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November 20, 2014

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November 20, 2014

R. My God I offer you this day all my prayers,
hopes, joys and sufferings –

Sufferings are part of our lives –

There are all kinds of sufferings –

Sufferings are to lead us to greater life
in Him –

                When sufferings are very bad and we cannot
                    stop the situation, it can be
                    physical or enduring a cross God allows
                    us to suffer with people, with situations,
                    etc. and we must endure it, we can,
                    if we cannot change things, surrender
                    totally to God and focus on the face of
                    Jesus.

                    I see Him with blood on His face and
                the crown of thorns on His Head –
                Meditate on the face of Jesus, now,
                Jesus, I see Your face and I know more
                Your love for me.

                    Jesus shows us sacrifice, in a
                world where so much suffering is
                wasted – we realize that God shows
                us love in suffering –

                    In the suffering we are brought
                closer to Him, if we focus on Him –
                Now see the face of Jesus, every
                detail – His love for us – His desire to
                suffer as He did for our sins –
                That God teaches us to follow Jesus is
                to follow in His foot prints –

Offering up suffering as a sacrifice
identified with the suffering of Jesus.

                As one is called to grow in the spiritual
                    life we are called to identify with
                    Christ in our lives.

                Christ came and called 12 Apostles and
                    they were imperfect men with a
                    wounded human nature.
                    He loved these men and we see this love
                    Christ had as He taught them and
                    prepared them for their mission.

                I believe the story of Peter and His
                    denial of Christ is an example
                    to us of many of the sufferings He
                    endured in working with the men
                    He had chosen.

They were men with a wounded human
nature.

                We know that the wounded human nature
                has tendencies toward the deadly sins –
                pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

                We knew they did not understand what Jesus
                    said, many times, Peter wanted to
                    protect Him from death.

                Jesus told them many things and they were
                    men – they were self-focused, prideful,
                    wanting to be first –
                    they loved Jesus.

                Judas is a real example to us of how
                    far off he had gone in how
                    he acted.

                We see the beginning of the Bible gives
                    us the story of Adam and Eve and how
                    all Eve wanted was for her own
                    selfish, vain glory –

                This is the Word of God –
                    God gives us this story –
                    He made the Light –
                    He created all these things –
                    He created Adam and then Eve
                    and Eve, after being given
                    all the gifts she had –
                    deliberately disobeyed God because
                    of her seeking to be equal to God.

                We see the teachings of the Old Testament and how
                    God revealed Himself to the Prophets,
                    how He referred to how the people
                    treated the prophets –
                    how Jeremiah warned and suffered
                        and they ignored Him and
                        the destruction the Jewish
                        people endured because they
                        would not listen.

                We see in the 20th Century that Mary
                    appeared to the children of Fatima
                    and men did not really listen to
                    this message and Mary said –

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

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⁾

11. 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). pp.3-4.
12. Ibid., pp.4-5.
13. Ibid., p.5.

From Fatima Peace Plan — Tan Books p.4-5.

July 13, 1917

THE CHILDREN SEE HELL

As she spoke these words, Our Lady stretched out her hands, and bright rays came forth which seemed to penetrate into the earth. All at once the ground vanished, and the children found themselves standing on the brink of a sea of fire. As they peered into this dreadful place, the terrified youngsters saw huge numbers of devils and damned souls. The devils resembled hideous black animals, each filling the air with despairing shrieks. The damned souls were in their human bodies and seemed to be brown in color, tumbling about constantly in the flames and screaming with terror. All were on fire within and without their bodies, and neither devils nor damned souls seemed able to control their movements. They were tossing about in the flames like fiery coals in a furnace. There was never an instant's peace or freedom from pain.

end of excerpt

R. And there was World War II

We see how Our Lady appeared for
7 1/2 years at Clearwater.

Pictures from November 5, 2002

November 5, 2002

November 5, 2002
taken with a flash

November 5, 2002

                    R. 1996 - 2004 and we do not
                    recognize –
                    the message Jesus gave to Fr. Carter –
                    Mary gave like this one.

December 19, 1996

Mary: My dear children, I give to you, my Son, Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem on Christmas morn. He is the Almighty God, the Light of the World.

I appear to you, my children, on a (former) bank in Florida. You have made money your god! Do you know how cold are your hearts? You turn away from my Son, Jesus, for your money. Your money is your god.

