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October 8, 2023
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Consecration Prayer for Peace
I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.
I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able, to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.
Prayer for Grace for Election and our Country
Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.
October 8, 2023
R. This was the strongest message
I ever got. It was almost 10
months after Our Lady's image
appeared in Clearwater. It
reminds me of today's Gospel.Someone threw acid on the
image. After a while the rain
came and took it away.
Discerned by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.26 Years Ago
About October 8, 1997
Jesus:
SEEDLESS, BARREN, NO FRUIT on the vine.R.
I felt He opened His Heart and explained things in a depth as never before.Jesus woke me and it was as if He went around my bed and He kept repeating: “Seedless, Barren, no fruit on the Vine.”
Seedless, Barren, No Fruit on the Vine
Jesus:
Seedless, barren, not bringing forth fruit on the vine. I come to be heard and who pays Me heed. To a people of stiffs I address this issue, what think you when the water is gone from the trough?Do you think you will then worship the molten calf or will you be ready for surrender then?
Oh, you thankless race, anger and wrath is the mind of your God. You do not worry, My messenger, for I am God and I speak to you. You think you are alone and I have chosen you. Your money is your god, oh people of Zion - your money in the pockets is the sound that brings you joy.
What brings Me joy is the songs of the faithful, praising and
worshipping God, but I go to the tent and there is the molten calf and an abased nation of stiffs, heartless and filled with fear. I beg of you to stop now before it is too late, but you do not know of the chastisement I have in store for you - it is under the plan of the Father.The children who walk in darkness carried a molten calf in their arms and the God of justice struck the earth.
He struck you, senseless people, because you would not listen.
I did not put you on the earth and then leave you to yourselves. I dwelt amongst you to guide you in all your ways and the people today spit on Me as they did 2,000 years before. For all these years I waited for the likes of you, My people, and why should you have more time for false joy? Joy is not in the molten calf. It is in the words of the Savior.
My Words are your truth, yet you try to wash them away as hearsay and of no importance.
My Word is the Word of God mighty and true. I have been ignored and defiled in My Word. I smite you, My senseless race. I allow the dragon to devour your young for you are the senseless race. I allow the dragon to devour your young for you are the senseless children of Eve.
Debased, proud and dead, really dead in your hearts. I give you sunshine and rain and you want flowers and glory.
The glory is Mine or I will have to continue to listen to the wailing widow, a barren branch, a company of stiffs.
Ignore Me no longer senseless ones. My hand is upon you. It will come down and wipe out the senseless virgins, the ones singing to the molten calf.
Rachel could hear the slaughter of her children and she wept such bitter tears. The Lady Clothed as the Sun bore the barren race; they did not come to her grace-filled womb. The thankless race marched into a pit of doom and destruction.
As I was pressed in the garden watching the days at hand, as I was squeezed, what came forth from My pores was the saving Blood for the children of Zion and when they ate from the land they feasted on rich food and strong drinks, the candy of the earth and it made them sick - sick to the death of their souls and the Lady Clothed as the Sun heard the cries of her sick children. I give you the medicine for the sick children in these writings and they chase you and make you fall to the ground. I watched you skin your knees when you carried the scrolls that contained My letters of love, My words from the depths of My Heart. You fell as I once did on the way to Calvary. I fell, I skinned My knees, My Body burned and I got up and went to the end.
The end was the beginning for the children of Zion for at that hill My cross was planted erect, a tree of life, and the juice that was squeezed ‘till there was no more from the one “Son of Man, the Son of God”, was the juice of the Man. It was His saving Blood.
They pressed Me in the Garden of Olives and I bled for the thankless race. They hung Me on a tree on the hill of Calvary. When I gave them the New Eve they chose the molten calf. They spit on My Mother, they ignored the visitations. She came and gave to the children to remind them of their covenant with God.
