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November 13th Holy
Spirit Novena Scripture selection is Day 3 Period I. |
The Novena Rosary Mystery for November 13th is Glorious. |
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Messenger: We drove on those trips to China and I
watched the seasons change.
There was the beautiful leaves of autumn
and the little snow covered bridges
and barns and roofs. The scenes were
so beautiful for a little stream lined
the road and you could see it with
the snow by the side.
Do you know how hard it is to use these words
to express things so beautiful as the
scenes God painted as we rode to the
Eucharistic Center in China, Indiana.
I remember the first time Father Carter and I laughed
because we were lost in the parking lot
of China's St. Anthony's Church. Little did we ever realize God
had sent us to Steve and Sheila's that day
to find the Eucharistic Center June 22, 1996.
Jesus told Father Carter to go to Indiana
to Steve and Sheila's farm to look for
a site. There were four distinct water
droplets on the paten in the form of
a cross at Mass. Father said it was for the
four centers.
It is silly for me to question things or
wonder.
When I experienced so many difficulties telling
people Mary was appearing daily at the
old seminary, I didn't understand the
full meaning of the statement by God
the Father January 5, 1995,
He said His plan would unfold
despite the willfulness of
anyone there.
I watched the plan unfold. When Jesus said
the end of November 1996 to move the phones
to Morrow, He was preparing us for
the vision of Mary December 17, 1996.
John did as Jesus said right away.
John is a good President, no one
would ever imagine all he does
and how he endlessly serves.
There are so many dedicated people who
help me every day.
The list goes on and on and on, just
to get the message out.
I want you to envision the ride to China
down Route 62.
It is never the same. Here is the only picture
I took.
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger:
But the little stream of water was always
so beautiful by the road.
My desire was to be in the deepest union
with God possible in the Mass.
The first vision I had when we walked into
the Church was the Eucharist exposed
and a Church full of people.
It happened like that too, soon after that.
Father wanted to give up the idea of the
Church when we couldn't get the
running water on the side of the
street with the Church.
He wanted retreat houses with the
Church.
I know there are streams
of grace being poured out from the Masses
there.
Jesus' centers are very important.
Think of the gift that God picked Clearwater,
Florida and painted Mary's image on that
building there.
Do you know what a gift that is that
God has allowed Mary to appear
there every day for five years.
In thanksgiving we must gather and
celebrate and make reparation
for all the people who just
ignored the gift given by
God to us.
God gives this magnificent gift and it will be
5 years on December 17, 2001 since Mary
appeared on the building in Clearwater, Florida.
God wants gatherings there everyday.
We should try to gather there to tell
God how much this gift means to us.
Please pray for every detail of that day, that
it is pleasing to God.
What a gift.
We think of Fatima.
We think of Guadalupe.
We are given great gifts that God has
called us.
I can see Father Carter so excited about taking the
drive and looking at the beauty on the
way to China.
Oh our Father is so good, so good to us.
I saw those leaves and they came down
as brown and red flakes in front
of my car as I drove down the beautiful
curved road lined with beautiful
golden red trees. It looked as if
God lined the road for us with
beautiful things, sun and blue
skies, beautiful trees, green,
golden and white.
You miss a lot if you take the straight
road to China, God paints the
scenery so it is a beauty to the
heart as you drive the way.
There is a beauty to the little houses,
the little bridges, the curved
roads.
I would drive there and see light.
Why did God pick a place so far
out.
In the beginning Father Carter went so often.
It was Father and me and then
soon more and more and look
at China today.
Lots of hands helped build China.
It was God's plan. And the Elpers
were called from their Farm
to go to China and they answered
that call.
There have been lots of seeds sown
by hands other than ours and
now we plant seed for those to come.
Sunrise - sunset - swiftly goes our
lives.
I saw one season follow the other as we
drove there for three years.
Red and golden trees, green trees,
white trees, all so beautiful against
the blue sunny skies.
A trip out of the busy city to a little
poverty stricken church away from
everywhere.
Father Carter said, as he recalled Jesus born
in poverty in the stable, "Jesus picked this
little Church here and so much has
come out of this little humble place."
(We have sent the Newsletter from China to China)
I would hear the water, it sounded
like a falls when Father Carter went to
China to say Mass.
I thought this October 13, 2001 was such a
beautiful fall there.
Here are a few pictures Ellen gave me.
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: In my heart now I see the little houses
and barns covered with snow
and the little creek moving.
It looked sparkling because the
snow covered hills seemed to
bring out the white ripples in
the little stream of water.
