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October 9th Holy Spirit Novena Scripture selection is Day 5 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries for October 9th are the Glorious.

Jesus is calling all apostles, servants,
and handmaids to China on the 13th
to recommit.

Please come on the other days
for Eucharistic adoration,
praying for the priests,
the Church and the world.

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The building payment is due on the 1st
and we have a lot of other extra expenses.

God the Father wants us to own
the Virgin Mary Building
free and clear.

Can someone please help us?

We desperately need funds.

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An Afternoon with Mary
September 7, 2003

Click here to watch the video

Call to apostles, servants, and handmaids
will be in China on the 13th of October.
Adoration will begin on Saturday
and end on the 14th.
More details will be available soon.

Schedule for October 9, 2003

        
4:00 a.m. - Mass

4:37 a.m. - Soothing Mary Songs

5:05 a.m. - Choose Life

6:07 a.m. - Morning Offering

6:11 a.m. - Mary's Message

6:17 a.m. - A Song from Jesus

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

7:24 a.m. - Songs to Mary & other Songs

8:43 a.m. - Sorrowful Rosary July 28, 1995

9:45 a.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 2 (Suffering: A Source of Life)

11:21 a.m. - Songs from Jesus - sang by Joe Lee

12:39 p.m. - Children's Rosary July 15, 1995 led by Father Carter

1:32 p.m. - Children's Rosary July 15, 1995 in Spanish led by Fernando

2:20 p.m. - Songs from Jesus in Spanish - sang by Fernando

2:56 p.m. - Songs from Jesus sang by Rita Ring

3:49 p.m. - Morning Offering

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

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

4:00 p.m. - Mass

4:37 p.m. - Children's Rosary March 20, 1997

5:24 p.m. - Mysteries of Light from November 15, 2002

5:57 p.m. - Songs from Jesus

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

7:24 p.m. - Songs from Jesus sang by Rita Ring

8:16 p.m. - Songs from Jesus in Spanish - sang by Fernando

8:53 p.m. - Consecration - July 31, 1999

8:51 p.m. - Songs from Jesus - sang by Joe Lee

10:10 p.m. - Nursing Home #1

10:51 p.m. - Tell My People read by Father Carter

12:22 a.m. - Instrumental Songs - piano only

1:14 a.m. - Sorrowful Rosary March 21, 1995

2:01 a.m. - The Spirituality of Fatima - read by Father Carter & Rita Ring

2:43 a.m. - Morning Offering

2:47 a.m. - Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

3:24 a.m. - Songs from Jesus in Spanish - sang by Fernando

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 8, 2003

            Today's Readings

Jonah 4: 1-11

This made Jonah very indignant; he fell into a rage. He prayed to Yahweh and said, ‘Please, Yahweh, isn’t this what I said would happen when I was still in my own country? That was why I first tried to flee to Tarshish, since I knew you were a tender, compassionate God, slow to anger, rich in faithful love, who relents about inflicting disaster. So now, Yahweh, please take my life, for I might as well be dead as go on living.’ Yahweh replied, ‘Are you right to be angry?’ 

    Jonah then left the city and sat down to the east of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, to see what would happen to the city. Yahweh God then ordained that a castor–oil plant should grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head and soothe his ill–humour; Jonah was delighted with the castor–oil plant. But at dawn the next day, God ordained that a worm should attack the castor–oil plant–and it withered. Next, when the sun rose, God ordained that there should be a scorching east wind; the sun beat down so hard on Jonah’s head that he was overcome and begged for death, saying, ‘I might as well be dead as go on living.’ God said to Jonah, ‘Are you right to be angry about the castor–oil plant?’ He replied, ‘I have every right to be angry, mortally angry!’ Yahweh replied, ‘You are concerned for the castor–oil plant which has not cost you any effort and which you did not grow, which came up in a night and has perished in a night. So why should I not be concerned for Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, to say nothing of all the animals?’

  

Psalm 86: 3-6, 9-10

take pity on me, Lord, 
for to you I cry all the day. 
Fill your servant’s heart with joy, Lord, 
for to you I raise up my heart. 

Lord, you are kind and forgiving, 
rich in faithful love for all who call upon you. 
Yahweh, hear my prayer, 
listen to the sound of my pleading.

All nations will come and adore you, Lord, 
and give glory to your name. 
For you are great and do marvellous deeds, 
you, God, and none other.

  

Luke 11: 1-4

Now it happened that he was in a certain place praying, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.’ He said to them, ‘When you pray, this is what to say: 

    Father, may your name be held holy, 
    your kingdom come; 
    give us each day our daily bread, 
    and forgive us our sins, 
    for we ourselves forgive each one 
        who is in debt to us. 
    And do not put us to the test.’

    

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I call you to holiness.

Messenger:        God is kind and merciful.

                            God is loving and forgiving.

                            God is merciful.

                            God is.

                            He is all loving and all merciful.

                            God is a just judge.

                            God listens to our heart felt prayer.

                            God wants us to love Him.

                            God wants us to obey His laws.

                            God wants us to be loving and kind and merciful.

Jesus speaks:     Some are angry inside —

                                argumentative — always seeking to be

                                right, I call you to do My will, not

                                to argue for your own self - glory —

                                so you can feel dominant.

                            Look at your Mother Mary —

                                study her humility —

                                how she served as a handmaid of

                                    the Lord —

                            Why do you want your selfish ways if

                                it is against God's will.

                            Do not be prideful, seek for what is

                                right, always living to do God's

                                will — argumentation — who is

                                right, who is wrong — do you leave

                                with a flag on the booty — are you

                                happy now, the argumentative

                                person, wanting victory over

                                the conversation.

                            Please My holy ones, serve always to

                                do My will, loving one another,

                                wishing only My honor and glory.

                            A man tested and tested others,

                                he was finally tested by one

                                himself — he could not stand

                                what he was forced to face —

                                he cried and begged for mercy —

                                he wanted relief —

                            I operate in structure —

                            A person commits to something because it

                                is in their heart —

                            On October 13, 2003, I am calling My servants,

                                handmaids and apostles to come together

                                at Holy Mass 12:00 China time and

                                recommit their lives to the Shepherds

                                of Christ Movement, My Movement for

                                the renewal of the Church and the world.

                                Some are not dedicated as they need to

                                be. Pray to serve Me in My Movement.

                                Pray for special graces to live out your

                                vocation.

                            Here is a talk given by Fr. Carter —

Talk by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
given to the Apostles in the 
Shepherds of Christ Movement
   

February 1, 1998
   

    Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen all of you at once in the same place. It’s a tremendous treat for me. So praise be the Lord. Let’s start with the 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.

    ...So after I talk here I will have to depart and leave the praying to you at this place. I’ll be praying with you as I drive away...  

