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October 3, 2003

Schedule for October 4, 2003

   
4:00 a.m. - Mass

4:37 a.m. - Tell My People read by Father Carter

6:08 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. - Nursing Home #15

8:02 a.m. - Mysteries of Light from November 2, 2002

8:43 a.m. - Sorrowful Rosary March 17, 1995

9:35 a.m. - Messages & Songs October 24, 1995

10:38 a.m. - Mass celebrated by Father Carter July 5, 2000

11:27 a.m. - Stations of the Cross

11:48 a.m. - Mary's Message

11:55 a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union with Jesus

12:00 p.m. - Sorrowful Rosary Aves

12:32 p.m. - Seven Sorrows

12:46 p.m. - Children's Sorrowful Rosary November 2, 1996

1:44 p.m. - Children's Joyful Rosary March 20, 1997

2:31 p.m. - Sorrowful Rosary January 26, 1996

3:48 p.m. - Morning Offering

3:52 p.m. - Mary's Message

3:58 p.m. - A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

4:00 p.m. - Mass

4:37 p.m. - Blue Book Reading from September 14, 2003

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

7:24 p.m. - Children's Sorrowful Rosary November 2, 1996

9:57 p.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 2 (Suffering: A Source of Life)

10:25 p.m. - Daily Messages August 11-18, 1998

11:55 p.m. - Glorious Rosary April 16, 1995

12:39 a.m. - Mass celebrated by Father Carter May 13, 1998

1:54 a.m. - December 12, 1998 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

2:42 a.m. - Rosary May 5, 2001

3:55 a.m. - Ave Maria & Song from Jesus

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 3, 2003 - First Friday

Jesus speaks:     I am your Sacred Heart.

                            You are at war.

                            Satan wants your soul.

                            I am love.

                            I want you to obey the commandments.

                            I want you to live by My Word

                                (the Holy Scriptures).

Messenger:        Look at how simply God talks to us through

                                the scriptures.

                            Here is the story of Tobit

Tobit Chapter 2

In the reign of Esarhaddon, therefore, I returned home, and my wife Anna was restored to me with my son Tobias. At our feast of Pentecost (the feast of Weeks) there was a good dinner. I took my place for the meal; the table was brought to me and various dishes were brought. I then said to my son Tobias, ‘Go, my child, and seek out some poor, loyal–hearted man among our brothers exiled in Nineveh, and bring him to share my meal. I will wait until you come back, my child.’ So Tobias went out to look for some poor man among our brothers, but he came back again and said, ‘Father!’ I replied, ‘What is it, my child?’ He went on, ‘Father, one of our nation has just been murdered; he has been strangled and then thrown down in the market place; he is there still.’ I sprang up at once, left my meal untouched, took the man from the market place and laid him in one of my rooms, waiting until sunset to bury him. I came in again and washed myself and ate my bread in sorrow, remembering the words of the prophet Amos concerning Bethel: 

    I shall turn your festivals into mourning 
    and all your singing into lamentation. 

    And I wept. When the sun was down, I went and dug a grave and buried him. My neighbours laughed and said, ‘See! He is not afraid any more.’ (You must remember that a price had been set on my head earlier for this very thing.) ‘Once before he had to flee, yet here he is, beginning to bury the dead again.’ 

    That night I took a bath; then I went into the courtyard and lay down by the courtyard wall. Since it was hot I left my face uncovered. I did not know that there were sparrows in the wall above my head; their hot droppings fell into my eyes. This caused white spots to form, which I went to have treated by the doctors. But the more ointments they tried me with, the more the spots blinded me, and in the end, I became completely blind. I remained without sight four years; all my brothers were distressed on my behalf; and Ahikar provided for my upkeep for two years, until he left for Elymais. 

    My wife Anna then undertook woman’s work; she would spin wool and take cloth to weave; she used to deliver whatever had been ordered from her and then receive payment. Now on the seventh day of the month of Dystros, she finished a piece of work and delivered it to her customers. They paid her all that was due, and into the bargain presented her with a kid for a meal. When the kid came into my house, it began to bleat. I called to my wife and said, ‘Where does this creature come from? Suppose it has been stolen! Let the owners have it back; we have no right to eat stolen goods’. She said, ‘No, it was a present given me over and above my wages.’ I did not believe her, and told her to give it back to the owners (I felt deeply ashamed of her). To which, she replied, ‘What about your own alms? What about your own good works? Everyone knows what return you have had for them.’

October 3, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        We are blind, we do not see and God

                                refers to the eyes and man's

                                blindness all through the scriptures.

                            St. Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises

                                talks about the two Camps.

                                Satan wants souls for hell.

                                God wants souls for heaven.

                                The devil tempts men to go out and

                                    lead others astray.

                            We have been called the Shepherds of 

                                Christ to help lead people home

                                to the Heart of Jesus.

                            Today is First Friday,

                            Even though we may be busy about

                                God's work, on First Friday and

                                every Friday we want to

                                give love to our Beloved

                                Sacred Heart.

