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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.

August 22, 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.


Today is the Queenship of Mary

Coronation of Mary

Messenger:

The Queen mounts her throne among shouts of joy
The angels surround this heavenly throne
Her children love her and worship their God.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus reigns in the hearts of her children.

He is the King of their hearts.
She is the Queen of their hearts.
A New Adam, a New Eve are recognized by the once enslaved children of Adam and Eve.

A trumpet blare for one so fair, a blare of music for our starved ears.

From the Magnificat, Mary speaks with the lilt of the voice of one so pure and holy. (NOTE: Read this with the lightness of the voice of the Virgin filled with the Holy Spirit and in the humility of one so fair.



Luke 1:46-55
The Magnificat

And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;

because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.

Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.

He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love

--according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors--
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.


Messenger:

Among shouts of joy our Lady speaks liltingly in a heavenly voice
and we gape at the sound of her sweet voice
and behold the beauty of this maiden so sweet and fair.

God the Father speaks:

Amen, amen I say to you My beloved Apostles of the Sacred Heart. You may worry and struggle now, but a King looks on you with the greatest love as you surrender more and more everyday to do My will that this day will come to your earth, the day of the Reign of the Sacred Heart.

Do not get caught up in the mysteries of the way men act and perceive things, but put your gaze ever more on the mystery of My Divine Son and how much He truly loves you.

You are caught in the wonder of the earth and the firmament. My beloved, so much more glorious is the insight into My Divine Mysteries.

My plan is given here to bring about the Reign of My Son's Sacred Heart and the triumph of your Mother's Immaculate Heart.

I am a God of justice and of right.

I am your heavenly Father.

I am the Carpenter, the One with the plan.

You are but children of Mine, creatures of the earth, and yet My love for you is so great. I gave you My only begotten Son as One offered for your sins and, men, you smite Me, your Father.

You ignore your Mother when I give you such gifts in your churches of her presence forever with you and the Holy Spirit working with her bringing forth your holiness.

I painted with My hand your Mother pleading to her young ones, and she appears everyday, and you ignore this sign and gift I give you.

What more could convince you? You want another sign and another while you sheepishly continue your sinful ways.

My children, My children, help Me to reach your brothers, oh please, they have plugged up their ears and covered their eyes.

How is it your Creator cries to the creatures and they ignore Him?

God the Father speaks:  

Now the beauty of one so fair July 5, 2000, I painted as a golden wonder before you and allowed such photography that all might know Our heavenly presence when Mary speaks in the Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And My Son delivers, in these rosaries, the message I give to you as your heavenly Father.

Oh children of the earth, be attentive and listen to Me, I plead as your heavenly Father that your wills be aligned to My will and you serve Me.

Oh children of Eve, your Mother Mary cries to Me, for she pleads your case, and I have given in to her requests that the children be spared if they turn from their ways and love their God.

She wanted to come to you as the Woman adorned in sunlight by day and fashioned in a special way by nightfall in golden mystical light in the dark night, as her favored children sing so fervently songs of praise and love to God, and they sing to her, a Mother who has never forgot them.

Oh children, listen to Me and help Me reach your willful brothers through your fervent prayers. My Son gave Himself as a Sacrifice for your sins, meriting the graces available to you the sinful children of Eve, and you will not even pray after I have granted this special gift of Mary on the building.

Your eyes do not see her, or you would have changed your ways by now.

What sign would you respond to, My silly earth?

Mary Image Building with Mother and Child

God the Father speaks:

I give you My Son with you in the Eucharist, and you do not treasure this gift as you should.

God remains with you today. Jesus, My Son, feeds you with His Body and Blood. He is truly present in His Divinity and Humanity. You need to pray as He has instructed, especially before the tabernacle.

Amen.

I am the Father, I have spoken, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.

Jesus speaks:

I am the Son of God, on this glorious feast sing songs of great praise to your God and love Him.

Unite to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and pray to be possessed by God.

Mary is your Mother, she is the one, pure, spotless, human person. She was conceived without sin, you must listen to her, it is the Father's will. You must be brought forth from her Immaculate Heart, her spiritual womb, as a child of God, a child of the light.

Let the scales drop from your eyes as you sing praise and see, as never before, the glory and wonder of your God.


