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January 29th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 8 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for January 29th are Sorrowful.
Sidney Rosary is on the
Feast of St. John Bosco
January 31, 2006 6:20pm.
Retreat in China
February 10 - 13
Day of prayer February 14
Sidney Rosary at 6:20p.m.
A Healing Rosary
Valentine's Day February 14
From St. Thomas Aquinas
The saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint is often a martyr; he is mistaken for a poison because he is an antidote. He will generally be found restoring the world to sanity by exaggerating whatever the world neglects, ...
If the world grows too worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows too worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldliness by the world.
Therefore it is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
January 28, 2006
Scripture for Tomorrow's Mass
Deutromony 18: 15-20
Yahweh your God will raise up a prophet like me; you will listen to him. This is exactly what you asked Yahweh your God to do—at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, when you said, "Never let me hear the voice of Yahweh my God or see this great fire again, or I shall die." Then Yahweh said to me, "What they have said is well said. From their own brothers I shall raise up a prophet like yourself; I shall put my words into his mouth and he will tell them everything I command him. Anyone who refuses to listen to my words, spoken by him in my name, will have to render an account to me. But the prophet who presumes to say something in my name which I have not commanded him to say, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die."
Psalm 95: 1-2, 6-9
Come, let us cry out with joy to Yahweh,
acclaim the rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving,
acclaim him with music.Come, let us bow low and do reverence;
kneel before Yahweh who made us!
For he is our God,
and we the people of his sheepfold,
the flock of his hand.If only you would listen to him today!
Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as at the time of Massah in the desert,
when your ancestors challenged me,
put me to the test, and saw what I could do!
1 Corinthians 7: 32-35
I should like you to have your minds free from all worry. The unmarried man gives his mind to the Lord’s affairs and to how he can please the Lord; but the man who is married gives his mind to the affairs of this world and to how he can please his wife, and he is divided in mind. So, too, the unmarried woman, and the virgin, gives her mind to the Lord’s affairs and to being holy in body and spirit; but the married woman gives her mind to the affairs of this world and to how she can please her husband. I am saying this only to help you, not to put a bridle on you, but so that everything is as it should be, and you are able to give your undivided attention to the Lord.
Mark 1: 21-28
They went as far as Capernaum, and at once on the Sabbath he went into the synagogue and began to teach. And his teaching made a deep impression on them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority.
And at once in their synagogue there was a man with an unclean spirit, and he shouted, ‘What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.’ But Jesus rebuked it saying, ‘Be quiet! Come out of him!’ And the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and with a loud cry went out of him. The people were so astonished that they started asking one another what it all meant, saying, ‘Here is a teaching that is new, and with authority behind it: he gives orders even to unclean spirits and they obey him.’ And his reputation at once spread everywhere, through all the surrounding Galilean countryside.
God's Blue Book 6
11 years Ago
January 28, 1995 - Saturday
Jesus: Oh My children, it is through knowing more and more the immense love God has for you that you will trust in Me in the things in your life. Surrender yourselves to the will of God, you experienced such love, Rita, I have given you great gifts to experience My love and My presence, the presence of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit within you. It is through these experiences of My love that you will learn to trust. You must trust Me totally to be able to do what I am asking of you. Your faith must be so strong. To give you more signs is to weaken your faith. I have gifted you abundantly. I have given you such realization of My life within you and My love, now you must believe. I am asking you to surrender and give yourself to Me. I want to teach through you to My beloved souls, you must be totally open and surrendering. You will be persecuted, but the souls that will be led to deep levels of My love through My teaching will be so immense. You stand on the outskirts of this important job the Father has for you. You must totally surrender and let the Spirit lead you. I will schedule your speaking engagements. I will talk from you. The Rosary is so important to the lives of My beloved souls.