There were lots of different trees
with snow and the branches
may be heavy laden with it
or coated with an icy glaze
that looked so gorgeous.
I thought it was so interesting
how the thick snow came and
covered the place where Father
Carter died that night
right after he died.
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: here it is.
Father loved the beauty of nature.
He saw so much.
Excerpt from October 13, 1996 Rosary
The Ascension
Messenger: We look out and we see the beauty of this day, with the sun in the sky and the light, and all the colors in the trees. We see the life in each blade of grass and in each leaf on the tree and tonight the darkness will cover this earth and although the trees and the leaves are still there, and this beautiful river, we will not be able to see with this clarity.
end of excerpt from October 13, 1996 Rosary
Excerpt from March 1, 1999
Messenger: I ask you to think of a dark night and you are in your car. Saturday as I drove to the couples rosary in China, Indiana, the night was dark and at 6:30 p.m. it began to rain and lightning. The more I prayed the harder it rained. By 6:50 p.m. I thought I would have to pull over. The sky was black, the lightning came. First I saw streaks of lightning, two vividly before my eyes came down straight from the high heavens. Then the sky would light up at different times, but only so I could catch a glimpse of the surrounding trees and houses. I wished it to stay light, but it felt as if I received a light for a split second just to show me that trees and houses and the street were there, but I couldn’t see them. There is a similar situation when I have experiences in which God gives me lights. For the split second, (it isn’t a second at all, but I must refer to it in time for we exist in time) God gives me a light and I know so much about God and His hidden mysteries. I could write until I die and not exhaust the knowledge of that moment. And I want to cry out to Him, "God, I want it forever", and the memory and knowledge He implants on my soul in that experience is with me, but the intensity of that moment existing in this heightened elevation of being in Him when He gives the light is removed. It is "sort of" like the lightning. I remember the trees and houses I saw when the lightning lighted the area, but I am not in the light once it is over.
end of excerpt from March 1, 1999
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: I wish I could enjoy all the times again,
but today I have new days to enjoy and
to write about to My Father, God the Father, in heaven.
Yesterday there were two beautiful Masses
and God has gifted us with so many
gifts and the depths to which I experience
everything is so much deeper than I
experienced it then.
I feel every gift from God, I experience
it and I want to experience it
deeply.
Oh how can we look at the snow covered
scene with its beauty
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: and not feel deep emotion in our hearts.
How can we not experience such emotion
when we see the golden reddish
leaves of the autumn day, so
beautiful on the trees and
decorating the fields with such a sprinkle
of color, each leaf it seems delicately
scattered to give us joy?
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: Do we think the same God that paints pictures
every day for us to see would not send
a beautiful image of Mary
in rainbow color and of Jesus
for us to see.
On the 5th of November the colors were
so varied.
November 5, 2001
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger:
I feel the last two months
We really need a picture machine.
If we had one, we could lower
the price of the prints and everybody
that wanted to could be a distributor
of them. Mary appears for her children
and she wants us to show her children
her picture on the building.
Oh China, such a gift God has
given to us. So many beautiful people
there, just like the vision I first
saw. The vision really happened.
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: Oh China, I love your beautiful
simplicity and the style of that
sweet little Church picked by
Jesus for His Eucharistic Center.
It is a place of prayer.
Well on the 13th we broadcast the
service to many states.
Call and ask for a place
near you, there may be one.
If not unite and pray with us.
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: Father Carter loved the bright
sunny days.
Please intercede to God
through his powerful
intercession.
Here is a picture from China,
Indiana.
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: this is our Eucharistic Center.
We have a two hour video just
of this beautiful shot, so
you or your grandmother
or who ever can put it in and
focus on this all day.
It is awesome it makes me
happy, just to see the
consecrated host and
the beautiful priest
like this.
This is the treasure.
We must pray for our priests.
If you can envision how
good God is to us to paint
the country side with such
beauty, we can see how
God would really give
us so many other beautiful
gifts.
God loves us so much.
He gives us so many gifts.
John 3: 16
For 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.
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: I LOVE YOU AND
GOD.
Thank You God - thanks
for everything.
LOVE
The Messenger.
On November 5, 2001
the image looked like this
November 5, 2001
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: The sky was red November 5, 2001
over China.
November 12, 2001 message continues
Messenger: Here is a message from Mary
July 13, 1917.
Excerpt from Father Carter's Book
The Spirituality of Fatima
July 13, 1917
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)
NOTES:
12. 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).