Oh senseless ones, so many will now fall, for I hung there and to the right was one and to the left another. The one was saved; the other was cursed. You picked from the tree when you should have obeyed your Father. He gave you His will. He said, “You may eat of all the trees in the garden but not this one.” and you continually ate of the forbidden fruit. I warned you, My children, and you chased My messengers and made them run. I gave to you My Book of Life, My Bible, and you ate the sick fruit and it made you so sick you wanted to die but you kept eating when I told you the end was near and now that the end has come, what do you say for yourself? You ignored the Lady Clothed as the Sun. She appeared in all glory and splendor and so many months later so few go to her site to even see her. So is it My fault or yours our money does not come to publish your books and tell the world about the Woman in Florida? It is not My fault, I am God. I am the faultless One.
You want joy. I have no joy for the likes of you, My children of Zion, you have usurped My thrones and treated My body as rubbish. I am God. I come in the Eucharist and I am ignored. I speak no longer. The days that follow will be the days to cleanse this earth.
I am angered beyond all anger for the way My Mother has been treated in Florida by the thankless race. They have worshipped the molten calf and ignored the Lady of Light, the Lady Clothed as the Sun, the Lady of Fatima in the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe, bringing forth her children. The good will suffer with the bad; the wheat will be separated from the darnel (weeds). You walked like little stiff men with your haughty hearts. Your heads were your gods. I gave you great minds to comprehend My mysteries and you used your minds to worship false gods and make movies that defile My priesthood. What of your minds? I do not even have energy to tell you how unworthy you used the mind, the intellect I gave you. You used this great faculty to commit the worst sins, and My head was crowned with the sharpest thorns for your sick earth. Oh, you squeezed the Blood from the Son of Man. You pressed that Man in the garden, when He knew this race of this day.
I now see the Woman on the building, My Mother, so loving to the children I gave her and the mean ones threw acid on her face. Oh, you race of vile hearts and thankless ways. I will clothe the holy ones in the white robes of glory. The thankless ones I will turn over to the red men that will hand them over to the keeper of the pit and their bodies will be burned in the burning sulfur of the pool of death. Come, My children of light, your Mother called you through the consecration. She showed you the way home to My Heart. She carried a lighted lamp and lighted your way in the darkness. You were not foolish like the virgins that carried a lamp without a light. Your light for the lamp was My life alive in your hearts. When the darkest night comes you will know the flames of My love alive in your lighted hearts, burning with the fire from the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I give you the fuel, My faithful virgins. I gave you the fuel to light your lamps that in the dark night that lies ahead, you will still shine as a beacon light, a light of intense brightness no matter how dark the night. You will not die for your refuge is the fire of the Sacred Heart and you gave your heart to the New Eve, the pure and Immaculate One and she took you to the Heart of your Savior. She took you home and you dwelt within the chamber of My Heart and you were protected from the evil one in these last days. You tried to spread this consecration. It is the key that leads to the place of refuge. So many camps the devil told men to prepare and they labored in vain, for the Word was had in dwelling in Our Hearts. You would find refuge and they missed the message and busied themselves with the work of the evil one.
I say to you what refuge survived when Noah built his Ark? Only those on the ark survived the great flood. You prepare your earth. When My Word was to prepare your hearts. Then again, they worshipped the church building, the grounds and the wood and their hearts were left as cold vaults. I beg you, My beauteous ones, to beg the men to prepare their hearts before it is too late. Only the Ark of the Covenant will be the means of survival in this dark age. When the moon turns to blood they will run away frightened and their buildings will be like cold vaults - only the hearts consecrated to Our Hearts will survive.
You were willful and too busy to know the story. The story is this: There is but one home; it is the Heart of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. My Mother is the gatekeeper. It is through her Immaculate Heart you enter. She is the singular vessel, a New Eve, a Woman Clothed as the Sun, a doorway to the everlasting abyss of Light, the Light of the World, the Sacred Eucharistic Heart of the Son of Man.
