Pray the Rosary for the World

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Prayer for Grace for 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 30, 2021

30 Years Ago

1991

R. Dear Jesus
Keep my heart pure and free to love,
and show light to others.
I am knowing Your light in me.

I know Your love Jesus –
I am washed clean –
Bathed in Your precious Blood.
Fill me with love, God –
Fill me with grace.

Let me know the warmth of Your love.
Bathe me –
Let the Holy Spirit move in me.

Jesus is the real spiritual doctor –
Jesus takes away our pain –
Jesus helps us forgive and let go –
Jesus fills us with His truth –
Jesus gives us His healing –

Jesus can remove the hurts if I let the lid off –
so His grace and healing pour inside.

God I thank You for Your healing hand –

You can do all things –

I thank You for what You are
doing in my life today –

All praise and honor to my God
Love, Rita

Sing: Spirit Song

Sing Song: Healer of our Every Ill

Beg for grace to be healed, purified.
Beg for grace to forgive.

Beg to know the truth about
ourselves and not project
our past hurts on others –

R. Dear Jesus
I put my head on Your lap
I ask for Your presence
I ask for Your peace
I ask for Your love

Matthew 11: 28

‘Come to me, all you who labour and are
overburdened, and I will give you rest.

 

1991

R. JESUS
JESUS
JESUS
I put my head on Your lap –
Jesus my Lord and my God

Pray to those who have died and we
think are in heaven and love
us very much –

Litany of those I love who I think are
in heaven

Mom pray to Jesus for me.
Catherine intercede to Jesus for me

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Jesus You know my problems help me –
Jesus You know this problem –
help me –

I called on the Lord and He heard me –
He sent me a blessing
God loves me so much

I rest in the Lord
God dwells in me
God has all the power –
Men cannot harm me
Jesus fill me with Your blessings
Jesus fill me with light

GOD: FIGHT A GOOD FIGHT

R. I plug into God’s unending power

Song: A Song from Jesus

Song: I Love You Jesus

 

October 29, 2021 

R. We think of the Resurrection.
We know Jesus came back from the dead, then He ascended into heaven.
We know that we can have eternal life after death, if we love and serve the Lord as God wants. 

The Pascal Mystery 

Death / Resurrection

When we are baptized we receive a sharing in Divine life, our knowing and loving capacity is elevated. God lives in the graced, baptized soul.

We begin the life of resurrection now, in the here and now, as we die to our ways not like Jesus and grow in the image and likeness of God more and more.
When we receive the Eucharist we are filled more and more with His life in us.
Grace is His life in us.

God give us Your grace, increase in us grace, Dear God, we give our lives to You.
We love You so very much God.
Please fill us with Your grace.
We love You tenderly, God, intimately, God, on fire.

Do you see the life of Jesus, He came, He was born a baby, He grew, He lived a normal life,
then He had His public life, then He died.
But Jesus rose on the third day. He appeared to the Apostles in His Glorified body.
He showed them, His glorified wounds.
He then ascended into heaven body and soul,
and a cloud took Him out of sight.

Jesus remains with us in the Eucharist, Truly present in His Divinity and humanity.
Jesus is with us.
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in our graced, baptized soul. Amen.

What a lesson this all is.
The Pascal mystery Death/Resurrection.

Life is in HIM.              

God shows us Mary was taken into heaven body and soul.
We meditate on the mystery, life after death.
We meditate on everlasting salvation with God for all eternity.
We meditate on having the fullness of life in heaven.

Death / Resurrection
The Pascal Mystery.

Jesus died on the cross.

Jesus appeared to them alive in His glorified body.

Mystery!!!
 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... 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). end of excerpt
 

Life after Death / Life is in Him

The Church teaches us about eternal life after death.

We celebrate the liturgical year.
We prepare in Lent.

We pray in Holy Week.
We celebrate the Feast of Easter and Ascension and Pentecost.

Death / Resurrection

A mystery, indeed!!!!

 

  Glorious Mysteries

The Resurrection

1. The resurrection tells us there is life after death.

2. The Apostles never understood what was happening.
    They knew Jesus was arrested and crucified.

3. The women went to the tomb and it was empty and where was Jesus’ body?

4. The Apostles were confused, scared, and sad.

5. Jesus appeared to them in His glorified body.

6. He looked like He did on Mt. Tabor.

7. Jesus showed them His hands and feet and side.

8. The Apostles came to believe, most of them lost their life over it.

9. They had nothing to gain materially here on earth for believing.

10. They died for their belief most of them.

 

The Ascension

1. The resurrection tells us Jesus is always with us.

2. 1 Corinthians 15: 3-8

The tradition I handed on to you in the first place, a tradition which I had myself received, was that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried; and that on the third day, he was raised to life, in accordance with the scriptures; and that he appeared to Cephas; and later to the Twelve; and next he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still with us, though some have fallen asleep; then he appeared to James, and then to all the apostles. Last of all he appeared to me too, as though I was a child born abnormally.

3. Jesus appeared to the Apostles so they would continue Jesus' mission, preaching the Gospel, healing, building up the Church.

4. The Apostles were to bring the workings of the Holy Spirit to others. The Holy Spirit is the soul of the Church.

5. Jesus promises, I will be with you always.

6. Remember how Peter denied Jesus, think of His witness later - he spoke boldly about Jesus.

7. Acts 2: 14, 22-32

Then Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed them in a loud voice:  

    ‘Men of Judaea, and all you who live in Jerusalem, make no mistake about this, but listen carefully to what I say. 

