I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.

I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able,  to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

Prayer for Grace for Election and our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.   

 
October 27, 2023

R. Pay attention to the little
miracles every day.
God does so much for us
every day.
If we don’t see these gifts
and are full of gratitude for
what He gives us, we can
keep living in ingratitude
and deeper darkness.
Today is the day the Lord
has made, rejoice and be
glad in it.

God intends us to make
friendships and work in love
with others to serve and
love and help build His
Kingdom on earth.

Think of how those who
went before us had to walk
in faith to bring us what we
have today.

Gratitude for the gifts we
receive in God working in
others to help us.

Many saints suffered greatly
following in the footprints
of Jesus, holding on to their
faith in God, walking in
hope and love.

Life is a journey, respond in
loving conformity to God’s
will.
Walking in faith, with hope
in our hearts.
Amen.
Alleluia.

Walk following Jesus and
trusting God.

We walk by faith and not by
sight.

Today is the day the Lord
has made, let us rejoice and
be glad.
 

A Happy Day

 

R. If you had faith like a mustard
seed
You could move a mountain!!
We walk by faith and not by
sight!!

         

May 12, 2023 

Glorious Mysteries

 

The Resurrection

1. Luke 24: 1-12

On the first day of the week, at the first sign of dawn, they went to the tomb with the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb, but on entering they could not find the body of the Lord Jesus. As they stood there puzzled about this, two men in brilliant clothes suddenly appeared at their side. Terrified, the women bowed their heads to the ground. But the two said to them, ‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive? He is not here; he has risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee: that the Son of man was destined to be handed over into the power of sinful men and be crucified, and rise again on the third day.’ And they remembered his words.

And they returned from the tomb and told all this to the Eleven and to all the others. The women were Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. And the other women with them also told the apostles, but this story of theirs seemed pure nonsense, and they did not believe them.

Peter, however, went off to the tomb, running. He bent down and looked in and saw the linen cloths but nothing else; he then went back home, amazed at what had happened.

2. How was Christ on earth?   
    (Because God the Father
    created us in the image and
    likeness of Jesus.)
3. Christ is love, He showed
    us how to be likened to
    Him.
4. In heaven there isn’t a
    drop of willfulness opposed
    to God, who is first. There is
    no sin.
5. Christ was kind, going
    out in love, giving others
    what they needed, not
    holding out what was
    needed for power and
    persecution.
6. Jesus gave Himself to
    His death on the cross.
7. Christ was other focused
    for their good.
8. Jesus is absolute truth,
    not a lie in heaven.
9. Most Sacred Heart of
    Jesus, I place my trust in
    Thee.
10. Jesus was
    compassionate.
    Jesus is the greatest lover.
    How did you score in trying
    to be in the image and
    likeness of Jesus?

 

The Ascension

1. Luke 24:50-53

Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven. They worshipped him and then went back to Jerusalem full of joy; and they were continually in the Temple praising God.

2. Christianity is a religion of
    love.
    Jesus Christ is love.
3. God overwhelmingly
    loves us and He wants our
    response to His love!!!
4. In baptism we receive a
    sharing in His life.
5. It is a privilege to be
    given the priest, the Church
    and the world to love and be loved.
6. In baptism our knowing
    and loving capacity is
    elevated.
7. Love does not demand
    its own way. When we love,
    we give for the good of the
    other, according to God‘s
    will, to help them to be
    what God wants them to
    be.
8. Unity, God wants unity.
    We are members of the
    body of Christ, with Christ,
    our head. God is light, and
    in him is no darkness.
9. We thank God for the
    gifts that He gives to us. We
    love God and we respond
    to His love by spreading it
    to others.
10. If we give our hearts to
    Jesus and Mary, and you
    give your heart to Jesus
    and Mary, we will be united
    in Their hearts, doing one
    will, the Father’s will in love.

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

1. Acts 2: 1-4

When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves. 

2. We live our life in the
    Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit
    teaches us about God-like
    life.
3. Christ first loved us. It is
    our response in love to
    God.
4. We go to the heavenly
    Father through, and with
    Christ, in the Holy Spirit,
    with the assistance of
    Mary, our spiritual Mother.
5. Vision - we need to see
    more and more clearly
    the vision, through the eyes
    of our Heavenly Father.
6. Because we have a
    wounded human nature,
    we have distorted vision.
    We need to see through
    the eyes of faith.
7. Matthew 5:48
    You must therefore be
    perfect, just as your
    heavenly Father is perfect.
8. John 14:6
    I am the way, the truth,
    and the life.

    We live the Paschal
    mystery of Death /
    Resurrection, dying to the
    ways, not like Jesus, and
    rising to greater life in Him.
9. The Word and the
    Eucharist are the Bread of
    Life.
10. Sing: Come Holy Ghost

 

The Assumption of Mary into Heaven

1. Mary was taken body and
    soul into heaven.
2. Mary is our spiritual
    Mother, we live with Mary
    as
    Mother at our side.
3. Sing: Immaculate Mary

4. Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.

5. Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!

6. Mary loved the Father’s
    will. Mary is our model,
    perfect disciple of Jesus.
    Everything is relationship.
7. We see in the
    relationship between Jesus
    and Mary, how we can be
    deeply and intimately
    united to Jesus and Mary.
8. We see in Mary’s
    relationship with Jesus, we
    can be more one in our
    relationship with Jesus.
9. We meditate on these
    mysteries of the rosary, that
    the life, death, and
    resurrection of Jesus, will
    live in our lives.
10. And Mary is the new Eve.

 

The Coronation

1. 1 Corinthians 2: 14-16

The natural person has no room for the gifts of God’s Spirit; to him they are folly; he cannot recognise them, because their value can be assessed only in the Spirit. The spiritual person, on the other hand, can assess the value of everything, and that person’s value cannot be assessed by anybody else. For: who has ever known the mind of the Lord? Who has ever been his adviser? But we are those who have the mind of Christ.

2. Romans 8: 14

    All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God;

3. Sing: Eye Has Not Seen

4. Heaven is to know
    this Divine embrace
    from the Almighty God -
    to be satisfied, full of
    life, to be filled with
    love, to love all and to
    be in unity in such
    oneness with all - the
    beatific vision -
    wrapped in the Divine
    embrace, knowing God.

    Life flows from the
    Father, in the Holy
    Spirit, through the
    pierced Heart of Jesus, in
    the heart of Mary, into us,
    and we act as channels
    of His life in this world.

    Please help us spread
    the prayers Fr. Carter
    gave us with devotion
    to the Sacred Heart and
    Mary's heart, praying
    for the priests, the
    Church and the world.

5. A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

     Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

6. God has called us! We
    were created in the
    image and likeness of
    God. God is love.
    The Incarnation goes
    on in us. We pray to the
    Holy Spirit for life in
    the Spirit with Mary at
    our side.

7. This is the Holy Spirit
    Prayer from the
    Shepherds of Christ,
    Prayer Manual.

8. Holy Spirit Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.

9. God is the Divine Lover.
    We give Jesus our
    Heart and ask the Holy
    Spirit to work with Mary
    in forming Jesus more
    and more in our hearts
    and souls. We meditate
    on the goodness and
    greatness of God and
    His infinite love for us.

10. Sing: Hail Holy Queen

 

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