There was not room for Me in the Inn and there is not room for Me in the hearts of many and what can I say - they will die. I gave them the book of life. I gave them the Man who hung on a tree to save them. I gave them Myself, truly present in the Eucharist, the Eucharist and My Word I gave them. I gave to them My Mother - the way to enter into My Heart and they were haughty and proud. I was born in a stable in Bethlehem for you, My men. I am the Light of the World. The foolish virgins had no oil for their lamps and they went out. And you could hear the wailing cries of her children being slaughtered in the dark night. Oh, the Lady Clothed as the Sun warned them to come to her heart and the Heart of her Son (the Light of the World) and they went to the molten calf and they died a brutal death.
October 3, 2023
R. Pascal Mystery
Death / Resurrection
Sorrow / Joy
We know others when we
share sorrow and joy.
October 1, 2023
May 25, 2019R. After the sorrow of the
cross, we see the joy of the
Resurrection.
After the darkness we see
light.
Jesus, crucified to
death, comes forth,
victorious from the tomb
in the resurrection.
Jesus comes forth in His
glorified body.
We are consumed with joy,
rejoicing in the Resurrection
of our Savior.
Joy for our Savior who died
so we can go to heaven!!
Joy for eternal happiness of
the redeemed.John 1:14
The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
R. Jesus is: King of Kings and
Lord of Lords.
We celebrate this in joy.
We meditate on this gift
given for our salvation.
Jesus is Redeemer.
Amen.
Alleluia
We know Jesus more in His
joys and suffering. We grow
in love!!!Mark 16:6
But he said to them, 'There is no need to be so amazed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he has risen, he is not here. See, here is the place where they laid him.
John 11:25
Jesus said: I am the resurrection. Anyone who believes in me, even though that person dies, will live,
John 6:55
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
R. Wouldn’t you think Jesus
appeared to Mary, His
Mother first, Mary shared
His joys and sufferings,
Mary is the most perfect disciple of Jesus.
Mary was, perfect handmaid of
Jesus.Romans 6:4
So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.
R. If we want God to reveal
Himself to us, we must
desire to know Him and
surrender to Him, to grow in
an intimate relationship with
Him.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.
R. We want to grow in our
interior knowledge and love
with God.
God’s relationship with us is
a loving, intimate union we
seek.
We were created to prepare
for the union of our soul
with the Divine Bridegroom.
Providence - God is the
initiator, we are the soul
waiting His favors.
Jesus is the Bridegroom of
the soul.
God has given us so much
in the Church.
Oh God, Thank You for Your
gifts to me.
I love You, so much.
Amen.
October 3, 2023
R. There are providential
designs that our Heavenly
Father wants to unfold in
our lives.
Some day as our gift of
understanding increases we
may understand God is
absolute truth and there is
no falsity in Him.
He does not deceive, nor
can He be deceived.John 14:6
Jesus said:
I am the Way; I am Truth and Life...R. To be mystically united in
great oneness with God, we are
rooted in love and want the
will of God in all on earth.
To know God deeply and
intimately is to love and
desire God’s will.
In heaven we will
understand profound truths.
In the gift of understanding
the Holy Spirit reveals to us
insight into some truths.
The more filled we are with
the gift of understanding,
the more we see as a
panorama of magnificent
truths, by the light and
action of the Holy Spirit and
His gifts.
“Blessed are the clean of
heart, for they shall see God.”
We see the blind man in John
before the Good Shepherd.
The blind man wanted to see.
We have different degrees
of blindness.
The Holy Spirit gives us
light, gives us His gifts.
Jesus: The message I gave
May 13th - 30 years ago says
Cling To Me
May 13, 1993
Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.
You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.
When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.
I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.
I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.
October 3, 2023R. This Movement is to help
renew the Church and the
world.
The Church is One, Holy,
Catholic and Apostolic.
Jesus: By spreading devotion to
My Heart and My Mother’s
Heart and dwelling in Our Hearts -
there is unity among those
men, men living and loving
according to God’s will.
R. Christ is the head of the
Mystical Body of Christ.
We all have our roles as
members of the mystical
Body of Christ.
When one does not carry
out their mission the whole
body suffers.
On a basketball team, the
whole team suffers if one
player is not playing right.
Look at a family when one
person acts up.