    ...I’m spending much more time on the newsletter now. Our Lord had been calling me to do that for months but it was when I was fully active it was very, very hard to get the time to really spread it around the world like He wanted to, although we had been working with the English edition trying to get that in more and more countries. We are in about eighty or more countries with the English edition... 

    And in cases where it needs translation, for instance, the Spanish edition we translate that up here, we print it up here and we bulk mail it.

    [Note: He talks about the spread of the Newsletter to priests and bishops in Central, South America in Spanish, Africa, India, French speaking, England, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia]

    ...It is Our Lord’s wish along with the prayer chapters that this be considered our primary ministry, the Newsletter. So please, please, please, please pray for it’s continued success and expansion. It is so extremely important because as you know, if you can change the heart of one priest, he is in a position to do so, so much good with even thousands of people. And we have received extremely encouraging letters over the years that the newsletters been published from priests, how it’s helped them out on their own spiritual life but in their ministries, giving them homilies and so forth. And from bishops which are highly encouraging commending us on the quality and the worthwhileness of the newsletter.

        

• Dear Father Carter,
  
      For years I have received Shepherds of Christ Newsletter; I do not know who put me on your mailing list, but I’m grateful to you both. Since I first began to receive the newsletter I have been assigned as the Director of Formation Advising for the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
  
      I would like to know if it would be possible to make a bulk order so that our seminarians could benefit from the newsletter as well. I will make sure they are distributed to our seminarians. At present we have about 200 seminarians and student priests on our campus, all eager for good spiritual reading!
  
      Please let me know if we can make an arrangement for the delivery of the newsletter here at the college.
  
      Please keep our faculty and seminarians in your prayers.
  
  Sincerely yours in Christ,

Rev. J. Mark Williams
Director of Formation Advising
Pontifical North American College
00120 Vatican City State

     

[He then talks about funds for the Newsletter.]

    I think I came to speak to you today because I think we’re at a very, very significant point of the Shepherds of Christ Movement as it marches into the new era of which was promised by Our Lady of Fatima. And I think the Movement is basically strong, basically healthy but I think we need a recommitment of ourselves to the Movement precisely because much more is being asked of us. We have three centers to staff not only with people but with materials.

    So as we go on in what Our Lord wants us to do, we just need a deeper commitment to the Movement just like the spiritual life in general. You never stand still on the spiritual journey. I mean spiritual masters have always told us this, you either go back or you go forward.

    And so it is with the Movement, we just don’t stand still. We have to keep on deepening our commitment to the Movement individually and collectively or it’s not going to move forward obviously. So I guess you can say that’s the main reason I thought it was very important that I come here today to speak to you to ask you to renew your commitment to Our Lord in the Movement. And to put some thoughts before (you) which hopefully will help you to renew your commitment.

    I’ll begin by reminding all of us of the great, great privilege it is to have been called to this Movement. I’ve said this before, I say it now even with deeper conviction, I really believe that this will go down in history as one of the great Movements in the history of the Church. And if you reflect upon what we’ve been called to do, I don’t think it’s hard to come to that conclusion. I don’t know of any just taking our ministry to the priests with the newsletter and with the prayer chapters whose primary duty is to pray for the priests as well as the whole human race. But I am unaware of any other Movement in the history of the Church which has tried to reach all priests the world over with the newsletter and the prayer chapters to the extent that we are trying to do so. So just those two ministries in themselves I think point to the greatness of this Movement. Then our many other ministries: the rosaries, the consecration of the schools, the nursing home, prison ministries are all our various publications. So much wonderful literature, rosary in the homes, one of our newest ministries, the couples rosary and the spirituality which comes out of that and we hope to work more and more nationally to strengthen marriage and family life through working with couples as couples.

    So if you look at what we are doing with the tremendous amount of materials which are being distributed from the Florida site and through orders from this site and through other sites.  

    So again I think this is one of the great, great Movements in the history of the Church. And we have to pinch ourselves every once in awhile and nudge ourselves and realize the great calling we have been given to work in this Movement. I think there has been a certain, despite all the great work which is being done, I think there is a certain stagnation which has set in to a certain degree and we have to jolt ourselves out of that and recommit ourselves.

    St. John of the Cross in one of his writings says—of course he is one of the greatest mystical theologians in the history of the Church and in one of his writings he says, “What does it profit you to give God one thing if He wishes for another? Consider what it is God wants and then do it.”

    Let’s read that again together “What does it profit you to give God one thing if He wishes for another? Consider what it is God wants and then do it.”

    [Father Carter is speaking to Servants and Handmaids of the Good Shepherd—]

  

  

    [Apostles who dedicate themselves completely to the Shepherds of Christ Ministries—]

  

   

  

   

    Applying that to our calling to Shepherds of Christ—there’s more work to this Movement than any of us, individually or all put together can ever attend to properly. What I am getting at, if you really feel you’ve been called to this Movement and especially to the apostle's level, I am suggesting to you very fervently and hopefully, persuasively, the Shepherds of Christ Ministries can use all the spare time, all the ministerial time you have to give to the work of the Kingdom. You don’t have to go around looking for other ministries to contribute your time to. You are free to do that, you are free to leave the Movement at any time. We are not forcing anyone to stay, we hope everybody stays but we have had people leave.

    So there should always be that, that sense of freedom if you want to lessen off your commitment or hopefully it would never happen, but if you would chose to leave the commitment, Jesus respects your freewill.

    But looking at it again positively I’m suggesting to you—there is so much work to be done in the Movement. So this first day of February which happened to be the month of the feast of St. Claude de la Columbiere, February the 15th, who has been one of the greatest apostles to the devotion to the Heart of Jesus in the history of the Church, so in a certain sense it’s a type of month of the Sacred Heart because of his feast, so I ask that all of us renew our commitment to the Movement. And again realize the great privilege, that’s one of the first ways to persevere in the Movement and to grow in the Movement, everyday to thank God for the great graces He has given you in the Movement.

    And I ask you just briefly to look back over your lives, now compared to when you joined the Movement. Has not Our Lord through Our Lady drawn you so, so, so much closer to Them. And He in turn has led you so much closer to the Father and the Spirit. The chairman of our theology department, the first departmental meeting when he took over, he said Xavier has been very good to me, now I feel it’s payback time and I think I should serve the University being chair of the Theology department. Being chair of a department, it’s really a pain of any department. But those words stick in my mind, he says now it is payback time. I should payback Xavier for all the good Xavier has done to me. I suggest we keep that in mind in reference to Jesus in His Movement. It’s always payback time. He does not give us graces and gifts in the Movement just for ourselves. Every gift of Jesus has a social dimension, it’s meant not only for my own spiritual growth, but for growth of the Kingdom. And so if we find ourselves becoming somewhat complacent in our gifts received through the Movement and not properly using them at least to the full extent that we could and helping to spread the Movement, helping to spread the Kingdom, then let us resolve here and now to do better.