Do as I am telling you to do. My Mother and I are with you when you pray the rosary. Say exactly as you are told to say. I am talking from you. Do not be afraid, I will guard you, I want this work accomplished. I will operate from you, be totally selfless, call no attention to yourself, the more you are lost in Me, the more I can operate from you. You must yield to Me operating from you. Die to yourself and live and dwell in Me. Faith, My dear child, I am using you for such an important mission. My books will reach many, but My speech through you will reach even greater numbers. You are the instrument, I am using you, you will be operating as I operate through you. Your books are not your books, they are God's Blue Book, your speech is not your speech it is through you I speak. Do not fear, for I have all the power. This is the Father's Plan for you, My child, you must trust. Rid yourself of any impurities and clean your heart constantly. Only a pure heart can do My work. I am calling you to lead hearts to My burning Heart on Fire for all souls. I thirst, I long, I wait, I want to be united to each precious soul. Pray for grace to know and love Me more and more. Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus.
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
Jesus speaks: "This is the picture I want in My messages. When you read these messages, look at My picture and know I love you. These messages are My words of love for each of you."
- Jesus to Rita Ring
Jesus: You must surrender to Me, do not call attention to yourself in any way. You operate only as you operate to spread My love to this world, to be My vessel to use to tell them of My love. I am Jesus Do not fear. Have FAITH and TRUST.
Messenger:. May 4, 1994 was so hard, the Blue Book was about to be released and here I was stirring up all this trouble about how they disobeyed.
The books are moving ahead and here I am stirring up trouble about going to a church and speaking through my mouth.
November 4, 1994
Messenger: ...The priest was about to put out the message May 4, 1994 — FINALLY — at the Falmouth Farm.
This message caused the split between Shepherds of Christ and the Holy Spirit Center and Falmouth Farm because they would not put it out.
Fr. Carter told them to put it out — They asked him in May, but somebody took the message of mine from Jesus, May 4, 1994, off the handout at the Falmouth Farm.
That started the big split and the people there became very divided Jesus said from not getting the Blue Books. Finally the priest at the Holy Spirit Center did put this message May 4, 1994 out on the Falmouth Farm — so many months later. May 4, 1994
Jesus: I am Jesus, I tell you not to fear, child you do not know the Father's Plan your emotion will move hearts to My love. I have given you such gifts to know My love. You are so honored, I am asking you to share your experiences with this world. Your music, your emotion and love of God will move many hearts so close to My Heart.
I am Jesus, I am speaking through you, do not fight Me, I want you to move steadfastly ahead. I am Jesus your beloved Savior, let go to My ever loving arms. I am calling you to be this apostle to spread this love of My Most Sacred Heart.
I am calling Fr. Carter to spread this love of the two Hearts throughout this world. You do not know what is in this Plan for you (Fr. Carter and me) to spread this devotion. Be selfless, be unattached, surrender and I will carry out My Plan. You must totally trust, have faith in Me.
I am Jesus your Savior, read this letter to give you strength. Marty is a big part of the plan. Every person who has been brought to you is very important to this Plan. Be at total peace. You have nothing to fear. Any persecution will draw you closer to My Heart. My Plan is about to be released.
Note: Mary appeared on the building in Clearwater almost 2 years later.
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Jesus: You will have peace, you will know more and more the Father's love for you.
Be totally selfless, surrendering and do His will. I am Jesus Christ the Son of God. Every word I have written here is true. I gave My precious blood for you. I give you this truth. Be at total peace. Your peace will come from your immense realization of the love that God and Mary has for you. I am Jesus, I love you.
Excerpt from March 10, 1994 - Surrender
Jesus: This is surrender. I want your all. I do not want you attached to any person or any thing. I want you completely dependent on Me. Do I teach you such lessons on how attached you are to others and things? I have all the answers. If I do not tell you, you do not need to know. You want your will. My will I make known to you in front of the tabernacle. I have spoken here.
...Sweet surrender, only to find I want more. Look at My position on the cross. Did I ask you to die for Me? I ask you to do My Will. I ask you to surrender. I ask for time in front of the tabernacle.
Given 11 Years Ago Yesterday
January 27, 1995
Feast of St. Angela Merici
Mary appeared in so much light through the entire rosary
and the Sacred Heart appeared.
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Agony in the Garden1. Messenger: Put yourself in the Garden with Jesus as He kneels in such agony there.
