Schedule for October 17, 2003

       
4:00 a.m. - Mass

4:37 a.m. - Choose Life

5:39 a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayers

5:51 a.m. - Songs

6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
                 Holy Spirit Novena
                 Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
                 Rosary

7:24 a.m. - Tell My People read by Father Carter

8:54 a.m. - Nursing Home #10

9:34 a.m. - Daily Message June 15, 2003

9:46 a.m. - Newsletter 1998 Issue 4 (The Peace of the Lord)

11:11 a.m. - Sorrowful Rosary August 20, 1996

12:23 p.m. - Children praying the Shepherds of Christ prayers

12:41 p.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union

12:46 p.m. - About Shepherds of Christ - talk given June 29, 2003

2:06 p.m. - Handbook read by Father Carter

3:40 p.m. - Song from Jesus

4:00 p.m. - Mass

4:37 p.m. - Newsletter 2001 Issue 1 excerpt

5:44 p.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union

5:49 p.m. - Songs

6:20 p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
                   Holy Spirit Novena
                   Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual

7:24 p.m. - Daily Messages from July 29, 1998 to August 10, 1998

8:55 p.m. - Children's Joyful Rosary - December 25, 1994

9:29 p.m. - Songs

10:19 p.m. - May 5, 2001 Rosary

11:32 p.m. - Nursing Home #15

12:10 a.m. - Children's Joyful Rosary - March 20, 1997

12:57 a.m. - Response to God's Love chapter 3

1:44 a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union

1:49 a.m. - Live Rosary from November 13, 1996

3:09 a.m. - Mary's Message

3:15 a.m. - Glorious Rosary Aves

3:48 a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union

3:53 a.m. - Songs

4:00 a.m. - Mass

    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.

   
  

October 15, 2003

Romans 8: 22-27

We are well aware that the whole creation, until this time, has been groaning in labour pains. And not only that: we too, who have the first–fruits of the Spirit, even we are groaning inside ourselves, waiting with eagerness for our bodies to be set free. In hope, we already have salvation; in hope, not visibly present, or we should not be hoping—nobody goes on hoping for something which is already visible. But having this hope for what we cannot yet see, we are able to wait for it with persevering confidence. 

    And as well as this, the Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness, for, when we do not know how to pray properly, then the Spirit personally makes our petitions for us in groans that cannot be put into words; and he who can see into all hearts knows what the Spirit means because the prayers that the Spirit makes for God’s holy people are always in accordance with the mind of God.

  

Revelation 19: 1, 5-9  

After this I heard what seemed to be the great sound of a huge crowd in heaven, singing, ‘Alleluia! Salvation and glory and power to our God! 

    Then a voice came from the throne; it said, ‘Praise our God, you servants of his and those who fear him, small and great alike.’ And I heard what seemed to be the voices of a huge crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder, answering, ‘Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun; let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the time for the marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds of the saints.’ The angel said, ‘Write this, “Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb,” ’ and he added, ‘These words of God are true.’ 

  

Matthew 25: 1-13

‘Then the kingdom of Heaven will be like this: Ten wedding attendants took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones, though they took their lamps, took no oil with them, whereas the sensible ones took flasks of oil as well as their lamps. The bridegroom was late, and they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. But at midnight there was a cry, "Look! The bridegroom! Go out and meet him." Then all those wedding attendants woke up and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, "Give us some of your oil: our lamps are going out." But they replied, "There may not be enough for us and for you; you had better go to those who sell it and buy some for yourselves." They had gone off to buy it when the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding hall and the door was closed. The other attendants arrived later. "Lord, Lord," they said, "open the door for us." But he replied, "In truth I tell you, I do not know you." So stay awake, because you do not know either the day or the hour.

October 15, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Oh heavenly bridegroom, I do love You.

                            I live to serve You my Master.

                            Oh that I could dwell so deeply in You.

                            You are my delight and my all.

                            I looked into the eyes of the Savior —

                                I saw the love He has for His

                                creatures —

                            I saw Him as He hung on the cross —

                            Oh a song of joy I sing to the One Who

                                gave Himself for me.

                            A song of joy to the Lord.

                            He lifts me when I am bowed down —

                            He loves me with an unquenchable love.

