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.

January 21, 2001

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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: WE URGENTLY NEED FUNDS TO PUT OUT THE NEXT NEWSLETTER, PRAY FOR THIS AND FOR THE NEWSLETTER AND ALL INVOLVED.

Messenger: Our Lord has asked us to pray for a special priest and three other special priests and His designated priests.

                      Please pray for the priestly newsletter and for the intentions on the prayer list at the end of the message.

Messenger: I remember our Lord crying out May 25, 1995: "I am alive, I am alive, I am alive."

Today I see a wider vision than ever before. I received the message how Father Carter lives.

I know so much from experiences I have had where I have been so existent in our precious God, where I was so one with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

I want to write so much about the depth of this union I have experienced with our precious God.

I have been given the direction to write about these experiences with our Divine God and the experiences I have had interiorly when our Lady appeared in the daily visits.

This place I know is real. It is so wonderful, beyond words to describe these places of highest ecstasy where I have been so existent in Him and He implants knowledge of Himself on my soul.

In the experiences of January 20 and 21, of 1996, He implanted such knowledge of Himself on my soul about oneness. I long to write as He has directed me to do, but only His grace granted and great lights given from God can help a soul to see, to know more the things of God.

I see now the relationship more fully than ever before between the people of the earth, the saints in heaven and our Divine God.

I am here as a messenger from God to write about the things beyond when He lifts the veil and I see Him.

I see how I have deep relationships with my beloved ones here below and I know how I can deeply have relationships with the saints in heaven. They live, I can be united to them. They can intercede for me to God.

There are so many saints in heaven, St. Paul, St. John, St. Claude, St. Francis, St. Xavier, St. Ignatius, St. Margaret Mary and St. Clare. I develop a deep relationship with the saints in heaven. I unite to them, I pray through their powerful intercession.

I attended so many Masses that our founder, Father Carter said in which we prayed so deeply for this mission to help bring about the Reign of Jesus' Sacred Heart and to pray for souls, the priests and the renewal of the Church and the world.

We all united in China, Indiana, as a body when he would say Mass and we prayed so hard for souls.

It is nothing like how we all feel so united now praying from the depth of our hearts and being united through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater and Father Carter's intercession and the saints in heaven.

On January 1st, 2001, John and I attended a Mass with another priest who is very united with us in this mission. He celebrated Mass in Florida, the day Mary turned like this on the building.

Messenger: Jesus has chosen us to spread His love to the world. Jesus has called us to help bring about the Reign of His Sacred Heart.

Our union is so deep in Their Hearts.

Our desire so great to help to save souls

Our desire so great to help lead men into a loving relationship with the Sacred Heart of our Beloved Jesus. It is there they will dwell in His Heart and be united in such oneness.

I cannot stress the importance that the priest plays in celebrating the Mass and administering the Sacraments. He is the key in helping grace to flow to the people. 

Jesus has allowed me to experience the heights of heaven in so many Masses. He takes me to the inner chambers of His Heart and there He gives me great insight and knowledge about the great treasures found in the Mass.

My heart cries out, to want to spread this knowledge to souls, but I feel like a person unable to speak trying to disclose this information to a world that is deaf and does not even want to hear.

And yet my heart sings and my lips quiver as I am filled inside with the knowledge He has implanted deep within me.

I am not afraid, I am just unable to even write about it and yet it is so real to me.

The gifts and treasures of the Mass, the insights into the Divine Mysteries are so real to me.

Our hearts are merged in deepest love in Him especially at Mass.

The love I feel for all those in heaven and those on earth fills my heart with such a fullness. I want to be so united in love to all and exist so deeply in God.

In the moments after we receive Him in Holy Communion, He communicates deep knowledge of Himself on our souls.

These precious moments, about 20 minutes, are times in which He gives us tremendous graces and knowledge of Himself. It doesn't have to be words we know. It is just a presence of being so deeply united to God. He gives us knowledge of Himself within our souls. After reception of the Eucharist He can fill us with such special graces to know Him.