    Perseverance in the Movement—all vocations, all callings need perseverance. I pray for perseverance as a Jesuit every day of my life. I pray for perseverance. I’m suggesting to all of us that we pray for perseverance in the Movement and not just a status quo type of perseverance, but pray for a perseverance which will allow us to dynamically grow and be greater apostles in the Movement. And we have to take the means to persevere.

    First of all, of course, is Mass and communion, then our visit to the Blessed Sacrament, saying the rosary and listening to at least five minutes a day to a live rosary which Rita receives, praying the hourly prayers without feeling overburdened. If you begin to feel overburdened by the hourly novena just make a 30 second prayer, say Jesus, say the three invocations, “Lord ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you, through the intercession of Mary, thy most holy mother I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted” and just say we pray for all needs of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and the other two invocations. You can do that in about 30 seconds. And then at times of course when you have the time and you feel moved bring in the specific intentions. But that hourly prayer has great power to keep our motivation up but it should not on the other hand feel burdensome to you. If it feels burdensome to you for any length of time, just use the short form for quite a while.

    [Note: servants and handmaids and apostles of the Good Shepherd of the Shepherds of Christ Movement go to daily Mass and spend one hour before the tabernacle and pray hourly for the priests, the Church and the world.]

    Reading the Blue Book messages, at least just a few minutes a day, can do wonders to help us persevere in the Movement. Renew your love and commitment to the Movement. Included in that renewed love and commitment I think should be a resolution that we don’t bad mouth the Movement, certainly not to those outside the Movement, certainly not even to those within the Movement. We have problems, we always have had some, we always will, the universal Church has monumental problems. But we have to learn how to handle the problems responsibly. If you have a significant problem please contact John or Rita, talk it over with them, with me if you feel so called. They usually report problems to me. I’m in constant contact with them. Currently I talk to them each day about the Movement, what’s going on, strong points, weak points and so forth. If you have problems with the Movement, don’t spread your problem with the problems to somebody else who starts to think negatively also.

    I mean go to Jesus, of course, first of all, but then bring your problem to somebody who has the authority in the Movement to handle it. That’s very, very important, 'cause our loyalty and love for the Movement, I think are significantly harmed when we don’t take that approach. Obedience in the Movement is going to become more and more important as the Movement grows. Any organization needs a certain structure, a hierarchy of command, obedience to legitimate authority. When John asks you to do something, please try to answer his request. If you can’t, just tell him I can’t do it now. When he directs you to do something, which is stronger than a request, don’t give him a hard time. Jesus wants obedience in the Movement. No Movement can survive or progress without obedience, without a structure of command. John has a terrifically difficult job. Don’t make it more difficult for him by, as I say, giving him a hard time or by never answering his request for help.

    I understand that the level of volunteerism here at the center has gradually slackened off over recent months, and it is very difficult to get people together to do our mailings. We can’t keep depending on just a few people all the time. Here again it’s payback time. I mean everyday is payback time. You can never fully repay Jesus for what He has done for us or what He continues to do for us. Now we have to use Christian prudence in all this, we’ve got family duties; we’ve got other duties that’s God’s will for us. We have to take care of those. But granting all those other calls on our time and our energy, if Jesus has called you to this Movement, He’s called each and every one of you, then He expects you to live up to your commitment. And if it’s always looked upon, if you feel it’s always more of a burden than a privilege, then I think a person has to consider, 'Shall I stay in the Movement?' Jesus loves a cheerful giver. Suffering is involved, is it not? Any following of Christ involves suffering. Any non following of Christ brings suffering, and a greater suffering—those who don’t believe, who don’t have any religious faith or conviction. They end up suffering much more than we who suffer in the following of Christ.

    I would like to read you something that I’ve written on suffering that will appear in the next newsletter—

   

FATHER CARTER'S VOICE WAS VERY SAD
and VERY LOVING.

      

        Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 Issue 1

Suffering

To follow Jesus entails a willingness to suffer for Him and His cause. The furthering of any worthwhile cause demands a spirit of sacrifice, a willingness to endure a variety of hardships and difficulties. We cannot expect it to be otherwise regarding the cause of Christ. To help further the process of ongoing redemption demands a price.

There is an almost endless variety of pains, sufferings, and difficulties which can arise in following Jesus and promoting His cause. At times seeing few, if any, visible results of our labors, feeling unappreciated, experiencing opposition, sometimes comprehending that we are being hated precisely by some of those whom we are striving to help, at times being laughed at and ridiculed—these are some of the ways we experience the sufferings of an apostle.

The suffering involved in contributing to the process of ongoing redemption is not, however, the complete picture. The happiness resulting from commitment to Christ and His mission far outweighs the hardships. To be aware that one is so intimately loved by Jesus, to experience the satisfaction that one is contributing to a cause that cannot fail, to play a role in helping to bring to others the love and peace of Jesus—all of this makes for a life that has no equal. The committed follower of Christ, experiencing what it means to be closely associated with Jesus, realizes why St. Peter said, Lord,…it is wonderful for us to be here. (Mt. 17:4). 

  

Father Carter's talk continues

    So in God’s plan in the following of Christ, suffering is always meant to lead to greater life here and hereafter, not only greater life for us as we grow in Jesus through the proper handling of suffering, but also greater life in the sense that we become more apt instruments for channeling His life to others, as we are purified by His suffering, so that we may more and more allow Him to live in and through and for us. One of the greatest Apostles of all times of suffering showing us the place of suffering in the Christian dispensation is St. Paul. He brings out this theme of death-resurrection of Jesus and our participation in it in various places in his writing. I think one of the most dramatic of those places is in

   

2 Corinthians 4: 7-11

         The hardships and hopes of the apostolate

But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God’s and not our own. We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair; we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us; always we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our body. Indeed, while we are still alive, we are continually being handed over to death, for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our mortal flesh.

    

Father Carter's talk continues

    So we suffer with Jesus, so that here below and in eternity, so that we may live more with Him, and that we may become more fit instruments for helping to channel His life to others. We have a particular way of doing that, a magnificent way within the Shepherds of Christ Movement. He hung upon a cross on a hill called Calvary. He had already suffered so much, had He not? He had been brutally scourged at the pillar, crowned with thorns, laughed at, ridiculed, without sleep. He had to carry the heavy cross up the hill, upon reaching the hill He was mercilessly nailed to the cross. He hung there in that agonizing suffering until death came. His side was pierced and from His pierced Heart flowed blood and water, symbols of sacramental life in the Church, Baptism and the Eucharist. And as He hung on that cross nearing death in that brutalized suffering, St. Francis de Sales, who was a Doctor of the Church—a Doctor of the Church means that the Church recognizes not only the great holiness of the person, but the great learning, the great wisdom—in one of his classic works, St. Francis de Sales, his work Treatise on God's Divine Love, he says, “As Jesus hung upon the cross there in that brutal suffering each of us was present to Him. He knew each of us intimately and the perfect one gave His last drop of blood for you and for me.” So if we ever have problems with our motivation in the Movement, I suggest that we come to the foot of the cross and we realize what Jesus has done for me and continues to do. It is payback time. St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, has left us this beautiful prayer, “Lord teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for reward save that of knowing that I do your will.”  

