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October 23, 2004
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October 24th Holy Spirit Novena
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October 23, 2004
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 you 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.
7 Capital
Sins
1.
Pride
2. Greed
3. Envy
4. Wrath
5. Lust
6. Gluttony
7. Sloth
October 23, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
There are weaknesses in all of us
due to original sin of jealousy,
pride, lustfulness etc.
In dealing with myself and others
I know these exist.
From The Spiritual Exercises of St.
Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
55.
SECOND EXERCISE
This is a meditation on our
sins. After the prepara-
tory prayer and two preludes
there are five points
and colloquy.
October 23, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
I remember a priest saying something
like "why do I do the things, I
do not want to do" and referring
us to Galatians 5.
Galatians 5: 13-24
After all, brothers, you were called to be free;
do not use your freedom as an opening for self–indulgence, but be servants to
one another in love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in the
one commandment: You must love your neighbour as yourself. If you
go snapping at one another and tearing one another to pieces, take care: you
will be eaten up by one another.
Instead, I tell you, be guided by the
Spirit, and you will no longer yield to self–indulgence. The
desires of self–indulgence are always in opposition to the Spirit, and
the desires of the Spirit are in opposition to self–indulgence: they are
opposites, one against the other; that is how you are prevented from doing
the things that you want to. But when you are led by the
Spirit, you are not under the Law. When self–indulgence is
at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality, the
worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad
temper and quarrels, disagreements, factions and malice,
drunkenness, orgies and all such things. And about these, I tell you now
as I have told you in the past, that people who behave in these ways will
not inherit the kingdom of God. On the other hand the fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
trustfulness, gentleness and self–control; no law can touch
such things as these. All who belong to Christ Jesus have
crucified self with all its passions and its desires.
October 23, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
I am a messenger, I ask people to do
things some times that Jesus wants
done — they can do it willingly or
not do it — someone can ignore it
and act like they may do it and then
never do it, not telling me they won't do it.
Others may not do it and give me a hard
time to try to get out of it.
Some people get Alzheimer's and forget things —
Some people are so mean through life
talking about others and causing
problems —
Some won't let anyone tell them, even
those over them at work, in community
etc. — what is a real problem — they
are prideful.
We are all imperfect —
The sooner we recognize this we will realize
we will suffer with this human condition
in ourselves and in others and we have to
continue, despite this, to help promote
God's Kingdom.
People sin —
People are willful —
People are jealous —
People are controlling —
People are prideful
Can we then isolate ourselves when
God calls us to build His Kingdom —
No we must deal with one another
and we are all imperfect — we
must deal with this imperfection
in the human condition.
Mary has told us to pray the rosary as a
weapon against satan —
Jesus has given us these prayers
October 23, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
Over and over again we are disappointed
with people who are dishonest,
lie, deceptive — even people close
to us, who have had patterns of
behaviors that are deceptive "little
white lies" their whole lives.
Someone had a habit of telling someone
what they wanted to hear, but never
did what they said.
Another took pay unjustly and when
asked for a service it was not
rendered, but they did not see
squandering funds as an injustice.
So many hidden faults of ours even from
our own eyes and yet —
See the devil and how he worked with
Eve in the garden — she was
tempted — she gave in —
See Cain — he killed his brother — he
was tempted — he gave in —
Why do you think God has this in the
beginning of the Bible?
In the beginning of the Bible —
The Fall of Man
Going to the Blessed Sacrament — to the
tabernacle can be such a
rich source of grace —
One hour everyday to help us cope with
the human condition.
The bottom line is we all want to be
more like Jesus —
That is why we were created.
Satan has tried to get people to think
they do not sin —
to think they are perfect —
to not look at their own faults —
When the faults show up is in intimate
relationships —
God has put in us a desire to be one —
We long for union —
We try to get close and our selfishness,
pride, jealousy sticks out like
ragged edges when we try to
get close to another and the pointy
ends of the ragged edges pierce
the skin of the other and they cry in
pain —
A woman had 5 "husbands" — she
did the same things with each and
felt they were all alike and had a
bad problem.
She never looked at her own ragged
edges — she was blinded — she
didn't see she had any faults —
One hand reaches out to another in
kindness — the other hand may
slap someone on the face —
Are we two-faced —
Are we hiding our own sin and imperfection
from ourselves and yet everyone
around us sees the way we need
to change.