October 3, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Where does the soul go who lives in sin?

                            They are restless inside.

                            How do they find a place to rest and

                                lay their weary head?

                            They may go from sin to sin —

                                they may be busy —

                                they may lie to themselves and to

                                others to cover up what they are

                                doing.

                            Satan is the father of lies.

                            Satan is deception.

                            Satan wants souls for hell.

God the Father speaks:

                            I am your heavenly Father.

                            I created you to be with Me in love

                                for all eternity.

                            Your Mother has told you about the First

                                Saturday Devotion.

                            This is a tremendous gift, she promises

                                that to those who make the 5 first

                                Saturdays consecutively they will

                                not see the fires of hell.

                                WHAT A PROMISE

                            Here are the requirements for the 5 – 1st Saturdays.

          Excerpt from Mother at Our Side, p. 21

                            by Fr. Edward Carter S.J.

    . . .The practice of the five first Saturdays involves: 1)  Going to confession, which may be done from 8 days before to 8 days after the first Saturday. Of course, if a person is in the state of serious sin, the confession must be made before receiving communion. 2)  Receiving Holy Communion. 3)  Recitation of 5 decades of the rosary. 4)  Meditating for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the rosary. All of the above (except confession) must be done on the first Saturday of 5 consecutive months with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart. For those who make the five first Saturdays, Our Lady of Fatima has promised to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation.

October 3, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I am Jesus, I love you so much.

                            I want to have a love relationship with you.

                                Satan wants division.

                                Satan wants hatred.

                                Satan wants jealousy and willfulness.

                            You must want the will of God.

                            You should do all things for the honor and

                                glory of God, not for your own

                                vainglory.

God the Father speaks:

                            You have so many years on this earth.

                            You are being tested.

                            You must abide by God's rules.

                            You are so foolish in your ways

                                for you do not see the devil working

                                in your thoughts, in your desire

                                for momentary pleasure.

                            You are a child that must seek the light.

                            You are the ones I have called to go out

                                and reach the world.

                            Satan tempts others to go out and spread

                                darkness.

                            Satan works in the will.

                            Satan works in sensuous pleasures.

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 3, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        One time I read a little of a book about purgatory.

                            In the book two devils were talking how

                                they would lure a couple not married

                                with sensuous pleasures, how they

                                would work to try to get them passionately

                                involved and tempt them to commit

                                sin after sin by tempting through

                                the appetite. The devils said this

                                usually works, for in the heat of

                                passion they give in.

                            We must want God's will in everything.

                            Satan can tempt people and they can

                                hear violins in their hearts and see

                                lights around the other person.

                            The answer is — what is God's will

                                for us?

                            How can satan get someone stuck in living

                                a life of sin?

                            How can we keep ourselves pure and focused

                                on God?

Jesus speaks:     A man went out to plant a vineyard —

                                soon the bugs came and destroyed his crops —

                                what do you think he had left?

                                Nothing but rot.

                            I give you a soul.

                            Satan comes to try to steal the souls for hell.

                            Here is a message from your Mother.

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 3, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I am God.

                            I have appeared here for you.

February 5, 2001

October 3, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     My Mother has appeared in rainbow color.

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October 3, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I am your God and I love you so much.

                            Today I give you the beginning of the

                                discernment of spirits from

                                Saint Ignatius Spiritual Exercises.

                            Tomorrow will be part two.

                            Is your soul restless because you are living

                                in sin, is satan taunting you to feel

                                guilty — do you feel you cannot come

                                and rest in My arms? Are you busy

                                and wish you could sleep and wake

                                up and get out of the spiritual mess you

                                are in?

Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. pp. 141-146

  

313. RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
I

Rules for understanding to some extent the different movements produced in the soul and for recognizing those that are good to admit them, and those that are bad, to reject them. These rules are more suited to the first week
  

314.  I.  In the case of those who go from one mortal sin to another, the enemy is ordinarily accustomed to propose apparent pleasures. He fills their imagination with sensual delights and gratifications, the more readily to keep them in their vices and increase the number of their sins.

    With such persons the good spirit uses a method which is the reverse of the above. Making use of the light of reason, he will rouse the sting of conscience and fill them with remorse.

315.  2.  In the case of those who go on earnestly striving to cleanse their souls from sin and who seek to rise in the service of God our Lord to greater perfection, the method pursued is the opposite of that mentioned in the first rule.

    Then it is characteristic of the evil spirit to harass with anxiety, to afflict with sadness, to raise obstacles backed by fallacious reasonings that disturb the soul. Thus he seeks to prevent the soul from advancing.

    It is characteristic of the good spirit, however, to give courage and strength, consolations, tears, inspirations, and peace. This He does by making all easy, by removing all obstacles so that the soul goes forward in doing good.