I am Mary, your Mother. I do not appear as I once appeared to you. I am asking you today to circulate my message given on a tape on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. Please circulate this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother. Please circulate my Rosary Book.

end of December 19, 1996

R. When our focus is ourselves and we think
its all about us –

                We see that it was what the Apostles
                    did in obedience to God's Plan
                    what was so important for the
                    building of the Church –
                    for loving God and others and
                    ourselves as His instruments –

                I look at the people in China who
                    do 24 hour adoration and give
                    so much to the priests, the Church
                    and the world.

It is about service –

                It is about God, who calls us and
                    is truly present there in the
                    Eucharist –

                It is in obedience to serve Him with
                    the Priestly Mailing, the Retreats,
                    the Adoration, the unity of giving.
                    like I see, of themselves in service –

It's not about them –

                I see service and I know this –
                God, at the end, will ask us how
                    we loved – how we served,
                    how we focused on His Plan
                    and followed it –

                The priest yesterday at Mass said –
                    when we die people focus on thinking
                    about what sins they did –

                He said – God is going to ask us
                    what good we held back when He was
                    knocking at our door –

He said sins of omission –

                To just leave out how God has
                    called us to do something and
                    we ignore Him and try to force
                    our way, doing it our way,
                    leaving out the love,
                    the service –
                    the focus on what God wants
                    so we can try to focus on ourselves –

Sins of omission –

                The priest said –
                    He will show us how we didn't
                        do what God wanted and
                        ignored Him –

We can list our sins –

But what about sins of omission –

                And he kept saying God knocking
                    on our door and
                    all we think about is vain
                    glory for ourselves –

                Jesus showed us how to live the Father's will –
                Jesus showed us service –
                Jesus showed us the suffering servant –

                Mary showed us how she obeyed –
                    how she served God always
                    doing what God wanted –

Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997

Scriptural Reflections

In all this Mary offers an example. Selfishness was totally foreign to her. She did not belong to herself. She belonged to God. She was not closed in upon herself. She was completely open to God. When God spoke, she listened. When God pointed the way, she followed. She realized that life is not a process a person masters by carefully mapping out one's own self-conceived plans of conquest, but a mystery to be gradually experienced by being open to God's personal and loving guidance.

Selfishness, then, did not close Mary off from God's call. Neither did fear. God asked her to assume a tremendous responsibility. He asked her to be the Mother of Jesus. Mary did not engage in a process of false humility and say that such a great role was above her. She did not say that she did not have the proper qualifications for this awesome mission. Briefly, she did not waste time looking at herself, making pleas that she was not worthy, telling the angel he had better go look for someone else. No, Mary did not look at herself. Her gaze was absorbed in God. She fully realized that whatever God asked of her, His grace would accomplish. She fully realized that although she herself had to cooperate, this work was much more God's than hers.

Mary's words, then, truly sum up what is the authentic Christian response at any point of life, in any kind of situation: "I am the handmaid of the Lord," said Mary, "let what you have said be done to me".

R. We are a work in progress
molded by God –

From the Priestly Newsletter Book III by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

The Holy Spirit And Mary

The late Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of Mexico strikingly speaks of the ongoing cooperation of Mary with the Holy Spirit regarding the reproduction of Jesus within us: "Christian life is the reproduction of Jesus in souls…

"Now, how will this mystical reproduction be brought about in souls? In the same way in which Jesus was brought into the world, for God gives a wonderful mark of unity to all His works. Divine acts have a wealth of variety because they are the work of omnipotence; nevertheless, a most perfect unity always shines forth from them because they are the fruit of wisdom; and this divine contrast of unity and variety stamps the works of God with sublime and unutterable beauty.

"In His miraculous birth, Jesus was the fruit of heaven and earth…The Holy Spirit conveyed the divine fruitfulness of the Father to Mary, and the virginal soil brought forth in an ineffable manner our most loving Savior, the divine Seed, as the prophets called Him…

"That is the way He is reproduced in souls. He is always the fruit of heaven and earth.

"Two artisans must concur in the work that is at once God’s masterpiece and humanity’s supreme product: the Holy Spirit and the most holy Virgin Mary. Two sanctifiers are necessary to souls, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, for they are the only ones who can reproduce Christ.

