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Mary has requested that the daily message be given
each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her
Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her
request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the
world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.
We acknowledge that the final authority regarding
these messages rests
with the Holy See of Rome.
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November 2, 2002 - All Souls Day
November 3rd, Holy
Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 7 Period II. |
The Novena Rosary
Mystery
for November 3rd is Joyful. |
Please help us we have no
funds for the building
payment.
Please help us.
We do not have the payment
for the Virgin Mary building
which was due November 1st.
It is $10,000
November 5, 2001
November 5, 2001
November 5, 2001
There is a big prayer service
on November 5, 2002
in Clearwater, Florida.
Come to Florida,
Mary wants people to come.
November 5, 2002 the Gift Shop in
Florida
will have many items available for
Christmas presents!
Pray for 2 urgent intentions and for funds.
Here are a few letters that we received
in response to Father Carter's
Priestly Newsletter Book 2.
May 2002
Dear Ones in Christ,
Peace and Health to you all.
I am happy to assure you all that I have
received the precious books that you have so
generously sent to
us. I have distributed to the priests of ____ diocese
free
of charge. I only ask them to thank you all and offer
a Mass
on every First Friday of the month. The only thing we
can return
you.
I pray to the good Lord to love, bless and
reward you all for your awful charity, generosity and
fraternal
solidarity.
I am a retired bishop now. But I still go
around to see my old and new catholics. From 18 to 28
of April,
I went to ____ and ____ borders to baptize and
confirm. The
four priests baptized about 600 persons while I
confirmed about
450 persons. There are many more ___ pagan villages
want to
become catholics. Please pray for them and for me
too. Thank you.
With prayerful wishes and God bless you
and your wonderful works for the greater glory of God
and
salvation of souls.
Yours in our Lord and Lady,
Bishop _________
April 25, 2002
Dear Fr. John,
Thank you very much for your kind letters dated
April 7 and 16 last together with the many enclosures concerning
initiatives started by Fr. Edward J. Carter.
I am pleased to inform you that the devotion to
the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary is widespread
in this Archdiocese, as also the Divine Mercy devotion. In fact, our
Archdiocese has been solemnly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary on August 15, 1997, Feast of Our Lady's Assumption and the 50th
Anniversary of _____'s independence. This consecration is renewed
every year in all our parishes. I do it officially in our Cathedral.
Besides, all families are encouraged to consecrate themselves to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, and this year we are going to make a special
drive so that the image of the Sacred Heart can be enthroned in those
homes where it is still not done in our Archdiocese.
It might interest you to know that in the 80 of
the 113 parishes in this Archdiocese, we have daily adoration to the
Blessed Sacrament from early morning till late in the evening. The
practice of having all night adoration in parishes once a month is
growing steadily.
I was deeply impressed by the photographs you
sent me of the image of Our Blessed Mother in the Church of Our Lady
of Clearwater. It is touching to note the tender love and concern of
our Heavenly Queen.
I recommend the Archdiocese of _____ and my
pastoral ministry to your special prayers. Thank you very much in
anticipation. Rest assured of a regular memento at Holy Mass.
With cordial regards and sincere good wishes, I remain
Yours fraternally in Corde Mariae
Cardinal
_________
April 29, 2002
USA
Dear Mr. Weickert;
Thank you for sending the books and materials by Father Edward Carter.
He was a great apostle of priestly spirituality and his voice is
sorely needed today.
Sincerely yours,
Cardinal ___________
23 May 2002
Dear Mr. Weickert,
Thank you very much for the copy of
Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.'s book, Shepherds of Christ,
Spirituality Newsletters 2, which arrived here in Rome recently. Thank
you also for your own letter of march 24th in which you offer a
wonderful overview of the mission of Shepherds of Christ Ministries.
Certainly the publication and distribution of the newsletters must
represent a most satisfying aspect of your commitment.
With prayers and best wishes to
you, Mr. Weickert, and to all who are a part of the Shepherds of
Christ Ministries family, I am,
Sincerely in Our Lord,
________________
Superior of a very large order in the world
From Rome, Italy
June 11, 2002
Dear Mr. Weickert:
His Eminence __________ has asked me to thank you
for having kindly sent him a copy of the book Shepherds of Christ by
Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
The Cardinal takes this occasion to encourage you in
your work of supporting the spiritual life of priests and conveys
his prayer best wishes.