So much of what I know about God is just in me. You ask me to tell you. As I exist more in Him, I know more the truth because He is truth. I know more His way because He is the way. I know love because He is love. I know more the Father's will for me as I dwell in Jesus' Heart. I recognize more the falsity in the world. I am more sensitive to others' needs. I become more like Him. I am filled more with His grace.

We are one in His Heart. Our hearts are fused together, the more we unite in the Mass and unite our hearts in consecration.

We cannot go alone. I see more and more as we work together in the Movement how dependent we are on each other to do all He wants us to do. Satan creates division and black walls between people that need to work together and be united.

If we really want to experience fullness of love in our hearts, we have to work with each other in loving relationships.

Some may think they can be happy just being alone in a relationship with Jesus but we need to be united to each other. We must unite with each other in Him. We feel connection to others at least in our hearts. Even a hermit should have deep connection to others in his heart.

We have to let down our walls and let others see us. We have to admit we aren't perfect and keep trying to mature more in loving each other.

I stress  –  WE ARE NOT PERFECT!!!

                 WE MUST BE HUMBLE!!!

I can count on Jesus' love – He is here, we must help each other and love each other and realize the more we attend Mass together, the more our hearts become merged together.

The more we consecrate our hearts together, the more one we become.

The more we unite in all the Masses going on around the world in the Morning Offering, the more we become one. We become especially one with those uniting to the Masses around the world and consecrating their hearts with us.

We are especially one in the Shepherds of Christ with all the people around the world uniting to the Masses and saying the Morning Offering, the Holy Spirit Novena and the Shepherds of Christ prayers.

Think of the oneness of the Persons of the Trinity.

I love what Father Carter says in the beginning of his book Response to God's Love Chapter 1. 

Some sections from Response to God's Love will follow at the end of this message.

Every community must model their love after the oneness of the Trinity. Every husband and wife, every family, the Church, all must look at the oneness of the Persons in the Trinity.

All of our communities in the Shepherds of Christ must model their relationships after the Trinity.

I like this sentence too from Chapter 8 of Response to God's Love.

"Indeed, the Christian imperative reminds us that we are to walk life's path, not in isolation, but hand in hand with our fellow human beings." 

The dark nights will be over, the more Jesus' Movement spreads across the earth. It is a powerful force to have our hearts united in love in Their Hearts.

This is what Mary asked for at Fatima.

It is fire spreading across the earth as men join our Movement and unite their hearts in love as Jesus told me March 26, 1996.

We always choose love.

We love more like Jesus loves. He died for all the souls. We love all people. We do not have to spend time with people that are bad for us but we must pray for them and love them in our hearts.

Excerpt from Response to God's Love, by Father Edward Carter, pp. 1-2

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

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

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

   (End of excerpt from Response to God's Love)

Messenger: I just love this!!

Excerpt from Response to God's Love, by Father Edward Carter, Chapter 6, pp. 68-70

The Christian community is a terrestrial reflection of the ultimate and absolute community–namely, the Trinity. In a special way, we are privileged to give witness to Trinitarian life, a life of divine intimacy and loving. From all eternity, the persons of the Trinity are united in the most intimate bonds of knowledge and love; these have also brought about creation and redemption.

Grace, or the Christ-life, is a created participation in Trinitarian life. This Christ-life, consequently, calls us to a special existence of knowing and loving. Christian faith and love, which are created participations in the Trinity's knowing and loving, allow us to know and love God in a special manner. Faith and love also give us a new capacity to relate to both our fellow Christians and to all others as well.

Because the life of the Trinity is person-centered, so must the life of the Christian community be person-centered. For many years, it seems, we were not sufficiently person-conscious; however, the theology that has emanated from Vatican II is helping to rectify this situation. In the pre-Vatican II Church, structures in the Church were occasionally treated as ends in themselves rather than as the means of serving the persons in the Church. Slowly but surely, structures in the Church are being renewed so that they might better serve their true purpose, which is to aid in the ongoing development of her members.