2. Messenger: As He tells His Father: If it is possible to remove this cup — but not My will but Thine be done!
3. Messenger: Jesus came to show us the way. He always lived according to the Father's Will, to His death on the cross, He did the Will of the Father. His Mother showed us the way to follow the Father's Will.
4. Messenger: God makes His Will known to us in the inner promptings of our heart. The more we pray to the Spirit, the more we are enlightened to know the Will of the Father.
5. Messenger: It is in following God's Will that we are led to greatest happiness, for it is in following His Will that we are living according to the plan for which He created each and every one of us, uniquely and special. No person can do what the Father created us to do, on his own.
6. Messenger: In the Garden, Jesus did the Father's will. He is God! With greatest love of us and according to the will of His Beloved Father, Jesus endured the bitter passion.
7. Messenger: Jesus' greatest agonies were the agonies that He experienced to His Most Sacred Heart, the love that He has for each and every soul. And He saw before Him all the souls that He loved so dearly from all time that would neglect Him and treat Him indifferently.
8. Messenger: Jesus suffered so for the sins of all men for all time!
9. Messenger: Jesus had such great agony for all the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite all of His suffering and the great love that He had for those souls.
10. Messenger: Jesus' agony was so great that His sweat became as great drops of blood upon the ground. An angel of the Lord came and appeared to Him to comfort Him.
Mary appeared next to the statue of Jesus in the garden and angel in the back of the Holy Spirit Center, the old seminary.
Song between decades: A Song from Jesus
Jesus is Scourged at the Pillar
1. Messenger: Jesus had such love for Judas and He knew that he would betray Him with a kiss. Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver!
2. Messenger: They hit Jesus! They pulled His hair and they led Him away and tied Him so cruelly to a pillar!
3. Messenger: With such anger and hatred in their hearts, they beat Jesus' Most Precious Body. His once unblemished flesh was now an open wound from head to foot. He was covered with blood!
4. Messenger: But His greatest sufferings were not the sufferings that He experienced to His Body, but the sufferings that He experienced to His Most Precious Heart for the love that He had for each and every soul and the souls that would totally neglect Him, the souls that would reject Him, and the souls that beat Him — these men that He so dearly loved!
5. Messenger: Think of how it is when someone you love talks nasty to you. These men Jesus loved with such burning love that He gave His life for them, and they beat Him and tore His flesh to their own exhaustion.
6. Messenger: How many times, Jesus Our Savior, do we turn from You when You call out to come and be with You? You remain with us in Your Divinity and humanity in the Tabernacle in the Eucharist, no less present than the day You were scourged at the pillar, and You wait this day for us to come and to give our love to you.
7. Messenger: How much Jesus suffered for the endless hours that He waited in the Tabernacle for His beloved souls to come and share His love!
8. Messenger: How He waits for you this day. He longs and thirsts and wants to be so close to you. How many times do we say that we are too busy to be with You, Jesus? In our busy day of 24 hours, how little time we have to give to Jesus Christ the Son of God, who gave His Life, His Flesh, His Blood, who was born a human and gave Himself for us.
9. Jesus: Can you not watch one hour with ME?
10. Messenger: And in my desperation, I cried out in the depths of my soul and He heard my prayer and harkened to my pleading. He came. He replenished me and filled me with His grace and His Divine Love. I am His precious child. How He longs to give Himself to each and every one of us and how we go after such trivial things when He is truly God wants to share His love and His life with us.
Song between decades: A Song from Jesus
Jesus is Crowned with a Crown of Thorns
1. Messenger: Jesus' body was battered! It was bloodied! They put on His wounds a dirty purple robe. They gave Him a scepter and they pounded into His Most Precious Head, a sharp piercing crown of thorns!
2. Messenger: This is truly Jesus Christ, the Son of God! The King of all Kings! And they treated Jesus with such cruelty!
3. Messenger: Jesus remains with us this day in the Tabernacle. The King of Kings! The Son of God! And how we walk in front of the Tabernacle and think so little that this is the Almighty God who is present with us!