                                My soul is thirsting for Him —

                                My heart seeks His fullness —

                            I am a little one —

                            A wretched one —

                            Yet so beautiful in His sight —

                            He sees my love and my heart

                                brimming with joy to behold

                                Him and receive Him in the

                                Eucharist —

                            The very hairs of my head — He has

                                counted —

                            My heart longs and pines for the courts

                                of the Lord —

                            It is to know His embrace —

                            The joy of His ecstasies when He acts

                                on my soul —

                            The light of His love I know on a

                                dark cold night —

                            I see the candle burn like a beaming

                                light, it is the candle of His love

                                that burns for love of me and never

                                flickers or goes out

Jesus speaks:    Oh sing to Me My children

                                Sing songs to the Bridegroom of

                                    your soul —

                                I wash you and make you clean —

                                I see the love of your hearts —

                                I love you.

                                It is this love I want from you —

                                Not a love to count the costs —

                                but a love in your heart burning

                                for your Beloved —

                            A love in your heart that bids

                                you to come and thirst to

                                receive Me in the Eucharist —

                            It is a love of the doting lover —

                                the love of one consumed with

                                love for their Beloved —

                            Oh My people, pray that your

                                capacity to love will ever

                                deepen as you exist more

                                deeply in Me.

Messenger:        And I meditate on His mysteries —

                            The fire of God's love for me —

                            The fact God so loved the world

                                He sent His only Son —

                            And Jesus died for me and for

                                you, so we would be set

                                free from our sins and

                                share everlasting life with

                                Him forever.

                            Oh how can we ignore the Creator?

                                How can we ignore God who loves

                                    us so much?

                                How can we ignore God who

                                    gives us Himself, this day

                                    in the Eucharist?

                            A banquet He has set for me —

                            And in my sorrow I knew Him

                                so close to me, I knew the white

                                heat of His love —

God the Father speaks:

                            Oh My daughter, My Son has come —

                                the Savior of the World —

                                When they beat Him — He withstood

                                    the blows for you —

                                    His Blood poured from His body —

                                        the stream of Blood of the Holy One

                                    His eyes looked with love on

                                        the world, the Blood dripped

                                        from His pierced head and

                                        into His eyes — He

                                        saw you through the film of

                                        His own Blood in His eyes.

Messenger:        Oh wash me with your Blood and

                                Cleanse me —

                                That I will be lily white for

                                    my Bridegroom

                                Oh God my sins are many,

                                    my offenses against you,

                                    I cry for relief the day

                                    long in my desire to serve

                                    you, I have fallen many

                                    times and given into

                                    faults that did not please you.

                                Wash me with your Blood —

                                Help me to be loving and not to

                                    offend you —

                                Help me to love as you desire me

                                    to love my fellow men —

                                Help me to be an example always,

                                    a light in the darkness, a

                                    faithful servant with my eyes

                                    always focused on Thee.

Jesus speaks:    Oh little one what you must do is

                                pray for grace to be holy —

                            Oh My little one so many cry out

                                and yet fail to pray to Me in

                                their need. How powerful is

                                the heartfelt prayer.

                            You are but a child, a little one,

                                needing my direction, needing

                                my grace.

                            You are little and powerless without

                                Me, but your works can be mighty

                                works with My Might.

                            Oh My little babies, do not whine —

                                look into the face of My Father —

                                see the love outpoured upon you

                                His little child —

                            Look into His face —

                            See the love He outpours to His precious

                                souls, the ones who love and serve

                                Him —

                            And you see, not with the eyes of the

                                body, but with the eyes of the soul —

                            Your vision may seem clouded now,

                            but the more you come to Me in the

                                Eucharist, the more clearly you

                                know your God —

                            I share Myself with you so intimately —

                                I outpour My grace —

                                I give you My sweetest love —

                            Oh I LOVE YOU.

                            Oh My Beloved —

                            Oh My beloved creature of My

                                Father —

                            You are a child of the Father —

                                a child of God —

                            I am your Redeemer, your King.

Messenger:        My heart is ready my God —

Jesus speaks:    Oh My child open your heart then

                                and let My grace be poured

                                in there that you will reach

                                for the stars, that you will know

                                Me more intimately.

                            Oh beloved of My soul —

                                I sing a song of love for you.

October 15, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Oh God I sing to Thee

October 15, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     It is the torch of My love,

                            My beloved one, My beloved

                                spouse.

