him so tenderly. His sweet baby eyes look up at the eyes of His
loving Mother. Such tenderness between Mother and Son, such oneness to hold
her infant Son so lovingly in her arms. Oh, do we ever know the tenderness
between a baby and his loving mother?
A life of close union between this mother and this Son, a life of her
looking into His loving eyes. Such silent, but strong and loving
communication! Such a strong bond-their eyes meeting-from one soul to the
other soul.
Song: See the eyes that look at Mary (Verse l)…
Deep, deep communication, a deep bond, indescribable in words, a touching
of the souls! And the peering look between Son and mother on the road to the
crucifixion. What a peering look, what communication between this Son and
Mother. Seeing the other suffer was as agonizing as each's very own
suffering-suffering and oneness between a Son and His mother. A peering
look, deep into the very souls. Such an intimacy between Them!
How can one describe in words this oneness, this union between the Son
and His Mother? The perfect love between Him and her. Total giving of each
person in such love to the other. To see the suffering of the other was as
agonizing as-if not more than-each's own suffering.
How His passion and crucifixion were intensified by the sufferings of His
dear Mother! How her sufferings were such a sharing in our redemption, the
swords that pierced her Heart! The eyes of Mary that invisibly bled as she
watched such brutality to the beloved baby she once carried in her womb and
held in her arms!
Song: Little baby hands and feet…
Mary held the Child Jesus when he was a baby; she watched Him and cared
for Him as a little boy; she was so attentive to the needs of her little
Son. Will we ever know this connectedness between Their loving hearts? Do we
know this oneness? The peering eyes on the way to Calvary tell the story.
They tell the story of this oneness. They tell the story of her watching
this horrid event of her beautiful baby Son and His horrible passion and
death.
Her eyes! Oh, Mary, help me to see the love of Jesus through your eyes!
You watched Him as a baby, you watched Him as a child. You watched Him grow
into the beautiful man He became and you, Mary, watched Him all through this
bitter passion and death. Your eyes saw the love that He gave for us. Now
you come, Mary. You appear to tell us to go to this Son. You knew more than
anyone His love to suffer so for us. You come and appear with blood in your
eyes and tears running down your cheeks. You show me your sorrowful face,
your young face, your old face, your joyful face. This was the face Jesus
peered at as He walked His walk to Calvary. This was the face that appears
now to tell us the story of His love this very day. I see your parade of
faces, Mary, old and young, sorrowful and joyful. I see these faces that
Jesus beheld. Your face tells the story of His love for us.
Mary speaks: This is my beloved Son. This is my baby. This is the
child I bore in my womb. He came to give you love. He came to be
God-made-Man among you this very day. He is, my children, no less present in
the Eucharist than He was at Calvary and you go after such incidental
things. My Son loves you. I show you my face so you can tell the world of
our love. Live our lives in the rosary. Let our lives live in your day. The
way to eternal happiness is to be likened to my beautiful Son.
I watched my Son. I lead you to the ardent love of my Son, Jesus. His
Heart burns for love of you. Come to Him this day. Give Him your love. Spend
time with Him. He is alive and in your midst in the Eucharist.
Note: I smelled roses very strongly throughout this
message.
Song: See the eyes that look at Mary (Verse 2)…
Messenger: This is the Son of the Father, the Son of God, born of
Mary through the Holy Spirit, and He lives this day in your hearts. Share
His love for you. Go to Him through Mary's Heart. She who is so closely
united to Jesus! Their hearts are so close to one another! As their eyes
were joined in such oneness, their hearts are joined in such intimacy. Go to
Jesus' Heart through His beloved Mother, through her who bore Him in her
womb, her who watched Him give Himself for love of you.
Song: Mary's Song
Song: Lady of Medjugorje
July 25, 1994 - My Beating Heart coming soon!
August 16, 1994 - The Invisible Wounds coming soon!
August 16, 1994
Jesus speaks: My dear child, if the whole world fails under your
feet, if the stars cease to shine and the moon not give its light, I will be
your real guard, your foreguard, your mighty God Who protects you from the
enemy.
Messenger: My life is interior. My relationship with God is interior.