Zephaniah 3: 14-18
Psalms of joy in Zion

Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem! Yahweh has repealed your sentence; he has turned your enemy away. Yahweh is king among you, Israel, you have nothing more to fear. When that Day comes, the message for Jerusalem will be: Zion, have no fear, do not let your hands fall limp. Yahweh your God is there with you, the warrior–Saviour. He will rejoice over you with happy song, he will renew you by his love, he will dance with shouts of joy for you, as on a day of festival.

Return of the exiles

I have taken away your misfortune, no longer need you bear the disgrace of it. 


Revelation 22: 12-14, 16-17, 20

Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay everyone as their deeds deserve. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who will have washed their robes clean, so that they will have the right to feed on the tree of life and can come through the gates into the city.

EPILOGUE

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to attest these things to you for the sake of the churches. I am the sprig from the root of David and the bright star of the morning. The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ Let everyone who listens answer, ‘Come!’ Then let all who are thirsty come: all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free.

The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon. Amen; come, Lord Jesus.


1 Corinthians 15: 54-57
A hymn of triumph. Conclusion

And after this perishable nature has put on imperishability and this mortal nature has put on immortality, then will the words of scripture come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin comes from the Law. Thank God, then, for giving us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.


Revelation 11: 19

Then the sanctuary of God in heaven opened, and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake and violent hail.


Revelation 12: 1-6, 10

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.

Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, ‘Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down.


Joel 3: 1-5

‘After this I shall pour out my spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old people shall dream dreams, and your young people see visions. Even on the slaves, men and women, shall I pour out my spirit in those days. I shall show portents in the sky and on earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.’ The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the Day comes, that great and terrible Day. All who call on the name of Yahweh will be saved, for on Mount Zion will be those who have escaped, as Yahweh has said, and in Jerusalem a remnant whom Yahweh is calling.


Note: I reference the messages of Mary given May 13, 2000, in a live rosary the 83rd anniversary of her appearance at Fatima.

These I place here as a reference for future days when you can study these messages more fully.


Excerpt from May 13, 2000 rosary

Mary speaks: My dear children, I am Mary, your Mother, and I speak to you of consecration. For you must give your heart to my Son, Jesus, and to my Immaculate Heart.

My children, it is God that you must please. You look at the monetary things and are so focused. But it is the disposition of the heart that He reads. And it is God that you deal with here. The more that you are focused on the incidental things, the things of this earth, the more you will anger Him. For your lack of faith comes through in your fear and indiscretion.

My children, it is by the hand of the Father that my image was painted on the building in Florida and it is by the hand of the Father that you have been able to operate from this building. God speaks to you today on this special day, this anniversary of my appearance at Fatima, for the disposition of many hearts has not been pure. He calls you to holiness to renew the Church and the world and yet you are focused on incidental matters and it is love that He so desires. For you are a sounding gong if you are not working truly in the measures of true love. This is the way that the Father measures the heart. It is not by the money or the men or all that you may think or desire to get ahead. It is in proportion to your holiness that your prayers will be answered. It is not a race to the finish line. It is the heart that is disciplined and most loving of God. For you have been called to a great mission, my children, one to help renew the Church and the world. And it is through your example as leaders and apostles, servants and handmaids that others will be drawn into the Movement and that others will follow. But you must be pure and live as the spouse of our Lord, your God, live as the little children of the Father. For it is to the little children that He reveals so many things. It is not to the haughty and the loud, but to the ones that realize that all things are in His hands. 

And so today, I ask for a day of reparation from all the hearts of all those gathered here for your sins and the sins of all men. For the men of the earth have offended their God, and the gifts that have been given to you have many times not been appreciated.

Out of all the times of the earth and all places, your God has called you for this mission. Do you see me on the building? How it wounds the Heart of my Son when you grumble and complain. And it is not that He wishes that you over do and over work. For this is not His intention.

The way of life given is one of directing those of the earth toward a holier commitment of life in Him. My children, that which is fundamental to all activities is the disposition of the heart, it must be that of love and holiness. It is simple, my children. God is in charge. You are the ones He has called, the shepherds of Christ, to go out to the world as soldiers, whether it be physically or through your prayers, to go out to others and to lay your lives down everyday in your morning offering in love for your fellows.

