R. Dear God,

                    We pray for the priests, the Church and the
                world.

                    Please help us to be healed in body,
                mind and soul.

                    Holy Spirit help us.

                    There is a change we see in the
                autumn trees.

                    Here is the example of one of
                our beautiful old trees in China. 
   

                R. First we know that the tree is bare and
                will look bare now until spring.
                So this is about 6 months, it looks
                sort of dead.

                We took these pictures of Fr. Carter in February
                    in a park in Cincinnati when the
                    trees were barren. Soon after this
                    Fr. Carter got cancer and died.
 

                R. Here is the same picture of Fr. Carter on the
                    Blue Book 9 on the Mass.
 

                R. Jesus always told me to put this display
                    on –

                A quote from Bernadine and then
                    two pictures.

                    Fr. Carter loved the trees and nature
                and the drive to China.

                    So I took this picture of Fr. Carter
                with a tree in a beautiful cemetery
                because he loved the trees there.
                Then I took the picture after he died.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

    Shortly before he was to die from cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.

    "But we know that spring will soon come with all its new life and wonder.

    "It is quite clear that I will not be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a different way...

    "What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."³

3. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.

                R. We see these beautiful trees in spring –
                    white trees along streets –

                We see lots of change with trees.

                They start out very young

                    a little shoot

                Then they can grow really big

                R. And they keep growing – like
                the first tree in China.

                There used to be two trees in China
                    and one was killed with that
                    bad storm when the lights went
                    out for a week – several years ago –
                    and a lot of trees split –
                    right in half.

                Doris and I were in Cincinnati – the
                storm came up and some trees split
                right in front of us –

                The wind was ferocious, the trees
                blocked many streets – we were
                afraid to drive because of electrical
                wires that came down. Then our lights
                went out for an entire week.

                Mary had appeared to me in China
                during a 13th prayer service –
                Then the storm came up the next
                day and the trees split and the
                lights were out at my house for
                about a week and China, Indiana too.

                    God is the Master. And before the
                fall of Adam and Eve there was order.
                But Adam and Eve sinned against
                God and this bought disorder to
                men, animals, the storms,
                and man had to die and be
                redeemed by God.

                We see the promise that God would send
                a Savior.

                Bloom where you are planted –

                I love this book cover of Fr. Carter.
 

                R. It is interesting how much God uses
                    trees –

                The tree in the Garden of Eden –

                They ate of the forbidden tree.
   

Genesis Chapter 3

Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.

The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'

Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you
    of all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.'

    To the woman he said:

    I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
    you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
    Your yearning will be for your husband,
    and he will dominate you.

To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

    Accursed be the soil because of you!
    Painfully will you get your food from it
    as long as you live.
    It will yield you brambles and thistles,
    as you eat the produce of the land.
    By the sweat of your face
    will you earn you food,
    until you return to the ground,
    as you were taken from it.
    For dust you are
    and to dust you shall return.

The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

 

Genesis 3: 3-4

But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die!

                R. Garden of Gethsemane
   

                R. Jesus carried the cross made from the tree –

                Jesus was crucified on a tree

                Jesus died on the cross

                God shows us change in the trees –

                They come they grow –

                They die –
 

                R. We see the change in seasons

                    All 4 seasons

                This was me when I was a baby.
 

                R. This is me with my mom –
 

                R. She died

                November 4, 2005.

                Fr. Joe did her homily we put on
                    yesterday.

                Betty and Sophie prayed 17 years in
                    the Church in China
                    they both died this year.
 

                R. We come, we flower, we fade, we die.
 

                R. Change – every day is precious –

                Every day is a gift from God –

                We are accountable to God for how
                    we act before others – every day
                    of our lives!
 

                R. Adam and Eve sinned and we have a wounded
                    human nature –

                God gives us baptism –

                Such a gift in which we share
                    in His life –

                And the Father, Son and Holy Spirit live in our
                    graced, baptized soul –

                Our knowing and loving capacity is
                    elevated in baptism –

                We can love supernaturally –

                We can see insight into the hidden
                    mysteries.

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

                R. We are here to be transformed –

                We are here to be more and more in the image
                    and likeness of Christ.

                Christ paid a big price for this –

                Jesus took on flesh and came to this
                    earth –

                Every day is a gift from God –

                To show God we are seeking His will
                    and living deeply with hearts
                    of love –

                The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally
                    made present.

                Jesus remains with us in the Eucharist.

                We receive Jesus in the Eucharist,
                    Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
 

                R. Jesus died on a tree

                Jesus died for our sins
 

Revelation 5: 12

Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed
to receive power, riches, wisdom,
strength, honour, glory and blessing.

                        23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

                            Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God 
                        our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.

Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, ‘Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word to which they bore witness, because even in the face of death they did not cling to life. So let the heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, disaster is coming—because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that he has little time left.’

Revelation 13: 9-10

Let anyone who can hear, listen: Those for captivity to captivity; those for death by the sword to death by the sword. This is why the saints must have perseverance and faith.

                R. After Babylon conquered the Jews because
                    they would not listen to God's
                    prophet Jeremiah –
                The Jews received their land back, later.

                Tattered and Torn they had to rebuild a mess.

                So many times we make a mess of our
                    lives because we won't change and
                    we cause our own messes.

                When God calls us, we are to respond –
                    Fighting God like Adam and Eve
                    was devastating for their descendants.

                We are communal people –
                    Jesus came to teach us – so we
                    would be transformed –

                Fighting this and going in the bad direction
                    makes us worse –
                    We don't stand still in the spiritual
                        life.