316.  3.  SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION.  I call it consolation when an interior movement is aroused in the soul, by which it is inflamed with love of its Creator and Lord, and as a consequence, can love no creature on the face of the earth for its own sake, but only in the Creator of them all. It is likewise consolation when one sheds tears that move to the love of God, whether it be because of sorrow for sins, or because of the sufferings of Christ our Lord, or for any other reason that is immediately directed to the praise and service of God. Finally, I call consolation every increase of faith, hope, and love, and all interior joy that invites and attracts to what is heavenly and to the salvation of one's soul by filling it with peace and quiet in its Creator and Lord.

317.  4.  SPIRITUAL DESOLATION.  I call desolation what is entirely the opposite of what is described in the third rule, as darkness of soul, turmoil of spirit, inclination to what is low and earthly, restlessness rising from many disturbances and temptations which lead to want of faith, want of hope, want of love. The soul is wholly slothful, tepid, sad, and separated, as it were, from its Creator and Lord. For just as consolation is the opposite of desolation, so the thoughts that spring from consolation are the opposite of those that spring from desolation.

318.  5.  In time of desolation we should never make any change, but remain firm and constant in the resolution and decision which guided us the day before the desolation, or in the decision to which we adhered in the preceding consolation. For just as in consolation the good spirit guides and counsels us, so in desolation the evil spirit guides and counsels. Following his counsels we can never find the way to a right decision.

319.  6.  Though in desolation we must never change our former resolutions, it will be very advantageous to intensify our activity against the desolation. We can insist more upon prayer, upon meditation, and on much examination of ourselves. We can make an effort in a suitable way to do some penance.

320.  7.  When one is in desolation, he should be mindful that God has left him to his natural powers to resist the different agitations and temptations of the enemy in order to try him. He can resist with the help of God, which always remains, though he may not clearly perceive it. For though God has taken from him the abundance of fervor and overflowing love and the intensity of His favors, nevertheless, he has sufficient grace for eternal salvation.

321.  8.  When one is in desolation, he should strive to persevere in patience. This reacts against the vexations that have overtaken him. Let him consider, too, that consolation will soon return, and in the meantime, he must diligently use the means against desolation which have been given in the sixth rule.

322.  9.  The principal reasons why we suffer from desolation are three:

    The first is because we have been tepid and slothful or negligent in our exercises of piety, and so through our own fault spiritual consolation has been taken away from us.

    The second reason is because God wishes to try us, to see how much we are worth, and how much we will advance in His service and praise when left without the generous reward of consolations and signal favors.

    The third reason is because God wishes to give us a true knowledge and understanding of ourselves, so that we may have an intimate perception of the fact that it is not within our power to acquire and attain great devotion, intense love, tears, or any other spiritual consolation; but that all this is the gift and grace of God our Lord. God does not wish us to build on the property of another, to rise up in spirit in a certain pride and vainglory and attribute to ourselves the devotion and other effects of spiritual consolation.

323.  10.  When one enjoys consolation, let him consider how he will conduct himself during the time of ensuing desolation, and store up a supply of strength as defense against that day.

324.  11.  He who enjoys consolation should take care to humble himself and lower himself as much as possible. Let him recall how little he is able to do in time of desolation, when he is left without such grace or consolation.

    On the other hand, one who suffers desolation should remember that by making use of the sufficient grace offered him, he can do much to withstand all his enemies. Let him find his strength in his Creator and Lord.

325.  12.  The enemy conducts himself as a woman. He is a weakling before a show of strength, and a tyrant if he has his will. It is characteristic of a woman in a quarrel with a man to lose courage and take to flight if the man shows that he is determined and fearless. However, if the man loses courage and begins to flee, the anger, vindictiveness, and rage of the woman surge up and know no bounds. In the same way, the enemy becomes weak, loses courage, and turns to flight with his seductions as soon as one leading a spiritual life faces his temptations boldly, and does exactly the opposite of what he suggests. However, if one begins to be afraid and to lose courage in temptations, no wild animal on earth can be more fierce than the enemy of our human nature. He will carry out his perverse intentions with consummate malice.

326.  13.  Our enemy may also be compared in his manner of acting to a false lover. He seeks to remain hidden and does not want to be discovered. If such a lover speaks with evil intention to the daughter of a good father, or to the wife of a good husband, and seeks to seduce them, he wants his words and solicitations kept secret. He is greatly displeased if his evil suggestions and depraved intentions are revealed by the daughter to her father, or by the wife to her husband. Then he readily sees he will not succeed in what he has begun. In the same way, when the enemy of our human nature tempts a just soul with his wiles and seductions, he earnestly desires that they be received secretly and kept secret. But if one manifests them to a confessor, or to some other spiritual person who understands his deceits and malicious designs, the evil one is very much vexed. For he knows that he cannot succeed in his evil undertaking, once his evident deceits have been revealed.

327.  14.  The conduct of our enemy may also be compared to the tactics of a leader intent upon seizing and plundering a position he desires. A commander and leader of an army will encamp, explore the fortifications and defenses of the stronghold, and attack at the weakest point. In the same way, the enemy of our human nature investigates from every side all our virtues, theological, cardinal, and moral. Where he finds the defenses of eternal salvation weakest and most deficient, there he attacks and tries to take us by storm.

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

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