With kind regards, I remain
Sincerely yours in Christ
Personal Secretary
Office of the Cardinal
May 1, 2002
Dear Mr. Weickert:
On behalf of His Eminence, I thank
you most sincerely for
your letter of April 7, 2002 and for the materials you enclosed
written
by the last Reverend Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Shepherds of Christ Ministries,
founded by Father Carter and
now under your leadership, fulfills an important role in the Church:
praying for our priests and encouraging the prayer life of priests.
The
devotion of Shepherds of Christ Ministries and Father Carter to the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary is surely an efficacious means to the
sanctification of the whole world. Please remember the priests of the
Archdiocese of _________ in your prayers.
With the assurance of remembrance
in His Eminence's
Masses and prayers for the success of your work on behalf of priests
and for the repose of Father Carter's soul, may I remain
Sincerely,
__________
Rev. Monsg. __________
Secretary to the Cardinal
Dear Father Ed,
Finally, finally I have someone who
can
assist you with an Italian version of Shepherds of
Christ newsletter. He is a 3rd year seminarian from
Florida named _______. You can write to
him at this address — he will be back from vacation
in September.
The newsletter continues to improve
— our men
love it. Many thanks to you for all your efforts.
God love you.
North American College
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. _______
Pontifical North American College
Dear Friends,
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love. Fr. Carter,
S.J. wrote the Priestly Newsletter and circulated it to over 75,000
priests on a regular basis while living. He began in 1994 and started
with all of the priests in the
United States
right away, about 45,000. He continued
this newsletter for the 6 years of his life. Since his death, we have
followed his requests sending the enclosed Priestly Newsletter Book II
and some of the additional Newsletters he instructed us to send to the
priests, Bishops and Cardinals.
Fr. Carter taught at
Xavier
University
about 33 years. He authored 18 books
on the spiritual life. He had a doctorate in theology. He even sent
about 12 issues of the translated Newsletter to Spanish speaking
priests.
Click on for the book of Priestly Newsletters, Book II, from
September, 1996 to December 1999. We have gotten so very many letters
from Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals and the Pope thanking us for the
Priestly Newsletter Book II. In these letters they thanked us for our
Movement, a movement of prayer, praying for the Priests, the Church
and the world.
We want to send the book to the retired Bishops. It has been
packaged up and ready to go for several months, we have no money for
postage.
The book is to lead the priest into a deeper love union with
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a deeper love of their priesthood and the
Church, and in consecrating their hearts to Jesus and Mary.
Fr. Carter a Jesuit used the writings of Pope John Paul II and
other popes, and the writings of the saints, the scriptures,
Encyclicals of the Church, Church documents and many other theological
writers in his writings in the Newsletter. Please review the enclosed
book and help us get it to the retired Bishops as Fr. Carter requested
we do. His mission was to pray for the priests, but primarily to send
these Newsletters he published.
Thank you for your help.
Shepherds of Christ
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P.S. We pray hourly for
the priests, united with people all over the world and at our centers at
6:20 the red book enclosed, translated in 5 languages with the Imprimatur. We have operated in the past on donations. It has been
difficult sending the Priestly Newsletter because of funds.
Any additional funds you allocate to us could be used for the purpose
of reaching priests, Bishops and Cardinals with the prayer manual, the
Priestly Newsletter Book I or the Priestly Newsletters Fr. Carter requested
be published after his death. We wish to compile these in a small book and
send them to the Bishops, but do not have the funds.
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November 2, 2002
Messenger:
I love the souls so very much. Today is all souls
day, but my life is lived to pray for the souls in
purgatory and on earth.
Oh God it is this love for souls that makes me almost
cry every time I pray because I want so deeply to help all
the souls I can - to go to heaven. Oh God, I love Thee so
much. I thank You for Your gifts given to me, I thank
You for Your life. My every breath is lived to have
deeper union with You here on earth and to be united to
You for all eternity.
Oh my God I love Thee so much to speak of it, to
be able to receive You in Holy Communion, to
go to Church and be with You before the
tabernacle, makes me cry. It is love,
deep love I have for Him, my joy is in
this, to know Him, to love Him, to
serve Him, I want for nothing, but to be
as God wants me to be helping souls and
growing in a deep love union with Him
myself.