      

    Now I will give the blessing. May the blessing of Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit descend upon you and remain forever. Amen.

end of Father Carter's talk February 1, 1998

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     You have come to help Me.

                            You have come to be the members of the 

                                Shepherds of Christ Movement.

                            How have you served in the Movement —

                                to get things for yourself —

                                to honor and love your God.

                            Please come on this special day with a

                                heart filled with love and eagerness

                                to serve Me.

                            Please come with a heart that is willing

                                to commit and live your life by

                                this way of life to serve your God.

                            Are you willing to give yourself to this

                                mission to follow My instructions

                                to help spread these prayers and

                                words to the whole world.

                            Will you help Me with a willing, loving

                                heart?

                            And then you say —

                            "I want to be an Apostle of the Sacred Heart,

                                a Servant of the Good Shepherd or a

                                Handmaid of the Good Shepherd for the

                                Shepherds of Christ Movement. I thank God

                                for His gifts to me and I want to serve

                                and love God in this Movement. God help

                                me to do your will always and help me

                                to spread this message and these prayers

                                to the world. Help me to spread your peace.

                                Help me to be an instrument of love.

                                Outpour Your grace to me for this vocation

                                in the Shepherds of Christ Movement."
  

                                Now I speak of the place I want to take you.

                                Come to My Heart — be filled with My love.

                                You are an Apostle of the Sacred Heart of

                                Jesus. Pray for oneness with Me, that you

                                will dwell most deeply in My Heart.

                                Your job is to love, to serve Me, look

                                not to what others are to do for you, but

                                what God is calling you to do. Be instruments

                                of love. Some people think of all kinds

                                of ways they should have received others

                                affections and then are angry when their

                                expectations aren't met.

                                Others come to the Movement to serve Me —

                            they didn't come to get all their unmet

                            needs from childhood met or needs from

                            past relationships met.

                                Love is paramount, but you always

                            serve according to the rules that are

                            set down, in love, acting to spread

                            the message, praying the prayers, living

                            this way of life as intercessors praying

                            for the priests, the Church and the world.

                                Come to Me in this vocation with a

                            heart ready to serve Me and spread My

                            Movement to the world. Some may come to

                            get their selfish needs met and serve little

                            the mission given here to promote devotion

                            to My Sacred Heart and My Mother's

                            Immaculate Heart.

                                My Heart will Reign and My Mother's heart

                            will triumph. I have called you to help in

                            this important mission. I have given the

                            Shepherds of Christ Movement this beautiful

                            building to help to bring to completion the

                            Mission My Mother began at Fatima.

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:         I have appeared here. This is My Movement.

February 5, 2001

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:         I ask you to serve selflessly for this

                            purpose.

Prayer for Union with Jesus

    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.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:        What a gift to be called an Apostle of

                            the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the Shepherds

                            of Christ Movement.

                                What a gift to be given these writings,

                            My Blue Book love letters and the

                            Priestly Newsletter Book II to spread to

                            this world.

                                You have been chosen by Me for

                            this special mission. Will you serve

                            with dedication and love, commitment

                            to be a bridge builder and not one

                            who works real hard then kicks down

                            their own work by complaining and

                            unfaithfulness.

                                I am the Good Shepherd, I give you

                            this writing 

Excerpt from October 1, 2003 message

Messenger:        We are helping to build God's Kingdom.

                            We want to be bridge builders.

                            We must act lovingly.

                            We must utilize what we have to

                                work with.

Jesus speaks:    Oh My People, build up My city.

                                You are My chosen ones, I have

                                sent you to the far ends of

                                the earth to help build up

                                My Kingdom.

                            I am God.

                            Open your hearts.

                            I love you, I want to dwell in

                                your hearts.

Messenger:        The priest said we can't look back. We must

                                look ahead.

                                Two runners were running a race

                                    the one was leading and looked

                                    back, when he looked back the

                                    other runner got ahead.

                                We live to follow Jesus, to be one in

                                    Him. We shouldn't look back

                                    just keep our focus straight ahead

                                    on God.

                            In parishes and families we can become

                                so involved with the business of

                                life, the work of the parish, we

                                do not take time for our own

                                personal relationship with God.

                            God is the power.

                            God is the almighty.

                            We receive our help in Him.

Jesus speaks:     A young man would not let go because of

                                past deeds. He wondered why he didn't

                                have that closeness to God.

                            I tell you to be holy, you must want purity.

                                you cannot lie, or cheat, or do things

                                for prideful reasons, you must want

                                to do all things humbly for the honor

                                and glory of God.

                            I have taught you how to pray —

                                say

                                Our Father . . .

                            Pray to the Father with all your heart.

                            Satan is a roaring lion, looking for one

                                to devour.

                            Satan wants you to strive to be the leader

                                for your own honor and glory, to

                                be out for #1 (yourself)

                            I call you to walk humbly as servants

                                of the Lord.

                            Two men were put over different cities.

                                One wanted to be victorious, but

                                    in his thoughts he dreamed of

                                    his own recognition and glory

                                    because of the accomplishments,

                                    he saw every hardship he endured

                                    in the light of making him look

                                    good and victorious.

                                Another was placed over the second city.

                                    He lived to promote My Kingdom.

                                    He walked humbly.

                                    He lived to serve God.

                                    His whole purpose was for the

                                        honor and glory of God.

                                Today so many are focused on themselves,

                                    The world teaches men to strive to get

                                        ahead for their own vain glory.

                                In acting this way, it is easy for those

                                    to "step" on their brothers in the race

                                    to get ahead.

                                Oh people of the earth, what have you

                                    accomplished if you have not built

                                    the bridge, it is in love you will

                                    build the kingdom — one who

                                    does matters for their own vain glory,

                                    burns, bridge after bridge after

                                    bridge and soon they are on an

                                    isolated island.

                                I have given you messages to help build

                                    My Kingdom, satan has tried to

                                    block My messages to move ahead —

                                    how much you have been helped

                                    through My Movement and My

                                    Blue Book Messages, then some

                                    themselves become competitive

                                    with the hand I feed you.