If the floor gives out, if you hate and persecute me, if anything from the
outside befalls me, my life is still with me, the life of God rooted in my
soul. No one can ever take away my relationship with Jesus, the Father, the
Holy Spirit, Mary and St. Joseph. No one can ever touch this - even if I
cannot receive the Eucharist, Jesus is still alive within me. I can
spiritually ask Him to be present in a special way to me.
The bottom line is, no one can ever touch my relationship with God and
Mary, and nothing else that is taken away matters. If it is happening, He
knows it and is allowing it. Jesus, I trust in You! What a treasure to
always be assured of my relationship with Jesus. He never will leave me. He
will always be there. His love is always with me. I want to shout it from
the rooftop - this is my God and He loves me! He will never go, no one,
nothing can ever stop my interior relationship with God and Mary. If I have
that, what can harm me?
Jesus speaks: Though earth pass away, My love is steadfast, My
presence forever within you, every minute of every day. I, God, am with you,
child. I never leave you. What else matters?
Little child, little child. I love you so much. Focus on My love, ever
present and poured out in such measures to you. I am Who Am. I am Jesus, Son
of God. I speak to you, My little one. Open your heart and let Me embrace
you. Your oneness with Me is achieved in your heart. You will stand as the
strongest pillar against a raging storm, because My might is within you. If
the winds come and the rain, if the earth shakes the roots of the trees, the
Lord will hold you in your place. You are a mighty tree, standing on the
earth. The roots which grow from within the tree are thick and well
nourished. The wind can come. The winters with its cold and blizzard can
press on the tree. Birds of prey can pick at the tree, but the strength of
the mighty oak within will sustain it.
Your life is the life of God's grace flowing in your soul. The Spirit is
a mighty force that rages in your soul. You are nourished and fed by My
life. You stand strong against the wind and pestilence. You do not falter.
My might is within you. If the earth quakes, you are held up by My might. I
am, dear one, the Almighty God! The torrent winds cannot harm you. It may
blow and blow and you will sway in the breeze but your roots are firm. You
are fed My living water. I give you My very flesh for your food, you drink
My very own Blood, and you, child, are sustained by the Body and Blood of
Christ.
I am the Almighty God come to give life to this world. I am a force that
can withstand any trial. I dwell in you and live in you and you are afraid.
Oh, child, pray for vision, pray for the fearlessness of the Apostles. They
were in the upper room and full of fear, and the Spirit of the Lord
descended upon them and they were fearless.
Pray for the Spirit of God to enkindle in your hearts the love of God.
When the earth rocks and moves about, your inner candle never flickers. You
are steadfast in His love by your interior union with God and Mary. Be alone
with Me, be with Me. Pray to your Father and the Holy Spirit and to Mary.
You, child, are never alone, for God lives in your heart. You become one in
Him and you operate with this love in a troubled world. And the winds came
and blew down some that were undernourished, but he who was fed by the Bread
of heaven did not fall. I am the Bread of life. My life I give to you so you
will have life and have it more abundantly.
Come and sup with Me. Develop your interior life, not life as this world
knows life, but My life alive and in your soul.
Song: Oh Holy Mary
August 18, 1994 - The Oneness Between Mary and
Jesus
Messenger: I see her hold His lifeless Body under the cross. I see
her tenderness, holding Him as a Baby. I see their oneness in the peering
eyes. I see her with the sword in her Heart, pierced because of the
sufferings of her Son. I see her giving birth to her beautiful Baby.
I see her sorrowful face, her beautiful face, her old face, her young
face; all reflections of her life and His life, joined in joy, joined in
suffering, joined - Mother and Son - all through Their lives, during the
Passion, now joined in heaven. They want to draw us to eternal salvation.
A loving Mother, truly by our sides, waiting to listen to our problems,
and Jesus forever with her.
She stands under the cross and places our burdens there with us as we,
hand-in-hand with our loving Mother, give up our frustrations, our crosses
to Him, our loving Savior.
This is life, to be fixed so closely united with the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary, all day surrendering ourselves to Their loving Hearts.
This is warmth and security to me. I realize so very much Their presence.
This is the reality of this world. It is God’s world. We dwell here in the
hope of achieving everlasting life. Jesus Christ is truly present this day
in the Eucharist, no less than the day he walked this earth.
Mary is so closely united to her Son. To love Jesus is to love Mary, to
love Mary is to love Jesus.
Mary, help me to love your beloved Son.