4. Jesus: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life! I came to show you My ways. Follow in My footsteps and I will lead you to eternal life!
5. Jesus: I loved those who whipped Me. I loved those who persecuted Me. I call out to you this day. I am in your brother! The person that you do not like is My beloved child. I ask you to love God and to love one another. I am in your brothers. If you love Me, you must love your brother. You cannot love Me and not love your brother. I ask you this day to open your hearts! To rid your hearts of all hatred and all anger! To come to My Tabernacle, to My Eucharist with a pure heart so that I can fill you with My grace, My Divine Love, My Healing. So that your heart will ever remain pure and shine in this world as the light with the Love of God shining in the darkest night!
6. Song: Crown Him with Many Crowns
7. Messenger: How many times do we put the crown on Jesus' head when He asks us to love our brothers, when He asks us to give from our hearts, when He asks us to be His light to this world? We do not hear because we do not want to hear what He calls out so plainly. We cover our eyes and look away. And He says: I showed you the way. Follow My way! I loved those who persecuted Me! I loved those men who put me to death! I ask you this day to see into your brother's eyes and to see ME who dwells within them!
8. Jesus: What you do to the least of your brethren, you do unto Me!
9. Jesus: As I suffered so for the sins of men, I was comforted by the acts of love that you give to Me this day. I was given such happiness for the acts that you give to Me. I ask you please to come and harken to My call, to open up your hearts to love, to let Me penetrate your being, to let Me operate from you, to become one in Me; to put aside your selfish interests and to open your hearts so that I may live in you in deepest union with you and give to this world My Divine Love as it shines through you.
10. Hail Mary
Song between decades: A Song from Jesus
Jesus Carries His Cross up Calvary
1. Messenger: Mary wants us to know that she is covered with immense light and appearing.
2. Messenger: Jesus stood in perfect peace with His hands tied. And the men that stood around Him with their angry faces poked at Him, and they condemned Him to death!
3. Messenger: He was given a heavy cross, put on His shoulder laden with the sins of the world.
4. Messenger: Always in compliance with the Father's will.
5. Messenger: Mary watched as Her beloved Son carried the cross, so heavy upon His back that He fell under it.
6. Messenger: She could not lift a hand to help her Beloved Son, the Son that she held, the Son that she took care of. And now she stood by and watched His Body covered with blood and wounds carrying the heavy cross and falling under it.
7. Song: See the Eyes that Look at Mary
8. Messenger: How the heart of Mary knows the Heart of Jesus! How she knew Jesus from the first moment of conception! That she carried Him within her womb, the Son of God! Her oneness with Him all through His little life, all through His public life! Now Mary peers into His beloved eyes on the way to His crucifixion!
9. Messenger: In that peering between that Son and this Mother is the oneness of the two Hearts. The two Hearts that are overflowing with such love for us. The love of Our Beloved Mother, the love of Jesus that He suffered so and gave His life for us. Such love! Her Heart was invisibly pierced with a sword. His Heart would be pierced with a lance!
10. Messenger: She asks you to see through her eyes the love that Her Beloved Son has for you. That Jesus, who is God, came to this earth, was born a man, that He carried a cross, that He suffered and died, that He rose on the third day and ascended into Heaven. This is reality! That your every breath and your every heartbeat depend upon the Almighty God! That He truly is a furnace of burning love on fire for each one of you. She asks you to look through her eyes (Now you know why Mary appeared with no eyes in Clearwater.) and see the love that He has for you today. To see as she saw her Son suffer so bitterly and hang for three agonizing hours to His death on the cross for love of you. This is no little love! Not a lip service love, but a love that caused Him to give His all, to give His life for love of you.
Song: See the Eyes that Look at Mary (I wish they all could see through a Mother's eyes)
Song between decades: A Song from Jesus
Jesus is Crucified and Dies on the Cross
1. Messenger: Mary glows so brightly - immense light each time I say that Jesus died on the cross!
2. Messenger: Mary was human. She had the baby Jesus. She held Him in her arms as a baby child. She took care of His little hands and little feet. And now she stands by the cross as they pound His Most Precious Hands and Feet into the cross.