Messenger:        Shine in my heart my God —

                            Fill me with your love and your grace

                            Make my heart long for Thee

Jesus speaks:     Oh precious one — a love song I sing

                                to you.

October 15, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Oh Light Divine.

                            I love you.

                            Help me to do your will.

                            Shine on me.

                            Let us serve the Lord in holiness

                                all the days of our lives.

Jesus speaks:     Your lives are so short here below and 

                            My love is everlasting —

                            My love lasts forever and ever —

                            Do not turn your cheeks from Me,

                                but turn your face to Me that

                                My light will shine on thee

                                and I will grant you, My

                                little holy one, My mercy.

Messenger:        Oh God forgive me from my sins

                                and open my heart to your

                                love.

                            My love, My love, I love you.

Jesus speaks:     The hours tick by in petty pace —

                                the days turn from one to another,

                                a few short years —

                            You live a few short years here below —

Messenger:        Oh God my God save me from my

                                iniquities, from my sins —

                                look down on this race and

                                have mercy — grant us your

                                pardon and give us your

                                salvation.

                            Oh Saving Victim hanging from the

                                cross —

                            The sacrifice of the Mass is a gift

                                for us indeed —

                            A gift of Your endless love.

                            Wash me with Your Blood and

                                take care of me.

                            I am but a little child of the

                                Father —

                                a child of Mary my Mother —

                                look upon her purity and her

                                love and have pity on us the

                                poor banished children of Eve.

                            Night came and the darkness covered

                                the land and in the distance

                                was seen a golden lady.

July 5, 2003

October 15, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        She shown with brilliant light.

                            Is not that of Mother Mary and

                            as I approach such a 

                            beauteous site, I hear her speak

                            to me and she says so gently

                            and with such emotion —

Mary speaks:     I came a lady clothed with the sun —

January 5, 2003

October 15, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:     I came a lady in golden robes

                                and adorned in the night in

                                such brilliant light —

                            Would you turn your face from me

                                when I am sent by your

                                heavenly Father —

                                would you turn away when I

                                cry out to you and beg the

                                Father for pity on this human race.

Mary'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.

end of Mary's Message, August 27, 1996  

October 15, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:     There is always the cry from the ailing

                                children —

                            I am their Mother and I see them and

                                I cry to you.

                            Many are sick.

                            My children must pray the rosary

                                and meditate on Our Lives.

Messenger:         Oh Mary, I have tried to spread the

                                Rosaries and get rosary makers

                                and funds for this program.

                                We could accomplish so much

                                more if people realized that

                                peace can come if we pray the

                                rosary and turn our hearts to you,

                                the Queen of Peace, and pray

                                through your powerful intercession.

                            Oh light, Oh darkness, why do we not

                                see, are not the days that come

                                each day our reminder —

                                God gives us the sun light and

                                the stars that stud the sky by

                                night, but one cannot see in

                                total darkness and not much

                                better on a slightly darkened

                                night.

                            Our eyes are the lamps of our bodies —

                            they help us to get around —

                            A light shining in the dark night

                                seems to cast a mighty glow

                                and helps one to move about —

                            How mighty it is to have that light

                                within our soul — a beacon in

                                the darkness of the world —

                                a fire of glowing light to a

                                soul tested, even under the greatest

                                suffering —

                            Oh God let the glow of your light fill

                                our hearts and light our soul —

                                let us not be as blind men, but

                                as men walking with a lighted

                                candle, a beacon light into the

                                darkness of the night.

Jesus speaks:     My little "dumb one" the nights

                                follow the day, day — night, day —

                                night, day — night, one season

                                follow another, new growth —

                                decay, new growth — decay.

                            The cold nights of winter are dark and

                                sometimes a blanket of snow falls

                                to the earth and the ground once

                                soft and warm is frozen hard.

                            If you can understand these signs I

                                show you of the times of the

                                year and the times of the day —

                            Why do you not see the signs about

                                your own lives —

                                a baby comes with a little soft

                                    body and precious skin and

                                    tiny fingers and toes and

                                like a little clock that ticks within

                                    the baby grows and the body matures

                                    and brings forth fruit, many times,

                                    and then the grandmas and grandpas

                                    are laid out in caskets and

                                    buried in the ground.