"Undoubtedly, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sanctify us in different ways. The first is the Sanctifier by essence; because He is God, who is infinite sanctity; because He is the personal Love that completes, so to speak, the sanctity of God, consummating His life and His unity, and it belongs to Him to communicate to souls the mystery of that sanctity. The Virgin Mary, for her part, is the co-operator, the indispensable instrument in and by God’s design. From Mary’s maternal relation to the human body of Christ is derived her relation to His Mystical Body which is being formed through all the centuries until the end of time, when it will be lifted up to the heavens, beautiful, splendid, complete, and glorious.

"These two, then, the Holy Spirit and Mary, are the indispensable artificers of Jesus, the indispensable sanctifiers of souls. Any saint in heaven can co-operate in the sanctification of a soul, but his co-operation is not necessary, not profound, not constant: while the co-operation of these two artisans of Jesus of whom we have just been speaking is so necessary that without it souls are not sanctified (and this by the actual design of Providence), and so intimate that it reaches to the very depths of our soul. For the Holy Spirit pours charity into our heart, makes a habitation of our soul, and directs our spiritual life by means of His gifts. The Virgin Mary has the efficacious influence of Mediatrix in the most profound and delicate operations of grace in our souls. And, finally, the action of the Holy Spirit and the co-operation of the most holy Virgin Mary are constant; without them, not one single character of Jesus would be traced on our souls, no virtue grow, no gift be developed, no grace increased, no bond of union with God be strengthened in the rich flowering of the spiritual life.

"Such is the place that the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary have in the order of sanctification. Therefore, Christian piety should put these two artisans of Christ in their true place, making devotion to them something necessary, profound, and constant." ¹⁸

18. Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, op. cit. pp. 5-7.

                R. A person can have a goal and plan
                    how God will do it their way
                    to make them great –

                They can lose the whole focus of
                    how they were called by God
                    for a certain mission and not
                    be the wrench blocking the community
                    of love He is trying to form –
                    the community of praise and adoration
                        of God –

The priest said yesterday –

Listen to the Psalm –

Psalm 150: 1-6

Alleluia!

Praise God in his holy place,
praise him in the heavenly vault of his power,
praise him for his mighty deeds,
praise him for all his greatness.

Praise him with fanfare of trumpet,
praise him with harp and lyre,
praise him with tambourines and dancing,
praise him with strings and pipes,
praise him with the clamour of cymbals,
praise him with triumphant cymbals,
Let everything that breathes praise Yahweh.

Alleluia!

                R. It's all about Praising God –
                    letting go – giving God what
                    is His due –

                Jesus gave me this Prayer
                    20 years ago –
                    in 2 minutes with no eraser marks –
                    On the day He gave me the message
                        "I want My Priests to Come Back"

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

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

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

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

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

R. Selflessness verses Selfishness –

God's glory verses My glory –

Servants of God verses Vain glory

Handmaids of Jesus verses My power

John the Baptist lost his head –

                    He said
                    He must increase, I must
                        decrease –

Mary's statue was beheaded on
May 13, 1997

May 13, 1997 at Tom's Farm

R. Mary's image was beheaded on
March 1, 2004 –

He must increase –
We must decrease –

Doing it His way –

Living and loving our fellows –

Matthew 22: 36-40

'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. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'

                R. The community of God is built
                    on selflessness and
                    surrender to God's will in love –

Jesus showed us this with His life!

                Suffering in our lives is to be
                    identified with Jesus –
                    not hurting others to get
                    rid of it if we cannot –

                Fr. Carter said –
                    There isn't too much suffering
                        in the world –
                    But so much of it is wasted –

We sacrifice to grow in the spiritual
life –

                Religious are to give their lives
                    for the sake of the Church,
                    the people –
                    to honor Christ –
                    to follow –

A sister or brother are under a
superior – they are servants –

                A religious takes the vows
                    usually of
                    poverty, chastity and obedience –

                A religious lives in love and service
                    in a community and
                    is trying to build the community
                    of love –
                    to be a witness of the Light of Christ
                    and God's love to the world –

                Bringing God's love to the world
                    through their service
                    and prayer and sacrifice –

                Growing to be more perfected in
                    their spiritual life –
                    giving themselves to service –
                    love – preparing oneself for
                    greater perfection for eternity –
                    being a witness before men –
                    of the Christ-life in them –
                    Living Life in the Spirit –
                    Living to Please God in all
                        things –
                    Living the Father's will in love –

So Mary asked at Fatima for
conversion –

                That means changing to be more
                    perfected as our Heavenly
                    Father wishes –

Life in Him –

Surrendering to our will
And living His will –

Like St. Theresa said:

