Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is
read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A.
This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message
to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.
We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages
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October 6th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 8 Period II.
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The Novena Rosary Mysteries
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From Jesus: I desire all to come
October 13, 2004
to China, Indiana at 12 noon
to celebrate the 87th
anniversary
of the last apparition
at Fatima.
Mass will begin 12 noon
China time.
This will be an important day of prayer
for your world. I am
calling all apostles,
servants and handmaids and members
of the Shepherds
of Christ to come and
attend the Mass and
prayers for peace
and unity.
Retreat begins at 6:20pm on October 11
and goes to October 15.
There will be Mass every day.
Please pray for the success of this
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May 1, 2000 - St.
Joseph the Worker
Messenger: Mary is the most perfect handmaid,
the servant of the Lord.
Joseph so pure, her beloved spouse, the servant of the Lord.
And we meditate on those Joyful Mysteries.
Today we are in tears for the love of our beloved St. Joseph.
Jesus speaks: I want the
handmaids and servants to see Mary and Joseph and see them as the
First Shepherds of Christ Community.
Jesus speaks:
They were gathered with the little sheep and
the shepherds on that first star-lighted night when the Son of
God was born.
They were united in holy union as husband and
wife. The Holy Spirit is the Spouse of Mary. With the star of Bethlehem overhead, the Chief Shepherd is born in a stable.
I come to lead My little sheep home to My
Heart.
Today I am with you in a special way, and so,
too, Mary and Joseph pray with you when the Shepherds of Christ
prayers are recited.
The Holy Spirit fills you with His gifts.
It is for My Church you pray, for the shepherds
My chosen priests, and for My most precious souls of this world.
Luke 2: 15-20
Now it happened that when the angels had
gone from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go to
Bethlehem and see this event which the Lord has made known to us.’ So
they hurried away and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger.
When they saw the child they repeated what they had been told about him,
and everyone who heard it was astonished at what the shepherds said to
them. As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them
in her heart. And the shepherds went back glorifying and praising
God for all they had heard and seen, just as they had been told.
Jesus speaks: Oh, the tree was
stained with the Blood of that Chief Shepherd. I am He, the Chief
Priest, the One Who offers sacrifice through the hands of
consecrated priests for your sins. I plead and I beg for you to
the Father.
I give you My Church, I give you My Movement to
help to renew it.
Luke 2: 35
...so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.’
Mary speaks: My
children, as you pray the rosary, my Spouse the Holy Spirit acts
to enlighten you. The rosary is the prayer of a child of God.
Praying to the Father, "OUR FATHER..." and to me.
"HAIL MARY...", you implore the Holy Spirit to act to
enlighten you through meditation on our lives, the life of the
Savior, Jesus Christ, and me, His Mother. The children of Adam
and Eve meditate on the lives of the Ones sent to you by the
Father. I am Mary, the New Eve. Jesus is my Son, the New Adam,
Chief Shepherd of His flock.
Messenger: Oh
God, enlighten our eyes to see.
Jesus speaks: The
thoughts of many will be laid bare that you will grow in greater
purity.
See the Holy Family, I want My
Church to be a holy family of love. I want My Shepherds of Christ
Community to be a holy family of love, pure and holy. The Holy
Spirit sanctifies, the Holy Spirit acts in the rosary.
You have received a new name, a
special calling through baptism. Oh children of God harken - I
clothe you in the white dress of purity.
My children are enormously being
attacked. Many are giving in to sexual sin. I write as your God.
It is the purity of Mary and Joseph I desire.
You must realize the sins are
begun in the thoughts and desires of the heart. You cannot give
in to the allurement of Satan. You cannot engage in sinful sexual
thoughts. Your minds must be pure, free of attachments to things that cause
you to sin. You control your will. Do not give in to temptation.
Beg for grace to resist it.
In praying before the Blessed
Sacrament and attending daily Mass and praying for grace, you
receive enormous help in withstanding temptation.
The more all are joined praying
for grace united as one to the Mass, the more grace is outpoured.
For those who cooperate with grace, they will have help in
resisting temptation.
So much, much grace is outpoured with
every Holy Communion when you receive Me worthily. So much grace
is outpoured when you spend time in fervent prayer before the
Blessed Sacrament. I am there in the Blessed Sacrament in My
Divinity and My Humanity.
The more you go to Communion with
fervor, the more you mature in your ways of loving. You love
deeper, you want love. You have a deep connection with the Divine
God, if you come with a holy desire to unite to God. For those
who have frequented My altar and spent time in reception of the
Holy Eucharist, spending time in adoration, their capacity for
loving is heightened, their desire for deep love grows, and they
hunger for that taste of divine love they know.
It is most devastating for them if
they fall back after tasting the gift of My divine love and if
they lessen their visits to Me. The craving in their souls is so
intense from frequent Communion and adoration they are wrought
with pain when they stop going so frequently to the Eucharist. No
human soul can ever give them what they once experienced with Me.