The Christian community, in turn, develops when those who make up that community develop as authentic Christians. Just as each divine person contributes perfectly to the community life of the Trinity according to the perfect fullness of his personhood, so each Christian contributes to community life in proportion to the degree of his or her personal development.

Authentic interpersonal relationships help to develop community. The Trinitarian community is a community of profound relationships. Because we reflect Trinitarian community, we are intended to have relationships not only with the persons of the Trinity, but likewise with one another. Authentic interpersonal relationships not only unite in a deeper knowledge and love the persons directly involved, they also make a person more capable of loving others more deeply and, therefore, more capable of deepening the bonds of total community. If a person is growing in the capacity to love his or her friends, for example, that person is concurrently growing in the capacity to also love others–both those who are members of the Church and those who are not.

The concept of the Church as Body of Christ certainly emphasizes the sense of corporateness that should permeate the consciousness of the Church's members. We must think in terms of both what is good for the entire Church and, through this Church, what is good for the total human community. Even when we disagree among ourselves, we do so not because we want to glory in having the upper hand, but because we believe that to disagree here and now is necessary so that the truth might better emerge for the good of the community. St. Paul speaks to us about this sense of corporateness: "In the name of the encouragement you owe me in Christ, in the name of the solace that love can give, of fellowship in spirit, compassion, and pity, I beg you: make my joy complete by your unanimity, possessing the one love, united in spirit and ideals. Never act out of rivalry or conceit; rather, let all parties think humbly of others as superior to themselves, each of you looking to others' interests rather than his own" (Phil: 2:1-4).

(End of Excerpt from Response to God's Love)

Excerpt from Response to God's Love, by Father Edward Carter, Chapter 8, p. 91
 

The true Christian is imbued with consciousness of others. That is to say, the true Christian is keenly aware that, to a great degree, God intends each of us to press on toward maturity in the spiritual life through a proper encounter with others. Indeed, the Christian imperative reminds us that we are to walk life's path, not in isolation, but hand in hand with our fellow human beings.

(End of excerpt from Response to God's Love)

Messenger: LIVE ROSARIES - Please call the Morrow Center at 1-888-211-3041 for more information. Prayers begin at 6:20 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.

Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - Sidney, Ohio.

Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - Iowa City, Iowa. Prayers begin at 5:20 p.m. Central standard time.

Monday, February 5, 2001 - Clearwater, Florida.

Excerpt from January 10, 2001, Daily Message

Messenger: My dear apostles and donors,

I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love. Father Carter has majorly affected all of our lives. The mission given to him (Father Carter) by Jesus is major to help bring about the renewal of the Church and the world.

Father Carter told me to put out the newsletter in January 2001. The 33 newsletters are not the complete picture of his writings. He has written seventeen books. His writings give deep insight into the divine mysteries.

His writings centered in consecration are a big part of God the Father’s plan to help bring about the Reign of Jesus' Sacred Heart and the mission Mary began at Fatima to help bring peace to the world.

The prayer chapters Father Carter began were to pray for the priests, the Church and the world.

It is absolutely essential we continue the newsletter with Father Carter’s writings; this was his desire.

It is absolutely necessary we tell the 70,000 priests about his death.

Funds are needed to pay off the last newsletters and pay for this one.

Father Carter gave his life for this mission, his last newsletter was to ask for funds to help support it. And I quote from Father Carter's last newsletter.

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Letter written by Father Edward J. Carter S.J. for Shepherds of Christ priestly newsletter, Issue 4, 2000

CAN YOU HELP US?

As you know, we distribute the Newsletter free of charge. We have been publishing the Newsletter for six years. Although the fine print on the last page of each Newsletter says that donations are always welcome, we have, to this date, only made one major appeal for donations.

Now we come to you again and ask for your financial assistance. It is considerably expensive to print the Newsletter and to mail it here in the U.S.A. and to other countries around the world. With our English and Spanish editions, we send the Newsletter to readers in about 90 countries. We soon hope to add a French edition.