    ‘Men of Israel, listen to what I am going to say: Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God by the miracles and portents and signs that God worked through him when he was among you, as you know. This man, who was put into your power by the deliberate intention and foreknowledge of God, you took and had crucified and killed by men outside the Law. But God raised him to life, freeing him from the pangs of Hades; for it was impossible for him to be held in its power since, as David says of him:  

    I kept the Lord before my sight always,
    for with him at my right hand
        nothing can shake me.
    So my heart rejoiced
    my tongue delighted;
    my body, too, will rest secure,
    for you will not abandon me to Hades
    or allow your holy one to see corruption.
    You have taught me the way of life,
    you will fill me with joy in your presence. 

    ‘Brothers, no one can deny that the patriarch David himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still with us. But since he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn him an oath to make one of his descendants succeed him on the throne, he spoke with foreknowledge about the resurrection of the Christ: he is the one who was not abandoned to Hades, and whose body did not see corruption. God raised this man Jesus to life, and of that we are all witnesses.

8. Jesus took them out near Bethany and ascended into heaven, and a cloud took Him out of sight.

9. The Apostles were to go out and spread the message to all nations.

10. Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

 

 

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles.

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. Sing: Come Holy Ghost

3. From the Lectionary

Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
    Shed a ray of light divine!

Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
    Come, within our bosoms shine!

You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
    Sweet refreshment here below;

In our Labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
    Solace in the midst of woe.

O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
    And our inmost being fill!

Where you are not, man has naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
    Nothing free from taint of ill!

Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
    Wash the stains of guilt away;

Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
    Guide the steps that go astray.

On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
    In your sev'nfold gift descend;

Give them virtue's sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
    Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
 

4. We pray to God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

5. The Spirit leads us to holiness.

6. The Holy Spirit gives us gifts.

7. The Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
    faithfulness, humility, and self-control.  Galatians 5:22-23

8. Sing: Come Holy Spirit

9. From the Prayer Manual

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.

10. Sing: Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

 

The Assumption

1. Sing: Immaculate Mary

2. Mary was taken body and soul into heaven.

3. Sing: See the Eyes that Look at Mary

4. 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.

5. May 5, 1995

Consecrate Your Churches, Home, and Workplace to Our Hearts

Jesus: I want you to consecrate the human race to Sacred Heart of Jesus. I want to be enthroned in all homes, churches, and businesses.

June is the month of the Sacred Heart. I want to be king and center of all hearts. I will keep My promises given to St. Margaret Mary of Alacoque. I promise all this from My most Sacred Heart. Consecrate your chapter to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Consecrate the church or room in which you hold your meeting.

Today is First Friday. I want you to circulate the message I gave to you on consecrating your homes to My Sacred Heart. Make booklets available for people to be able to consecrate their homes and businesses easily. Use the message I gave to you when you consecrated your home.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph. Consecrate all homes and businesses to Our Two Hearts. Tell all to have displayed and honored, pictures of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May and June are the months of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Tell all to consecrate their homes to Our Two Hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On this day, the 5th of May, 1995, First Friday, I request that you spend the next two months encouraging all to do this consecration.

Gather your friends and say the prayers I have instructed you to say. Sing "To Jesus Heart All Burning" and "Immaculate Mary." May these Two Hearts of love give all members of the human race peace, joy and love in their hearts.

R. Jesus said He desires to be honored by men in the Blessed Sacrament.

Jesus: Circulate the Blue Book messages. They promote this devotion. How My Heart is filled with happiness by the souls who come to the tabernacle and sit with Me. I am Jesus Christ, I wait and long and thirst for My precious souls to come. The souls of men have turned cold. I want souls to come to daily communion and be with Me in front of the tabernacle.

Men's hearts have turned cold. They do not know what love really means. I want hearts that are filled with fire for love of God. Men's hearts have turned to stone.

You are to promote devotion to My most Sacred Heart. I want hearts that burn with love for My Heart. It is through Me that you will know the Father's love. I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life.

Offer a holy hour for the indifference, ingratitude, and sacrileges committed against Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the Sacrament of His greatest love.

R. He promises great graces to those who give reparation to His Sacred Heart and who tell others about offering reparation to Him. end of May 5, 1995
 

6. From the Prayer Manual

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.

7. From the Prayer Manual

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!

8. Sing: The Rosary Song

9. Sing: A Song from Jesus

10. Mary takes us to Jesus’ Scared Heart.

 

Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth

1. Revelation 12:1-2

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.

2. Sing: Hail Holy Queen

3. Promises of Our Lord to those devoted to His Sacred Heart: 

    1. I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life.
    2. I will establish peace in their homes.
    3. I will comfort them in all their afflictions.
    4. I will be their refuge during life and above all in death.
    5. I will bestow a large blessing on all their undertakings.
    6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and the infinite ocean of mercy.
    7. Tepid souls shall grow fervent.
    8. Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.
    9. I will bless every place where a picture of My Heart shall be set up and honored.
    10. I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts.
    11. Those who promote this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be blotted out.
    12. I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who communicate on the first Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence; they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving their sacraments; My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.

4. The Seven Sorrow of Mary

(1) The prophecy of Simeon
(2) The flight into Egypt
(3) The loss of the Child Jesus in the temple
(4) Jesus and Mary meet on the way to the cross
(5) Jesus dies on the cross
(6) Jesus is taken down from the cross and laid in Mary's arms
(7) The burial of Jesus

5. Mary is Mother of the Church, Mother of Jesus.
    Mary is our mother.

6. Mary was a Virgin.

7. Mary is the Singular Vessel.

8. Mary is Queen.

9. 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)
 

10. Consecrations to Jesus and Mary