Oh how can we see the beauty now of the
fall days and the blue skies with the
autumn leaves pasted up against it and
not gasp at the greatness of God.
Messenger:
He gives us so very, very much.
Oh, God is real and this is truth that there is
a heaven.
Oh God please help us to learn to trust
you and love you more every day.
One of my children planned something very special
and we went to a place we took them when they
were little and when I was there I remembered
them ordering from the kiddie menu and my
heart was filled with joy from the memory, but
I didn't think they remembered like I did,
I remembered it so vividly and my heart
was so filled with emotion for the once little
children so big and some married with children
of their own.
And I write to you as Our Lord directed me for
God knows everything about us. God knows
our hearts more than we know our own heart and
we must pray to Him for light to know His
will, because just like my children couldn't
remember all I did (I even remembered what
they ordered and what they said) we just
don't know what God knows.
God said the very hairs of our head are
numbered. It is even more than this, He knows
everything. My love grows deeper for Him every
day, I long for Him, my every thought is united
to Him, my heart longing to reach the earth
with the message He has delivered to me and
to Fr. Carter. To tell the world how very
deeply He wants to be united to His
precious souls. To tell the world how
we are all one family and He loves us
so much and wants us to honor God
as little children doing God's will
at every moment.
I just want to cry to write this for
I so deeply want to express the vision
of my heart and my deep emotion I feel because
I love God and the people of this earth
so much and yet I cannot express myself,
it is the grace He gives when someone
reads this, that will make the difference,
I write as He has asked me to do after communion
on this all souls day.
The depth of love I feel for all souls and
God's goodness to me I cannot express. God
is all good and all powerful and great,
merciful and ... God is love ... God is in
my heart every second and I feel my every
cell and my life is His and I long
to be more deeply united to Him, to know
Him more, to love Him more, to learn to
trust in Him more ——— oh
the mountain top — it is found in Him —
what a gift God gives us in the Eucharist
and in the priest and in the Church —
Oh my God, my heart longs for Thee and I
am so grateful — so grateful for
Your gifts to me.
Mysteries of Light
Baptism of Jesus
1.
In these mysteries of light as I meditate
on them I know more deeply
the
love of the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit.
2.
I am so one with God. I know each person
of the Trinity more
intimately the more I
meditate on these mysteries
of light.
3. My heart is filled with light. I
love God and
all others more.
4. I see
Jesus being baptized in the Jordan
and I heart the voice of the
Father
speak.
5. Matthew
3: 17
... ‘This is my
Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.’
6. I feel I have been given special
grace from
meditating on these mysteries
to love all 3 Persons of the
Trinity so very deeply.
7. I feel I know God deeper
and deeper
in my heart, especially from
these mysteries.
8. Mysteries of Light, oh
thank you
Pope John Paul for these
gifts.
9. From looking at the
picture we put
here I have a constant vision
in
my heart of Jesus being
baptized
in the Jordan.
10. Jesus is the Light of the world
and
God has given us our beloved
pope
and the priests.
Marriage at Cana
1. From meditating on this
mystery,
I live every day deeply going
to Mary and asking her to
intercede for me as she did
at
the Marriage of Cana.
2. One time in Church during
Mass, I
saw a vision of Mary right in
front of the priest.
3. I know more how very
powerful
Mary's intercession is
especially
at Mass.
4. From this mystery, I more
deeply
meditate on the miracles of
Jesus.
5. I focus more on His
Might.
6. I trust more deeply in
Him.
7. I depend on Him to
help me
to do what He wants me to
do in this mission, Shepherds
of Christ.
8. I am like a baby in God's
hands.
9. I want to help the souls
of the
earth and do all I can to
help save souls and reach
them
while I am here on earth.
10. I give myself to Him. I am
dependent
on Him to mold me and make
me more into what He wants me
to be.
Genesis 1: 26-27
God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the
likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea,
the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the
creatures that creep along the ground.’
God created man in the image of
himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
Kingdom of God
1. We are here to love and serve
our God.
2. I focus on this so deeply
about
the Kingdom of God every time
I meditate on this mysteries.
3. These mysteries of light
are a
great gift God has given to
us through Our Holy Father.
4. Our Holy Father is a
blessing to us all.
5. Jesus is the chief
Shepherd of the flock.
6. Ezekiel
34: 11-16
“For the Lord Yahweh
says this: Look, I myself shall take care of my flock and look after it.