                                My little men, be like little children, God

                                    is your Father, Mary your Mother, some

                                    human men will not give My Mother her

                                    rightful place because of their pride.

                                My Mother appears to the children of the earth.

                                    Some have come beneath her image with

                                        heavy hearts, hurts of anger and pain,

                                        let go to Me, come with a gentle

                                        heart, one of love, pleading your

                                        case, for love is everlasting, love,

                                        all is love.

                                    Love is not selfish and self seeking —

                                        Love is from the humble heart —

                                        one who seeks to build the Kingdom

                                            of God.

                                        I am love.

                                    You will be asked to work with others

                                        you may not desire to work with —

                                        human creatures are imperfect —

                                        to try to prove otherwise —

                                        is folly —

                                        oh My little imperfect ones —

                                    many in their pride, seek the high seats

                                        when their reward will be found

                                        in seeking the seat provided by

                                        the Lord.

                                    Would you seek the place of pope for

                                        yourself or for the good of humanity?

                                    It is the desire of the heart that can free

                                        you or keep you stuck —

                                    It is the purity of your intentions —

                                    Do you act for the honor and glory of God —

                                    Do you give into the devil to stir things

                                        up when a peaceful approach

                                        to build the bridge would be

                                        in order?

                                You will suffer if you follow Me —

                                You will suffer anguish in the heart —

                                    pain for those who do not come

                                    willingly to serve —

                                But you will find peace in love

                                    and solace in prayer —

                                    Today I tell you to build the

                                        bridge —

                                    Today I tell you to walk the mile

                                        in love, acting for the honor

                                        and glory of God, not for

                                        your own personal glory.

                                    A man went to a river and he wanted

                                        to cross the other side.

                                        The desire swelled up in his 

                                            heart.

                                        He gathered his friends, he asked

                                            for help.

                                    They worked together all in love to get

                                        to the other side.

                                    Another man came and he whipped

                                        his friends in anger and they

                                        all ran away to another town.

                                        The man sat on the river bank

                                        and cried for he could not lay

                                        one timber to get himself across

                                        to the other side.

                                        "Oh", sobbed he, "I am lowly and

                                        want to cross" at once a voice

                                        was heard from afar —

                                        "The workers came, they wanted

                                        to help you and you angrily

                                        chided them and literally whipped

                                        some with your nasty words

                                        and violent speech, you are a

                                        foolish breed for you do not see

                                        that the seeds you sow, so shall you

                                        reap."

                                    The man never moved from that side of

                                        the river for he acted like a

                                        porcupine whenever someone

                                        approached he stuck them with

                                        his sticks.

                                Oh gentle is the heart of Mary

                                And sweet are My ways.

                                When I turned the tables in the

                                    temple I acted in love.

                                Now the angry man is filled with

                                    erupting materials in his heart,

                                    like a black volcano full of

                                    lava it comes forth and pours

                                    on others.

                                Purity in the heart is like a gentle

                                    stream of water that flows

                                    to the tune of peace and love.

                                    Hearts come in all kinds of packages,

                                    some are so full of debris and some are

                                    pure and full of gentle love.

                                Satan works in the hearts, he wants

                                    hearts to be full of impurities. He

                                    wants the world feeding

                                    the children with darkness.

                                    He wants you to be tempted with

                                    luring, sexual reminders so you

                                    will give in and fall.

                                Satan is real.

                                Satan works on the mind.

                                Satan works on the emotions, the

                                    memories.

                                A little child may want something, but

                                    they soon forget and are off at play

                                    when distracted away from their desire.

                                Satan can make a deep ridge in the mind,

                                    a rut, one gets focused on playing

                                    out a certain cruelty, a certain

                                    detail and they can be consumed

                                    by this, almost blinded to other

                                    thoughts and engulfed by a dark

                                    cloud that grips the heart —

                                    and I use the word "grip", satan

                                    works this way — he comes, tempting,

                                    trying to "grip" the soul and get

                                    them to give into his hard embrace.

                                You do not have to give into him, no

                                    matter how strong the temptation,

                                    how gripping it seems for you

                                    to have to yell and act in anger,

                                    or viciousness in some deed done

                                    to another to get even, to raise

                                    yourself up and put someone else

                                    down at your hand of power.

                                Satan wants you to act against God's

                                    will.

                                Satan wants you to not choose love.

                                Satan wants souls for hell.

                                Satan wants you to go to hell.

                                Satan wants you to fight with others.

                                Satan wants you to be isolated.

                                Satan wants you to not be united to

                                    build the bridge.

                            I am love.

                            I am one with My beloved souls.

                            I love them.

                            I died for them.

                            I want My Church to work in unity.

                            I want My families to work in unity.

                            (Satan has attacked the Church, the family
                                and the schools, trying to divide them.)

                            I am the way, the truth and the life.

                            I am the carpenter.

                            I make the cabinet with the most

                                beautiful precision.

End of excerpt from October 1, 2003 message

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I give you Myself.

                            I ask you to change your hearts.

                            This world is not the kingdom you seek.

                            The Kingdom is found in Me.

                            I am the way, the truth and the life.

                            I am your Savior.

                            I give you this song.

Numbers 21: 4-9

They left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert? For there is neither food nor water here; we are sick of this meagre diet.’ 

    At this, God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel. The people came and said to Moses, ‘We have sinned by speaking against Yahweh and against you. Intercede for us with Yahweh to save us from these serpents.’ Moses interceded for the people, and Yahweh replied, ‘Make a fiery serpent and raise it as a standard. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will survive.’ Moses then made a serpent out of bronze and raised it as a standard, and anyone who was bitten by a serpent and looked at the bronze serpent survived.

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I thank you My beloved servants, handmaids

                                and apostles of My Sacred Heart in the

                                Shepherds of Christ Movement.

                            I have taken you into My Heart and shared

                                Myself so intimately with you in

                                My Blue Book writings — I have taught

                                you about My life in the Rosary

                                Meditations and writings, I have

                                given you prayers to pray to draw

                                you closer to Me and live more

                                holy lives.

                            I ask you to serve in love and dedication.

                            I ask you to say yes to this calling.

                            I ask you to not give into satan who wants

                                to lead you astray, get you distracted,

                                waste time and grumble many times

                                not doing the job at hand as I ask for.

                            This is a day to say yes —

                            This is a day to pray for a renewed heart —

                            This is a day to help strengthen the Movement

                                by love and greater dedication.

                            So much time is lost in grumbling.

                            Please come and serve Me with a heart

                                that is filled with joy and ready

                                to serve.

                            Some act like a stubborn mule, kicking up dirt.

                            When I went to the cross, I did so willingly,

                                I carried My cross to the hill of

                            Calvary.

                                Oh see the glory of the Resurrection.

