Schedule for November 15, 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

    

                     
November 14, 2003

Messenger:            Jesus told me to put on this scripture.

1 Corinthians 7: 25-35

    About people remaining virgin, I have no directions from the Lord, but I give my own opinion as a person who has been granted the Lord’s mercy to be faithful. Well then, because of the stress which is weighing upon us, the right thing seems to be this: it is good for people to stay as they are. If you are joined to a wife, do not seek to be released; if you are freed of a wife, do not look for a wife. However, if you do get married, that is not a sin, and it is not sinful for a virgin to enter upon marriage. But such people will have the hardships consequent on human nature, and I would like you to be without that. 

    What I mean, brothers, is that the time has become limited, and from now on, those who have spouses should live as though they had none; and those who mourn as though they were not mourning; those who enjoy life as though they did not enjoy it; those who have been buying property as though they had no possessions; and those who are involved with the world as though they were people not engrossed in it. Because this world as we know it is passing away. 

    I should like you to have your minds free from all worry. The unmarried man gives his mind to the Lord’s affairs and to how he can please the Lord; but the man who is married gives his mind to the affairs of this world and to how he can please his wife, and he is divided in mind. So, too, the unmarried woman, and the virgin, gives her mind to the Lord’s affairs and to being holy in body and spirit; but the married woman gives her mind to the affairs of this world and to how she can please her husband. I am saying this only to help you, not to put a bridle on you, but so that everything is as it should be, and you are able to give your undivided attention to the Lord.

  

Mark 3: 31-35

Now his mother and his brothers arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Look, your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.’ He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking at those sitting in a circle round him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’

November 14, 2003 message continues

Messenger:            I boast of knowing the Lord for He is

                            my delight.

Jesus speaks:        Don't proclaim to be holy, then show

                            hatred toward your brother.

Matthew 18: 5-7

‘Anyone who welcomes one little child like this in my name welcomes me. But anyone who is the downfall of one of these little ones who have faith in me would be better drowned in the depths of the sea with a great millstone round his neck. Alas for the world that there should be such causes of falling! Causes of falling indeed there must be, but alas for anyone who provides them!

November 14, 2003 message continues

Jesus speaks:         I am your judge and I judge justly.

                            The holy man is one who loves God with his

                            whole heart and whole soul and loves his

                            neighbor as himself.

                                If I call you to love, why do you not

                            love, but act hatefully.

                                A man gave his neighbors directions

                            on how to be holy and how to love, but

                            he himself acted hatefully to his wife

                            and children and some others. He went

                            to Church to worship but was so unkind

                            at home.

                                Why do you act hatefully in your

                            speech and manners especially toward

                            your family and those closest to you?

                                Hate comes in many forms. One who

                            asks for things may not have a right to

                            them and you don't have to give your

                            possessions to everyone who asks, this

                            is not love.

                                Love is doing the will of God. Love

                            can be difficult if one wants your

                            car and they have no right to it,

                            you tell them no, but if you know

                            your neighbor is cold and without a coat

                            and you have ten coats you would be

                            very selfish to hoard them all for yourself.

                                First to thine own self be true, tell

                            the truth, do not lie to yourself.

                            Speak as I desire you to speak, be

                            silent in some situations.

                                Silence is needed for some things.

                            A man went to Church daily and told

                            others how faithful he was about his

                            prayers, but he was unloving to others.

                                Oh My people pray to do God's will

                            every day. Pray and be loving. Do

                            not give into people if you know

                            that it is God's will you do something

                            else.

                                The mark is to be loving.

                                Holiness comes from being loving.

                            Do not give into satan who wants you

                            to think ill thoughts toward others in

                            your head.

                                I was crowned with a crown of thorns

                            and My head bled for all the sins

                            of the flesh, how many today give

                            into the pornography on the newsstands

                            and in the movies. What are you doing

                            that is against the commandments?

                                Do you love God above all things?

                            Do you examine your conscience, are

                            you sorry when you sin? Do you

                            ask for forgiveness for your sins?

Proverbs 31: 10-13, 19-20, 30-31  

Aleph
The truly capable woman—who can find her? She is far beyond the price of pearls.

Bet
Her husband’s heart has confidence in her, from her he will derive no little profit.

Gimel
Advantage and not hurt she brings him all the days of her life.

Dalet
She selects wool and flax, she does her work with eager hands.

Yod
She sets her hands to the distaff, her fingers grasp the spindle.

Kaph
She holds out her hands to the poor, she opens her arms to the needy

Shin
Charm is deceitful, and beauty empty; the woman who fears Yahweh is the one to praise.

Taw
Give her a share in what her hands have worked for, and let her works tell her praises at the city gates.

Luke 16: 9-15

‘And so I tell you this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings. Anyone who is trustworthy in little things is trustworthy in great; anyone who is dishonest in little things is dishonest in great. If then you are not trustworthy with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches? And if you are not trustworthy with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own? 

    ‘No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.’

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and jeered at him. He said to them, ‘You are the very ones who pass yourselves off as upright in people’s sight, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed in human eyes is loathsome in the sight of God.

The Ten Commandments
 

1.   I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.

2.   You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.

3.   Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.

4.   Honor your father and your mother.

5.   You shall not kill.

6.   You shall not commit adultery.

7.   You shall not steal.

8.   You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

9.   You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.

10.   You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Mysteries of Light

    Baptism of Jesus

                    1.  Mark 9: 6

He did not know what to say; they were so frightened.

                    1.  Matthew 5:16

In the same way your light must shine in people’s sight, so that, seeing your good works, they may give praise to your Father in heaven.

                    2.  Daniel 6: 27-28 

This is my decree: Throughout every dominion of my realm, let all tremble with fear before the God of Daniel: 

He is the living God, he endures for ever, 
his kingdom will never be destroyed 
and his empire never come to an end.

He saves, sets free, 
    and works signs and wonders 
in the heavens and on earth; 
he has saved Daniel 
    from the power of the lions.’

                    8.  Jesus said: I am the Way; I am Truth and Life... John 14:6

                              10.  Sing the Song from Jesus.

                    1.  Luke 9: 28-29 

... he took with him Peter, John and James and went up the mountain to pray. And it happened that, as he was praying, the aspect of his face was changed and his clothing became sparkling white.

    2.  Matthew 17: 5

...‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour. Listen to him.’  

                    5.  God loved us so much He sent His
                            only begotten Son into the world.

            7.  Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and
                    Humanity in the Holy Eucharist.

                    9.  Jesus wants us to do adoration before the
                            Blessed Sacrament.

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