As a shepherd looks after his flock when he is with his scattered sheep,
so shall I look after my sheep. I shall rescue them from wherever they
have been scattered on the day of clouds and darkness. I shall bring
them back from the peoples where they are; I shall gather them back from
the countries and bring them back to their own land. I shall pasture
them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the inhabited
parts of the country. I shall feed them in good pasturage; the highest
mountains of Israel will be their grazing ground. There they will rest
in good grazing grounds; they will browse in rich pastures on the
mountains of Israel. I myself shall pasture my sheep, I myself shall
give them rest–declares the Lord Yahweh. I shall look for the lost
one, bring back the stray, bandage the injured and make the sick strong.
I shall watch over the fat and healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to
them."
7. Our Holy
Father has affected
the whole world.
8. God acts to help us
through
the Holy Father.
9. "Thy kingdom
come, thy
will
be done on earth
as it
is in heaven."
10. Say the Our Father with
all your
heart meditating on each
word
and praying so deeply to the
Father.
The Our Father
Our Father, Who art
in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive
us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Transfiguration
1. I see the beautiful
sunset a gift God gives us.
2.
If God can make a beautiful sunset
like that in the sky can we
imagine
the glories of heaven.
3. I saw Him
transfigured in the
greatest light under the
image
when we opened the Rosary
Factory February 5, 2000.
4. Fr. Carter had just
blessed the
rosary factory and I
went outside and I saw Jesus
transfigured in the Sacred
Heart
Statue under the image.
5. The rosary is such a gift
given to us.
6. We receive light from
the Holy Spirit
when we fervently meditate on
the
mysteries of the
rosary.
7. This was a message I
received from
Jesus that we received
insight into
the Divine Mysteries when we
fervently meditated on
the
Mysteries of the Rosary
8. I feel as I have
meditated on these
mysteries of Light that the
Holy Spirit
has flooded my soul with
special
graces to understand the Holy
Trinity
more and love each Person
more deeply.
9. They truly are
mysteries of light.
10. I have grown to have a
deeper
trust in Jesus my beloved
Savior and awe for God.
The Last Supper
1. Judas was at the Last
Supper.
2. Jesus loved
Judas so much. He made him
one of the apostles.
3. Judas could have
turned from his sin.
4. God loves us so very
much.
5. Even if a person
sins mortally they
can go to confession and be
forgiven.
6. Jesus wants us to go
to Holy Communion
and be so intimately united
to Him.
(people must first be
accepted in
the Church etc. to go to Holy
Communion)
7. Jesus said
—
Matthew 26: 26-29
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he
had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. ‘Take
it and eat,’ he said, ‘this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and
when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, ‘Drink from
this, all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant,
poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. From now on, I tell
you, I shall never again drink wine until the day I drink the new wine
with you in the kingdom of my Father.’
8.
God loves
us so much.
Jesus comes to us today in the
Holy Eucharist.
9. What a gift from God —
the Sacrament of the Holy
Eucharist!!!
10. God is with us —
Alleluia
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From September 5, 2002
during the special prayer service
in Clearwater, Florida
during the 6:20 prayers.
The images looked exactly like this.
This was taken without a flash.
There have been physical healings
on the 5ths and at other times.
Excerpt from September 17, 2002
I wish the store to carry the Christmas
materials immediately, coloring
books, Blue Books, Spanish Coloring
Books.
I wish image rosaries be made available in
the store and on Tom's farm.
These must also be ordered, it takes
months for their delivery, the requirement
has been made the materials are covered
before the order.
I ask you to have Christmas presents that
reflect Mary's image.
What a gift I give to the earth, you
should tell people about this especially at
Christmas.
end of excerpt from September 17,
2002
Please pray for the Cardinal
Our Lord has asked us to pray for.
We desperately need funds.
We need funds desperately.
We need funds to send out
the retired Bishop's mailing.
Please pray for the Cardinal
Our Lord has asked us to pray for.
It is difficult for us every month to
make the
Virgin Mary payment.
We cannot keep the store stocked
because of the shortage of money.
Our Lord has asked us to stock the store
for Christmas.
He has asked all to come and buy
Christmas presents from the store.
Can you help us in any way?
Credit card donations accepted.
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P. O. Box 193
Morrow, Ohio 45152
1-888-211-3041
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