You must pray for those who were fervent and now have fallen
back. They have a taste for love and they are like hungry dogs,
but have lost their direction. And yet their hearts know this
gift they once shared with Me. But many lose their way. Once they
have tasted My favors, they suffer in going elsewhere.
Oh, such is the fate of some
religious. I grace them with My special favor, then they leave Me
for another and their life is a life of torment, for they want
that love they once knew.
Oh the hungry souls, oh My men,
when you come to Me, that union you have with the Divine God
increases your capacity of loving and the lack of frequent
Communion as you choose other's favors and forget Me is an intense
suffering for you.
Oh, the devil works on the holy,
fervent souls to lead them away with busyness. Then he works more
through lurements of women, men, sex, drink, money, power, and
then when they are not satisfied their hearts cry for what it
once had with Me.
All things used according to God's
will can lead to greater peace when used for His honor and glory,
but for those who make some things their gods, they have hearts
which feel empty and hungry and are never satisfied. They stalk a
barren desert looking for joy that can only be found in Me.
Oh, I love you, I love you, I love
you, I am the Tree of Life, the One that fills you with grace,
that gives you a new name, that takes you to Myself in Baptism,
and gives you a great sharing in My new Life.
I am Jesus, Son of the Living God,
I came that you will have Life abundantly.
end of May 1, 2000
May 2, 2000
From a Lenten homily, March 24, 2000,
Live in the Moment
Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to
Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during
the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy
of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever
deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for
receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the
Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of
purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time
of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the
service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I
suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the
spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very
strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing
in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper
occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to
learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great
emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age
quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate
on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of
spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of
Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater
determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with
a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased
prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly.
But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time
of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened
by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of
the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the
present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present
properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the
fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much
about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and
deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever
greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I
live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present
moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that
self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the
presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help
of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.
May 2, 2000 - Second Message
Jesus speaks: My sons and
daughters, before certain events there may be tremendous anxiety. Before
visits with family there may be periods of anxiety in getting "loose ends
together" and preparing for another meeting with the family.
Sometimes before surgery, times when you must wait, there
may be tremendous trial. There may be pain at the sickness of one so dear to
you, and anxiety over the coming event of visiting the doctor, going through
surgery, having chemotherapy. The pain may be so great that you want relief
and so other things in your life may seem to be the problem because you can
control them, but not the illness or events. The anxiety, the pain, the fear
are all real. In relying on My grace, offering up the most difficult time,
great grace can be granted for the surgery or sickness of the one so loved.
Today is healing day, Tuesday.
The devil can press down even more when times are difficult
and little things may seem as gigantic mountains before an event.
Many people have suffered before a visit to the family or
before a performance or event, and afterward they are entirely relieved. The
problem almost diminishes. I hung to My death for three hours on the cross. My
thoughts were of you.
I love you so much. I gave My life for you. I am with you in
your suffering, I am with you while you wait. I am your light, your hope, your
God, your all. I am almighty and all powerful. Do not give in to anxiety
before an event. Live in the moment. Live in the moment, just do what you can
do. I call you to let go and trust in Me. I love you so much. I am Jesus, your
Savior.
I want you to love each other deeply. Uniting in the Mass
will help you to grow in deep holy love. I am with you all days until the
consummation of the world. I am your Savior, Son of the Living God. Whenever
there is a transition in your life, you may experience turmoil and anxiety.
Before and after meetings, on holidays, people can have difficulty in
anticipating the union. They may have had previous problems with their family.
They may try to resolve unfinished business with their present family so they
will feel confident on their return home. Going on vacations may be
tremendously stressful because of the plans. Coming back may cause periods of
depression, having had to leave the loved ones. In all these periods of deep
pain or joy or anticipation in the heart, the parties should not act hastily.
When the devil is pressing down, a soul is in desolation. It is not a time to
act, one must endure, and act only when it is God’s will. Waiting until the
anxiety or event has passed many times lifts the pressure to act.
The question is this:
What is God’s will? When a soul is feeling God’s favor
they may act with great assuredness which leads to a fruitful outcome. One
acting in desolation, when he is down and not feeling well, may be very sorry
for having made hasty decisions concerning the future.
A fast solution to relieve pain may make for a tremendously agonizing
future for the soul involved, if the solution is not according to God’s
will.
The approach to making decisions is they are not made in
haste or in anger. They should be made because it is God’s will.
I only want those who want to serve Me, who act willingly. I
want those who embrace God’s will and do it with love.
The Father wants you to act with love according to His will.
I am asking you to purify your lives. I carried My cross to
My death. It was great suffering, it was the Father’s will. I hung on the
cross for three hours, I did it in perfect peace.
Genesis 3: 1-7
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.
Jesus speaks: Endure your
suffering in all you do, great grace is granted for all you endure.
I love you so much. The devil wants you to give in. I ask you
to endure the moments of suffering for Me.
end of May 2, 2000
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
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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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