13. Ibid., p.5.
end of excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
Angels Will Read the Message
December 20, 1993 - 2:40 a.m.
Jesus speaks: Who will read the message? Angels will read the message. I will be by their side. I want the messages out. I want them out, I tell you. I want My people to hear all I am telling you. I want, not a few, but all to hear these words. They are private revelations given by Me to My people. The souls are, oh, so hungry for this one. They need to get these messages.
I am one crying in the desert. Make ready the way of the Lord. Prepare ye a path for the Master. He comes as a child in a stable. His people are asleep. Where are they and what are they doing with their busy lives? The angels will read the messages. They will rock the heavens and all will know My love and My might. From the housetops, shout this. Proclaim, "The day of the Lord is approaching. Make ready a path for Him." Will you comply with this demand to deliver a message to My people?
Time, child, is so short. You must ready all with My words of love. They are half asleep and dazed. They walk this earth with blinders on their eyes. My day will rock them off their rockers and they will know it is I with Whom they deal. No mistake will be made as to what is happening. All will see My power and My might. From the heavens shall come a sign and all will know from whence it comes. And the days that follow will be days to prepare men's hearts for My coming. I will not come unannounced. I will come with My power and My might and you will know what you will behold. Men will turn their hearts to Me with these messages. Get them out, I tell you, for their need is very great. I am patient and yet I am demanding. Ready yourself for this day of the Lord. I come as a baby into your midst, the angels sing, the choirs of heaven rejoice and you will know soon that I am very close to you all. Indeed you will know!
What awaits those in their feeble hearts! They run after such useless things when I, God, am talking in these letters. They think their world is their end. What an awakening they will have-a wide awakening!
I knock to make ready for My coming. You hear Me knock on your door in the night. Make ready this path so My people will read these letters of love. I am mighty and worthy of such praise. My people must realize My love in My intense might. What sign do you need? Do you think these messages were for your ears alone? Such power and wisdom in Rita's purse? This is not the idea. They are for all! My ease goes with you in all your undertakings to get these messages out.
Slow, too slow, I tell you. Shout My message from the housetops, that I am Lord and I am coming in your midst as a baby, but, with such might! My time is at hand. You tarry too long, My little ones. Time you do not have. This world is crazy! People are so busy at the malls. Oh, what foolish ones. I come as a baby into your midst. This is My birthday and whom do you worship? You worship idols! It is all such a sick world. Make ready My path, My little ones. Time is so short and you must not tarry any longer for into your hands I place My words for the world. They are mighty, little ones. Read them! What do you do with these words? Do you want proof? Look at Me hanging on the cross. It is out of this love of you I died a brutal death! Do you think I would not go to this extent to save the souls of My loved ones? Why would I come to this earth, give My life for all My beautiful creatures, and then, at this stage of the game, not send some mighty medicine to cure My sick little ones? You possess the mighty medicine. I mixed it with such love and I hand-deliver each message to shake My people to My love. The heavens will rock and the Son of Man will appear on a cloud and the glory of the Lord will be shown on high!
Get busy, you little people. The angels declare My words are given here. This is My gift to My people-distinct, clear letters proclaiming My love. Are you listening? Do you think I would not try everything to save My beloved ones?
Oh, I will go to any extent to save these little ones, so ornery and so stupid in their ways, so sinful in this evil world, but so precious to Me. I will come in My glory and I want every last soul.
I am God. Why would I not speak to you? I wait for you. I wait, I wait, but you are all so blind and dense. What you do is so silly. Your ways here have become sick and your hearts have become hard. But shout it from the housetops! I loved you to My death! I love you all in your sickness. I want you united under the mantle of My mother, praying and honoring God.
America, turn yourselves around before it is too late. Come and heed My harkening. Come, come, My children. Time is so short and a lot of mending must be done in your hearts. You have hardened them and now they must come back to life. Only I can give you this life in your hearts.
Heed My words here. I am gentle and kind in heart. My heart is a heart of love. I have hand-delivered these messages to My people and you are My delivery boys. Get them going, little ones. You tarry too much.
My gift to My people is My love this Christmas. I am showering all at this Center with grace this season. The devotion there pleases Me, but more must flock and they will be changed from hardened hearts to hearts for God. I am God, little ones. I came and I died a brutal death. I am calling to you all to deliver this now. Make this your top priority so they will hear My message of love and know the love I have for them. Do not tarry. Do this today, little ones.
end of December 20, 1993 message
From a Lenten Homily, March 24, 2000
Live in the Moment
Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.
end of Father Carter's homily
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