                                If you can see the change of seasons

Autumn

Winter

Spring

Summer

October 15, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:             how that you are so focused on

                                    finding the fountain of life here

                                    below?

                                My people do not want to recognize

                                    the temporariness of their lives

                                    and when a body gets old and

                                    decrepit they, some of them, act

                                    shocked.

                                You closed your eyes to the signs all

                                    around you.

                                Babies are being born with cancer

                                    every day.

                                Young men get cancer and die,

                                    priests, husbands, moms

                                    and children —

                                You have bodies that deteriorate

                                    and die —

                                Why don't you study the story I tell

                                    you of My ways every day by the

                                    creation I have given you.

                                Trees wither and fade. Some die when 

                                    young shoots, some grow to a 

                                    ripe old age.

                                Once beautiful leaves of summer —

                                    are soon dressed in the garment

                                    of the red-yellow-orange beauty of

                                    autumn and fall to the ground to be

                                    crushed by the children at play and

                                    later appear to be a nuisance to some.

                                Oh I make a flower, a rose, so gentle and

                                    pure, so sweet and rich and it

                                    is laid upon their grave and the

                                    bud dries up and it is

                                    not like it once was.

                                Signs of My creation —

                                Signs of the night —

                                Darkness of the long, cold winters nights

                                    and you do not see

                                The spring comes, the tree blossoms,

                                    the leaves are beautiful, the

                                    tree may bear abundant fruit

                                    but in the end it too decays

                                    and falls many times to the ground.

                                Oh signs of creations —

                                    They tell you information about

                                        the creator —

                                    Your bodies, too, will wither and fade —

                                        like the passing wind that blows

                                        the fallen dried up leaves —

                                        the passing days of your lives

                                    tick like a clock, the clock of your

                                        body — do you see the clock tick?

                                        no, but the signs of the Creator

                                        are clear for you to know the

                                        course of events.

                                    Apples are sweet when they are in their

                                        prime, but can become rotten and

                                        die — if left on the tree too long, they

                                        fall off and become mush.

                                Your soul was created for Me.

                                Be busy for Our love affair.

                                Study My creation —

                                Meditate on darkness and light —

                                    the sun and the moon —

                                    Even the dog dies and is crated off.

                                Oh you silly earth — count your days

                                    and live them being aware of your

                                    creaturehood and the plan of the

                                    Creator.

                                    A man made a wood doll.

                                    The doll moved its arms and legs and

                                        mouth and head.

                                    The design for the doll was in the

                                        mind of the creator of that piece.

                                    Do you see yourselves in the mind

                                        of the Creator?

                                    Do you see yourselves separated

                                        from Him?

                                    Could the wood doll go off on

                                        its own?

                                    Can you be separate from the Creator

                                        who gives you life?

John 15:1-8

I am the true vine,
and my Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in me that bears no fruit
he cuts away,
and every branch that does bear fruit
     he prunes
to make it bear even more.
You are clean already,
by means of the word
     that I have spoken to you.
Remain in me, as I in you.
As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself,
unless it remains part of the vine,
neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine,
you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me, with me in him,
bears fruit in plenty;
for cut off from me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
is thrown away like a branch
—and withers;
these branches are collected
     and thrown on the fire
and are burnt.
If you remain in me
and my words remain in you,
you may ask for whatever you please
and you will get it.
It is to the glory of my Father
      that you should bear much fruit
and be my disciples.

     

October 15, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:         I give you dignity.

                                I am God and I created you.

                                Spend your days working out My Plan.

                                Study My ways.

                            Children many times do things like their

                                parents, but they don't want to

                                look at anything their parents did.

                                The secret to many of their own

                                    habits are found in their parent's ways

                                    and how they trained their children.

                                How foolish you say to ignore

                                    your background, it is a

                                    part of you.

                            Oh that you would learn from the

                                story of Adam and Eve.

Genesis Chapter 3

   Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the snake, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ’ Then the snake said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.’ The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig–leaves together to make themselves loin–cloths.

   The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden,’ he replied. ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked. ‘Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘Why did you do that?’ The woman replied, ‘The snake tempted me and I ate.’

   Then Yahweh God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you of
    all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.’

     To the woman he said:

     I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
     you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
     Your yearning will be for your husband,
      and he will dominate you.