Whatever we do for good
resounds to the whole body.
We can see in a little
example with a basketball
team, an orchestra, a family.
Life, Death and
Resurrection is summed up
in the Pascal mystery, we
celebrate this each day of
our life.
The Mass is the sacrifice of
Calvary, sacramentally
made present.
Jesus is truly present in the
Eucharist.
Jesus gives us a sharing in
His life in Baptism
and He feeds that life with
Himself in the Eucharist.
We see we need the Church.
The Trinity is the most
perfect community, 3 Divine
Persons in One God.
The Church is a community.
The body is given Life
through the Soul.
The Church is the body of
Christ.
When I am weak, I am
strong in Jesus.
I walk, in everything I do,
with Jesus.
Mary was perfectly humble.
Humility realizes one's
creature-hood and living
according to this realization.
Mary said:
My soul doth Magnify the
Lord, and my spirit rejoices
in God my Savior.Mary was blessed, but she
realized the greatness of God.
Humility doesn't mean I
hide my talents.
God gave me my talents.
We are to thank God for His
gifts to us and use our
talents for His honor and glory.
The proud man doesn't
grow, God gives the proud
man the opportunity to be
humble.
God resists the proud and
gives grace to the humble.
Pride is a deadly sin.
Sin is refusing to love, Fr.
Carter says!
The more humble we are
the stronger we are,
because we draw our
strength from Jesus.
When I am weak, I am
strong in Him.
I realize my creature-hood.
I recognize my helplessness.
I am dependent on God.
I walk with Christ - Always,
my strength is in this!When a man is in sin
God’s Word is so strong to
lead him back.
God is good all the time.
Oh God, I love You, You are
all powerful.
I praise and love You.
You are all powerful.
Amen.
I believe in Your might and
Your love.
Thank You God.
I sing praise to You..!!
Sleep in the peace of Jesus.
Do not be afraid.
Have faith and pray.
Believe and pray.
Have faith and ask for
healing. Amen.
Thank You Father for Your
gifts to us.
I love you, I pray to You
Through Jesus Your Son, in
the Holy Spirit. Amen.
October 1, 2023
The Commandment of love.
Glorious Mysteries
The Resurrection
1. John 3:16For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.2. On the third day He rose
from the dead.
3. Jesus: I came to bring you
life - I love you so much.
4. Jesus: I give you Myself in
the Eucharist.
5. We could meditate a life-
time on the meaning of the
Incarnation.
Yes, God’s love is awesome.
6. Love is at the center of the
religion Jesus established.
7. Love must be at the
center of our existence. We
are to love others.
8. Some shy away from love
because of being wounded.
9. To be afraid to love, to
think it is unsafe and remain
closed is to open ourselves
to what is not love.
10. God command us to love.Matthew 22: 36-39
‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said to him, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself.
The Ascension
1. Luke 24:50-53Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven. They worshipped him and then went back to Jerusalem full of joy; and they were continually in the Temple praising God.
2. Fr. Carter’s definition of love:
Love is a gift of self which is intended to promote the authentic Good of the one or one’s loved.
He further says: the gift of self is proportionate to the relationship involved.3. My brother Fr. Joe died
recently, I miss Fr. Joe at
Mass, terribly. I know how
deep my love is for Fr. Joe,
even though we never really
discussed that love I know,
it was Jesus in the
sacraments, especially I
knew Jesus more.
4. Love is a mystery, indeed.
Fr. Carter in His Book,
Response to God’s Love
states about God the
Ultimate Mystery.5. Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.
The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.
At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).6. Jesus ascended into
heaven, but He remains
with us truly present in the
Eucharist,
no less present, than the
day He walked the earth.
7. “The suffering we bring on
ourselves when we refuse
love-related pain is far
more than love’s suffering”-
Fr. Carter says, and also
“for then we experience the
pain of truncated growth
emanating from refusal to
love as we should.”
8. The arms of Jesus, extend
to the cross.