                                Your life is lived to love and serve Me.

                                You live the Paschal Mystery of

                                    death - resurrection.

                                I am a God of justice.

                                To one much is given, much is

                                    expected.

                                I have outpoured so many special

                                    graces to you.

                                Say the thank you prayer.

A Prayer of Thanksgiving
(To be recited daily at the end of the day)

O God, on behalf of Shepherds of Christ Ministries and Our Lady of Light Ministry, we offer up these prayers of thanksgiving:

Thank You Father for Your love, patience, and understanding. We know we are not worthy of such gifts, but that You give them anyway - because of Your great love for souls.

Thank You Jesus for the many gifts and graces You give us as members of Your Movement - Shepherds of Christ. We offer You our love and gratitude through Your Mother's Immaculate Heart.

Thank You Holy Spirit for Your special gifts. Please inspire us to be grateful for what we have been given. Please help us to give ourselves in love to You and all we meet.

Thank You Holy Trinity for Your boundless love and mercy. Please help us to nurture Your presence within us. Help us to be obedient to Your commands and give all the glory to You - Our loving God. We especially thank You for the gift of our Heavenly Mother, Mary.

Thank you Mary for your example while on earth, and for your constant intercession today. Please help us to grow in holiness and put into action all that your Son Jesus asks of us.

We thank St. Michael and the Holy Angels for their prayers, help, and protection. Finally, we thank the saints in heaven and the souls in purgatory for their prayers. We ask them to unite with us in giving thanks and praise to the most Holy Trinity - Our Heavenly Father, Our Lord Jesus, and our Comforter- the Holy Spirit.

We love You! We love You! We love You! Amen.

Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus 

(For public or private use.)

Lord, have mercy on us.
   Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
   Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
   Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
   Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit,
   Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God,
   Have mercy on us.

Blood of Christ, only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father, save us.
Blood of Christ, Incarnate Word of God, save us.
Blood of Christ, of the New and Eternal Testament, save us.
Blood of Christ, falling upon the earth in the Agony, save us.
Blood of Christ, shed profusely in the Scourging, save us.
Blood of Christ, flowing forth in the Crowning with Thorns, save us.
Blood of Christ, poured out on the Cross, save us.
Blood of Christ, Price of our salvation, save us.
Blood of Christ, without which there is no forgiveness, save us.
Blood of Christ, Eucharistic drink and refreshment of souls, save us.
Blood of Christ, river of mercy, save us.
Blood of Christ, Victor over demons, save us.
Blood of Christ, Courage of martyrs, save us.
Blood of Christ, Strength of confessors, save us.
Blood of Christ, bringing forth virgins, save us.
Blood of Christ, Help of those in peril, save us.
Blood of Christ, Relief of the burdened, save us.
Blood of Christ, Solace in sorrow, save us.
Blood of Christ, Hope of the penitent, save us.
Blood of Christ, Consolation of the dying, save us.
Blood of Christ, Peace and Tenderness of hearts, save us.
Blood of Christ, Pledge of Eternal Life, save us.
Blood of Christ, freeing souls from Purgatory, save us.
Blood of Christ, most worthy of all glory and honor, save us.

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
    Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
    Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
    Have mercy on us, O Lord.

V.  Thou hast redeemed us, O Lord, in Thy Blood,
R.  And made of us a kingdom for our God.

Let Us Pray

   Almighty and Eternal God, Thou hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son the Redeemer of the world, and willed to be appeased by His Blood. Grant, we beseech Thee, that we may worthily adore this Price of our salvation, and through its power be safeguarded from the evils of this present life, so that we may rejoice in its fruits forever in Heaven. Through the same Christ Our Lord. R.  Amen. 

  

                            Sing: Save Us Oh Lord

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Say the prayers of the Angels out of Fatima book.

"My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You."

Then, rising he said: "Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications."

His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them (3)

During the summer of 1916, the angel again appeared to the three visionaries. He said to them:

Pray! Pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. Bring peace to our country in this way.... I am the Guardian Angel of Portugal Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you. (4)

In the fall of the same year, the angel visited the visionaries a final time:

The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners." (5)

Sr. Lucia relates how the angel gave them Communion:

Then, rising, he took the chalice and the Host in his hand. He gave the Sacred Host to me and shared the Blood from the chalice between Jacinta and Francisco, saying as he did so:

"Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God." (6)

  
3. Louis Kondar, SVD, editor, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words (Fatima: Postulation Center, 1976), p.62. Distributed in the U.S.A. by the Ravengate Press, Cambridge, MA.
4. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., pp.1-2.
5. Ibid., p.2 (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
6. Fatima in Lucia's Own Words, op cit., pp.64-65.

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Read the Messages given at Fatima.

Excerpts from The Spirituality of Fatima

by Father Carter, S.J.

May 13, 1917 

    "Do not be afraid, I will do you no harm..... I am from Heaven.

    "I have come to ask you to come here for six months in succession, on the 13th day, at the same hour. Later on, I will tell you who I am and what I want

    "Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners?

    "Pray the Rosary every day in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war." ⁽⁸⁾

  

June 13, 1917

    "God wishes you to remain in the world for some time because He wants to use you to establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace it, and their souls will be loved by God as flowers placed by myself to adorn His throne." ⁽¹⁰⁾

  

July 13, 1917

    "During her appearance in July, Our Lady, in answer to Lucia's plea, promised that in October she would work a great miracle so that all might believe and know who she was. Again, the Mother of God told the children to sacrifice themselves for sinners and to say many times, especially when making a sacrifice, this prayer: "O my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of poor sinners, and in reparation for all the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." ⁽¹¹⁾

    "During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:

    "You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

    "The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. ⁽¹²⁾

    "To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed....

    "But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world." ⁽¹³⁾

  

August 19, 1917

    She told them she was greatly displeased by the action of the mayor. As a result, the miracle promised for October would not be as impressive as originally planned. ⁽¹⁵⁾

 

September 13, 1917

    More than 30,000 people were present in September, and saw a shower of mysterious white petals fall to within 10 feet of the ground before dissolving into the air. Many also saw the globe of light bearing the Lady come to rest atop the tree, and the branches bend as though someone were standing on them. Later, they saw the cloud depart into the east, from whence it had come.⁽¹⁶⁾

  

October 13, 1917

    I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it every day.⁽¹⁷⁾

    While the people in attendance were beholding the great Miracle of the Sun, the three young visionaries, and they alone, were privileged to see striking visions in the heavens:

    As Our Lady had promised, St. Joseph had come with the Holy Family and had blessed the world. Then, Our Lady appeared as the Mother of Sorrows, accompanied by her Divine Son, Who also blessed the world. Finally, Lucy had seen the Blessed Virgin, dressed in the brown robes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth, holding a brown Scapular in her hand, with her infant Son upon her knee. However, in none of these visions had any of the figures spoken to the children. ⁽¹⁸⁾

    Besides the messages associated with the major Fatima apparitions, there were other revelations given by Our Lady. Before Jacinta died, she told of other messages given her (during her illness) by Mary:

    More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason.

    Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much.

    Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God.

    Priests must be pure, very pure. They should not busy themselves with anything except what concerns the Church and souls. The disobedience of priests, to their superiors and to the Holy Father, is very displeasing to Our Lord.

    I can no longer restrain the hand of my Divine Son from striking the world with just punishments for its many crimes.

    If the government of a country leaves the Church in peace and gives liberty to our Holy Religion, it will be blessed by God.

    Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask grace from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. ⁽¹⁹⁾

---

NOTES:

8. Frere Michael de la Trinite', The Whole Truth about Fatima 
    (Buffalo: Immaculate Heart Publications, 1989), pp.112-114.
9. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to 
    Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN 
    Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p.30.
10. Ibid., p.3.
11. Ibid., pp.3-4.
12. Ibid., pp.4-5.
13. Ibid., p.5.
14. Rev. Edward Carter, S.J., Mother at Our Side: Mary's Role in 
        the Spiritual Life (1993: Faith Publishing Co., Milford, Ohio), p.21.
15. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.6.
16. Ibid., p.6.
17. Ibid., p.7.
18. Ibid., p.8.
19. Ibid., pp.9-10.

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)

Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

  
My dear fellow Associate Members,

Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:

My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.

These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.

I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.

I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.

I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.

    This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:

1. For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
2. For the Pope.
3. For all bishops of the world.
4. For all priests.
5. For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
6. For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
7. For all members of the Catholic Church.
8. For all members of the human family.
9. For all souls in purgatory.

October 13, 1994 

The Birth of the Full Ministries
of the Shepherds of Christ

    "I wish to share with you part of a message which Jesus gave us on October 13, 1994. The message tells us about the expansion of the Shepherds of Christ movement:

    'My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission. I am asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, "Shepherds of Christ", and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...

    'I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.

    'Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.'

    "Jesus has told us that Shepherds of Christ Ministries includes: the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Shepherds of Christ Associates prayer chapters, various publications, including books, whatever else Our Lord directs us to undertake.

    "As members of Shepherds of Christ Associates, you are an extremely important part of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. You have given great joy to the Heart of Jesus by responding to His invitation to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. As He draws you closer to His Heart and to His Mother's Heart as Associates members, He will fill you with an ever-increasing experience of His love, peace, and joy."

- From In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Newsletter of Shepherds of Christ Associates
by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., Volume 1, No. 1, 1995. p. 2.

end of October 13, 1994

        from Tell My People

from Tell My People

  
Work to Make Your World Better

Jesus: "My beloved companion, remind My people of their responsibility toward the world. They have a duty to try to make this a better world for all to live in.

"Today there is much which is wrong with the world. Sin covers the face of the earth. Sins of all kinds blemish the goodness of My Father's creation.

"However, My Mother and I are increasingly gathering our forces for the battle against Satan and his followers. We are more and more forming Our followers to wage the battle to win back that part of the world dominated by Satan's influence. We are forming our followers in the ways of love. We are forming Our followers with the grace which flows from the bosom of My Father, through My Heart, given in the Holy Spirit, and distributed through the intercession of the maternal and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

"We are forming Our followers to give themselves in the greatest love for God and neighbor. We are bringing them ever more closely to Our Hearts so that they may draw from the flames of love of My Heart and Mary's Heart! The more My followers dwell in Mary's Heart and My Heart, the more they are enlightened and strengthened to give themselves for the salvation of the world.

"I am Lord and Master. I ask all to follow Me and My Mother to help us bring forth the great age of love and peace for the world. This age will emerge after the phase of purification has been completed. This age will be characterized by the triumph of Mary's immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. In this great new age, soon to come, My people will love and praise My Father, with Mary and through Me and in the Holy Spirit, as never before!

"I love My people with a tremendous, burning love, and in this love I give them this message!"

Reflection: The world belongs to Christ. St. Paul tells us about this:

As he is the Beginning, he was first to be born from the dead, so that he should be first in every way, because God wanted all perfection to be found in him, and all things to be reconciled through him and for him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross (Colossians 1:18-20).

Since the world belongs to Christ, we, who are His followers, must have a great love for the world as created and redeemed by God. We must labor through our participation in the Mass and through all our other prayers and good works to more and more help the Christic image of the world to shine forth in ever greater splendor. This is our duty and our privilege. Out of love for God and neighbor, let's resolve to get on with the task!

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Read message September 29, 1994 read at Margaret's funeral

Find Refuge in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

September 29, 1994

Jesus: My Dear Child,

I bless your home in a special way. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary ever reign in your hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Please spread devotion to My most Sacred Heart. Tell people to hang pictures of My Sacred Heart and My Mother's heart throughout their homes. I will bless in a special way any home that hangs My picture and that of My Mother, her Immaculate Heart and My Sacred Heart.

Read the promises of the Sacred Heart to people and circulate them among your friends. Tell them to pray to us all through the day. Such devotion will be the key to your happiness now and in your everlasting life to come.

Tell people to carry pictures of My Sacred Heart and Mary's Immaculate Heart in their pockets and purses and to look at our pictures when praying to us. When you are having a difficult day, reach for our pictures and find refuge in My most Sacred Heart.

How deep is the love I and My Mother have for you? Our love is deeper than any human mind can imagine. Come into My Heart and be protected from all kinds of weather. The wind may blow and the fire of love may grow dim in your hearts, but it forever burns brightly when you are sheltered by My most Sacred Heart. If the wind blows and the rain comes, you will never lose the flame of My love if you have taken refuge in My most Sacred Heart.

Mary leads you to the closest union with Me. Go to Mary, see her, let her lead you deeply into My Heart. She loves you so. She is your most loving Mother. She is pure and tender of heart. It is through her you will experience such intimacy with Me. It is through her heart that you are lead to the deepest union with the one, triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

I am your most Sacred Heart. I am Jesus, Son of God. I am a burning furnace of endless love, waiting to shelter you in My Heart. Come to Me, My beloved ones. I love you so.³⁰

(Song: I Am Your Sacred Heart)

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Jesus speaks:     Read the Magnificat

                                    Luke 1: 46-55

                    The Magnificat

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.

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Jesus speaks:    Let your hearts be merged as one praying

                                for the priests, the Church and the world.

                                I take you into My Heart now.

                            Promises of those dedicated to the Sacred

                                Heart given to St. Margaret Mary.

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.

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Jesus speaks:    In three days after October 13th it will be the Feast of St.