3. Messenger: We do not even understand a small amount the sufferings that Mary suffered as she watched her beloved Son in such agony, and as she stood under the cross and saw Him hang ... His Body withered and weakened, covered with Blood and beaten. And she stood there, His beloved Mother, held up by John, with such anguish in her heart that we cannot even imagine a tiny amount of the sorrow that she experienced. But she calls out to you, and you are truly called here this night, to spread this love throughout this world. In your being, to make your top priority to have a relationship with Him, for He is truly here in His Divinity and humanity, and He is calling to you and she is calling out to you to take this as a serious matter. That it is up to you to do what the Father has planned for you and spread this love throughout the world. Make your top priority union with My Son!
4. Messenger: Against a darkened sky, He hung on the cross for three agonizing hours. His head was punctured with thorns, His hands were pierced all the way through with nails. He gave all His blood. He gave His flesh. He spread His arms and gave His all to show us the way to surrender. He calls out this day to give yourself, to surrender to the love that He has that He gives to you, that led Him to die this brutal death on the cross!
5. Jesus: Can you not trust Me? I, who hung on the cross and gave My all for you? I call out to you this day to trust My Most Sacred Heart for it is truly burning and on fire for love of you. Come to My Heart and be filled with Divine Love. I long to be so close to you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and I call to you this day to come to My Heart and know My Divine Love as you have never experienced it before. Pray for grace to know and love Me for I want to be so close to you. My beloved souls, I love you with a burning love!
6. R. God came to this earth a man. Jesus took a human nature for greatest love of us. He gave His life so that we could have this sharing in His life, and on the third day He rose from the dead. Death has no power over Jesus! Jesus comes to give us new life — His Love — a sharing in His Divine Life through baptism and He gives us His Divine Love! Nothing on this earth can compare to His Love and the gift He gives in sharing His life with us in a special way through baptism. And our souls crave this. Nothing satisfies the soul but the love of God!
7. Messenger: Mary held His lifeless body under the cross, the same baby that she once held. Now, the lifeless body of Jesus strung out in Her arms and she weeps bitterly as He is covered with blood without a breath in His body. He gave His all in compliance to the Will of the Father. He gave His all for love of us. The Father gave His only son with greatest love for each one of us. And Mary, His Mother, suffered by His side.
8. Sing: At the Cross her Station Keeping
9. Sing: Come unto Me all who are Weary
10. Messenger: This is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, who gave His life for love of each one of us and He would die this day for each one of us because He loves us so much.
Song between decades: A Song from Jesus
The Seven Sorrows of Mary
1. The Prophecy of Simeon. Simeon prophesied the sufferings that Jesus would experience. From that point on whenever Mary beheld the child, Jesus, she knew in her Heart, the prophesy of Simeon, how He would suffer.
2. The Flight into Egypt.
3. The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple.
4. Jesus and Mary Meet on the Way to the Cross.
5. Jesus Dies on the Cross.
6. Jesus is taken down from the Cross and laid in Mary's arms.
7. The Burial of Jesus.
This rosary was prayed just prior to the Prayer Meeting on Friday night at the Holy Spirit Center. In addition to Rita, Cathy, Joe and Marty, many people were present.
Rita: Mary appeared to me in such light through the entire rosary.
Marty: Rita stated that Mary was so illuminated at the end of the 1st Mystery. She was illuminated during the entire rosary — totally white and blazing in light, according to Rita.
Rita: The Sacred Heart appeared in light.
From February 23, 2000
The Interior Life
Messenger: There are layers and layers of hidden feelings and experiences within the hidden heart. The more we become intimate with someone, the deeper we go into these hidden layers.
Jesus speaks: Many today wear a mask. Like a mummy they hide the true self from themselves. If they keep themselves busy and connected to "stuff" in the world, they can remain on the surface of their personality and engage in quite lengthy discussions of personalities on television, rock stars, football players, etc. They can discuss the economy, the people and events in politics, they can discuss the interior workings of an atom, but the interior workings of their own hearts may remain a mystery.