I come as a messenger to deliver a message
of peace —
People must recognize they are imperfect
when you see how imperfect we —
are we can see how
beautifully full of grace is Mary and
how God is perfect —
God the Father, God the Son and
God the Holy Spirit are perfect —
they are one —
no ragged edges
Excerpt from Response to God's Love,
by Father Edward Carter, S.J.
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The Mystery of Christ and
Christian Existence
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...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).
Sing: Immaculate Mary
Luke 1: 46-55
And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
The Penitential Rite
Ephesians 4: 7-16
On each one of us God’s favour has been
bestowed in whatever way Christ allotted it. That is why it
says:
He went up to the heights, took captives,
he gave gifts to humanity.
When it says, ‘he went up’, it must mean that he had gone
down to the deepest levels of the earth. The one who went down
is none other than the one who went up above all the heavens to fill all
things. And to some, his ‘gift’ was that they should be
apostles; to some prophets; to some, evangelists; to some, pastors and
teachers; to knit God’s holy people together for the work of
service to build up the Body of Christ, until we all reach
unity in faith and knowledge of the Son of God and form the perfect Man,
fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself.
Then we
shall no longer be children, or tossed one way and another, and carried
hither and thither by every new gust of teaching, at the mercy of all the
tricks people play and their unscrupulousness in deliberate deception. If
we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow completely into Christ,
who is the head by whom the whole Body is fitted and joined
together, every joint adding its own strength, for each individual part to
work according to its function. So the body grows until it has built
itself up in love.
Psalm 122: 1-5
I rejoiced that they said to me,
‘Let us
go to the house of Yahweh.’
At last our feet are standing
at
your gates, Jerusalem!
Jerusalem, built as a city,
in one
united whole,
there the tribes go up,
the tribes of Yahweh,
a
sign for Israel to give thanks
to the name of Yahweh.
For there
are set the thrones of judgement,
the thrones of the house of David.
Luke 13: 1-9
It was just about this time that some
people arrived and told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had
mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them, ‘Do
you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than any others, that
this should have happened to them? They were not, I tell you.
No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did. Or
those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, killing them all? Do you
suppose that they were more guilty than all the other people living in
Jerusalem? They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent
you will all perish as they did.’
He told this parable, ‘A man had a fig tree planted in
his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none. He
said to his vinedresser, "For three years now I have been coming to
look for fruit on this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should
it be taking up the ground?" "Sir," the man
replied, "leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and
manure it: it may bear fruit next year; if not, then you can
cut it down." ’
October 1, 2004
My dear friends,
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with
you
in love. In these troubled times of the election and war
and wonders of peace — we have suffered many hurricanes
since Mary's image head was knocked off.
Florida appeared
to be squeezed like a wet wash cloth
August 13, 2004 a hurricane, September 5, 2004 another hurricane,
September 13, 2004 another hurricane. Jesus sent me to Florida last
Thursday to take the path across Florida, 60 and 70 to bless
the state before the hurricane. It was terrible — I was on
the west side all through it. On September 5th I was in the building
in Clearwater and on August 13, 2004 the hurricane was averted as
we prayed in China.
Mary's message of peace must be sent to the
priests.
A Jesuit with the blessing of his provincial and his rector has
completed the Priestly Newsletter — he studied in Rome and can
teach in the Pontifical Colleges — The Newsletter is literally a
work of art dedicated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary based on
the Word and the writings of the Church. It will be a special
issue and surprise to you. It is ready to go to 75,000 priests.
We need at least $7,000 for the postage in the United States and
then the foreign mailing. It can really help the world in
these decisive times before the election.
October 13, 2004 is the 87th anniversary of
Mary's last apparition
at Fatima. We need to make reparation to God for how Mary's
image was destroyed. We are about to put protection over Jesus'
face which is costly. Please we desperately need your help to do this.
MARY IS THE QUEEN OF PEACE — spreading the consecration
to the 2 Hearts to 75,000 priests can help the peace of this world.
LOVE in Their Hearts, Rita
October 1, 2004
We
have had many trials in
Florida
.
Mary appeared 7 years every day before her image head was knocked off.
We pray from
Clearwater
and all our centers for the priests the Church and the world united on the
internet and with many others.
Fr. Carter our founder circulated the Priestly Newsletter for over 8
years.