                                Margaret Mary.

                            Pray through her powerful intercession.  

I Love You

(Letter for Front of B.B. II)
April 13, 1994

How, child, do I, Jesus, tell you I love you? You hold on to silly things, when God is in your midst and is ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same Jesus Who died a brutal death on the cross.

Do you know I am truly present there? Do you know that God waits every day for you in the tabernacle? Do you comprehend even a minute amount of My love? You will never on earth know how I love you.

I, Jesus, truly the Son of God, came to earth a man and suffered a brutal death for love of you. I love you so much! I remain with you this day. I long for your love. I want you to come and be with Me in front of the tabernacle. I wait, I yearn for you to come and whisper your love to Me. I am a Person and I love you this day with such an ardent, on-fire love. No human could ever compare a speck to My love for you.

I wait, little ones, in the tabernacle. I wait for you to come and receive Me in Communion. I want you to want Me so much that you cannot wait to come and receive Me. I want to be the love, the Center of your life!

I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am writing to you this day. I want to possess your very soul and live in you. I have all you need, sweet ones. Oh, you are so blind! I long for your union with Me. I wrote the book on love. I instituted it, yet you go to the world for your love and do not even come to Me! Oh, I love you, little ones. Little ones, beloved of the Father, loved by the Holy Spirit, mothered by My very own mother, what more can I say? The rest is up to you!

I give you your will with such love and I want your love, freely given. I am God. What do you think you could ever need that I do not give you? I am the Savior of this world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. I am waiting for you. I am longing for you. I am yearning for you. I am God. I have all you ever will need!

Surrender this life to Me. Pray My prayer for union with Me. I want to possess your soul and operate from your very being. I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am Who am. I died and rose on the third day.

Harken to My call, harken to My pleading. Spend your days in love with Me. Nothing matters unless it is rooted in Me and rooted in My love. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I love you with the tenderest love. I am waiting this day for you, My beloved one. Come to Me for I am the tenderest of all hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

How, child, do I, Jesus, tell you I love you? You hold on to silly things, when God is in your midst and is ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same Jesus Who died a brutal death on the cross.

Do you know I am truly present there? Do you know that God waits every day for you in the tabernacle? Do you comprehend even a minute amount of My love? You will never on earth know how I love you.

I, Jesus, truly the Son of God, came to earth a man and suffered a brutal death for love of you. I love you so much! I remain with you this day. I long for your love. I want you to come and be with Me in front of the tabernacle. I wait, I yearn for you to come and whisper your love to Me. I am a Person and I love you this day with such an ardent, on-fire love. No human could ever compare a speck to My love for you.

I wait, little ones, in the tabernacle. I wait for you to come and receive Me in Communion. I want you to want Me so much that you cannot wait to come and receive Me. I want to be the love, the Center of your life!

I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am writing to you this day. I want to possess your very soul and live in you. I have all you need, sweet ones. Oh, you are so blind! I long for your union with Me. I wrote the book on love. I instituted it, yet you go to the world for your love and do not even come to Me! Oh, I love you, little ones. Little ones, beloved of the Father, loved by the Holy Spirit, mothered by My very own mother, what more can I say? The rest is up to you!

I give you your will with such love and I want your love, freely given. I am God. What do you think you could ever need that I do not give you? I am the Savior of this world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. I am waiting for you. I am longing for you. I am yearning for you. I am God. I have all you ever will need!

Surrender this life to Me. Pray My prayer for union with Me. I want to possess your soul and operate from your very being. I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am Who am. I died and rose on the third day.

Harken to My call, harken to My pleading. Spend your days in love with Me. Nothing matters unless it is rooted in Me and rooted in My love. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I love you with the tenderest love. I am waiting this day for you, My beloved one. Come to Me for I am the tenderest of all hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Sing Song:  From the Day You Were Born

                            Have available little song books to

                                sing the Songs from Jesus.

October 8, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:    I call servants and handmaids and apostles

                                to a daily hour before the Blessed

                                Sacrament and daily Mass unless

                                for some reason they are not able.

                            I call servants and handmaids and apostles

                                to live the way of life, praying

                                the morning offering and giving

                                ones life in the morning offering  as

                                intercessors praying for the priests,

                                the Church and the world and the

                                needs of the Shepherds of Christ

                                Movement.

                            I love you so much,

                                                            Jesus

                            Sing:  Turn An Ear to Me Oh Lord

                            Sing:  Eye has not Seen

                            Song I love you Jesus

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Mary speaks:    I am Mary your Mother,

                                I call you to love for the little children

                                    of the earth.

                                So many are bitter and selfish.

                                Think of the little children.

                                I called at Fatima.

                                Today October 13, 2003, I call you again.

                                This is my Son's Movement, Shepherds

                                    of Christ.

                                Satan has led many Jesus have called

                                    astray.

                                Who will do the work of this Mission

                                    if you give into satan.

                                You are the Shepherds of Christ.

                                You have been called by Jesus to

                                    be helpful and do as He has

                                    asked.

                                In this month of the Holy Rosary, I ask

                                    you to look at all the gifts that

                                    have been given.

       
                                                        (Spanish)    

(English)
 

(Spanish)

October 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:     I am Mary your Mother.

                            Did you ever think God would give the

                                earth such a sign as this —

October 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:    Did you ever think Jesus would appear

                                like this?

February 5, 2001

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Mary speaks:    My children there is not money for the 

                                building payment and the bills.

                            My Son Jesus has given this gift to the

                                world.

                            My image appears daily on this web site by

                                the camera in Florida.

                            Oh my little children are being taught

                                such filth that displeases God —

                                little ones being taught so many

                                untruths —

                            I beg as your heavenly Mother to listen

                                to me and help me.

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 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:    On this anniversary October 13, 2003, I

                                beg you to take your commitment to

                                the Shepherds of Christ with the greatest

                                seriousness — don't give into temptations

                                of selfishness by the devil to stop you.

                            I am your heavenly Mother and I appear —

                                the Lady clothed with the sun

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.

   

October 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:    Sing Song: Our Lady of Fatima

                            Look at the little children

October 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:    Will you help me?

                            I am Mary your Mother.

                            I appear for the whole world to know

                                this message given from my Son

                                Jesus.

                            I appear Our Lady of Clearwater —

                                Our Lady of Fatima in the Americas

                                Our Lady of Guadalupe

                            See the little children at play — 

July 5, 2003

October 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:     See the little children who are so innocent.

                            I am the Mother of all —

                            So many in your world do not believe in 

                                Jesus.

                            It is serious.

                            So many will not turn from their sinful

                                ways.

                            So many need to be converted.

                            Oh my people —

                                think of your children —

                                they are being taught poison

                            God is displeased with many things —

                            Oh my people listen to me.

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