                The renewal of the individual Christian,
                    the Church and the world means –
                    they are putting on Christ – more
                    and more – working as one –

                Mary called at Fatima for conversion –

                    She said
                    "The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive
                        to the voice of your supplication."

                Jesus and Mary have given us the Shepherds of
                    Christ to spread the teachings of Jesus –
                    Fr. Joe's homilies, Fr. Joe's books,
                    Fr. Carter's Newsletters and books –
                    the writings Jesus gave me on the Mass –
                    the Rosary – how to pray – for all
                    walks of life

                To know God deeply in our hearts –
                    to be alive in Him –
                    not have hard hearts that don't want
                        to be changed and are willful –
                        isolated and angry

                God has the plan –

                God has given us teachings how to pray –

                Shepherds of Christ Prayers
 

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                R. Holy Spirit Novena
 

         

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

A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.

-Mass Book, December 27, 1995

                R. If we want the world to change we
                    have to put on Christ!

Blue Book I	Blue Book II	Blue Book III	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	Blue Book 13
		Blue Book 14	Blue Book 15

                R. On December 17, 1996
                    the Red Rosary Book left the printer.
             

shipped from the printers December 17, 1996

Mary appeared December 17, 1996

The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon.
     Amen; come, Lord Jesus.

 

                Song: A Song from Jesus

                Song: Give Me Your Heart Oh Jesus

                R. Sea of Galilee

                    The Apostles went fishing –

                    13 miles long – 6 wide
 

Matthew 25:1-13

Parable of the ten wedding attendants

‘Then the kingdom of Heaven will be like this: Ten wedding attendants took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones, though they took their lamps, took no oil with them, whereas the sensible ones took flasks of oil as well as their lamps. The bridegroom was late, and they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. But at midnight there as a cry, "Look! The bridegroom! Go out and meet him." Then all those wedding attendants woke up and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, "Give us some of your oil: our lamps are going out." But they replied, "There may not be enough for us and for you; you had better go to those who sell it and buy some for yourselves." They had gone off to buy it when the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding hall and the door was closed. The other attendants arrived later. "Lord, Lord," they said, "open the door for us." But he replied, "In truth I tell you, I do not know you." So stay awake, because you do not know either the day or the hour.

Matthew 18: 23-35

Parable of the unforgiving debtor

‘And so the kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents; he had no means of paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt. At this, the servant threw himself down at his master’s feet, with the words, "Be patient with me and I will pay the whole sum." And the servant’s master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and cancelled the debt. Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow–servant who owed him one hundred denarii; and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him, saying, "Pay what you owe me." His fellow–servant fell at his feet and appealed to him, saying, "Be patient with me and I will pay you." But the other would not agree; on the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt. His fellow–servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him. Then the master sent for the man and said to him, "You wicked servant, I cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me. Were you not bound, then, to have pity on your fellow–servant just as I had pity on you?" And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt. And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart.’

 

Matthew 13: 44

'The kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again, goes off in his joy, sells everything he owns and buys the field.

 

Mark 2: 18-22

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, when some people came to him and said to him, ‘Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not? Jesus replied, ‘Surely the bridegroom’s attendants cannot fast while the bridegroom is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then, on that day, they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. And nobody puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins too. No! New wine into fresh skins!’

 

Matthew 13: 47-50

'Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that is cast in the sea and brings in a haul of all kinds of fish. When it is full, the fishermen bring it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in baskets and throw away those that are no use. This is how it will be at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the upright, to throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

 

Mark 4: 30-32

He also said, ‘What can we say that the kingdom is like? What parable can we find for it? It is like a mustard seed which, at the time of its sowing, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth. Yet once it is sown it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.’

                R. Fr. Carter says:

The definition of love used by Father Carter is as follows.

Love is the gift of self to promote the true good of those loved. He states the reception of love is the receiving of the gift of the other, so my good will be promoted. 

                R. Prophets – do not necessarily have to foretell
                    the future –
                    they speak for God –

                Sin disrupts the order God wants –
 

July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

  A message for the Earth from Jesus

January 22, 1998

    I am the Good Shepherd, these are My prayers, the prayers I give to help renew the Church and the world, all prayer chapters are asked to include these prayers (found in the Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual). As My Apostles and Shepherds I ask you to encourage all existing Chapters to try to encourage all existing prayer groups to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers. Encourage all Churches to pray these prayers. It is most urgent that the people of this earth concur with the Father's wishes to begin Prayer Chapters. This is an urgent request from the Good Shepherd. The flock will become one when they have given their hearts to Jesus and Mary. Encourage all priests to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers. Your world will be lighted with great light as the people of this earth pray these prayers.

    My promise is this to you My beloved earth: When you give your heart to Me and spread the devotion to My Sacred Heart, I will write your name In My Heart. I promise to give the greatest graces when you pray these prayers for renewal of the Church and the world and take all who pray them deeply into My Heart. The prayers I give will bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. I am Jesus Christ, this is My message of January 22, 1998, Please circulate this message to your world. I am the Good Shepherd, I know Mine and Mine know Me and they follow Me. Grace My Shepherds, I will give you the greatest graces for spreading these words to this earth and to your Church. I love you, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, it is the Plan of the Father that Prayer Chapters are begun immediately and the Priestly Newsletter is given to all priests. The Voice of the Good Shepherd speaks through it.

end of January 22, 1998

                Jesus: I am the Way, the truth and
                    the life!