Jesus died for love.9. Song: A Song from Jesus
10. Fr. Carter say:
"permitting others to love us
is itself an act of love toward them.
A person grows to the
extent he or she loves."
The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and the Virgin Mother
1. Acts 2: 1-4When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.
2. God has given us a free
will to love or to not love.
3. Freedom is in God, loving
and living God’s will.
4. Jesus: I am the way, the
truth and the life.
5. Love may not be heroic,
but ordinary ways of
respecting life, loving and
helping those God want us
to help.
God will provide, if He asks
us to serve this way.
We receive grace and
blessings for doing God’s
will, in love, as He may ask
us.
6. Jesus taught us to love
one another by how He lived
and loved.
We have been shown, some
do not love because they do
not want to love.
7. Fr. Carter says “to refuse
to love is to die, to chose to
love is to live.”8. From the Prayer Manual
Holy Spirit Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.
9. Song: Come Holy Ghost
10. From the Holy Spirit NovenaPrayer for Gifts and His Holy Spirit
Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.
Leader: Send forth Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All: And You will renew the face of the earth.We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.
Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.
The Assumption
1. God’s power is everlasting.
There are Two eternities,
one with God, one without
God.
2. Mary was taken body and
soul into heaven.
3. Our life runs on and on,
like a River, in one direction
or the other.
4. Sing: Eye Has Not Seen
5. Ecclesiastes 12:5when going uphill is an ordeal
and you are frightened
at every step you take –
yet the almond tree is in flower
and the grasshopper is weighed down
and the caper-bush loses its tang;
while you are on the way
to your everlasting home
and the mourners are assembling
in the street;6. Mary‘s Message - from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
Mary: 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
December 17, 1996
7. Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
e) Relationship with Members of the Church
There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.
The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.
The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.
This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."14 And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.
The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.15 The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."16
The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.
Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.17
14Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
15 Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
16Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
17Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.
R. The more we understand
the mystery of God, the
more we will understand the
mystery of hell.8. God is love.
God created us and wants
us in heaven with Him
eternally.
9. We have a free will to
love as God commands us or
not to love.
10. The Heavenly Father is
merciful to those who are
sorry for their sins and
repent.
Remember the parable of
the prodigal son.
Dear God, please give us
the grace to realize God’s
infinite mercy and love more
and more.
The Good Shepherd
searches for the lost sheep.
Isaiah 1:18'Come, let us talk this over,' says Yahweh. 'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
R. This Homily is from Fr.
Carter’s new Homily book
the year he died, 2000,
these were transcribed,
months before he died.
September 1, 2000HOMILY - (Matthew 11: 25-30) In words from today's Gospel, Jesus tells us, "Shoulder my yoke and learn from
me, for I am gentle and humble in heart." (Mt 11:29) Yes, He bids us, come to His heart to learn all the lessons of the spiritual life. Going to His Heart we certainly learn about love, love of the Father, love of our neighbor in Christ, this magnificent Heart of Jesus which loved His Father even to a brutal death on the Cross for the love of us for our salvation.
We certainly learn about suffering, how to suffer, from the pierced Heart of Jesus. We also certainly learn that even in the midst of deepest suffering, Jesus wants us to have a spiritual joy and a peace, because He says, "My yoke is easy and my burden light if you unite yourself to Me." He certainly teaches us how to be spiritually sensitive and kind and gentle, and of course – humility. All these and other lessons of the spiritual life, Jesus will teach us if only we come to His Heart.
An outstanding example of one who I'm sure went constantly to the Heart of Christ was one of the greatest apostles of Jesus' Heart, Claude, St. Claude de la Columbière; and in words which I'm about now to read to you from Claude, you see his complete dedication to Christ, his trust in Christ, his love of Christ, you see his sensitivity of heart. Claude tells us:
"You share my burdens,
(He is speaking to Jesus)
You take them upon yourself.
You listen to me fondly when I tell you my troubles.
You never fail to lighten them.
I find You at all times and in all places.
You never leave me.
I will always find You wherever I go.
Old age or misfortune will not cause You to abandon me.