   To the man he said, ‘Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

     Accursed be the soil because of you!
     Painfully will you get your food from it
     as long as you live.
   It will yield you brambles and thistles,
     as you eat the produce of the land.
   By the sweat of your face
     will you earn your food,
     until you return to the ground,
     as you were taken from it.
     For dust you are
     and to dust you shall return.’

   The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, ‘Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!’ So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.  

October 15, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     But many do not even want to know it —

                                then try to discount My Words of

                                the Holy Scripture.

God the Father speaks:

                            I am God.

                            I am the Creator.

                            You are the creatures.

                            I am God —

                            I am a Divine, Supreme, Being,

                            I have sent My Son as a sacrifice

                                for your sins.

                            So many ignore Me.

                            My Son is your bridegroom —

                                the bridegroom of your soul.

                            I am God.

                            I am Almighty.

                            I am love.

                            You are creatures.

                            babies come, men live and die

                            The trees are vibrant and beautiful

                                then they die and are troddened on

                                by the children at play.

                            The liturgy follows this sequence

                                Christmas — Christ is born

                                Lent — The Passion

                                Holy Week — Christ dies

                                Easter — Resurrection

                                then    — Ascension

                                          — Pentecost

                                          — Holy Trinity

                                          — Feast of Sacred Heart and

                                              Immaculate Heart

                            Ordinary time

                            WINTER

                            SPRING

                            SUMMER    

                            FALL

October 15, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Fr. Carter loved fall — 

Messenger:        he died and snow covered the earth that night

December 22, 2000

Margaret Mary in China

     March 5, 2002

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

    Shortly before he was to die from cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.

    "But we know that spring will soon come with all its new life and wonder.

    "It is quite clear that I will not be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a different way...

    "What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."³

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Notes:

3. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.
    

end of excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

Your Time Is So Short 

November 9, 1993 - 4:45a.m.

Jesus speaks:  My dear child, you must turn yourself over entirely to Me. Oh, child, I am your Savior. Do not ever doubt Me. Always count on My being present to you. The days go by with such rapidness, you will soon be with Me forever in heaven.

Everyone only sees each moment as it is occurring now. There is an end to all of this and your reward waits for you. It seems hard to think of this as ever ending, but time is so short, little one. Soon all this will be over.

Fight a good fight for Me. You need to help all you can to know of Me. Keep remembering that these days will not go on forever, that this life is so short compared to all eternity.

Some day you will truly be with Me in heaven. Your life is so short compared to eternity. Here today, gone tomorrow. All that remains is how you choose to live, for God or against God!

You are responsible for all your time and your actions and how you live in service of Me. It sounds simple but people alive on earth in sin cannot see anything else but what they are doing now. Satan blinds you into thinking this life will go on and on when, in fact, it is so short compared to eternity, just a short while. It is so easy to see. Why do you get so caught up in this life here? It is so short. The batting of an eye, the dropping of a pin, and your life is over and eternity awaits. Do these short moments mean so much to you?

Listen to Me, little one. Time is so short. My light is at hand. My time is so precious because it determines your eternal life. So short, indeed. Heed My word and listen to My voice. What you do, how you act, are so small when compared to eternity! This is no laughing matter. It is your soul that is at stake. It is your life forever and ever. Is a few years of life, holding on to such insignificant "stuff" worth all eternity? My life for you is so simple. Love God, love one another. Put Me first and all falls into line! So simple, but so hard for so many precious little ones. I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter of My law will pass away.

Here today, gone tomorrow, and I am your God. Come to me and all will be brought to light! He made the crooked ways straight and He nourished their souls. Listen. You do not know the glories that await him who serves the Lord. Hold tight to Me, little one. Hold tight to Me and receive a divine reward forever. May My name be exalted in heaven and on earth. The trumpet blares and the Lord ascends His throne. All know His glory. Their lives were not in vain who served Him while in their lives. Their rewards are as golden gems whose splendor no one can comprehend.

Heaven and earth may vanish like smoke, but your deeds will not be forgotten. Store up treasures in the life hereafter by doing good works. Keep your eyes on your Father in heaven, Who waits and loves you so. All will be made open in the end and your life will be spent in the hereafter. What a reward for such a short test!

R. Oh, Jesus, praise to You from the heights. You are so good and loving. We trust in You and Your mercy. Alleluia. Alleluia.

end of November 9, 1994