Unite all of your activities all through the day with one another in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in prayer for the souls. You do not comprehend the seriousness of this mission, nor do you comprehend its intensity. 83 years later, after my apparition at Fatima, your God is angered at the earth. And the sweetness of the souls of humility and love, of dedication and service, pleases Him. The souls that tenderly have the personal union with Jesus as their Spouse, that communicate in loving surrender and tenderness with Jesus Whom they receive in the Eucharist, please your God.

It is devotion. It is adoration. It is love. It is through commitment to the Heart of Jesus, the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, that you will be a shepherd of Christ to lead the strayed ones home to His Heart.

And my children, anger is not a part of this when you do not get your way. And you must come to your God and ask God for forgiveness. You are not true to yourselves when you do not own up to offenses against others and Him.

It is a humble heart that He so desires, one that is pure, that is not haughty. And there will be days in which the devil will press and press and press and press and you may sin, but you must admit the sin and tell your God to help you to continue your journey to the end. For you are weary travelers, ones that have served and given as the martyrs that gave their lives in the end, as my Son Jesus that walked the way to Calvary through persecution, ridicule, beatings and lacerations to His entire body. He was raised on the cross and came forth victorious on the third day. It is truth, my children. It is truth that you must seek within yourselves, not blaming others, but being children of love, dedicated to the service of God, of leading others to the loving Heart of my Son Jesus. This is my Fatima message today to you. It is the message of love, humility, temperance, and devotion to Jesus, your beloved Spouse, the Bridegroom of your soul.

If your intentions veer from this, my children, you will not be rewarded in monetary ways for your grumbling and complaining when God has given to you great gifts. You are here to work individually on greater ways to grow in holiness. For in the end, it is this and this alone that will fill the soul, to be possessed by God for all eternity, to experience Him in the greatest maturity. This takes looking at yourselves today, admitting your faults and coming as children at play to the altar of God to honor, adore, and worship Him.

I am your Mother. You play on the surface of the earth, my children. You are the shepherds of Christ. He has shown you the Light, lifted the veil, asked you to tell others what you have found at the foot of the altar of your God.

Shepherds, go forth! Spread the good news that He is here, He is alive, He is with you, and He loved all souls to His death on the cross.

I am Mary, your Mother. My children, it is purity in your hearts that God desires, not haughtiness, not selfishness, not arrogance and pride, not being over and under, and consumed with your positions, but to be where the Father wills you to be in that moment loving and serving Him in the greatest way possible.

If it is bagging the groceries in the store, it can be a mighty act when it is accomplished in love and the hand of Jesus shines through you as you hand the groceries to the man who comes. It is the light in your eyes. It is the touch in your hand. It is the tone of your voice. It is that you should be Jesus to all those you touch.

I am Mary, your Mother. He is LOVE my children. God is love.

Messenger: The disposition of our hearts must be that of great purity. We can never take for granted that the building is ours because it is only ours if God gives it to us. It does not depend on men or anyone else of this earth. And those that serve in Florida or pray in China, Indiana, must realize that it is pleasing to God that we serve in love, always in love, for God is in charge and we are His servants, the handmaids of the Lord.

Jesus speaks: My beloved souls, I have called you here today to help lead souls home to the depth of My Heart. You are the shepherds of Christ that will help lead the strayed ones home and I thank you for all you have done. For you have answered My call and served Me well, and you are tired and weary travelers. But you must maintain an attitude of love. My chosen ones, if you walk in My Name, you walk in the ways of love, for I am love. I am God.

Messenger: He wants an attitude of gratitude is what He said. And Mary speaks and she says:

Mary speaks: My children, it is indeed a great gift that your God has given to you to know my Son most intimately and to receive the grace to be with Him in the deepest union all through the day, and to thirst after and long for the Eucharist. It is indeed a great grace that He has granted to you, to be His shepherds, shepherds of Jesus, shepherds of Christ.

I love you, my little children. I am Mary, your Mother. The more that you grow in holiness, the more that you are docile and obedient, loving God, the more the Movement will prosper. For it is His Movement and He is telling you what to do. You must listen to Him.