With the help of God’s grace, the Newsletter seems to be accomplishing much good. The numerous letters we receive from around the world regarding the Newsletter’s helpfulness are one indication of this.

If you share with us our belief that the Newsletter is a very worthwhile ministry, we urgently ask you to seriously consider sending us a donation. We are always struggling to obtain the funds to continue publication of the Newsletter.

If you are financially able, we would be extremely grateful to receive your donation – whether it is small, large, or medium-sized! We thank all of you who have previously sent donations.

Some of you may know of possible benefactors who would be interested in helping a worthy cause. And we firmly believe that a ministry which offers an aid for spiritual growth to priests especially, but to others also, is a most worthy endeavor.

For your convenience, we have enclosed a self-addressed donation envelope.

Very importantly, we also ask for your prayers that we may obtain the funds necessary to continue publication of the Newsletter and that the Newsletter will be spiritually beneficial to its readers. We hope to continue to publish it four to six times a year. The number of issues will depend upon various factors. Thank you very much for your attention to our urgent plea.

(End of Letter written by Father Edward J. Carter S.J.)

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Messenger: In this new newsletter we will begin with the Morning Offering telling about Father Carter’s death and then the prayers that Jesus gave to us to spread prayer chapters. The newsletter includes a most powerful extensive writing of Father Carter’s on Grace.

This newsletter can help change the face of the earth as people pray the Morning Offering and the prayers Jesus gave to Father Carter for the priests, the Church and the world, great grace can be released on the earth. Only God’s grace will help change the hearts.

Reaching the priests with this information is crucial in getting the prayer manual in the hands of the priests.

Father Laurentin recently did an article on Clearwater, Florida, which included the information about the Morning Offering and several messages I received from Mary. It was written in French. Also it included pictures of the site in Florida. He sent his regrets to me about Father Carter’s death.

We need help to do as Father Carter wished. He asked that this newsletter be put out in January.

He spent his very sick days after chemo helping to prepare this for this publication.

His birthday is January 15.

Father Carter was very upset because we struggled so much for funds to do the 20 page newsletter.

We still owe on the last newsletter. Father Carter wrote the article about money and told us to include a donation envelope.

God the Father was angry when we did not receive help for the 20 page newsletter.

Can you please help us?

The day after that, I received the letter from Father Laurentin and the magazine with the Clearwater, Florida, pictures and article. Father Laurentin wrote a letter of sympathy regarding Father Carter’s death.

Please help us.

Jesus gave me a strong message today to get the newsletter out immediately.

Please help us for all Father Carter did to help change your life.

 I love you,

The Messenger

Here is a letter Father Carter received about the newsletter.

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Excerpt from priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Issue 4, 2000

• Dear Father Carter,
  
  For years I have received Shepherds of Christ Newsletter; I do not know who put me on your mailing list, but I’m grateful to you both. Since I first began to receive the newsletter I have been assigned as the Director of Formation Advising for the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
  
  I would like to know if it would be possible to make a bulk order so that our seminarians could benefit from the newsletter as well. I will make sure they are distributed to our seminarians. At present we have about 200 seminarians and student priests on our campus, all eager for good spiritual reading!
  
  Please let me know if we can make an arrangement for the delivery of the newsletter here at the college.
  
  Please keep our faculty and seminarians in your prayers.
  
  Sincerely yours in Christ,

Rev. J. Mark Williams
Director of Formation Advising
Pontifical North American College
00120 Vatican City State

(End of excerpt from priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Issue 4, 2000)

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(End of excerpt from January 10, 2001, Daily Message)

(End of Mary's Message)

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A rosary can be used to pray for healing. It is powerful to unite our prayers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and pray through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater.

In times of trouble, for special prayer, we can use our rosary and pray as follows.

A Rosary for Healing or for Someone with Cancer.

On one Hail Mary bead or as many as you desire, say: 

May God heal                     through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater in union with the Mass and all the Masses being celebrated around the world.

Pray the Hail Mary or Hail Mary's then pray this after the Hail Mary.