You will never be closer to me than
When all seems to go against me.
No matter how miserable I may be,
You will never cease to be my friend.
You tolerate my faults with admirable patience.
You are always ready to come to me, if I so desire it.
Jesus, may I die praising you!
May I die loving you!
May I die for the love of you."8
8.St. Claude de la Columbiere, as published by Apostleship of Prayer, Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus.
The Queenship of Mary
1. Mary is crowned, Queen
of Heaven and Earth.
2. Sing: Hail Holy Queen
3. Mary is the Mediatrix of
Grace.
4. We meditate in the Rosary
on the Lives of Jesus and
Mary.
We live the life, death and
resurrection in our lives.
5. Mary is our Spiritual
Mother, our model.
6. Mary speaks: I am your
Mother, more than any
earthly mother, I love you
with purist love. I want to
rock you in my arms and
cradle you in my heart. As
an earthly mother cradles
her young, I cradle you
tenderly and lull you to
sleep by the beating of my
Immaculate Heart. Do not
fear. You know my motherly
love for you.
7. Mary: I call the young
hearts to the Junior Shepherds
of Christ Movement.
8. Mary: Do you hear the
cries of your heavenly
Mother? If you answer my
call, I will be your defender
against the works of the
devil. I will take you to the
Heart of Jesus. Come to my
Immaculate Heart.
9. Mary: Youth in the Junior
Shepherds of Christ, the
world must be ruled by love.
I am your Mother of love.
Children, consecrate your
hearts to My Immaculate
Heart and Jesus’ Sacred Heart.
10. Mary: Pray the prayers
in the handbook everyday
for the priests, the Church
and the world.
Pray the Rosary and go to
Mass and Communion as
often as possible.
Youth of America, see my
Motherly face laden with
tears and blood, I watch my
little children suffer and I
cry bloody tears for them.
My Son Jesus loves the
little children. Jesus loves
the youth, oh please, my
youth apostles listen to my
Motherly cry and I will guard
you and you will be blessed.
This message is my message
for my Junior Shepherds of
Christ.
I am Mary your Mother,
Thank you for responding to
this call.
December 17, 2023
Mary: I am the Mother of
the Youth of America!
I am joining with the
Shepherds of Christ youth
program to bring the young
hearts to my Immaculate
Heart and teach them in
these rosaries to know
Jesus and His love and
teach them
to be pure in all their
actions.
Song: The Rosary Song
Jesus:
The Apostles went to the
world and they preached
the Gospel and converted
many souls. It was through
the Holy Spirit they were
not afraid. They marched
into the world and spread
the Love of God.
Will you spread My love?
Pray to the Holy Spirit. He is
your dearest friend, ask Him
to fill you with His gifts.
Pray to God, every moment
be one in God. God: Father,
Myself, and Holy Spirit dwells
in your graced, baptized soul.
God is with you in your
every breath. Your biggest
fear is to offend God by
your habitual sin.
Pray to be holy, pray for
sanctification from the Holy
Spirit.
Pray for grace to love and
know God more.
I give you My special
Shepherds of Christ, My
young Shepherds.
I give you abundant grace in
this mission. I will dwell in
your heart and care for you,
your prayers for the youth,
will help other youth.
This is a special mission, I
call you to.
I love you, I love you, I love
you, I am Jesus.
Jesus:
I have gifted you.
Are you thankful?
Eve was so gifted.
She wanted to be equal to
God.
October 1, 2023
Mystical Mary Now 12:10 am
R. Mary is a Gift God gives us!
Knowing the Father, is
deeply wanting His will on
earth as it is in heaven.
Knowing the Son, is
knowing Him more to
imitate and follow Him, as
the Eucharistic Bridegroom
of our soul, here below.
Knowing the Holy Spirit is
allowing yourself to be
possessed by Him to be
operated by Him as He fills
us with God’s grace and
love, and moves like a
breath in us forming us
more in the image of Jesus,
sanctifying us and helping
us live as the Father wills.
God's love is awesome!!!!!
And it is a mystery.