I am Mary, your Mother. Do you want to see the Movement soar? You must listen to Him.

Jesus speaks: I have designed every aspect of this Movement, and I have asked My messenger to give to you the papers concerning the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart. You must tell others of this special apostolate in the Movement, that there will be added prayer power, for it is now a very weak section of the Movement, and it should be strongly supported and circulated throughout the world. You are suffering because this has not been promoted further. I ask you further that if you are an Apostle of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, that during those two hours of adoration weekly, you follow the dictates of that ministry, which are to spend two hours before the Blessed Sacrament, recite the Shepherds of Christ prayers, and pray for the appropriate intentions as were given to your founder. You need all the added prayer power. This is a very important part of the Movement. And so I ask that the papers be circulated, and that you duplicate the papers and pass them on to others encouraging them to send them in even if they are the only member. They do not have to have a list, but ask them if they could serve in this capacity, giving them prayer manuals or sheets with the prayers of the ministry.

Mary speaks: The devil will press in more and more on you, my children. And he will want to stop you and get you to argue. He will confuse the issue that you will not be able to communicate in ways that you will not even understand, men and women, women and men, however the devil can confuse the issue, he will be certain to do it.

My children, it will become more and more difficult to communicate and you are being tested. You can not give in to that. For the devil will work. You must, with all the fervor in your hearts, want to accomplish the mission that God has given to you because He has asked you to do so for Him, and you act as His servant, His handmaid, His apostle, His cohort, His soldier in the Shepherds of Christ. You are doing it for God! Sometimes people get all caught up in the ones in authority over them. The Person in ultimate authority is my Son, Jesus. Many times you work out problems that you have had with authority all your lives, on the one in authority over you.

This is the bottom line, my children, that you are there to serve God, that you read the messages that are put on the Internet. Read the messages of His tender love.

And you will not be able to do it if you do not go to the tabernacle when you are crying and you are hurting. You cannot give in to other whims to make you feel better! The time in front of the tabernacle is needed and the grace granted can enormously help you. Taking anything, whatever it is - drink, drug of any form, food, will not help you to feel better when you are starved and worn out from giving and giving and giving. My Son, Jesus, FILLS YOU enormously at Mass and before Him when you come to the Blessed Sacrament. If you are down in your heart, go to the Eucharist.

I love you. I am Mary, your Mother. Amen. 

Jesus speaks: My children, I love you, I love you, I love you. I ask you to answer My call and to serve in My Movement. I am with you, and it is tender love that I desire, a love for My burning Heart that is so wounded by those who shun Me and do not love Me. Will you love Me? Will you talk to Me all through the day and tell Me your cares and ask for My help? Will you serve Me in My Movement to help to bring about the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of your Mother's Immaculate Heart?

So many things in your lives are changing. You look in the mirror and you see the face now wrinkled and it seems sort of worn. And the children have left the nest. And the once spiffy car is now tattered and torn too.

Do you see the change of seasons? Do you see the light and the darkness and the day? Do you see the hand of the Creator in the wind that blows your ruffled hair? Do you see the flowers as they blossom before your eyes?

Do you see Me? For I do not change. I am constant and ever with you. And it is by My might that the sun shines and the babies are born, for I breathe life into them, into these things that grow. I give and I take away. It is the lesson that men must learn. And yet they think they are in control, and they really do not control. For in a moment, they can be stricken with cancer, and the life that they once held on to is but a breath as it passes in the night. Many men did not live to see the castle that they tried to build.

I ask you to build up My Body, the Church. For what you do today in spreading these revelations will last for the time to come, will be spread in the hearts of men, will go with them as they go to their dwelling for all eternity.

Invest in gold, My precious ones. I am the God that does not change. I am the I AM. I have called you to help Me. Will you answer My call?

On October the 13th, 1996, I called the gatherings on the 13ths to help majorly to bring to completion the mission that My Mother began at Fatima. The appearance of the Lady on the building is part of that mission. It is an honor and a gift that I give to you. As those that I have entrusted it to, I want only the highest respect and dignity from all involved in handling the situation. I am a God consumed with love for men. If you walk in My Name, you are loving.

(End of Excerpt from May 13, 2000 rosary)


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.

          


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