Do you see Me come forth from the tomb? I dropped the wraps that were surrounding My flesh. You come forth from the tomb. Like a mummy that must discard layers and layers of binding, finally you arrive at the core.
There are so many hidden ways you have learned to hide your true self. Many do not want to look down deep because of the pain. They stay on the surface, and then they want to engage in intimate relationships, and they can't go below that surface layer for they cannot embrace the pain. They don't want to know the truth that they might have to change.
My men, I connect to you in your hearts. It is a knowledge of relating in the heart. It is the detailed mass of events that are recorded in the brain with the interaction of the heart and feelings that work together to make a deep relationship.
Relationships are not formed on details alone, there is an interaction between the parties in which they penetrate these hidden layers of the heart.
Intimacy between parties cannot happen if one is not able to give themselves on a deep level to another.
You must get below this surface level of relating and get to the true self. There you wish to share it with another or others and you wish that they accept this gift and love you in return.
To have a spousal relationship with Me you must get below these hidden layers to the depth of your soul. You must embrace the truth about yourself and the relationships in your life. You must recognize your woundedness, forgive others who have hurt you, learn to love them despite how you have been hurt, and connect in love to all the souls. The fullness of heartfelt love comes in embracing the truth and working through all wounded relationships in forgiveness and love.
I forgave those who put Me to death.
I loved those who beat Me.
In the Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and in these revelations, I have opened up to you the depth of My Heart, filled with My divine love. I have given you a vehicle to become intimately united to Me. I have given you the key to unlock hidden pain and heal the deep wounds that have produced so many scars in your heart.
Writing to Me about your feelings and your love is a key to helping you grow in greater intimacy with Me.
I want you for My spouse. I am a God that seeks a personal love union with you. I give you My love letters in God's Blue Books.
I am Jesus. Come to My Heart, drop the wraps that bind you, open up and let My light and My love fill your heart.
I have given you My key here to unlock the interior life within you.
The ways of the world have blocked this in-depth love. The devil wants you to not relate deep in your hearts, to remain on the surface, to record little details about persons to an inexhaustible degree and not even know about your God, Creator, your Maker, your Love, your Spouse.
I came to give you new Life.
Life is in Me.
Witness Letter - Mary G.
How has being a member of Shepherds of Christ has changed my life?
When I was a baby, we lived next door to a convent and I had 12 years of Catholic education. I married and lived Cincinnati eventually. After my civil divorce, my three younger children and I moved back to Price Hill in Cincinnati where I grew up. This time brought me the Catholic Charismatic experience.
Dad died in '86, and I moved away to a small town. Though I tried, I thought no Catholic church or prayer group met my needs so I attended Protestant prayer meetings and services. I found ministers and prayer groups that deeply love the Lord Jesus, and I would still be in these circles except that I went back to Cincinnati to visit. I hadn't told my old friends that I was no longer a practicing Catholic so I joined them when they attended charismatic functions. At one of these I was given Blue Book I.
Actually, someone tried to give it to me and I wouldn't take it saying, I had too much to read , so it was given to the friend I was staying with. When we got home and she was out of the room, I opened the book so I could congratulate myself for not accepting it.
That's Jesus! Jesus is speaking in this book! I read almost the whole book that night, then I ate humble pie and phoned the lady who had pressed me to accept it. I received it in a few days.
Back home I read and reread it. Jesus was speaking loud and clear and I went to the nearest church and made a confession and resumed my long neglected practice of daily Mass. I also began to go to the Shepherds of Christ chapter meetings in Morrow, Ohio, where I heard the call for volunteers to come to the Virgin Mary Site in Clearwater, Florida.
How well I understand God's words, "Your thoughts are not My thoughts!".
Changing my thoughts and my ways comes more slowly than changing my address, which is now Clearwater, Florida.
Though retirement isn't at all what I thought it would be, I wouldn't trade places with anyone at all.
MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY
AND THE WORLDI _________________ give my heart to
You Jesus and Mary on this day
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I promise to help spread the devotion to
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
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