A Jesuit of over 40 years and who can teach in the Gregorian colleges
in
Rome
and all pontifical colleges has written the new Priestly Newsletter to
continue the work Jesus gave to Fr. Carter 10 years ago. Fr. Carter died.
The day he
accepted was Pentecost Eve - here is the picture taken.
At
6:20
our prayer time. He accepted with the blessing of his provincial and rector.
Here is a message from Jesus to Fr. Carter when Fr. Carter began the
Newsletter that finally went to 85,000 priests.
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of Shepherds of Christ
Associates:
"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the
priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds
of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and
the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds
of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My
Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of
Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use
them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart
and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds
of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and
to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy
Spirit."
- Message from
Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)
August 1, 1994
Pray For The
Success Of The Priestly Newsletter - Shepherds of Christ
Messenger: The following is the first official
message I received before the statue of Mary at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit
Center. It is a personal message for Father Carter.
Mary speaks: (in front of the glowing statue of Our
Lady of Sorrows) I am the Immaculate Heart. My Heart is glowing for love of
all my beloved children. I am your most loving Mother. I am with you this day.
Pray for the success of the priestly newsletter Shepherds of Christ. I am
guarding your way. You will receive such graces to accomplish this task! Grace
from God is so abundantly bestowed on you and will lead to the success of this
endeavor! Pray for this cause at the Center. The priests will lead the people
to the love of My beloved Son. This is no little task. It will take many
prayers and graces. Pray hard, little one. Your prayers will change many
hearts.
I am Mary, your Immaculate Mother. I bring this message to
My beloved priest-son.
end of
August 1, 1994
message
The New Priestly Newsletter will be ready to mail in about one week. It
is so very awesome. The new Jesuit edited it and quotes from scripture and the
writings of the Church.
For the 87th anniversary of the last Apparition at
Fatima
October 13, 2004
we ask if you can help with the postage.
April 5, 2004
Also we must spend thousands and thousands of dollars to protect
Jesus’ face with the proper structure. We are presently repairing the sink
hole under Mary's image and Jesus’ face and then we will put up the bullet
proof glass for protection from vandals and hurricanes.
Here are some
of our ministries -
1) Supply priestly Newsletter to 75,000 priests centered
in Consecration to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.
2) Send about 50,000 homemade rosaries to
the schools twice a year with
consecration cards to the 2 Hearts and meditations.
3) Prayer Chapters to pray for the priests, the
Church and the world - all over the
world in 6 languages.
4) Monthly retreats before the exposed Eucharist
in our Church from the diocese for
for 4 days, with Masses from priests
who support the ministry daily -
praying for the priests, the Church and the world.
5) People praying in
China
,
Indiana
before the
tabernacle for the priests, the Church and
the world - 24 hours a day, live
on TV web camera.
6) Live radio - 24 hours praying for the
priests, the Church and the world.
7) Prayer daily at all centers at
6:20
daily
8) Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus - all over
the world praying before Blessed Sacrament.
9) Nursing Home Ministry
10) Prison Ministry
11) 10 years of service in all of our ministries-
including supplying 75,000 priests regularly
6 times a year with the priestly Newsletter.
Come to
Florida
October 5, 2004
for a special prayer service praying and singing for special grace to be
outpoured on the priests, the Church and the world.
Excerpt
from
October 1, 2004
message
God
the Father speaks:
I sent Mary as a messenger to
you --
You ignored her
You defaced the rainbow image
Remember Noah's arch --
Remember the sign of the rainbow
Genesis
9: 12-15
And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make
between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages
to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of
the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the
earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant
between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living
things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all
living things.
God
the Father speaks:
I sent the rainbow 1996.
Florida
has had to deal
with many hurricanes
and floods.
I am God the Father -- you refuse to
listen to Mary. …
This is My sign sent to you --
the sign of the rainbow
You will not listen --
peace is found in
listening to Mary
Mary's
Peace Plan
1.
Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus
and Mary ––
until a sufficient number of people make and live the
consecration, we will not have peace in the world.
2.
Praying the rosary.
3.
Observing the First Saturday Devotion.
4.
Making reparation to the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary.
God
the Father speaks:
I want the Newsletter
sent out.
Please help Me.
This, Shepherds of Christ, is My Son's
Movement.
I am God the Father.
end of excerpt from
October 1, 2004
message
We have DVDs available of
the
Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries
of the Rosary with short mediations
especially for schools.
These DVDs can be shown on
a projector for classrooms.
It is really wonderful!
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