Jesus, help me to love your beloved Mother.
Mary is always leading me to the love of her precious Son. All the
meditations on the rosary about Mary lead me to Him. She is our spiritual
Mother. To think of His being formed in her womb is so beautiful. I ask Mary
to form me in her womb so I can be more closely united to her Son. For nine
months He was formed in the womb of His loving Mother. For my lifetime, I am
forever formed in her womb to deepen my union with Jesus, the Holy Spirit
and the Father.
The protection and security, to be surrounded by Mary’s womb, is so
beautiful. She delivers us up to union with her precious Son.
The more I meditate on Their lives in the rosary (I really meditate on
each bead), these beautiful mysteries of Their lives, the more I am so
closely joined to the union of Mary’s Heart and Jesus’ Heart. This is my
refuge. This is our life, to be joined so intimately to Their Hearts!
She draws me to her and draws me to praying the rosary, like steel to a
magnet. I get such comfort sharing Their lives. It is there I realize so
much Their reality. They are truly here, this very day -- we are not ever
alone! I am united to their lives. This comfort exists all through the day,
for they are with me.
I pray in front of the big statue of Mary and she is alive to me.
Song: Jesus, I Believe
Fr. Carter's Closing Remarks and Blessings coming soon!
Song: Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All
August 20, 1994
Mary speaks: My suffering was so deep, only by God's grace could a
human person experience such suffering.
There were not wounds, there was no blood, there was, my child, only the
experiences of my Heart. My Heart was pierced so deeply with a sword. Such
deep pain, a sword piercing would not describe the pain I had. Do you wonder
how deep did the sword pierce my Heart? The depth was incomprehensible. My
life was lived in such connectedness with my Son, in such intimacy with Him.
I watched my beloved Son, to whom I was so closely united for 33 years,
suffer so dishonorably.
My sufferings were for you, child. I love you as no earthly mother ever
loved a child. I am your most loving Mother. If I underwent such suffering
for you, do you think I would not be protecting and loving you now? I have
not gone. I am with you!
If I could only tell you what I saw: my Son suffering for love of you. If
I could let you see through my eyes what He suffered for love of you!
If you meditate on His Passion in the rosary and the Stations, you see
His immense love. I will help you to see His love more and more through my
eyes.
I appear to tell all of this suffering. This is the key to understanding
how much you are loved. Think of what I saw, look through my eyes, hold His
lifeless Body under the cross, meditate on the Seven Sorrows that I hold
deep in my Heart. It is there you will know His immense love. Look at my Son
through a Mother's eyes. Look at Him as He dragged the heavy cross on His
way to the Crucifixion. Stand by and watch them pull His hair and drag Him
away, and beat His precious bare Body. Stand with me, little ones, as I
walked with Him and look through my eyes. You will realize more His great
love for you.
Go to Him, love Him, He is in the Eucharist this day. He longs, longs for
your individual love. He is your lover, on FIRE for love of you. I love you
so much.
I am Mary, your Mother.
August 21, 1994
Messenger: We must see Christ's love poured out to us through one
another. He operates in our brothers. One of the ways He loves us is through
others. We must see Christ in each person.
Am I acting like Christ to my brothers?
Am I the reflection of the Christ Who lives within me?
Christ wants to love His beloved ones through me. Am I loving my brothers
as He wants me to?
Did I act like Christ would?
Jesus, help me to let You live through me. Help me to be the empty vessel
You use to spread Your love to others.
I love You so, thank You for the love You pour out to me this day. I am
Your grateful child and I love You.
August 21, 1994
Jesus speaks: I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am the tenderest
of all hearts. I love you so much, let go and experience all the love I pour
out to you. You do not see the abundant blessing I am pouring on you. I am
Jesus and I am forever guarding you. Hold tight to My hand, focus on My
ardent burning Heart on fire for love of you. Release all anxieties and
fears as you find such shelter in My Heart.
You are surrounded by My enfolding love. You are warmed and cradled by My
arms. I am your tender Jesus, gentlest of all hearts, come to love you so
ardently this very day.
Let go into My most waiting arms. My Mother will place you in the very
recesses of My Heart. She is your most loving Mother. Come to Me through her
Immaculate Heart.
I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus, you are My chosen ones. Experience My
love poured out to you this day, My beloved ones.