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 Issue 5

St. Theresa of Lisieux, recently made doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II, has left us these inspiring words: "Neither do I desire any longer suffering or death, and still I love them both; it is love alone that attracts me, however. I desired them for a long time; I possessed suffering and believed I had touched the shores of heaven, that the little flower would be gathered in the spring time of her life. Now, abandonment alone guides me. I have no other compass! I can no longer ask for anything with fervor except the accomplishment of God's will in my soul without any creature being able to set obstacles in the way." ¹⁸

end of excerpt from Newsletter 1998 Issue 5

R. It is simple

"I align my will to God's will"

Life here is passing –
as we see as we grow old –

                The focus is, like Mary, perfect
                    handmaid of the Lord –
                    How did we serve God in
                        love and obedience as the
                        Father called us to give our
                        lives like Jesus who
                        was so one in the will of God –
                    And He showed us how –
                    To identify with Christ

                Here is a writing Jesus gave me
                    about doing
                    God's will –

Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter 1999 - Issue 4

And we see a pillar against a dark sky. We see Jesus against the darkened sky and the Woman beneath and the scene cries out to earth, "Not my will, but Thine be done", not as spoken words, but the very vivid scene of the New Adam, the Pillar of Light, and the New Eve says this. What do you see as you look at the scene of the New Adam and the New Eve, the New Adam hanging from the tree in the place with a garden?

Do you not see the words as if they are almost written across the sky, "Thy will be done"? See her underneath the cross as she holds Him across her knees. His arms lay limp. And the words go across the sky again, "Not My will, but Thine be done". For He did the Father’s will to His death on the cross. He is placed in the tomb as she cries outside. Behold the most sorrowful Mother. Within her Heart is an understanding of the divine mysteries that far exceeds that of any human person. In her sorrow, in her tears, she knew so deeply the great gift that God sent--Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, the Savior of the world. She knew that her Son had to suffer these things in order to enter into the glory of His resurrection.

And on the day of His resurrection, Mary’s tears were now tears of joy. The victory of her Son has now been accomplished, and the victory will last forever. And on that first Easter morning Mary also knew that all of us, her children, are called to share in her Son’s victory-- His resurrection--now, and especially in eternal life. She is ever pleading with us that with the help of God’s grace we will do all that is necessary to share as fully as possible in the life of Jesus’ resurrection--here and hereafter. She wants Emmanuel to be with us to the greatest degree possible, now and in eternal life

end of excerpts from the Priestly Newsletter Book II

From the Apostles Manual and Blue Book 14

February 23, 1997

Sacrifice

R. When I go to Mass I offer a sacrifice. God wants our all. He wants to be first in our life. He asked Abraham to sacrifice his son.

Gen. 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18:

It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. "Abraham, Abraham!" he called. "Here I am," he replied. God said, "Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall point out to you.

When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.

But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven. "Abraham, Abraham!" he said. "Here I am," he replied. Do not raise your hand against the boy," the angel said. "Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me your own beloved son." Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from heaven. "I swear by my own self, Yahweh declares, that because you have done this, because you have not refused me your own beloved son, I will shower blessings on you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies. All nations on earth will bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed my command.

R. The Father gave His Son for us. This is how great the Father's love is for us.

When we go to the altar many times we are suffering. We want something really bad, but we know we love God the most. What the Father asks for us is to offer that which we are so attached to as a sacrifice, united to the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. If we offer this sacrifice to Him, the Father will pour out blessings that will be divine blessings, greater than anything we could have here on earth.

The Mass is the perfect sacrifice we offer to the Father, in which God pours out His blessings and we are one with Him and with all others in a profound expression of love. God shares His divine love with us and we partake in an intense way in His divine loving capacity. In order to become one in Him and to feel His love like this, we must surrender ourselves and be open.

He told Abraham to offer his son. God gave him his son back. He wanted Abraham to love God above all things and people.

Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice to the Father. This is the most pleasing sacrifice to the Father. If He gave His Son Who died for love of us, will He deny us when we unite our petitions with Jesus and offer these at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?

He took them to the highest mountain and He was transfigured before them in the greatest light.

Mark 9:2-10:

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus, "Rabbi," he said, "it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and from the cloud there came a voice, "This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him." Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.

As they were coming down from the mountain he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves they discussed what 'rising from the dead' could mean.

R. We go to the altar of sacrifice. The mountain to come, in which so many graces will flow, is the altar of sacrifice where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered through the hands of consecrated priests.