May the cancer be uprooted and thrown into the sea.

We believe with all our hearts.

After the Glory Be — pray the following petition.

May                     be healed through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater if it be the holy will of God.

Note: You can look at Mary on the image rosary while you pray this rosary.

Note: The above section can be printed out from a PDF file, and you can pray the rosary looking at the pictures.

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December 17, 2000, Mary speaks: Help me to circulate my red and blue     Rosary Books and the     prayers my Son gives to you. This is a gift we give you. All the revelations are gifts given to you. My Son is the Light of the World. He is Jesus born in a stable. Will you help me? He is the Light of the World. Help me, help me     reach my children of the world.

To order your Rosary Book fill out this form and send your donation to Shepherds of Christ Ministries, PO Box 193, Morrow, Ohio 45152-0193, Telephone: (toll free) 1-888-211-3041 or (513) 932-4451.

Name: _________________      Street: _____________________________

City:   _________________      State:   _________________ Zip: ________

Donation price:  $7 A   $15 A   $25 A   $50 A   $100 A   Other $_____ A

Prayer List for apostles for interior use in the Movement. Pray hourly.

Spread the Blood of Jesus on everyone, consecrate their hearts, cast the devil out, pray for coming of the Holy Spirit in a special way for all people involved on this list.

Pray for the priestly newsletter, for funds for it and for all involved.
Pray for the taping of the priestly newsletter.
Pray for Father Carter and the Jesuits, the people at Colombiere.
Please pray for one new very important intention.
Pray for all involved in buying the building.
Pray for 2 special priests.
Pray for designated priests, Fr. Mike, Fr. Joe, Fr. Lou B., Fr. Smith, Fr. Ken, all priests involved in the Imprimaturs translations including all bishops. Pray for Bishop Ed, Fr. Don, Father at Tuesday Masses, Fr. Tom, Fr. Bill, all priests involved with Walter, Fr. Hagee and special priests, priests who help us in China, and priests who help us in Florida.
Pray for Father's sister Merle, for all of us servants, handmaids, apostles and vocations to all 7 categories.
Pray for prayer book.
Pray for all book covers, pray for Cathy.
Pray for all translations and all involved.
Pray for the elected officials.
Pray for an audience with the Pope.
Pray for all Jesuits involved, all those over us. Pray for the 4 urgent intentions.
Pray for the rights to the books.
Pray for the process of getting Father's books on the Internet.
Pray for money to reprint the books.
Pray for the Imprimatur on the Priestly Newsletter Book II.
Pray we can send it to all bishops and Jesuits.
Pray for Perry and family and discernment.
Pray for all sub-centers and all out-of-state rosaries.
Pray for the sisters' mailing, nursing home mailing, bus mailing.
Pray for Rosary Factory.
Pray for Genevieve's daughter and Sheila's mom and the repose of the soul of Jerry's dad, Bernice's daughter.
Pray for Paul and Joan discernment.
Pray for B & M and Tina and Terry, all printing jobs, companies involved.
Pray for 5th, the 13th, the 17th.
Pray for the Internet team and the daily messages.
Pray for building up of Morrow, Ohio, Dale, Indiana, other sub-centers.
Pray for the Holy Spirit Center and all involved.
Pray for all our families, children in school, college mailing.
Pray for lots of rosary makers and rosaries for the schools.
Pray for funds and grace.
Pray for Paul C., Margaret Mary, Steve and Sheila, Monica, Angie, Marian, Cathy, Joe, Nick, Mary, Emily, Joe, Doris, Glaci, Dunkers, Joan R., Morgan, Mark, Walter, Janice, Mike A., Margaret, Ron, Harold, Scott, and Nathan.
Pray for Fred doing the paper and all involved in priestly "start-up".
Please pray for all Shepherds of Christ children.
Pray for Victor's son, Michael. (Victor and Frances)
Pray for Delores and organization of writings and other material.
Pray for Diane A.'s dad.

Last revised January 19, 2001