We hear the Father say, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him." He is speaking to us. He is the Word. He is speaking in these messages. He is unveiling the Scriptures and speaking to us in plain talk. This is a great gift He is giving to us.

We are transformed in the Mass. We unite with the greatest sacrifice offered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We have the most perfect sacrifice to offer to the Father when we offer this sacrifice. He gives us great blessings. We die to ourselves, we become white.

We must unite all of our sacrifices to this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being said all over the world. This is the greatest way to magnify all of our offerings - by uniting everything we do as an offering, a sacrifice to the Father in union with His Son.

end of excerpt

Today's Readings

Revelation 5: 1-10
    I saw that in the right hand of the One sitting on the throne there was a scroll that was written on back and front and was sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a powerful angel who called with a loud voice, ‘Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?’ But there was no one, in heaven or on the earth or under the earth, who was able to open the scroll and read it. I wept bitterly because nobody could be found to open the scroll and read it, but one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep. Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed, and so he will open the scroll and its seven seals.’
    Then I saw, in the middle of the throne with its four living creatures and the circle of the elders, a Lamb standing that seemed to have been sacrificed; it had seven horns, and it had seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits that God has sent out over the whole world. The Lamb came forward to take the scroll from the right hand of the One sitting on the throne, and when he took it, the four living creatures prostrated themselves before him and with them the twenty–four elders; each one of them was holding a harp and had a golden bowl full of incense which are the prayers of the saints. They sang a new hymn:
    You are worthy to take the scroll
    and to break its seals,
    because you were sacrificed,
        and with your blood
    you bought people for God
    of every race, language, people and nation
    and made them
        a line of kings and priests for God,
    to rule the world.

Psalm 149: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9

Alleluia!

Sing a new song to Yahweh:
his praise in the assembly of the faithful!
Israel shall rejoice in its Maker,
the children of Zion delight in their king;
they shall dance in praise of his name,
play to him on tambourines and harp!

For Yahweh loves his people,
he will crown the humble with salvation.
The faithful exult in glory,
shout for joy as they worship him,
praising God to the heights with their voices,
a two–edged sword in their hands,

to execute on them the judgement passed—
to the honour of all his faithful.



Luke 19: 41-44

As he drew near and came in sight of the city he shed tears over it and said, ‘If you too had only recognised on this day the way to peace! But in fact it is hidden from your eyes! Yes, a time is coming when your enemies will raise fortifications all round you, when they will encircle you and hem you in on every side; they will dash you and the children inside your walls to the ground; they will leave not one stone standing on another within you, because you did not recognise the moment of your visitation.’

                R. Jesus wept over Jerusalem because
                    of their disobedience,
                    hard hearts and
                    willfulness –
                    because of their sins

                Jesus spoke through the prophets and
                    they ignored them and did what
                    they wanted
                    not what God called them to.

We see at the end of the Bible –

Revelation 21: 1-10

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.'

Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."' Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.'

One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came to speak to me and said, 'Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.' In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God.

R. God sent the prophets –

Jesus came Himself –
Our Savior to teach us –

Lamb of God

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

                R. God has warned us –
                He has given us His Word –
                He has given us Himself –

We eat His body and drink His blood –

Sins of omission - the priest said –

The man thinks "I don't have to give what
God asks for"

Jerusalem was destroyed –
Jesus cried over Jerusalem –

                What will happen to us if we
                    ignore God and
                    keep doing what is our
                    will and not God's –

                God has called us to build a Kingdom
                    of love – to love our neighbor
                    as ourselves

                What damage have we done by ignoring His
                    commandment of love and being
                    a witness of love –

Blue Book Blow Out for Christmas

Give the gift that keeps giving this Christmas

6 different Blue Books for $30.00 including postage

$6.00	$5.00	$4.00	$2.00	$2.00
$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00
$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00

Books available in limited supply for this sale.

Blue Book Blow Out for Christmas

Blue Book 1 – $6.00 each plus postage

Blue Book 2 – $5.00 each plus postage

Blue Book 3 – $4.00 each plus postage

Blue Books 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6A, B, C –
$3.00 each plus postage

Blue Books 4 & 5 –$2.00 each plus postage

The more you use the Blue Books and
    become one with Jesus – more
    intimate with Jesus –
    the more your lives are a blessing and
    everything you do in life can help
    to bring down great grace for the world
    because of your being so
    one with Jesus.

Guiding Light Homily Book Series

Fr. Joe’s Books

Cycle A –
Steadfast to the Son

Cycle B –
Focusing on the Word

Cycle C –
Feed My Soul

Cycle A –
Inspired to be Genuine

4 for $20 plus postage of $5.95

These books can be given to:

1) All Priests

       2) Good for Music Ministers
       3) Good for DRE's
       4) Good for Deacons
       5) Good for Principals of Schools
       6) Good for Teachers
       7) Good for Mom and Dads

Give the gift that keeps giving this Christmas!!

This statue was handmade and hand-painted
and has a little piece of the glass
from the image face of Mary –

PV-Fatima
w/glass - 27

PV-Fatima
w/glass - 18

PV-Fatima
w/glass - 15

OL-Fatima
w/glass - 18

PV-Fatima
w/glass - 12

OL-Fatima
w/glass - 11

OL-Guadalupe w/glass - 28	OL-Grace w/glass - 24	OL-Mt. Carmel w/glass - 24	OL-Lourdes w/glass - 24	IH-Mary w/glass - 24	IH-Ivory w/glass - 24
SH-Jesus w/glass - 24	SH-Blessing w/glass - 24	Sorrow M w/glass - 24	Inf.-Prague w/glass - 24	OL-Lourdes w/glass - 18	OL-Mt. Carmel w/glass - 18
I Heart w/glass - 18	I Heart - Ivory w/glass - 18	OL-Grace w/glass - 18	SH-Jesus w/glass - 18	OL-Guadalupe w/glass - 12

We cannot get these statues any more –
the men making them were from
Portugal and no longer do so

We will have a limited number
until they are gone –

These statues are a treasure, a work of art

At the end of this message are healings
from statues and the Jesus
and Mary waters –

                Given March 21, 2014

                R. Pray for These Things

                1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
                2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
                    Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
                3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
                6) People going to Florida and China.
                7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
                8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
                9) Pray for pope helping us.
               10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
               11) Blue Book 14 cover; Blue Book 13 – all involved.
                    For our Publisher and all involved
               12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
               14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
               15) Donors and members and their families.
               16) Healing of the Family tree.
               17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
                    Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
               18) All who asked us to pray for them.
               19) All we promised to pray for.
               20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
                    Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
                    2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
                    Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
               21) 2 babies and moms.
               22) Funds and insurance.
               23) Jerry's garage.
               24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
               25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
               26) Consecrate all hearts.
               27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.

We need money for
Fr. Joe's new homily book
(we sent almost 40,000 to priests,
cardinals, bishops)
Can you please help us?
888-211-3041



The Wedding Rosary

Crystal Image Rosary

$40 plus shipping

Special First Communion Rosary with Image Center

in a gift box

white     blue     red

and an 8 x 10 picture of Our Lady of Clearwater
and a 4 x 6 picture of Our Lady of Clearwater

$10 plus postage

Original Image Rosary

8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box

$40 plus shipping

Special Sale Statues with image glass

15" Pilgrim Virgin Fatima – $85

12" Our Lady of Fatima – $75

plus shipping
while supplies last

Call Regina 1–727–776–2763
Call Rosie 888–211–3041

In Spanish with the Imprimatur

Also we are ready to print
5000 copies of the
Parents and Children's Rosary Book
in SPANISH.
Can you help with a donation?



Give the gift that counts.
                Give to your priests Fr. Carter's Books plus postage.

Tell My People                    $5.00
Response to God's Love    $8.00
Response in Christ              $8.00



    God's Blue Books 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 6C, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
        $4.00 each plus postage

Blue Book 4

Blue Book 5

Blue Book 6A

Blue Book 6B

Blue Book 6C

Blue Book 7

Blue Book 8

Blue Book 9

Blue Book 10

Blue Book 11

Blue Book 12 & 13

Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur
$2.00 plus postage

New Mass Book with Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage

New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage

Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage

Give the gift that keeps on giving!

Give to your priest.

Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage



Special sale statue with glass

27" Statue of Our Lady of Fatima
$175 plus postage

Get a canvas print of Mary's image
with a sliver of glass and a little
bottle of Jesus and Mary water.
The glass will be fixed behind the
back of the picture.
$200.00 plus postage

Dan called and gave the report to me, when I hung up I saw this rainbow and took a picture for him.

Shepherds of Christ Ministries P.O. Box 627 China, Indiana 47250

Telephone: (toll free) 1-888-211-3041 or (812) 273-8405 FAX: (812) 273-3182

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